Chapter 43: Are You Nervous?

Chen Ping turned back to look at Lin Xiaoyu.

Lin Xiaoyu stood in place, her face calm.

But Chen Ping could see it.

Her hands were trembling slightly.

“The Blood-Robed Spirit Child…” she whispered, her voice shaking slightly.

Chen Ping walked over to her side and reached out to ruffle her hair.

“Have you heard of it?”

Lin Xiaoyu shook her head.

“No… no. But…”

She paused and looked up at Chen Ping, a complex look in her eyes.

“Master, when that mark… exploded, I felt…”

“What did you feel?”

“I felt… a very familiar aura.” Lin Xiaoyu knitted her brows.

“It was very faint, but I couldn’t be mistaken. It was… it was…”

She took a deep breath and said, word by word:

“It was the exact same aura as the people who killed my mother back then.”

Chen Ping’s pupils contracted slightly.

The Blood Fiend Sect.

The Blood-Robed Spirit Child.

The murder of Lin Xiaoyu’s mother.

What was the connection between these three?

“Master.” Lin Xiaoyu looked at him, her eyes filled with an unprecedented seriousness.

“I want to go to the Blood Fiend Sect.”

Chen Ping fell silent for a moment.

“Now?”

“Now.”

Lin Xiaoyu nodded, her voice calm yet carrying an unquestionable determination.

“I’ve already reached the eighteenth layer of Heavenly Dao Primordial Qi Refining. Even if I encounter a Nascent Soul expert, I can fight.”

“Besides… I can’t wait any longer.”

She lowered her head, looking at her hands.

“I’ve grown stronger, strong enough to protect myself. But Mother…”

Her voice choked up slightly.

“Mother has waited for too long.”

Chen Ping did not speak.

He just quietly watched the young girl before him.

At fifteen or sixteen, she should have been carefree and innocent.

Yet she bore a blood feud, cultivating without a single moment of rest.

Today in the Cultivation Tower, she had almost died.

Now, having just woken up, she wanted to go to the Blood Fiend Sect.

“Xiaoyu,” Chen Ping said.

Lin Xiaoyu looked up.

Chen Ping looked at her and suddenly smiled.

“Go ahead.”

Lin Xiaoyu was startled.

“Master, you…”

“I will go with you,” Chen Ping interrupted.

“The Blood Fiend Sect is no small sect. Even if we can’t wipe them out right now, we can still collect some interest.”

Lin Xiaoyu’s eyes reddened slightly.

“Master…”

“Alright, alright.” Chen Ping waved his hand.

“Don’t get emotional on me. Go pack your things, we set off at dawn.”

He paused, then added:

Lin Xiaoyu looked at him and nodded vigorously.

“Yes!”

*

She turned and ran back to her room, her steps light.

Chen Ping stood in the courtyard, watching her retreating figure, a slight smile playing on his lips.

Then, he looked up at the night sky.

The moonlight was still like water, and the stars still filled the sky.

But a trace of solemnity had entered his eyes.

The Blood-Robed Spirit Child…

He felt like he had heard this name somewhere before.

System, he called out in his mind.

What is the Blood-Robed Spirit Child?

After a moment of silence, the system prompt sounded:

【This system is the Myriad Worlds Master-Disciple System, not a babysitter system. It does not answer questions outside of system quests.】

Chen Ping: “…”

Fine then.

It seemed he would have to investigate it himself.

He looked up at the night sky, where the moonlight was still like water.

The Blood-Robed Spirit Child. Those four words were enough to make the Blood Fiend Sect silence a spy who had been undercover for twenty years.

Its importance was easy to imagine.

Chen Ping was just pondering the matter of the Blood-Robed Spirit Child.

Suddenly,

【Ding! Current host action detected: Assisting disciple Lin Xiaoyu in seeking revenge against the Blood Fiend Sect. This aligns with the system’s core purpose!】

Chen Ping was taken aback.

【New quest released: Help disciple Lin Xiaoyu seek revenge and wipe out the Blood Fiend Sect!】

【Quest Content: Completely destroy the Blood Fiend Sect headquarters and all its branch bases, kill the Blood Fiend Sect Master, and avenge the mother of disciple Lin Xiaoyu.】

【Quest Time Limit: None】

【Quest Rewards: Massive rewards will be distributed based on completion rate, including but not limited to cultivation level increases, Divine Ability inheritances, Connate Treasures, Law Fragments, and Grand Dao Blessings.】

【Note: This is a chain quest. Phase rewards will be granted for every Blood Fiend Sect base destroyed and every core member of the Blood Fiend Sect killed.】

Chen Ping’s lips curled up slightly.

Killing two birds with one stone.

He had originally only planned to accompany his disciple to collect some interest, but he hadn’t expected the system to arrange the whole package for him.

Alright, he replied in his mind.

I’ll take this job.

*

He looked down at his hands.

The eighteenth layer of Qi Refining from the 《Grand Dao Divine Scripture》, minor mastery of the Grand Dao Divine Eyes, the Grand Dao Evasion Technique: Void Chapter, Primordial Chaos Creation…

With his current strength, dealing with the Divine Ability Realm should be no problem.

Even if he faced the Grotto-Heaven Realm, he could probably hold his own.

As for the Blood Fiend Sect Master, his strength level was still unknown.

He would just have to take it one step at a time.

Half an hour later.

Lin Xiaoyu walked out of her room carrying a simple bundle on her back.

She had changed into a set of neat, form-fitting martial robes, with the Qingfeng Sword hanging at her waist. She looked sharp and heroic.

“Master, I’m ready.”

Chen Ping nodded.

“Let’s go.”

With a wave of his hand, a purple-gold light enveloped them both.

Grand Dao Evasion Technique: Void Chapter.

It allowed them to traverse the void, crossing a hundred li in the blink of an eye.

Lin Xiaoyu felt her vision blur, and when she opened her eyes again, they had already left Luoxia Peak.

The two turned into a streak of light and vanished into the night sky.

*

Silence returned to Luoxia Peak.

A thousand li away.

A streak of light flashed across the night sky.

Chen Ping looked down at the girl beside him.

“Are you nervous?”

Lin Xiaoyu shook her head.

“No. With Master here, I’m not afraid of anything.”

Chen Ping smiled.

“That’s good.”

He looked up and gazed ahead.

In the darkness of the night, a continuous mountain range was faintly visible.

Deep within the mountains, a faint bloody light flickered.

That was one of the Blood Fiend Sect’s important branch bases.

This was information about the Blood Fiend Sect that Chen Ping had obtained earlier from the remnant soul in Li Cang’s sea of consciousness.

The master and disciple stood on a mountain peak.

The night wind was biting cold, making their robes rustle loudly.

Ten thousand li below them stretched a continuous mountain range.

Deep within the mountains, bloody light flickered, and fiendish energy surged toward the heavens.

Chen Ping’s eyes were covered with a layer of purple-gold light as he pushed his Grand Dao Divine Eyes to their limit.

In his vision, the spiritual energy flow of the entire mountain range, the layout of the formations, and the auras of the cultivators were all laid bare.

“Twenty-four formation cores, all closely linked,” he said softly.

“They use Blood Fiend Energy as a guide to echo one another. If one is broken, the other twenty-three will automatically be alerted.”

Lin Xiaoyu stood by his side, golden lightning crackling within her eyes.

Eye of Heavenly Punishment.

In her field of vision, those formation cores were shrouded in a faint bloody halo.

That was the source of the Blood Fiend Energy.

“Master, I can see them,” she said softly.

“Those formation cores… they vary in strength. The third one in the southeast is the weakest, and the first one in the northwest is the second weakest.”

Chen Ping glanced at her, a flash of approval in his eyes.

This girl was becoming more and more proficient in using her Eye of Heavenly Punishment.

Not only could she see through illusions, but she could also distinguish strength and weakness.

“Good,” he nodded.

“You go to the left and handle those twelve formation cores. I will go to the right.”

Lin Xiaoyu was startled.

“Master, me alone…”

“What, are you scared?”

“No!” Lin Xiaoyu shook her head quickly.

“I’m just… worried about alerting the enemy.”

Chen Ping smiled.

“Don’t worry. Although this formation is ingenious, in our eyes, it is full of flaws.”

He paused, then said seriously:

“Remember, do not alert the people inside. Once the formation cores are broken, retreat immediately and meet in the valley over there.”

Lin Xiaoyu nodded seriously.

“I understand.”

The two figures, one to the left and one to the right, vanished into the night.

*