The Steward Demonic Emperor

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"What happened to Qingcheng?" Zhuo Fan hurriedly shook Dan'er's frail body.

Panting, Dan'er teared up, "And sister Ruohua, Qing'er, they… they…"

Zhuo Fan hardened, "I don't care about them. Tell me now, what happened to Qingcheng?"

Zhuo Fan was sweating as he stared down Dan'er until she was scared.

"Steward Zhuo, let her speak. You're scaring the poor child…" Kui Lang spoke and said to Dan'er, "Little girl, tell us what happened. We'll definitely help."

Dan'er looked at them and finally said, "S-Sect Leader wanted us five sisters to cure the young master's illness."

"What?" Zhuo Fan's face fell and gnashed his teeth. "I knew the punk was born a cripple with lacking elements, but now I see even his brain is screwed on wrong. He dares to touch my girl…"

Sensing the seething hatred seeping from Zhuo Fan, Dan'er was in shock from fear. Yet for some reason, his towering bloodthirst gave her a sense of safety.

Kui Lang patted Zhuo Fan's shoulder to cool him down. "Just what happened exactly? Please tell us everything so we can save them."

"Well…"

Double Dragon Gathering nodded and began, "After the Double Dragon Gathering, we got back to the sect. The day barely ended and some elders came to us in the dead of night to seal some of my sisters' cultivation then put them in a room with the Sect Leader and the young master. That was when we knew that the Four Elements Cycle Array was all to heal the young master's illness for lacking elements.

"The only reason we went to Double Dragon Gathering was to test the limits of the Four Elements Cycle Array, whether it fit the bill. Only in a life and death battle would the power of this array be brought out. The elder found it eligible so they took our sisters to cure the young master."

Shuang'er hurriedly asked, "Cure how?"

"The Four Elements Cycle Array relies on maidens with elemental constitutions to draw out their power and purify the young master's body to rebuild his elemental balance. Finally…"

Dan'er blushed as she spoke in a lower tone, "Using a maiden's blood to draw out the five elements and completely cure the young master."

Bam!

Zhuo Fan's hand pulverized a rock nearby, "In other words, the perverted young master wants Qingcheng's body?"

"Not just that…"

Wiping her tears, Dan'er sobbed, "It would be fine if it were just curing young master since we were dedicated to this and we've also seen young master grow up. Bearing some sacrifices to save him was acceptable to us, but I never thought…"

"What?" They all asked.

Dan'er's sobbing grew louder, "Young master actually sucked out all of sister Qing'er's spirit and soul. He was so scary. Qing'er became a dried husk and even Sect Leader looked shocked…"

"This is a demonic art of stealing yin to further yang. The punk has turned demonic."

Zhuo Fan's brow shook, his teeth clenched, "I fear that ever since that little town he's been like this, ever since Yan Mo drew him to the demonic path. But Yan Mo is a demonic cultivator and he's used in this matter. Unlike Xuan Shaoyu, who has no restraint being so new to it all."

"So that's why. It's all Yan Mo's fault…"

"Shut it!"

Seeing Dan'er sobbing, Zhuo Fan glared at her. "The righteous path means to be above everything, to be an ascetic. One shouldn't fall prey to the demonic nature so easily. Yet desire has taken hold of his heart and it was just a matter of time before he fell. Yan Mo was only a trigger. It was his twisted heart who was tested in the end, and it was found lacking. Now whose fault was it?"

Dan'er's heart shook and closed her eyes in silence.

Zhuo Fan frowned and sighed, "How are the girls? And how did you get out?"

"Sister Qingcheng seemed to have seen this coming and was prepared. She held a poison pill in her mouth. The moment they force her, she would take it. She said she had an agreement with you six months later. If you weren't there after this time, she would do what the Sect Leader asked. If you arrived and gave her an answer, she would be able to rest in peace. And she's also protecting the others."

Dan'er sobbed, "Then we had our cultivation sealed, but we could still move. SIster Qingcheng seemed prepared since one day she took us to the Permafrost Cave. There was senior sister Han Qianying in a wall there and she broke through it to unseal our cultivation. We killed our way out afterward, but the elders blocked us. Only I managed to escape while the others got caught…"

"What, Qianying?!" Kui Lang cried out.

Dan'er looked at him and nodded. "Sect Leader Qianying was the previous wielder of Permafrost. She should've been one of the girls in the Four Elements Cycle Array, but after hearing of her sect rule violation two decades ago, for colluding with demonic cultivators, she was cast out. Why else would the sect throw away such a rare water constitution like hers? In the end, the Sect Leader had looked high and low for a replacement, thus coming with sister Qingcheng."

"Qianying…" Kui Lang's eyebrow shook, "How is she?"

Dan'er shook her head, "I don't know. After I got away, they were caught. But I believe sister Qianying knew what was going on so that must be why sister Qingcheng was prepared. After all, sister Qingcheng had been in contact with sister Qianying ever since she came to the sect and inherited Permafrost."

Closing his eyes, Kui Lang shook all over, gnashing his teeth and showing his deep worry.

Pa!

Zhuo Fan slammed his heavy hand on his shoulder. Kui Lang started and looked at Zhuo Fan's dark and scary face.

"Is Han Qianying your girl?"

Zhuo Fan squinted, "Don't worry, Qingcheng is smart. Since she can save one person, she can save many. In any case, without your girl, I would now probably be late to the rescue. I alone have no chance of getting two girls out. But now, since there's still time before the appointment, it's enough to send a team in and take down Mystical Heaven Sect! "

Kui Lang shuddered and looked at Zhuo Fan in amazement. Dan'er was also shaken up.

Mystical Heaven Sect was one of the nine sects in western lands. While conflicts between them existed, an all out war was out of the question, not when it would draw Double Dragon Manor's attention.

No one was about to take such a blame!

Yet Zhuo Fan, in a fit of anger, didn't care about these things. Even if the consequences would be dire, that would be then. If he did not do this, he would regret it for as long as he lived.

Zhuo Fan was seeping with bloodthirst, shocking everyone around him. Dan'er was even more dazzled by his aura.

[This guy's insane, but also a mover and a shaker…]

Whoosh!

Two elderly in white flashed before the group, in the 4th layer of Ethereal Stage.

"I-it's Elder Li and Elder Chang!" Dan'er cried out in fear.

The elders showed mocking smiles. Seeing Kui Lang was the strongest at 2nd layer of Ethereal Stage, they thought they were easy pickings.

"Dan'er, you dumb girl, did you really think you could escape Mystical Heaven Sect?"

Bam!

One elder looked at her with contempt, yet he did not finish as the sky was filled with blood. Gone was his presence, as was his irritating voice.

In his place was a huge scarlet dragon, Zhuo Fan's Almighty Scarlet Dragon King. Its sharp claw clenched the tenderized flesh, spreading the bloody smell as it squirted what blood it had left.

On that dragon was Zhuo Fan and his cold, dead eyes.

In a singular strike he wiped a 4th layer Ethereal Stage expert off the face of this world, destroyed in body and soul. The other elder was close to having a mental breakdown.

Dan'er was standing there in shock at Zhuo Fan's action.

She knew Zhuo Fan was strong but she didn't think he would let anger take him to the point he would not let the others even speak.

It only showed how much Chu Qingcheng's plight grated on his nerves.

"Heaven dragon soul, Almighty Scarlet Dragon King?"

The elder looked on in shock, shaking all over, "Y-you're the one young master talked about. The freak at the Double Dragon Gathering, Demon Scheming Sect's Zhuo Fan!"

Smirking, Zhuo Fan mocked, "Right in one guess, though I have no prize for you."

Bam!

With another loud noise, the Almighty Scarlet Dragon King's other claw slammed down, crushing him before he even got a chance to wail. His guts and everything sprayed all over the place…