My Lady Always Lacks Ambition-Chapter 971 - 945: What Do All Living Things Have to Do with Me? (2)

Daybreak came.

The sunlight hit the platform, yet no one felt its warmth.

Qin Liuxi staggered as she stood up, wanting to pick up Master Chi Yuan’s corpse.

"Let me do it," Feng Xiu said.

Qin Liuxi pushed him away, personally lifted the body, her face devoid of any expression, like a walking dead, carrying the body away on instinct.

Fan Kong sighed.

Greed, resentment, anger, desire—these are the seven emotions of the mortal world.

With the sudden passing of Master Chi Yuan, grief engulfed the entire Qingping Temple.

Following Master Chi Yuan’s instructions, Qing Yuan conveyed to Qin Liuxi that should he die, there should be no funeral; just bury the remains at the back of the mountain so he could still remain with Qingping Temple.

Qin Liuxi stared at him for a long while: "Why didn’t he come to find me?"

Qing Yuan said, "The temple master said he was destined to die and didn’t want you involved, nor did he wish for you to defy the heavens and change fate for him. For the sake of all living things, he hoped that you, Junior Temple Master, would pull yourself together, diligently cultivate, and accumulate good deeds."

"All living things are none of my business. Why should he put such a burden on me?" Qin Liuxi sneered coldly.

"Then his death is in vain," Qing Yuan said with a sorrowful face.

Qin Liuxi’s expression grew colder: "Indeed, he wanted to save all living things and be a Guardian. Then he should do it himself. Why die and throw such a burden on me? He washed his hands of everything, leaving me with this big mess. Why? Because I’m a fool bearing grievances?"

Qing Yuan dared not speak.

Qin Liuxi looked towards the dwelling where Master Chi Yuan lay and said, "No burial is allowed."

Qing Yuan looked up in shock. It was already approaching May, and the days were getting hotter. How could they keep the body for that long?

Qin Liuxi spoke woodenly: "I didn’t agree. He cannot die."

"Junior Temple Master..."

Qin Liuxi ignored him and entered Master Chi Yuan’s Daoist Room, then moved into the secret chamber at the back mountain, where the tablets and Life Plates of past temple masters were enshrined.

She walked to the section where the Life Plates were kept, looking at the one belonging to Master Chi Yuan. The specially treated Life Plate was already split in two.

Qin Liuxi stood there for a while, then moved to a small table, saw a Sound Transmission Talisman, clamped it with two fingers, and it ignited, bringing forth the old man’s voice.

What did it say? It said he broke the hexagram but did not violate his vow, had calculated himself a dire fate, was fearless of life and death, had no regrets, was willing to serve as the vanguard, buy some time for all living things, and hoped she would hold firm her Dao Heart, cultivate body and mind, exterminate evil and uphold the path, and further Qingping Temple.

Ha! So noble.

A Daoist who executed the duty of slaying evil and defending the Dao to its extremes.

Did he not ask whether she agreed to this?

"Girl, the rest of the journey, Master cannot accompany you..."

These were the last words Master Chi Yuan left for her.

A moment later, the secret chamber echoed with a suppressed sobbing curse: "You want to leave me? No way, you can’t!"

...

Qin Liuxi refused to permit the burial of Master Chi Yuan. Qing Yuan thought she was just saying it casually. Who would have thought she would find an ice coffin from somewhere, place her master inside, and attach a talisman to ensure the ice coffin wouldn’t melt and the body wouldn’t decompose? 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Furthermore, she lit seven Life-extending Star Lamps and then disappeared without a trace.

Everyone was terrified, witnessing her actions; she utterly refused to accept her master’s death, entirely fixated on bringing him back.

Qin Liuxi went everywhere looking for Master Chi Yuan’s soul. She first went to the small dragon vein area, sternly interrogated the wandering ghosts there, and inquired about the events of the night of Master Chi Yuan’s death.

It was certain that he had indeed confronted Si Luo, but whether his soul was seized by the opponent, that was uncertain.

Qin Liuxi searched for the soul on one hand while stirring up trouble in the vast Da Feng, yes, stirring up trouble.

She summoned the Four Ghost Kings abruptly, directly using forceful means to coerce them into having the wandering ghosts under their control report back to her, wherever there were suspected evil cultivators or those useless yet harmful Taoist nuns and Daoists appearing, she would go there, and whoever dared to take lives and accumulate karma, she would annihilate.

And those temples suspecting of harboring an Evil God, regardless of the evil god worshiped, she would destroy it entirely.

Suddenly, the unknown side of the mortal world felt a sense of panic, grievances amassing; even some mountain spirits and wild monsters trying to cultivate in secrecy dared not show their heads, afraid of being targeted by Qin Liuxi, the Great Demon King.

And those evil cultivators and conmen dared not come forward, having heard that the Great Demon King was cruel, not only killing people’s bodies but also scattering their souls.