Chapter 50
Chapter 50
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 50
Chapter Title: Heaven's Favored Daughter
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Skull Mountain Market, within the Blood-clothed Tower.
Lu Yang had just withdrawn his consciousness from the Myriad Spirits Banner when his vision suddenly went dark, his spiritual platform clouded with dust. He frowned slightly and looked toward the distant sky.
The next second, he was already riding a streak of light, arriving at the edge of the market.
A brilliant light shot from the horizon, swift as a fiery meteor chasing lightning. It only subsided when it reached the market gate, from which a tall, heroic-looking woman emerged.
"...So it's a fellow Daoist from the Sword Pavilion."
Lu Yang had also cultivated the "Divine Empyrean Sword Control True Art" and recognized her origins at a glance. He immediately clasped his hands in a Daoist salute and said, "I am Lu Yang. May I ask for the fellow Daoist's name?"
"Jade Pivot's Yun Miaozhen."
Upon hearing this, Lu Yang's eyes narrowed. After all, Yun Miaozhen and Yun Miaoqing—two such similar names were far too easy to connect.
"Have you come to take back your sect member, fellow Daoist?"
With this thought, Lu Yang didn't hesitate. With a casual wave of his hand, he directly snatched Yun Miaoqing from the Blood-clothed Tower and tossed her in front of Yun Miaozhen.
"Miss Miaoqing has not suffered any grievances in the Saint Sect. Although she was nominally my cauldron, I have not once harvested her essence over the years, so she remains a virgin. If you wish to take her back, fellow Daoist, please feel free. My cultivation is meager, so I won't step out of the array to see you off."
In Lu Yang's view, he held no enmity with the Sword Pavilion.
After all, he had not only saved Yun Miaoqing's life but had also preserved her purity. As the leader of the righteous path, the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion shouldn't have any reason to trouble him.
However, he soon discovered he was wrong.
"Miaoqing... is still a virgin?"
Yun Miaozhen's beautiful eyes lowered, her gaze falling upon Yun Miaoqing. But not only was there no trace of joy, there was even a hint of disdain and helplessness.
The next second, she let out a long sigh:
"What a pity! Miaoqing, you will not be able to overcome this tribulation!"
As her words fell, not only Lu Yang but even Yun Miaoqing was stunned, her face filled with disbelief. "Sister... what do you mean?"
"You have not received the true teachings, so you do not understand."
Yun Miaozhen shook her head. "Your fortune is thin, and your innate destiny is insufficient, yet you forced your pursuit of an immortal's fate. You were originally destined for three calamities and nine hardships. Failing to pass even one would have meant your Dao perishing and your life ending. Therefore, I specifically asked Master back then to combine your three calamities and nine hardships into a single ten-year great tribulation."
"This ten-year great tribulation is the decade you have been trapped in the Demon Sect."
"During these ten years, if you had suffered endless humiliation, your crimson lips tasted by ten thousand men, yet your Dao heart remained firm and your will unshaken, then the tribulation would have been considered passed."
"A pity... that you are still a virgin!"
"As a virgin, you have suffered no humiliation. Naturally, the tribulation will not be lessened in the slightest. It might even become more severe!"
Speaking to this point, Yun Miaozhen looked at Lu Yang, her eyes revealing killing intent. "This demon has ruined your cultivation. He appears to be kind, but in reality, he harbors malicious intent. He deserves to be executed!"
"..."
It had to be said, even Lu Yang was stunned speechless.
Yun Miaoqing found it even more unacceptable, her lips trembling. "So you're saying, the reason I fell into the hands of the Demon Sect and became a cauldron..."
"Was naturally all my doing."
Yun Miaozhen nodded. "Without doing so, you would have no hope of establishing your Foundation in this life. You are my younger sister; of course, I must think of your interests. This was for your own good."
At these words, Lu Yang was utterly speechless.
Damn it all, the righteous path has lunatics!
If Lu Yang had previously held any admiration for the Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion, the renowned leader of the righteous path, all such thoughts were now gone.
It's better to stay in the Saint Sect for now.
Every disciple in the Saint Sect is a talent. I absolutely love it here!
"Come, return with me."
Meanwhile, Yun Miaozhen paid no mind to Lu Yang's and Yun Miaoqing's expressions, saying aloud, "I will find another way for you to pass this great tribulation..."
"I won't!"
Faced with Yun Miaozhen's persuasion, Yun Miaoqing subconsciously took a step back, looking at her own sister as if she were a stranger.
After all, she could never have imagined that the experience of falling into the Demon Sect's hands ten years ago, which had nearly driven her to despair, was orchestrated by her own sister. If she hadn't met Lu Yang and managed to preserve both her life and her purity, she might have been harvested into dregs and died in some corner!
"...Be obedient."
Seeing Yun Miaoqing's behavior, Yun Miaozhen's elegant brows furrowed slightly. "You do not practice great divine abilities, nor do you understand karma. Naturally, it is difficult for you to comprehend my painstaking efforts."
"...Painstaking efforts?"
Yun Miaoqing took another step back, her tone filled with resentment. "Scheming to throw me into the Demon Sect, letting me be humiliated and harvested by others—is this what you call your painstaking efforts for me?"
"I am following the flow of karma, acting on behalf of heaven. When you achieve success on the immortal path in the future, you will naturally thank me."
Yun Miaozhen's tone was calm. In her eyes, there was nothing improper about her actions. Everything was perfectly justified, an arrangement of karma and fate.
Seeing that Yun Miaoqing still wanted to argue, she simply waved her hand. A brilliant light enveloped Yun Miaoqing, knocking her unconscious, and she casually tossed her aside.
"When words are disagreeable, even half a sentence is too much. I won't argue with you about this now."
After doing all this, she turned her gaze back to Lu Yang.
"What are you looking at me for, Fellow Daoist Yun?" Lu Yang raised an eyebrow.
Yun Miaozhen's beautiful eyes looked over, her expression cold. She said flatly, "You deliberately ruined Miaoqing's cultivation. I wish to borrow something from you as compensation."
Hearing this, Lu Yang laughed heartily. "You don't mean to borrow this fine head of mine, do you?"
His words were filled with mockery.
Yun Miaozhen nodded slightly, not angered, but her phoenix eyes narrowed, revealing a chilling killing intent. "It matters not if you are unwilling. In that case, do not blame me for slaying a demon to defend the Dao."
With that, she raised a delicate hand!
In an instant, a clear light illuminated a ten-mile radius. It was a crystal-clear, glass-like magic sword, its blade reflecting the mountains and rivers for ten miles around.
"Do you really think I'm afraid of you?"
Lu Yang laughed arrogantly, then turned and leaped, transforming into a streak of light and hiding within the market. The Hundred Skeletons Return to True Grand Array and the sword array diagram activated instantly.
A hidden dragon in the abyss, who can kill me?
Seeing this, Yun Miaozhen gave a cold smile. Without the slightest hesitation, she soared into the air as a streak of light, crashing straight through the grand array and rushing into the market!
Instantly, countless gazes from inside and outside the market were drawn over.
After all, with the precedent of Ouyang Haoze, everyone knew that the Blood-clothed Tower Master was a ninth-rank array master, who was practically invincible while protected by his grand array.
Under these circumstances, where did Yun Miaozhen get the confidence to charge into the market alone?
Almost simultaneously, several figures appeared outside the market, among them Elder Ouyang Feng of the Divine Might Sect and Second Senior Brother Luo Wuya of the Three Rivers Association.
However, these two peak Qi Refining cultivators both wore solemn expressions.
Their gazes, however, were focused in another direction outside the market, on the plain-looking middle-aged man who had arrived with Yun Miaozhen.
"'Taiyi Sword' Yun Zhiqiu?"
Luo Wuya's face was grim; he was clearly no stranger to the middle-aged man. "Skull Mountain is not in your Jiangnan. The Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion is overstepping its bounds."
Yun Zhiqiu chuckled lightly. "My Jade Pivot Sword Pavilion only guards the righteous path. And the righteous path knows no regional boundaries."
"Such arrogance!"
Luo Wuya was so angered by these words that he laughed. "You had better first pray that your little junior sister can make it out alive."
Hearing this, Yun Zhiqiu glanced at Lu Yang and Yun Miaozhen, then shook his head. "The Demon Sect is the Demon Sect, after all. They only know such crude tricks."
"However, how can heretical arts compete with my orthodox divine abilities?"
Before his voice had even faded, Yun Miaozhen, inside the market, formed a hand seal and pointed. The glass-like magic sword she had summoned instantly erupted in a dazzlingly brilliant light.
"That is..."
Seeing this, Luo Wuya and Ouyang Feng seemed to recall something, and their expressions changed drastically. "The Heaven Evasion Sword!? That woman actually possesses such a great treasure?"
The next second, the sword light covered the entire world in that area.
Lu Yang activated the arrays, but whether it was the Hundred Skeletons Return to True Grand Array or the Bloodwash Heavenly River Sword Array Diagram, the sword light passed through them as if they didn't exist.
Boom!
When the sword light dissipated, all that remained of the market were the two still-operating grand arrays. Within them, however, there was no one, only the glass-like magic sword hanging high in the sky!
(End of Chapter)