Volume 2, Chapter 104 – Huang Shangshang’s Pills?

Song Shiyuan heard it clearly. This was her master, Immortal Venerable Qingzhi’s voice.

Why would Master appear here? Had she returned to Lingxiao Sword Sect?

Song Shiyuan struggled to open her eyes, but what she saw was still the ceiling of the Fox Palace.

Song Shiyuan had lived in the Fox Palace for so long… she was fairly familiar with the palace’s environment.

Based on the room’s furnishings, she could even roughly determine whether she was in the inner or outer areas of the Fox Palace.

Clearly… the position she currently occupied was in the outer area of the Fox Palace, a much worse location than where she had stayed before.

“What happened…” Song Shiyuan furrowed her brow.

A tearing pain once again came from her body. This kind of pain was much clearer than when she had been in the darkness.

However, it was precisely this pain that allowed Song Shiyuan to clearly recognize that she was still alive.

Her soul hadn’t scattered and perished.

What exactly had happened…

In Song Shiyuan’s final memory, the scene stopped in a sea of blood red.

After a brief moment of disorientation, Song Shiyuan recalled what had happened before.

Indescribable grief suddenly surged forth, instantly overwhelming the pain in Song Shiyuan’s body.

“Little fox demon…”

Song Shiyuan pressed her dry lips together.

Why wake up… why recall these things… why must she endure all of this?

Little fox demon… is this what you wanted me to endure?

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“She’s awake! She’s awake! Immortal Venerable! Miss Song is awake!”

Song Shiyuan heard that chattering, noisy voice come again.

Song Shiyuan looked in the direction the voice came from and saw a cute girl wearing yellow clothes.

“Huang Shangshang?” Song Shiyuan hesitantly called out her name.

Huang Shangshang looked delighted to see Song Shiyuan awake.

“Miss Song! I’m so glad you’re alright.” Huang Shangshang said cheerfully.

Earlier, Huang Shangshang had worried that if Song Shiyuan didn’t wake up, she would face punishment from the Fox Monarch.

Now seeing Song Shiyuan awake, Huang Shangshang was genuinely happy.

Song Shiyuan looked at Huang Shangshang’s cheerful face, puzzled. Huang Shangshang was fine, and she was fine too. Did that mean Lingxiao Sword Sect’s rescue plan had succeeded?

But if the rescue plan had succeeded, why were they still in the Fox Palace?

Had some accident occurred midway?

“Shiyuan, do you feel better?”

The familiar cold yet gentle voice once again called Song Shiyuan back from her thoughts.

Song Shiyuan turned her head toward the sound and saw a white figure.

She wore a white dress, with a devastatingly beautiful face, silver-white hairpins adorning her black hair.

“Master!” Song Shiyuan was extremely surprised. “How is Master here?”

Lingxiao Sword Sect’s Immortal Venerable Qingzhi, Qu Qingtang, had been in closed-door cultivation for years, not concerning herself with worldly affairs.

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Her strength was formidable and her status lofty. Even the sword sect’s master Jiang Hongliang couldn’t command her.

Even Song Shiyuan, as the Immortal Venerable’s disciple, had very limited opportunities to see Qu Qingtang.

Song Shiyuan never imagined she would encounter her master in the Fox Palace.

“Senior Qu, since Miss Song has awakened, this junior will take her leave for now.” Huang Shangshang, seeing that the master and disciple seemed to have things to discuss, didn’t dare remain in the room as a third wheel.

The Fox Monarch had asked her to care for Song Shiyuan, but hadn’t mentioned that Song Shiyuan’s master Qu Qingtang would also come.

Before this peerless Immortal Venerable, Huang Shangshang still felt panicked. The pressure was too great.

Anyway, Song Shiyuan was awake. Her task was complete. Finding this opportunity, Huang Shangshang made her escape.

“Master…” Song Shiyuan looked at her master with complex emotions.

Seeing her master, Song Shiyuan thought of the sword sect’s longstanding attitude toward fox demons.

If Master knew that Song Shiyuan had struck violently at her own senior brother for the sake of a fox demon…

She wondered how Master would view Song Shiyuan.

Perhaps expulsion from the sect would be the lightest punishment.

Thinking of this, Song Shiyuan couldn’t help but smile bitterly.

Becoming enraged over a fox demon and angrily attacking her sect brother, such behavior was already a capital offense according to the sect’s rules.

That Song Shiyuan could keep her life under Liu Funing’s hand was probably because Liu Funing, out of consideration for Qu Qingtang, hadn’t directly killed her.

After all, no matter what evil deeds Song Shiyuan had committed, she was still the Immortal Venerable’s disciple.

The Immortal Venerable’s status was transcendent. Even the sect master couldn’t simply kill the Immortal Venerable’s disciple, let alone Liu Funing, who was from another sect.

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However, even if Liu Funing hadn’t directly killed Song Shiyuan, Song Shiyuan’s fate wouldn’t be much better.

Being close with fox demons, attempting to kill a fellow sect member, and that sect member was even Song Shiyuan’s own senior brother.

Having committed such heinous crimes, Immortal Venerable Qingzhi couldn’t possibly let Song Shiyuan’s transgressions pass lightly.

But…

Song Shiyuan didn’t regret it… she only hated that she was too weak and hadn’t been able to kill that man.

This was Song Shiyuan’s greatest regret.

“Previously, your blood and qi attacked your heart, you went into qi deviation, your meridians boiled, your spiritual energy reversed… that you weren’t burst apart by the violent spiritual energy is already good fortune.” Qu Qingtang’s expression was somewhat stern. “If there’s a next time, you won’t have such good luck.”

Song Shiyuan’s eyes showed some surprise.

Her master, Qu Qingtang, was concerned about her?

This master who rarely inquired about her disciples’ cultivation progress was actually concerned about her now?

“Master?” Song Shiyuan stared blankly at Qu Qingtang.

“However…” Qu Qingtang’s delicate brows furrowed slightly. “Not only that… your meridians previously suffered a tremendous impact. Under such circumstances, eighty percent of the meridians in your body shouldn’t have been salvageable.”

“But… a power protected your meridians while you were unconscious, and even repaired the meridian pathways in your body that had been destroyed.”

“Did you eat something while in the Fox Palace?”

“To accomplish this… would require at least a high-grade pill.”

Song Shiyuan was puzzled.

She had taken a high-grade pill? She didn’t know about this.

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Qu Qingtang, seeing the expression on Song Shiyuan’s face, understood.

The spiritual power within Song Shiyuan’s body had been forcibly elevated by an entire realm. Her Nascent Soul stage cultivation had been forcibly raised to the Deity Transformation stage.

Her foundation was fundamentally unstable. This was an extremely dangerous situation.

However, someone had used high-grade pills to protect her heart meridian.

In this Fox Palace, there was only one person with the resources to accomplish this.

The Fox Monarch, Lu Zhuxin.

Our cold and heartless divine lord had actually secretly fed Song Shiyuan protective pills.

Her treatment of this little Song Shiyuan was truly unusual.

“Perhaps it was Huang Shangshang.” Qu Qingtang said. “She’s the Young Sect Master of Lingxu Sword Sect and has been caring for you all along. She probably fed you high-grade pills from Lingxu Sword Sect.”

Song Shiyuan was astonished, then showed a bitter smile. “So that’s how it was…”

She hadn’t done anything to help Huang Shangshang, yet Huang Shangshang had used high-grade pills to save her.

“Later, I will properly thank her.” Song Shiyuan said softly.

However, this favor was too great. Song Shiyuan felt she might have difficulty repaying it.

After all… she was now a criminal of Lingxiao Sword Sect.

“I already know what happened in the Fox Palace.” Qu Qingtang walked before Song Shiyuan, looking down at her from above.

“…” Song Shiyuan sighed inwardly.

As expected.