Chapter 15 Golden Words Turn Red
"What did you say to him?"
Qin Ruoyi asked, her face composed, as if she did not care.
Heh. Women.
I had long seen through her. She looked calm. From her expression, I guessed she was sour with jealousy.
Forget it. I spoiled her anyway.
I threw myself, pleased, into Qin Ruoyi's soft, sweet-smelling arms.
"He said you have to bear a child for me..."
Qin Ruoyi was silent for a breath, then said, "You give birth."
"You give birth!" I glared at her.
"You."
"You!"
While I was snapping back and forth with Qin Ruoyi, that red subtitle prompted me again.
【大剧情来临，请尽快修正任务。】
And a red character, "Danger," suddenly appeared over Qin Ruoyi's head.
Before I could look into it, a Senior Brother passed word. It was my turn to enter the hall and pay respects to Master.
I looked back at Qin Ruoyi and warned her, worried.
"Do not run around. Wait until I come back."
Qin Ruoyi nodded.
After I entered the hall, I bowed my head to Master on the high platform.
I did not know why.
Xue Qianxing stood to one side too, his smile looking unkind.
"Psycho." I rolled my eyes.
But I happened to see the golden words over Master's head, and the black qi behind him.
"Villain Behind The Scenes." "Undo the Demon-Sealing Seal." "Refine Qingyun Sect."
I snapped my head toward Xue Qianxing.
New words had appeared over his head too.
"Villain." "Refine Qingyun Sect."
Cold ran through my whole body.
I remembered Master had been stuck in the Great Ascension realm for a long time, with no breakthrough in sight.
If he entered the demonic path...
"Why is my little disciple so distracted today?"
Master watched me with a smile, gentle as always.
For some time, the Demon-Sealing Seal on the back mountain had grown less and less stable, as if someone were damaging the array on purpose.
I had worried for a long time.
Rumor said a Demon Venerable at Deity Transformation was pressed under the Demon-Sealing Seal.
And I was the only demon in this sect.
A possibility came to me.
In the end, was I going to be the scapegoat?
"Master." I swallowed and asked him.
Back when the jiao who sired me still had a human form, he practiced Dual Cultivation. Only after he was reborn as a jiao did he cultivate the demonic way.
But when my mother gave birth to me, she was already a demon.
So of course I counted as demonkind too.
"Actually, you know I am half demon, right?"
"When this venerable takes a disciple, this venerable looks only at heart and character." Master smiled.
If I had not seen the subtitles, I would have believed him.
The way I saw it, he wanted to borrow the Demon Venerable's name, refine the whole sect, and break through.
If he undid the Demon-Sealing Seal, would it not be me, this half demon, who took the blame?
But he had forgotten another rumor.
Under the great hall of Qingyun Sect, what was sealed might not be a Demon Venerable.
It might be a... mountain god.
A god who had entered demonhood, mind gone to chaos, and chose to seal himself.
Why did I know that?
Of course my mother told me.
If the seal broke, a god with an unclear mind would come out.
Then it would not be only Qingyun Sect's trouble.
It would be a calamity for the Nine Provinces.
I found some random excuse and left the hall.
I looked back at the senior and junior brothers meditating in earnest below the square.
At that look, I froze.
The golden words over their heads had all changed.
Every one of them had become red words. "About To Be Refined."
About to?
Then today's disciple assembly was...
I looked toward Qin Ruoyi, seated far away.
Her golden words had changed too.
From "Heavenly Mandate" into strange golden gibberish. The character "Danger" grew brighter.
My subtitles kept pushing me to correct the task.
It seemed... I had made a huge mistake.
I stared at Qin Ruoyi, lost.
Qin Ruoyi seemed to sense my gaze.
She lifted her eyes to me.
But it already seemed too late.
A blood-colored vortex had already appeared in the sky over the sect hall.