After transmigrating As The Sickly Junior Sister - Chapter 11

“Junior Sister Jiang Li.”

The person who had come was precisely Ye Qingruo.

Seeing this, Jiang Li quickly poured two cups of tea. “Young Sect Master, please sit.” Talk about Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives. This saved her some trouble. The person herself had come to her door.

The two sat facing each other. Jiang Li waited for Ye Qingruo to speak, while Ye Qingruo fixed her gaze on her and remained silent for a long time.

Jiang Li: “…”

Were they competing in patience here? Fine. Her curiosity was stronger. She admitted defeat.

“May I ask why the Young Sect Master has come to see me?”

Ye Qingruo did not speak. She slowly stretched out her hand and opened her palm. In her palm lay a red pill.

Jiang Li froze. It looked strangely familiar. She had only just taken one.

Could this be the one Xiao Hu had given her before? How had it ended up in Ye Qingruo’s hand?

Several questions surfaced in her heart one after another. Jiang Li pretended to be ignorant. “What is this?”

Ye Qingruo’s lips curved slightly. A beauty smiling should have been a pleasing sight, but Jiang Li only felt guilty. Under the pressure, she almost could not help looking away.

The two looked at each other silently for a moment. Then Ye Qingruo spoke.

“When I first picked up this pill, there was still demonic aura attached to it.”

At that time, her desire had been difficult to suppress, and she had nearly committed a grave mistake while losing control. After waking up and confirming that there was nothing wrong with her body, she had carefully inspected the room.

That was how she discovered this red pill on the bed. Naturally, there had been no demonic aura on it, but that did not stop her from using it as an opportunity to test Jiang Li’s truth.

Jiang Li forced herself to stay calm and said with an innocent expression, “Is that so? Young Sect Master is so impressive.”

“This pill belongs to Junior Sister Jiang Li, doesn’t it? It has your aura on it.” Ye Qingruo’s tone was certain as she looked straight into Jiang Li’s eyes.

Whether Jiang Li admitted it or not, this person could not remain in Qingxi Sect.

Jiang Li’s breath caught, and her heart clenched tightly. Was this woman a dog or something?

She could smell demonic aura and even smell Jiang Li’s aura!

Before Jiang Li could think of how to deny it, Ye Qingruo put down the pill and continued guessing, “Junior Sister Jiang Li, you have demonic aura on you.” Her voice was very faint, but the words she spoke were like a bolt from the blue.

They directly struck Jiang Li until she was charred on the outside and tender on the inside.

Had she smelled that too?

Jiang Li nearly could not help grabbing her own collar and sniffing it. Had Senior Phoenix’s seal failed?

Had her… demonic aura leaked out?

“Young Sect Master must be joking. I am human. Where would demonic aura come from?” Jiang Li very much wanted to smile and ease the atmosphere, but unfortunately, she really could not smile. “Young Sect Master cannot make a conclusion based on a pill of unknown origin.”

“Since Junior Sister Jiang Li refuses to tell the truth, why not bring your sword and come with me to Senior Brother Mei of Tianjian Sect?” Ye Qingruo stood up, her brows and eyes calm.

Since she had come today, she would not return empty-handed. Before her father came out of seclusion, she had to expel this person from the sect.

“What are we going to Senior Brother Mei of Tianjian Sect for?” Unease rose in Jiang Li’s heart, and her mind spun quickly.

“Senior Brother Mei has a magical artifact called the Heart-Questioning Stone. Before the Heart-Questioning Stone, all methods of concealment become useless, leaving a person with nowhere to hide.”

Jiang Li’s momentum slackened. She no longer held on to any hope of luck.

Ye Qingruo glanced at the sword in her hand. As expected, this sword was connected to the demon realm…

“Young Sect Master’s guess is correct. I am a demon.”

“Hm?” Surprise appeared in Ye Qingruo’s eyes, as though she had heard something astonishing. What had this person just said?

The early autumn night wind carried a coolness as it slipped in through the crack of the door. It mischievously circled the candle flame, causing the wick to sway. The flickering light fell on the two of their faces, bright and dark by turns.

Jiang Li froze slightly. What was going on? Why did this woman look surprised? Had she not been exposed?

Ye Qingruo put away the surprise in her eyes and looked at Jiang Li as though she knew everything. “As a demon, why did you hide your identity and enter Qingxi Sect? What exactly are you after?”

As her words fell, she rose and summoned her Binghua Sword, her gaze wary.

So the problem was not only with that sword, but also with the person before her. No, with the demon before her.

Seeing this, Jiang Li also stood up, holding her sword.

“Young Sect Master, I bear no malicious intent. I came to Qingxi Sect merely to search for my missing parents. On the contrary, it is your side that schemed step by step. Elder Ye even wanted my life. It seems my parents’ disappearance is indeed related to your Qingxi Sect.”

The two of them were each on guard, and the atmosphere immediately became tense, as if they might start fighting at any moment.

Ye Qingruo stared closely at Jiang Li, as though considering the truth of her words.

Jiang Li did not dodge her gaze and met Ye Qingruo’s eyes. In reality, she was forcing herself to remain calm. She was only at early Qi Refining, while Ye Qingruo was at early Golden Core. There was an entire Foundation Establishment stage between them, and their cultivation levels differed so greatly. If they really fought, she had absolutely no chance of winning.

She did not know whether Xiao Hu was reliable or whether she could protect her life.

“So you recognized that black-clothed man as my father.”

Ye Qingruo did not show anything on her face, but in her heart, she believed seventy to eighty percent of Jiang Li’s words. Her father’s abnormal behavior, and that merciless sword strike—if she had not had her adoptive father’s magical treasure to protect her, her foundation might have been damaged.

Perhaps Jiang Li’s parents’ disappearance really was related to her father. That would also explain why her father wanted Jiang Li’s life.

But she could not understand it. As an elder of a sect, why would her father be involved with the demon race? If it was simply eliminating demons and protecting the Dao, then he could do it openly and aboveboard. Why be so secretive, and why even strike so ruthlessly at her, his own biological daughter?

Unless what her father was doing was not honorable.

Ye Qingruo thought of her mother’s death, and her eyes darkened slightly. Father, what exactly had he…

Jiang Li raised her brows and said meaningfully, “So Young Sect Master also recognized that the black-clothed man was Elder Ye.” Had she come to silence Jiang Li on behalf of her father, or did she have some other intention?

Jiang Li did not mention that Elder Ye’s cultivation had already been crippled. Otherwise, she was truly afraid Ye Qingruo would become angry from embarrassment and avenge her father by killing her with one sword strike.

If, in the end, she had not died while blocking a sword for the white moonlight, but instead died by the white moonlight’s hand, she would be far too wronged.

Ye Qingruo pressed her lips together and said nothing. She had originally already had doubts about her father’s abnormal behavior. At the time, she had also felt that the black-clothed man gave her a very familiar feeling. Then, the communication jade talisman she had sent had received no response.

Her adoptive father was in seclusion. Then what about her father? Why had he still not come to rescue her after so long?

After she returned to the sect, her father avoided seeing her. He had also entered seclusion right after she did. That guess had gradually become certain.

Ye Qingruo’s expression softened slightly. “You are no match for my father. After the new disciple competition, leave Qingxi Sect. This is not a place you should have come to.”

Jiang Li was astonished. “You won’t kill me?” What happened to eliminating demons and protecting the Dao?

Ye Qingruo was silent for a moment before saying, “You and I have no grudge against each other.”

She was not someone who killed the innocent indiscriminately, nor did she want to create unnecessary killing karma. If her father was related to the disappearance of Jiang Li’s parents, then even though she did not know the inside story, her intuition told her that she should not draw her sword against Jiang Li again.

Now it was Jiang Li’s turn to fall silent. She had to admit that the white moonlight was indeed the white moonlight. She could not tolerate sand in her eyes. Even when the matter involved her own father, she would not help a tyrant do evil.

No wonder she died early. In this cultivation world full of danger, her heart was too soft.

However, Ye Qingruo’s current soft-heartedness was a good thing for Jiang Li.

Having figured this out, Jiang Li took the initiative to put away her sword. “Young Sect Master, why don’t we sit down and talk?”

Seeing this, Ye Qingruo calmly put away the Binghua Sword and sat back down.

She thought of her original plan and slowly said, “I originally thought that since my father wanted your life, I might as well use the new disciple competition to bring you out of the sect, then find an excuse to expel you from Qingxi Sect. That could count as saving your life.”

Ye Qingruo did not know what her father was plotting, but since his actions were not upright, it was most likely not a righteous matter.

Since childhood, she had been recognized by the old sect master as his adopted daughter. For so many years, she had always lived by the old sect master’s side. On the contrary, she was not that close to her own father, and her father had hidden many things from her.

Ye Qingruo looked at Jiang Li with a complicated gaze. In truth, she was not simply soft-hearted. It was because, a few days ago while she was in seclusion, she had had a dream.

The dream was very short—so short that she could not make sense of anything. She only saw the person before her die while blocking a sword for her.

It was an incomparably real dream, as if she had glimpsed a past life.

That was why Ye Qingruo wanted to use this new disciple competition to make Jiang Li leave Qingxi Sect before her father came out of seclusion.

Hearing Ye Qingruo say this, Jiang Li frowned slightly.

So the white moonlight had never intended to kill her from beginning to end. Since the other party was being this open, perhaps Jiang Li could also be a little more honest.

In the original text, she was little cannon fodder who died right at the beginning. Ye Qingruo had not lived much longer than her either. But the fact that Jiang Li had survived until now showed that the plot could be changed, and that it had already changed.

Probably because of Ye Qingruo’s soft heart, Jiang Li also felt compassion. She sighed inwardly. “Your loss of control that night was indeed related to me.”

Ye Qingruo’s gaze paused. She did not speak, only indicating for Jiang Li to continue.