The Villainous Eldest Senior Brother and His Yandere Junior Sisters

"On the day the Demon Sect wreaks havoc on the world, you—you must do your part!"

Hearing this, Lin Xiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Big brother, you can praise my Master all you want, but please don't set me up for a fall, okay? I'm just a temporary, insignificant villain! In the original story, I'm the kind of cannon fodder that doesn't even last three hundred chapters! And now he's talking about 'with great power comes great responsibility'… Are we filming Spider-Man here?

Despite his exasperation, and not wanting to waste time, Lin Xiao simply nodded. "I accept this elder's wise words."

Hardly had his voice faded when, from the end of Flower Street in the distance, a powerful and terrifying aura faintly drifted over. The howling night breeze carried the eerie sounds of ghostly wails and wolf howls, like a spectral army on the march.

Damn it! That's one of the three major bosses of Canglan City—the Great Witch Master of the Ghost Witch Sect from Nanzhao Kingdom, leading his three thousand bronze-armored corpses! They're coming to kill us!

Lin Xiao's heart clenched, and he once again pulled out the Phoenix Soaring Thousand Miles Talisman.

This Great Witch Master's cultivation level had already reached the Nascent Soul Realm; his ghostly arts, capable of reaching into the netherworld, were incomparably powerful! He was far beyond what the Sky Yin Boy from earlier could match.

Just as Lin Xiao was channeling his True Yuan, rubbing the talisman paper, a cold, stern voice suddenly rang out, "You two, go! Leave this to me!"

It was that disheveled man!

His figure flashed, shielding the two behind him. Then, with a tremor of his arm in the void, an entirely jade-green Immortal Sword materialized, tearing through the air!

Instantly, man and sword as one, he leaped into the sky, proactively charging towards the dense, dark mass of the corpse-ghoul army in the distance!

"On Enlightenment Cliff, I honed my sword for sixty years..."

"Today! This Taiyi Profoundly Clear Sword of mine shall finally taste Demon Blood!"

"Jiang Yuan, former Chief Disciple of Qinglan Sect's Dragon Head Peak—today, I enter this battle alone to fight you Demons to the death!"

A commanding and heroic voice, filled with righteous aura, resounded between heaven and earth!

Lin Xiao was greatly shaken, his eyes practically bulging!

Jiang Yuan! No wonder he had such confidence; so it was him! Speaking of which... why isn't this fellow properly participating in the Five Branches Martial Competition and getting slapped in the face by Ye Chen? What's he doing here? After several of my junior sisters and Master... are even minor characters like him living out their own rebellious streak now?

Lin Xiao felt his scalp tingle. He glanced at his junior sister beside him, who was still injured, weighed his options, then gritted his teeth and used the Phoenix Soaring Thousand Miles Talisman to flee far away.

「Six hours later.」

When Immortals fight, mortals suffer. News of the clash between the Righteous Path and Demonic Cultivators in the city spread throughout the night. Instantly, every household in Canglan City bolted its doors, and people hardly dared to breathe. The once-bustling central market square was now deserted, enveloped in an eerie silence.

On a bluestone-paved street, a youth in black clothes ran excitedly forward.

The black ring on the youth's index finger flashed with an unusual light, and an aged voice emanated from it, "Young friend! Keep it up! You're almost there! That aura is getting closer! Kill that Daoist Corpse Demon! The priceless treasure he carries—the Spirit Formation Pearl, passed down from his family's ascended ancestor—will be yours for the taking!"

"Understood! Thank you, Old Shi, for bestowing upon me another fortuitous encounter!"

"This time, I, this Princely Heir, will definitely not disappoint you! I will seize this destined chance!"

A flicker of excitement lit up Ye Chen's eyes as he quickened his pace. Soon, he had crossed three main streets and arrived before a brothel named "Autumn Moon Building."

Now, looking at the scene before him, even Ye Chen, who had weathered many great storms, was profoundly shocked and took a step back. Corpses littered the ground, and blood was everywhere! As far as the eye could see, there was a dense spread of corpses, all belonging to members of the Demon Sect.

This... Who did all this? Zhu Wanning? Or... or that damned scumbag Lin Xiao!?

Ye Chen was greatly shaken and quickly crouched down.

Only then did he realize that the corpse at his feet, though dead for some time, still emanated a potent spiritual power of Witchcraft and Gu. After a brief inspection, he found... the command token of a Great Witch Master of the Ghost Witch Sect hanging from its waist!

My heavens! This guy is one of the Ghost Witch Sect's 'Two Elders in charge of Sect,' the Great Witch Master Li Qianjue—one of the two, greater and lesser, Witch Masters? Rumor had it he'd already entered the Nascent Soul Realm! And yet he ended up like this... a corpse in the street, his life and cultivation extinguished?

Horror gripped Ye Chen.

"Young friend, it's already come to this; why are you still bothering with these irrelevant people!" Another sigh came from the Soul Ring. "We're late again!"

"Ah, this..." Ye Chen's eyelid twitched. "Old Shi, what do you mean by that?"

"The aura of the Spirit Formation Pearl... has completely vanished!"

"In other words... some cultivator from the Righteous Path broke into Canglan City, killed these Demonic Cultivators, and took the Spirit Formation Pearl!"

"What!?"

A sudden, ominous premonition welled up in Ye Chen's heart. He scrambled over the corpses, searching everywhere, and actually found a purple jade token! Conspicuously engraved on it were three large characters: "Divine Phoenix Peak"!

It's him! It's him! It really is him!

Instantly, Ye Chen's face turned deathly pale. He stumbled back several steps, nearly collapsing to the ground.

That bastard must have obtained some heaven-defying fortuitous encounter again! To suppress and kill a great Nascent Soul cultivator with a mere Golden Core cultivation level! And he even snatched my Spirit Formation Pearl! This... this is already the second time that bastard has intercepted my destined chance! Old Shi! I'm getting this feeling more and more strongly now...

At this moment, the youth, utterly despairing, wailed to the heavens, "I've always been living in his shadow!"

"Alas." A heavy sigh also came from the ring.

Just then, a voice, faint as a thread, drifted from the distance, "Is that a junior disciple of our Qinglan Sect? Quick... quickly go... Leave Canglan City! The Eight Great Demon Sects have formed an alliance. Their reinforcements... will arrive immediately!"