Su Zhuyi threw the Wuding Gourd to Little Skull and parted ways with him.

She didn’t leave Lingxu Mountain because she still didn’t have enough for the entry fee. After killing two adult male cultivators of comparable strength to herself, her body was quite exhausted. The wound on her neck was too severe—even after absorbing some spirit stones to stop the bleeding, the holes where the bone spurs had pierced her neck hadn’t healed, looking somewhat disgusting like a wasp’s nest. She’d originally hoped to rely on Little Skull to hunt spirit beasts while she rested, but that hope had been dashed. She could only depend on herself.

Su Zhuyi crouched in ambush and expended considerable effort killing a second-rank red-tailed fox. She killed the fox, but the fox also bit her arm. However, Su Zhuyi acted as if she felt no pain—not even furrowing her brow—as she efficiently skinned and gutted it with her hoe, extracting a grayish-white spirit pearl from the second-rank fox’s pile of flesh and blood.

Gripping the hoe, she thought that a powerful, high-ranking ghostly creature that couldn’t serve its master or share its burdens was inferior to a hoe.

Those who followed different paths couldn’t work together. She still had to survive in the future, which would inevitably involve hunting spirit beasts and killing people. If Little Skull couldn’t accept this, who knew when he might explode upon seeing her kill someone, wanting to punish evil and promote good, acting on behalf of heaven? Rather than failing to train him properly and losing her own life instead, wouldn’t that be laughable?

Su Zhuyi feared death.

In her way of thinking, it was often a matter of either others dying or herself dying, so she believed in cutting grass and pulling out roots, leaving none alive. Her mindset was simply too far from Little Skull’s.

Since that was the case, separation was better. That little skeleton wouldn’t die anyway—few people in this world could deal with him. She, on the other hand, could be injured even by a second-rank red-tailed fox.

After dealing with the fox, Su Zhuyi reached out and patted her horse twice.

The hoe glowed faintly, nodding and bowing obsequiously toward Su Zhuyi.

Su Zhuyi’s lips curved upward in a purely innocent smile.

A hoe was just a hoe, but at least it would stay by her side through thick and thin, serving her purposes. Rarely, Su Zhuyi found her natal treasure hoe somewhat more pleasing to the eye.

She wiped the spirit pearl clean and weighed it in her hand.

Spirit pearls were equivalent to spirit beast inner cores, nurtured by spiritual energy year-round. This grayish-white quality spirit pearl was probably worth around ten to twenty low-grade spirit stones. Combined with the spirit stones on her person, it would barely cover the entry fee.

She understood social customs—she wasn’t truly just six years old—so she naturally knew that once inside the city, she’d need to grease palms. Therefore, Su Zhuyi didn’t rest. After stopping the bleeding and using a bit of spiritual energy to clean the bloody smell from her body, she began hunting again.

However, after walking far this time, Su Zhuyi encountered no spirit beast auras at all. Fortunately, her luck was good—she found a spirit herb. This type of herb concealed its spiritual energy within its roots and stems to protect itself, with no spiritual energy in its leaves. It looked almost identical to an ordinary wild grass, and most lower-level cultivators probably wouldn’t recognize it, allowing her to find this treasure.

So demonic cultivators couldn’t just kill people—they also needed to read more books.

After digging up the spirit pearl and harvesting the herb, Su Zhuyi headed straight for Sufang City. She’d simply processed the fox’s fur into a scarf, tying it around her neck to cover the pitted wounds there.

She didn’t notice that little skeleton Wu’er was secretly following behind her, holding a small yellow dog.

Little Skull was very strong and quite clever.

Big sister had said to gather that flow of energy inside his body into his hands to pierce through anything. So he thought about spreading that energy throughout his entire body to make big sister unable to see him and the little yellow dog. As he thought this, he did it—a simple spiritual energy defensive barrier was born. Because of his strength and abundant spiritual energy, even Golden Core stage cultivators couldn’t detect this barrier despite it having no proper technique.

Little Skull wrapped his entire body in spiritual energy and enveloped the little yellow dog as well. He discovered that big sister truly couldn’t notice him—he even sneaked in front of her and walked a few steps without any reaction from her. This put his mind somewhat at ease. His mouth had just started to curve upward when he remembered that big sister was ignoring him, and he became dejected again.

The little yellow dog Xiaoxiao was a low-level spirit dog with only some intelligence, but it knew whether it was comfortable or not. Being held in Little Skull’s arms, it curled up into a ball, not daring to move. Movement hurt—his whole body was bones, quite uncomfortable to lean against.

One skeleton plus one dog followed alongside Su Zhuyi like this. Little Skull secretly extended his finger, making the motion of grabbing her sleeve as usual, but without actually catching it, still missing by just that tiny bit of distance.

He watched big sister lie in ambush and fight with the fox.

He watched her dig out the spirit pearl and pat the little hoe, even smiling at it.

Because the little hoe helped big sister, was big sister happy?

Although seeing the fox lose its life frightened him somewhat, and the bloody smell made him uncomfortable, seeing big sister’s smile made everything seem less scary.

Big sister’s smile was so beautiful.

Little Skull also examined the spirit pearl along with Su Zhuyi. Was that spirit pearl the same kind of candy he ate?

Looking carefully, though the color was wrong, the feeling it gave him was similar.

So he had been killing all along.

He’d eaten so, so many of those candies. Little Skull felt very sad. He sat on the ground in a daze, watching big sister pack up her things and head toward the city gate. He couldn’t care about being sad anymore, hugging the little yellow dog as he chased after her on his bone legs. He walked forward, stepping on big sister’s shadow, and as he walked, it seemed like all his troubles were forgotten.

…

It was now noon, and entering the city required queuing.

The city guard cultivator Sang Jie was the same one from yesterday, also at the Qi Refinement stage. Seeing Su Zhuyi return while those two familiar human traffickers hadn’t appeared, he was somewhat surprised, stealing glances at Su Zhuyi from time to time. He was male—Suyue Sect didn’t accept male disciples, but their outer sect employed male cultivators as guards and many male servants. Sang Jie was just a male servant. Though he was a city guard cultivator, who would cause trouble in Sufang City? In name, a guard, he just handled registration and collected spirit stones at the gate.

This little girl’s being able to return alive showed she had some strength and background.

This little girl returning alive while those two human traffickers didn’t return meant she not only had strength but was ruthless. Those two who didn’t return were dead.

Such a young child directly killing two adult men required not only strength but also ruthless methods.

Most importantly, she had a pretty face—a beautiful gem in the rough.

In the Suyue Sect, what kind of person could get ahead?

Beauties.

Thinking this, he decided to build a good relationship with the little girl.

Therefore, when Su Zhuyi’s turn came, he appeared very enthusiastic.

He didn’t even collect the spirit pearl, directly asking for ninety low-grade spirit stones. Su Zhuyi, seeing that he was yesterday’s gate guard cultivator and roughly guessing his thoughts, wasn’t polite with him. Smiling sweetly, she said, “Big brother, I want to join the Suyue Sect. What conditions are needed to join the Suyue Sect? How many spirit stones do I need to pay for? Is there also an examination?”

Her sweet smile, despite her hair being only an inch long, was still adorably beautiful with exquisitely refined features.

Sang Jie also good-naturedly guided her: “They’re currently accepting disciples. After you go in, keep walking straight along Vermillion Bird Street for about a li. You’ll see a pond in the center with a golden lotus flower and a crescent moon above it—that’s where the Suyue Sect accepts new disciples. It’s very conspicuous and easy to find.”

“They do charge spirit stones for accepting new disciples, but it’s based on appearance—pretty faces pay less, ugly ones pay more.”

Heh, making a living off looks.

Su Zhuyi was extremely satisfied—she loved this kind of sect! Too bad in her previous life, that old lecher from Dong Fushang Sect had gone into qi deviation, and Suyue Sect, having lost its backing and previously offended many people, was carved up by various forces overnight. But that was hundreds of years in the future—Su Zhuyi wasn’t worried at all.

Compared to stuffy sects like the Gujian Sect, the Suyue Sect was practically a paradise. Currently, this is the best choice for her. As for internal struggles among entry-level disciples, would she—she-the great Heart-Eating Demoness of the demonic path—be unable to handle those little girls? What a joke.

“Thank you, big brother.” Su Zhuyi smiled sweetly again. After speaking, she bid farewell to the city guard cultivator and entered the city.

Sang Jie had planned to follow along with her, but after taking just two steps, he suddenly felt a chill ahead and stopped. Forget it—at least he’d left a good impression. She would get accepted anyway, so there would be plenty of opportunities later.

Little Skull followed behind Su Zhuyi’s rear, holding the little yellow dog. He discovered that when he talked to the little yellow dog, no one could hear him, so he began chattering to himself.

“I saw just now—that person kept sneaking looks at big sister.”

“His eyes were just like that fox that bit big sister earlier.”

“He even wanted to follow big sister…”

“Hmph, little uncle told me to protect big sister well!”

Completely forgetting that big sister had spoken of parting ways.

Vermillion Bird Street was very conspicuous, with a vermillion bird statue erected in the center of the main street, bright fiery red. Walking along the street, she soon saw the lotus flower and the crescent moon in mid-air. This lotus flower was crafted from golden silk threads, and the crescent moon used starlight stone—Su Zhuyi’s eyes lit up at the sight.

The Suyue Sect spent big money. Golden silk threads and starlight stone were quite precious crafting materials in the cultivation world, yet they used them for decoration. In her previous life, when the Suyue Sect was carved up, she’d been in a secret realm, killing and treasure-hunting, missing the chance to get a piece of this fat meat. Thinking about it now, what a pity.

But this time, she absolutely wouldn’t miss out.

Thinking this, Su Zhuyi grinned and strode toward the lotus flower in the center ahead.

She felt certain she wouldn’t need to pay any spirit stones.

Hmph, when it came to relying on looks, who in this world could compare to her?

The title of the demonic path’s number one beauty wasn’t something any random cat or dog could claim!