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4.11% My Master Disconnected Yet Again / Chapter 29: Vengeance Exacted

Chapter 29: Vengeance Exacted

Editor: Atlas Studios

When Lonemoon came back from causing a distraction outside, Qi Chengyu's battle had already ended. The originally arrogant Gan Zirui was completely devoid of breath while on the other hand, Qi Chengyu was covered in wounds all over. She had indeed held true to her word; she had fought on with all her might as tough as it might be to avenge herself and did not allow anyone to help her. At the moment he took his last breath, her unstable body seemed to finally relieve its last breath and she fell flat onto the ground, her long sword stained with blood also dropping from her hands.

"Hey, it's done." Shen Ying who had just came back suddenly spoke and nudged the person beside her.

"Holy shit!" Taken aback, Lonemoon retreated a step. "Where did you just go to?"

"Up the mountain." Shen Ying pointed towards the peak.

Lonemoon paused and seemed to think of something. His mouth twitched and for some baffling reason, he did not feel like asking her what she had done.

"What happened to the Grand Vacuity Sect?" Yi Qing looked toward the peak and asked. From the beginning, he had felt that there was quite a din coming from the periphery of Sword Comprehension Peak.

"Oh, I told their sect master that we lost the Fiendish Cultivator here and suspect there is a Fiendish Cultivator mole in the Grand Vacuity Sect," Lonemoon said seriously. "They are now busy gathering the disciples to look for that spy, so no one will come to Sword Comprehension Peak for the time being. Let's take this opportunity to escape."

"You deceived them?" Shen Ying looked up and gave him a look.

Even Yi Qing turned his head over in a somewhat confounded manner. I never expected you to be that kind of Supremacy!

"What's with that look of yours?" He rolled his eyes back at the duo. "Wasn't I just cleaning up your mess? Besides. We're all from Blackheaven Sect, so how can we not fabricate an excuse when we come to their mountain to stir trouble?"

After finishing his piece, he harrumphed and turned his head toward the immobilized person on the ground who was still covered in blood. He could not help but knit his brows together.

At that moment, Qi Chengyu suddenly picked up the sword on the ground as she struggled to stand up with the aid of the sword hilt. She stumbled over, each step she took dying the green ground a blood red. It took her great difficulty to arrive at a spot five footsteps away from them before she knelt down.

"I thank the three of you for helping me exact my vengeance." She looked up as though she had finally unloaded a huge burden. She smiled at them. "I have no more regrets in my life. Supremacy, I'm willing to accompany you back to Blackheaven Sect and await my judgement. Regardless of the punishment your esteemed sect metes, I will not say a single word."

She was ultimately a Fiendish Cultivator, and since good and evil were on opposing sides, moreover taking into account her murder of a hall master of Blackheaven Sect, it was only right for them as orthodox cultivators to capture her regardless of her reasons.

Her entire life had been destroyed because of immortal cultivation and she had suffered utter humiliation. Therefore, she had abandoned the orthodox path to turn fiendish. And yet, she never had expected that the ones who would ultimately help her would be orthodox Immortal Cultivators.

All these years, she had lived to seek revenge against Gan Zirui. She knew very well that as long as Gan Zirui had remained at Sword Comprehension Peak, there would have been absolutely no hope for her to kill him. If not for Shen Ying, there would have been perhaps no way for her to take a step into Sword Comprehension Peak her entire life.

In fact, ever since she set off for Sword Comprehension Peak, she had had no plans on returning alive. The Sword Cultivator, Yi Qing, had said that Lonemoon was a Soul Formation Supremacy of Blackheaven Sect. There was no reason for them to let her off! It was just that… she had no means of repaying her debt to Shen Ying.

With this in mind, she looked up at Shen Ying whose mind appeared to be wandering as though she had no idea what was happening at the moment. For the first time in centuries, she felt warm emotions in her heart. If only… they had met earlier.

"Supremacy, please mete out your punishment!" Shen Ying had already given her enough hope; therefore, she absolutely could not put her into a difficult spot again. She took a deep breath and then cupped her fists with great difficulty. She wore a determined expression, one that was resolved for death.

Lonemoon's tightly knit brows eased as he looked at the Fiendish Cultivator who was on her last legs. As an orthodox cultivator, he did have the intention to capture her and throw her over to Xi Qiu for punishment. In addition, he had been brought to Sword Comprehension Peak by Shen Ying for some baffling reason. He had planned on taking action after everything was over.

Now, with Qi Chengyu submitting to him obediently, he suddenly found the matter troubling. He… was actually unable to carry out the deed!

It's all that f**king Shen Ying's fault! Besides, why ask me to pass judgment? Why don't you ask that foodie?

"Hmph! My purpose of coming out was to seek a person and not to rid fiends and protect the Dao." He snorted coldly and turned his head away.

"Supremacy?!" Qi Chengyu was shocked as she looked up in disbelief. He was… planning on letting her off?

"I have many things to deal with every day. I don't have the time for you." He shot a glance at her. "However, if you ever dare harm the innocent again in the future, I will definitely not show mercy."

Qi Chengyu was taken aback as her expression changed a few times. Her watery eyes shimmered as she gave him a deep bow. "Thank you, Supremacy. I'll definitely keep that in mind!"

Lonemoon turned around and prepared to fly off on his sword, but his eyes met two deep, meaningful eyes. "What are you looking at?" His heart skipped a beat as he turned his head to stare back. "Are you unhappy with the way I handled things?"

"Nope." Shen Ying shook her head.

"Then why aren't you leaving? Are we waiting to be caught?" His expression turned even more ferocious. "Isn't this all because of you? If not for us being from the same hometown, do you think I would have given a damn about this?!" He was a mighty Soul Formation Supremacy of Blackheaven Sect, so how could it be easy for him to close one eye on this matter?

"Oh…"

"Oh my ass. Let's leave quickly!"

"Oh…"

"…"

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Three days later.

"Shen Ying, why did you go to Sword Comprehension Peak that day?" Lonemoon could not help but ask. After all, at that time, it had not been long since Qi Chengyu had dealt with Gan Zirui. She was also a Fiendish Cultivator and there had been three Soul Formation cultivators on the mountain; it was impossible for none of their group to have been discovered. Yet despite that, the other side had not appeared from beginning to end.

"Let me ask a question," Shen Ying returned languidly.

"Is it about Gan Zirui?" He was taken aback. "Did you figure out something from your investigations?"

Shen Ying glanced at him and then switched to a more comfortable position while continuing to slump back. "That Gan… Gan…"

"Gan Zirui."

"Oh, he didn't die a pointless death. Qi… Qi… Roasted Chicken Gal."

"…" Are roasted chickens the only f**king thing you can remember?

"She wasn't the first human cauldron whom Gan Zirui was seeking for Yu Ding. I heard that he had many disciples under him and they were all female. However, none of them managed to live for long. Later, when Roasted Chicken Gal turned fiendish and achieved the Nascent Soul stage and got her Fiendish Cultivators to seek him out, he sensed danger and hid in Sword Comprehension Peak."

"If that's the case, he deserved death!" Lonemoon frowned. "But why was he at Sword Comprehension Peak? Although rearing human cauldrons is common in Azure World, specially recruiting disciples to rear them into human cauldrons is just too vile. It's impossible that all his disciples had pure Yin bodies. The Six Schools Three Sects would not permit such actions, much less shelter him."

"The old folks said that he was related to someone in Azure World, so he was allowed inside as an exception to the rules. In name, he was a disciple who guarded Sword Comprehension Peak. Upon reaching Soul Formation stage, he would have been allowed to directly head to the Upper Azure World."

"The Upper Azure World?!" Lonemoon was alarmed. "It's no wonder he was a Nascent Soul despite his average talents. So it has to do with his connections with the Upper World."

Shen Ying suddenly looked up at him with unclear intentions. "Do you believe it?"

"Ah!?" What did she mean?

"Yu Ding." She suddenly said a name.

Lonemoon was taken aback, his eyes widening abruptly as he suddenly thought of something. "Are you referring to…"

Shen Ying did not reply while Lonemoon immediately stood up and turned around, swooshing straight over to Yu Ding's Elixir Peak.

Half an hour later, he returned wearing a conflicted look. He held several bottles and urns in his hands as he placed them on a table in front of Shen Ying. His brows were crossed.

"You guessed correctly. It's really related to the Upper Azure World… It's Yu Ding!"


Chapter 30: Leading Them on an Experiential Training Expedition

Editor: Atlas Studios

Lonemoon had found a secret chamber in Elixir Peak which had been so deeply hidden that if he had not been proficient in array formations, it would never have been discovered. However, this secret chamber was not just an ordinary room for refining elixir pills. Yu Ding, who was the hall master in charge of the entire Elixir Peak, was also an eighth-level alchemist. Ninety percent of Blackheaven Sect's elixirs originated from Elixir Peak. As a hall master, refining pills had been part of his job so there was no need to set up such a secret room for elixir refinement. Lonemoon had been deeply puzzled by this until he saw the bottles of completed elixirs in the secret room that Yu Ding had not managed to stash away in time.

Among those elixirs, there were actually cultivation boosting pills. The use of these kinds of pills was not tied to the consumer's cultivation level; the pills could be taken by high-ranking cultivators and even by Soul Formation cultivators. Anyone who took the pills would immediately gain a boost in their cultivation level. However, the ingredients to make these pills were extremely rare, many of which had already ceased to exist in the Azure World. There was simply no way to refine them. Yet despite that, there were more than one bottle of these pills in Yu Ding's secret chamber.

This could not be possible unless…

Lonemoon had poured out an elixir pill from a bottle and probed it with his perception aura. As expected, he found an obscure black Qi surrounding it.

It was rumored that there was a depraved method of making elixir pills which was to use the body of a living cultivator. These pills could preserve ten percent of the victims' cultivation level before their death. Anyone who took the pill would directly experience an improvement in cultivation level. However, this method was extremely troublesome. No cultivators would willingly allow their cultivation level be extracted; thus, although it was an elixir pill, the malevolence contained in the pill could turn on the consumer unless the cultivator used in the making of the pill possessed Spirit Qi of an extremely gentle attribute such as a Water Spirit Root attribute or a Wood Spirit Root attribute.

Coincidentally, a person with a Water Spirit Root attribute was also regarded as being most suitable for use in sexual enslavement.

The reason why Yu Ding had built a secret room… was so that he could hide the fact that he had been refining elixirs using living people. And his ingredients for the pills were the sex slaves that Gan Zirui had provided him with.

It was no wonder there was such a heavy aura of grievance contained in this elixir. The unfortunate soul was harvested while she was still alive and even after death, her body was still used for refining pills.

Lonemoon could not help but shudder then. Looking at the amount of elixir pills, the number of people who had died in the hands of Yu Ding and Gan Zhirui must have been considerable.

The strange thing was that Yu Ding had not improved his cultivation much during all these years which made it obvious that he had not touched those pills. That meant there were other people pulling the strings from the shadows. Therefore, combining this conclusion with Shen Ying's earlier deductions, the people behind Yu Ding and Gan Zhirui had to be from the Upper Azure World!

At that point, a shocking thought had come over Lonemoon: now that Yu Ding was dead, would the people behind him directly target Blackheaven Sect?! High-level cultivators were a dime a dozen in the Upper Azure World. Although the Blackheaven Sect was the top sect of the Middle Azure World, in the eyes of the Upper Azure World, the sect was insignificant. But then he immediately rejected this conjecture. No, the act of using a living person to concoct elixirs was no different from the evil acts of Fiendish Cultivators. The Upper Azure World would spare no effort to hide this heinous act, let alone directly admit to it. The fact that Gan Zirui had hidden himself in Sword Comprehension Peak instead of directly fleeing to the Upper Azure World was proof of this. From this, Lonemoon surmised that the people behind Gan Zirui and Yu Ding probably did not have free rein to do whatever they wanted in the Upper Azure World.

Granted, Yu Ding was guilty of many crimes, but the key issue was that he had been in Blackheaven Sect for so many years yet no one knew that he was from the Upper Azure World. Helping his masters in the Upper Azure World refine these pills was probably not the only reason for hiding his true identity. There were definitely other motives at play. What did the people in the Upper Azure World plan to do? He couldn't help but think of the Grand Vacuity Sect. Everyone knew that although the Grand Vacuity Sect was in name a member of the Three Schools Six Sects, it was actually only a puppet controlled by the Upper Azure World. Could it be that they wanted to turn Blackheaven Sect into a second Grand Vacuity Sect?!

A belated feeling of fear kicked in, but still it was fortunate that he had discovered this in time. He hadn't expected this matter of the Fiendish Cultivator would bring so many other issues to light.

At first, he thought that it was Shen Ying's sympathy working overtime, that she had dragged them along on her escapade because she pitied the Fiendish Cultivator. He certainly had not expected such a pleasant surprise in store! Shen Ying did not usually give the impression that she was the reliable sort, so he had been surprised by her being so alert and sharp; she had immediately grasped the crux of the matter.

"Shen Ying, did you already sense that there was a problem long before? Which was why, for the sake of Blackheaven Sect, you… Huh? Where did she go?"

Before he finished speaking, he realized that the person who had been sitting in front of him had already returned to the house. She was peering at a green leaf in her hand with a look of disgust.

"Chef, what is this thing that smells like coriander?"

"Parsley, used for seasoning."

"Don't use it next time. I hate parsley."

"Yes Master, no problem Master!"

Lonemoon: "…" F*cking retard.

-_-|||

I must have been blind to think that a foodie like her could think of the big picture. And Sword Immortal, have you so readily accepted the title of Chef? Do you really have to be so quick about it?

(╯‵□′)╯(┻━┻

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When Sect Master Xi Qiu was informed of the matter of Yu Ding by Lonemoon, he too felt the same sense of fear, but fortunately they had discovered the matter in time before it resulted in a major disaster. Regardless, this matter involved the Upper Azure World, and they had no idea who the mastermind behind it was; they had no choice but to accept their loss and act as if nothing had happened. It was only now that they called off their pursuit of Qi Chengyu.

"Are you here to freeload again?" Shen Ying glanced at her fellow compatriot, this idle man who constantly nagged at her, and waved her hand. "It's not yet meal time. The cook hasn't come back yet."

"Who says I'm here to freeload?" Lonemoon glared at her. "I have long been practicing Grain Liberation. Have I ever eaten a grain of your rice?!"

"Yes, you have!"

Lonemoon's mouth twitched. Suddenly he remembered something. "Pastries can't be counted as rice!" He had tried a few mouthfuls as he had not eaten them for such a long time. Do you have to carry such a small matter in your memory for so long?

"I'm just here to inform you that your disciple will probably be unable to come back to cook today. The sect master is talking to him about an experiential training expedition."

"Experiential training expedition?"

Lonemoon patted delicately at his robes before sitting down opposite her. He could not help but gloat as he informed her, "At this time of the year, the disciples below Golden Core stage must go out in batches on an experiential training expedition to improve their battle readiness. It mostly involves taking on requests that those in the mortal world cannot handle or subduing demons and beasts and the like, similar to a group training exercise."

"What has that got to do with Chef?" Isn't he a Nascent Soul cultivator?

"By all rights, nothing." Lonemoon continued. "In previous years, only one Golden Core cultivator was needed to lead the team to ensure the safety of the disciples during the annual experiential training expedition. But this time the sect received requests for help to deal with a powerful ninth-stage demon that has apparently appeared in the south. The ordinary Golden Core cultivators can't deal with it at all. The hall masters are all busy investigating the Yu Ding case and aren't in the sect. So Xi Qiu thought of your chef."

"Oh…" Forcibly recruited? "How long is this experiential training expedition?"

"No fixed duration. A short one could take three to four months while a long one… about half a year to one year."

One year! Shen Ying's mouth twitched a bit, and suddenly a formula appeared in her head: training expedition = no chef = no one to cook my meals = pending food crisis! Turning back to look at Lonemoon, she thought to herself: this means one year of eating pig swill!

No way!

"What kind of look is that?" Lonemoon frowned. Why did he feel that she was silently scolding him? "This has nothing to do with me. It's the arrangement of the sect's elders. Besides, he's a guest elder and leading a training expedition is supposed to be…"

But before he could finish speaking, Shen Ying suddenly stood up and with a serious expression on her face, she asked, "Can relatives come along on the training expedition?"

"…"


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