After transmigrating As The Sickly Junior Sister - Chapter 3

Fortunately, Ye Qingruo had only panicked for an instant at first. Afterward, she quickly steadied herself.

But the pair of hands around her waist tightened again, making her body stiffen slightly. Other than her mother, she had never had this kind of physical contact with anyone before.

And her mother had passed away a long time ago…

Ye Qingruo pressed her lips together. Thinking of how the person behind her had no cultivation and also suffered from a deficiency illness, she ultimately did not scold her. Instead, she calmly said two words.

“Stand steady.”

Those two words, neither too light nor too heavy, carried a reassuring strength.

Jiang Li relaxed a little and tried hard to keep her body steady, forcing down the churning in her stomach.

Damn it. It was bad enough that she got carsick in the modern world, but now that she was in the cultivation world, she actually got sword-sick too. Was she even allowed to live?

She did not know how much time had passed before the sound of wind by her ears grew quieter, and the cold air rushing against her cheeks also lessened.

Jiang Li finally felt a little better. The urge to vomit also faded. Had Ye Qingruo slowed down?

Although she guessed that in her heart, she still did not dare open her eyes recklessly.

After a while, a soft call sounded by her ear.

“Junior Sister Jiang Li?”

Jiang Li answered with her eyes still shut, “This disciple is here.”

A low sigh seemed to sound by her ear. Jiang Li felt someone gently pat the back of her hand.

“Junior Sister Jiang Li, let go.”

Jiang Li shook her head with her eyes closed. She would not. They were in the sky. If she fell, wouldn’t she be smashed to pieces?

Ye Qingruo’s tone carried a trace of helplessness. “Junior Sister Jiang Li, we are already on the ground.”

Jiang Li calmed herself and carefully sensed her surroundings. Huh? There was no wind, nor the feeling of flying?

She opened her eyes a little. They were indeed on the ground. She immediately let out a long breath of relief, and her hands loosened as well.

“Thank you, Young Sect Master. Jiang Li has offended you.”

Ye Qingruo’s gaze fell on her still-shaken face, and a trace of complexity flashed through her eyes. “Junior Sister Jiang Li, do you know where we are going on this trip?”

Jiang Li nodded once. Wasn’t it to find the male lead and break off the engagement?

She had only skimmed half of this novel. The story more or less revolved around the male lead. In the early stage, the male lead was useless. After being humiliated and having his engagement broken off, he accumulated strength and made a comeback. In the end, he captured the hearts of a bunch of beauties and attained the Great Dao.

Jiang Li was early-death cannon fodder who did not deserve any screen time, while Ye Qingruo was the early-death white moonlight who went to break off the engagement with the male lead.

“Junior Sister Jiang Li knows?”

“I don’t know.”

Jiang Li jolted and came back to her senses, hurriedly changing her answer. She had almost forgotten. Right now, she was not supposed to know.

Ye Qingruo stared at her expression and said thoughtfully, “We are heading due south, to Jiaoyue Mountain.”

Jiang Li pretended to be surprised. “Jiaoyue Mountain? Are we going to Jiaoyue Sect?”

In the cultivation world here, there were a total of six orthodox sects, divided into the Upper Three Sects and the Lower Three Sects.

Qingxi Sect and Jiaoyue Sect were both among the Lower Three Sects. The other was Shenzhu Sect, the strongest of the Lower Three Sects.

Ye Qingruo’s fiancé, the male lead Xia Zhidi in the book, was the son of Jiaoyue Sect’s old sect master.

In order to avoid alerting Shenzhu Sect too early, Qingxi Sect and Jiaoyue Sect had secretly arranged a marriage alliance. It could be considered a hidden cooperation, with the intention of joining hands to suppress Shenzhu Sect, the leader of the Lower Three Sects.

Who would have expected that although the male lead, Xia Zhidi, clearly had an extraordinarily talented single spiritual root, he had also been unable to reach Foundation Establishment for many years?

As time passed, the more outstanding Ye Qingruo became, the more mediocre Xia Zhidi appeared in comparison.

Naturally, Elder Ye became dissatisfied with this son-in-law whose cultivation had made no progress. In other words, Qingxi Sect wanted to go back on the engagement.

After all, Ye Qingruo was now at the Golden Core stage. She was brilliantly talented and astonishingly gifted. How could she be matched with a useless person who could offer her no support?

No matter how much authority Jiaoyue Sect’s old sect master had, he could not pass the sect master position to his son. Since the next sect master would not be Xia Zhidi, then to Qingxi Sect, this marriage clearly no longer needed to exist.

Ye Qingruo looked into the distance. “Yes, and also no.”

For Qingxi Sect to break off the engagement at this time would not look good if the matter became public.

Having Ye Qingruo personally handle it was because they wanted her to privately seek out Xia Zhidi, offer him generous benefits, and persuade him to cooperate. Fortunately, this engagement had not been made public. If Jiaoyue Sect knew what was good for them, they would not continue clinging to it.

But in Ye Qingruo’s heart, she hesitated over this approach.

Even if she had no feelings for Xia Zhidi, whom she had only met twice, this action was still somewhat contrary to morality.

Seeing her melancholy expression, Jiang Li naturally understood what was going on. In the original text, Ye Qingruo had indeed successfully broken off the engagement, but she had also paid with her life because of it.

The book said that although the male lead liked Ye Qingruo, he also had his own pride. Once he heard that his white moonlight had come to break off the engagement, he immediately agreed and did not covet Qingxi Sect’s benefits.

Their marriage had been arranged by their elders. Breaking off the engagement was also a matter of weighing benefits between sects. Although the male lead agreed to take the initiative to end the engagement, Ye Qingruo still felt uneasy in her heart, so she gave the male lead one of her own opportunities.

Unexpectedly, that brought about a fatal disaster. She died early, her Dao vanishing with her, and became the white moonlight that remained forever high in the male lead’s heart.

When Jiang Li thought of this, she immediately felt stifled. Fine, if the white moonlight died early, then she died early. But why did a little cannon fodder like Jiang Li get involved for no reason? She had actually died before everyone else.

Now that it was her, she absolutely would not block a sword for Ye Qingruo. Life and death were determined by fate. Wasn’t it better for everyone to live their own life?

“Young Sect Master, are we still flying on the sword?”

After thinking for a while, Jiang Li asked the question she cared about most. She got sword-sick. It was just like getting carsick, leaving her with no will to live.

The key point was that there was no carsickness medicine here. Even if there were, who knew whether carsickness medicine would work in this world?

If they flew again, she was afraid she would vomit.

Looking at Jiang Li’s pale complexion, Ye Qingruo sighed inwardly and said, “This place is not far from Jiaoyue Mountain. There is no need to fly on the sword.”

Jiang Li immediately relaxed. That was good.

She looked around. She had no idea what deep mountain forest they were in. There was not a single human shadow in sight. Aside from the rustling trees, there were only bird calls. It was rather creepy.

Jiang Li kept feeling an ominous premonition. When exactly had that little cannon fodder with the same name as her lost her life in the book?

It seemed to be on the way to break off Ye Qingruo’s engagement at the beginning…

Surely her little life would not be over before they even reached Jiaoyue Mountain, right?

Very soon, Jiang Li understood what it meant for good things not to come true, but bad things to hit the mark.

Because as they were walking, a sharp sword suddenly stabbed through the air, silently aiming straight for Ye Qingruo’s back.

“Be careful!” Jiang Li shouted in warning, then consciously ducked behind a tree. In her heart, she said one thing.

It was over.

At the same time, a woman’s voice suddenly sounded beside her ear.

“Ah Gu, why are you hiding? Hurry and block the sword for Ye Qingruo.”

Ahead, Ye Qingruo heard Jiang Li’s warning and had already dodged aside.

“Who is there?”

Staring at the sharp sword hovering in midair, Ye Qingruo’s heart trembled with alarm.

The sword had already reached behind her, yet she had not noticed it at all. There was only one possibility: the person who had come had a cultivation level above hers.

At this moment, Jiang Li was even more shocked than she was, because of that voice that had suddenly sounded in her mind.

Judging from Ye Qingruo’s appearance, she probably had not heard it. What exactly was going on? Could the one speaking be this sword?

Jiang Li focused and tentatively replied with her thoughts. “Who are you? Why are you telling me to block the sword?”

That voice immediately answered, “Ah Gu, has water gotten into your brain? Weren’t you the one who told me to pretend to assassinate her, so that you could block the sword for Ye Qingruo and gain her trust?”

Jiang Li: “!!”

This sword could actually hear her thoughts!

What blocking a sword for Ye Qingruo? She was not looking to die. Besides, if she wanted to die, she could just kill herself directly. Why make it so complicated?

In the dense forest, two people and one sword faced off in a strange stalemate. A moment later, that sharp sword in midair seemed to understand Jiang Li’s hint about killing herself. It actually changed direction and rushed toward Jiang Li.

Jiang Li ran around the tree while yelling inwardly, Stop! I wasn’t telling you to kill me! Stop right now!

The sword paused and stopped in front of the tree, motionless once more.

Jiang Li held onto the tree, still shaken, and thought to herself that this sword’s brain did not seem very good. It could not understand human speech.

That voice retorted unhappily, “Your brain is the one that doesn’t work. Ah Gu, how dare you say I can’t understand human speech?”

Ah Gu?

Was it calling her?

Before Jiang Li could think carefully, the sword transmitted its voice again. “Ah Gu, what should I do next? Am I supposed to kill Ye Qingruo, or just kill you directly?”

Jiang Li had no time to think deeply. She roughly judged that this sword should have some connection to the original little cannon fodder and hurriedly said in her heart, “You leave first. We’ll talk when no one is around.”

Kill, her ass. She did not want to kill anyone, and she did not want to kill herself either, okay?

And so, the sharp sword in midair seemed to receive some kind of summons. It turned around, and in the blink of an eye, disappeared without a trace.

Seeing the sharp sword come and go without a trace, Ye Qingruo walked up to Jiang Li, her eyes full of scrutiny.

“Junior Sister Jiang Li, what do you think the origin of that sword is?”

That sword was the most common new disciple’s sword issued by Qingxi Sect. The scene just now, with one sword and one person facing each other, had looked as if they were communicating.

Jiang Li instinctively shook her head. “I don’t know.”

She really did not know. How had a sword suddenly appeared out of nowhere? It could hear her thoughts, called her Ah Gu, and said something about an assassination. What was all this?

Could this little cannon fodder actually have a hidden plotline?

She had never read this part!

Hearing this, Ye Qingruo gazed deeply at Jiang Li.

“Junior Sister Jiang Li, where is your sword?”