Transmigrated as the Villain’s Sword - Chapter 49

Unlike Hua Niang’s raging fury, Ling Chenyan sat in her room feeling much better as she looked at her once-again-filled treasury.

She casually took out some plush soft blankets made of bear skin and spread them on the floor. Sitting cross-legged, she arranged some of the choice items she had taken from Hua Niang’s treasury onto the blankets. Then, lying on her stomach, she toyed with a flame-red monster pearl the size of a fist, quietly waiting for Hua Niang to arrive.

She waited from daytime until evening. During that time, she couldn’t resist eating two fruits from the treasury. After finishing them, she felt warm all over, as if surrounded by soft, warm feathers—it was pure bliss.

By nightfall, just as the second red fruit reached her stomach, Hua Niang arrived.

Ling Chenyan tossed the fruit pit aside carelessly and looked at Hua Niang with a lingering smile. “You’re here?”

Hua Niang was about to comment on why her attitude was so good tonight, but when she looked down, the smile on her face slowly froze.

Ling Chenyan winked at her. “Hua Niang, you love me so much, surely you wouldn’t begrudge me these few things?”

Hua Niang’s hand tightened on the back of the chair. “…How did you know where my treasury was?”

“Hmm?” Ling Chenyan asked innocently. “Oh, so that was your treasury? Truly sorry, I just couldn’t help myself and took a bit much.”

Hua Niang: “…”

Hua Niang ground her molars and stared at Ling Chenyan for a long time. Finally, she actually broke into a slow smile. She sat in the chair, her red lips curving upward. “No matter. If my Lady likes them, take them all. However, since you’ve taken my things, you are mine from now on.”

Ling Chenyan was about to refuse and return the items, but suddenly, her mind became foggy. Her body grew incredibly hot—almost instantly, Ling Chenyan realized something was wrong with her state.

She immediately looked at Hua Niang and ground her teeth. “Did you use that monster art on me again?”

Hua Niang was baffled, but she quickly sensed something was amiss.

The girl’s face was far too red; she was radiating heat like a boiled shrimp. A flash of insight hit Hua Niang, and she hurried forward. “What did you eat?”

Ling Chenyan instinctively dodged her approach. “Nothing much, just two fruits. I took them from your treasury.”

Hua Niang’s eyes flickered. She took a step back to distance herself. “What kind of fruit?”

Ling Chenyan struggled to pull the fruits from her space and handed them to Hua Niang. “These.”

By now, Ling Chenyan had roughly realized that this wasn’t Hua Niang’s doing. Most likely, it was caused by the fruits she had eaten.

“He Huan fruit (Acacia fruit)…” Hua Niang slowly read out the name of the red fruit. She closed her eyes. “You really are something. You dare eat something without even knowing what it is? If it were poisonous, not even a Great Golden Immortal could save you now.”

Ling Chenyan’s head drooped. How was she supposed to know there would be such fruits in a treasury? But then again, it was the Fox Clan; it made sense.

But the point wasn’t the fruit—it was that Ling Chenyan had already eaten them. She looked at the half-smiling Hua Niang and decisively transformed back into a sword. “Get out!”

Hua Niang stood her ground, a glint of mischief in her eyes. “After eating such fruit, if one does not find a partner for intimacy, their meridians will burst, and they will die.”

She looked up at the sword suspended before her and walked closer slowly. Her narrow eyes fixed on the blade, she spoke seductively: “Lady, dual cultivate with me to dissolve the medicinal properties of the fruit. I will be gentle.”

Ling Chenyan: “Don’t come any closer!”

Hua Niang stopped as requested, her face showing a mix of concern and difficulty. “Lady, I do not wish to watch your meridians burst.”

Ling Chenyan was a bit frightened by her words. Her body was getting hotter and hotter. Just as she was about to go soak in cold water, the System spoke up: [The potency of the He Huan fruit is much smaller than He Huan medicine. If consumed by mistake, one just needs to endure for a while or do some intense exercise to offset the properties. Meridians will not burst.]

With the System’s word, Ling Chenyan felt much more at ease. She looked at Hua Niang standing there full of smiles, ground her teeth, and said, “Move aside, I’m going out.”

“Are you going to find your master? She isn’t here. Or rather…” Hua Niang intentionally let her eyes go moist, saying mournfully, “Would you rather be with a stranger than with me?”

Ling Chenyan had no desire to deal with this woman’s intimidation. “I’m going out!”

Hua Niang shook her head helplessly and made way for her. “If you change your mind, you can find—”

Before the word “me” could leave her lips, a gust of wind blew past her. When she looked up, the silver sword was gone.

Hua Niang: “…”

Hua Niang watched the silver sword’s receding figure playfully. While eating the fruit wasn’t as severe as she claimed, the discomfort was unavoidable. If not released or suppressed in time, tsk, that would be quite a mess.

Thinking the girl would surely return, Hua Niang sat comfortably in the chair and picked up the bear skin the girl had spread out, a nostalgic look in her eyes.

The peace didn’t last long. A small monster ran in frantically. “Great Priestess! It’s bad, Great Priestess!”

Because of yesterday, Hua Niang’s forehead throbbed the moment she heard someone calling her so urgently. She steadied herself and frowned. “Speak. What is it? Where are your manners?”

The small monster froze in fear, momentarily forgetting what it was going to say.

Hua Niang’s expression calmed. “What is it? Speak.”

The monster finally remembered, its face changing drastically. “It’s bad, Great Priestess! That sword you brought back… it just headed toward the ancestral graves in the back mountain!”

Hua Niang was still a bit confused until another, even more panicked voice arrived. She could no longer stay seated.

“Great Priestess! Someone is digging up our clan’s ancestral graves in the back mountain!!”

Boom.

Hua Niang bolted out the door. Along the way, she nearly ground her molars to dust. That damn sword. If she actually dares to dig up my family graves, I’ll melt her down and turn her into a toilet plunger.

Hua Niang rushed there at top speed, only to find the situation wasn’t quite that dire. The silver sword was blocked by the guarding monsters and was currently fighting them back and forth.

Hua Niang was laughed in anger. She dismissed the small monsters and took the field herself.

Ling Chenyan was naturally no match for her. Every time Hua Niang swung her monster power against the blade, she would ask through gritted teeth, “Are you sober yet?”

If the silver sword didn’t reply, she would swing again, hitting harder.

Aside from intercourse, the medicinal power of the He Huan fruit could also be forced out of the body by being struck with monster power. Truthfully, there were ways that didn’t involve hitting her, but Hua Niang chose the most venting method. She had discovered that this sword looked incredibly cute on the surface but was actually quite naughty—if not beaten for three days, she’d be peeling tiles off the roof.

After an unknown number of hits, the silver sword finally fell limp to the ground.

Having vented her frustration, Hua Niang’s anger was mostly gone. She reached out, grabbed the silver sword, and walked back, instructing the small monsters: “Treat today’s events as if they never happened.”

Back in the room, Hua Niang tossed the sword onto the bed. “I really didn’t expect you to be such a troublemaker. Fine, since you don’t want to stay and be my Lady, you can leave tomorrow.”

Day after day, nothing but trouble.

Unexpectedly, the silver sword rolled over on the bed. “I’m not leaving unless you help me find my Highness.”

Hua Niang was both angry and amused. “You’re leeching off me now?”

The silver sword giggled. Having recovered her strength, she transformed into human form and walked up to Hua Niang. “Sister Hua, you’ll help me, right?”

From the moment she was “saved” until now, although Hua Niang talked about marriage and dual cultivation, she had never forced her. She even endured having her treasury robbed. A person like that surely had some scruples even if they harbored ill intent. But the “grave-digging” incident confirmed for Ling Chenyan that Hua Niang didn’t actually mean her harm—she was even quite indulgent.

Why? Ling Chenyan didn’t know, but she didn’t want to know right now. Guan Luowei had no idea where she was and was likely frantic; finding her was the priority.

Hua Niang ground her teeth and refused. “I won’t.”

Ling Chenyan sighed. “Then I’ll just have to play some treasure-hunting games within your clan territory.”

Hua Niang: “…”

She glared fiercely at Ling Chenyan and slammed her tea cup down. “Stay here! Don’t go anywhere!”

With that, she stomped out in a huff and ordered the monsters nearby: “Call the clan elders! We’re having a meeting!”

Hearing that last sentence, Ling Chenyan giggled. She knew Hua Niang had compromised.

It rained twice in the Monster Domain, and the air gradually grew colder.

Guan Luowei had reached a territory far from the Monster Forest. It was now the third day since she had lost contact with Ling Chenyan, and there was still no news.

A few days ago, she had sketched Ling Chenyan’s appearance for the beasts in the forest to help search, but the results were unreliable. The people they found looked nothing like the drawing.

Currently, she was nearing the Fox Clan territory. If there was still no news today, she would have to find the Monster King first. A trace of irritability flashed in Guan Luowei’s eyes. There was no word on Ling Chenyan, yet the Demon Race could not afford to wait.

Floating above the city, she watched the monsters coming and going. Just as she was about to close her eyes to search with her demonic sense, her peripheral vision caught a flash of bright red.

She snapped her head around. In a corner of the street, a woman in a bright red dress was talking intimately with a man. As she spoke, her fair fingertips slowly traced across the man’s chest.

And that woman in red was Ling Chenyan!

Guan Luowei felt her blood freeze for an instant. An intense impulse to destroy surged to her head. A wave of demonic energy yanked the woman in red into the air. Guan Luowei looked at the panicked face, paused for a moment, and then her face turned even colder. “You are not her. Who are you?”

The sudden incident caused the monsters below to look up in surprise.

Guan Luowei swept her gaze across the street below, and her eyes froze. She saw many women, all of whom shared the exact same face as Ling Chenyan.

After the initial panic, the face of Ling Chenyan on the woman in the air slowly faded, revealing the plain face of a monster girl. She was still frightened. “You… you know the owner of this face?”

Guan Luowei nodded and released the woman, her voice still cold. “Where is she?”

The woman looked at her, pulled out a communicator, and dialed. It connected quickly, revealing a glamorous face. The woman on screen raised her eyes lazily. “Found the person?”

Before the girl could speak, Guan Luowei took the communicator and looked at the woman inside.

Just as the woman was about to speak, the screen flickered as if someone had snatched the device away. Then, Ling Chenyan’s face suddenly appeared.

Guan Luowei’s gaze narrowed. “Yinye?”

“It’s me!” Ling Chenyan said excitedly. “Highness, where are you?”

Guan Luowei’s eyes shifted as she finally confirmed it was her. Her expression relaxed slightly. Just as she was about to speak, the screen flickered again, and the seductive woman’s face reappeared.

“The person is with me. If you want her, prepare 100 million spirit stones, or else I’ll kill the hostage~”

The woman spoke lazily, but Guan Luowei’s gaze turned instantly icy. “Fine.”

Then, the girl’s voice rang out from the side: “Sister Hua, stop scaring my Highness, okay?”

“Shut up!” the woman said. “Have you forgotten what you’ve done these past few days?”

The girl’s voice sounded a bit guilty. “I’ll give it back. I’ll give it all back to you.”

“That’s not enough!” the woman in red ground her teeth. “Winking and acting cute at me is useless! I won’t change my mind!”

With that, she hung up, leaving only the half-finished sentence of the girl.

“Don’t, Sister Hua…”

The screen went black. Guan Luowei’s expression did not improve; if anything, she pursed her lips, looking even colder.

A ‘Sister Hua,’ and ‘winking and acting cute’!

She casually tossed the communicator back to the monster girl. After a pause, demonic energy surged from her body, forcing all the women below who shared Ling Chenyan’s face back to their original forms. Then, with an unreadable face, she said to the girl: “Trouble you to lead the way.”