45 Crisis

  Jing Fei shifted uncomfortably.

  Her movements were subtle, and if you weren't paying attention, you wouldn't notice them at all.

  Yu Qing slowly opened the box.

  Jing Qiu, who was kneeling there, first curled up and then suddenly sprang out like a spring that had been compressed to its limit and then released.

  The hall was suddenly in an uproar, with those who were quick to react already drawing their swords. The blue, white and yellow sword lights flashed through the air, forming a dazzling arc as they all rushed towards Jing Fei together.

  Just as the two sword lights were about to pierce Jingfei's back, Qiūqiū felt a flash before her eyes, and something emerged from Jingfei's chest, semi-transparent, like smoke. But the smoke didn't condense - in just that instant, someone fell heavily from mid-air, Qiūqiū tried to shift outward, but the disciple beside her, who had already been stunned into stupidity, still managed to tightly grasp her.

  What fell down was Jing Fei, it was her corpse.

  Yu Xiang Zhen Ren and his companions chased after it, but that demon used a move called Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell.

  Jing Fei's corpse quickly rotted, and a black gas slowly escaped, emitting a foul odor. The body wrapped in clothes turned into a pool of black water in just an instant.

  She's not dead now, she has been dead for several days. From that night on, Qiuqiu, Jinglan and Jingyue were no longer there. That night, she was possessed by a demon, and the real Jingfei should have died in a very short time. Maybe it was that night or maybe the next day. The one who has been inhabiting this body is the demon that killed her.

  No wonder she's been hiding in the house and shouting that she's tired, refusing to meet with Zhang Yang... Zhang Yang might be able to see through her unusual behavior.

  None of them noticed that she had changed her mind and was no longer the original Jeanie.

  If they had discovered it earlier, perhaps Jingfei... could have been saved, although Qiuqiu knew in her heart that this possibility was very small.

  It seems like everyone has forgotten about Qiuqiu.

  Although it was proven that Jing Fei was the one possessed by the demon, the sect leader and elders all went to chase after the escaped demon, no one spoke up, and no one said a word about Qiu Qiu being innocent. After waiting for half a day, the disciples below didn't dare to take matters into their own hands and release her, instead they dragged Qiu Qiu out of the main hall by her broken arm and threw her into a stone room that looked like it was only used for imprisonment.

  Qiu Qiu was curled up in a corner of the stone room. His severed arm didn't hurt as much now - it must have been bound for too long and had gone numb.

  I don't know if her arm will be crippled if she continues like this.

  Qiu took a deep breath, but the iron rope was too tight and she couldn't struggle free.

  She's too highly regarded --- if this rope were used to bind Jeanie, that demon might not be able to escape.

  So many things happened in this short half day, Qiuqiu leaned there and thought about it one by one. Jinghai is dead, from the day before yesterday to yesterday, seven people died in the sect. Including Jingfei, that's eight.

  Qiu Qiu thought she might become the ninth one too.

  That demon ran away after eating seven human hearts.

  In the past, Qiuqiu had read about a demon tribe in a book, which was in a volume of "Shi Er". In fact, people didn't really understand demonic cultivation, and their descriptions were all about how cruel and evil they were. Among them, it mentioned this kind of demon that eats human hearts. The more human hearts it ate, the more its powers would surge, and these were ordinary people's hearts. But this demon was eating the hearts of sect disciples, like Jinghai, who was already a foundation-establishing cultivator. If it had eaten so many... Qiuqiu feared that this demon's strength had now reached an unimaginable level.

  Her consciousness was a bit fuzzy, Qiū Qiū struggled to make herself think, she couldn't pass out. There were many things she hadn't thought through yet... She had to face everything clearly, what had already happened and what would happen next.

  A cool feeling came from between her neck and shoulders. Autumn didn't need to lower her head; she knew it was the Like-minded Ring giving her that feeling.

  A cool sensation spread from her neck to her whole body, and her numb arms were also soothed by this force. Autumn closed her eyes and let out a light breath.

  She had never discovered that the Ruyi ring had this use before, and Shier solemnly gave her the Ruyi ring. The master also returned a half-book of very well-known residual books to her. However, Shier did not tell her what effect the Ruyi ring had -

  Maybe she originally intended to say it, but they didn't expect to part ways so abruptly.

  The coolness made Qiuqiu feel much more comfortable, she felt as if her child was still by her side, never leaving. They practiced together, in the scorching summer, Qiuqiu would mix chopped fruit and crushed ice together, then pour in the clear spring water they fetched early in the morning, this drink they both loved, even their master could drink several bowls a day...

  Qiu Qiu suddenly came to, leaning against the stone wall, and fell into a daze.

  The Liushui Sword Sect is now in big trouble, and no one thinks of her at all.

  Lian Yuqing's true self took action, but couldn't kill the demon, and was even escaped by it. However, the Hu Shan Great Array has been activated, and the demon is now hiding, unable to break through the array and escape from Xiuyuan Mountain.

  After several hundred years, the demon reappeared.

  This is no small matter.

  Demons were sealed hundreds of years ago, and even if there were any that escaped the net, they gradually disappeared from the world of humans, no longer able to stir up trouble.

  Is this sudden appearance a remnant of what was left behind back then? Or has the seal's effect already worn off?

  No one on the mountain was idle, everyone was in danger, and the disciples didn't dare to be alone. Even three or five people didn't dare to go out for a walk. To know that Jing Hai Shixiong's standard is much higher than theirs, even he suffered a poisonous hand, how can others who are targeted have a way to survive? Moreover, the demon can possess and parasitize, who knows whether their fellow disciples beside them have already been possessed and are waiting for an opportunity to make a sneak attack from behind.

  The elders' faces were uglier than the bottom of a pot, in front of so many people, under the watchful eyes of everyone, they actually let that demon escape, the entire sect was left with egg on their face, even Yu Qing Zhen Ren lost face.

  After searching for a whole night, there was no result. This demon only had a shallow gray shadow and didn't even have a physical body. If it weren't for the magical artifact like Jing Hai's arm ring that warned him, ordinary disciples wouldn't be able to detect the existence of this demon even if they were face-to-face with it.

  Jing Lan collapsed onto the bed, unable to get up again. Jing Heng brought a cup of tea over to her and asked softly, "Elder sister... Jing Fei... we should at least give her a proper burial, shouldn't we? No matter what..."

  Jing Lan raised her hand and shook it: "Don't think about it, this matter is not counted even if the master said so."

  Jingheng's heart was filled with fear and sadness: "Just now, the elders sent someone to take away all the things in Jingfei's room, saying they needed to be inspected and destroyed."

  Jing Lan closed her eyes, seemingly having fallen asleep.

  "Is... is Qingqiu still on the main peak? She hasn't returned yet, has she?"

  Jing Lan's hand clenched slightly: "Don't mention this person again!"

  Jing Han thought of her and felt uncomfortable too, responding with a simple "yes".