It was a close call.
Huan Qianyu let out a sigh of relief and patted her chest.
Unable to speak while under the cliff, Chu Lanqiu raised her hand and gave Huan Qianyu a thumbs - up.
Receiving Chu Lanqiu's praise, Huan Qianyu shyly scratched her nose and gave a bashful smile.
She never thought she could actually be of help. That was great.
This joy overcame her fear of the cliff. For Chu Lanqiu's safety, Huan Qianyu obediently lay on the edge of the cliff to keep watch for her.
Seeing that Huan Qianyu's position was a bit dangerous, Chu Lanqiu helplessly reminded her.
Huan Qianyu quickly patted her chest and promised that she would be extremely careful and not fall.
Looking at Huan Qianyu like this, Chu Lanqiu couldn't help but think of her junior sister.
When Xian Shiyu followed her to collect celestial fairies, she would also lie on the edge of the cliff like this to watch out for the poisonous insects.
However, different from Huan Qianyu, Xian Shiyu never stopped talking. She either told monologues by herself or ate something.
Thinking of Xian Shiyu, Chu Lanqiu couldn't help but feel a lot of fondness for Huan Qianyu.
Due to the tight schedule, after collecting more than a dozen celestial fairies, Chu Lanqiu planned to climb up. But at this moment, an accident happened.
Two celestial fairies actually fought over the same datura fruit. They flew and bumped around all the way, attracting swarms of poisonous insects.
Celestial fairies were extremely possessive. Once they decided something was theirs, they would surely try to seize it.
So when collecting celestial fairies, one couldn't grab them. One could only attract them with datura fruits. In the eyes of celestial fairies, it was just a strange creature using delicious food to exchange for their excrement. Why not?
But now that the two celestial insects were fighting, even if Chu Lanqiu took out another datura fruit, it would be of no use.
The only thing to do now was to get back to the cliff as soon as possible.
Those poisonous insects could only survive in the fog. Once they left the fog, they would be safe.
"Benefactor, come up quickly!"
Huan Qianyu shouted in panic and grabbed the vines with both hands, trying to pull Chu Lanqiu up.
Actually, without Huan Qianyu's reminder, as soon as Chu Lanqiu saw the two celestial insects start fighting, she began to climb up using both her hands and feet.
But she didn't dare to use her spiritual power, so her climbing speed was a bit slow.
Watching those poisonous insects discover Chu Lanqiu and get closer to her in a dark mass, Huan Qianyu's pupils dilated. She immediately remembered the scene of Su Zhi dying in front of her.
Su Zhi was entangled by Lin Yibai's demonic beasts in order to save her, but still used her last bit of strength to push her out of the soon - to - close city gate.
Through the gap in the city gate, she watched helplessly as Su Zhi was bitten by the demonic beasts and her limbs were bitten off.
Su Zhi... died in excruciating pain.
Huan Qianyu breathed rapidly. The figure of Chu Lanqiu in front of her overlapped with that of Su Zhi.
She would never allow anyone else to die in front of her.
So Huan Qianyu didn't care about anything else. She gathered the black demonic energy in her palm and then struck at the poisonous insects behind Chu Lanqiu.
"Demon race?! What are you doing?!"
After Shen Qing treated Li Xian's wound, she felt uneasy. So she returned to the forest with Li Xian and learned that Chu Lanqiu had gone alone to look for spiritual medicine.
The forest was so vast that it was not easy to find a person.
The ghost wolf had to let Tuanyuan follow and search for Chu Lanqiu by sniffing her scent all the way.
Originally, they first went to the reed marsh. The bloodstains in the reed marsh almost scared Shen Qing to death. She quickly told Tuanyuan to find Chu Lanqiu quickly, almost exhausting the little Tuanyuan.
When they came to the cliff, Shen Qing saw someone gathering demonic energy to attack Chu Lanqiu. She immediately shouted to stop and let Wuwang transform into a sword and stab in Huan Qianyu's direction.
Seeing Shen Qing's murderous look, Huan Qianyu panicked and turned around. Then she saw Tuanyuan in Shen Qing's arms.
"Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding!!"
"Don't kill me!! I'm a really good person!!"
Overwhelmed by the cold air of Wuwang, Huan Qianyu squatted down fearfully, hugging her knees helplessly and wailing.
Shen Qing didn't expect Huan Qianyu to act like this. Her movement paused.
At this time, Chu Lanqiu, who had got rid of the poisonous insects, also climbed up. Seeing Shen Qing holding a sword as if she wanted to kill Huan Qianyu, she quickly stepped forward to stop her.
"Shen Qing! Don't do it. Listen to me!"
Chu Lanqiu gasped and explained for a while before Shen Qing understood what had happened.
Shen Qing knew that she had wrongly blamed Huan Qianyu. A hint of apology welled up in her heart. But then she remembered the scene she had just seen. Huan Qianyu must have gathered demonic energy. She was sure of that.
Even though she had saved Chu Lanqiu just now, it couldn't change the fact that she was from the demon race.
In her previous life, Shen Qing had been eaten alive by the demon race.
"Who exactly are you and what's your purpose?!"
Shen Qing held Wuwang and pointed the tip of the sword at Huan Qianyu, afraid that this demon would suddenly attack them.
Chu Lanqiu also didn't expect that Huan Qianyu was really from the demon race. She had been too careless just now. But there was really no trace of demonic aura on Huan Qianyu. She couldn't be blamed for misjudging people...
Huan Qianyu couldn't stop crying. She was so scared that she kept hiccupping. The strength she had been holding on to for so long completely shattered at this moment. She wanted to vent all her grievances.
She timidly stretched out her hand, pointed at Tuanyuan, and cried, "You! You've actually forgotten me! It was clearly... hic... me... hic who released you!"
Then she raised her head and cried even louder, "Woohoo! Why does everyone bully me?!"
"I'm the eldest miss of the Huan family! Hic! And I'm also! Hic! The wife of the Demon Lord!!"
"I... I... I'm so sad!!"
Huan Qianyu's face was all red from crying. She stood up and ran to Huan Zhong's side under Shen Qing's intimidating gaze, and continued crying, "Father, wake up! Without you, what should your daughter do? The cultivators in the Nine Desolation Continent are so terrifying! Hic! They all want me dead!! Ahh!"
At first, Shen Qing thought Huan Qianyu was just pretending to be pitiful, and Wuwang in her hand was eager to move.
But unexpectedly, she heard some important information from Huan Qianyu's words.
The Huan family... The wife of the Demon Lord...
Shen Qing was completely confused.
She knew about the Huan family. In her previous life, when the demon world attacked the sect, General Huan Zhong of the Huan family led the charge.
So, was she Huan Qianyu, the early - deceased daughter of the Huan family?
Did she become the wife of the Demon Lord in her previous life? Wasn't the wife of the Demon Lord Lin Yibai?
Moreover, was it really her who released Tuanyuan?
All this information made Shen Qing hold back the impulse to kill Huan Qianyu.
"Li Xian, do you think what she said is true?" Shen Qing whispered to Li Xian beside her.
After all, Li Xian was the disciple of Yu Xuzi. Yu Xuzi was very good at judging people. Shen Qing thought Li Xian might have this skill too.
But it seemed that Li Xian didn't learn this skill from Yu Xuzi. He could only hesitantly tell Shen Qing, "Not necessarily, but she should be quite hungry."
Shen Qing:?