Wear A Book And Hug Your Apprentice’S Thigh Tightly Chapter 4
by4 Chapter 4 The Truth
Li Yuan whispered softly into Chun Yu’s ear: “Don’t panic. I think someone tampered with the compass.”
Only after Li Yuan’s reminder did Chun Yu suddenly realize what was happening.
She said, “Someone messed with my compass.”
As she spoke, she spread her palm over the compass, gathering spiritual power to try and interfere with the device.
Chun Yu could actually feel a force on the compass resisting her.
Her hand was instantly repelled. A wisp of black mist dissipated, and the compass returned to normal.
Seeing this, the disciples were all astonished, and their suspicion toward Chun Yu instantly shifted.
Wan Wuyu frowned, puzzled, and said, “This is clearly demonic energy. How could the compass be controlled by demonic energy?”
Chun Yu said, “I will report this matter to the Sect Leader for a thorough investigation once we return to the sect. For now, Chun Yu must capture the demon. I ask the Empress to forgive Chang Yu for the disturbance.”
Wan Luoluo said, “It’s fine. Capturing the demon is the priority. Go.”
Wan Wuyu said, “I’ll go too.”
Wan Qixiu was about to stop Wan Wuyu, but Wan Luoluo said, “Qixiu, don’t stop her. Let her go.”
Wan Qixiu said, “Mother Empress, Wuyu acts rashly. Your son fears she will cause trouble for Senior Sister Chang Yu.”
Wan Luoluo said, “It is precisely because you and I have spoiled her that she developed this reckless nature. From now on, you don’t need to manage what she wants to do. If she encounters danger a few times, she will change. You don’t need to worry too much; her cultivation is not bad. Nothing will happen to her.”
“Yes.”
Wan Qixiu also fell into contemplation. He knew his mother was right; he had indeed been overly indulgent toward his only younger sister.
With the compass restored, Chun Yu could now follow the correct guidance to find the demon’s hiding place, and she had also dispelled the disciples’ suspicions of her.
Chun Yu flew on her sword at the front, with Li Yuan standing behind her, arms crossed.
Although Chun Yu couldn’t see Li Yuan, she knew she was nearby. She said, “Student Li, I really owe it to your quick thinking this time. Otherwise, your master might have died before even achieving success.”
Li Yuan’s voice was cool and detached: “Perhaps it’s because I wrote this book that I can react faster to some things. Teacher Chun, don’t worry. Once you adapt and become more familiar with this world, these little tricks won’t fool you anymore.”
Chun Yu said sincerely, “No matter what, Student Li, you are truly smart and kind. Why didn’t we meet sooner? If I had met you earlier, we definitely could have become good friends in real life.”
The first sentence made Li Yuan ecstatic, but the second caused the light in her expression to fade. She faintly curved her lips. Sure enough, Teacher Chun had not completely relaxed yet. Otherwise, she would have realized that she entered this world because of death, and Li Yuan naturally did too.
Even if they had met in real life, they belonged to two different worlds and could not have become good friends.
“Speaking of which,” Chun Yu said, “who exactly tampered with this compass? Could it be Chang Le?”
Chun Yu shook her head again, feeling it was impossible.
“Chang Le is also a disciple of the sect. She has no reason to obstruct me from catching a demon.”
Li Yuan said, “The compass is pointing to the correct direction this time. If the person who tampered with it wanted to stop you from catching the demon, they will definitely try again.”
Chun Yu nodded. “Then we’ll wait and see.”
The direction pointed to by the Demon Seeking Compass was a deep mountain within the Vast Eternity Kingdom, named Demon Realm Mountain.
Chun Yu and the disciples landed on their swords.
The disciples looked at the deep mountain shrouded in miasma. One disciple said, “Demon Realm Mountain separates the Demon Race and the Human Race. Although it’s not the true Demon Realm yet, the miasma in this mountain is enough to make us suffer.”
“What are you afraid of?” Wan Wuyu’s expression was disdainful. She pulled a golden hairpin from her hair.
Chun Yu looked at the golden hairpin in her hand. It faintly glowed with a pale golden light and had special markings, unlike an ordinary hairpin.
Wan Wuyu said, “The Emperor’s Rest Wood grows in the Celestial Realm and is the ultimate purification treasure of heaven and earth. This hairpin of mine is a branch of the Emperor’s Rest Wood, the only one in existence. My Mother Empress gave it to me. With it, the miasma will naturally be purified.”
Chun Yu was filled with envy. As expected of the royal family, to possess such a treasure.
Chun Yu was about to express her thanks, but Wan Wuyu looked at her and changed the subject. “Demon Realm Mountain is so vast. We can find the demon faster if we split up. Senior Sister is so capable, surely you can act alone.”
Huh? This targeting was a little too obvious.
Although the other disciples felt Wan Wuyu’s approach was inappropriate, the poisonous miasma was indeed uncomfortable. After much hesitation, none of them stepped forward to join Chun Yu.
Chun Yu understood.
She said, “Alright, then we’ll search separately. If you find the demon, send a signal to let me know.”
Wan Wuyu smiled with satisfaction. “Naturally.”
Chun Yu turned and entered Demon Realm Mountain via another path.
A female disciple worriedly said, “Will Senior Sister Chang Yu be in danger alone? Maybe I should go with her. Although this demonic miasma is uncomfortable, it’s not life-threatening.”
Just as the female disciple was about to follow, the person next to her immediately pulled her back, signaling with their eyes not to defy Wan Wuyu.
Wan Wuyu turned her head and looked at her with a cold, contemptuous expression. She said, “If you want to die, no one is stopping you.”
After speaking, she walked ahead, and the rest of the disciples followed behind her.
Wan Wuyu was the Grand Princess of the Vast Eternity Kingdom and was destined to inherit the position of Sect Leader of the Vast Brilliance Immortal Sect. All the disciples understood who held more importance between her and Chang Yu.
Not long after Chun Yu entered Demon Realm Mountain alone, she started feeling a little breathless, and her head felt heavy, like altitude sickness.
Li Yuan, rarely, encouraged her: “Teacher Chun, hold on a little longer. Once you capture those demons and bring them back to the sect, you can rest for a while.”
Chun Yu nodded. “Okay, your master will try her best.”
The deeper she went into the mountain, the more the tall trees blocked out the sky. The trees were withered and black, and there was little light. While ordinary forests had sounds of animals and climbing ropes, Demon Realm Mountain was utterly silent, terrifyingly quiet.
If she weren’t a sect disciple but just an ordinary person, she would likely never leave this place once she entered.
The pointer on the compass in Chun Yu’s hand suddenly shook a few times, then clicked and settled in one direction, unmoving.
Chun Yu’s nerves instantly sharpened with the sound.
Chun Yu didn’t know if it was her imagination, but she felt the surroundings had become even quieter, and the demonic miasma seemed thicker.
Li Yuan suddenly said, “Watch out behind you!”
A gust of strong wind attacked, and Chun Yu narrowly dodged it.
A person dressed in black, wearing a veil and emanating demonic energy, stood not far away, confronting her.
Chun Yu saw the person clearly, rolled her eyes upward, and said, “Junior Sister Chang Le, what are you doing? We are so familiar with each other. Do you think I won’t recognize you just because you’re wearing a piece of tattered cloth?”
The person opposite paused, then casually tore off the veil on her face. It was Chang Le, indeed.
Since she had been recognized, Chang Le no longer hid. “That’s right. Senior Sister started guiding my cultivation when I entered the sect as a child. Naturally, you know me intimately.”
Speaking of this, Chun Yu was even more confused. When Chang Le was a few years old, the original owner killed a demon, rescued her from its clutches, and brought her into the sect, taking great care of her. Such kindness, if not considered that of a second parent, should at least not result in harming the original owner.
Did this Chang Le have no heart at all?
Chun Yu looked at the demonic energy surrounding Chang Le and said, “Chang Le, you are a disciple valued by the Sect Leader. Why are you cultivating demonic arts instead of immortal arts?”
“Valued?” Chang Le laughed. “Like how she valued you? Making us both butchers who kill demons and devils under her command? Have you never felt that what we do is cruel?”
“As cultivators, isn’t slaying demons and devils the natural order?” Chun Yu blurted out without thinking, because it had always been true.
“Demons and devils commit evil and harm the common people. Shouldn’t they be killed?” Chun Yu added.
Chang Le said, “There are good people and bad people in this world, and there are evil demons and good demons. How can you generalize just because they are demons?”
“You can’t,” Chun Yu said. She was not the monk Fahai. As a cultivator, she was supposed to capture evil demons, not good ones. In her memory, the original owner was the same.
Chang Le was astonished. “What did you say?”
Chun Yu said, “I said, of course, I only kill evil demons, not good ones. Have I ever killed a good demon?”
Chang Le said coldly, “You have.”
“Twelve years ago, you thought you saved me from a demon, but that demoness was the first person who saved me. She and her husband adopted me. They just wanted to live a peaceful life with me, but you killed the demon mother without a word. She even told me not to hate you and to live well, but you are nothing but a cold-blooded butcher under Wan Qianqian.”
Chun Yu was shocked. She seemed to have overlooked something: she transmigrated into the original owner’s body and obtained the original owner’s subjective memories. As long as the original owner considered something evil, everything she saw would naturally be evil.
Could it be that the original owner truly killed every demon she encountered, just as Chang Le claimed, without caring whether they were good or evil?
Li Yuan saw Chun Yu hesitating and reminded her, “Chang Le is a demon now.”
Chun Yu instantly cleared her mind. She raised her sword and pointed it at Chang Le, saying, “What about you? Why did you cultivate demonic arts?”
Chang Le said, “I did it to save those innocent members of the Demon Race. I would cultivate demonic arts if necessary.”
“You hypocritical cultivators, you took advantage of the internal strife within the Demon Race and the oppression from the Demon Realm to lure many demons to the Vast Eternity Kingdom. Those small demons who went through untold hardships to reach the Vast Eternity Kingdom were the most benevolent of their kind. They suffered oppression in the Demon Race and thought coming to the Vast Eternity Kingdom was their hope, but what awaited them was capture and imprisonment, where their flesh and blood were refined into pills, and even their hides were stripped and sold. But all they wanted was to live. They never harmed anyone. Just because they are demons, do they deserve to be slaughtered?”
“This…”
Chun Yu recalled everything. Chang Le had not lied.
Currently, the mortal world was dominated by the Demon Race, the Demon Realm, and the Human Race. Humans cultivated immortality and were comparable in strength to the Demon Realm. However, the Demon Race suffered due to internal conflicts, leaving the populace destitute.
It was at this time that the original owner proposed a “good idea” for capturing demons to the Sect Leader—taking advantage of the situation to advertise that the Vast Brilliance Immortal Sect was willing to accept and welcome low-level demons into the sect. In reality, this was a trap to lure them into the human world, capture them, and confine them all in the Forbidden Area of the Rear Mountain, where they awaited skinning and dismemberment.
Those poor small demons believed they had finally reached a haven that would accept them after all their struggles, never realizing they were delivering themselves and their families to the slaughterhouse.
The culprit who deceived those small demons was none other than the original owner, Chang Yu.
Chun Yu was extremely shocked. She had never expected the original owner to treat those innocent demons this way.
She was about to explain to Chang Le, but Chang Le attacked her again.