Reborn as a Hatrack in the Mystical Land-Chapter 915 - 33: Witch Sect (Part 2)

The Cold Palace, the moonlight cold and clear like frost, silent and still.

In earlier years, before Ying Wuya fell into a deep sleep, he ordered that as long as he did not awaken in a day, the Cold Palace was not to open for a day.

Ying Wuya’s authority was immense, and since then, no one has entered or left the Cold Palace.

Tens of thousands of years passed, and logically, the sealed Cold Palace should have been filled with bones. However, when the Third Princess Xingluo pushed the door open and entered, she was met with a fresh scent of grass and trees.

The lifespan of the Demon Clan, among the Four Great Planes, aside from the immortal and indestructible Divine Spirits, is the longest.

Even compared to the Holy Beast Clan of the Moon Plane, it is unparalleled.

Ordinary members of the Demon Clan can live hundreds to thousands of years, while the lifespan of the nobles can reach several thousand years. As for the Emperor Demon Clan, the most noble bloodline among the Demon Clan, due to possessing demon techniques, specifically the Nine Revolutions Star Creation Technique, as long as they practice properly, their lifespan can reach tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.

As the saying goes, ’success comes from the same place as failure,’ although the Nine Revolutions Star Creation Technique can extend life, its flaws are also deadly. It causes the Demon Clan’s cultivation to progress much more slowly compared to the Dark Practitioners and Holy Beast Clan of other planes.

Thus, although the Jile Crown Prince and the Second Prince of Dark Demon have lifespans of ten thousand years, their cultivation only reached the Peak of the Pill Realm.

As one of Ying Wuya’s most favored Four Demon Concubines, both the Witch Sect and the foolish Fourth Prince practiced the Nine Revolutions Star Creation Technique, so the Third Princess Xingluo knew that they were not dead.

Inside the Cold Palace, curtains hung in white, and that fresh scent of grass and trees beckoned the Third Princess Xingluo further into the depths of the Cold Palace.

"What is this?" The Third Princess Xingluo couldn’t help but stop.

In the spacious courtyard, amidst a sea of flowers, stood a person.

The person stood with their back to the Third Princess Xingluo, in front of them a bed of Black Manzhu Flowers blooming brilliantly under the moonlight.

"The Four..." The Third Princess Xingluo initially thought that person was one of the Four Demon Concubines, but as soon as she began to speak.

That person turned around, and with just one glance, the Third Princess Xingluo stood petrified, staring blankly in place.

Purple eyes, silver hair, the appearance of the person before her was remarkably similar to the Witch Sect, yet his features were much more masculine, clearly a man.

"Ying Wuyou," the Third Princess Xingluo gasped in a mute voice, something flashed through her mind, and she involuntarily stepped back.

The rumored foolish Fourth Prince Ying Wuyou, that name she nearly forgot.

However, the legendary Ying Wuyou was supposed to be a foolish child, but the man before her showed no signs of foolishness.

As she backed away, the surrounding Black Manzhu Flowers surged forward like a tide, the vines as ropes, leaves as blades, crazily entangling the Third Princess Xingluo, as if a multitude of spiders spinning silk. The Third Princess Xingluo was soon restrained, unable to move, feeling her Dark Power rapidly being drained.

Her originally flower-like countenance quickly peeled away, her strong body continuously weakening.

In contrast, the cluster of Black Vine Pearl Flowers swelled and grew rapidly, resembling a writhing black flame, setting the entire Cold Palace ablaze.

How could it be? The Black Manzhu Flowers were cultivated by the three Demon Concubines ten thousand years ago to poison the Dead Demon Concubine, why would it attack her today?!

The Third Princess Xingluo’s eyes widened in disbelief, even until her last moment, she couldn’t understand what happened in the Cold Palace?

Where had the Four Demon Concubines gone?

After the Third Princess Xingluo’s flesh and blood were completely consumed, finally, the Sha Yin Pill within her body cracked, transforming into a trace of smoke and dust.

The Fourth Prince Zong Shaoqing sighed: "Mother."

The cluster of black Man Zhuhua retracted its flower vine, revealing a human form.

The phantom of an exceptionally beautiful woman appeared, looking at Zong Shaoqing with a few hints of motherly love on her face: "Shaoqing, you have finally returned." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Once a member of the Sky Witch Clan, after being persecuted by the three Demon Clan’s Demon Concubines, the Witch Sect suffered from the poisoning of the Black Manzhu Flowers over the years.

However, the three Demon Concubines never expected that the Witch Sect, having successfully practiced the Nine Revolutions Star Creation Technique, would eventually rely on the power of the demon technique to counter the Black Manzhu Flowers, gaining control over its mother plant. Even more, by using the power of the Black Vine Pearl Flowers, she sent the Fourth Prince Zong Shaoqing, who was sealed in the Cold Palace, out of the Chen Plane.

The Witch Sect’s painstaking efforts finally paid off.

"Mother," Zong Shaoqing knelt on the ground, eyes filled with tears, "Why, why did you never let your child return, if only your child knew you had already..."

The plot of Black Manzhu Flowers, despite its splendid color, its roots had long since rotted away.

The Black Manzhu Flowers survived off the blood of Emperor Demon Ying Wuya.

Without the Emperor Demon Blood, it was like water without a source and wood without a root, growing weaker by the day.

Ying Wuya’s dormancy, and the Witch Sect exhausting a great amount of Magic Power to send her beloved son Zong Shaoqing away from the Chen Plane, had long left her stretched to her limits. Over the years, she has wholly subsisted on the flesh and blood of those maids from the Emperor Demon Palace and the spies sent by the three Demon Concubines.

At the time Zong Shaoqing was sent away, the Witch Sect required him to fulfill two conditions in order to reunite with her in the Cold Palace.

If he did not obey his mother’s orders, the Witch Sect would never see him again.

The first condition was that Zong Shaoqing must enter the Sky Witch Ancient Village to find the Witch’s notebook she left there.

The second condition was that Zong Shaoqing must complete ninety-nine occurrences of Body Seizing.

The Body Seizing Realm, for ordinary people, was as difficult as climbing to the heavens, let alone seizing ninety-nine bodies.

Though Zong Shaoqing’s talent was astonishing, completing ninety-nine occurrences of Body Seizing still consumed nearly ten thousand years of his time.

He finally fulfilled his mother’s requests, hurrying back to the Cold Palace.

Zong Shaoqing did not expect that upon his return to the Cold Palace, he would be met with a final farewell with his mother.

"Shaoqing, you need not blame yourself, this was your mother’s choice. You should understand, I was meant to die tens of thousands of years ago, to follow the other Sky Witches. I persisted in this world for an extra ten thousand years, partly out of concern for you, and partly for the Sky Witch Clan, as it involves secrets from ten thousand years ago, which I must clearly tell you," the Witch Sect sighed, looking at her child she hadn’t seen for many years.

These many years, this Cold Palace confined her body and heart, finally, she could leave.

Yet her heart was still filled with reluctance to part with her children.

"Mother, let me open the Underground Palace, Ying Wuya’s blood can save you," Zong Shaoqing suddenly stood up.

"No, there’s no time for that. Listen to me, or else I won’t be at peace even in death," the Witch Sect spoke with firm resolve, stopping Zong Shaoqing, "The blood and flesh of the Third Princess Xingluo can sustain me for another fifteen minutes. The time left is scant, let me finish, for over ten thousand years, the enmity of the Sky Witch Clan, and the entanglements between the Demon Clan and the Holy Beast Clan, they must be resolved now."