The Art of Subduing Dragons

Chapter 56

When night fell, Cheng Su and Luo Qingci were sitting on the attic, enjoying tea.

Cheng Su glanced at Luo Qingci and said, "What have you been up to these past few years? It feels like you're always elusive. What could be so secretive that you have to keep yourself hidden?"

At her age, with such high cultivation, Luo Qingci was a pillar of one of the six major sects in the cultivation world. For a loose cultivator to reach this point was rare.

Luo Qingci put down her teacup and sighed leisurely, "If it were up to me, I wouldn't want to be so secretive. It's just that there are some things that need to be done and some secrets that must be kept."

"Has that little friend of yours never seen your true face?" Cheng Su couldn't help but ask.

Luo Qingci shook her head.

"Tut, you really are good at hiding. What's so precious about your face that you don't show it to anyone?" Cheng Su teased. Even though her face was covered by a mask, one could still tell from her eyes and delicate jawline that Luo Qingci was a beautiful person.

Cheng Su felt a bit reassured. It seemed she wasn't showing her face to anyone. Who knew who would be lucky enough to have her personally remove the mask and show her true face in the future.

"So, how did you end up with those disciples from the Tianyan Sect? By the way, didn't you say that the little one you were raising was sent back to her family? Is she with the Tianyan Sect?" Cheng Su thought of Ruan Li and the others and asked Luo Qingci.

"It was just a coincidence. I met them on the road. Ah Li is now a disciple of Elder Luo Qingci of the Tianyan Sect. They are going down the mountain for training and encountered danger. I could only bring her here to heal."

At this, Luo Qingci couldn't help but furrow her brow, "Cheng Su, you're always so well-informed. Has anything unusual happened in the sects recently?"

"Unusual?" Cheng Su pondered for a moment, then furrowed her brow, "There has been. Recently, the dragon clan has been very active. Since the Great Dragon War, the dragon clan had almost disappeared, but in the past two months, there have been four or five incidents of dragons injuring people. People from various sects, especially the Chongxu Sect and the Nanhua Immortal Sect, are searching everywhere. That's one thing. The other is that there are vague rumors that the demon clan seems to be reviving."

The appearance of dragons wasn't surprising. After the Dragon Palace was destroyed, many escaped. Although the sects have dealt with them whenever they appeared over the years, it was impossible to eradicate them completely. But the revival of the demon clan was a serious matter. If the demon clan returned, the cultivation world would be thrown into chaos again.

"Indeed," Luo Qingci sighed.

"Have you encountered any of this yourself?"

"The reason I encountered Ah Li and the others was that I saved them from a poached owl."

"A poached owl?" Cheng Su exclaimed. The poached owl was a fierce beast unique to the demon clan. When the dragon clan and the sects sealed the entrance to the demon world a hundred years ago, these demons all returned to the demon world. The reappearance of the poached owl in the cultivation world indicated something significant.

"Not only that, but I also discovered something more alarming. The former demon lord's life-seal artifact, the Sky Demon Eye, was using the poached owl and human hearts as a ritual to try to restore itself. After I interrupted it, it fled and reappeared inside a corrupted red dragon."

Cheng Su's eyes widened in shock, "The Sky Demon Eye! This... This is a serious matter. Do the sects know about it?"

"The Chongxu Sect and the Tianyan Sect are already aware. The Nanhua Immortal Sect... If those two things aren't dead, they should know as well," Luo Qingci sneered.