My Disciple Wants to Tease Me Every Day - Chapter 58

: Watched
Ning Guang fed Di Jiufeng the Reincarnation Pill with a shaking hand. The sounds she was hearing moved further and further away, all the clamor retreating from her hearing, leaving only the thud of her heartbeat making her head go faint.

She saw Di Jiufeng open her eyes. At first hazy, before their expression grew clearer and clearer.

Di Jiufeng looked at her…

When their eyes met, Ning Guang looked away. She tucked in her chin, her sharp jaw shaking with uncontrollable trembles.

It was like time had frozen, until Di Jiufeng reached out and slowly pressed her hand to Ning Guang’s cheek. Her hand was ice-cold, beads of sweat slicking her palm.

“Ning Guang, don’t be afraid. I’m back.” After turning her face towards her own, Di Jiufeng was finally able to see the fear in her eyes. Another giant dragon of spiritual energy exploded by their side. A deep hole was blasted into the ground, showering them in a splatter of sand and gravel. For some reason, Di Jiufeng suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

Burning-hot droplets of blood splattered Ning Guang’s neck, and she shivered at the heat.

Bloodshot veins crawled through her eyes, and her expression suddenly grew fierce. For a second, she looked just like an evil spirit that had crawled out from the depths of hell.

“A-Feng, A-Feng, wait for me in Shen City.” Forcibly sending Di Jiufeng back inside, Ning Guang stood up and walked back. Her expression was very calm, but the emotions hidden deep within her eyes were like a hurricane before the torrential rain, powerful enough to crush cities, lusting for destruction.

“You want to kill us?” She swept her gaze coldly towards that man.

Intimidated by her cold manner, even the man’s voice began to tremble. “I, I…”

He swallowed down a large mouthful of saliva, his eyes flitting back and forth. Seeing the like-minded comrades at his side, a burst of confidence suddenly rose in his heart. He raised his head, and his gaze no longer floated around, a condescending pity crawling up his brows. “Eliminating the ancient witch is the duty of us righteous cultivators! If you obediently surrender yourself for capture, we can still leave you an intact corpse! And, hand over the spiritual device you just used!”

Spatial spiritual devices were not rare, but spatial spiritual devices that could hold living beings had only ever appeared in the Shenzhou Records.

They could be said to be the finest spiritual devices in the world. Even the top-ranked cultivators could only glimpse their shape but not their shadow. Yet such a most precious treasure had appeared right before their eyes!

The man couldn’t resist licking his lips, a wisp of greed showing in his glowing eyes.

“With so lowly a status, how are you worthy of that kind of treasure? Hand it over! In this world, only my Shifu, Sect Leader Ming Cang, or the head of the Ji family, are worthy of possessing it!” He maintained a righteous and aloof appearance, but Ning Guang knew that if no one else was around, he would definitely claim this spatial spiritual device for himself.

Righteous cultivators were always so hypocritical. Ning Guang couldn’t resist letting out a cold laugh, stirring the droplets of blood on her neck, making her look even more sinister.

“If you want it, I can give it to you, but will you still be alive to take it?” Before she had finished speaking, Ning Guang had already disappeared without a trace.

The man glared, wide-eyed, but before he had realized what happened, an ice-cold blade had pierced through his stomach. “You… you…”

“I what?” Holding the grip of the sword, Ning Guang slowly sliced it up and down until blood began to drip down the blade, pattering to the ground by her feet. She took a step back in distaste.

She pulled out the sword, indifferently watching the man fall to the ground.

Like a gutted fish, he kicked his legs helplessly, squirmed and struggled, smearing blood all over the ground.

“You have some guts, you dare hurt my Shifu, why don’t you go die.” Dissatisfied, she stomped on his stomach a few more times. Because she had covered her shoes with a layer of spiritual energy, not a bit of dirt stained Ning Guang’s toes even as she stomped the man’s stomach into a mass of flesh and blood.

The man seemed to be in a lot of pain, but his strength was flowing away along with his lifeblood. He could only glare, eyes wide, as his struggles gradually grew weaker.

Ning Guang watched as the man gulped down his last mouthful of air, violent pain twisting his face, fixing it in its ugliest form.

Ning Guang looked up, sweeping an ice-cold gaze over the crowd. “And you…”

As her gaze swept over them, each person stepped back in unspoken agreement. Their eyes were wide, eyeballs nearly falling out of their sockets. “We just followed him, we didn’t want to attack, you, don’t, don’t…” Trembling, they retreated, taking larger and larger steps, before they finally turned and fled, not a single person left behind.

They used all every escape skill they had learned in their lives, thinking that a new dawn was just before their eyes, but just when smiles had risen up on their faces, they froze for good.

Ning Guang did not chase them. With just a stomp of her foot, the ghostly form split into pieces and swept over to outflank them.

These legendary prides of the heavens were no match for the ghostly form. They had just opened their mouths, but before their cries for help could even rush from their throats, their souls had already become nourishment.

Nine fresh new corpses joined the gloomy lost treasure lands. These ancient battlefields were far too accustomed to death, and they did not even hesitate before thick fog covered up the corpses, never to see the light again.

Ning Guang did not spare them an extra glance before she hurried back to Shen City.

At the same time, Di Jiufeng was collapsed on the ground of Shen City. The System had just notified her that she had failed the lost treasure lands mission, and a vigorous bolt of lightning had carved a gully into the ground. But Di Jiufeng didn’t have the heart to care about it.

She closed her eyes, her whole body curled up into a ball, blood pouring from her mouth and nose.

Di Jiufeng’s eyebrows were twisted into a knot, pinching Ning Guang’s heart tightly along with them. She shivered, her footsteps hurried and panicked, and when she had almost reached her, collapsed to the ground entirely.

Ning Guang’s forehead smashed heavily into the ground, dust and dirt covering her face. Some pieces of gravel sliced open her skin, sticky blood pouring from her forehead.

But she did not mind this at all. She half-heartedly wiped at it with a sleeve, hurriedly sat up on her knees, and embraced Di Jiufeng.

“A-Feng, A-Feng, what happened to you? Look at me!” A hoarse and trembling voice tore its way from her throat. She could not hide her panic. Even if she did her best to conceal it, the cold sweat on her palms and her trembling fingers would tear down her mask. “A-Feng, you, open your eyes, look, look at me!” Her words turned into a plea.

Ning Guang’s back curled helplessly, and she pressed her face close to Di Jiufeng.

Because she had used too much force, blood poured from her wounds even faster, spilling from swollen veins like a breached dam.

Blood mixed with ghostly energy fell onto Di Jiufeng’s face drop by drop, soothing her torn soul like water from a clear spring. She let out a sigh, and her tight-knit brows smoothed out slightly. “Ning, Ning Guang…” Her voice was nearly inaudible, with a thick nasal sound.

This voice sounded like it could break apart in the faintest breeze, but it pierced Ning Guang’s eardrums like a clap of thunder.

She trembled, and right afterwards, tears began to roll down. “A-Feng, A-Feng, I’m here…” With trembling fingers, she took the hand dangling by her side and held it tight.

She was afraid it would be too cold for Di Jiufeng, so Ning Guang used ghostly energy to boil the blood, warmth born from the bottom of her heart giving her soul teetering on the verge of death a faint chance of survival. “A-Feng, A-Feng, you scared me to death.”

The closer Ning Guang moved, the more fiercely the ghostly energy surrounding her poured into Di Jiufeng’s body, especially because the ghostly form behind her had not yet been dismissed.

Ning Guang sensed this and hurriedly tried to withdraw the ghostly form, but Di Jiufeng stopped her. The tearing pain in her soul had been relieved a bit, finally allowing her to gasp in a breath. “Don’t, Ning Guang, your, your ghostly energy, makes me very, comfortable…”

How could she describe this feeling? It was like she had been torn into two halves, but still connected by tendons and threads. It was not a clean break, but a type of sawing motion, which aroused such a wrenching pain. When Ning Guang’s ghostly energy had entered, the two halves of her soul separated like the mountain peaks from the deep abyss finally had a chance of reconnecting.

The ghostly form was like a needle and thread, sewing half a demonic soul and half a human soul together.

The place where they connected, spiritual energy and demonic energy struggled at first, but afterwards, with the direction of the ghostly energy, slowly mixed into one. Di Jiufeng let out a comforted sigh. Beyond the ceasing of the pain, she felt that after the two halves of this soul completely melded, she could escape the control of the Heavenly Way. It was a strange intuition, but she was convinced it was true.

“Ning Guang, I’m alright.” As long as she was close to Ning Guang, there would be ghostly energy ceaselessly pouring into her body, and the pain in her soul would cease.

Di Jiufeng recovered, and flipped her hand to hold Ning Guang’s, using her arm to sit up. “Ning Guang, you killed people again?”

Ning Guang nodded and did not try to hide. “They wanted to kill me, and they wanted to steal Shen City, of course I could not let them go. A-Feng, let’s not speak of this, what happened to you? This does not look like corrosion from demonic energy.”

Di Jiufeng furrowed her brow, a burst of confusion also showing in her eyes. “I do not know. If this is not corrosion from demonic energy, why would there be demonic energy in my soul? If there was, I should have started qi deviating, I would not be so clear-headed. And, Ning Guang, did you know? The instant the demonic energy erupted, I felt watched, deep in my soul, like someone was looking at me, but I don’t know who it was, or with what method.”

“But there’s nothing wrong with your body, other than this demonic energy.”

It was this again, they were trapped in a dead-end. They looked at each other, but neither knew how to get out. After some time in silence, Di Jiufeng sighed. “Alright, stop thinking about it, when the boat gets to the pier-head, it will go straight with the current. If they are plotting against me, they won’t hide in the shadows forever.

Ning Guang, let’s go find the map to the witch tribe’s tomb and the path to the demon realm. You killed so many people, the ones outside definitely know. They will definitely make a racket loud enough to wake the heavens, they might even be thinking of ways to close the lost treasure lands right now. The longer we stay, the more dangerous it will be, it’s best if we leave soon.”

Notes:

This chapter was translated by Lily.