Chapter 170: Am I A Demon?

“How is it? Have you figured it out?”

Watching the young man who was covered in blood yet still sitting cross-legged on the huge spirit stone, even Xiu Qingcheng’s brows were knitted with bitterness.

Meng Yingxing waved his hands in a finishing gesture and opened his eyes.

“It’s just as you said, Master; my spiritual veins are damaged, and my cultivation has regressed somewhat. I’m afraid I can’t return to my peak.”

His voice was hoarse, and his face looked somewhat unpleasant.

“Master, what happened just now? I could feel something else inside my body.”

Meng Yingxing lifted his eyelids, gazing at Xiu Qingcheng, who was standing against the wall not far away.

He was somewhat confused about everything that had happened during his breakthrough. To know what exactly had occurred, he could only seek help from Xiu Qingcheng, the bystander.

Xiu Qingcheng gazed at Meng Yingxing, her eyes dim and obscure.

In the perception of many spiritual cultivators, humans and demons were always opposites.

Meng Yingxing, who had always considered himself a normal spiritual cultivator—what kind of reaction would he have if he knew he harbored demon power?

Anger? Surprise? Astonishment? Inability to accept it?

Xiu Qingcheng didn’t know.

But now that Meng Yingxing had botched his breakthrough due to the demon power, she had no reason to hide anything from him anymore.

Meng Yingxing kept his gaze on Xiu Qingcheng, watching as she sighed with her arms crossed and slowly walked over.

“That was your demon power.”

Xiu Qingcheng’s voice was very light, but when it landed in Meng Yingxing’s heart, it was no different from a thunderclap.

Meng Yingxing’s eyes widened instantly. Just as Xiu Qingcheng had thought, those widened pupils were filled with immense shock and doubt.

Meng Yingxing’s lips trembled slightly; for a moment, he was actually lost for words.

After a long while, he retrieved his voice from the shock: “My… demon power?”

Perhaps the impact of this sentence was too strong for Meng Yingxing; right now, his vision was somewhat blurry.

He looked down, seeing a pair of blood-stained hands in his blurred vision—so familiar yet so strange.

“Master! I didn’t understand…”

Meng Yingxing’s body began to tremble uncontrollably. He hurriedly raised his head and grabbed Xiu Qingcheng, who had already walked in front of him—

Like a drowning person clutching at a straw.

Xiu Qingcheng sighed lightly and held his somewhat trembling hands.

“Meng Yingxing, you are not an ordinary mortal; you are a demon.”

“Disciple, you are not a pure human; you are a mix of human and demon.”

“From the moment you were born, you bore both spiritual power and demon power. Perhaps someone didn’t want the fact that you possess demon power to be exposed, so they suppressed the demon power in your body in some way.”

“You’ve cultivated so slowly since childhood; I guess it’s because you were cultivating two kinds of power simultaneously. It wasn’t a problem with your constitution at all.”

“As the power you cultivated grew stronger, your body could no longer suppress the demon power within you, which led to the demon power going berserk during your breakthrough.”

Having said this, Xiu Qingcheng spoke no more.

She lowered her head, paying attention to the expression on Meng Yingxing’s face.

The look on her disciple’s face was changing; presumably, his heart must be incredibly complicated.

‘I am… a human-demon hybrid?’

‘My body has demon power?’

Meng Yingxing digested the key content. Although he was extremely shocked, the things he hadn’t received answers to before suddenly had an explanation.

Why he suddenly had the power to defeat Ao Lianming back then.

Why he could injure Hua Bukai outside Zhongyang Town.

It was all because of the demon power.

His intense emotions caused the demon power to leak out, transforming into his temporary strength.

From that perspective, the demon power was indeed his aid.

But now, the demon power had ruined his breakthrough.

Meng Yingxing didn’t know what to feel. He continued to look at Xiu Qingcheng, “Master, this matter… you discovered it before?”

The young man’s unpredictable eyes stared straight at Xiu Qingcheng, forcing the usually stubborn-mouthed Xiu Qingcheng to avert her guilty gaze at this moment.

Xiu Qingcheng gripped Meng Yingxing’s hand a bit tighter.

“Yes, I knew before.”

“Your failure to break through this time is also because of my momentary negligence; I forgot that you are a human-demon hybrid.”

“It is my fault.”

“Hit me!”

Meng Yingxing saw the person before him suddenly close her eyes, putting on an expression of resigning herself to her fate, and found himself speechless again.

Xiu Qingcheng hid it from him, and because of this, indirectly caused his breakthrough to fail.

Reasonably speaking, Xiu Qingcheng had to take the blame.

But facing his master, how could Meng Yingxing really bring himself to strike her? In fact… he didn’t have any intention of blaming Xiu Qingcheng in his heart.

“Knowing one’s mistakes and correcting them is good.”

Meng Yingxing let out a breath and said.

Hearing this, Xiu Qingcheng heaved a sigh of relief.

No matter how you put it, causing someone to fail a breakthrough was an extremely serious accident anywhere, yet Meng Yingxing actually didn’t hit her?

It was still her disciple who was good.

“So? Disciple, after knowing this matter, what are you thinking now?”

Xiu Qingcheng seemed to still have lingering fears; her voice was somewhat cautious when speaking to Meng Yingxing.

Meng Yingxing lowered his head and said heavily: “Master, do you think possessing demon power is a good thing or a bad thing?”

Meng Yingxing’s question silenced Xiu Qingcheng.

She pondered for a moment before replying: “From the perspective of power, demon power is very powerful.”

“But from a human perspective, carrying demon power as a human might be a dangerous thing.”

“The person who placed the lock on you probably thought the same.”

“Possessing demon power means you possess a Demon Bone.”

“Remember what that Shi You Beast told me before? In the spiritual cultivation world, Demon Bones are things people scramble for.”

“An innocent man gets into trouble because of his wealth.”

Meng Yingxing continued to lower his head, looking at his own hands.

“Master, will this demon power go berserk again in the future?”

“According to my observation, if measures are taken, it shouldn’t.”

“Although the suppression in your body is becoming fragile day by day, it is still working conscientiously; it won’t easily go berserk nor be easily discovered.”

“Since my demon power won’t go berserk at will, then I can rest assured.”

Meng Yingxing seemed to have figured something out; his brows relaxed, and he smiled faintly at Xiu Qingcheng.

“Master, do you still remember that dream I had?”

“Someone asked me to find my own ‘truth’. It probably relates to the demon power in my body.”

Xiu Qingcheng nodded.

“It’s about your background, right? I wonder which one of your parents was the demon?”

“Master, I will temporarily pretend I didn’t hear anything just now. What demon power, what demon—I don’t know any of it; I am just a human, that’s all.”

Perhaps on some future day, his demon power and his background would surface openly and righteously.

She looked up; Meng Yingxing’s usually pale face now carried a slight flush, and his eyes were bright and clear, as if possessing some vivid vitality that didn’t belong to him. That was a look he had never revealed before.

“Master, can I go back to being myself?”

Xiu Qingcheng was slightly stunned, the corners of her lips unconsciously curving into an arc, the smile in her eyes deepening. She reached out and patted Meng Yingxing’s head, her voice gentler than ever before.

“Silly child, when were you not yourself?”

‘Good for you, Meng Yingxing? You’re starting to slack off too, huh?’

Xiu Qingcheng raised an eyebrow, suddenly smiling with relief.

“You can still smile? You failed your breakthrough! Your spiritual veins are damaged!”

“Yes. But isn’t this your dereliction of duty, Master?”

“Uh… what’s wrong with you? Are you going to hit me now? I tell you, no way!”

Meng Yingxing suddenly stood up in front of Xiu Qingcheng. Startled, she looked at the young man before her.

After staying on this Spirit Building Platform for three months, the boy seemed to have grown taller. Standing in front of Xiu Qingcheng now, the two were indistinguishable in height.

Rising quickly pulled at the large wounds on his body, causing Meng Yingxing’s face to distort slightly from the pain.

“Since it is your dereliction of duty, Master, then naturally, Master, you must take responsibility, right?”

“I believe Master definitely has a way, right?”

“Responsibility? What responsibility?”

Xiu Qingcheng huffed lightly, “You trust so much that I have a way?”

“Of course, Master, in my heart, you are omnipotent.”

Meng Yingxing continued to grin, seeming to have swept away the gloom from just now.

Meng Yingxing’s words also diminished the unease in Xiu Qingcheng’s heart by a few degrees.

She turned her head away, lightly crossing her arms, not looking at Meng Yingxing. “Spiritual veins damaged; of course, I have a way to fix it.”

“Isn’t it a coincidence? During the time she was the Death Brake, she actually experienced a case of a sword master’s spiritual veins being damaged.”

“She just happened to remember the solution too.”

“It just requires refining some rare medicinal herbs into elixirs. Maybe you won’t even need to ask me; once you go out later, the Tianfeng Sect might also be able to help you solve the matter of damaged spiritual veins.”

Xiu Qingcheng glared at Meng Yingxing.

After all, the Tianfeng Sect was a big business; solving something like damaged spiritual veins should be easy for them, right?

Tianfeng Sect, Wuyun Peak.

Mu Xin looked at the person before her and hurriedly bowed. “Sect Master.”

The person standing in the Wuyun Peak Elder Hall at this moment was none other than Mo Xinzi, who had been unseen since coming out of seclusion.

With an indifferent expression, he waved his hand at Mu Xin and cut straight to the chase. “I’ve come to find Meng Yingxing.”