After Transmigrating Into a Pirated Novel to Teach Them a Lesson - Chapter 7

Only after hearing the system’s reminder did Fu Chenxue remember that she had come here to have a wheelchair made for Liu Changning. She hurriedly returned to the shop and roughly described Liu Changning’s height and leg length to the boss.

The boss carefully wrote it down and told her to come pick it up in three days.

After Fu Chenxue finished arranging everything, she prepared to return to the Jade Stone Cave Residence beneath the cliff.

By the time she returned, it was already evening. She called out, “Changning, are you awake?”

Something rolled off the stone bed. Hearing the sound, Fu Chenxue froze slightly. When she lowered her head, she saw Liu Changning kneeling on the beast-fur blanket. Her hair was messy, and her pale fingertips had scratched red marks all over her arms. Her sensitive nerves seemed to have been pulled into a taut string, on the verge of snapping.

“What’s wrong?” Seeing that the situation was not right, Fu Chenxue quickly went over and pulled her into her arms to soothe her.

Liu Changning painfully tugged at her own hair and asked in fear, “Why were you gone for so long? I…”

“Because I bought quite a lot of medicinal herbs.” Fu Chenxue stroked her hair. “Why is your body so cold?”

Liu Changning’s lips kept trembling. She reached out to touch Fu Chenxue’s face, inch by inch, as if confirming that she was still whole.

“I had a nightmare. I dreamed of so much blood…” The white silk over Liu Changning’s eyes had already become damp. Her voice was hoarse, and her nerves were fragile and overly sensitive. “I dreamed that those people broke my legs and blinded my eyes. Whenever I hear those voices, I feel so scared…”

“It’s all right. You’ve already left that place. That kind of thing won’t happen again.” Fu Chenxue knew that she had remembered what happened in the Demon Realm again, so she quickly carried her onto the bed. Liu Changning clutched her sleeve and refused to let go, fear surging into her heart.

“I don’t want to go back. I don’t want to go back…” Liu Changning painfully pulled at her hair and spoke incoherently. “Someone poured blood into my eyes. It hurt so much. It really hurt so much…”

Fu Chenxue’s heart jolted when she heard this. She could only forcefully pick her up and say firmly, “Let’s go. We’re going to the spiritual spring for treatment.”

The spiritual spring was especially cold to Fu Chenxue, but she still accompanied Liu Changning inside. Liu Changning clung tightly to her shoulder, her nails almost sinking into Fu Chenxue’s flesh.

“Changning, tell me. What exactly did those people do to you in the water prison?” During these days, Fu Chenxue had only treated her injuries and had never asked carefully about what happened in the water prison. She knew Liu Changning’s nerves were sensitive and that she was unwilling to bring it up. But this was probably a knot in Liu Changning’s heart. Fu Chenxue could tell from how strongly Liu Changning had resisted her at the beginning. “How were you captured and taken to the Demon Realm?”

The steaming aura of the spiritual spring calmed Liu Changning down quite a bit. She lay against Fu Chenxue’s shoulder. After a long time, she finally said softly, “If I tell you, will you pity me? Will you also think I was terribly stupid?”

Pity? Stupid?

Fu Chenxue did indeed feel some pity, but more than that, she felt heartache and distress. She absolutely did not think Liu Changning was stupid.

Her original purpose in coming here was to save Liu Changning and stop anyone from hurting her again.

So Fu Chenxue said, “Say it if you want to.”

Liu Changning lowered her head. Only after a long while did she respond.

“I was tricked into going to the Demon Realm.”

Fu Chenxue froze for a moment and asked, “Didn’t you run into people from the Demon Realm on the road?”

Hearing this, Liu Changning revealed a bleak smile and continued telling the story.

At that time, disciples of the Yubing Sect had gone out for training, and Liu Changning had been among them.

During the training period, Liu Changning often practiced swordsmanship alone. Because she had not yet reached Foundation Establishment, she wanted to cultivate more. That way, when she reached Foundation Establishment and met her master, her master could teach her the core cultivation method.

Who would have thought that on that day, as she was hurrying to practice her swordsmanship, she would happen to encounter a pregnant woman at the foot of the mountain? The woman had collapsed by the roadside and looked to be in unbearable pain.

Liu Changning quickly put down her sword and went over to support her. “Auntie, are you all right?”

The woman’s face was pale. “Little girl, my… my stomach hurts. Can you help me? My house is just up ahead. It’s right after the turn…”

Liu Changning’s thoughts were simple and kind. She quickly helped the woman up and let the woman guide her to another side of the road.

However, the farther they walked, the more remote their surroundings became. Liu Changning felt that something was not right. She asked somewhat strangely, “Auntie, did you remember the road wrong? This place doesn’t look like anyone lives here…”

The woman’s face was pale, but the hand gripping Liu Changning’s was especially tight, so tight that Liu Changning’s knuckles hurt. “Just keep walking forward. It can’t be wrong. My stomach hurts so much. I might be about to give birth… Good girl, please help me.”

Liu Changning could only continue supporting her forward, thinking that she was only doing a good deed. It could not be wrong.

The elders had all said that when one encountered people in difficulty, one should help them. The path of cultivation was long, and one should do more good deeds.

The two walked deep into the forest, but there was not even a single tile around them. Liu Changning hesitated for half a second and asked again, “Auntie, why is this place getting more and more remote?”

As soon as she finished speaking, a burst of red smoke suddenly swept up in front of her, followed by thick black demonic energy that crackled and hissed!

A black-robed person abruptly appeared at the front. He wore a silver iron mask, and several strange-looking subordinates followed behind him.

Even if Liu Changning was inexperienced in worldly matters, she knew these were demonic cultivators. She was terrified and immediately wanted to run back, but the woman held her hand in a death grip.

“Auntie, hurry and run! They’re people from the Demon Realm!” Liu Changning pulled at her in fear. “We have to run!”

The woman chuckled. Her large belly slowly deflated. Then her body turned into a sinister white skeleton, with only a bloody head still attached!

Liu Changning was so frightened by this scene that she fell to the ground. The black-robed man seemed used to it. He asked lazily, “You are a disciple of Winter Peak?”

Liu Changning froze on the ground. Her lips trembled, and she shook her head desperately.

The black-robed man grabbed her and lifted her up. A foul stench rushed toward her face. “I heard that Winter Peak’s core cultivation method can revive the dead and regrow flesh from bone. Is that true?”

“I… I don’t know…” Liu Changning struggled, cold sweat seeping down her back.

“Altar Master, she’s a little beauty. She doesn’t look very old.” When the woman grinned, bloody cracks split across her face, and vicious words spilled from her mouth. “Isn’t the Altar Master lacking a cultivation cauldron? Isn’t this just right—”

Liu Changning trembled all over when she heard this. She could not believe it. She had clearly wanted to help someone. She had clearly wanted to do a good deed…

“Useless thing!” A Demon Realm subordinate kicked the skeletal woman away without mercy. “The Altar Master captured her for an important matter. There are plenty of cultivation cauldrons!”

…

Just like that, Liu Changning was taken back to the Demon Realm, with no one knowing.

The Yubing Sect had indeed sent people to search for her. But no matter how they searched, they could not find any trace of her.

Liu Changning was locked inside a deep water prison. From those people, she learned that the Ghost Altar Master, Yu Tianji, cultivated the ghost path, and his appearance had long since been ruined. Meanwhile, the Yubing Sect’s Winter Peak core cultivation method could revive the dead and regrow flesh from bone. It was the best method for restoring one’s appearance.

When Yu Tianji learned of this, he was holding a male cultivator in his arms. The male cultivator looked at that face and trembled all over in fear. That face was extremely terrifying—ugly and swollen. Even his ear canals were crawling with bloody gu worms.

Yu Tianji gently stroked the male cultivator’s face, demonic energy around his body becoming unusually thick. Then, under the male cultivator’s terrified gaze, he madly drained all of his spiritual power! Once the person had become a shriveled corpse, Yu Tianji threw him out of the pool like trash.

His subordinates hurriedly presented him with a silver iron mask.

Yu Tianji put on the mask and moved his cracked, dried lips. “Go get Winter Peak’s core cultivation method.”

Unfortunately, Fu Chenxue of Winter Peak was in closed-door cultivation all year round. The Ghost Altar was only a small branch altar of the Demon Realm, so they did not dare attack the Yubing Sect no matter what. They thought about it day and night until their teeth itched. It was only after they heard that Fu Chenxue had accepted a disciple that they set their sights on the disciple.

Liu Changning fell into hell. What awaited her was only day after day of painful torture.

“That thing is so disobedient. Why doesn’t the Altar Master just refine her as a cultivation cauldron?”

“Hahahahahaha! The Altar Master likes men. Besides, the Altar Master still has use for her…”

“If not for the Altar Master’s orders, that little beauty really does look pretty good…”

“You fool, hurry up and do your work! Be careful, or the Altar Master will throw you into the ghost path to feed the ghosts!”

Liu Changning curled up in a corner and painfully hugged herself.

She knew nothing. She only wanted to escape. She wanted to flee from this man-eating place.

Again and again, she delusionally tried to escape, but before she could even leave the water prison, she would be captured and dragged back covered in wounds. That demonic cultivator grabbed her hair fiercely, forcing her to lift her blood-covered face.

Yu Tianji sat in front of her, lazily playing with the fingers of another male cultivator. “Disobedient thing.”

The demonic cultivator immediately understood and smiled obsequiously. “Yes.”

Liu Changning was taken back to the water prison. Several demonic cultivators surrounded her. One of them had taken out something unknown. The corner of his mouth curled into a malicious smile. “Red-Twist Gu. Little beauty, you’re going to suffer.”

That bowl of bright red blood was poured straight into Liu Changning’s eyes.

Liu Changning’s whole body convulsed from the pain. Fresh blood flowed from the corners of her eyes, like a river of blood pouring out, spreading past her nose and cheeks. The wounds on her back were also deliberately torn open again. Everyone laughed wildly, arrogantly, without restraint.

Her eyes were burning.

Her wounds were burning.

Her flesh and blood were burning too.

Liu Changning hurt so much that she wanted to die. She curled up hopelessly on the ground. Someone kicked her and said lightly to the person beside him, “What if she runs again?”

“So troublesome. We might as well remove her legs too.”

…

Drip, drip, drip.

The sound echoed inside the cave residence.

Fu Chenxue’s whole body was stiff. Those terrifying memories, spoken from Liu Changning’s mouth, seemed to smash against her bones again and again, smashing a great hole through her.

Fu Chenxue tightened her arms around her, her throat choking up. “You will get better.”

“I will think of every possible way to cure you.”

Liu Changning’s damp forehead rested against Fu Chenxue’s neck. Although she could not see, she could feel that the other person was forcefully suppressing her emotions.

“I don’t understand. I clearly only wanted to help someone,” Liu Changning murmured. “But she lied to me.”

“Why did I help her? Why…”

“It was all my fault…”

“It was my fault. I trusted others too easily. I didn’t have the ability to tell good from bad…”

Scalding tears soaked the white silk and drenched Fu Chenxue’s heart as well. She held Liu Changning sadly.

“No. It wasn’t your fault.”

“It was because people’s hearts were too wicked, and because you were too good.”

Liu Changning hugged Fu Chenxue and cried out loud. Fu Chenxue kept stroking her back. She knew that she now had one more thing to do.

Yu Tianji and those demonic cultivators who had hurt Liu Changning had to die.

No one knew how much time passed before Liu Changning finally settled down in Fu Chenxue’s arms. She even took the initiative to change the subject. “I’m a little hungry. What did you buy today?”

Seeing that the time was about right, Fu Chenxue carried her out of the spiritual spring. “I bought medicinal herbs for treating injuries, as well as rice and meat.”

“I want porridge.” Liu Changning was placed onto the beast-fur blanket by her.

“All right. Then let’s cook porridge.” Fu Chenxue rubbed her hair. “Is lean meat porridge okay?”

Liu Changning said softly, “Yes.”

And so, Fu Chenxue began cooking porridge, while Liu Changning sat there quietly.

Just now, she had cried in this person’s arms for a long time… This person’s embrace was so warm, and her voice was so gentle.

No one had ever comforted her so softly before.

Liu Changning’s thoughts drifted very far away, to some unknown place…

Suddenly, Fu Chenxue’s voice came over. “Right, do your eyes hurt lately? Let me take a look.”

Liu Changning’s thoughts were pulled back. She obediently lay down on the beast-fur blanket and untied the white silk covering her eyes, letting Fu Chenxue examine them.

From the outside, there was nothing abnormal about Liu Changning’s eyes. It was as if colored glass flickered within them, making one unable to look away. Fu Chenxue once again thought of Ye Luofeng, whom she had met at the market that day. Those clear, limpid eyes suddenly flashed through her mind.

Fu Chenxue: “…”

This was truly strange. How could these two people’s eyes look so similar?

Liu Changning, who was lying on the floor, noticed that Fu Chenxue had stopped moving. She tugged at Fu Chenxue’s arm and asked uneasily, “Is there something wrong with my eyes?”

“No, no.” Fu Chenxue came back to her senses. “I just think your eyes… are very beautiful. I’ve never seen such beautiful eyes before.”

“Really?” Liu Changning was a little embarrassed, and a faint blush appeared on her cheeks. For some reason, she brought up something from the past. “Actually, you’re not the only one who has said that. My master also said before… that my eyes are very beautiful.”

The original owner had said that?

Fu Chenxue happened to think of what happened at the market, so she followed the topic and asked, “By the way, Changning, speaking of which, how did you go to the Yubing Sect to become a disciple back then?”

The corners of Liu Changning’s lips lifted slightly. “Because I wanted to become a medical cultivator.”

“But your master didn’t teach you anything…”

Liu Changning said very seriously, “Because Yubing Sect disciples only receive instruction in core cultivation methods from their masters after reaching Foundation Establishment. I only saw my master once at the disciple-recruitment ceremony… But I heard others say she is very powerful. She is the only medical cultivator who entered the Dao through music.”

Entered the Dao through music.

Fu Chenxue involuntarily touched the jade flute at her waist.

“My master’s life-bound magical artifact is a jade flute. But I don’t know why she later sought the Dao all over again and chose to become a medical cultivator.” Liu Changning scratched her head in confusion. “On the day of the disciple-recruitment ceremony, she wore a white veiled hat. I didn’t even see what she looked like clearly.”

For some reason, Fu Chenxue had a bad premonition.

The original owner abandoned music… to practice medicine?

Why? Was there some special reason?

As she was thinking this, Liu Changning continued happily, “But on the day of the disciple-recruitment ceremony, my master originally wasn’t planning to accept any disciples. Yet the moment she saw me, she insisted on taking me under her wing no matter what.”

“She told me that my eyes were especially beautiful.” Liu Changning pursed her lips. “She said she hoped that when she came out of closed-door cultivation, she would be able to see me.”

The thread hanging in Fu Chenxue’s mind snapped with a pa.