Longevity: Starting as a Sect Servant-Chapter 264 - 197: Demon Queen Jing Chan

This was an aura completely different from the Celestial Demon Treasure Blood, a Fox Demon couldn’t control it despite using all her strength.

However, Tan Qingxue’s Primordial Spirit easily established a connection with it...

Because, she had encountered this aura in the past!

Back at Qingyang Trading City, the Demon Sect had set a trap in the Li Yang Mountain Range, and she was lured into it, fought to the death, and was severely injured. After returning to Qingyang Trading City, she was on the verge of death...

She would never forget that moment; her consciousness felt like it was sinking into darkness, but it was eventually lifted by a green force... and she managed to pull through.

It was precisely because of Li An’s life-saving grace, that she finally decided to offer herself to Li An.

And now, though the aura had changed somewhat, she was absolutely certain... it was from the same source as that green energy from back then, without a doubt!

At this moment, Tan Qingxue inexplicably wanted to cry!

Ever since the Profound Yang Sect was destroyed, she fled from Liuyang River Trading City, initially intending to live the rest of her life in seclusion, but she was unexpectedly invaded by the Fox Demon. Hundreds of years have passed, and she has been struggling ever since.

Helplessness, despair, and loneliness!

During this time, she had heard about the turmoil in the north of Great Li and knew that Xu Qiuhui and others had died, all old friends gone, leaving her alone in the world to be overtaken by the Fox Demon.

Yet now, at the final moment, the familiar aura felt like a lifeline thrown to her while drowning, offering warmth in the cold March.

Was it Li An?

Is he still there?

Was he... saving her?!

The emotion turned into a burning hope for survival, and she suddenly had an unprecedented determination.

To live!

To live!

To live on, to see Li An.

She suddenly fought with all her might, battling the Fox Demon’s Primordial Spirit.

With the infusion of that aura, her Primordial Spirit rapidly recovered, igniting the Soulfire to attack the Fox Demon.

"Impossible, you..."

The beautiful Fox Demon’s face changed drastically, she never expected that this mutation would allow Tan Qingxue to regain her strength!

In an instant, within the Spirit Platform, amid the Soulfire, Tan Qingxue and the Fox Demon fought fiercely. At this moment, Tan Qingxue was nearly frenzied, capturing the Fox Demon’s Primordial Spirit, directly tearing and fighting desperately...

Amid the trickling blood river, her body kept rising and falling...

Time slowly passed.

For a long, long time.

Lady Shee had swallowed most of the white python; she had achieved demonization before, so her instinct for consuming blood food for cultivation was formed, completely different from humans.

With blood at the corners of her mouth, her eyes were full of satisfaction.

And in the small river, Tan Qingxue suddenly sat up.

Lady Shee hurriedly knelt, saying: "Congratulations Master, on being completely reborn— from now on, you will surely unify the Demon Race, illuminating eternity!"

Yet Tan Qingxue seemed oblivious, as if she hadn’t heard Lady Shee’s words. Instead, she looked down at the blood flowing along her body, deep in thought with her beautiful eyes.

She had won.

The Fox Demon was already very weak, and over the years, while controlling her body, it consumed much of its strength, and it could not fully merge with her.

She had received help from that aura, her Primordial Spirit restored, and in turn, extinguished the Fox Demon, gaining everything from it.

After surviving the ordeal, she regained control of herself.

There was relief, happiness, but most importantly— confusion.

Why, why in this bloody river, was there that aura belonging to Li An?

Could it be that Li An had been here?

But this place was so hidden, so dangerous, even the Fox Demon had a hard time finding it, so how did Li An get here?

She didn’t understand, nor could she imagine.

But she was certain!

It was definitely Li An, no mistake about it.

Was he near the Celestial Killer Mountain Range?

Could it even be possible that he has been under Mountain Master Bai’s command all along?

Who could he be?

Tan Qingxue pondered, temporarily without answers.

She stood up, gently waving her hand, clothes seamlessly draping over her perfect jade-like body.

"From now on, I am the Demon Queen— Jing Chan!"

Her beautiful eyes were filled with such calmness and determination.

She had gained everything from the Fox Demon, and also knew the Fox Demon’s identity.

The wife of the former Demon Race Emperor, one generation of Demon Queen, Jing Chan!

Jing Chan was a princess of a major clan within the Demon Race—the Fox Race. After marrying the Demon Emperor for several years, the strongest battle between the Human Race and Demon Race broke out.

At that time, the Demon Emperor fought alone against four Divinity Transformation Stage experts from the Human Race, experiencing extreme difficulty. The war spread to many places in the Xiling Origin Continent, and Jing Chan died to block an attack on the Demon Emperor.

The Demon Emperor painfully killed that Divinity Transformation Stage cultivator at the Ten Thousand Miles Abyss of Great Li, then sealed her remnant soul in a jade, hoping to save her after winning.

But the Demon Queen never saw the Demon Emperor again.

Until that jade accidentally fell into Tan Qingxue’s hands, only then did the Demon Queen Jing Chan have the hope of seeing daylight again, and Jing Chan always wanted to return to the Demon Race, to unify the clan, and avenge the Demon Emperor...

Now, whether Tan Qingxue wanted it or not, she absorbed the Celestial Demon Blood and devoured Jing Chan’s Primordial Spirit, successfully transforming into a demon like Mountain Master Bai.

Fox Demon!

"Master, this girl is left for you specially, please enjoy—"

Lady Shee respectfully presented Xiaoli to Tan Qingxue.

Tan Qingxue glanced at her, then said indifferently: "Since she transformed from a fox, it’s rare, let her stay as a maid."

Lady Shee was quite surprised, but still nodded in agreement.

The two immediately turned to leave.

"Master, everyone here has been controlled according to your arrangement, and all have been executed. From now on, no one will know about this place!"

Lady Shee said as they walked.

But Tan Qingxue smiled, her smile carrying a hint of demon qi, "Why kill them? To unify the Demon Race in the future, we need many people."

Lady Shee was stunned for a moment; she inexplicably felt that the Master seemed a little different...

...

Why is it taking so long?

Li An frowned tightly.

Even though he was in the Mid-Stage Golden Core, he was having a hard time.

This grand array was consuming too much.

And worst of all, his Spirit Stones... were being consumed in great quantities.

These were all obtained through risking his life in robberies.

And now they are all gone...

Damn it...

"Hmm? They’re here..."

Suddenly, his Divine Sense finally detected them!

Lady Shee and her group were coming out, and Shee Anqi, along with the two cultivators she took in, were still alive. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

From within the black mist, a group of people emerged.

"They’ve come out!"

The many cultivators trapped within the array shouted, and everyone looked over in attention.

Only to see Lady Shee stepping out first, holding a large snake head in her hand.

Behind her, Shee Anqi and the two cultivators she brought, Xiaoli, and another woman followed her out.

Li An’s gaze instantly fell on that woman...

She was in a white dress, graceful as a startled swan, seemingly lightly made-up, extremely beautiful.

Li An couldn’t help but feel a moment of daze...

Tan Qingxue.

It wasn’t Tan Qingxue that made him dazed, but her makeup and attire at this moment were exactly like the way she looked when she departed from the Qingyang Marketplace years ago.

Back then, Tan Qingxue just wanted to ask for a child, but Li An refused her continuously, brokenhearted, she returned to the sect with Xu Qiuhui’s help. That day, at farewell, she only smiled lightly, saying: "Brother Li, goodbye."

Then she disappeared into the crowd.

Never seen again.

Until today.

She was dressed just as she was back then?

Li An was momentarily lost, but quickly collected himself, his expression calm and unruffled.

He observed warily, ready to run at any moment.

"Mountain Master Bai is dead,"

Lady Shee coldly announced to everyone, throwing out the large snake head.

The scene fell into dead silence.

Everyone was shocked!

Mountain Master Bai was dead...

"You have a choice, either swear allegiance to me from now on, or die along with Mountain Master Bai now,"

Lady Shee spoke indifferently.

Inside the array, everybody wore an extremely unpleasant expression.

But Li An, at this moment, was overjoyed, and exhaled a long sigh of relief.

What he feared was that Tan Qingxue or Lady Shee would kill to keep secrets and silence them.

Yet since they wanted to take Mountain Master Bai’s people for themselves, a confidant like Li An definitely wouldn’t be killed.

He was safe!

...

A day later.

Li An and the others all returned to the Mist Valley.

With Mountain Master Bai’s death, the cultivators under her naturally made the wise choice.

After all, no matter how discontented they were, it was better to first deal with it perfunctorily than to turn hostile and be killed on the spot. Everyone had this bit of wisdom and awareness.

The crowd was still trapped in Mist Valley, while Lady Shee and Tan Qingxue left alone.

"Sister went to find the Vermilion Bird King."

Shee Anqi did not hide it from Li An and said: "If she gains the Vermilion Bird King’s recognition, and successfully replaces Mountain Master Bai, these people will no longer be able to resist and will have to follow my sister!"

Li An couldn’t help but nod. Lady Shee and Tan Qingxue clearly saw the situation very clearly.

With the agreement from the Vermilion Bird King, Lady Shee would truly ascend, and the people under Mountain Master Bai could only continue to follow "Mountain Master Shee".

And Li An knew even better, the so-called Mountain Master Shee, was just a puppet pushed out by Tan Qingxue...

"Is she now human, demon, or a slayer?" Li An asked Shangguan Xiaoxiao.

"What do you hope she is?" Shangguan Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but counter, smiling:

"Between her and you, there were past feelings, you should wish that she remains a human, a beautiful living person, right?"

Li An calmly said: "I do wish she’d remain human, but not a living one, a dead one."

"Unfortunately, she isn’t."

Shangguan Xiaoxiao tossed a candy into her mouth, saying: "Really? That’s simple, someday, I’ll help you make her a dead person."

"Thank you."

Li An didn’t actually care what Tan Qingxue was now.

As long as she didn’t discover him, that was enough.

He just needed to continue surviving!

"Brother Lin, thank you."

Shee Anqi spoke again, a grateful glint in her beautiful eyes: "If it weren’t for your full support of the array, my sister might not have succeeded."

Even though the three of them did not help Shee Anrong after they left the array, she was still quite grateful to Li An.

After all, Li An’s actions back then truly showed "true feelings in adversity"!

For the sake of her sisters, he supported the array alone for so long, she could see that Li An was still very weak now, so she immediately handed Li An a pill, saying:

"It’s a Peiyuan Pill my sister made for me, extremely efficacious, try taking one?"

Li An politely accepted it, took the Peiyuan Pill, and said: "Indeed I feel much better, thank you, Daoist Shee."

"Brother Lin seems worried?"

Shee Anqi questioned further.

"Nothing... just thinking this time, exhausted my assets, I’m short on Spirit Stones, it’s merely the woes of being poor." Li An sighed.

He did lose a large number of Spirit Stones, converted into Upper Grade Spirit Stones, approximately two thousand pieces were used up...

This was nearly half of his fortune!!

Shee Anqi couldn’t help but smile, finding Li An quite amusing, and said: "I thought it was a big deal, it’s just Spirit Stones, Brother Lin, I guarantee you, not only will you recover all the Spirit Stones you spent, you won’t have to worry about Spirit Stones from now on—"

That’s exactly what Li An wanted to hear, and he gratefully said again: "Thank you, Daoist Shee!"

"Friend, friend all day long... Brother Lin, what have I told you to call me?" She suddenly smiled.

Li An pondered for a moment, then said: "Thank you... Anqi."

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