Every Day I’m Reforming My Disciple [Transmigration into a Book] - Chapter 6

Clouds and mist sealed everything away. Layers of thick fog covered the surroundings. The sky was dim, and intermittent sounds came from within the heavy mist, making one’s hair stand on end.

Jiang Xiaoyu crouched on the ground, hugging his legs with both arms. His head was almost buried in his arms. He looked as if his soul had left his body, and his body kept trembling.

Beside him, Jiang Aotian gripped two axes. A thin layer of mist covered his thick biceps.

“Your Uncle Aotian can’t take it anymore. Damn it, I refuse to believe I can’t get out of this damn fog!”

After spitting, he charged into the thick mist with his axes and a shout.

“Aotian!” Chen Haotian wanted to grab him, but failed.

Ai Liqian, holding the Bow of the God of Love, cursed, “What a stupid big guy!”

“Qu, what should we do?” She looked at Han Qu, who had been standing calmly at the side from beginning to end, staring at the charming woman opposite them.

Han Qu took a step forward and gathered spiritual energy in her hand, but Chen Haotian blocked her.

“Han Qu, what are you doing?”

“None of your business. Move!” Han Qu did not hesitate to gather spiritual energy and attack the person behind him, but that idiot Chen Haotian took the blow.

Chen Haotian raised the Mad Blood Blade to block Han Qu’s attack. His body shook, and he spat out a trace of blood.

The woman behind him immediately supported him and stepped forward.

“Qu’er, Master believes she has never done anything to wrong you. So why do you keep targeting me again and again?”

“Han Le!” Han Qu roared. “You used every possible method to bring us into this fog. Youge and Xian Wanwan’s lives are uncertain. Do you dare say all of this isn’t your scheme?”

The corners of Han Le’s lips lifted imperceptibly. Then, looking full of grievance, she threw herself into Chen Haotian’s arms.

“Haotian, I’ve done everything I should. But why does Qu’er still refuse to believe me and keep slandering me? Sob, sob…”

Faced with Han Le throwing herself into his arms, Chen Haotian was somewhat at a loss. He froze in place. After hesitating for a moment, he lightly patted her back to comfort her.

He said to Han Qu, “Senior is your master. She also followed the method you suggested before. Isn’t that enough to prove she is innocent?”

Sometimes, Han Qu really wanted to cut open Chen Haotian’s brain and see what exactly was inside.

“Qu.” Ai Liqian signaled to her with her eyes.

A chilling scream suddenly rang out from within the dense fog. Jiang Xiaoyu, who had been crouching on the ground, abruptly raised his head. His eyes were blood-red.

Ai Liqian suddenly ran to Chen Haotian’s side and shouted, “Jiang Xiaoyu, calm down!”

In the end, not only did the other person fail to calm down, his red eyes seemed to have found a target. He charged madly toward Chen Haotian.

Once Jiang Xiaoyu entered a berserk state, no one could control him. The only person who could stabilize him, Xian Wanwan, was not here either.

“Haotian!” Han Le cried out fearfully.

“Don’t be afraid!” Chen Haotian immediately ran to the side. “Han Qu, Ai Liqian, take good care of Senior. I’ll lure him away!”

Then Chen Haotian and the berserk Jiang Xiaoyu disappeared one after another into the dense fog ahead.

Without Chen Haotian’s protection, Han Le did not feel afraid at all. Instead, she laughed.

Ai Liqian was furious. “What are you laughing at? Don’t think that just because Chen Haotian protects you, we won’t dare do anything to you!”

“Qu, kill her!”

Han Qu had already intended to do so. Spiritual energy gathered all around her, and she attacked with her sword.

But unexpectedly, Han Le dodged easily. Han Qu frowned.

Ai Liqian immediately raised the Bow of the God of Love and kept chanting, “Amitabha, please let it be a critical hit, a critical hit!”

In the end, she aimed and fired an arrow. It merged into Han Le’s body.

Ai Liqian cursed, “At the critical moment, it’s another blank arrow!”

In the next second, Han Le appeared beside her like a ghost and knocked her into the dense fog.

Ai Liqian shouted angrily, “If it’s a blank arrow, then it’s a blank arrow! Why give her a speed boost too?!”

After a moment, only Han Le and Han Qu remained in the surroundings.

Han Le could not help laughing. “I really don’t know how you gathered this group of weirdos. Every single one of them is brainless. Oh no—the smartest one among them is currently missing, dead or alive. Giggle, giggle~”

Han Qu walked up to her with her sword in hand.

“Han Le, you should be glad you’re dying by my sword.”

After saying this, she rushed forward with all her spiritual energy unleashed.

The two streams of spiritual energy collided with a loud boom. Han Qu was in disbelief.

“You shouldn’t have any spiritual energy left in your body!”

Han Le’s laughter was sharp and piercing. Her fingers turned into sharp fox claws, moving so quickly that Han Qu could not react at all. They pierced straight into her chest.

A vicious voice echoed by her ear.

“Do you think I would just let myself be slaughtered? Besides, how could Haotian bear to make me eat that Spirit-Suppressing Pill?”

The heart-rending pain was nothing compared to the fury in her heart. If she could, Han Qu truly wanted to curse out loud.

Damn Chen Haotian. Let him die.

Inside the dark, damp room, after Han Qu said the name “Chen Haotian,” she kept observing the other woman’s expression.

Han Le wanted to ask why, but she forcefully swallowed the words that reached her lips. She had almost fallen into the female lead’s trap. At this point in time, the original owner should not know Chen Haotian yet.

“Who is that?”

The other woman’s expression had not changed from beginning to end. Han Qu failed to find any clues and was slightly disappointed.

That foggy forest contained far too many unknown dangers. Fierce, bloodthirsty demonic beasts were naturally indispensable. She rather hoped the other woman had died there too. Even if that meant she had been reborn along with her, Han Qu would accept it.

As long as she could kill the other woman with her own hands.

The azure-blue bead that had gathered mysterious power was her secret weapon.

After her rebirth, the only thing different about her from before was that her heart was gone.

There was no heartbeat, no vitality. There was only a calm, deathly still azure-blue bead.

But she did not care, because the energy contained in this bead was mysterious and powerful beyond anything she had ever seen. She had only touched the tip of the iceberg, yet her spiritual sense had instantly expanded. The things she could perceive and sense became deeper than ever before. The hazy world instantly became much clearer.

It was just that whenever she wanted to absorb the bead’s power, she would always encounter some obstruction. Han Qu felt that it might have something to do with her current state of mind, causing her to be unable to absorb its core power.

However, she believed this was only temporary.

Moreover, she felt that merely digesting the power at the edge of the bead was enough to kill the other woman.

The corners of Han Qu’s lips curved. “Master only needs to promise your disciple that you will kill him.”

“…”

Han Le very much wanted to tell her that even if she wanted to kill him, the system might not allow it.

But she definitely could not say that.

“All right.”

That decisive word made Han Qu suspect even more that the other woman was putting on an act.

Could it be another display of deep master-disciple affection?

If it were in the past, she might have believed it. But after seeing the other woman’s true face, Han Qu only found her current behavior utterly disgusting.

Han Le did not know what the female lead was thinking. Instead, she felt that she should do something more, something that would shock and move the other woman.

She saw that the female lead, Han Qu, was leaning against the cold wall. Faint spiritual energy dispersed from her body. Her transformed appearance vanished amid the light, and that enchanting face, beautiful enough to make one drool, appeared before Han Le’s eyes.

Although she had seen it once before, the amazement from last time had been completely overshadowed by her fear. The other woman seemed to notice her gaze, and the disgust in her eyes was undisguised.

Han Le awkwardly looked away.

Maintaining a transformed appearance required spiritual energy at every moment. Since the other woman was seriously injured, the disguise should have been undone long ago. She must have kept it up in order to lurk by Han Le’s side. Now that she had been recognized, there was naturally no need to hide anymore.

Han Le closed her eyes, and her transformed appearance also gradually faded, restoring her original face. She had transformed in order to guard against the female lead. In the current situation, continuing to do so would only waste spiritual energy.

Han Qu glanced at her, let out a cold laugh, then closed her eyes and meditated.

Footsteps and complaints came from outside the small dark room.

“Not only did they send me to guard this place, they even want me to deliver food. I’m a high-grade guard, after all. They’re really looking down on me.”

The chubby guard slapped the door and shouted inside, “Food’s here! What are you standing around for? Hurry up and come get it!”

This was the small dark room the village specifically used to imprison people. There was a small window on the door used to deliver food to prisoners.

The chubby guard opened it and shouted impatiently.

Purplish-red eyes and black eyes opened at the same time. Coldness and impatience entered the chubby guard’s eyes all at once. His pupils widened.

With a bang, all the food in his hands fell to the ground. His heavy body staggered backward, and he pointed at them in disbelief.

“Clan… Clan… Clan Leader…”

He immediately ran outside in a panic, stumbling so badly that he nearly fell.

“Right Guardian Shi Yingying committed insubordination and dared to imprison the clan leader. Master, how do you plan to punish her?” Han Qu looked at her with interest.

Don’t think she did not know that the reason Shi Yingying could act so arrogantly in the clan was entirely because of Han Le’s protection and indulgence.

How to punish her?

Han Le thought about how she had once secretly crouched by the neighbor’s window and watched the torture methods in television dramas. Most of them used something like wooden sticks to夹 the prisoner’s fingers. She just did not know whether this place had that kind of torture.

Seeing the other woman’s silence, Han Qu felt that it was just as expected. She could not bear to punish Shi Yingying. How laughable.

After thinking it over, Han Le was afraid she would say the wrong thing, so she said, “Do it your way.”

Han Qu opened her eyes and looked at her. “You want to hand Shi Yingying over to me to punish?”

The female lead’s questioning words made Han Le pause. Han Qu thought she must have realized she had misspoken and wanted to change her words. But instead, she saw a trace of confusion in Han Le’s eyes.

“Is that not allowed?”

Han Qu was briefly absent-minded, then calmly said, “Of course it is. It is just that Master should know, I will not show mercy.”

“As long as you’re happy.”

For the sake of acting out this deep master-disciple affection, she was actually willing to push out her capable subordinate? As expected, she would stop at nothing to achieve her goal.

The frightened chubby guard practically rolled and crawled into Shi Yingying’s room.

“Gu-Guardian, the clan… clan… the clan leader and Spirit Maiden! It’s the clan… clan leader and Spir—”

Shi Yingying directly threw the pillow from the bed at his face. Holding a wine jug, she drunkenly pounced toward Xue Youge in front of her.

“Treasure~ Let’s continue~”

Xue Youge’s expression was calm as she supported Shi Yingying. “Guardian, you’re drunk.”

“No! This Guardian would never get drunk!”

Shi Yingying spun in place. When her finger pointed at the chubby guard, he immediately grew nervous.

“Guar—”

“Shut up. This Guardian hates it most when others disturb my refined mood. Hehe.”

Her figure was somewhat unsteady. Xue Youge supported her, but Shi Yingying suddenly pounced onto the table, picked up a pastry from the plate, and shyly brought it to Xue Youge’s lips.

“This… hic… this Guardian’s favorite candied water chestnut cake. Treasure, hic, try some~”

As she spoke, she kept hiccupping from the wine and tried to stuff the pastry into Xue Youge’s mouth.

Xue Youge pressed her lips together, let go of Shi Yingying, and dodged to the side.

“Guardian, Youge does not eat sweets.”

Shi Yingying gave a coquettish hum, holding the candied water chestnut cake and pouting.

“Something this delicious, and you won’t eat it? Hmph!”

As she spoke, she stuffed the entire piece of cake into her own mouth. Then she hiccupped again and collapsed onto the bed, motionless.

“Gu-Guardian?” The chubby guard shrank his neck and carefully stepped forward to call her.

Xue Youge turned to him and said, “What you just said was the clan leader and the Spirit Maiden?”