125: Chapter 125 Two Generations Stand Tall in the Sky, A Pool of Demonic Water Plays with the Sword Immortal

"Amitabha."

The gazes of two generations of Buddhist titans collided in the void, causing layers of ripples to undulate in the surrounding space.

The Yuilai Dharma Idol let out a sigh, and the hands that held Mount Sumeru high lowered slightly.

"Foolish child. Back then, you severed your own arm and defected from the Great Leiyin Sect; as your teacher, I have been waiting for you to turn back until now.

Today, will you still block your teacher for the sake of someone from the demonic cult?"

Master Ma held one hand vertically before his chest, looking directly at that high-and-mighty Dharma Idol with an expression devoid of joy or sorrow.

"Revered Master, when I severed that arm back then, the Buddha in my heart had already died.

The Great Ruins is not the Great Leiyin Sect's chessboard, and Canlao Village is not a place where you can run wild.

If you insist on crossing the line, this Disciple's broken body can still be shattered once more today."

Watching this tense yet bond-filled confrontation between Revered Master and Disciple in mid-air, Ye Xiu stopped his pace.

He tilted his head back, took a sip of strong wine from his gourd, and a flash of realization crossed his eyes.

Those old monsters in Canlao Village really each have earth-shattering pasts.

Master Ma was actually the most brilliant and talented Personal Disciple under the Yuilai of the Great Leiyin Sect back then.

Since it was a matter of Revered Master and Disciple settling old debts, he, as an outsider, was naturally happy to be at leisure and didn't bother to steal the spotlight.

"Master Ma, since you want to catch up with your old boss, I'll leave this mess to you."

Ye Xiu laughed loudly, turned around, and stepped through the void back onto the solar divine ship.

"Husband, are we not fighting anymore?"

Yan Jingjing blinked her eyes, the Solar True Fire on her body not yet fully extinguished.

"The elders are handling family matters; let's not go and spoil the fun."

Ye Xiu rubbed Yan Jingjing's head, then looked at Si Youyou.

"Youyou, you guys rest easy on the ship. This Buddhist light makes me feel uncomfortable all over; I'm going down to the outskirts of The Great Ruins for a stroll and some fresh air."

Having said that, Ye Xiu gave the two women no chance to refuse and leaped down, turning into a streak of white light.

He directly broke away from the range of the solar divine ship and the Buddhist light, falling toward a dark canyon at the border of The Great Ruins and Yankang.

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Outskirts of The Great Ruins, south of Ghost Gate Gorge.

This place was shrouded in thick miasma year-round, and the terrain was treacherous; even the boldest merchant caravans of the Yankang Kingdom would never dare set foot here.

But Ye Xiu was like a Young Master strolling in his own back garden, hands behind his head.

Stepping on the dead branches and rotten leaves that covered the ground, he walked leisurely along a hidden path long overgrown with thorns.

"This terrain... is indeed exactly as recorded in the dossiers."

As Ye Xiu walked, he surveyed his surroundings, a playful curve hooking at the corner of his mouth.

As a transmigrator familiar with the plot who had just taken over the top-secret dossiers of the Heavenly Demon Sect, he knew the way perfectly.

This canyon path, which looked like it had been abandoned for hundreds of years, was not some naturally formed dangerous place at all.

Rather, it was an "Ancient Trade Route" specifically opened by the Heavenly Demon Sect hundreds of years ago to bypass government checkpoints and smuggle goods from The Great Ruins.

It was just that a extremely troublesome local Great Demon had emerged on this path back then.

The previous Sect Leader of the Heavenly Demon Sect found it too bothersome to deal with, so he simply laid down a Sealing Formation.

He suppressed that Great Demon directly on the mandatory path of the trade route, turning it into a natural line of defense.

"Calculating the position, it should be just ahead."

Ye Xiu passed through a dense forest of poisonous miasma, and his vision suddenly opened up.

A deep, dark pond spanning a hundred zhang appeared ahead.

The pond water displayed an eerie emerald green color, with a bone-chilling cold mist floating on the surface year-round, such that even the surrounding rocks were frozen over with a thick layer of frost.

In the very center of the pond stood a massive, rusty bronze pillar, with several faded and tattered Talismans stuck to it.

Ye Xiu walked to the edge of the pond, casually found a clean bluestone to sit on, uncorked his gourd, and began to drink wine leisurely.

"Gurgle..."

Not long after Ye Xiu sat down, that originally calm and waveless emerald deep pond suddenly bubbled with air.

Immediately after, accompanied by a refreshing and strange fragrance, the water surface slowly broke open.

A beautiful woman with a graceful figure and skin as white as snow emerged from the bottom of the water.

She was only draped in a layer of gauze as thin as a cicada's wing, and water droplets slid down her slender swan-like neck.

They flowed over her looming, proud cleavage, finally vanishing into the deep pond.

Her long black hair, like a waterfall, clung wetly to her fair back, creating a powerful visual impact.

"Young Master..."

The woman's voice was charming to the bone, carrying a pitiful sense of weakness.

She leaned on a reef at the edge of the pond, raising her beautiful, tear-stained face, her watery eyes looking at Ye Xiu with pleading.

"This humble one is a Cultivator of the nearby Green Wood Sect.

I accidentally wandered into this place while gathering herbs in the mountains and was trapped by the strange Formation at the bottom of this pond; I haven't eaten for three days.

If the Young Master could show great mercy and help this humble one pull off the Talismans on that bronze pillar in the middle of the pond, I would be willing to repay your kindness with my life and marry you..."

While the female demon spoke, she deliberately puffed out her chest, her gauze appearing even more seductive amidst the rippling water.

At the same time, an invisible pink miasma drifted silently across the water toward Ye Xiu.

This was a trick she had used successfully many times.

Being suppressed in this godforsaken place, she had finally encountered a living person.

As long as this white-clothed youth's mind was clouded by lust and he reached out to pull the sealing Talismans on that bronze pillar,

She would be able to break the Seal instantly and suck him into a dry corpse.

However, Ye Xiu, sitting on the bluestone, didn't even lift an eyelid.

He quietly watched the female demon performing so hard in the water, as if watching a ridiculous buffoon.

The pink seductive miasma that drifted over hadn't even come within three zhang of him before it was evaporated into nothingness by a trace of Pure Yang Dragon Qi naturally emanating from his body.

"Are you finished acting?"

Ye Xiu took a sip of wine and sneered, his tone full of undisguised mockery.

"The two aunts at home are currently pregnant, and I, the Sect Leader, am already feeling frustrated.

You dare to flaunt those few ounces of withered demonic flesh in front of me?

Do you really think I'm one of those blind Loose Cultivators whose brains are controlled by their crotch?"

The female demon's expression froze instantly, a flash of panic appearing in her eyes, but she still forced herself to stay calm and squeezed out two tears:

"Young Master... what are you saying? This humble one doesn't understand..."

"Don't understand? Then I, the Sect Leader, will let you understand clearly."

Ye Xiu stood up, patted the dust off his white clothes, walked to the edge of the pond, and looked down at her condescendingly.

"Three hundred years ago, a Senior of the Heavenly Demon Sect passed through Kuji Ridge and saw a towering old tree that had become a spirit occupying the Ancient Trade Route.

It year-round transformed into a drowning woman to lure passersby and suck their blood and flesh.

The Senior thought cutting down the tree was too much trouble, so he erected a bronze Demon-Suppressing Monument here, pinning that vile creature's true form firmly underground."

With every sentence Ye Xiu spoke, the female demon's face in the water turned a shade paler.

"You, a Root Tree Demon suppressed for hundreds of years, have white bones buried beneath you that are almost piled into a mountain.

You actually still hope to use such a low-grade trick to deceive me, the Sect Leader, into pulling out the Demon-Suppressing Monument for you?"

Ye Xiu's mouth hooked into a cruel arc as he pointed at himself:

"Why don't you take a good look at yourself? Standing before you is the current Sect Leader of the Heavenly Demon Sect!

I can recite the dossiers left by your ancestors backwards!"

Hearing the words "Sect Leader of the Heavenly Demon Sect," the female demon in the water completely lost her composure.

Screech!

That pitifully beautiful face instantly tore like a low-quality painted skin, and the originally fair skin turned into withered, rough black bark.

Not only that, but that seemingly clear emerald deep pond also shattered inch by inch like an illusion!

Where was there any quiet pond? Before Ye Xiu was a bottomless giant pit of a withered tree, filled with accumulated white bones!

Nauseating, foul-smelling tree sap churned at the bottom of the pit.

And that so-called "drowning woman" was not a person at all, but merely a thick root that this Root Tree Demon had extended above ground!

At the end of the root was a strange, flesh-colored flower bud; the woman's head and upper body were precisely the bait grown out of that flower bud!

"So it's a piece of trash from the Heavenly Demon Sect!

Since you've come to my door seeking death, then this seat will suck your essence blood dry and break through this damned Seal myself!"