This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable

Chapter 411: Chapter 38: The Cause (For league master “FengchenCc” extra 5/10)

“Your true identity.” Ji Chuan didn’t care about the reaction of the Netherworld Hall Master, but simply said calmly and hoarsely.

He stared intently at Qiu Shiyin’s face, which still vaguely resembled that of a human, as if trying to see through something.

“Qiu Shiyin, toad, monster, and also, Underworld Emissary.” Qiu Shiyin slowly listed all her identities for Ji Chuan to hear.

“Actually, you’ve known for a long time that I am ‘toad’, haven’t you?” Qiu Shiyin said with a smile, looking at Ji Chuan’s calm eyes.

How could a swan ever live with a toad? That was just a fairy tale told to frighten children.

There was never any swan, from start to finish, just a bunch of toads.

“Sword born from light, Green Waist, I have felt the Netherworld Death Qi on you.” Ji Chuan laughed softly.

Long, long ago, Ji Chuan knew that Qiu Shiyin was not a normal human.

He didn’t care, he even felt pity.

Ji Chuan’s voice sounded somewhat feeble due to the massive loss of blood.

Because his Nascent Soul was clamped in Qiu Shiyin’s claws, he couldn’t summon Spiritual Power to heal his injuries.

“Yes, I am the toad.” Qiu Shiyin’s voice was filled with a crying and sorrowful tone.

The story of Qiu Ning was, in fact, her own story.

“You could have stopped the Origin Demon behind the illusion and saved those children.” Ji Chuan said in a low voice.

The children he referred to were the toads Qiu Shiyin had adopted.

With the Strength that Qiu Shiyin displayed at that moment, how could those Origin Demons, whose minds had been confused, possibly kill the children from her hands?

But to avoid exposing her own identity, Qiu Shiyin simply watched the Origin Demon wreak havoc.

“Do you remember the question I asked you?” Qiu Shiyin slowly raised her head, her yellow demon eyes containing a penetrating power.

“Senior Cultivator, can you save every child that is to be abandoned?” Qiu Shiyin repeated the question in a murmur.

“I cannot, I cannot, so what is the point of saving a hundred or so children?” Qiu Shiyin’s voice was extremely calm.

“Do you know how many toads have died shortly after birth on this land over the past thousand years?

This land is not suited for the Human Race to live on, but greed has made them stay.

Who could give up the enormous benefits of the Primordial Stone Orchid Mine?

“Nobody can, including your Sword Sect.” Qiu Shiyin’s voice became increasingly shrill, answering her own question.

“Our Sword Sect has never been aware of the toad matter.” Ji Chuan spoke softly, his gaze solemn in the shadows, his emotions indistinguishable.

“Yes, the exalted Taoist Sect, high above, how could they care about these mortals?” Qiu Shiyin laughed mockingly. “So, I had to solve this problem myself.”

Qiu Shiyin’s gaze swept across the room, finally landing on the Origin Demon’s child sitting powerless on the ground, his face smeared with blood.

“Senior Cultivator, do you know his identity?” Qiu Shiyin suddenly laughed and asked.

Seeing that Ji Chuan remained silent, Qiu Shiyin went on to say, “He is the Origin Demon’s child, the only bloodline of the Demon King, born with the Netherworld Death Bloodline, capable of absorbing countless life forces.

Thirty years ago, to give birth to the Demon’s child, the Demon Queen was devoured of all her life force by the child and then died miserably.

The enraged Demon King thus unleashed a massacre in the Origin Lands to vent his fury.

Ever since then, the Origin Demon’s child has been the Demon King’s Achilles’ heel.

Even if you are a disciple of the Sword Sect, if you kill the Origin Demon’s child, the Demon King would launch relentless retaliation against your Sword Sect, never to cease until death.

The Demon King chose Qiu Ning as the Protector for the Origin Demon’s child, because Qiu Ning’s mind has always remained as a four or five-year-old’s, incapable of treachery.

It was also because of Qiu Ning’s protection that the Demon King dared to go into seclusion, and the Origin Demon’s child dared to leave the Origin Lands.”

But they don’t know that Qiu Ning will listen to me.

At my word, he would allow you to attack the Origin Demon’s child.

The Jiuyou Hall Master’s initial scheme was just this, to have me stop Qiu Ning and then let your Sword Sect disciples personally slay the Origin Demon’s child.

Once you’ve killed the Origin Demon’s child, the Origin Demon King will become the undying foe of your Sword Sect.

An Eighth Grade Great Demon King, stopping at nothing, hiding in the shadows, just for revenge against your Sword Sect—that would be a terrifying situation, you should know, right?”

A barefooter is not afraid of a person wearing shoes; when the Origin Demon King, who has no fetters, fixes his gaze on the Sword Sect, just waiting in the shadows, ready to strike at Sword Sect disciples who stray from your Sect, that would be a great headache for the Sword Sect.

Once successful, it would be as if the Jiuyou Hall Master found an Eighth Grade ally for the Netherworld, targeting the Taoist Sect of the Human Race.

Qiu Shiyin spoke softly, “I do not care about the struggle between the Sword Sect and the Netherworld.

All I know is, when the Origin Demon King seeks revenge against your Sword Sect at all costs, given the temperament of your Sword Sect, you would surely sweep clean the Origin realm to set an example.

The Origin Demon King can almost achieve immortality and indestructibility with the Netherworld Death Qi within the Origin realm, even using the Jiuyou Kan Yu Map to hide within the Netherworld. To kill the Origin Demon King, your Sword Sect will have to seal the rift leading to the Netherworld realm.

Once the Origin Demon dies and the spatial rift is sealed, the Netherworld Death Qi will naturally dissipate. @@novelbin@@

This is the only way I can think of, to save every toad.”

As she spoke, Qiu Shiyin’s gaze swept towards the Jiuyou Hall Master, “Hall Master, this is also the reason I will join the Netherworld.

How could I really wish to join forces with a bunch of scum who betray the Human Race?

It’s just that although you’re targeting the Sword Sect, I am for… well, it coincidentally leads to the same outcome…”

Qiu Shiyin’s gaze returned to Ji Chuan’s face, which was gradually pale due to blood loss, and she whispered apologetically, “Although I know the Origin Demon King values the Origin Demon’s child immensely, I cannot guarantee that he would confront the Sword Sect head-on for the sake of the Origin Demon’s child.

However, I know that if the Sword Sect learns that their chief disciple, Ji Chuan, died at the hands of an Origin Demon, given the Sword Sect’s nature, they will certainly not let the Origin Demon off the hook. Double insurance, so…”

Qiu Shiyin slightly increased the strength in her claws, and the rich Netherworld Death Qi began to seep into Ji Chuan’s Nascent Soul, “Senior Cultivator, I’m sorry.”

She not only wanted Ji Chuan to kill the Origin Demon’s child, provoking the Origin Demon King’s wrath but also wanted to kill Ji Chuan herself to ignite the Sword Sect’s fury.

…

The Jiuyou Hall Master’s gaze was enigmatic.

He thought he had calculated everything, little knowing that all this was within Qiu Shiyin’s plans.

“You calculated everything,” Lu Qingshan, who had been watching everything, now stepped forward slowly, looking at Qiu Shiyin and suddenly spoke, “Except for one thing you got wrong.”

Just as Qiu Shiyin was about to annihilate Ji Chuan’s Nascent Soul in one fell swoop, her actions stalled, and she looked slightly taken aback.

“Ji Chuan, he knew that you are a toad long ago, and actually, when he acted against the Origin Demon’s child, he was already aware of the Origin Demon’s child’s true identity.”

Lu Qingshan spoke softly, “Therefore, knowing the identity of the Origin Demon’s child, yet still choosing to act against him, Brother Ji Chuan, as he said, the Sword Sect is not unwilling to forgo the benefits of the Primordial Stone Orchid Mine for the sake of ordinary people, it’s just that the Sword Sect never knew about the toad, that’s all.”

Qiu Shiyin’s cold pupils suddenly dilated, and she said in disbelief, “Impossible!”

“Not impossible at all. Do you think that by Jiuyou Hall Master deliberately avoiding the term ‘Origin Demon’s child’, we wouldn’t guess his origin?”

Lu Qingshan’s voice resonated as if chanting, every word etching into Qiu Shiyin’s heart, “Within the Origin realm, with the Four Great Demons leading the horde, the Origin Demon’s child was only of Fourth Grade, yet he commanded so many Origin Demons.

Besides that, there was also a Fifth Grade peak Origin Demon as a guard, to whom even the Jiuyou Hall Master had to address as ‘Lord’. Aside from being the Origin Demon King’s son, we can’t think of any other possibility.”

“I immediately communicated with my brother as soon as I could, saying that the Origin Demon’s child is very likely the Origin Demon King’s son, and that killing him would cause a major conflict between the Origin Demon King and the Sword Sect.”

“But my brother did not hesitate at all; instead, he bravely faced the danger to his life and acted against the Origin Demon’s child.”

“The reason you think the Sword Sect would disregard the existence of ordinary people for the sake of the Primordial Stone Orchid Mine’s benefit,” Lu Qingshan sighed, “is just that you don’t understand Sword Cultivators.”

“Why were you unwilling to give the Sword Sect a chance to see how they would act?” asked Lu Qingshan.

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