Chapter 6

No matter how unwilling Ji Linglu was, she still had to obey Senior Sister’s orders and honestly go to Jishan Hall to register her name, making it clear that from now on, she was capable of taking on important responsibilities.

On the way back to Mingguang Peak, Ji Linglu still looked puffed up with anger. She tugged at Yun Ningqing’s sleeve and followed closely behind her step by step.

Ji Linglu knew this matter was unavoidable. Acting like this was merely because she wanted Yun Ningqing’s attention.

She had already been obedient and listened properly. If she still could not get Senior Sister’s reward, then would she not have busied herself for nothing?

Yet the system was still there, excited beyond belief, feeling that under the protagonist shou’s guidance, the great mission of reforming the vicious female supporting character had finally taken its first step!

Even the most stubborn person lost in obsession would obediently lay down their weapon and surrender once they met their natural counter, would they not?

The protagonist shou, forever a god!

This was not one small step for Ji Linglu. This was one giant leap for the cultivation world!

History was changed by one tiny action after another just like this. If even history could be changed, if cause, effect, life, and death could be reversed, then what was a mere vicious female supporting character!

One had to know that for a grand orthodox sect like Qingxuan Sect, aside from the sect’s internal affairs, the missions in the Administrative Hall outside the sect were mostly things like subduing demons and eliminating devils, wiping out evil cultivators, providing relief to the mortal world when it suffered natural disasters and man-made calamities, purifying areas eroded by demonic qi or yin qi… In short, they were as glorious, bright, and righteous as they could possibly be. Doing [bailiantales.com]missions with a group of similarly justice-filled righteous cultivators would definitely be able to influence Ji Linglu’s hopelessly vicious brain.

The influence of an educational environment on a child was still very great!

Ji Linglu felt that it was sick, and seriously so. One sentence from her ended the match. “Should I devote myself completely to the righteous path until my dying breath, then wait for them to turn around and bite me and Senior Sister?”

She was not some fool who remembered the food but forgot the beating. The lesson from her previous life had been deep enough. How could she possibly repeat the same mistakes!

Never mind that the righteous path and demonic path had joined forces to besiege her at Baima Pass. Even without that matter, she already resented the righteous path for stopping her and Senior Sister from being together.

Ji Linglu’s world was just that narrow. Aside from Yun Ningqing, everyone else was either someone still under observation and temporarily not worth killing, or an enemy who should die early and be reincarnated early. There was no third option.

The system wanted to say something, but was blocked by its built-in safety program. What reached Ji Linglu’s ears was an extremely piercing static buzz.

—Forbidden from revealing content beyond the current reform milestone to the host.

The system hemmed and hawed. [But in the end, Qingxuan Sect didn’t get involved.]

By now, Ji Linglu had already linked her arm around Yun Ningqing’s. Hearing this, she sneered inwardly. “Yes. They merely ignored it and tacitly allowed it.”

[You can’t put it that way…]

Ji Linglu interrupted it. “Enough. Don’t mention these disgusting things again. When I’m in a bad mood, I want to kiss someone, and then you’ll be in a bad mood too.”

The system became obedient in one second. After all, it was not good for the reform progress to keep achieving huge regressions!

It was the vicious female supporting character reform system, meant to remove the stumbling block so the protagonist gong and protagonist shou could end up together. It was not a matchmaker system creating all sorts of opportunities for the vicious female supporting character and the protagonist shou to kiss!

Bad host! She was clearly the one who wanted to kiss the protagonist shou, yet she still threw the blame onto the system’s head!

The system did not even have shoulders. How could it possibly carry such a huge black pot?

Ji Linglu drew out her voice and called Yun Ningqing, “Senior Sister.”

She continued pushing her luck, leaning half her body’s weight onto Yun Ningqing.

Yun Ningqing turned her head and looked back at her with a smile. “What’s going on with you today?”

“What?” Ji Linglu did not understand.

[What!] The system’s imagination opened [unauthorized copy]wide in a place where it should not have been clever. [Could it be that the protagonist shou saw through you and realized you’re Ji Linglu version 2.0?]

Ji Linglu was too lazy to pay attention to an idiot.

Yun Ningqing exerted some strength and supported Ji Linglu, who was swaying and hanging off her. Then she carried her on her back and walked step by step back toward Mingguang Peak. “Wanting to act spoiled and be close to Senior Sister is very normal. There’s no need to hesitate.”

“Lulu can do whatever she wants. The only thing you cannot do is become distant from Senior Sister. Understand?”

Normally, if Ji Linglu wanted to climb onto Yun Ningqing, she did not need to do it in three steps at all. If she dared to think it, she dared to do it. When would she ever consider so much?

This sticky, clingy scene between the Senior and Junior Sisters of Mingguang Peak had long since become nothing unusual in Qingxuan Sect. The people of the sect were already tired of seeing it.

If it had happened once or twice, people might have said something. But these two were far too used to doing as they pleased. After all, before Ji Linglu was ten years old, whenever she left Mingguang Peak, her feet had never once touched the ground. Being carried on someone’s back was already child’s play. If the two of them ever walked one in front of the other, that would be what people found strange.

So there was simply no such thing as fearing that others would see them.

Ji Linglu fell silent. Her rebirth had still affected her in the end. It was all the ghostly thing’s fault for babbling irritating words beside her ear, making Senior Sister misunderstand and think she did not like being close to her!

How could that be possible!

She used practical action to answer Yun Ningqing’s question.

Ji Linglu wrapped her arms around Yun Ningqing’s neck and gazed at her for a while. Feeling the vitality beating beneath that slender neck, she seemed to be bewitched. She pressed her fingertip against Yun Ningqing’s throat, and her face could not help moving closer as well.

Her damp, hot breath fell against the skin of Yun Ningqing’s neck, stirring up shivers.

Yun Ningqing felt ticklish and raised her chin slightly, unable to help swallowing.

Ji Linglu’s breath hitched, then grew rapid again.

She was Yunzhong Jun, who had done everything with Yun Ningqing over two hundred years. She clearly knew exactly how wonderful Fairy Ningqing was between the sheets. When their bodies leaned against and pressed close to each other, gentleness ceased to exist, leaving only the most primal desire. It could truly be called layered hills of hairpins gleaming and dimming, cloudlike hair brushing against snow-white fragrant cheeks. Every part was beautiful. Every part was exquisite.

Now, seeing Yun Ningqing frown in discomfort before her eyes, Ji Linglu only felt that two hundred years of cultivation and tempering vanished into nothing in an instant. The fact that she had not immediately bitten the throat rolling back and forth in her heart already proved her self-control was powerful enough.

Yun Ningqing smiled with curved brows. “Very good. It seems Lulu has thoroughly understood what Senior Sister meant.”

Ji Linglu huffed unhappily against her.

Perhaps Yun Ningqing thought she was throwing a small temper, but only Ji Linglu herself knew she was unsatisfied with desire.

Yun Ningqing was very surprised. “Today’s Lulu isn’t an egret. Are you a little pig?”

Ji Linglu felt the tips of her teeth itch terribly. She very much wanted to gnaw on her Senior Sister’s fair, delicate cheek and leave behind streaks of bright red bite marks and kiss marks. Unfortunately, Yunzhong Jun had dominated an entire lifetime with an unyielding pride. She had plenty of lustful thoughts and courage, but she was afraid Senior Sister would truly become angry with her.

“Then I’m also the little pig who is the closest to you in the whole world.”

Yun Ningqing weighed the solid little pig on her back. “Come on. Let’s go home. It’s time for Senior Sister to feed the little pig.”

Ji Linglu felt annoyed for one second, then immediately coaxed herself back into a good mood. She chattered away to Yun Ningqing about what she wanted to eat for dinner, her understanding of sword techniques, and so on.

Yun Ningqing was twenty-nine years older than Ji Linglu. When she first picked Ji Linglu up, Ji Linglu had still been a little baby in swaddling clothes. But in the cultivation world, where people easily lived for hundreds or thousands of years, this age gap was nothing. In essence, they were still peers, young cultivators of the same generation.

But Ji Linglu was a special case. She had over two hundred years more experience than the current Yun Ningqing. If she wanted to show some improvement in cultivation and make Yun Ningqing happy, it was simply child’s play.

Sure enough, Yun Ningqing’s brows relaxed. Her smile was like a breeze brushing over one’s face, and she praised Ji Linglu again and again.

The future Fairy Ningqing was, without question, a peerlessly beautiful woman of unmatched grace. She had a pair of distant-mountain brows that were dark without being drawn, slowly slanting into her temples, carrying a natural scholarly air. When listening to Ji Linglu speak, she would slightly tilt her head, her gaze drifting lightly to Ji Linglu’s chin, smiling from time to time along with Ji Linglu’s words, so focused it was as if only the two of them remained between heaven and earth.

The system could not stand seeing an old cabbage stalk pretending to be tender. [Shameless wretch!]

As usual, Ji Linglu ignored it, not giving the ghostly thing a single glance.

A few loose strands of Yun Ningqing’s hair fell from her temples. Neither long nor short, they brushed against Ji Linglu’s cheek. When the wind came, they floated up gently, then fell gently again.

Ji Linglu’s eyes were enchanted by it, and she only felt her heart begin to itch along with it. She helped Yun Ningqing tuck the loose hair behind her ear, then blew lightly against her ear, satisfied as she admired her own handiwork. “There. Now it’s fixed. It won’t fall again.”

“Your hair won’t fall, but you’re about to.” Yun Ningqing set her down and patted Ji Linglu’s dazed little face. “We’re home.”

Ji Linglu stood at the foot of the mountain, looking at the three large characters carved on the stone stele—Mingguang Peak—then glanced toward the distant mountaintop, very much in disbelief. “Senior Sister isn’t carrying Lulu back to the room?”

Yun Ningqing smiled. “I thought Lulu would rather take a walk with Senior Sister.”

“A walk after a meal can count as digestion. But right now, my stomach is empty. Wouldn’t a walk before eating only make me hungrier?”

That was what she said, but it did not stop Ji Linglu from taking several big steps up the stairs. With her hands clasped behind her back, she turned around and looked down from above at the beauty standing in the dusk, who seemed even more translucent and lustrous. “Yun Qingqing, your family’s little pig is hungry. Hurry up and follow.”

In the cultivation world, for a Golden Core cultivator who should have long since practiced fasting to cook for a tiny Foundation Establishment cultivator was such a complete reversal of heavenly order that only Mingguang Peak had this one household. There was no other branch.

“All right. Senior Sister will listen to Lulu.”

Ji Linglu waited for Yun Ningqing to walk up, casually playing ​read the original at bailiantales.com​with the jade pendant at Yun Ningqing’s waist. She raised her eyes, smiled, and asked, “Why am I not a little pig again?”

Yun Ningqing looked gently at Ji Linglu, who was not walking properly. “I’m afraid that after I finish cooking, my Lulu won’t do me the honor of eating.”

Ji Linglu blinked, and the cinnabar mole seemed to flutter with her expression. Her phoenix eyes became even livelier. She waved a finger in front of Yun Ningqing. “Wrong, wrong. Lulu already belongs to your family. I can’t run even if I want to. Of course I’ll eat the food you make every day.”

Yun Ningqing pondered for a moment. “I still want the little pig. Little pigs are obedient.”

If she had to cook for her every day, then at least a little pig would eat whatever it was given. It would not be like a certain little egret, who was picky and refused to eat, doing nothing but make Senior Sister’s heart ache.

—A little pig also only needed to hide in Senior Sister’s arms. If it did not want to walk on its own, Senior Sister would carry it. There would be no need for it to work hard flapping its wings and flying high.

“…”

The two of them talked and laughed as they walked toward the mountaintop.

On the first day after her rebirth, spring was warm, the scenery bright, and all was calm.