Chapter 18
'I have been wandering through this alternate realm for days, and as expected, my cultivation has slowed down unlike when I was with my master. Even though I carry the fruit my master gave me, unfortunately, I don't want to eat it in their presence. I'm afraid they might become greedy if they knew the effects of the fruit I carry; even though they are quite kind, I don’t want them to turn malicious given the chance and betray me.'
"Little Ruan, what are you thinking?"
"Nothing. What do you have there?"
"This? It's a plant I dug up near the cliff while you were deep in thought. This plant is also very rare. Since I found quite a few, I'll give you one."
"T-thank you."
"You're welcome. Besides, you'll take care of us if we give you rare plants and animals."
Hon-hon...
"M-miss Ruan! P-please, we can't calm the goose you brought! This monster beast's cultivation is also higher than ours; we can't handle it, please!"
Approaching the junior of the senior Xue sect, who was struggling to calm the rare golden-beaked goose she had obtained during her exploration, Ruan Xiaoyue stomped her foot near the wild goose, causing the ground around it to cave in. This made the quite clever golden-beaked goose go silent.
"Ah, as expected from Miss Ruan, your strength can even make the notoriously difficult golden-beaked goose obedient after you often beat it for not staying quiet."
Ignoring the compliments from junior Xue Lanting, Ruan Xiaoyue returned to where Sister Xue wanted to discuss something with her.
“...Sister Xue, where are we heading next? I've been in this alternate realm for too long; I want to return to my master. We’ve searched for secret places in this realm but haven’t found anything. Capturing cultivators who wanted to attack us for information has also been useless. When will we leave this alternate realm?”
“You’re right, little Ruan. This realm is quite difficult to explore, especially since we aren’t with you. We also shouldn’t be too greedy; it’s better if we head back now—Watch out, little Ruan! Ugh!”
As Xue Lanting was responding to Ruan Xiaoyue, a sudden attack from behind a tree shot toward Ruan Xiaoyue, catching her off guard. Xue Lanting quickly ran and pushed Ruan Xiaoyue, but unfortunately, she was the one who got hit.
“Huh? Ugh, what happened? Why did you push me? This blood... are you okay, Sister Xue?”
“Ugh… I’m fine. Junior, be careful! We’re being ambushed! Show yourselves, attackers!”
After saying that, a group of cultivators emerged from behind the trees, led by a man who looked familiar to Xue Lanting.
“Hehehe, Xue Lanting I finally found you, how does it feel when my attack hits you? I was targeting the beggar who followed you, you are so stupid for trying to protect the beggar.”
“Beggar…”
“You! Xiao Li! Why are you so vengeful towards me! I only rejected your advances, why are you so vengeful that you want to kill us!”
“You said you only refused? Bitch, don’t you remember when you rejected me in front of many of my seniors and juniors in the sect. You really humiliated me at that time, you should know yourself you bastard! You are just a cultivator from a lowly sect, you would have been very lucky at that time if you accepted me, a genius from the Great Thunder Sect! But you rejected me instead, you were very lucky that your master was there at that time. If not, I would have kidnapped you and raped you for humiliating me in front of so many people!”
Feeling the crisis of the situation, Xue Lanting whispered to Little Ruan to take them away from here.
‘Little Ruan, can you carry the three of us and take us away from here?’
‘Why? That bastard has already insulted me by calling me a beggar, I can’t let him insult me. Moreover, he is a bad person who is targeting me and also almost killed you, I can’t let this bad person get away just like that. My master has taught me to be good if the person is good to me, if he is a bad person then I can also be bad to him. Like killing him, right?’
‘It’s not like that Little Ruan, this person is the main disciple of the Great Thunder Sect. If you kill him I’m afraid their sect will take revenge on you and will make things difficult for your master. Please just take the three of us away from here if we are too late-’
“Enough with this joke, I have you all surrounded. You idiot Xue Lanting has endangered your junior by daring to enter this alternate realm after I threatened you, since you are surrounded, I will make sure to rape you to my heart’s content. I will also make sure that your junior is raped by all the subordinates I brought. You capture all these women!”
“Yes, young master!”
“Do you think I’ll let you catch us? You bastard dare!”
Seeing Little Ruan angry at Xiao Li’s words, Xue Lanting immediately whispered to remind her to get out of here.
‘Little Ruan, please let him go, while they’re off guard quickly take us away from here!’
‘I can’t let him go, I’ll kill him here, Sister Xue. You just stay still and watch me kill him here.’
‘You…’
“Hehehe, miss beggar, you are very brave to insult the young master. Since you have nothing to do here, we were actually going to kill you right away, since you have insulted the young master of course we will not let you. We will enjoy your small body when we rape you. And we will make sure with your beautiful face, you will beg to be killed for insulting the young master.”
Moving quickly after threatening Ruan Xiaoyue, all of Xiao Li's subordinates who were at the early Building Foundation cultivation level immediately stepped forward to subdue Ruan Xiaoyue. Because they underestimated Ruan Xiaoyue, of course they would feel the retribution for their arrogance, by raising her hands to take a boxing position. Ruan Xiaoyue immediately coated her hands with qi and then punched forward towards all of Xiao Li's subordinates, because she was off guard. Xiao Li's subordinates who were too late to dodge were immediately hit by Ruan Xiaoyue's punch which made their entire bodies scattered by the wind pressure she released.
Feeling the crisis from Ruan Xiaoyue's punch, Xiao Li immediately used his qi in panic to avoid the punch that was directed at his subordinates and him who was behind.
Seeing the massive imprint from Ruan Xiaoyue's punch and the remnants of his subordinates who were now unrecognizable, Xiao Li, who had fallen due to the residual wind pressure, fell silent in disbelief at the situation. Hearing footsteps approaching him and seeing the person he had considered a beggar getting closer, his body trembled in fear at what he perceived as a dire situation. Terrified of the beggar, who now appeared as a death god, Xiao Li tried to negotiate for his safety.
"P-p-please forgive me, forgive me for insulting you, honorable miss. If you let me go, I will give you all the valuables I carry, honorable miss."
“Let you go? For what? I know what you are like, I have often met people like you in the slums. If I let you go now, I don’t know what revenge you will take on me, it would be better if I just kill you here.”
"P-p-please forgive me, honorable miss. If you let me go, I promise not to tell my sect about this incident."
"Are you trying to threaten me? My master has told me not to fear anything if I’m not guilty. So, your esteemed sect doesn’t intimidate me."
"P-please, I beg you, let me go. If you don’t, my master and the sect won’t just stand by and watch me die like this."
Ruan Xiaoyue continued to approach him no matter what he said, seeing Ruan Xiaoyue’s hand already strangling his neck, Xiao Li tried his best to threaten her to let him go.
“Y-you, argh! Our sect always places a soul technique on the body of the main disciple, i-if you kill me the sect master will definitely know who killed me they will not stay silent! Y-you better l-let me go!”
Holding the neck that felt so easy for her to break, Ruan Xiaoyue who wanted to grip her fingers to break this villain’s neck, stopped after her arm was held by someone.
“Sister Xue why are you holding my arm?”
“Please let go of this person little Ruan, look at his face he is really scared. I bet he definitely won’t dare to take revenge.”
“It’s better to just kill him, this guy won’t regret it after this incident, I’m sure he’ll complain to the sect after I let him go.”
Seeing Sister Xue looking at her with a pleading expression, Ruan Xiaoyue helplessly released her hands from the neck of this person she hated.
“Cough! Cough!”
“Haah… you should be grateful that I let you go, get out of here!”
Hearing Ruan Xiaoyue telling him to leave, Xiao Li who was coughing immediately ran quickly to escape. However, before he had run far enough, his chest was suddenly pierced by a force.
“You…”