Beyond the Divine States

Chapter 53 Mind Intrusion

Ning Xiaoling acted extremely swiftly. Now that the city walls collapsed, she met no obstacles on the way.

Only within the blink of an eye, her figure couldn't be seen at all. The imperial city was just like a lake. Her figure just dived into it and disappeared.

The noises gradually subdued. Ning Changjiu slowly walked out of the hall. He looked exhausted, his arms hanging feebly and sleeves billowing in the wind.

This was the first time that he had such a clear sense of incapability.

Even if there were serious problems with his body which he didn't know how to solve at all, he was somehow confident about the future cultivation because he had trodden on the road of cultivation smoothly in his prelife. However, today, he truly understood what Lu Jiajia said that day--lack of time.

He watched helplessly the blood sprinkled on his fellow disciple, that she became a demon and that she forced herself to run away from him with extreme difficulty because she did not mean to hurt him.

He was incapable of stopping that.

The sun at noon cast the white light on the ground, brightly lighting everything.

Zhao Xiang'er walked to him with a stern look. Under the blazing sunlight, her face appeared like golden paper, pale and bloodless.

She took out a red string and bit it between her teeth. Then, she stretched out her fingers behind her head and gathered the long hair. Holding the hair with one hand, she tied it up with the red string with the other hand. As the red string swiped across her light lips, her hair was swept back in a ponytail.

She said nothing to Ning Changjiu and then darted an indifferent glance at the seriously injured Blood Feather, which was dying.

The coldness that Blood Feather suppressed at the bottom of its heart for decades burst out again, which made it almost forget the injuries and blood all over its body. The air of death hit it in the face, pressing it hard on the ground. Covering the bones of its chest sunken by Ning Xiaoling's punch with its claws, it could hardly breathe.

Zhao Xiang'er could t*****e it, slice it into pieces or make it suffer the cruelest punishment.

However, with her sword, she directly walked to the position where Ning Xiaoling vanished instead of paying attention to the severely injured evil bird.

She had more important things to do.

"Wait!" Ning Changjiu stopped her.

Zhao Xiang'er slightly paused. "What's up?"

Ning Changjiu asked, "Where are you going?"

Zhao Xiang'er said, "None of your business."

Ning Changjiu said, "She has reached the initial stage of the realm of Purple Court by now. You can't stop her."

Zhao Xiang'er closed her eyes and said coldly, "I'll manage. There are other means to subdue the demon in the imperial city."

Ning Changjiu asked, "The seal of the state or the Jiuling Tower..."

Zhao Xiang'er interrupted him, "This is the secret of the state of Zhao. You don't have to know."

Ning Changjiu sighed, "So what if you have any means? You can't find her now. No matter how good your means is, it is only a dragon-slaying skill--fancy and yet impractical."

Zhao Xiang'er glanced at him and said, "There are dragons in the world indeed."

Ning Changjiu had no time to score off her. He just said seriously, "I have an idea to find my fellow disciple and...take her down."

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On the palace wall, Blood Feather's wings were spread. Two iron swords nailed on the wall. As a result, two lines of blood were dripping from the sword injuries.

"How to suppress the demon aroused by your blood?" Lu Jiajia glared at it coldly and then nailed its wing with another sword again.

Blood Feather kept shrieking with pain and then faltered, "How would I know... The old fox asked me to sprinkle the blood on that young girl before death, saying that once I made it, she...she would work for me..."

Lu Jiajia asked, "Then why can't you control her?"

With its bleeding wings spread out, Blood Feather said painfully, "It must be the old fox's deceptive act. It simply wanted to make you suffer, regardless of my life..."

Lu Jiajia snapped, "You are so stupidly deceived by it?"

Blood Feather refuted, "If you are made to work for a stupid little girl for more than ten years and suddenly have a chance to kill her, can you not take it?"

Lu Jiajia took a deep breath and struck tens of sword moves at it, leaving countless injuries in its wings. Blood Feather's gut-wrenching screams came nonstop.

"You are from a decent sect anyway. Can you do it neatly? Do you have to make me... If I knew anything, I would have told you. For real, I don't know anything else."

Lu Jiajia said coldly, "Let me kill you directly then."

"Wait, wait... Wait a minute! Why don't you wait until Her Highness comes back? She must want to slice me into pieces. It will be a great grace for me if you directly kill me. Moreover, Her Highness hates me so much. If you kill me randomly, I guess it won't be easy for you to report this to her... After all, this is the Zhao Family's private matter..." Blood Feather begged with a bitter face.

Lu Jiajia said indifferently, "Subduing demons is everyone's duty."

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Somehow, Ning Xiaoling didn't directly leave the imperial city.

Ning Xiaoling rushed into a deserted mansion in the west of the city, thumping on the ground and causing a big and deep hole. Standing in the middle of the deep hole, Ning Xiaoling stuck her hands into the earth with her countenance constantly changing, her Taoist dress fully stained with muddy water.

"Don't waste your strength. How long can a little girl sustain? Just give in. If I possess you completely, you won't be able to hear or see anything. And you won't feel guilty no matter what you do. Moreover, you can stay away from all the pain. Neither will you die. You will only fall into slumber. When my soul is stabilized, I can let you out and see the world together."

The enchanting voice kept arising. Even though Ning Xiaoling covered her ears well, the voice couldn't be blocked, because it came from her heart.

As long as she closed her eyes, she could see a snow-white fox without a tail walk to her agilely with a sinister smile.

"Shut up!" Ning Xiaoling snapped.

The snow fox snorted, "I will be able to swallow you completely in an hour at most. What's the point of struggling? By then, I shall leave a bit of mind of yours to enable you to watch your fellow disciple torn into pieces by me."

Ning Xiaoling's green veins stood out at her temples. Her childish face was deadly pale.

"My fellow disciple will kill you for sure..." Ning Xiaoling said.

The snow fox sneered, "Then why did you run away? Take me to your fellow disciple and let him kill me!"

Ning Xiaoling said, "He just doesn't want to watch me die."

"Haha..." The snow fox suddenly laughed shrilly and said, "What do you think your fellow disciple is? Just like me, he is only a demon that possesses a man's body. The only difference is that he succeeds in devouring your fellow disciple while I haven't. Don't you understand? The fellow disciple who was kind to you was killed by the current him... You've regarded the demon as your fellow disciple. Shame on you."

Swayed by its words, Ning Xiaoling nearly collapsed due to its words. "Shut up!"

"What? Are you unwilling to accept the fact?" The snow fox's sneer, like the never-ending wind in winter, whistled across her eyes. "Don't you wonder why he is so kind to you? Haha... It is only because the original owner of the body was nice to you and he inherited some of the body's feelings. And you just fall for that tiny kindness? But your real fellow disciple who was kind to you has vanished..."

Ning Xiaoling insisted, "He is my fellow disciple!"

The snow fox said, "You only don't dare to believe it. Don't forget that your fellow disciple was a blockhead before! Could he have sudden enlightenment?"

Stuck into the muddy hole, Ning Xiaoling kept shivering. She widened her eyes. The queer pure black or white eyes faded for the moment but now, her pupils were still light as if she would still be devoured at any time.

Ning Xiaoling opened her mouth with difficulty, saying, "My fellow disciple has been saving me all the time and you only want to hurt me. In your eyes, which one I should trust, you or him?"

The snow fox was silent for a moment. This was a simple outlook of right and wrong. Even if the current fellow disciple was the most wicked demon in the world, he was saving her. On the contrary, even if the snow fox was the kindest angel, what it tried to do was only devour her.

Therefore, it didn't matter who her fellow disciple was now because he had been saving her.

The snow fox snorted, "You are so pathetic. I am the nearest one to you and I just want to eat you while the fellow disciple who is the most intimate with you turns out to be a hypocritical demon. For a girl like you, it is better to die than to stay alive!"

Ning Xiaoling also said coldly, "Here I am in front of you. Why don't you eat me? Since your teeth are so blunt, why don't you go to hell?"

The snow fox laughed even more merrily. Its voice was like a blade cutting the flesh. "Then I'll start eating."

In the empty mansion, the young girl screamed in pain continuously, restrained and lingering.

The sunlight at noon was extremely cold.