When the Villain is Bound to the Female Lead System

Chapter 16

The Brute Ox, a type of demonic creature, was considered a high-level monster ten thousand years ago. Its pair of horns could split mountains and crack the earth. However, after the War of Gods and Demons, the God Clan fell, and demonic creatures ceased to exist.

The world fell into a long period of primitive silence. Later, the Ji Clan of Immortals rose to prominence with divine blessings, and the Human Race began to flourish, achieving today's prosperous state of Human Cultivators.

The Brute Ox before them was not the actual great demon, but merely a remnant of its demonic breath, temporarily manifested through Xue Chenjing's blood array. Its magical power was no longer what it once was.

After Pei Jingchao and Yao Yuxiu were both knocked flying, the Brute Ox approached Xue Chenjing's hand, begging for another drop of his blood before obediently transforming into a black shadow and being retrieved by him.

Yu Yi recalled the strange four-legged black shadow she had seen earlier under that clear array, with countless beast and human shadows within its enormous form, symbiotic with Xue Chenjing.

The Spiritual Platform and Heart Sea is the most important place for a cultivator, yet he kept so many dangerous demonic shadows nurtured there, turning himself into a monster that was neither human nor demon. It was clear he had gone mad beyond measure. Was he truly not afraid of being consumed by the demons and ultimately becoming a mere vessel for them?

Thinking of this, Yu Yi increasingly wanted to distance herself from him. She had no desire to be with him in the future, constantly guessing whether the body before her contained the Brute Ox from earlier, the blood-red bone demon, or a writhing mass of tentacles.

It was quite possible that the shell of Xue Chenjing now housed a demon. The true soul of Xue Chenjing might be imprisoned in the mountain temple deep within his Heart Sea, repeating the same day over and over.

As Xue Chenjing finished retrieving the Brute Ox and turned around, he saw the talisman paper in her hand turn to ash. The talisman's light swiftly enveloped her entire body from her fingertips, causing her figure to vanish from the spot.

A Teleportation Talisman.

She always seemed ready to run.

This time, however, Xue Chenjing didn't stop her. He even smiled at her, with a look of confidence that she couldn't escape his grasp.

Yu Yi's Teleportation Talisman was of her own making. Her talent in talisman crafting wasn't as strong as her swordsmanship, and this talisman was quite ordinary. During the teleportation process, it could easily be affected by external interference. Earlier, with chaotic sword energies everywhere, she hadn't dared to use it.

The battle between the Brute Ox and Pei Jingchao had dispersed much of the rampant sword energy in the vicinity, so she no longer had to worry about being caught in the sword currents. Only then did she dare to use the Teleportation Talisman.

As the light of the Teleportation Talisman faded, a sea of green bamboo appeared before her eyes. This time, the talisman had safely transported her to her destination, just outside a secret realm within a bamboo forest.

The black mountains in the clouds stretched for hundreds of miles, shrouding the surrounding area in dark clouds. The forest was dim and lightless. Just as Yu Yi emerged from the Sword-Sealing Stone, she heard a tremendous rumbling from the mountains above.

A circular array appeared above the Sword-Sealing Stone. The spiritual energy from the array flowed into the red "seal" character on the black mountains. The character glowed brightly, and the massive mountains began to shrink rapidly, inch by inch.

Only when the dark shadow overhead moved away could Yu Yi see the Lishan Sword Sect disciples standing on their flying swords around the Sword-Sealing Stone. The cultivators still in the mountains began to fly out, and the Lishan Sword Sect disciples didn't stop them, truly keeping their Sect Leader's promise to let them take swords and leave.

Yu Yi's storage bag was full of high-grade spirit swords she had "harvested," making her one of the most successful among this army of "wool-gatherers."

Now that Lishan Sword Sect disciples were everywhere, she didn't want to get involved with Pei Jingchao and was also worried that Xue Chenjing might come looking for her. So she left immediately without lingering.

Previously, to avoid the plot, Yu Yi had lived in seclusion here for five years, and the place she visited most often was just the small Rounan County. However, this didn't prevent her from wanting to tour the heart of the four seas.

She had collected several versions of maps of the Nine Provinces and Four Seas alone, including mundane maps of provinces and prefectures that only circulated among ordinary people, as well as celestial realm maps bought at high prices from cultivators. In addition, she had read countless geography books, travelogues, and anecdotes about immortal sects. She had long planned her route.

Yu Yi left the Rounan County area and headed east, intending to go to Yinzhou City.

Yinzhou City is a large city where immortals and mortals coexist, belonging to the territory of Zhaohua Palace, one of the twelve great immortal sects. It is most famous for its market.

There are two major markets in the cultivation world. One is the Sea Market, held annually on Penglai Immortal Island. The other is the Land Market, located in Yinzhou City.

Sitting on the back of her crane senior brother, Yu Yi took out the spirit swords from her storage bag and laid them out in a row. She had harvested a total of sixteen spirit swords from the Sword-Sealing Stone. She took each one in hand and swung it a few times, feeling the sword energy, intending to select those incompatible with her spirit root attributes to sell first and use them to exchange for some travel funds.

She originally had an innate Single Lightning Spirit Root, but because Juechen Zi primarily cultivated fire-based swordsmanship, he had passed on his lifelong cultivation to her before his death, inducing a secondary Spirit Root in her body—a Fire Spirit Root.

Over these five years, Yu Yi had been practicing the same sword technique to refine the spiritual energy her master had infused into her body.

Her sword energy was intense, sprouting from wooden swords, with both lightning and fire attributes. It was most consumptive of spirit swords. Earlier, when dealing with Xue Chenjing, forcibly summoning the Red-crowned Crane Sword Spirit left by her master had already caused two cracks to appear on this bamboo sword.

During the five years of cultivation in the secret realm, she had swept through a large area of thousand-year-old bamboo in the realm, using it all to craft bamboo swords.

Now, among the sixteen high-grade spirit swords in her hand, after excluding the nine incompatible with her attributes, the remaining spirit swords could be reforged and integrated into her bamboo sword, elevating its grade.

As a sword cultivator, one is destined to spend a lifetime journeying to practice swordsmanship, forge swords, and

The system paused before countering, "Is the master referring to your position with only 6% favorability?"

Xue Chenjing: "..."