After Transmigrating Into a Pirated Novel to Teach Them a Lesson - Chapter 2

However, right after she said this, she fainted again.

Fu Chenxue had just been wondering how to answer. Seeing that Liu Changning had fainted, she actually breathed a sigh of relief. She thought it would be better to quickly carry her to that Jade Stone Cave Residence or whatever it was called.

Even as the author of the original book, Fu Chenxue had no idea how this background-character master usually got along with the female lead, because she had never written it. Besides, the book was now mixed with other pirated works, causing the entire plot to become chaotic. She could only take things one step at a time.

The Jade Stone Cave Residence was hidden behind a curtain of emerald-green vines. Fu Chenxue pushed aside the dense leaves, and sure enough, she saw another world beyond them.

Although the space inside was somewhat narrow, there was a stone bed. It was not too cold either. Fu Chenxue placed Liu Changning on the stone bed and began looking around.

Where was the spiritual spring the system had mentioned? Fu Chenxue calmed herself and listened carefully to the movements around her. Cultivators all had excellent hearing. Fu Chenxue heard the sound of water dripping onto the ground from the end of the long passage in the cave residence.

She took off her plain white outer robe and draped it over Liu Changning, then went alone to search for the spiritual spring.

After walking through the quiet passage for about fifteen minutes, Fu Chenxue discovered a steaming spiritual spring. The dripping sound she had heard earlier had come from here.

The system said the female lead needed to soak here for two to five years before she could recover. That was quite a long time.

However, to cultivators, a few years passed in the blink of an eye.

Fu Chenxue left the spiritual spring and returned outside. Liu Changning was still lying on the stone bed. Fu Chenxue walked over to look at her.

Liu Changning’s legs were disabled and her eyes were blind. Her entire body was soaked with demonic energy, and she was covered in wounds of all sizes, each one bright red. Her purple clothes had sunk deeply into her torn flesh. Tearing them away would definitely bring heart-piercing pain.

Fu Chenxue sat beside her, feeling extremely distressed. At the same time, a thought emerged in her mind.

She had to cure her.

In this cultivation world, Fu Chenxue was a medical cultivator. In order to help her adapt to the plot, the system had already stuffed many medical and medicinal settings into her mind. So, almost instinctively, Fu Chenxue reached out to undo Liu Changning’s clothes and treat her wounds.

But just then, Liu Changning seemed to suddenly sense a different warmth. Her lashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes.

Fu Chenxue saw those eyes again. This time, the bloody color in Liu Changning’s pupils had disappeared, revealing their original appearance.

Liu Changning’s eyes were far too clear. Her eye color was obviously very pale and faint, yet for some reason, they gave Fu Chenxue the feeling that she would never forget them after seeing them once.

Fu Chenxue had just wanted to say, “You’re awake,” but Liu Changning sensed someone undoing her clothes. In terror, she shoved Fu Chenxue’s hand away and kept shrinking back.

“Don’t touch me!”

Her back pressed against the cold stone wall. Her vision was a field of crimson. This brought Liu Changning immense fear.

Where was this? The Demon Realm’s water prison? Or had those people taken her somewhere else to torture her?

Fu Chenxue felt that she had misunderstood and immediately said, “I’m not from the Demon Realm. Don’t be afraid.”

However, Liu Changning refused to believe her. She could not see anything and could only keep edging to the side. A large patch of blood seeped from her shoulder again. Fu Chenxue frowned deeply. She climbed onto the stone bed and held Liu Changning down, preventing her from moving.

Liu Changning struggled violently and shouted in a hoarse voice, “No! Don’t touch me!”

Fu Chenxue did not dare tell her who she was. She had not yet adapted to the original owner’s body, and she still could not fully control her spiritual energy. It would be bad if Liu Changning discovered a flaw and realized she was not the original Fu Chenxue.

“Calm down. I’m not from the Demon Realm, and I won’t hurt you!” Fu Chenxue only wanted to treat her injuries. She wanted to stroke Liu Changning’s back to calm her down, but when Liu Changning felt her hand reaching toward her back, she immediately pushed her away like she had gone mad. Then she rolled off the stone bed!

Fu Chenxue knew Liu Changning’s legs were injured and hurriedly jumped down to catch her. However, Liu Changning had somehow grabbed a sharp stone and stabbed it fiercely toward Fu Chenxue!

Fu Chenxue almost immediately pressed the sleep acupoint behind her occipital bone.

Liu Changning’s vision went black. Then her body softened and collapsed into Fu Chenxue’s arms. The stone in her hand fell as well.

The cave residence fell silent once more.

Fu Chenxue was covered in cold sweat. She exhaled, then carried Liu Changning back onto the stone bed.

The female lead’s resistance was intense…

Fu Chenxue could understand. Liu Changning had probably suffered too much torture in the Demon Realm, and her mental state was very poor. Suddenly being moved to a new environment would naturally make her afraid.

She searched through the original owner’s Qiankun pouch and found quite a few miraculous pills and medicines inside, as well as some daily necessities.

With the system’s help, Fu Chenxue already had the settings for all kinds of spiritual pills in her mind. She took out a hemostatic pill and placed it in Liu Changning’s mouth. Then she found Clear Dream Brew and fed it to Liu Changning along with the hemostatic pill.

After drinking the Clear Dream Brew, Liu Changning completely fell asleep. Moreover, she slept very deeply and would not wake up for a short while.

Fu Chenxue took a deep breath and found various silver needles and bandages inside the Qiankun pouch. Then she began cleaning Liu Changning’s wounds.

Her clothes had already sunk into her flesh and blood. They could not be kept. Fu Chenxue cut open the thin garments and simply threw them all away. She wrapped Liu Changning in her own outer robe, then applied wound medicine to her injuries. She finished treating the crisscrossing wounds on Liu Changning’s back…

By the time she had been busy for nearly four hours, the sky had already turned dark.

Fu Chenxue wiped the sweat from her forehead. She thought that once Liu Changning absorbed these medicines, she could bring her to the spiritual spring to heal her injuries.

Just now, she had checked Liu Changning’s legs again. They were not broken, but they simply could not move. This injury was beyond Fu Chenxue’s current ability. Only the spiritual spring the system had mentioned could heal it.

Thinking of Liu Changning’s violent reaction earlier, Fu Chenxue did not choose to sit by the bedside this time. Instead, she moved a rock over and sat on it.

She began carefully examining Liu Changning’s appearance.

Although the female lead was still young, one could already see that her features were beautiful. Her skin was snow-white, and her long lashes cast a dense shadow. Her appearance seemed as if it could only have been carved out of the finest white jade.

Fu Chenxue thought, as expected of the female lead. In terms of appearance alone, probably no one else in this book could compare to her.

Fu Chenxue wanted to reach out and touch her forehead to see whether she had a fever. But when she thought of what had happened earlier, she withdrew her hand again.

Forget it. She would wait until Liu Changning woke up and then properly explain things to her.

Liu Changning woke up on the second night. She felt cold all over and instinctively reached for the front of her clothes. Yet what her hand touched was a thin robe.

Her thoughts slowly returned to her mind…

These were not her clothes… Where were her clothes?

Liu Changning panicked. She touched everywhere she could reach. Her body was wrapped in bandages in many places, and medicinal powder had been applied to her wounds. There was also a faint bitter scent.

What was going on?

Liu Changning did not dare move. She was afraid that if she moved, the villains would discover she had woken up. If that happened… she would not be able to escape.

She had been taken to the Demon Realm and tortured for several days. Having her legs crippled and her eyes blinded was already the greatest harm to her. If she were caught again…

She would go mad.

Liu Changning’s fingertips were icy cold. She kept comforting herself in her heart.

She was only a child of around fifteen. No one would be interested in her. Besides, the Ghost Altar’s Altar Master liked men. He did not even spare women a glance.

What they wanted… was nothing more than the Yubing Sect’s mental cultivation method.

Thinking of this, Liu Changning squeezed her eyes shut.

It was precisely because of this that they had locked her up, interrogated her, and tortured her day after day, as if she had fallen into an endless hell.

“Why hasn’t she woken up yet?”

A strange voice came over. Liu Changning immediately pretended to be asleep. She was extremely nervous, but she told herself that she had to stay calm.

Fu Chenxue calculated the time. Liu Changning should have woken up by now, so why was she still unconscious… Could it be that she had fed her too much Clear Dream Brew?

Why not take this chance to put her directly into the spiritual spring? That way, when Liu Changning woke up, she would know that Fu Chenxue only wanted to help treat her injuries and had no ill intentions toward her.

And so, Fu Chenxue stepped forward and lifted her into her arms.

Liu Changning knew that the person holding her was a woman. Yesterday, she had been too terrified. As long as someone touched her, she became extremely tense, and her mind turned into a muddled mess. Her resistance had only been an instinctive attempt to avoid harm.

But she could not be sure whether the person in front of her was good or bad. In the cultivation world, anything could happen, whether it was reasonable or not.

Fu Chenxue carried her to the spiritual spring.

Liu Changning was thin and slender. Holding her like this felt to Fu Chenxue as if she were holding a soft ball of cotton. She carried Liu Changning into the innermost cave residence. Liu Changning felt the steaming hot air and became extremely uneasy.

What kind of place was this?

A spring? What exactly did this person want to do…

Suddenly, a hand covered her lower leg and gently rubbed it.

Liu Changning almost felt sick with disgust. Sure enough, she had just escaped the tiger’s den only to enter the wolf’s lair. She did not know what this person wanted to get from her…

She desperately suppressed the urge to kick the other person. Her fingers quietly dug into the soft soil, planning to seize the moment when the other party was not paying attention and fling it with all her strength.

At this moment, Fu Chenxue was helping Liu Changning spread spiritual medicine evenly over her lower leg. Seeing Liu Changning sleeping quietly, she thought that if she put her directly into the water, what if she drowned?

Then… should Fu Chenxue hold her instead?

Sigh. Patients really were troublesome.

And so, Fu Chenxue picked her up again, intending to carry her into the spiritual spring. Unexpectedly, Liu Changning suddenly opened her eyes and trembled.

“No… no!”

“So you’re awake?” Fu Chenxue smiled.

Great. Since she was awake, Fu Chenxue would not have to hold her.

Unfortunately, Liu Changning could not see her expression. She struggled violently, wanting to escape Fu Chenxue’s arms. Her voice was filled with fear.

“Let go of me! Don’t touch me!”

Fu Chenxue quickly put her down. “Okay, okay, I won’t touch you.”

Liu Changning crawled backward. The wounds that had finally been treated last night split open again. Fu Chenxue hurriedly stopped her.

“Don’t move around. Your wounds haven’t healed yet—”

“Don’t come closer!” Liu Changning’s lips trembled, like a desperate wild beast.

Fu Chenxue understood very well that Liu Changning had just suffered the blow of losing the use of her legs and her sight. It was already impressive that she had not given up on herself. To Liu Changning, Fu Chenxue was only a stranger, so of course she would not trust her.

“I won’t touch you. You can feel your back and arms.” Fu Chenxue stood far away to make her stance clear. “I only applied medicine to you.”

Inside the stone cave, water dripped steadily. Liu Changning took several breaths and only calmed down after a long while.

Fu Chenxue watched her check herself. After a moment, she tried to speak.

“I really didn’t do anything.”

After confirming that there were only traces of spiritual medicine on her body, Liu Changning also became somewhat dazed. She asked again, “Where is this?”

“The Jade Stone Cave Residence,” Fu Chenxue quickly said. “This is the spiritual spring.”

Spiritual spring…?

Liu Changning immediately became highly tense. What was a spiritual spring used for? She had no good impression of spiritual springs at all. The Demon Realm’s Ghost Altar also had a spring. Back when her eyes could still see, she had personally watched the Ghost Altar’s Altar Master drag a male cultivator into it…

After that, the male cultivator became a cultivation cauldron and had all his spiritual power drained dry by the Ghost Altar’s Altar Master.

This person had just been touching her lower leg. Was the next step to treat her as a cultivation cauldron and bring her inside?

Fu Chenxue blinked in confusion, not knowing what Liu Changning was thinking. She said, “Does it hurt?”

Her wounds had all torn open from her struggles just now. It should hurt a lot.

Liu Changning instinctively clutched her clothes tightly. After a long time, she forced herself to look calm.

“I… I’m not in pain.”

She was afraid that if she said it hurt, this person would bring her into the spiritual spring.

Fu Chenxue frowned and slowly walked closer to Liu Changning. When Liu Changning sensed someone approaching, she immediately retreated and spoke incoherently.

“I really don’t hurt. Really, I’m fine…”

“No, you can’t see, so you don’t know how much blood is seeping out of your body again. Your wounds have already split open.” Fu Chenxue coaxed her gently, only wanting to carry Liu Changning back and treat her injuries again.

But Liu Changning did not understand. She was terribly anxious and kept retreating step by step.

“I… I’m still not suitable. I’m only fifteen. My master said I haven’t reached Foundation Establishment yet. Even if my spiritual power is drained, it won’t have any effect!”

Fu Chenxue suddenly heard the word “master,” and her hand stopped. She stared at the child in front of her and found it rather interesting.

Liu Changning sensed that the person before her had stopped moving. Not knowing which part of her words had touched the other person, she continued pleading.

“Really. I’m not even at Foundation Establishment yet. Please let me go…”