The Transmigrated Male Lead Confessed to Me - Chapter 32 (Part 1)

“Senior…”

Su Zhen turned back suspiciously. “Did you draw your sword?”

With her cultivation level, maintaining the state of keeping her spiritual sense extended did not affect the five senses of her physical body.

“No.”

Xiao Yu spread his hands. “It’s just spiritual intent taking the form of a sword. Whether I use an actual sword or not makes no difference. Do you want to see it? If you want, I can take it out.”

“No need.”

Su Zhen hurriedly said, “I am not very familiar with sword intent taking form, and I am not very good at judging it either. Besides, I have never been an Immortal Venerable…”

Below the Quasi-Saint realm, one could not execute such sword techniques through pure intent alone.

And even at the Quasi-Saint realm, it was not something everyone could necessarily achieve.

“…This way!”

Since a certain Senior had already taken action, she did not withdraw her spiritual sense. She continued probing into the distance until she finally “saw” several familiar landmarks and completely confirmed her location.

Su Zhen withdrew her spiritual sense and turned around.

She raised her hand and pointed straight ahead. “If we go straight from here, with my cultivation, it would take about eight or nine hours of flight. We will pass through a forest. Inside, there are some purple—”

Xiao Yu did not wait for her to finish. He reached out, pressing one palm against her shoulder.

The two of them vanished from where they stood.

They reappeared in a silent, eerie forest. Everything around them was dark red and inky green. The trees were sparse, the vines withered. Ahead was a small pool of water, inside which were scattered many purple, block-like crystals.

“Here?”

As soon as they landed, Xiao Yu immediately released his hand.

Su Zhen sighed. “I was not finished, but this works too…”

She glanced at the pile of stones and decided to leave a mark on the ground. Next time, she could teleport here directly.

As she straightened up, she could not help glancing at the person beside her. “Senior, did you just extend your spiritual sense to take a look around, or are you so familiar with the Demon Realm that you have been here before?”

“Mm. I sensed the surroundings first to make sure there were no problems. But I have been here before.”

Xiao Yu looked around. “It is just that the related memories are not very pleasant…”

Su Zhen nodded. “Aside from the Thousand Chariots Sect’s secret archive, there is nowhere in the Demon Realm that has anything to do with the word pleasant.”

In her previous life, she had only begun to seriously explore the Demon Realm around the Heavenly Immortal realm. Before that, her various experiences had been miserable. Rather than adventures, they were more like getting beaten up and running away.

But even after reaching the Heavenly Immortal realm, the number of times she was beaten, or even brought to the brink of death, was still considerable.

Su Zhen reined in her thoughts and put on an act, releasing her spiritual sense again to continue probing.

In truth, now that she was already here, she knew her bearings very clearly. She was simply unwilling, for the moment, to expose how familiar she was with this place.

After a while, she pointed in a certain direction. “If we go further that way, there is a branch hall of the Moon-Worship Sect. Not the closer one, the farther one.”

Xiao Yu reached out again, lightly resting his hand on her shoulder. Just as he was about to activate his spiritual power, he stopped.

“Are you finished this time? You want to go there, right?”

He deliberately asked another question as he lifted his hand away again.

For some reason, Su Zhen felt that he seemed a little nervous.

She turned her head and tilted her face up toward him. “We can go there first. It will be easier to describe once we arrive.”

Xiao Yu responded softly. “There are people over there. Do you want to kill them, or go around them?”

Su Zhen did not really care either way. After thinking it over, she used her spiritual sense to observe from afar again and confirmed their strength and cultivation levels.

“…Tsk. Moon-Worship Sect demon cultivators. I do not like them. Kill them.”

“Hmm?”

Xiao Yu said with some amusement, “Other than the followers of the Demon God of Decrees, are there any demon cultivators you actually like?”

Su Zhen lifted her head and glanced back at him. “Senior is overthinking it.”

The two of them were very close. If she leaned back even slightly, she would fall straight into Xiao Yu’s arms.

Su Zhen remained firmly in place, her upper body not moving at all. “…I do not like people from the Thousand Chariots Sect either.”

Even in her previous life, when she became their colleague, their relationship had never been particularly good.

Xiao Yu lowered his gaze to look at her. “I thought you all interacted on the basis of seeking common ground while setting aside differences.”

Su Zhen let out a forced laugh. “That’s just…”

“An ideal state?”

“Senior understands this quite well, do you not?”

Su Zhen said irritably, then quickly added, “But I am not a member of the sect now. I rarely interact with them. It is just that none of the people I have dealt with ever made me like them.”

Xiao Yu’s expression turned subtle. “Really? Not a single one?”

Su Zhen looked at him with a strange expression. “What do you mean?”

In her previous life, she had been on good terms with two Grand High Priests. One of them could even be considered half her master. But in this life, she should not know that person yet, so she could not possibly bring it up.

Su Zhen said, “…Senior, could it be that you are particularly close with some divine attendant?”

“No.”

Xiao Yu shook his head. “I really do not know any… Why would you guess divine attendants?”

Su Zhen was taken aback. “Logically speaking, they are the strongest?”

Among the demon cultivators of the Thousand Chariots Sect, whether in character or strength, there was great disparity.

However, all divine attendants were top-tier experts. They could almost freely wield the power of their Demon Gods. Although most of them were still slightly inferior to Immortal Venerables of the Saint realm, it was not impossible for them to exchange a few moves.

That was, of course, when facing Immortal Venerables who were not sword cultivators, spell cultivators, or body cultivators.

If they encountered the one before her, probably no one would choose to trade blows with him.

Among the divine attendants, whether those who stayed constantly by the Demon Gods’ side or those who traveled through the Nine Realms, a considerable portion were demon race, or had originally not been demon race but later became so.

The rest included humans, monster race, and all kinds besides.

Xiao Yu was still puzzled. “Whether they are strong or not, to me…”

“Oh.”

Su Zhen understood. “Senior, do not think I misunderstood you. I do not believe you only associate with the strong. Anyway, to people like you, they are all targets that can be cut down in a single strike. There is no difference between strong and weak. What I meant was that they are powerful and also the most senior in age, so the chance of you knowing them would be greater.”

Xiao Yu was blank for a moment. Then his eyes turned gloomy, and he seemed to lose some of his spirit. “Your explanation only makes people feel more hurt.”

Su Zhen: “……”

Here it goes again.

To this day, she still does not understand why this person cares so much about age.

Su Zhen blinked. “So, should we be going now?”

Xiao Yu extended his hand again, but did not immediately touch her. His palm hovered in midair, as if he were pondering something. “They have started fighting over there.”

“…Hm? I will take another look.”

At her level, the speed of her spiritual sense far exceeded her physical movement.

So even though the Moon-Worship Sect’s branch hall was extremely far away, after spending some time, Su Zhen once again “saw” two groups of demon cultivators fighting.

To avoid being detected, she did not let her spiritual sense approach too closely. She only observed from afar, enough to confirm that she did not recognize anyone from either side.

Of course, that only meant there were no familiar faces.

Their identities were still easy to discern.

One side consisted of Moon-Worship Sect demon cultivators. The other side were cultivators from the Shangji Sect. Their cultivation levels varied, ranging from the Soul Transformation realm to the True Immortal realm.

But their overall strength was comparable, so the battle was evenly matched.

Su Zhen had no fondness for either side. When encountering such situations, she always acted as a bystander, waiting until they were finished before taking advantage of the aftermath.

After fighting for a while, several of them had their physical bodies destroyed, and they gradually began using their ultimate techniques.

She quickly withdrew her spiritual sense.

The members of the Moon-Worship Sect were believers of the Demon God of Luminous Radiance. If they used the power of their Divine Lord, any onlookers who were not of the same kind could end up injured.

Su Zhen raised her head, looking through the interlacing, outstretched dead branches of the forest toward the dark red sky.

Recalling the hand seal one of the demon cultivators had formed earlier, she silently counted down five beats in her heart.

A thunderous boom echoed from the distance.

Beyond layers of dark mountains and steep ridges, a brilliant snow-white pillar of light shot upward, piercing the heavens like a sharp blade. Radiant light flared outward, shattering layers of blood clouds.

Su Zhen crossed her arms and watched the scene. “They should split up now, right?”

Xiao Yu gave a slight nod. His gaze rested on her face, but his spiritual sense was clearly still covering areas thousands of li away. “The people from the Shangji Sect ran off. Two of them went down.”

Logically speaking, as an Immortal Venerable of the righteous path, his attitude should not have been this indifferent, or he should have intervened long ago.

After all, the five great sects were all core members of the Immortal Alliance and could be considered closely allied.

Su Zhen was not surprised at all. Most Immortal Venerables were like this. If it were someone else here, whether they helped or not would likely depend entirely on their mood.

“Is this also a dialect from Senior’s hometown? Calling death ‘going down’?”

“More or less.”

“All right.”

Su Zhen laughed softly. “Shall we go? I do not want to give them a chance to rest.”

This group of Moon-Worship Sect demon cultivators was very likely the same batch that picked up the immortal sword back then. They took the sword, but no one could use it, so they stored it away in the branch hall’s secret chamber.

Unexpectedly, once it was stored away, it would remain there for two or three hundred years. During that time, too many things happened. That branch hall was abandoned, and in the end, it became something two groups of demon cultivators fought over.

“Then we’ll go.”

Xiao Yu lowered his head and glanced at her, then put his arm around her shoulder.

Su Zhen was very accustomed to teleportation techniques that displaced space.

Although her spellcasting was a little slower compared to when she was at the Golden Immortal realm, everything else was more or less the same.

Using such techniques in the Demon Realm naturally required extra caution.

Even in places that had already been examined with spiritual sense, no one could guarantee that nothing unexpected would occur in the blink of an eye during teleportation.

So—

At the very instant they left, she had already fully adjusted her spiritual power and entered a state of readiness.

The moment they landed, Su Zhen raised her hand and blocked the spiritual energy blade that shot straight at her face.

“Who goes there?!”

“Are they reinforcements that group called over?”

“This spiritual aura does not seem to belong to the Shangji Sect.”

The demon cultivators did not linger long in confusion.

None of them were new to the Demon Realm. They naturally understood that there was no order or rules here. After clashing with the Shangji Sect cultivators, anyone could show up to reap the benefits.

So they quickly engaged.

Although they had already fought that group of righteous cultivators for some time, and none of them were at peak condition, with most of them injured, they had originally planned to retreat to their stronghold to recover.

However—

The newcomer seemed to be only at the True Immortal realm. Difficult to deal with, yes, but not impossible.

Xiao Yu immediately let go and retreated dozens of zhang away.

Su Zhen was already prepared to fight. She drew her silver-white sword in a backhanded motion, and a ripple of shimmering water-light leapt along the blade’s edge.

A strange, sinister aura attacked from the side.

Her right hand turned. The mist rising from the sword’s body was thin and crystalline, gleaming with cold brilliance.

The gentle stream suddenly condensed, then violently erupted, surging forth and transforming into clear, ruthless blades.