“Senior!”
Qiu Zimei was both shocked and delighted to finally see Su Qiulian’s true form.
The delight was obvious, but the shock came from discovering that Su Qiulian was actually a great Fox Demon.
Standing before him and Qiu Ziling was only a temporary avatar of Su Qiulian, and as an avatar, she didn’t bother hiding her fox demon features.
Nine fox tails swayed behind her as she nodded and said, “The Demonic Path has set up an enormous Array Disc in Hao Ren Town. Everything that happened just now was caused by the Demonic Path activating this array. But now, you can rest assured—their people should have already left, and the array won’t be triggered again.”
As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and sent portions of her Yao Power into Qiu Ziling and Qiu Zimei.
“I can’t leave right now. Use my power to find the Array Core of the great array and destroy it. As for the townsfolk, you don’t need to worry about them.”
“Whoosh!”
With Su Qiulian’s Yao Power, both Qiu Ziling and Qiu Zimei manifested fox demon phantoms—their heads now sported faint fox ears, and large fox tail shadows appeared behind them.
Feeling the strength of this Yao Power, Qiu Ziling and Qiu Zimei knew it would be pointless to refuse Su Qiulian’s request.
Besides, they had no reason to refuse.
So, they bowed to Su Qiulian together, then set off to search for the Array Core as she instructed.
Just before leaving, Qiu Ziling glanced somewhat reluctantly at the tightly closed door, as if lost in thought.
Su Qiulian noticed, but said nothing.
She watched them depart, and the avatar outside the house faded away.
Inside the room, influenced by Su Qiulian’s Yao Power, a large number of Fox Spirits appeared.
They all surged forth, starting from Shen Qingyi’s small cottage, spreading outward in all directions.
They crossed streets and ruins, heading straight for the townsfolk lying on the ground.
Each Fox Spirit would attach itself to a townsfolk, and once attached, would automatically draw out the uncontrollable Evil Thought within that person.
As the Evil Thought was extracted, the Fox Spirit would be tinged with a streak of pitch black.
From above, it looked like a grand feast of foxes.
Once each Fox Spirit finished extracting Evil Thought, it would return to Su Qiulian’s body, bringing the Evil Thought with it into her.
Evil Thought is different from Evil Qi—after being extracted, Evil Thought must be stored in a special container, or refined into a Beclouding Desire Pill like those Demonic Sect Disciples.
But Su Qiulian did not know the method to refine Evil Thought like the Demonic Sect Disciples did, nor did she have a suitable vessel to contain it.
Unlike Human Cultivators, who valued Magical Artifacts, Demon Cultivators placed more importance on their Yao Body.
Thus, even as a Demon Emperor, she had few Magical Artifacts, and none that could store Evil Thought.
As a result, she could only use her own Yao Body to bear the Evil Thoughts from the townsfolk and the beclouding Evil Thought inside Shen Qingyi.
“Mm-hmm…”
Affected by the Evil Thoughts drawn into her, Su Qiulian frowned, holding Shen Qingyi close and never letting go for a moment.
She was focusing all her strength on extracting the Evil Thought from Shen Qingyi and drawing it into herself.
Naturally, this would also make her vulnerable to the influence of such a massive amount of Evil Thought.
However, with no array suppressing her now, Su Qiulian could still bear it—she wasn’t as wretched as she had been outside the town.
But now, her mind was less on the Demonic Sect’s powerful array, and instead kept circling back to the two things Shen Qingyi had muttered under the influence of the Beclouding Desire Pill.
“Ah Lian…hold me…”
This line seemed to be Shen Qingyi accidentally recalling a part of her past life’s memories under the effects of the pill.
But—
“Ah Shuang…slow down…”
Who the heck was this “Ah Shuang”?!
Because she had previously detected the Sword Intent of the Sword Sovereign Bai Luoshuang on Shen Qingyi’s soul, she couldn’t help but associate “Ah Shuang” with Bai Luoshuang.
But thinking this way, her expression became even more miserable than if she’d swallowed dung.
Why would her little Shen have anything to do with Bai Luoshuang?!
And even call out “Ah Shuang” while under the pill’s influence!
Why?!
In their previous life, hadn’t little Shen only ever been with her?
When did she get entangled with Bai Luoshuang?
No matter how much this Demon Emperor trusted her lover, she couldn’t help but imagine herself getting cuckolded.
It was truly heartbreaking!
But now wasn’t the time to ask Shen Qingyi about it.
Looking at the still-unconscious Shen Qingyi in her arms, Su Qiulian could only pour even more Yao Power into extracting the Evil Thought from her body.
And there was something truly strange about it—the Evil Thought’s flow completely ran counter to her own meridian pathways.
Drawing it into herself forced her Yao Power to flow in reverse, causing backlash.
Her blood surged uncontrollably, and with a “pfft,” she coughed up a mouthful of fresh blood beside her.
Staring at her reflection in the blood, Su Qiulian understood.
The Demonic Sect Disciple’s target must have been herself all along; Shen Qingyi was only a decoy and a medium.
But with her current condition, wasn’t she at their mercy?
Why would the Demonic Sect Disciple just leave?
Just give up on her, a severely wounded Demon Emperor?
She couldn’t figure it out, but Su Qiulian was certain: the Demonic Sect must be brewing some grand scheme.
Just the fact that they knew about her Reincarnation meant she could no longer underestimate them.
“For a sect that vanished from the long river of history for so long to still wield such power… What kind of splendor must they have enjoyed at their peak…?”
Su Qiulian muttered to herself, continuing to extract Evil Thought for Shen Qingyi despite her own injuries from the reversed Yao Power.
***
Shen Qingyi had no idea what was happening now.
She was watching two segments of her own memories from a god’s-eye view.
These two memories were of her being—well, ravished—by the Demon Emperor Su Qiulian and the Sword Sovereign Bai Luoshuang.
And in both scenes, she hadn’t resisted at all!
In the Demon Emperor’s scene, Su Qiulian had carried her into a house.
Phoenixes sang in unison.
In the Sword Sovereign’s scene, they played together in a hot spring—such joy.
The sword hilt pressed hard.
She couldn’t help but shiver.
Could these be memories of a parallel universe version of herself?
Yes, yes, that must be it!
There’s no way she would act like that in another woman’s arms!
But when she recalled how Su Qiulian had teased her earlier, she couldn’t help but doubt herself.
“What should I do?!”
Just thinking about it gave Shen Qingyi a headache.
The Demon Emperor was already a handful—though a bit perverse, she hadn’t actually done anything to her yet.
But if that Sword Sovereign came looking for her, Shen Qingyi doubted she’d survive whole.
After all, just thinking about the sword hilt pressing hard was terrifying enough.
But if Bai Luoshuang really did show up, wouldn’t she and Su Qiulian start fighting right away?
But even then, she’d still be stuck, wouldn’t she?
Please, don’t let the sins I committed in my past life come looking for me in this one!
Although she only remembered two shameful scenes for now, judging from Su Qiulian’s earlier reaction, her last life must not have ended well!
She still didn’t know whether Su Qiulian was truly reincarnated.
But Shen Qingyi figured she must be—otherwise, how could an ordinary blind girl like her attract the famous Demon Emperor’s attention?
It couldn’t just be that Su Qiulian was acting on impulse, right?
If she really were, wouldn’t she have just used force by now?
Why make it look like she could actually resist?
Thinking this, Shen Qingyi suddenly felt a stabbing pain in her head, and the two memory fragments faded.
She woke up.
“Little Shen, you’re awake?”
As soon as she moved, Su Qiulian’s concerned voice sounded in her ear.
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