Chapter 13 013 This is our Senior Sister of Mount Shu

Dense raindrops poured down, pattering against the oil-paper umbrella, creating a small, windless world beneath. Clumps of dark and white lotus blossoms on the umbrella flickered in and out of focus, as if they were about to spread, like the pool of dark red blood that had spread on the execution platform.

Lu Yuanyuan held the umbrella in one hand and reached into her bosom with the other, pulling out a small jade bottle.

If you want to get closer to someone as quickly as possible, befriending them when everyone else has abandoned them is a good method.

The current cultivation world discriminates against half-demons from top to bottom. Let alone offering help in times of need, it would be considered good if they didn't kick him when he was down.

She refused to follow the crowd and went against the tide to help Duan Lansheng.

In the future, when he looks back on everything that happened today, he will probably think of her as a true friend who stood by him through thick and thin.

Having just arrived at Mount Shu, she didn't have anything of value. The elixir in this jade bottle was called the Heavenly Ginseng Pill, made from ginseng grown on Mount Shu, which could replenish vital energy.

These ginsengs, growing in places rich in spiritual energy, absorb the essence of heaven and earth year after year, making them far more potent than ginseng native to the mortal realm. However, in the cultivation world, they are not considered rare or precious. Therefore, Fu Luan generously gave her a whole bottle, telling her to chew it like calcium tablets.

Lu Yuanyuan pulled out the stopper from the jade bottle, poured it into her palm, and a dark-colored elixir rolled into her hand.

Just then, something unexpected happened—Duan Lansheng, kneeling on the execution platform, suddenly flashed with white light, and then he vanished from her sight, leaving only a pile of disheveled clothes on the ground. Beneath the clothes, a small hill rose up.

Lu Yuanyuan froze, squatted down, held her breath, and gently lifted her clothes, revealing the scene beneath.

Inside the clothes, a fox lay prone.

Not yet a fully-fledged, alluring fox demon, she looked about the size of a cat. Her ears drooped, her eyes closed, their shape more seductive and upturned than when she was human. Her fur was snow-white, without a single blemish, the tips gleaming silver, and she had a thick, bushy guard of fur. A section of her fox tail peeked out from the edge of her clothes, soaked with rainwater, still quite thick, demonstrating just how dense her fur was. However, her back was covered in blood, her skin torn and bleeding—a painful sight to behold.

"...Duan Lansheng, hey, are you still awake?"

Lu Yuanyuan frowned, extended a finger, and nudged his fox ears, trying to wake him. But he didn't respond after she called him for a long time.

That won't do. She's already come all this way and has taken the medicine; she can't leave empty-handed.

It seems we have no choice but to try anything, even if it seems hopeless.

Just think of it as giving medicine to a sick dog. After all, foxes are canines.

Lu Yuanyuan steadied herself, tucked the oil-paper umbrella between her neck and shoulder, moved a little closer, and reached out to pinch Duan Lansheng's upper chin from above. Her palm rubbed against his dark nose, feeling the moist, warm breath, slightly faster than usual, on her skin. Simultaneously, her other hand exerted force from below, slowly prying open his tightly closed mouth and inserting the Heavenly Ginseng Pill.

Before I could even feed it in, I felt pain in my finger.

Duan Lansheng didn't know when he woke up. His sharp fox fangs clenched tightly, preventing her from penetrating deeper into his mouth. He arched his body, revealing an aggressive posture, and emitted a low, threatening growl from his throat. The sound was clearly not that of a pet cat or dog, but rather the cry of a wild beast, sending chills down one's spine.

Monsters whose true form is an animal lose control of their human form when they are physically weak. Sometimes, they are even forced to reveal their true form. At such times, their animalistic instincts and vigilance increase dramatically, and they will generally hide to avoid being seen by unfamiliar people or monsters. This is because it's a signal that their ability to fight has greatly diminished, practically screaming "I'm weak now, come and eat me!" on their foreheads, and it also makes them feel extremely ashamed—like a human who has learned to wear clothes being forced to run naked.

Lu Yuanyuan gasped in pain, but instead of backing down, she became furious. Instead of pulling her hand away, she threw aside the oil-paper umbrella, pressed her body against Duan Lansheng, and forcefully pried open his mouth. Ignoring the resistance of his rough fox tongue, she shoved the pill down his throat and forced him to swallow it.

To prevent him from vomiting, Lu Yuanyuan knelt on the ground, pinched his fox mouth tightly, stared at him intently, and repeated, "Eat it! This is a Heavenly Ginseng Pill, it's medicine!"

The man and the fox faced off for a long time. In the end, Duan Lansheng was defeated due to the difference in their size. A cool, bitter taste spread on his tongue, and he let out a low murmur from deep in his throat. His stiff neck slowly relaxed.

After all that commotion, Lu Yuanyuan was exhausted and withdrew her hand.

Perhaps realizing she meant no harm, this time, when she withdrew her fingers, Duan Lansheng didn't bite her again. Instead, she curled up as if she had fainted.

Just then, a small figure hurriedly waded through the water, held an oil-paper umbrella over her head, and said, "Lu Yuanyuan, are you crazy? This is a half-demon! You kindly helped him, but he doesn't appreciate it and even bites you. Why do you care about him? Come with me now, don't associate with this kind of person."

Lu Yuanyuan shook her head, her hand pressed against her knee, beads of blood from her fingertips seeping into her skirt: "I think not all monsters are bad. There are bad people among humans, and there are good monsters among monsters. If he hadn't saved me in the mortal world, I would have been dead long ago."

As a modern person who believes in equality for all and has not been brainwashed by the racial hierarchy of the cultivation world, this is her true thought.

But she knew clearly that in this life, her purpose in saying such things in front of Duan Lansheng was no longer so pure.

"You, you, you... Sigh, whatever, go ahead and repay the favor if you want, you'll regret it sooner or later." Fu Luan pouted, looking like she couldn't reason with her: "Your health has only just recovered, if you get caught in the rain like this and get sick when you get back, it's your own fault."

Fu Luan's words came true.

When she returned home that night, Lu Yuanyuan developed a high fever.

This mortal body is still too weak.

Fortunately, while forcibly feeding Duan Lansheng the medicine, she took the opportunity to absorb a lot of luck. Now, her life points are 50/100, so even if she gets sick, she won't feel too bad.

Of course, she also knew that she couldn't rely on absorbing good fortune to survive indefinitely. A tree that leans on will fall, a person who relies on will run away. She still needed to cultivate herself properly and find her own foundation.

Her character completion rate jumped to 15% after she joined the Shu Mountain sect. Indeed, this was a very important turning point in her life.

That day, after dark, Lu Yuanyuan, with her long black hair loose, lay on the bed in her former cave dwelling reading a book.

It's so late, Fu Luan must have left long ago.

After lying down for a while, Lu Yuanyuan felt a little thirsty. She rubbed her eyes, put the book aside, lifted the blanket, and prepared to get out of bed to pour herself a glass of water.

Suddenly, she heard a movement from the barrier outside, along with two indistinct and low voices. One belonged to Fu Luan, while the other voice was so soft and androgynous that it was strangely familiar.

"...Okay, I understand."

"She got caught in a downpour today, and she's already messing around with things before the residual poison has been cleared. Mortals are such a hassle..."

"It's alright, let me take a look first."

Who would come over at this hour? It's so late.

Lu Yuanyuan looked in surprise in the direction of the sound. When she saw who it was, she was shocked, her foot slipped, and she fell to the ground in front of the bed.

She was greeted by...someone she never expected.

The man casually took off his straw hat and walked towards her.

She was a woman in her mid-twenties, with a deep-set face, a slender figure, snow-white skin, and pale brown eyes. Even from a distance, she exuded a sense of oppression.

Because she is too tall.

As the other person entered the inner hall, they saw Lu Yuanyuan, who should have been on the couch, sitting on the ground, staring blankly at them. They raised an eyebrow slightly.

Caught in the other person's gaze, Lu Yuanyuan lowered her head, her fingers gripping the steps tightly. She casually moved back to the bed, but her heart was in turmoil.

“Yuanjun, she is the mortal woman on the visiting card.” Fu Luan did not notice Lu Yuanyuan’s strangeness. Her face was red, and she was obviously quite admiring of the woman in front of her. After speaking, he turned around and introduced her to Lu Yuanyuan: “Lu Yuanyuan, this is our senior sister of Danqing Peak of Shu Mountain, Yin Xiaozhu.”

Yin Xiaozhu.

Lu Yuanyuan's eyelashes trembled slightly.

No one had more complex feelings about this name than her.

Yin Xiaozhu's father was the sect leader of Shushan Sect, belonging to the strongest branch of the Shushan Sword Sect—the Sword Sect. However, she did not become a sword cultivator, but instead joined the Danqing Peak, which mainly focused on alchemy cultivation.

At the same time, she is also the white moonlight that Duan Lansheng loved in both his past and present lives.

Legend has it that when the sect leader's wife was pregnant, she was abducted by a demon. By the time the sect leader found his wife and daughter, his wife had already passed away, leaving only an infant girl. It could be said that Yin Xiaozhu was born with an irreconcilable hatred for demons. But remarkably, she harbored no prejudice against Duan Lansheng. Beautiful, kind-hearted, academically excellent, gentle, and compassionate towards the weak… she practically embodied all the virtues of a perfect white moonlight in a novel.

Not to mention Duan Lansheng, most of the male disciples of the entire Shu Mountain sect secretly admired her.

However, Lu Yuanyuan didn't have many memories of spending time with her, and her understanding of her mostly came from the descriptions in the original work.

First, due to the requirement that "the male lead must be a virgin," the original author, while giving Duan Lansheng the setting of having a crush on the senior sister, didn't write any intimate scenes between them, keeping their feelings within the bounds of propriety. More importantly, in the previous life, because Lu Yuanyuan twisted the plot, the real little fox female lead never appeared. The entangled love triangle between Duan Lansheng, the female lead, and the senior sister had no place to develop.

Therefore, Lu Yuanyuan never realized that Duan Lansheng liked her senior sister in her first playthrough, nor was she able to extract more information from the original text in her second playthrough.

In her past life, the longest period of interaction between her and Yin Xiaozhu was the six months before she was murdered by her husband to attain enlightenment...

Lu Yuanyuan was momentarily distracted when Yin Xiaozhu arrived in front of her and gently sat on the edge of the bed. He had a faint fragrance of sandalwood on him, and his smile was warm and his attitude was friendly: "Don't be afraid, give me your hand, I'll take your pulse first."

Lu Yuanyuan stared intently at the hand that the other person was extending to her.

Yin Xiaozhu's hands were large with long, slender fingers that could completely envelop her hands.

She wore snow-white gloves and seemed to dislike contact with people.

Lu Yuanyuan stared at the hand, and an idea that had flashed through her mind a few nights ago was starting to stir again.

For the next few days, she kept thinking about how to make Duan Lansheng unhappy. Since he was now secretly in love with her senior sister, if she could get closer to her, build a good relationship, and then find an opportunity to badmouth him to her, wouldn't that also hurt Duan Lansheng to some extent?

Judging from their brief six-month interaction in their previous life, Yin Xiaozhu seemed exceptionally patient and willing to take extra care of vulnerable women. So, as she offered her hand to Yin Xiaozhu, Lu Yuanyuan gritted her teeth, deciding to test him first. She pretended to be frail and unsteady, leaning against him and resting her head on his chest.

Yin Xiaozhu suddenly paused.