Chapter 298: Blackened Junior Sister (3)
"Yue Ran is really despicable!" A person in the crowd yelled. This person was most likely one of the disciples of the Sky Breeze Sect, according to the uniform white robes that all of them were wearing.
"How can you join the Demon Cult in betraying the Sky Breeze Sect, the most righteous sect in the world?!" Another disciple of the Sky Breeze Sect roared in anger.
"You will die a horrible death if you take refuge in the Demon Cult!"
"Evil witch!"
"Traitor!"
"Put down the Sword of the Demon quickly if you do not want to regret it!" This time, it was the white-haired old man from the start who spoke to Yue Ran again. "If the seal on the demonic sword is broken, many lives will be lost in the world! Hand over the demonic sword to me!"
The white-haired old man in white was furious as he firmly pointed his sword at Yue Ran. He floated in the air, his figure standing in front of the group of men and women, like a person with great power and history.
"Sword of the Demon?" Yue Ran lowered her eyes and glanced at the silver sword in her hand.
Although the so-called Sword of the Demon, or demonic sword, looked mottled and even had a little dust and rust on it, she could, in truth, feel countless surging and powerful forces rushing out of it, clamoring to break the seal.
To be completely honest, Yue Ran really had no interest in the rowdy mob in front of her and merely wanted to ignore them as if they did not exist. After all, the sword she was grasping in her hand took more of her attention and was her primary focus.
She would most likely not face such a siege if not for this unsightly sword. This terrible-looking piece of weapon must not be a simple sword to make her face a lot of animosity and hatred from the group of people in front of her.
Just because a person is simply annoying and hateful in personality does not mean that everyone in the sect would hate that one person with such great unity, right?
In conclusion, this trouble must come from the fact that she had "stolen" the Sword of the Demon.
As soon as the thought of ignoring the masses came into her head, she immediately acted on it.
Yue Ran raised the sharp blade in her hand and gave it a close inspection. Her indifferent attitude toward not taking people seriously infuriated the members of the Sky Breeze Sect. Several disciples also stepped forward in an impulse and flew up on their swords to make an attempt to reach and capture her.
"Noisy," Yue Ran said.
Why are these people so annoyingly noisy? They were so loud and bothersome, just like some insignificant flies buzzing in her ear.
Irritated, the young woman closed her eyes and let the spiritual power in her body flow upward.
The spiritual energy filled her Dan Tian (the energy center or sea of qi). She raised the sword with one hand and stabbed it with her backhand. With a swipe, before the people around even moved a few steps, a few petals of blood-red plum blossoms fell, and the disciples around had already collapsed to the ground one after another, dead.
"Well, it appears that you are a good sword," Yue Ran said with a gorgeous smile on her face, mirrored on the mottled silver blade. "If you accept me as your master, I will let you go free; how about it?"
Yue Ran waved her hand horizontally to shake off the few drops of blood on the sword and murmured these few sentences in a low voice to the sword.
Perhaps the long sword understood her meaning or sensed her surging and powerful strength and thus responded as it could. The body of the rather mottled blade actually roared a few times and vibrated slowly in her hand, as if expressing its own agreement with her words.
"You are so daring, Yue Ran!" The old man shouted once more. "How dare you murder the disciples of the Sky Breeze Sect in cold blood?!"
Yue Ran: ?
Why is this old man asking such a stupid question? Is he so old that he has turned into a fool?
Honestly, should she simply stand still in one place while passively receiving their attacks, thereby getting hurt and dying in the process? She is not that stupid. Is anyone even that stupid?
Although the white-haired old man was furious, he also held some doubts in his heart. In spite of the fact that Yue Ran had indeed been cultivating immortality for so many years, her aptitude and qualifications were extremely poor. She could only be ranked at the bottom during the inter-competition with her peers that was held every year. Therefore, how was she able to eliminate about five or six disciples of the Sky Breeze Sect with one slash of a sword today?
The only logical explanation for this was that it must have been the demonic sword's doing! The demonic sword must have increased her strength!
"Senior Brother Wen Xiu!" Qing Xi called out a little anxiously and hesitantly. "Senior Sister Yue looks a little wrong…"
"Humph!" The expression of scornful doubt and dissatisfaction was clearly displayed on this so-called Senior Brother Wen Xiu's face. "She has been infected by the demonic energy of the demonic sword and is no longer the senior sister you once recognized!"
This so-called Senior Brother Wen Xiu obviously noticed the changes in Yue Ran.
The young woman's eyes used to follow him wherever he went, and she would always agree with him on everything (even if it was illogical and unreasonable), but she had now suddenly become arrogant.
How could he not be able to notice such a pronounced change?
Yue Ran used to stutter when speaking in front of him and blush shyly when approaching him.