This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered
Chapter 41: The Predecessor of the Devouring Spirit Sect

Chapter 41: Chapter 41: The Predecessor of the Devouring Spirit Sect

When he came out again, the "blue elf" had disappeared without a trace, and Liang Yi still wanted to ask if the house next door was his own. After fruitlessly searching briefly, Liang Yi prepared to go find his master by following the stone path they had come by, sensing his master had something to tell him.

Being well-versed in maps is a basic rule for experienced players; Liang Yi headed back to his master’s courtyard with ease and found his master leisurely enjoying tea.

"Master!" Liang Yi respectfully offered a greeting.

"Liang Yi, it’s been nine years since you came to Taoist Sect, hasn’t it?" Chen Hua held his teacup, his gaze somewhat nostalgic as he remembered the destitute orphan who had grown into a fine young man.

"Master, I don’t remember," Liang Yi fell silent for a while before honestly responding.

"Not remembering, I don’t know if that’s good or bad. Others may view your childhood as difficult, but to Youyi, who depended on you for life, it might not feel the same."

"Paying the price of amnesia to break the fatal entanglement in one’s fate, everyone may think it’s fortunate, but losing the memories of growing up with Youyi from a young age, if the past you were to choose, it’s uncertain whether you’d agree."

"But fortunately, your feelings for Youyi haven’t changed, even if you’ve lost your past memories."

Chen Hua took a sip of his spiritual tea.

Liang Yi remained silent; he had noticed this too. Since the start of his time travel, he never treated Youyi like an npc; intuitively, he had treated her as most intimate person, although initially feeling slightly awkward when they first met, they soon became very close after spending a few days together.

He felt that his journey through time travel wasn’t as simple as he had imagined.

"It doesn’t matter if you don’t remember, just treat Youyi well and don’t let her revert back to her childhood state," Chen Hua drank up his tea.

Chen Hua’s words touched Liang Yi deeply; such emotions could not be faked—his master truly cared for him.

"How was she as a child?" Liang Yi, puzzled, felt there was more to his master’s words.

"That should have been the most unfortunate yet most fortunate time for her, but the truth is for you to find out, it’s not interesting if I tell you," Chen Hua sighed.

"Yes."

Though curiously itching like a scratching kitten, Liang Yi could not press his master for answers and could only bow in agreement.

"Tell me about the things that have happened to you after breaking through your fatal entanglement," After brewing another cup of tea for himself, Chen Hua also prepared a cup of Heavenly Pool Spiritual Tea, which he had procured from Zhou, and placed it opposite himself, signaling Liang Yi to sit there and talk.

Liang Yi obediently sat down, holding the tea like a well-behaved child, and began to narrate the events he had experienced since beginning his time travel, only omitting details related to the system.

The story was long, and Liang Yi only chose to highlight the essential parts. Even so, by the time he finished, it had already reached dusk and the sky was turning dark.

"Is that so," Chen Hua, after listening, pondered with a contemplative expression, while Liang Yi, sitting opposite, set down his empty cup and looked at his master.

"The person who was following you during the day, if nothing unexpected, is likely from the Devouring Spirit Sect, a cultivator at Great Perfection of the Sixth Realm," Chen Hua slowly said.

"Sixth Realm Great Perfection!?" Liang Yi exclaimed, this was considered a major boss entering the 70th level.

Liang Yi felt somewhat regretful, if this boss had attacked him, with the Sword Jade given by his master in hand, below the Seventh Realm, whoever came would die! He missed such a huge moving experience gift bag, and he couldn’t even imagine how lucrative the identity of a Sixth Realm Great Perfection was.

"Indeed, although I didn’t use my full strength in that strike, it was more than enough to kill a cultivator at the Sixth Realm Perfection, but strangely, the opponent managed to forcibly block this deadly blow using means I couldn’t discern. Although he was still gravely injured, he managed to escape from my hands." Chen Hua didn’t feel his dignity as a strong fighter was compromised; rather, he was more interested in the techniques used by the Devouring Spirit Sect.

"Oh right, Master, I have an incomplete ’Devouring Spirit Scripture’!" Liang Yi remembered the spoils he had piled in a corner, which he took out from his ring and handed to Chen Hua.

"Devouring Spirit Scripture? It’s worth studying a bit." Chen Hua took the scripture, showing some interest in this cultivation technique.

"As for the Devouring Spirit Sect, I asked a few fellow cultivators from other forces to check it out, and found that this sect is not appearing for the first time."

"Not the first time? Has it appeared before?"

"Yes, this sect was previously known as the Demon Spirit Sect, and there were records of it in ancient times. The last appearance was a long time ago at the beginning of the Xuanzhou Immortal Dynasty, when the seven super forces had just redivided their territories and stabilized their development, this sect then started causing trouble. It can truly be considered a sect of the Demon Path, its main methods are killing people to extract their souls and then controlling and commanding these souls."

"Later on, the Demon Spirit Sect grew stronger and nearly reached the category of a super force, only to provoke public anger with its excessively cruel methods, which led to a joint encirclement by the seven super forces, resulting in its decimation and complete disappearance."

Chen Hua informed his top disciple about the details he had found to enhance his understanding of this sect.

"Ding! Task completion +22%"

A system prompt flashed in Liang Yi’s mind, and with the previous completion, the task progress had now reached a high of 60%.

"Devouring Spirit Sect, Demon Spirit Sect!" Liang Yi shook his head, in his past life he barely heard of this name, and the only thing he knew about it was the Great Dark Escape Technique.

However, since the Escape Technique had been decoded, those mysterious players seemed to have their resurrection counts reset to zero, and this kind of escape technique had never appeared in the game since then.

As for the Demon Spirit Sect being attacked collectively, Liang Yi thought it was quite normal. After all, who wouldn’t go furious in a fight when finding out that their opponent holds the soul of their own father in their hands?

Not to mention as his master mentioned, the Demon Spirit Sect was a genuine sect of the Demon Path, committing arson, robbery, and wreaking havoc in the mortal world!

Liang Yi had previously found it strange in the game that all the forces seemed to lack a purely Demon Path sect. Even among the seven super forces, the Blood Control Sect and the Senluo Wanxiang Sect, considered the closest to the Demon Path, only require blood for their cultivation techniques and their moves also involved blood, while the other is all mysterious and constantly bothering the Complete Heaven Sect.

But the Blood Control Sect sources its blood through legitimate channels, with not a trace obtained through slaughter; although the Senluo Wanxiang Sect liked picking fights with the Complete Heaven Sect, it was because the two sects were arch-enemies. They were the only two sects in the game channel frequently escalating from verbal fights to force confrontations, despite being high-profile sects involved in calculating heavenly mechanisms, they were played by players into a frenzied warrior trend.

It turned out the real chaotic evil camp had been dealt with by the other forces, leaving only those either lawful good, lawful neutral or chaotic goofy.

"I always thought that the first few versions of the game were periods allowing players to freely explore and develop. But now I realize, there weren’t no main quests or villain bosses in the previous versions; it’s just the players didn’t discover this!"

Liang Yi, combining the intelligence from his previous life, suddenly understood a lot more.