"Name...?" the woman's voice slowed, as if recalling memories. "It's been too long, I don't remember..."
"Then I'll call you Little Demon Girl from now on?" Ye Fan tentatively asked.
"Okay," the demon girl agreed.
"Then, Little Demon Girl," Ye Fan continued to ask, "who sealed you in that sacred land back then? Now that you're out, will they come after you?"
"I don't know," the demon girl slowly replied. "That was a long time ago, tens of thousands of years ago, I estimate..."
As Little Demon Girl recounted, Ye Fan finally understood the whole story.
Tens of thousands of years ago, Little Demon Girl was just an ordinary female cultivator.
Her sect was small, but the atmosphere within was harmonious.
She lived carefree days, her life simple and happy.
Until one day, a crazy old man showed up.
Upon seeing her, the old man's eyes lit up, and he muttered things like 'top-grade material.'
Later, she was captured by the old man and subjected to all sorts of experiments daily.
Sometimes he would give her acupuncture.
Sometimes he would feed her all sorts of bizarre elixirs.
Sometimes he would fuse her with the bloodlines of various demonic beasts. Da Feng Novel Network
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The experimentation process was incredibly painful, as if she died countless times each day.
Until one time, she passed out again during an experiment.
When she woke up, she found that the old man was gone.
And she was confined in a dark space by countless demonic energies.
Every day, her body was forcibly infused with demonic energy, the pain countless times more intense than before!
She struggled.
She screamed.
But it was all in vain.
This continued for tens of thousands of years.
Gradually, her body began to adapt to the demonic energy.
And she completely transformed from an ordinary female cultivator into a terrifying demon girl.
Although she gained unimaginable power, all she felt in her heart was hatred!
That old man had destroyed her sect, destroyed her home.
And destroyed her!
She vowed that if she ever got out, she would take revenge!
"So..." after hearing Little Demon Girl's story, Ye Fan asked with a strange expression, "you don't know the specific process, do you?"
"No," Little Demon Girl replied indifferently.
Ye Fan clicked his tongue.
Setting aside the demonic energy infusion, the old man's actions sounded more and more like Master Xie Yan and the Second Elder...
Could it be such a coincidence...?
"Do you still remember what that old man looked like?"
"I'd recognize him even if he were reduced to ashes!"
"Then see if it's one of them."
As Ye Fan finished speaking, the appearances of Master Xie Yan and the Second Elder appeared in the contract space.
"No."
Ye Fan breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.
If it had been these two fellows, he would have felt extremely unsettled.
Then, Ye Fan took out a jade pendant and rubbed it between his fingers.
All the people in the sacred land had been harmed by Little Demon Girl, so the auction house was likely out of the question.
At this point, the clue had run dry...
"Huh?" Little Demon Girl exclaimed, looking puzzled. "This thing looks a bit familiar..."
"You've seen it?!" Ye Fan's spirits immediately lifted. "Where did you see it?!"
"Don't rush me, let me think..." Little Demon Girl said with dissatisfaction. "After being tortured by that old man, I was left with after-effects, and some things I can't recall."
Ye Fan stopped speaking and waited anxiously for Little Demon Girl's answer.
He was squeezing the jade pendant so hard that the knuckles of his fingers turned white.
After a long while.
"I remember," Little Demon Girl said. "I've seen patterns similar to this jade pendant near my sect before."
"Can you still remember the location of your sect?" Ye Fan asked nervously.
"Yes."
Ye Fan scrambled out of bed and pushed open the door, stepping outside.
"Big Brother?" Bu Queqian, who was waiting outside, quickly asked. "You seem to be in a hurry, is something urgent?"
"I remembered something, I need to leave for a while." Ye Fan took out his flying bed. "You guys go back to Wu Zhui Kingdom yourselves, I won't be returning."
"Big Brother, should I go with you?" Bu Queqian suggested.
"No need," Ye Fan's voice faded away along with the flying bed.
"What a pity..." Bu Queqian looked at Ye Fan's receding figure and sighed deeply. "Big Brother is clearly a man of sentiment. With such a free and unrestrained demeanor, I fear I'll never be able to learn it in this lifetime..."
Zhang San and the others blinked in confusion.
Your Highness?
Which eye did you use to see all these chaotic things?
Why didn't we feel anything at all?
...
Ye Fan traveled east and stopped by a river two days later.
Although there was no pollution in the cultivation world, he was still dusty after two days.
Ye Fan had originally planned to find an inn to take a bath, but he hadn't encountered a single inn during his two-day flight.
Let alone inns, he hadn't even found a single person.
The fundamental reason was the sheer size of this world.
Even a small country like Da Liang had a population of over ten billion.
By this small example, one could see the whole.
Flying for tens of thousands of miles without seeing anyone was considered basic.
Confirming that there was no one around, Ye Fan took off his clothes and entered the river.
The river water was a bit cool, making it very comfortable to soak in.
The air was fresh, mixed with a faint scent of flowers and grass.
Ye Fan squinted comfortably.
It felt so good to be close to nature!
After bathing, Ye Fan swam to his heart's content in the river before returning to the bank.
As soon as he got ashore, Ye Fan froze.
Little Demon Girl had apparently emerged at some point and was staring at him with her arms crossed, showing no sign of shyness.
Ye Fan's face darkened, and he quickly took out a towel to cover himself.
"When did you get out?" Ye Fan asked, his voice full of exasperation as he wrapped himself in the towel. "And please, stop staring at me like that."
"I came out when you got into the water," Little Demon Girl said with a smile. "You looked at me once before, so now we're even."
"You have a good figure, it makes me feel tempted," Little Demon Girl said as she walked to the riverbank and began to undress. "It's a pity your cultivation is too low. If you have nothing else to do, hurry up and cultivate."
"Plop!"
Little Demon Girl dove into the river and swam with gusto.
"With the strength of your spiritual sea, I believe your realm will advance quickly," Little Demon Girl surfaced and winked at Ye Fan. "You can't bear to see me waiting alone in an empty room, can you?"
Ye Fan: ...
What the heck?
Where did the cool, mature older sister image from before go?
This character development is too drastic!
Damn it, you're acting like an idiot!
Ye Fan ignored Little Demon Girl and took out a tent to change his clothes.
After getting dressed, Ye Fan came out again, built a campfire, and began preparing dinner.
However, he only prepared his own portion.
Although he didn't know Little Demon Girl's exact cultivation level, it was at least at the Void Severing realm.
At her level of cultivation, she no longer needed to eat.
She could just sip on spiritual energy and demonic energy whenever she pleased...