Villains: Starting with the Landlady

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Lin Qing'er nodded. For some reason, she found the words "Queen of the Witches" particularly jarring. She turned her gaze slightly away and said, "Just call me Lin Qing'er. I have no marital relationship with that Witch King... on the contrary... never mind."

Ling Yun nodded, asked no further questions, and ran outside with her.

As they plunged into the waters of Nanzhao Kingdom to search for the Water Demon Beast, Baiyue in the palace finally revealed his true colors. After dismissing his subordinates, he plunged a sword into the chest of the Witch King.

"Yang Yi...you...why..."

The Witch King Zhao Ye stared in shock at the Moon Worship Cult Leader. In their youth, the two were like brothers, traveling all over the country together, and under the protection of Shi Gonghu, they traversed the beautiful landscapes of China.

"Zhao Ye, do you still remember..." Yang Yi pushed the sword in hard, causing Zhao Ye to groan in pain, "Do you still remember our past?"

“I remember…of course I remember…” Zhao Ye gripped the blade of his sword, his palms covered in blood.

"But what have you done?!"

Zhao Ye, pale from blood loss, slumped down, his eyes gleaming with a glint of light: "I want to succeed as the Witch King... Only by marrying the High Priest of the Bai Miao tribe can the relationship between the two tribes be stabilized..."

"But what did you promise me before?!"

Yang Yi's face twisted in pain. He drew his longsword, and a spurt of blood shot out from Zhao Ye's chest.

Zhao Ye had little strength left. He hadn't put up any resistance and had even let his few loyal subordinates leave.

He looked at Yang Yi's face, as if recalling the years when he left the palace with Yang Yi and Shi Gonghu after he came of age. The promise he made under the waterfall seemed so close at hand.

"Sorry……"

Yang Yi closed his eyes in pain, and when he opened them again, his resolve was firm.

"Zhao Ye, since you love this throne and country so much, then I will destroy it completely! I will make your people live in my shadow, and I will kill that damned woman, cut off her head and her daughter's head and hang them on the city gate!"

Zhao Ye reached out his hand, trembling, and murmured, "No, Yang Yi, it's all my fault, it has nothing to do with Qing'er or Ling'er..."

"You've really developed feelings for that slut?!"

"No, I've always considered her my younger sister, and she's always treated me like an older sister... She's innocent, Ling'er is innocent too, please, don't..."

"But in the end, you married her, not me."

Yang Yi looked down at him, a hint of reluctance in his eyes, but he still gripped the sword tightly: "Goodbye, Zhao Ye. The Zhao Ye I knew and loved died the day he ascended the throne."

With a single sword thrust through him, Zhao Ye slowly closed his eyes...

Chapter 356 Killing the Water Demon Beast

In the depths of the Nanzhao Kingdom, the two spotted the water demon beast, the culprit behind the flood, from afar.

The Water Demon Beast is one of the five ancient elemental beasts (wind, thunder, water, fire, and earth) sealed away by the goddess Nuwa in the primordial era. It possesses the ability to manipulate water and live upon contact with water. Only the Nuwa clan could seal it away. The Water Demon Beast's ability to summon natural disasters disrupts the balance of spiritual energy in the world.

The Moon Worship Cult Leader Yang Yi, in his depravity, broke the seal on the Water Demon Beast, which led to the Nanzhao Kingdom being flooded and its people suffering.

Moreover, the Water Demon Beast is almost impossible to kill head-on; it is an unsolvable problem in the water.

After childbirth, the descendants of Nuwa's clan experience a period of decline in strength, requiring several years to fully recover. If Lin Qing'er were at her peak, sealing a water demon beast wouldn't be a major problem, but she's still lacking in strength. Forcibly sealing it would likely only result in her death.

The Water Demon Beast's strength is only at the SS level. Ling Yun can easily deal with it, but killing it completely would be difficult.

"Ling Yun, have you seen my daughter?"

Lin Qing'er sensed the presence of Ling'er and Jiang Shi on him. The young man nodded and informed her that he had successfully escorted them.

Lin Qing'er breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the water demon beast and said with a resolute tone, "I will sacrifice my life to seal it and save the people of Nanzhao. I only hope that you... you can take care of Ling'er and not leave her all alone..."

Ling Yun drew the Mo Bai sword, and the shimmering white light on it caught her eye.

"Qing'er, how do you know this monster is unkillable if you don't try?"

“Even the goddess Nuwa could only seal it…” Lin Qing’er didn’t finish her sentence. After all, no matter how strong Ling Yun was, could he possibly be stronger than Nuwa?

"If it can be regenerated by water, then take it to a place where there is no water."

Lin Qing'er frowned. It sounds simple, but the surrounding area is flooded. How can she do it?

Ling Yun let out a low shout, his toes touching the ground. With an explosion, water splashed up all around him. The sharp blade intent parted the vast ocean, and the young man's figure rushed towards the water demon beast with blurry speed.

Seeing that a creature dared to challenge it, the Water Demon Beast harnessed the water to form a water dragon and flew towards Lingyun.

The young man slashed with his sword, the Meteor Slash cleaving through the water dragon and leaving a deep, bone-revealing wound on the water demon beast.

The water monster roared, but the water rushed over it and immediately healed its injuries.

It looked down at Ling Yun with its eight snake heads, as if mocking him for the damage he had inflicted, saying that even if he beat Ling Yun to exhaustion, he couldn't hurt him in the slightest.

"Okay, okay, let's play like this, right?"

Ling Yun withdrew the black ink, coldly stared at the water demon beast, then focused his mind and channeled all his inner strength into his limbs.

In an instant, his body sank sharply, the riverbed unable to withstand his force, even causing a small earthquake. The waves surged, the water became even more turbulent, terrifying the already suffering people of the Nanzhao Kingdom.

Ling Yun squeezed out the Demon-Suppressing Sword, transforming it into a giant flying sword, and then rode the flying sword towards the Water Demon Beast.

The water monster's massive body swayed violently from his impact, but then the young man grabbed one of the water monster's large heads, pulled it up, and flew into the sky.

Lin Qing'er also snapped out of her shock. She climbed onto the shore and watched as Ling Yun and the water demon beast disappeared into the distance.

Ling Yun dragged the struggling water monster to a volcano crater and then threw it in.

The Water Demon Beast's enormous body churned within the volcano's lava, but it was impossible to kill it using this ordinary volcano.

But Ling Yun has another treasure, which is the Fire Spirit Orb he got from the Qilin Elder!

He didn't know how to use it, but he understood the principle that great strength can make bricks fly.

He grabbed the Fire Spirit Orb and used it as a projectile, hurling it directly at the water monster bathing in the lava.

The Fire Spirit Orb was its greatest enemy. After encountering the magma, endless flames flowed from the Fire Spirit Orb, scorching the Water Demon Beast and almost completely drying off the moisture on its body!

But that wasn't enough. Ling Yun held the Ink White sword, took a deep breath, and with a blinding light, slashed at the Water Demon Beast.

Stars vanish!

With the combined blessing of Star Destruction and the Fire Spirit Orb, the Water Demon Beast finally turned into dust. The fragments were devoured by the flames of the Fire Spirit Orb and disappeared from this world.

Ling Yun retrieved the Fire Spirit Orb and flew back to the Nanzhao Kingdom on his sword.

Lin Qing'er was still standing there blankly waiting for him. When she saw him return, she quickly went up to him and asked, "Ling Yun, what about that water demon beast..."

"Dead, dead beyond dead, there's no way he can be resurrected."

Lin Qing'er was dumbfounded. Even the goddess Nuwa couldn't do it, but Ling Yun actually solved it!

“Nuwa wasn’t incapable of dealing with these demonic beasts; she just wanted to refine a spirit orb.” Ling Yun clapped his hands. “But the official version is seriously retconning. It’s already been refined into a spirit orb, so why is the water demon beast still alive? That’s strange…”

Lin Qing'er didn't quite understand what he meant, but for some reason, she believed him completely.

"Miss Qing'er, can you cast a spell to create the illusion that the water demon beast has been sealed away?"

"Why?"

"It's nothing, I just wanted to play a prank."

Ling Yun winked at her, and Lin Qing'er smiled. Now that the floods had been resolved and the waters were about to recede, it was perfectly acceptable to grant Ling Yun's small request.

She used water magic to reconstruct the water prison that sealed the water demon beast, and also created a phantom of the water demon beast. If the Moon Worship Cult Leader wants to break the seal again, it will still take a long time to collect the materials to break the seal.

However, Ling Yun is looking forward to returning to the future and seeing Bai Yue's painstaking planning for over ten years, only to find out it's such a broken thing after opening the seal. He wonders if he'll suffer a stroke.

"Where does Qing'er want to go in the future?"

Ling Yun asked his crucial question, because after returning, he still needed to find Lin Qing'er with Ling'er, and he had to know where she was.

"I think I'd better go to the Nuwa Temple."

"Nuwa Temple?"

“Yes.” Lin Qing’er held the Heavenly Serpent Staff in her hand and looked at Ling Yun. “There are some things you may not know, but this disaster… was truly caused by me. I need to apologize to Goddess Nuwa and worship the statue of Goddess Nuwa every day to ask Goddess Nuwa to forgive my sins.”

"Then after you go back..."

"I will disguise myself as an ordinary person and they won't notice." Lin Qing'er looked at Ling Yun, then blushed and turned her head away. "Lin Qing'er is already dead. She died at the bottom of the water where the water demon beast was sealed."

Ling Yun was somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected that Lin Qing'er was actually hiding in the Nuwa Temple. So, she was partly responsible for his time travel to the past.

That's right. I wouldn't use the search function on an unattractive woman. Maybe she already knows me, but just hasn't acknowledged me yet.

"You're from the future, aren't you?"

Hearing her words, Ling Yun nodded calmly.

"That's great... no, I mean, we'll meet again someday."

Lin Qing'er revealed a bright smile. The young man walked over, but did not cross the red line. Instead, he summoned the Demon-Suppressing Sword: "I'll take you back!"

After the two left, Yang Yicai, the leader of the Moon Worship Cult, arrived late with his subordinates. He sank to the bottom of the water and vomited blood upon seeing the sealed water demon beast.

The materials to break the seal on the Water Demon Beast were originally taken directly from the royal palace warehouse, and many of them were very rare. Now, we have to send people to find them again, but we don't know how long it will take.

"That bitch is probably dead, but she had a daughter!"

Yang Yi returned to the shore, his eyes bloodshot: "Pass on my order: find Zhao Ling'er at all costs!"

Chapter 357 Rakshasa Cave

Bai Miao ethnic group, Dali.

Ling Yun escorted Lin Qing'er to the Nuwa Temple. The Witch Queen transformed into an ordinary Bai Miao woman and followed the worshippers inside.

Ling Yun watched her retreating figure, and just as he was about to leave, a young girl grabbed his arm.

"Lingyun, you're back!"

Ling Yun hadn't told Aman that he came from the future; he only said he had important business to attend to. Aman thought he would be gone for several days, but she didn't expect him to return so soon.

"Ah."

Ling Yun turned to look at the girl, while Aman chuckled, "I've thought it through. I'll explain it to my mother... It's just... it's just that you might not be able to become the chieftain of our Bai Miao tribe, and you'll have to marry into the family..."

Seeing that Ling Yun remained silent, A Man cautiously added, "Are you unhappy? This...this isn't what I wanted...it's the rule here."

"Aman, I still have some things to do."

Ling Yun grabbed her small hand, kissed it, and said, "Trust me, when I come back, I will make sure you and Anu live a good life."

"Ah."

Aman smiled brightly, perhaps unaware that Lingyun's departure would last for more than 10 years.

Ling Yun couldn't bear to tell her the truth. For women in other worlds, when he returned, time in the main world would be frozen, and only 10-60 days would have passed in the sub-world, which was relatively easier to explain.

But how could he bring himself to say it after more than 10 years?

Perhaps that's what makes him such a jerk.

He felt that as long as he entered the Nuwa Temple, he could return to the future, so he pulled Aman into the inn.

"Ling Yun, didn't you have something to do?"

"Hmm." Ling Yun took a sip of tea. "Have you heard of the Rakshasa Cave?"

“Rakshasa Cave?” Aman touched her lips, seemingly lost in thought. “I remember, it seems to be in the northwest, there’s a Rakshasa witch who lives on… I can’t quite remember what mountain she lives on.”

"Then will you come with me?"

"Ah?" Although Aman was somewhat delighted, he could only shake his head when he thought of his daughter Anu at home. "No, Anu is still here..."

"You've remembered Anu now?"

A woman's voice came from behind. Upon hearing this, Aman immediately stood up and looked behind her.

A woman carrying Anu walked over, and Aman stepped forward, took his daughter in his arms, and showed a hint of apology to the woman.

"Holy Maiden?"

Ling Yun recognized the woman in front of him as the Holy Maiden, but the Holy Maiden was not that old yet and looked no different from an ordinary woman.

When the Holy Maiden saw Ling Yun, her pupils contracted slightly, as if she had discerned some of his background. However, she simply said softly, "Fallen leaves return to their roots, and all things begin and end. You should handle this matter yourself."

Ling Yun nodded, then went forward to tease Little Anu before riding his flying sword toward the northwest direction that Aman had mentioned.

After Ling Yun left, little Anu opened her adorable eyes wide, looked at his retreating figure, and then turned to look at Aman: "Mother, who was that?"

"He's a really nice person, I'll introduce you to him later! Hehe!"

Saintess sighed. If she hadn't mistaken him, Aman would probably have been tormented by unrequited love for a long time. But this was for the best. Perhaps it would allow her to become independent more quickly, stop having unnecessary fantasies about other men, and grow into the chieftain of the Bai Miao tribe as soon as possible.