Chapter Twenty: The Space-Time Stone

Jiang Yao stood opposite them, her small fists clenched tightly at her sides, muttering to herself:
‘Go ahead and play with her. Once she turns into a demon, let’s see if you dare to keep playing with her. You will only meet on the battlefield, locked in a struggle to the death!’
She forced a gentle smile onto her face.
“It was Master who asked me to find you. She said you were very skilled, Senior Brother, and told you to teach me. Senior Brother Dongchen, please, teach me!”
Seeing little Dongchen turn his head away, Jiang Wan gave him a playful push.
Why was he still hanging around now that her task was done?
“Go on, get out of here. I need to cultivate.”
Little Dongchen’s stubborn streak flared up again, and he stood rooted to the spot.
“I won’t.”
Jiang Yao reached out to pull him.
“Senior brother and sister are both telling us to leave, let’s go!”
Dongchen: “I won’t!”
Fairy Xueyun, watching from outside, felt speechless. She vanished from where she stood and reappeared through the main entrance.
“Are you all here? Come, I’ll take you out to play.”
Upon hearing they were going out, Jiang Wan’s eyes lit up instantly. Where were they going?
Fairy Xueyun flicked her sleeve, wrapping them up and lifting them onto a snowy white cloud.
The cloud was soft and fluffy, and Jiang Wan immediately thought of Sun Wukong’s somersault cloud.
“Mother, where are we going?”
Fairy Xueyun looked at her, reached out to pat her bun-styled hair, and with a return of maternal warmth in her eyes, said:
“We’re going to travel around the cultivation world. There have been many demonic cultivators causing trouble lately. Do you know what a demonic cultivator is?”
Jiang Wan’s heart skipped a beat.
Why was her mother telling her this? Was she trying to instill the values of eliminating demons and upholding justice from a young age?
Beside her, Jiang Yao sneered inwardly. She understood now: Fairy Xueyun must have learned from her that Jiang Wan would eventually fall into the demonic path, so she was warning her early on, hoping to make her realize that demonic cultivators were evil and shouldn't be emulated.
Heh, it was useless. If she could push her into the Demon Abyss in her past life, she could do it again in this one. There was no escaping her fate of becoming a demon.
Once she became the kind of demon everyone in the cultivation world wanted to hunt down, and she slaughtered the Myriad Talismans Sect, she would be there to scavenge the treasures behind her and then carefully plot to have her executed in front of everyone.
Jiang Wan, just you wait.
Jiang Yao’s thoughts lasted only a moment, and she quickly interjected:
“I know! Mother, you’ve said before that demonic cultivators are all bad people. They kill cultivators to practice their arts, and everyone in the cultivation world should strive to eliminate them. Especially those of us who cultivate—we must take the mission of eradicating demons and upholding righteousness as our own!”
Jiang Wan glanced at her. Was this girl a show-off? She was everywhere.
Blinking her innocent, wide eyes, she looked at Fairy Xueyun.
“Mother, is Jiang Yao right? Should I also ‘eradicate’ the demons and ‘feed’ the path in the future?”
Fairy Xueyun nodded, pulled her into her arms, and pointed downward.
“Look over there. Those shrouded in black aura are demonic cultivators. You must remember that we and the demonic cultivators are irreconcilable. As Yao’er said, they rely on slaughtering our fellow cultivators to progress. If you ever encounter them, you must strike them down so they cannot harm anyone else.”
Jiang Wan looked at the demonic cultivator wreathed in black mist who had just executed a Foundation Establishment disciple, then looked at her mother with a blank expression.
Stop talking and just attack already!
One of the three cultivators below was already dead, and that was just in the time it took them to talk. If her mother didn’t act soon, the remaining two would perish as well.
【Detected a demonic cultivator slaughtering practitioners to refine a Myriad Soul Banner. As the Supreme Heavenly Demon, you have never approved of such cruel and heaven-defying methods of cultivation. You find the demonic cultivator below unpleasant; eliminate him.】
【Task Difficulty: None.】
【Task Reward: Spacetime Stone.】
Jiang Wan: …
She looked at her mother, then at the battle below, and shouted:
“You wicked demon! Stop, you are not allowed to hurt them!”
The people fighting below didn’t seem to hear her. Jiang Wan turned to her mother.
Fairy Xueyun smiled slightly, reached out to pinch her daughter’s cheek, and asked:
“Does Wanwan want Mother to kill the demon and save those two?”
Jiang Wan nodded like a bobbing chicken. This was her first time facing slaughter since she transmigrated, and that demon had just sliced a cultivator in half.
Dear Mother, early education is fine, but could you consider the mental capacity of a three-year-old?
She glanced at the other two human toddlers, who both looked as if nothing had happened. Was this normal?
Seeing her anxiety, Fairy Xueyun smiled faintly and flew down to hover above them.
Her pressure descended.
“Audacious demon, daring to kill my righteous sect’s cultivators—die!”
Fairy Xueyun waved her hand, and a sword aura condensed from frost effortlessly pierced through the demon.
With the demon dealt with, the two Daoist cultivators hurriedly offered their thanks.
“Many thanks to Fairy Xueyun for your intervention.”
Fairy Xueyun offered a cool, graceful smile.
“I originally did not wish to intervene, as I saw you were capable of handling it. It was my daughter, Jiang Wan; the little girl was distressed to see you being bullied by a demon and urged me to act, so I did.”
The two late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators immediately said: “Many thanks, little Fairy Jiang Wan.”
“To have such a heart for eradicating demons at such a young age, you will surely achieve the Supreme Dao in the future.”
Jiang Wan felt embarrassed. My friend, if you can talk, please say more.
She couldn’t stand to listen anymore, but Fairy Xueyun seemed quite pleased. She casually produced two bottles of pills and bestowed them upon the cultivators.
“I see you are heavily injured. Take these healing pills.”
With that, she drove the white cloud away.
Not to mention the two who gained the pills, even Jiang Wan had received a stone.
【As a Demon Lord, you not only refuse to slaughter the innocent, but you actively stopped a demonic cultivator and executed an evildoer to set things right. The world’s perception of you is beginning to change; your path to redemption has taken another step forward.】
【Task completed.】
【Task Reward: Spacetime Stone.】
Well, she didn’t personally strike, but since her mother did it, it counted toward her progress. The System was indeed the System.
In the following travels, they didn’t encounter any more demons. Generally, unless they were looking for trouble or were driven mad by poverty, demons wouldn't venture into these parts.
On the way back, Fairy Xueyun dropped off little Dongchen at the Myriad Swords Sect, returned Jiang Wan to her residence, and finally took Jiang Yao home.
Seeing Fairy Xueyun about to leave, Jiang Yao quickly stopped her.
“Mother, did you take us out today because of Little Junior Sister? Don’t worry, Mother. Once we go to the Great Myriad Sect to cultivate, I will definitely keep an eye on her and won’t let her turn into a demon.”
Fairy Xueyun nodded with a smile.
“Good, Yao’er is very well-behaved. Go and play, and remember, don’t tell anyone else about this!”
Fairy Xueyun made Jiang Yao take a Heart Demon Oath, ensuring that the secret of Jiang Wan’s potential to become a demon would never reach a third person. In her view, Jiang Yao’s mindset could no longer be treated like that of an ordinary child, so it was better to have the constraint of a Heart Demon Oath.
Seeing her return, Ziyun immediately set the table.
Jiang Wan held a rabbit leg in one hand and a chicken leg in the other, blinking her eyes at Ziyun with a cute smile.
“Sister Ziyun, I heard we’re going to the Great Myriad Sect to cultivate soon. If there are no chicken legs there, how will I live? So, Sister Ziyun, while I’m still here, could you make me five hundred rabbit legs and five hundred chicken legs? I want to put them in my storage bag so I can eat them when I’m hungry, okay?”
Ziyun’s mind raced—five hundred legs of each meant how many rabbits and chickens?