After her senior sister was reborn, she actually became a powerful and arrogant protagonist?!

“Fu Chengan.…”

Upon hearing this name, Chu Luobai felt her breath catch in her throat.

In his previous life, when Chu Luobai was being hunted down, Fu Cheng'an intervened several times.

Each time was extremely dangerous; once, Chu Luobai even had to use a forbidden technique to sever his own left arm in order to barely escape.

Hearing that name again now, Chu Luobai felt as if the pain was being crushed by wheels.

“That’s right. At that time, Fu Cheng’an was still a highly anticipated prodigy of the Biyun Sect. Wen Xue was worried that something might happen to us, and she was also afraid that this secret realm would attract other people to fight for it, so she sent a private message to Fu Cheng’an, asking him to come and help.

"I just didn't expect that Fu Cheng'an would also be attracted to this secret realm and enter the maze's range."

Fu Cheng'an, who was infamous throughout the Qingzhou region, was actually a disciple of the Biyun Sect in the past!

This turn of events was something even Chu Luobai, who had been reborn, hadn't anticipated.

"No wonder the relationship between the Biyun Sect and my sect is so bad, even though there are no obvious grudges between us."

Qiu Lin couldn't help but sigh. He had almost joined the Biyun Sect back then, so he knew quite a bit about the terrible relationship between the two sects.

"Just when the three of us men were at our wits' end, Wenxue somehow found the key to the array and broke the illusion."

"After leaving the maze, we were all exhausted of spiritual energy and just wanted to leave the secret realm first before making any further plans."

"But...it's all too late."

Zu Yang's voice was sorrowful, with a slight tremor, as if he had returned to that hell on earth.

"We stayed in the secret realm for too long. When the elders of the Qingyun Sword Sect and the Biyun Sect came to track us down, they happened to run into the master of the secret realm, that unknown great demon, who had been resurrected."

"resurrection?"

Chu Luobai's eyes widened. She had long heard that some of the demonic cultivators' techniques could resurrect the dead at a great cost.

I thought it was just a legend, but I never expected it to actually exist.

"Resurrection is not accurate either. Knowing that he could not ascend, the demonic cultivator set up a maze in his blessed land, using himself as the array's core and his lifespan as the price, thus deceiving the Heavenly Dao and transforming himself into a demonic corpse."

"Demon Corpse..."

Even Qiu Lin couldn't help but gasp in shock. Anyone capable of transforming themselves into a demonic corpse was undoubtedly a vicious and ruthless individual.

Back then, a demonic corpse at the Mahayana stage appeared in the Southern Border, slaughtering seventy-two cities within the region in a single month, and no one could stop it.

It was only when he traveled back then that the Sword Immortal, who was halfway to ascension, was able to barely kill him.

What Zu Yang and his group encountered back then was actually a demonic corpse at the Tribulation Transcending Realm!

"So, the sect leader left with several elders back then for this reason?"

Chu Luobai had some recollection of how, when he was young, the elders in the sect suddenly disappeared, leaving only four or five elders, including his master.

The sect leader and his master had a big argument over this, and the two parted on bad terms.

When Chu Luobai encountered the sect leader who came out of her master's room, the other party simply reached out and patted her head.

Tell Chu Luobai to take good care of his master.

Although the sect leader eventually returned, he was severely injured and went into seclusion thereafter, no longer concerning himself with sect affairs.

Most of the elders who followed were also killed or injured, severely damaging the Qingyun Sword Sect's vitality.

It was Chu Luobai's master who turned the tide at the Dao Asking Conference, scattering all those who coveted the Qingyun Sword Sect with a single sword strike, thus allowing the Sword Sect to survive.

From then on, the name of the Carefree Immortal Lord became known to everyone in the entire Qingzhou Realm.

But after the sect gradually stabilized, the master also began to go into seclusion.

Chu Luobai used to think that his master wanted to break through to a higher realm, but now it seems that he probably went to help the sect leader heal his injuries.

"That's right. Back then, the sect leader sacrificed half of his cultivation to lead many elders in setting up the Azure Cloud Sword Formation."

"As the only one who could find the true form of the demonic corpse, Wenxue remained within the sword formation..."

Everyone fell silent; they hadn't expected that such a thing had happened back then.

The fall of Lin Wenxue and the sect leader's seclusion are both related to this secret realm.

"Then isn't that the end of the matter? Why did Fu Cheng'an become a demonic cultivator?"

Qiu Lin frowned and asked, in his opinion the Sword Sect was much more efficient than the sects in the Southern Border.

If the sects in the Southern Borderlands back then could have been like the Sword Sect, how could a demonic corpse at the Mahayana stage have slaughtered seventy-two cities in the human world?

"No, it's not over yet."

Zu Yang took a deep breath, clearly still reeling from the shadows of the past.

"After the demonic corpse died, the secret realm underwent a strange change. The demonic energy hidden within it erupted in an instant, and almost everyone present was corrupted by the demonic energy."

As he spoke, Zu Yang rolled up the sleeve of his right hand.

His upper arm and the right side of his chest were covered in large patches of black, making him look particularly ferocious.

"This demonic energy is different from ordinary demonic energy. Ordinary demonic energy damages a cultivator's cultivation level when it enters the body, but it can be gradually forced out of the body with the help of rare and precious materials."

"But this is an inner demon."

Upon hearing this, Chu Luobai and Zhao Jingren both widened their eyes. As elite disciples, they naturally knew how terrifying inner demons could be.

Only Qiu Lin, who was still in the Qi Refining stage, did not have a deep understanding of this.

“At that sect conference, I saw Wenxue in front of me. He told me to kill Xiao Xuancheng.”

"She said that if Xiao Xuancheng and I hadn't insisted on our own way back then, she wouldn't have died."

"She was supposed to become the next generation of sword immortal of Qingyun Sword Sect, but she died so inexplicably. She hated us, and she also hated Qingyun Sword Sect for pushing her into the sea of ​​fire."

Zu Yang's smile was bitter.

"How could someone as kind as Xue say such a thing?"

“At that moment, I developed a demon in my heart. If this demon is not extinguished, I will never be able to enter the Mahayana stage in this lifetime.”

Inner demons...

After being reborn, Chu Luobai also worried that she might develop inner demons because of her experiences in her previous life.

But after receiving the sword immortal's spiritual power, she suddenly became more open-minded.

"I don't know how Fu Cheng'an obtained the cultivation technique left behind by that demonic corpse. I went to investigate and found that everyone in the Hehuan Sect practices this kind of technique."

"Without a doubt, Fu Cheng'an has given up resisting his inner demons and has directly become a demonic cultivator."

"I suspect that our inner demons were formed from the demonic energy left behind by that demonic corpse, and what we saw should be not much different."

"He and Xiao Xuancheng, like me, hate themselves for causing Wenxue's death, and also hate the Qingyun Sword Sect for sacrificing Wenxue."

"So, Xiao Xuancheng wants to join forces with Fu Cheng'an to destroy the entire Qingyun Sword Sect?"

Chu Luobai felt himself trembling slightly.

She never imagined that the sect's destruction was due to this!

"Xiao Xuancheng doesn't trust Fu Cheng'an, but..."

"But if someone who looks a lot like Senior Sister Lin appears in front of Xiao Xuancheng at this time, his inner demons will intensify, and he may make the same decision as Fu Cheng'an."

Chu Luobai quickly picked up where Zu Yang left off, saying, "If that's the case, then everything makes sense."