Chapter 741 - 0421 Not a Girl from the Demon Sect (2-in-1)_2

She certainly wasn’t worried about the current conversation being overheard by anyone besides Yun Qian, because she had already set up a barrier around them.

Otherwise, if someone really heard what she just said, even if they couldn’t link it to her true identity, it would be hard to explain.

"Demon Sect, are you from the Demon Sect?" Yun Qian looked at her strangely, then shook her head.

No.

Ah Qing: "...?"

Ah Qing looked at Yun Qian’s expression and suddenly felt a bit confused herself.

What’s going on.

Why is Yun Qian shaking her head.

Oh, she doesn’t think I’m from the Demon Sect.

So... did I expose myself with one sentence?

???

Why doesn’t it match how I thought it would?

Yun Qian’s reaction clearly didn’t consider her part of the Demon Sect, clearly didn’t think she could be from the Demon Sect.

Eh?

Is that how it is.

She thought Yun Qian, who could say not to worry about her Demon Sect identity, knew everything.

But... it was truly an illusion.

What a pity.

Ah Qing covered her face.

She had been ready for the possibility that Yun Qian was also an Immortal Reincarnation, and that her identity had been exposed, but it turned out to be entirely her own imagination, a self-imposed confession.

But this development was the most reasonable; Yun Qian shouldn’t have guessed she was from the Demon Sect.

Conversely, Ah Qing’s inexplicable certainty that her identity was revealed was what was actually odd.

Ah Qing didn’t suspect that Yun Qian knew and pretended not to know, so she calmed down, feeling speechless about her momentary overthinking.

Indeed, a woman’s intuition can be reliable sometimes, and unreliable at other times.

Always walking by the river, one’s shoes will eventually get wet.

——

"?"

Watching Ah Qing calm herself down, Yun Qian blinked.

What did I say?

Why did Ah Qing suddenly stop this topic, wasn’t she asking me? But I never even spoke.

After Xu Chang’an told her some things about the Demon Sect, Yun Qian really didn’t think Ah Qing was a girl from the Demon Sect.

The Demon Sect is the Demon Sect, she is herself.

One might say the Demon Sect is something under her control, but one cannot truly see this Sect Leader as a part of the Demon Sect.

Because Ah Qing is also connected to Xu Chang’an through a Karma Line, so Yun Qian sees much clearly on Ah Qing’s other Karma Lines.

Unlike Shi Qingjun and Chaoyun, the connection between the Demon Sect and Ah Qing is very faint, nearly nonexistent.

Her consolidating the Demon Sect wasn’t by choice, merely imitating Shi Qingjun’s consolidation of the Immortal Sect, so a significant part of the creation of the Demon Sect is linked to Shi Qingjun.

As for Ah Qing needing resources from the Demon Sect, she only relied on them briefly after entering the Qiankun Realm, then began collecting Dao Rhyme on her own.

The Sect Leader, in reality, was just a figure above all.

Even Ah Qing herself describes the Demon Sect’s upper ranks as "decayed bones in a grave," showing her attitude towards the place.

Understandably.

All these years, Ah Qing paid no heed to anything within the Demon Sect.

Even when Zhu Pingniang went mad and rushed the Holy Mountain, she just watched indifferently from the side; had it been Shi Qingjun meeting a Demon Sect attack on a mountain, she definitely wouldn’t sit idly by.

The only recent real command Ah Qing gave was because there was a second Qiankun Realm in the Sect; she ordered a Demon Sect consolidation and an attack on Beisang City’s Array Hub... allowing her to re-establish a connection with the Demon Sect——

But the problem was, Yun Qian erased this event.

Yun Qian made it so this event never happened.

So, after Ah Qing protected the Demon Sect and settled the karmic debt from the resources she received from them... her strongest Karma Line with the Demon Sect now is having Xu Chang’an established as the first seat in the sect.

Hmm.

In Miss Yun’s view, anything connected with Xu Chang’an will eventually become her Treasure Vault’s treasury, devoid of any current Karma—since she’ll take it away sooner or later and hide it.

So now, in Yun Qian’s eyes, Ah Qing is certainly not a Demon Sect girl.

As for the Demon Sect’s status, Yun Qian still knows everything.

If Ah Qing had always been an ordinary Demon Sect girl, it would have been different, but she clearly goes beyond the Demon Sect, so how could she lower herself?

Ah Qing is first one half of Qing Province’s sky, then a Sect Leader of the Demon Sect; priorities shouldn’t be reversed.

After all, Demon Sect’s existence was merely a product of Ah Qing and Shi Qingjun’s game, so how can one categorize Ah Qing under her arbitrary creation.

But Ah Qing saying this was because she thought Yun Qian had limited perspective now, and saying Qiankun Realm is less understandable compared to Demon Sect.

Here, the two had a disagreement, talking about different things.

Of course, the main point wasn’t these karmic grand principles.

People always strive for higher ground, Ah Qing is a "half-human," and a half-human is still human after all.

Living in this world, one must act according to this world’s regulations as much as possible.

Yun Qian thinks that as a concubine of the Qiankun Realm, Ah Qing would bring more honor to her husband than as a Demon Sect girl acting as a concubine, wouldn’t she?

The book says a man’s face is important; Xu Chang’an may not care, but as the main wife, it’s something she must care about, which is part of Miss Yun’s cultivation to be a good wife and something she reminds herself of at all times.

So, Ah Qing is not, and cannot be, from the Demon Sect.

This girl is already somewhat lacking in cleverness, so she must be more outstanding.

Yun Qian originally intended to clarify this in detail to Ah Qing, but who would have thought that with just one opinion on ’whether Ah Qing is from the Demon Sect,’ Ah Qing seems to have figured everything out herself.

This is a not-so-bright girl.

"..."

Yun Qian quietly watched the joyful expression on Ah Qing’s face, and said nothing more.

How Ah Qing thinks doesn’t really matter.

As long as she isn’t uneasy, that’s all that matters.

After all, since she’s the husband’s karma, if she were to appear before the husband with such a poor state, Yun Qian wouldn’t be very happy.

Although this seems a bit silly, at least it makes the man’s affections more likely.

Yun Qian thought so.

——

"Ahem."

At this moment, Ah Qing finally snapped back to reality and began to face the reality.

The reality being that everything was going well, and she suddenly told Yun Qian that she was actually a girl from the Demon Sect.

Now she has to act in the aftermath of her brainless impulsive behavior.

How to explain the self-revelation to Yun Qian.

"Miss." Ah Qing started to speak.

"Hmm."

"Well..." Ah Qing thought for a moment, then said softly: "I... am a Half-Demon, and in the current era, the Demon Sect recruits Half-Demons. I was a girl from the Demon Sect for a while, which seems reasonable, right."

Ah Qing considered this reason quite reasonable.

Even if she were to tell Zhu Pingniang, Zhu Pingniang would also find it reasonable.

However, Ah Qing didn’t expect Yun Qian to shake her head promptly.

"You are not a girl from the Demon Sect," said Yun Qian.

Ah Qing: "..."

Looking at Yun Qian’s earnest gaze, seeing Yun Qian’s resolute stance.

For a moment, Ah Qing even questioned if she truly wasn’t a girl from the Demon Sect.

?

Was I expelled from the Demon Sect?

Blech.

It’s the Holy Sect.

Being around the Flower Moon Building girls too long, I even referred to myself as someone from the Demon Sect, how funny.

"Miss Yun." Ah Qing helplessly said to Yun Qian.

This matter wouldn’t be a problem even if Zhu Pingniang knew, the key point is she just doesn’t want to lie to Yun Qian.

Girls in Flower Moon Building have received favors from the Demon Sect, and their attitude towards the Demonic figures in that place isn’t as resistant as people from the outside.

Of course, nobody truly believes the Demon Sect is a good place, it’s just that among the mire, few lotus flowers bloom, and cannot change the Demon Sect’s reputation, and is just a bunch of brothel girls thinking they have no qualifications to comment on Cultivators.

Not wanting to deceive Yun Qian, Ah Qing sincerely said: "Miss, I really am a Demon Sect woman. After all, being a Half-Demon... having been with them for a while, they too can understand that."

"No." Yun Qian looked at Ah Qing, her tone serious, making Ah Qing frown: "You’re not."

Ah Qing: "..."

Alright, so it seems Miss Yun indeed considers me expelled from the Demon Sect.

Never mind, if she doesn’t believe it, she doesn’t believe it.