You Zishu once again watched Leng Mushi being tried by the Immortal Chiefs in the Punishment Hall, but he was no longer the same person who was forced to kneel down by the eloquent Leng Mushi.
He thought that this experience would be no different from usual ones, even the location was one he had been to many times, but this time, everything was completely different.
How much he hated Leng Mushi for not only behaving inappropriately but also forcing him to kneel down and using her eloquence to cause him to be locked up in a restricted area for more than three months. Now, how much he hoped that she could still be like she was before, refusing to give in and even distorting right and wrong to defend herself.
But now, the girl has already become emaciated and mentally depressed, with a sense of old age and dying. No matter how the immortal leader criticized her, she bowed her head obediently and said, "I admit it."
When the immortal leaders were arguing over how to deal with her, she just knelt on the ground absent-mindedly, turned her head, and looked into the void beside her.
You Zishu's heart skipped a beat. The last time they were in the Punishment Hall, Xiao Mian had knelt beside her. She...
You Zishu clenched the Xueling in his one arm. He recalled the day when he accidentally used the Xueling to dig open her back. When her eyes looked at him, there was a hint of pleading, and even intimacy that could only be shown to friends.
They have lived and died together, so logically they should be considered friends. They are also senior and junior brothers and sisters in the same sect.
But over the years, he had lived and died with many disciples, too many people who came and went. There had been brilliant geniuses, and there had been those who died miserably. However, You Zishu had never retracted his sword moves for anyone, and he had never been as moved as he was at this moment.
Can love really be so torturous, even destructive
She regressed in realm and destroyed her cultivation because of Xiao Mian, and even bore the great sin of putting the world in danger. Was it really worth it
The debate among the immortals soon came to an end. Even though Hua Yanyue's status in the immortal sect was so high that even the sect leader Zhengping had to stand behind her, she could only protect Leng Mushi from death and from being expelled from the sect.
She was punished to stay in the Biyan Cave behind the forbidden area for three hundred years. The climate there was cold in the winter and hot in the summer, which was different from the climate in Taichu Mountain. No grass grew there, and even demons and beasts rarely went there.
The most important thing is that his spiritual power is thin, and it is extremely difficult to cultivate. You Zishu's fingers had been clenched tightly for countless times, and finally even his palms were wet. He walked directly to the center of the hall and knelt down with a plop.
"I think it's inappropriate. The spiritual energy in the Jade Rock Cave is too thin. If my sister goes there, she won't be able to cultivate to the Moon Weight in three hundred years. Her life span is insufficient and she will surely turn into dry bones in there." You Zishu kowtowed to his master, who had never asked him for anything and even didn't talk to him much. "My sister has at least contributed to the seal of the Blood Demon Mountain. She doesn't deserve death."
"How is this punishment different from killing her?"
"How dare you!" Sect Leader Zhengping was so angry at his eldest disciple that he was having difficulty breathing and slammed his hand hard on the chair.
The third elder beside him said hurriedly, "It's my fault too. If I hadn't accidentally crushed the elder's jade pendant, I wouldn't have allowed her to leave the parasite of the Heavenly Demon in the Cangsheng Courtyard for so many days. I should have sent the parasite of the Heavenly Demon back to the forbidden area earlier. Then the Heavenly Demon might have awakened long ago, and we wouldn't have to go through the trouble of reinforcing the Blood Demon Mountain. We could have just started fighting!"
The Third Elder's hypocritical behavior really made the expressions of all the Immortal Lords present distorted. As soon as he finished speaking, Tianxuzi also sighed. Although he did not say anything, Xiao Mian was his disciple after all. After the accident, he immediately suppressed him in the forbidden area without mercy. If he did not feel any pain at all, he would not have been depressed all these days.
Hua Yanyue did not say anything to ask Sect Master Zhengping to let her off easily. She just sat in her chair with her arms folded, looking at Zhengping dimly, which made Zhengping's scalp numb. Then she spoke: "Many of the sect's elixirs have always been refined by this criminal like me. She is very diligent and of high quality. If you really imprison her to death, it doesn't matter. The supply of elixirs for the sect's low-level disciples will be changed from thirty days to half a year in the future."
When she said this, even the disciples standing in the Punishment Hall became excited. The supply of low-level elixirs had indeed increased from half a year to once a month in the past year, and they were indeed of high quality, and consuming them would bring great benefits to cultivation.
If it is really changed to once every six months, and they are about to face a war with the demons, those of them with low cultivation will probably have a hard time.
So after following You Zishu, those bastards in the Punishment Hall, who were always so ruthless and impartial that they would even tear off the extra hair flowers worn by the female cultivators in the sect, led by Yin Qiao, fell to their knees like frogs diving into the water.
"The disciples also think that imprisonment for three hundred years is too much punishment for Junior Sister."
Leng Mushi couldn't help but raise her head. First it was You Zishu and then the disciples of the Punishment Hall. When did she become such a popular junior sister
"Why not let her offset her sins by refining elixirs?" Tianxuzi spoke, stroking his beard with a solemn expression. Since Leng Mushi had entered the mountains for such a long time, he had never paid attention to her. In fact, he did not like her stubborn character.
But now even this real living ancestor couldn't bear to see her being imprisoned to death, so he spoke up and proposed this solution.
The immortal leaders no longer had any objections, so Zheng Ping gave in. He really didn't dare to insist any longer. He had a premonition that if he really refused to give in, his senior sister's eyes burning holes in his body would be a small matter, but she would simply refuse to produce the elixir from then on would be a bigger matter.
Therefore, Leng Mushi was finally sentenced by the Punishment Hall to be imprisoned in the Biyan Cave for three hundred years, which could be reduced at the discretion of the court. The time could naturally be reduced by alchemy. As for how much, that could naturally be negotiated. At least he would not be imprisoned to death.
Leng Mushi did not say a word to defend herself the entire time. She looked up at the elders who spoke for her, and You Zishu... Her heart felt warm, and her eyes were slightly red.
Letting the demon parasite go is indeed a serious matter. Even if the sect gives her a light sentence, the Taichu Sect will have to give an explanation to the other sects in the world.
She had caused a big disaster, so naturally she had to take the blame, but she had never thought that these elders of the Taichu Sect, whom she had never even met specially, and even the disciples of the Punishment Hall, who knelt in the hall with You Zishu to plead for her, whose faces she could not even remember, and Leng Tianyin and others who knelt outside the Punishment Hall to plead for her, were all protecting her.
She lowered her head and smiled slowly.
Leng Mushi packed up her things and moved from Cangsheng Court to Biyan Cave. The environment there was naturally harsh. It was the coldest time of the year on earth, and the temperature there was even worse than that. The cave where she lived was connected in all directions and there were gusts of cold wind. Leng Mushi relied entirely on the alchemy furnace for warmth. She refined the elixir from morning to night every day. If she didn't do that, she would freeze to death. At least the spiritual fire could give her warmth.
Her cultivation had regressed too much, damaging her foundation, making it difficult for her to make progress for a while. However, she returned to her previous life of immersing herself in pill recipes all day long. She was not sad, just a little embarrassed. She put on the only few sets of disciple uniforms she had, but she was still so cold that her eyelashes were frosted.
It remained silent for a long time. Leng Mushi thought that it had given up its own rules. Perhaps it couldn't stand her being dressed like the Nine-Pocket Elder of the Beggar Gang, so it taught her how to use the fire spirit root to warm herself up.
From then on, Leng Mushi became a seemingly normal person again. He was unaware of the passage of time in the Biyan Cave. One day, when he felt the earth shaking, he walked to the side of the Biyan Cave and looked at the sky which was dyed with blood-red clouds.
Xiaomei, who was sent to guard the forbidden area, often transformed into an extended plum branch to talk to her, and Fenlian would always turn into a butterfly and fly over. She was not lonely, and sometimes even felt that Xiao Mian was like a dream that had gone far away.
"The demon generals broke through the restrictions of Blood Demon Mountain, but there were only two demon generals. I don't know if the others were killed by the formation. Those two demon generals and a group of remnants have gone to the Demon Realm and joined the new Demon Realm Emperor." The pink lotus turned into a butterfly and flew around Leng Mushi. "Your lover is dead. Aren't you going to cry today?"
Fen Lian was the best at reading people's expressions. When Leng Mushi looked unhappy some time ago, she didn't dare to mention Xiao Mian at all. However, when Leng Mushi began to recover, she became like a nagging ghost with a hundred mouths, repeatedly probing Leng Mushi all day long and persuading her to find another lover. It was good for Xiaomei to have a senior brother who was originally a snake.
Fenlian said: "Just imagine, snakes, they are two of those things. Now you know the good of men, don't you want to try?!"
"Get out!" Leng Mushi threw the pink lotus fan aside, opened the furnace, poured the pure spiritual power into it, and the pill formed.
She was as quick as a pancake vendor. She packed the pill and handed it to Fenlian. "Take it. If you keep wasting time, I'll tell Senior Brother Xiaomei that you want to try the snake cultivator with two of those guys..."
Fenlian transformed into a human, with her facial features a little crooked, mainly because of Leng Mushi's harm. After all, Fenlian was her mount, and her cultivation was low, so no matter how high Fenlian's cultivation was, she would still have a crooked mouth, squinting eyes, and half of her body paralyzed.
She walked away twisting her body with the pill on her back. Leng Mushi glanced at the ominous red sky in the distance again. Without any sadness on her face, she turned back to the house to continue refining the pill.
As night fell, You Zishu arrived.
Leng Mushi sat in front of the alchemy furnace, checking the arm that was attached to his Yimo body, and cut off the parts that didn't fit and grew out of it with a knife. Then he said, "You have to replace this arm. You can't let it develop any intelligence in your body, otherwise it won't listen to your control."
You Zishu nodded, glanced at Leng Mushi, and lowered his eyes. This arm was given to him by Leng Mushi using the Yi Mo when he was caught secretly visiting Leng Mushi one time.
The broken arm had stopped You Zishu's cultivation from progressing, but the arm refined by Yi Mo helped him start to recover. Even the Sect Leader Zheng Ping was amazed at Leng Mushi's ability to refine Yi Mo to the point where there was not even a trace of demonic energy left, and he reduced her imprisonment time for this.
However, the arms refined by Yi Mo have many advantages, such as being able to pass through formations at will, being able to resist demonic energy without fear of injury, being able to heal on its own, and being able to be sacrificed when life is at stake.
But the only bad thing is that this thing has a very strong vitality. After being refined, it becomes a living individual, which can be said to be a parasite on You Zishu's body. Therefore, it will always absorb his blood and spiritual power, and grow some small branches and even consciousness.
Leng Mushi cleaned his wound with a knife and applied medicine carefully. In fact, these things could be done by asking the doctor in Fangcao Palace, but You Zishu always came to Leng Mushi and brought her many spoils brought back from fighting the demons outside.
"This time I brought some of the buns you mentioned before, from a bun shop in Wanbo Town. I sealed them with spiritual power, and they should still be warm now." You Zishu said this with his dead face, causing Leng Mushi to pause.
She has now recovered to the peak of Star Heavy level, and because of the methods taught by the Laws to utilize the spiritual roots in her body for self-circulation, in just three months, her appearance has recovered from being haggard to that of a delicate girl.
Leng Mushi put down the knife, wiped the blood on a piece of cloth, and bandaged You Zishu. She raised her eyes and asked with a smile: "Big Brother, do you want to become a Taoist partner with a sinner like me?"
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