My Disciple Wants to Tease Me Every Day - Chapter 68

: Who is Your Master?
Ning Guang’s guess felt very unrealistic to Di Jiufeng––

First, what could that person’s objective have been? Was it because this person had some important information, or did they want to force them to go to the Lin family? The latter made some sense, but saying that person intentionally preserved the body just to put on a show now was nearly too unbelievable.

Were they able to see the future, even control the tides, just to make sure this corpse was delivered to them at just the right time?

Di Jiufeng said in suspicion, “Ning Guang, could your intuition be wrong? I keep thinking this is impossible, not to speak of that last scene that Qing Yu saw. This person could still move, in this vast dead sea, how could that person guarantee we would fish up this exact corpse?”

Ning Guang did not refute her, just looked meaningfully at the city lord’s people who had fished up the corpse, then leaned over by Di Jiufeng’s ear and whispered, “We would have to ask them why they wanted to let us see a corpse like this. And, do you really think that the one standing in front of us right now is Qing Yu? That resentful ghost of yours loved to stick to her, but now Qing Yu is free, why hasn’t it done anything?”

As Ning Guang finished, ‘Qing Yu’ suddenly started laughing loudly.

The sound was piercing, completely different from Qing Yu’s normal voice. She stepped back, disappearing into a roiling cloud of demonic energy, and an ordinary-looking, forgettable demon woman appeared in her place.

“You are quite smart, when did you find out?” The woman seemed confident, like she had some strong support, both hands behind her back, looking quite content.

Ning Guang pulled Di Jiufeng behind her. After she was safely guarded, she spoke, her face blank. “The waves of spiritual energy.”

“What?” The woman looked a bit confused, taking some time to think before she reacted. Her brow creased a bit, showing a somewhat vexed smile. “That was my mistake. Though I forced myself to change into a yao cultivator’s appearance, my source of power is still demonic energy. I could not cast any spells, fearing you would discover me, but I never thought that this was also a mistake. Fine, fine…”

The woman suddenly laughed. Seeing this, Ning Guang realized she was up to something, and stepped forwards to grab her.

But Ning Guang was a step too slow. Her hands only closed on a wisp of demonic energy.

The woman rushed into the midst of the city lord’s people with a single leap. She did something to make a dense column of black smoke explode into the air, covering up the whole sky in a field of black.

“Not good, she’s trying to run!” Seeing that woman leap away, Ning Guang understood. But it was already too late. The black smoke covered everything in only a split second, and when she went to chase her, everything was dark, too dark to see your own hand if you stretched out your arm. Thick and heavy demonic energy wound around everyone like dense ink.

“No good, we can’t catch up anymore.” Ning Guang sighed, there really was no way to find her tracks.

Di Jiufeng tugged on her hand and said, a bit experimentally, “Perhaps we can break through this layer of fog.” She looked at Ning Guang, then released her own demonic energy. A thin black fog weakly circled her body, occasionally touching the surrounding fog, then drawing in its tentacles with a whoosh.

Di Jiufeng had just activated her demonic energy not long ago. That frail power was not enough to fight this black fog.

She had just let it out when it retreated tremblingly to her side. Seeing this, the surrounding black fog seemed to grow greedy.

Demons stripping each other of their cultivation was an ordinary occurrence. Though this woman didn’t want any extra trouble, a power separated from its master didn’t take orders as easily, and the black fog surrounding Di Jiufeng was slipping from her control. It greedily revolved around Di Jiufeng, experimentally at first, but seeing that Di Jiufeng’s demonic energy was so easily defeated, it got carried away and rushed her.

The black fog coalesced into the mouth of a beast, a gaping maw chomping down. Di Jiufeng’s demonic energy jumped in fright and curled into a ball in terror, darting away with its hands over its head.

They did not go far, just ran in circles around Di Jiufeng.

After the black fog had chased for a while, it began to get dizzy, and it was still unable to swallow down this delicacy. It got angry and its whole body puffed up and exploded into thousands of little pieces, diving in from all directions.

This all-encompassing net descended, and Di Jiufeng’s demonic energy had nowhere to hide, finally taking a bite to the rear.

It immediately puffed up, little black thorns slipping up all over its body. It was terrified like a dog, but it still had a temper. Before Ning Guang could do anything, it swallowed the black fog whole. It took a large bite, chewed a few times, then swallowed it down. The flavor wasn’t very good, but it had to get revenge for being bitten in the rear. Its little legs stiff, it arrogantly went on the chase.

Just like eating noodles, it bit down on one end and slurped the rest into its mouth.

Not too long later, the black fog covering the entire sky was much more transparent.

Some natural light filtered through, like the break of dawn.

The black fog was being consumed too quickly, that woman also began to panic. There was a sound of a questioning voice, letting Ning Guang confirm her direction. She said, “Let’s go,” then flew over, pulling Di Jiufeng along.

Ning Guang had moved very quickly, striking down on that woman’s head like lightning before the thunder . She had already dispatched all her spies, leaving only her with one foot in a spatial tunnel.

Seeing Ning Guang’s hand descend towards her, she immediately drew the dagger at her waist.

She just wanted to make Ning Guang back off, she never expected that Ning Guang wouldn’t even dodge. She grabbed the dagger with her left hand, as her right went for her neck.

“You!” For some reason, the moment she saw Ning Guang injured, the woman paused, though she immediately returned to normal. But these few breaths’ time was already enough for Ning Guang to subdue her.

She caught her neck in a death grip, five fingers in a claw. Ning Guang did not do anything else to her, only dragged her to her own side.

She looked down at the woman and said calmly, “You cannot hurt me? Who is your master? Why do they not allow you to hurt me? What is that man’s relationship to A-Feng, why does your master want to get close to A-Feng? What is their goal?”

The woman laughed coldly and closed her eyes. “You will know who my master is sooner or later, I have nothing to tell you. As for the objective of letting you see this body, haven’t you already guessed? Go to the Lin family of Duotian City if you dare!”

“You don’t need to goad me, I won’t buy it.”

Ning Guang’s expression was as ice-cold as usual, but her right hand squeezed a bit harder, lifting the woman from the ground. “Everything else does not matter, but if you don’t tell me this one thing, don’t blame me for being merciless! Why does your master want to get close to A-Feng?!”

The woman had fallen into Ning Guang’s hands, but she still looked unperturbable. Her neck was caught in a death grip and she couldn’t breathe, coughing hard. She must be suffering a lot, her eyebrows twisted together and her face going purple, but other than the coughing, she didn’t let out a single plea.

Ning Guang pressed harder and harder, nearly choking her to death, until her breathing slowed and her hands draped powerlessly to her sides. Then, she slowly lightened the pressure.

Ning Guang asked again, “Tell me! Why does your master want to get close to A-Feng?!”

There was another long silence. Ning Guang did not push her, only poured her ghostly energy into her eyes and swept her body with a merciless, biting cold gaze. The woman straightened her neck at first, but her spine grew colder and colder, piercing into the marrow of her bones bit by bit, like some poisonous parasite was charging through her blood. She thrashed in pain, her limbs trembling.

A bead of sweat seeped from her forehead, and slid across the landscape to her chin. It trembled for a while, then finally fell, shaken by the woman’s heavy pants.

As the bead of sweat dripped from her chin, it was like the straw which broke the camel’s back, and the woman finally couldn’t resist grabbing Ning Guang’s hand.

The last bit of color in her face had already disappeared. She was ashy-pale and trembling, covered by a layer of fear, even her pupils were going out of focus.

“I said, I said!” Her voice was hoarse like her throat was cracking apart, her hands soaked by cold sweat, fingers sunk into Ning Guang’s wrist. “I said, let, let me go!” Like a thread had snapped, she visibly trembled.

Ning Guang thought, then, afraid she would actually send her crazy, released her and let her sit on the ground.

The woman finally had some room to catch her breath. She subconsciously crawled forwards, getting closer to Di Jiufeng and Ning Guang. “My master, my master…” As she spoke, she looked up. Her eyes were closed at first, but in the next second, her voice halted in her throat, her eyes so wide they looked like they were about to fall from their sockets, letting everyone see the cold determination within.

“My master’s mission will definitely succeed! You will go to the Lin family of Duotian City, whether you want to or not!”

A violent sound came from near Di Jiufeng’s feet. She only saw a pair of pitch-black eyes before her whole person was engulfed by a cloud of demonic energy. Like she was offering sacrifice, the woman threw herself at Di Jiufeng. Di Jiufeng couldn’t even block before the demonic energy pushed into her body like a frigid wind cutting down to the bone.

She was going to be torn apart, the pain of a thousand knives rubbing against her bones, creating a terrible sound that made her teeth ache.

“Ning Guang… Ah–––!”

Di Jiufeng started screaming, and the overwhelming pain instantly awakened the demonic energy in her body. It took a protective stance and bravely enveloped the invader.

By bloodline, this woman was definitely no match for Di Jiufeng. She only barely gained the advantage by relying on her superior cultivation. But after overpowering Di Jiufeng, she intentionally slowed the rate of her demonic energy’s invasion, letting Di Jiufeng slowly absorb her energy.

Why? Di Jiufeng did not understand, but she had no way to expel the demonic energy.

This woman was very crafty. She intentionally kept her demonic energy at a borderline rate, making it so that Di Jiufeng could do nothing but absorb it. And Ning Guang could not do anything. This was a very precarious balance. If it was disrupted, the demon woman would die, and Di Jiufeng wouldn’t have any good outcomes either.

They came to a stalemate, and Ning Guang could only watch as the ends of the woman’s hair slowly turned white.

Until all her dark hair turned to snow, and a young woman in her prime turned into a wrinkly old lady.

A boundless source of demonic energy erupted from Di Jiufeng’s, sending her flying.

“A-Feng, how are you?!” Finally seeing them separate, Ning Guang didn’t dare delay a second. She ran over and took the swaying Di Jiufeng into her arms, asking questions in rapid succession. “Are you alright? Did anything go wrong? Did she do anything to you?”

Di Jiufeng shook her head. Though her temples were soaked with sweat, her face had kept its color. Her body was weak after being tormented by pain, but her cultivation truly had increased very much. In summary, she had exchanged some pain for this woman’s entire cultivation. “Why? Why would you do this?”

Di Jiufeng squeezed Ning Guang’s hand to signal that she was alright, but her eyes stayed on the demon woman who had fallen to the ground.

She was in a sorry state, blood and sweat mixing on her face, along with dirt she had picked up after rolling on the floor. She was wearing a young woman’s garment, but on the body of someone with one foot in the grave, it made anyone who saw it feel a sense of sorrow and helplessness.

The woman said, “Why? Of course it was to force you to go to the Lin family of Duotian City!”

Di Jiufeng went silent for a while, then sighed. “Was it worth it? All your cultivation, your very life, will end right here. Do you not regret it?”

The woman chuckled. Her body was old, and her voice had also grown hoarse like a broken instrument. But she did not care. She forced her back to straighten, looking as joyful as if she had completed a long-cherished wish. “It was worth it, of course it was worth it. Soon, you will know! Everything we did was worth it, it’s been so many years! Haha, so many years! The day is finally about to come!”

Her whole body was trembling, there were even tears seeping from the corners of her eyes.

Di Jiufeng saw that her state was strange, and she realized something, but before she could move, the woman’s voice ground to a halt!

She collapsed and her eyes slowly closed. Only her smile froze on her face, a disappointed and bitter smile.

Whether it was worth it or not, she was the only one who knew in the end. Di Jiufeng didn’t want to look any longer. She twisted around and buried her face in Ning Guang’s chest, then said quietly, “Help me up.”

But Ning Guang did not move. She held her chin and moved her face towards herself. “A-Feng, are you sure you’re alright?”

If she had only given her cultivation to Di Jiufeng, why was she so sure they would go to the Lin family of Duotian City? She must have done something, something that threatened Di Jiufeng, to force them to walk onto a tiger-infested mountain. But what had she done? What did the Lin family have that they must acquire?

Ning Guang looked carefully at Di Jiufeng’s face. Seeing her cheeks recover their color and her breath come with much more strength than before, she didn’t look like someone who had fallen into a trap. But the more fine she looked, the more Ning Guang worried. She furrowed her brow, her voice growing more urgent. “A-Feng, inspect your body carefully, do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?”

Notes:

This chapter was translated by Lily.