The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits
Chapter 394 - 398: The Demon’s Gratitude (21)

Chapter 394: Chapter 398: The Demon’s Gratitude (21)

She was lightly dressed, yet her face bore a smile.

The wind, sharp as a knife, failed to lift even a strand of her hair.

Su Li slowly opened her eyes and smiled.

Looking into the distance, the scenery still looked like a hot afternoon; listening carefully, Su Li could still hear the sounds of cicadas and birds. Only the mountaintop where she stood had suddenly changed.

It was as if she was separated by two different worlds.

Slowly, the white snowflakes turned black, mixed with an aura of slowly emerging bloodlust and resentment.

They surged toward her, stopping just a meter away from her face.

Su Li stood up with her hands behind her back and stared intently at a point in the empty space nearby.

"Since you’ve come, why hide?"

Her slightly sarcastic voice seemed to have angered the other party.

The dark clouds overhead churned as if boiling.

Black droplets gradually converged into a human shape in front of Su Li, taking the form of Yu Niang, whom Su Li had once met.

She was the mother of the Carp Spirit, Yu Jiaolan.

Compared to before, Yu Niang’s presence no longer carried the clarity and purity it once did; now she seemed less like a demon and more like a devil, enveloped in a dense aura of blood and resentment.

Her appearance caused the few remaining wild grasses and flowers around to wither rapidly, turning the mountaintop into a land of utter desolation.

"It was you who tortured my daughter, drank her blood and ate her flesh..." With every sentence, the black aura swirling around Yu Niang grew denser.

"Today, I will make you taste the pain my daughter endured."

Su Li: "Don’t you want to ask why I did it?"

Yu Niang’s voice screamed shrilly, "Why did my daughter deserve such a fate? She was merely playful and willful..."

"It’s all my fault, all my fault... For that bit of luck, I let her follow you to repay her debt, but she ended up with her soul scattered."

"Even if you were a saint in your past ten lives, today I will make sure you’re left without a whole corpse, and I will devour your soul bit by bit. After I kill you, I will return to torment your kin and make them endure the same heart-eating pain as me."

Hearing Yu Niang’s tone, Su Li knew she was no different from those overprotective parents of later generations.

Spoiling her daughter without discerning right from wrong.

Su Li: "It’s just karma. In the past, someone died because of your daughter; today she fell into my hands, and I ate her, which also repaid the life-saving grace I owed her. No problem with that..."

Su Li’s words were like rubbing salt in Yu Niang’s wounds, igniting her rage.

The moisture around them grew denser, the stench mixed with a strange fragrance.

Su Li calmly threw out the King Cup, which had proven to be the trump card against Yu Jiaolan and naturally could harm Yu Niang.

Somehow, Yu Niang managed to regain human form in a short time, though her combat strength was definitely not as before.

Indeed, as soon as the King Cup appeared, the temperature around warmed up slightly, and a flicker of fear passed through Yu Niang’s eyes.

But her realm was much higher than Yu Jiaolan’s, the fear in her eyes fleeting quickly as she overcame the natural suppression.

Yu Niang’s attack followed, and Su Li’s Taoist Skills were not practiced in vain.

If Yu Niang’s Cultivation Technique remained the same orthodox kind, Su Li might not have been able to withstand her.

But now, having fallen into the Demon Path, Su Li’s internal operation of the Nameless Dao Scripture, coupled with the Yellow Talisman Taoism specialized against demonic creatures, each attack left deep, visible bone-corroding wounds on Yu Niang’s body, soon covering her with injuries.

Compared to others, Su Li was much more composed.

Taking advantage of the moment Yu Niang revealed a weakness, the little bug leapt forward and clung to Yu Niang’s chest.

The little bug arched its body, with red and black lights flashing intermittently.

Yu Niang screamed incessantly. She twisted uncontrollably in midair and fell straight to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

After the dust settled, all that was left in front of Su Li was a giant golden carp.

It spoke in a human voice, "Quick, quickly take that thing away... It, it’s sucking my heart blood."

Yu Niang had thought the man was just an ordinary scholar, able to subdue her daughter by some insignificant tricks at most; she didn’t expect him to be so formidable.

She blamed herself for being blinded by hatred, without a thorough plan, which led her to be on the verge of defeat at the hands of this young man.

"Quickly let me go. I am a disciple officially recognized by the White Mountain Goddess..."

Su Li furrowed his eyebrows.

Why drag out such connections again? It’s endless: the typical scenario of escalating conflicts involving higher authorities.

Seeing Su Li furrowing his brows as if hesitating, Yu Niang raised her voice, "I am the golden carp of the Lotus Pond, cultivated by the White Mountain Goddess. Once I achieve my true form, the Goddess will summon me back. If you kill me today..."

"Ah..."

Her response was King Cup biting down even harder.

Yu Niang’s speech was cut off, and her fish eyes turned completely into the gray-white of dead fish eyes.

The crunching sounds were incessant.

Su Li said, "Why so much nonsense, it’s so noisy."

Just as King Cup was about to completely devour Yu Niang’s demon soul, a streak of golden light appeared midair.

"Stop." The voice, full of Immortal Energy, echoed through the air.

The voice seemed far away, yet as if it whispered right beside you.

Su Li’s body, initially relaxed, instantly tensed up; she hadn’t noticed when the other had appeared.

It was as if someone had torn through a different space, bridging it to here.

A woman in court attire, with a red plum blossom marked on her forehead, appeared, floating in midair.

Behind her stood a boy and a girl, each carrying a basket woven from grass.

Yu Niang’s dim demon soul was plucked from King Cup’s mouth by a flick of the newcomer’s finger.

"White Mountain Lady, save me..."

Su Li looked up at the person who seemed like an immortal, standing upright.

The Child Boy and Child Girl behind White Mountain Goddess reprimanded in unison, "How bold! You dare not kneel upon seeing the Lady. Such audacity from mortals!"

Their voices layered and pierced Su Li’s ears, like someone furiously beating a drum beside her head.

"Yu Niang is the carp of my Lotus Pond; you should not have beaten her to this state today."

White Mountain Lady spoke softly, yet her words revealed arrogance and irrationality.

Between Su Li’s knees, the weight increased, as if someone was forcibly pressing her down, insisting she kneel.

"Am I just to let her attack me without defending myself? It’s simply a matter of the victor and the vanquished; what is there to discuss... Cause and effect, today you act, tomorrow I retaliate..."

White Mountain Goddess’s look towards Su Li grew increasingly hostile.

"I initially wanted you to punish yourself, but now that you show no respect for the immortals, I shall obliterate your soul and spirit."