Seeing Xuan He's reaction, Ling Luo Yi smiled knowingly. As expected, the Asura King was so eager to capture a traitor. He had specifically requested that the prisoner be alive, meaning there was something she didn't know!
Ling Luo Yi wasn't particularly curious, nor did she have a strong desire to understand his race's affairs. It was simply because Xuan He had fled to the human realm and attacked its people. As the Saintess of the human race, she naturally had to get to the bottom of things.
"I don't know what you did to be branded a traitor by the Asura King. I'm not very interested in interfering with Asura clan matters. However, the Asura King asked me to bring you back, which is why I intervened. You could have returned peacefully, but you harmed my human subjects. As the Saintess of the human race, I must seek justice for them."
Initially, upon hearing that Ling Luo Yi was not interested in Asura clan affairs, Xuan He breathed a sigh of relief, believing Ling Luo Yi wouldn't do anything to him and that he was at least safe for now. But after hearing the latter part of her statement, Xuan He's heart sank again. Harmed humans?
Xuan He recalled everything that had happened since he arrived on the Ancient Spirit Continent. To avoid being discovered by his own people and to prevent his identity from being exposed, he rarely interacted with humans and seldom appeared before them. He hadn't harmed any human.
No! He had recently led the Wei family to attack the Ling family. Could it be that he had accidentally injured someone then?
Seeing that he couldn't recall, Ling Luo Yi reminded him, "A few days ago, at the entrance of the Ling manor, you gave a human a pill. Do you remember its effect?"
A pill?
When Xuan He first escaped to this continent, he was severely injured. A human had saved him, and that person was the second master of the Wei family. A few days prior, the second master of the Wei family had asked for his help in saving his clan, and he had agreed, which was why he went to the Ling family with the Wei family. Afterward, the second master of the Wei family was severely injured. Out of gratitude for the help he had received, Xuan He gave him a pill. That pill seemed to be...
The Death Luo Pill!
Xuan He remembered. The Death Luo Pill's effect was to devour spiritual energy and vitality, then feed it back to the owner. After so many days, the second master of the Wei family was likely dead, and even if not, he wouldn't be far from it.
Xuan He wasn't intentional about this; he hadn't intended to take the second master of the Wei family's life.
The Death Luo Pill could not only devour the spiritual energy and vitality of the person who consumed it but also had extremely strong healing capabilities.
Xuan He had originally planned to retrieve his blood, which had entered his body with the Death Luo Pill, from the second master of the Wei family privately after dealing with the Ling family and returning to the Wei manor. Once his blood was retrieved, the Death Luo Pill would become a regular healing pill. The spiritual energy and vitality it devoured would remain within the consumer's body due to the absence of blood as a conduit and would be reabsorbed by the person themselves.
However, Xuan He hadn't expected to be captured by Ling Luo Yi, which prevented his original plan from being realized, leading to the second master of the Wei family's death.
Seeing that he had remembered, Ling Luo Yi smiled, "It seems you recall now."
Upon hearing her words, Xuan He looked up and glared at Ling Luo Yi, saying, "You can't blame me entirely for his death. If you hadn't trapped me, I could have retrieved my blood, and he wouldn't have died."
"Is that so?" Ling Luo Yi felt no guilt whatsoever. "But ultimately, his death was caused by your pill. Someone has to be responsible, and if it's not me, it has to be you."
Hearing Ling Luo Yi's unreasonable words, Xuan He was enraged. But then he remembered something: the Asura King wanted her to capture him alive, meaning Ling Luo Yi wouldn't kill him!
With this thought, Xuan He calmed down. With this life-saving trump card, he didn't need to fear Ling Luo Yi.
Therefore, Xuan He looked provocatively at Ling Luo Yi and said disdainfully, "Even so, Saintess of the human race, what can you do to me? Don't forget, my King wants you to capture me alive. If I die, you won't be able to account for it to my King. Also, if I die by your hand, Saintess of the human race, aren't you afraid of provoking a war between the two races? At that time, you, the Saintess of the human race, will be a sinner to the entire human race."
Seeing Xuan He's unconcerned demeanor, Ling Luo Yi found it amusing and said, "Can I interpret this as you threatening me?"
Xuan He didn't answer, but his contemptuous expression clearly conveyed, 'So what if I threaten you?'
Ling Luo Yi wasn't angry about this; instead, she let out a light laugh. Even Gu Yun Cheng, who was beside her, was amused by Xuan He's suicidal behavior.
Ling Luo Yi didn't say much more, only casting a magic seal on Xuan He's head.
Xuan He didn't understand but still felt that Ling Luo Yi wouldn't dare kill him, maintaining his arrogant attitude towards her. However, the next moment, he couldn't laugh anymore.
As the magic seal took form, a purple lightning bolt struck down, landing steadily on Xuan He. It made his eyes spin and his perfectly fine clothes rip, revealing charred flesh within, from which a faint smell of burnt meat could be detected.
Ling Luo Yi stood up and said, "Xuan He, since you admit to killing my people, you should have paid with your life. However, I promised the Asura King to bring you back alive, and you cannot die before then. Therefore, I sentence you to daily lightning punishment until you are returned to the Asura clan. Do you have anything to refute?"
Xuan He lay on the ground, glaring fiercely at Ling Luo Yi, his eyes bloodshot. Without the supply of spiritual energy, Xuan He now resembled an Asura, looking quite terrifying overall.
Xuan He, having just been struck by lightning, couldn't speak but roared in his heart.
She did it on purpose! She must have done it on purpose!!
The weakness of the Asura clan was lightning. Even lightning formed from spiritual energy could stun them into a stupor. For some reason, once an Asura was struck by lightning, their cultivation would decrease by a notch, even if it was ordinary lightning, let alone this lightning summoned by a magic seal! It was heavenly lightning!
The fact that the Asura clan feared lightning was known by almost everyone in all realms. As the Saintess of the human race, Ling Luo Yi couldn't possibly not know! She must have done it deliberately, giving him such a punishment.
Being struck once every day, even when his dantian wasn't sealed, the lost spiritual energy couldn't be replenished. Not to mention his dantian was currently sealed, preventing him from cultivating. He didn't know when she would release him. If it were half a year or a year, his cultivation would be completely gone!
Seeing Ling Luo Yi move her hand again, Xuan He's heart skipped a beat. He no longer dared to provoke Ling Luo Yi or underestimate her.
Ling Luo Yi stretched lazily. Seeing Xuan He's body tremble slightly, she felt a bit disdainful. Was it really that bad?
Ling Luo Yi had nothing else to ask. She flicked her finger and said, "You stay here."
Xuan He felt a force controlling him, as if his body, which had been frozen by fear of lightning, was now tightly bound by invisible thick ropes, unable to move even a finger.
Gu Yun Cheng watched Ling Luo Yi's actions, his expression unchanged, but his doubts deepened. How did Luo Luo know these underworld tricks? When did she learn them?
After Ling Luo Yi finished, she smiled sweetly at Gu Yun Cheng and said, "A'Su, let's go back."
"Mm," Gu Yun Cheng replied and followed Ling Luo Yi back to Qing Yin Pavilion.
In fact, during the genius selection, when the ancestor of the Wei family tried to assassinate Ling Luo Yi, Ling Luo Yi had used this technique once. At that time, Gu Yun Cheng hadn't asked, and he didn't ask this time either, but his doubts grew deeper.
Luo Luo seemed to have more and more secrets. He wanted to ask, but he was afraid that Luo Luo would be distressed by lying to him or reluctant to tell him the truth, leading to inner conflict. For some reason, Luo Luo, when conflicted, seemed more susceptible to inner demons.
He didn't want this, so he could only wait for Luo Luo to tell him willingly.