Chapter 103 Junior Sister Switches to the Path of Ruthlessness 14 Pillow
"Lin Yuwan, what's with that expression?"
She shook the water droplets off her hands, feeling annoyed, and said, "When did it become your place to tell me what to do?"
Lin Yuwan held out her hand: "Demon Core."
Yun Chiyi turned her head away: "I regret it, I don't plan to give it to you."
She appeared indifferent, but was inwardly furious: "You need to compensate me with a set of teacups and a change of clothes."
Lin Yuwan asked, "Weren't these two items among the gifts you received these past few days, Senior Sister?"
Seeing his cold expression, arms crossed, head slightly tilted, and these words spoken, Yun Chiyi wasn't angry anymore. She poured herself another cup of tea: "Oh, Wanwan, are you jealous?"
"Senior sister is overthinking it." Lin Yuwan's chest heaved. If she wouldn't pour him water, he would pour it himself.
"You're often saying one thing and meaning another, and I can't quite understand what you're saying anymore. I'm not in a good mood tonight, so please come back another day."
Lin Yuwan swirled her teacup, her gaze languid: "You didn't want to see me, and you still want me to come back next time?"
Yun Chiyi said, "Hmm, I don't want to today."
She pointed to the door: "Get out."
The door frame swayed, and a person crept furtively against the door: "Senior sister, please let me in to hide, they're going to beat me up."
Lin Yuwan recognized Wan Qingyun's voice and asked directly, "Why is he still here?"
Yun Chiyi also wanted to know why he had persuaded the other senior brothers.
Lin Yuwan remained seated: "Didn't Senior Sister say that one shouldn't just enter a woman's boudoir? How come he sounds like he can come and go as he pleases?"
Wan Qingyun frantically pounded on the door: "Senior sister, help!"
Yun Chiyi stood up and pulled Lin Yuwan to the window: "Get out. If he sees you in my room, I'll have to waste my breath explaining."
Lin Yuwan, with her back against the wall, said, "Fine, if you want me to leave, Senior Sister has to say a few nice words."
Dream on! Yun Chiyi slapped him out the window and let the wailing man in.
Wan Qingyun rolled on the ground, hurriedly closed the door, and looked in astonishment at the person behind Yun Chiyi: "Why is he here?"
He moved quickly, silently climbing back up. Yun Chiyi sat back down at the table, at a loss for what to do: "Never mind him. What happened to you this time?"
Lin Yuwan also asked, "Yeah, why are you making such a fuss all the time?"
Wan Qingyun clutched her chest: "That day, in order to stay, I gave them the glass lamp and the three-green umbrella. They suspected that I had other valuables on me, and just now they locked me in the room to search me."
He reminded Yun Chiyi, who raised her eyes and asked, "So, you have other divine artifacts on you?"
Wan Qingyun glanced at Lin Yuwan, wanting to whisper something in Yun Chiyi's ear, but Lin Yuwan blocked her with her sword sheath: "She can hear even if you stay far away."
"No, this is my secret, the fewer people who know, the better."
Yun Chiyi urged, "Speak quickly, or you'll be leaving."
Wan Qingyun trembled and honestly confessed: "Once when I went down the mountain to buy vegetables, an old man gave me a basket of things. At first, I thought they were just some worthless handicrafts, but later I found out that there were Three Green Umbrellas, Glass Lamps, Demon-Locking Locks, Immortal-Binding Ropes, Qilin Shields and other such things in there."
Yun Chiyi was filled with envy and jealousy at the sight of such a powerful cheat code.
Lin Yuwan kept a close eye on Yun Chiyi's expression as she listened. Despite hearing such a strange story, Yun Chiyi remained calm, lowering her eyes and slowly sipping her tea. She was indeed a promising candidate for the Path of Ruthlessness.
"Did you bring the Immortal Binding Rope? What grade is it?" Lin Yuwan asked.
Yun Chiyi immediately sensed something was wrong and spoke up to stop him: "Wan Qingyun, don't give it to him."
Wan Qingyun flipped through the brocade pouch: "The Immortal Binding Rope is useless to me. Fellow Daoist Lin, you can exchange it with me for spirit stones. I'll only agree if you have a lot. Others can't buy it even if they want to."
Lin Yuwan waved her hand, and a pile of top-grade spirit stones appeared on the table, spilling out in front of Yun Chiyi.
She looked coldly at Wan Qingyun: "Didn't I tell you not to give it to him?"
Wan Qingyun had already put the spirit stones into her bosom, and handed the Immortal Binding Rope to Lin Yuwan with a smile. Then, she pretended not to have heard Yun Chiyi's words and asked innocently, "Senior Sister, what did you just say? I didn't quite hear you."
Afraid of being scolded, he covered his head and quickly changed the subject: "Fellow Daoist Lin, why are you so fond of this Immortal Binding Rope?"
Lin Yuwan gave a half-smile: "It's useful."
It's best not to use it on her.
As night deepened, Yun Chiyi began to usher out the guests.
"You two, go back to where you came from."
Wan Qingyun shook her head vigorously: "They are looking for me outside, but they don't dare to come in. I'm not going out."
Yun Chiyi stared intently at Lin Yuwan: "What about you? Aren't you leaving yet?"
Lin Yuwan said, "What you said is strange, senior sister. It's not convenient for him to share a room with you. I'd better stay."
Wan Qingyun immediately stepped forward and said, "Senior sister, please help me again. If I get caught, I'm afraid of the pain and I can't keep my mouth shut. I might accidentally... tell people about meeting Fellow Daoist Lin in your room."
Then, Wan Qingyun's shoulder was tugged by an invisible spiritual energy.
"Ingratitude." Yun Chiyi turned off the light and lowered the curtain.
In the darkness, Lin Yuwan and Wan Qingyun looked at each other in bewilderment.
Wan Qingyun muttered, "It was my senior sister who taught me to prioritize survival in a crisis. She taught me well."
Wan Qingyun groped her way to the closet in the dark, took out the quilt, and made a bed next to Yun Chiyi's bed.
He also handed Lin Yuwan a pillow: "If any danger occurs, Senior Sister can protect us immediately."
Lin Yuwan stretched out her long legs and sat on the quilt, taking up all the space: "I'm not sleeping with you."
Wan Qingyun asked, puzzled, "I made the bed. If you don't want to sleep here, where else would you like to sleep?"
"Shut up." Yun Chiyi's voice came from above.
Wan Qingyun was flexible and adaptable; she snuggled up to a corner of the blanket and lay down to sleep, soon starting to snore.
Lin Yuwan leaned against the edge of the bed. Unable to bear it any longer, she first muted him. Seeing his sleeping back also annoyed her, so she simply cast an invisibility spell. Now she felt much better, out of sight, out of mind.
He sat quietly, parting the bed curtains with his hand, making everything in the darkness appear as if it were night. Yun Chiyi lay on her side, fully clothed, her sleeping face serene, her breathing shallow. He took her hand and examined it carefully in the darkness for a long time. Her hand was always slender and white, soft and delicate to the touch.
Yun Chiyi suddenly opened her eyes: "Can't sleep?"
Lin Yuwan used her hand as a pillow, placing it under her cheek. Her long eyelashes brushed against Yun Chiyi's palm, making Yun Chiyi's arm itch, but he didn't say anything.
Yun Chiyi said, "You're going to make my hands numb by pressing like that."
She got out of bed and saw him sitting on the floor with his legs bent.
"If you feel like you have nothing to do, come out for a walk with me."
Lin Yuwan looked up at her: "Where are you going?"
Yun Chiyi withdrew her hand: "You'll know when you get there."
The two moved nimbly, climbing out of the window and downstairs.
The street was silent, the cold moon was hidden in the clouds, and Yun Chiyi's blue dress seemed to be bathed in a clear, cold light as she walked slowly ahead.
“I’ve been asking around these past few days. There’s an old Taoist temple outside the city with an alchemy furnace inside. Let’s go there to refine elixirs.”
"There are many disciples from the immortal families in Linhai Town. We must not let them discover even the slightest clue about the Gu poison."
The disciples of the immortal sect despise demons and evil spirits; if they were to join forces to hunt them down, the two would find it difficult to escape.
She added, "Wan Qingyun is inside; no one will know we came out."
Lin Yuwan: "Isn't Senior Sister using him?"
Yun Chiyi countered, "Isn't he using me?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Yuwan resumed her humble and polite demeanor towards the other members of the Cangfeng Sect, a hint of a smile appearing in her eyes and brows.
His smile was completely different; tall and elegant, dressed in blue, he possessed the grace of bamboo and the resilience of a pine tree.
Yun Chiyi glanced at him again and inexplicably sensed that he was in a good mood at the moment, and even his smile didn't seem fake.
After arriving at the Taoist temple outside the city, Lin Yuwan set up a barrier around it and sat on the table watching Yun Chiyi refine pills according to the long scroll.
After much hesitation, Lin Yuwan finally asked, "Senior Sister, is this your first time refining pills?"
A tattered scroll floated in the air. Yun Chiyi frowned slightly, her beautiful eyes fixed on the words on the scroll. After a while, she lightly stroked her fingertips, unfolding the scroll further.
"You can't go wrong by following the steps."
Lin Yuwan's eyelids twitched: "I'll do it."
Yun Chiyi put away the long scroll: "This is my first time refining the Hundred Tree Demon Core, but it's largely the same and can be adjusted slightly."
Lin Yuwan said, "It's not like you're the one eating it."
Yun Chiyi smiled and said, "Afraid I'll poison you to death?"
She then said, "Don't worry, it won't happen. If you die, I won't live for more than three days. I'm worried about letting you refine pills."
Yes, she would think twice before acting because of the heart-locking curse on her wrist.
Lin Yuwan felt relieved and sat down on the table. Seeing her pacing back and forth in front of the alchemy furnace, her thoughts drifted back to the cave where she had been in seclusion.
Back then, she wasn't forced to cultivate, so she would idly pick flowers from the water and play house. The corners of the cave were filled with withered flowers she had discarded.
He passed by and saw it, feeling extremely annoyed. He stomped on it several times until the withered branches and leaves were crushed into powder.
Yun Chiyi grew up being pampered like a star. Chang Heng wanted to use her to raise Gu, so he doted on her and was afraid that she would get hurt. Even the disciple's robes that she changed out of were washed and returned to her by Bai Qi.
The same is true now. She joined the Qingming Sect as a junior sister, and all her senior brothers served her diligently, afraid that she would suffer any injustice on her training journey.
Senior sister, your life has always been exceptionally good, and your luck is truly remarkable.
Lin Yuwan stared at her beautiful back and suddenly said, "Senior sister, I went back to the foot of the mountain to look for you."
Yun Chiyi paused in her steps. Had it come to the point where they could be completely honest with each other?
"Don't distract me, you can talk about it later. But I want to make it clear first, I went back too, and it was you who broke your promise."
He jumped off the table, came to her side, and said to himself, "Back then, I went through all sorts of hardships to go back, just to see if you would keep your promise, but unfortunately I didn't see you. I knew you were still alive, so I searched and searched, thinking that one day I would find you and ask you, how could you be so heartless back then?"
He stood beside her, a sinister glint in his eyes: "Senior sister, I often think, if only I hadn't gone back to find you that day, I would have let you fend for yourself and die in the fire."
"I shouldn't have put the heart-locking spell on you, because then I wouldn't be able to kill you."
Yun Chiyi was pouring spiritual energy into the alchemy furnace and couldn't get away, so she replied, "It sounds like I should thank you for your unintentional mistake."
Lin Yuwan chuckled softly, hugged her from behind, wrapped her arms around her waist, and rested her chin on her slender shoulder, her hot breath lingering around her neck.
"Senior sister, however, I don't want to kill you now; that would be too boring."
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