Chapter 122: Demon Realm Soul Seizure (Part 15)

Xu Qianyu removed the sealing talisman, and the young girl trapped in the sand revealed her form.
Xu Qianyu didn’t know Fu Lingsha, but according to Yun Chu, this girl was named Fu Lingsha and was one of Fu Shao’s “daughters.” This piqued Xu Qianyu’s curiosity, and she looked the girl over.

Fu Lingsha’s small frame was wrapped in a black dress. Her face was pale, her eyes tightly shut, and her brows furrowed, as if frozen at the height of her fear. Unable to wake her, Xu Qianyu decided to bring her back.

When Xu Qianyu carried Fu Lingsha back to the others, Fu Lingsha awoke. She reached out to feel Xu Qianyu briefly, then started struggling violently. “You’re that Heaven’s Deficiency person! Let me go!”

Yu Chu saw her hitting Xu Qianyu, frowned, and used her Eight Immortals fan to separate them. When Fu Lingsha touched the protruding Shura’s eye on the fan, she recoiled as if burned and curled up into a ball. “Father, don’t kill me…”

“What’s this about a ‘Heaven’s Deficiency’ person? Do you know me?” Xu Qianyu put Fu Lingsha down, feeling puzzled.
Fu Lingsha cried for a while before replying, “I’ve seen you before.”
“When was that?”
“In the Water Moon Flower Realm. You severed my control threads, killed three of my ghost minions, and caused the last one to be caught by that fire ibis of Liu Yian. You were with the Heaven’s Retribution person at the time.”

At this, Xu Qianyu finally recalled and opened her eyes wide. “So you were the one in the sky manipulating the puppets!”
She had thought the person must have been someone formidable. She never expected it to be a young girl like this.

Xu Qianyu subtly focused her consciousness to observe Fu Lingsha. Behind Fu Lingsha, she saw a shadow of wings like a blazing sky, and there was a red demon core in her abdomen. She wasn’t a pieced-together ghost minion; she was a true demon.

All of those ghost minions were Fu Shao’s “children,” yet this “daughter” could control other minions through her strings, indicating she was of a high rank. It wasn’t surprising that she had some differences.
“Hurry up and tell me, what does ‘Heaven’s Deficiency’ mean?” Xu Qianyu pressed on. Sensing she was surrounded by male and female cultivators, Fu Lingsha knew she’d been captured. Resentfully, she shut her eyes and said, “How could you not know? Missing part of the soul—that’s Heaven’s Deficiency.”

Xu Qianyu lowered her eyes in thought. Yun Chu was right: Fu Lingsha truly had the gift of foresight. Just one look, and she knew Fu Lingsha was missing a soul. But what did she mean by “your companion is a person condemned by the heavens”?

There had been two people with her at the time. Did she mean Xie Yuzhen or her senior brother? A person condemned by the heavens—it couldn’t possibly be her senior brother, right? But since her fellow disciples were around, she refrained from asking further.

As she spoke, the others were also observing Fu Lingsha. Lin Shuyue noticed something amiss. “What’s wrong with her eyes? Why are they shut?”

“With her eyes shut, she probably can’t open them,” Tu Zhuang said, chewing on a medicinal pill with a hint of schadenfreude in his tone. “Look at her, crying non-stop like that; she’s going to cry herself blind.”

Fu Lingsha seemed to have been stung by these words, and her sobbing grew even fiercer.
Yun Chu, whose power was the “Heavenly Eye,” was deeply concerned about the eyes of others with similar abilities. Hearing this, he directly lifted her eyelid to look and was startled by what he saw. “Your foresight eye.”
“Gone,” Fu Lingsha cried. “My father took my eyes.”

Took…her eyes? Just imagining it, everyone felt horrified. Xu Qianyu asked, “Why did he do that to you? Was he also the one who sealed you in the sand?”

“Yes,” Fu Lingsha said, twisting her dress nervously. “Because Father was angry. He realized that what I’d told him didn’t match reality and suspected that I’d lied. He said what I saw was not the future but the past, and these eyes he once called foresight eyes were useless. He was angry and took them from me, sealing me underground. But I didn’t lie to him! That’s what I saw.”

Tu Zhuang sneered, “Serves you right! Do you know how many times your good father attacked the Immortal Sect because of what you said? From what I see, your visions are random, and you’re just harming people on purpose.”

“I didn’t do it on purpose! I really saw it,” Fu Lingsha said angrily. To prove herself, she turned to Xu Qianyu, saying, “Heaven-deficient one, you will die one day.”
“Pah! Spit those words back out,” Yu Chu scolded, hitting her on the head with a fan.
Xu Qianyu, however, remained calm, though she suppressed the waves of emotion within. “Everyone here will die someday, won’t they?,” she replied, suspecting now that Fu Lingsha might indeed be seeing the past. In her previous life, she had died young. But she still had one question: “What do you mean by ‘the past’?”
Fu Lingsha replied, “Events that have already occurred.”

“You say I will die, but if that’s something that has already happened, how do you explain that I am sitting here before you now? Isn’t your statement contradictory?”
Fu Lingsha, still a child, couldn’t respond, her face reddening with frustration. “Are you mocking me on purpose? I really did see it; I’m not making it up!”

Of course, no one was bored enough to mock a monster child for fun, so they didn’t press her further. Having not eaten for a long time, Fu Lingsha was quite weak, so Su Mingyu took out some pills from her mustard-seed pearl storage to feed her.

The barren land was silent except for the winds sweeping across the wilderness, howling. The disciples huddled around the fire, troubled and uncertain.
“What exactly has happened in this demon realm? ”One asked.

“Father went mad,” Fu Lingsha said after eating, seeming calmer. “Decades ago, he would sometimes be lucid and sometimes not. When lucid, he forbade me from leaving the demon realm; when confused, he couldn’t control the malevolent spirits here, and I could take them out to play.”

“Just before he sealed me, he completely lost his mind, took the malevolent spirits, drained the demon realm of its spiritual energy, and declared war on the Immortal Sect.”

“In the past, we had our homes here, with trees and ponds.” She looked around in confusion, her expression falling slightly. “Now, I guess it’s all gone.”

Xu Qianyu thought that by “gone mad,” Fu Lingsha meant that her father, Fu Shao, had fallen into a dreamtrance. Through spirit butterflies, she and an unknown disciple had been passing information back and forth, and now Xu Qianyu understood that they were currently within an illusion.

So Fu Shao, having drained the demon realm’s spiritual energy and taken nearly a hundred malevolent spirits, created an illusion and trapped her senior brothers within it.
Xu Qianyu looked around, sighing. Compared to her senior brothers, she felt as though she were stuck in some sort of retirement scheme.

While the others meditated, she quietly asked Fu Lingsha, “Are there any dragon people within the demon realm?”
“Dragon-people? ” Fu Lingsha’s expression changed slightly. She tilted her head thoughtfully. “I know there’s a place where a dragon person is sealed. But it’s dangerous—aren’t you all going together?”

“No,” Xu Qianyu replied, bringing only the eager Yu Chu and Yun Chu with her and instructing Su Mingyu to stay in contact via their wood tokens. “Lead the way.