Sorry, master, my junior sister has surrendered to the enemy!

"Stop chasing me! I can't kill you all anyway. If you keep running into my knife like this, and some uninformed person passes by, they'll say I'm abusing people! Where will I go to complain then?" Chu Yu said as he ran ahead, his steps never faltering.

Chunling Niangzi just watched her like that, without making a move to stop Chu Yu for a long time.

The vengeful spirits had eaten their fill, and Sister Tree, feeling exhausted after her meal, went straight to sleep.

Chu Yu was left all alone, facing the crowd from the immortal mountain.

Chu Yu thought it over and over, but he felt that hiding all the time was not a solution.

Is there any way to directly enter the evil land?

She leaped in front of the village chief, startling him so much that he scrambled backward.

"Don't go, you old monster..." Chu Yu's cold eyes revealed no emotion as he held a knife to the village chief's double chin.

Everyone fell silent for a moment when they saw the village chief being taken hostage.

"Even if you kill me, it won't do you any good. Lady Chunling is protecting me; she won't let you go!"

The village chief is a man of great integrity.

“Since that’s the case…” Chu Yu raised an eyebrow and pressed the knife even tighter. After all, it was a blunt knife, and the sticky bloodstains had a cold touch. He didn’t know when the knife would strike, which made the village chief nervously swallow.

"I plead guilty."

As soon as Chu Yu finished speaking, all around fell silent.

No one reacted; they just looked at each other blankly.

"Hey," Chu Yu raised his voice, pressing the knife even tighter, and threatened, "I said I confess, are you deaf?"

The village chief was dumbfounded. Who would hold a knife to someone else's throat and force them to admit their guilt?

The proper attitude is to apologize with a bundle of thorns on one's back, isn't it?

"You, you, you..." The village chief stammered for a long time without being able to utter a single word.

"Don't you immortal mountains like to send sinful people to the land of evil?"

"Send me to that wretched land!"

With the true intentions revealed, Chu Yu quickly exposed his purpose.

But the villagers think in a completely different way than her.

They genuinely believed that Chu Yu was confessing.

For these believers, the concept of sacred mountains and cursed lands is ingrained in their very being.

The words Chu Yu is saying now are things that even the most devout believers wouldn't dare to utter lightly when confessing their sins. Being exiled to the land of evil is the heaviest punishment for them, to the point that the villagers all feel that Chu Yu's "confession" is extremely sincere.

In Earthly terms, it's like most people want to go to heaven after they die, but when a criminal confesses, instead of asking how to get to heaven, he asks to go to hell.

But that doesn't quite add up. He should have pointed a gun at the priest and said, "Send me to hell, or I'll kill you!"

The village chief gritted his teeth and said, "You are a celestial messenger; you should be expelled from the celestial mountain..."

"Let the monsters outside the immortal mountain devour you. If you can escape their pursuit, it will prove that Lady Chunling has forgiven you."

Chu Yu frowned. Even this doesn't allow them to reach the Netherworld?

The village chief, thinking Chu Yu was scared, smiled wickedly and said, "Or you can sacrifice your lifespan to offset the karma you have committed, and Lady Chunling will ensure that you are reborn into a good family in your next life and live a peaceful life."

"Can the karmic debts I committed be offset?" Chu Yu asked, his expression displeased.

The village chief thought Chu Yu was moved and said, "Yes, to atone for one's karmic debts and start anew."

Chu Yu was speechless; these people were really not on the same wavelength as her.

Well, it seems that what she did was not excessive enough. Let's make her commit even more serious "karmic retribution"!

Chu Yu kicked the village chief aside and chopped at the Chinese toon tree behind him with his wood-chopping knife!

"Watch closely, this is how you use a wood-chopping knife!"

A piece of bark was peeled off the Chinese toon tree, and blood-red sap flowed out.

"Do not!!!!"

The village chief roared.

The surrounding villagers, seeing the Chinese toon tree being so humiliated, cried out in despair.

A scene of wailing and howling.

Chu Yu was initially puzzled as to why Lady Chunling didn't use her domain to punish him.

But since Chunling Niangzi hadn't reacted to her causing such a ruckus on the Immortal Mountain for so long, Chu Yu couldn't care less anymore.

Not to mention that after chopping down the tree, Chunling Niangzi still didn't appear, so Chu Yu chopped even more vigorously.

"Rip!" Another piece of bark was torn off, and Chu Yu shouted, "Are you going to let me into this wretched land or not?"

No one responded, so Chu Yu struck again!

"Let me go to that wretched land!"

Everyone rushed up to stop her, but without exception, she kicked them all away like a soccer ball.

The village chief could only cry out in despair, "Your crimes are heinous and unforgivable! You filthy man, banish him to this wretched land!"

Chu Yu finally stopped what she was doing. She still had one foot braced against the trunk of the Chinese toon tree, holding the knife, and waited patiently for a while.

Nothing happened.

Gan.

"Tie her up and send her to that wretched place!" the village chief roared.

Oh, it turns out the process hasn't been completed yet.

"I'll go by myself."

Chu Yu stepped forward, but no one dared to give her directions.

"You chose this yourself..." the village chief said sinisterly.

"nature."

"Don't regret it."

Some people tried to come up and escort Chu Yu away, but they were all scared away by her.

"Since you are already a person of this cursed land, do not touch her again." The village chief dismissed everyone, and the others also avoided Chu Yu because of these words.

Chu Yu thought to himself that the people of the Netherworld must have some tricks up their sleeves when dealing with the Immortal Mountain; they were even able to disable Chunling Niangzi's healing abilities.

The village chief stepped forward to lead the way, followed by countless villagers holding torches.

After turning left and right in the fog, gradually losing my way, I finally arrived at a lake.

Chu Yu did not recall that there was such a large lake on the Immortal Mountain.

"This lake is another illusion..."

She felt that her act of chiseling through the sacred mountain was too honest. Sure enough, there was a method to get from the sacred mountain to the evil land.

The thick fog still shrouded the path we had come from.

It's like a place that exists independently of a sacred mountain.

There is a small bamboo raft on the lake shore.

"Once you board the bamboo raft, you will be forever separated from the immortal mountain and the mortal world, transformed into a filthy bastard, with no possibility of ever being reborn..."

“You’re using such vile language, you’re not even human. I’ll take you with me.” Chu Yu turned around and saw that the village chief had vanished from the spot.

Only the lonely sound of paddling remained.

The feeling of being exiled is truly strange.

Especially being cut off from by such a group of lunatics.

She glided the bamboo oars into the thick fog.

A cursed land.

Chu Yu had never imagined this place, but after seeing the people from the Netherworld today, she certainly didn't have a good impression of them.

What kind of good person is someone who can make even the most madmen on the sacred mountain turn pale at the mere mention of tigers?

Are the enemies of a madman always normal people?

The people of this wicked land have a madness in their eyes that's as intense as that of a celestial mountain.

Especially when they said Chu Yu was unhealthy.

If the fervor of the sacred mountain for young people is to help them regain their youth, then the pursuit of health by the sick in the cursed land...

Chu Yu's eyes narrowed. People seek medical treatment simply to gain health and longevity.

How did everything fall apart so badly once we arrived at the Lotus Secret Realm?

Still in the Kingdom of Wuyang, a place that gathers the most talented medical practitioners in the world.

"Don't let anything happen, please don't let anything happen to A-Ling..." Chu Yu silently prayed as the bamboo raft crashed into a reef in the thick fog.

Perhaps due to excessive speed, the bamboo raft was smashed apart, leaving only a few broken and scattered bamboo poles floating on the water.

Chu Yu stood on the reef and heard crows flying overhead.

Are we not far from land?

This thick fog was different from the fog in the Ghost Realm. Chu Yu stood alone in it, listening to the sound of flowing water, feeling utterly lonely.

Chu Yu carefully determined his location, and finally leaped in one direction!

puff~

Then he fell into the water.

The commotion was quite significant, but it subsided quickly.

Chu Yu could vaguely see a light ahead, which should be land, but a group of emaciated people were holding torches and looking in the direction of the sound of falling water.

Chu Yu submerged himself completely in the water, and with the help of the thick fog, he was not discovered and managed to get away with it.

After the flames had receded into the distance, she quickly moved closer to the shore.

The further they walked, the more they realized something was wrong. As the fog thinned, towering stone mountains appeared on both sides of the water.

Looking back, the once vast and calm lake had become a river, the stagnant water turned into flowing water, constantly washing over Chu Yu with some resistance.

The path we came by has disappeared; it's as if we've arrived at the downstream end of a river.

Beneath the surface of the river, currents surged, and the water level rose above Chu Yu's shoulders. Suddenly, a shrill laugh came from above.

With goosebumps rising all over his body, Chu Yu immediately leaped out of the water to dodge, managing to avoid a long, sharpened log with a festering, oozing corpse tied to it.

When the body fell into the water, it released an indescribable stench.

Swelling corpses floated on the river.

"Giggle..." Another burst of shrill laughter followed, and more things fell from above, but this time they weren't corpses, but people.

One by one they surfaced, their heads peeking out, each one holding a weapon.

Chu Yu remained calm, his eyes indifferent, as he wiped the water from his face.

Was I just soaking in a bunch of corpses that died from disease?

"Ah..." Chu Yu sighed helplessly, wondering when he could finally end this daily struggle with the stench.

"Invulnerable to swords and spears!" One of the men recognized Chu Yu; he must be one of the people who went to the Immortal Mountain to kidnap Yue Ling.

Chu Yu glanced at him a couple more times. His whole body was wrapped in bandages, and his skin was removed, revealing dark red muscles. Like most people in the Netherworld, he was unremarkable.

It's a good thing he still remembers himself.

Upon hearing that Chu Yu was invulnerable to swords and spears, these people became wary.

Chu Yu slowly raised her hand. She was making a choice: if she wanted to find Yue Ling, should she let them take her away, or should she interrogate them herself?

She lingered a little longer, refraining from making any rash moves. After all, with so many corpses here, it would take the Tree Sister some time to devour the vengeful spirits.

As the men approached, panting heavily, upon closer inspection, some had holes in their necks, the empty flesh rippled with the rise and fall of their lungs, making a strange, uncontrollable "whooshing" sound.

After surrounding Chu Yu, they dared not approach any further.

"Invulnerable to swords and spears..." The skinless man covered in bandages squeezed out a few words from his throat, his eyes gleaming with death.

"want……"

He slowly cut open his own flesh with a knife, staining it with black blood.

"Infect him..."

"Only then can...kill."

Chu Yu's expression froze. What?

Everyone around started smearing their blood on the knife.

Even the afterimage of Sister Tree vaguely understood what this group meant, stopped devouring the remnant souls, and looked up at Chu Yu.

"You've killed cultivators?" Chu Yu frowned as he looked at the bloodstained knives.

This must be why they were able to kill the villagers of Xianshan; Chunling Niangzi wouldn't save the villagers infected with the plague of the evil land.

But they used the same bloodstained knife to kill Chu Yu back then, yet they failed to pierce her skin. Why are they doing this now...?

Chu Yu looked at the river, where the bodies of those who had died from disease were all floating on it, and he had just been soaking in the water...

"Aren't you coming back yet? It's time to go."

Chu Yu shouted into the distance, and the people of the evil land all looked behind them, but they could see nothing. They only felt a cold wind pierce straight through their bodies.

The woman in the tree returned to Chu Yu, and in an instant, Chu Yu's aura changed.

Borrowing some of the power accumulated by the tree maiden from devouring vengeful spirits, Chu Yu broke through his Purple Mansion and summoned the Clear Sky Sword.

Based on the burst of profound energy that erupted in that instant, Chu Yu was met with a merciless tolling of a bell.

"Boom~~"

For the first time, the bell's sound suppressed Chu Yu's cultivation.

The second time, the bell nearly shattered Chu Yu's head.

The third time, the bell tolled, rendering Chu Yu unable to move.

This time, it was even more powerful than the previous three times, directly causing her internal organs to shift, vomiting blood, suffering severe internal injuries, and losing consciousness on the spot.

The villagers in the surrounding swamp also covered their heads and collapsed one after another.

"what!!!"

After an unknown amount of time, Chu Yu was awakened by a heart-wrenching scream. She stood up, her vision still blurry.

Sister Tree only lent me a little power to help me open my Purple Mansion, yet I was suppressed by such a terrifying Buddha Bell.

The woman in the tree seemed to have exhausted all her strength, clinging lifelessly to Chu Yu's hand.

"Sister Shu, you should get some rest." Chu Yu touched the tattoo on her right forearm, held the Chekong Sword, and wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth.

I'll take you out.

That heart-wrenching scream just now sounded familiar, somewhat like the Seventh Prince's.

The villagers on the land gradually became aware of their surroundings.

Chu Yu rushed straight towards the scream.