After Transmigrating Into a Pirated Novel to Teach Them a Lesson - Chapter 30

Xue Linglong was no less terrified than she was.

She froze for half a second before reacting. “So the person I was supposed to find was you?!”

The system’s white pop-up appeared in front of both of them.

[Congratulations. Task personnel successfully connected. New tasks are now being issued.]

[Tasker: Xue Linglong.]

[Task One: Assist Fu Chenxue in completing the fake-death mission.]

[Task Two: Find the Hollow Cicada Snow Ganoderma on Dingbai Mountain and help Fu Chenxue reshape her Dao body.]

Fu Chenxue looked at the lines on the screen and realized that every sentence inside hinted at her future death.

But Xue Linglong was overjoyed. She gripped Fu Chenxue’s hand excitedly. “So it was you, my friend! Do you know how long I’ve been waiting for you?!”

Fu Chenxue looked at the sky outside and held her hand back, signaling for her to calm down. “Let’s make this short. I still need to go back and coax Changning to sleep.”

Xue Linglong: “…”

After Fu Chenxue briefly explained how she had transmigrated here, Xue Linglong began telling her own bitter journey.

She said, “I’m also an author, but I’m different from you. I transmigrated from birth.”

“From birth?” Fu Chenxue found this term rather new.

Xue Linglong nodded. “Yes. The pirated novel site stole your work and mine together. There are your characters inside, but also my background setting. Other than the Yubing Sect, every blade of grass and tree in this entire cultivation world was created by me.”

Fu Chenxue suddenly remembered that on the day she transmigrated, the system had told her this world had fused with other stolen works. So it turned out those were Xue Linglong’s works. This world had merged with her background setting.

“Dingbai Mountain, Shaoqing Island, Kongling Valley, the Minor Thousand World… I’m more than familiar with all of them.” Xue Linglong was full of confidence.

Fu Chenxue raised her eyes and carefully recalled.

Last time, when Xue Linglong had immediately said on Dingbai Mountain that Red-Twist Gu could be cured with the Soul Infant Seven-Leaf Flower, Fu Chenxue had already felt something was off. This time, when they came to Fuling Sea to find Yu Tianji, she had wanted to use this chance to test whether Xue Linglong really was a book transmigrator like her.

The result was obvious.

“But piracy really is disgusting. You know, I was originally just a small, unknown author. Every time I updated a chapter, they stole a chapter. That sense of powerlessness was truly unbearable…” Xue Linglong spread her hands. “Then I transmigrated into this book. The system told me that as long as I waited for another tasker to appear and helped her complete two tasks, the pirated-novel world would be defeated, and I would be able to go back.”

“So you’ve been waiting for me this whole time?” Fu Chenxue realized Xue Linglong had already waited here for many years.

“Yes. Because I hadn’t read your book, I had no idea what the plot was. I could only stay here and wait blindly. But fortunately, you finally discovered it.” Xue Linglong patted her shoulder. “If I’d known earlier, I should have learned more about Fu Chenxue in the past few years. Then I wouldn’t have only discovered today that she’d been possessed by you.”

“Then your tasks were only issued just now?”

“Yes. My task is to help you… uh, help you fake your death?” Xue Linglong scratched her head. “What does that mean?”

Fu Chenxue: “…”

Now she finally understood what the system had meant when it said someone would help her when the time came. It had actually found another book transmigrator to help her complete the task of being stabbed to death by the female lead.

“Listen to me. The character Fu Chenxue… is a background villain.” Fu Chenxue began explaining the setting to Xue Linglong carefully. “Later, she fails her tribulation and turns to demonic cultivation, then gets stabbed to death by the female lead. My task is to correct the plot, so this step must happen.”

Xue Linglong widened her eyes. “Wait. You have to be stabbed to death by the female lead?”

Fu Chenxue nodded heavily.

Xue Linglong thought for a while. “Mm… all right. But I don’t know who the female lead is.”

Fu Chenxue: “…”

Seeing Fu Chenxue stare at her without speaking, Xue Linglong suddenly sensed that something was wrong. She could not help hugging herself nervously. “The female lead couldn’t be me, right?”

Fu Chenxue: “…”

She really wanted to crack open Xue Linglong’s skull and see what was inside.

Fu Chenxue took a deep breath. “Do you think the female lead would be an elder whose spiritual meridians are damaged and whose cultivation has regressed?”

Xue Linglong understood and shed sad tears. “So I’m only a side character.”

Fu Chenxue said, “I think you just want to stab me to death with one sword.”

Xue Linglong smiled again. “No, no. You saved me at Dingbai Mountain, and I haven’t thanked you yet.”

Fu Chenxue looked at her faintly. “That was because the system forced me. You’re the enemy who later discovers that I turned to the demonic path and makes it public.”

“What?!” Xue Linglong was shocked. “I have two faces?”

Fu Chenxue said seriously, “Yes. I want to hit you.”

“Wait. Now that you put it that way, I think I understand what the system means. The system wants me to assist your fake death, which means I still need to expose your demonic cultivation. But if you die, you can’t complete the following tasks, so the system sent me to help you reshape your Dao body.” Xue Linglong summarized it all at once. “Is that right?”

Fu Chenxue felt she had understood. “Yes, that’s right.”

“No wonder the system kept reminding me about the Hollow Cicada Snow Ganoderma these past two years. So it was because of you.” Xue Linglong recalled, “Unfortunately, I remembered the time wrong. Back then, the Hollow Cicada Snow Ganoderma hadn’t matured yet, but I hurried over to Dingbai Mountain to check…”

“You went to Dingbai Mountain for the Hollow Cicada Snow Ganoderma?”

Previously, Xue Linglong had left the Yubing Sect while her cultivation was completely gone and had run alone to Dingbai Mountain. So it had also been to complete the system task.

“Yes! In the end, I got…” Xue Linglong blushed when she thought of that matter. “Forget it, forget it. Let’s not talk about it. In any case, I won’t see that civet-cat spirit again in the future.”

Fu Chenxue said with concern, “People shouldn’t casually raise flags.”

Xue Linglong: “…”

“Wait, after talking for so long, you still haven’t told me who the female lead is.” Xue Linglong slapped her thigh. “It couldn’t be Ye Luofeng, could it? Damn, hahahahaha! If you get stabbed to death by Ye Luofeng, wouldn’t that mean Ye Luofeng successfully cultivates the Unfeeling Dao?”

It seemed Xue Linglong knew Ye Luofeng cultivated the Unfeeling Dao.

Fu Chenxue said helplessly, “The female lead isn’t her either. Also, she and I are only friends.”

“Then who is the female lead…” Xue Linglong suddenly seemed to realize something. She froze for a moment. “Could it be… Liu Changning?”

“It’s her.” Fu Chenxue nodded.

“You want her to stab you to death with one sword?” Xue Linglong said in horror. “That might be a little difficult.”

Fu Chenxue said, “Demonic cultivators once harmed Changning. That is her most painful memory. How do you know she won’t kill me after she discovers that I cultivate the demonic path?”

Xue Linglong shook her head. “No, but you’re her master. No matter how much she hates demonic cultivators, no matter how heartless she is, she wouldn’t commit such an act of betraying her master and destroying her ancestors, would she?”

Actually, Xue Linglong had hit the point. Fu Chenxue also had some worries about this matter. In the book, the original owner was only Liu Changning’s master in name, and the two of them barely had any interaction. But now that Fu Chenxue had transmigrated here, she had been taking care of and protecting Liu Changning all along. Whether she could ultimately die by Liu Changning’s hand… was truly hard to say.

So Fu Chenxue could only bring up another topic. “Right, what is the Hollow Cicada Snow Ganoderma you mentioned?”

“The Hollow Cicada Snow Ganoderma is a rare spiritual herb that can reshape a Dao body. It grows on Dingbai Mountain.” Xue Linglong said, “For the past few years, the system has constantly been reminding me about the Hollow Cicada Snow Ganoderma. I suspect it arranged the two of us very clearly long ago. If you really get stabbed to death by your disciple, I’ll have to use this to help you reshape your Dao body and bring you back to life.”

Although there was no real guarantee, it did seem like a method.

Fu Chenxue thought that as long as she could come back to life, it was fine.

“But according to my calculations, there is still a long time before you advance and undergo your tribulation.” Xue Linglong’s dark eyes spun around. “First, Liu Changning’s eyes haven’t recovered yet. Second, she’s only at Foundation Establishment now. There’s no way she can kill you, a Golden Core bigshot. So I guess the two of us still have plenty of time. There’s no need to rush about the ganoderma.”

“Mm. The Shaoqing Island secret realm only opens three years from now. Only the Soul Infant Seven-Leaf Flower can heal Changning’s eye condition. I still need to find that.”

“Wait. You really want to heal her eyes?” Xue Linglong immediately thought of what happened in the carriage. “Aren’t you afraid she’ll discover that her eyes look exactly the same as Ye Luofeng’s? No matter who looks at this, it’s a melodramatic stand-in problem.”

“These are all mistakes left behind by the original owner. I’m already doing my best to fix them.” Fu Chenxue said, “If Changning discovers the truth one day, I will properly explain it to her.”

Xue Linglong waved her hand. “Explain what? The system doesn’t allow us to reveal the worldview to characters in the book. You might as well just admit directly that you had a secret crush on Ye Luofeng, and now you don’t like her anymore.”

Fu Chenxue froze, as if she was really thinking about it. She looked at Xue Linglong’s increasingly gossipy expression and ultimately shook her head in refusal. “No.”

“Why?” Xue Linglong was a little anxious. She felt Fu Chenxue was really stubborn.

“There is no why. Liking someone is a very serious matter. I have never liked Ye Luofeng.” Fu Chenxue always became very serious when talking about important matters. “Since I have never liked her, I don’t think I have any reason to say that I once had a secret crush on her. Moreover, I have already explained things clearly to her. I have no feelings for her at all, and she also said we would only be friends in the future.”

Xue Linglong found that boring. “Fine, fine. This is your own matter. Handle it yourself.”

“As long as you don’t say anything in front of Changning, she will never know about this.”

“But after her eyes are healed, won’t she see what Ye Luofeng looks like?” Xue Linglong said. “Unless you keep the two of them from meeting for the rest of their lives. If they do meet, with Ye Luofeng’s blunt personality, she’ll definitely guess that you accepted Liu Changning as a disciple because of her. Who knows what she’ll imagine then?”

Fu Chenxue said, “Ye Luofeng is in her medicine temple… They should never meet again.”

Just let Ye Luofeng focus on cultivating her Unfeeling Dao.

The two chatted for a while longer, and Fu Chenxue finally finished explaining everything. She remembered Liu Changning in the room and asked, “Is Water-Sand Grass really fine? Changning said her back and arms hurt a lot.”

“I guarantee it’s fine. It’s something I created. How could I not know?” Xue Linglong climbed back onto the bed and burrowed into the quilt. “If she’s really in pain, just wipe her with clean water. Be gentle, and she’ll recover quickly.”

“Clean water…” Fu Chenxue stood up thoughtfully, but still did not take a step.

“What’s wrong?” Xue Linglong blinked. “Are you staying here because you want to sleep with me?”

Fu Chenxue: “…”

She absolutely did not.

After resolving the doubts in her heart, Fu Chenxue did not stay any longer and turned back to her room.

Author’s Note:

Day one of waiting for Master to cultivate the demonic path. dog-head