Achieving A Happy Ending With The Tragic Female Lead [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 26

This emotion driven sword strike inevitably lacked a bit of precision, but it successfully halted the Mountain Lord’s movements.

Retracting her hand, the Mountain Lord abruptly turned toward Wanqi Yue. Even with her features hidden behind a black veil, one could clearly sense her irrepressible resentment.

A pitch-black longsword appeared in her hand. With a flick of her wrist, she executed a fluid sword flower, a habitual movement she used subconsciously.

The two sharp blades suddenly clashed, letting out a resonating clang, while a ripple of residual energy surged through the surroundings.

Countless pieces of furniture in the room shifted, and shattered porcelain fell onto the carpet, reflecting faint glimmers of light.

Su Mi stood in place, her robes fluttering backward to reveal the lines of her body. She frowned, watching the two people locked in combat. Recalling the words “Wanqi Yue” had said to her previously, she no longer found them strange.

The talisman between her fingers shook slightly, revealing a hint of its master’s hesitation.

【Master, don’t worry, I am searching to see if the system can provide a solution.】

However, Su Mi did not appear anxious; her expression reflected deep thought. It wasn’t until she saw Wanqi Yue falling into a disadvantage that her gaze turned solemn.

The talisman in her hand suddenly flew between the two, blocking the Mountain Lord’s strike and giving Wanqi Yue time to retreat to safety.

The Mountain Lord immediately turned to Su Mi, as if accusing her of favoritism. Meanwhile, a flicker of joy instinctively rose in Wanqi Yue’s heart.

The Mountain Lord’s knuckles turned white from the force of her grip. Turning back, she poured all the loathing and regret in her heart into every move she directed at Wanqi Yue.

Su Mi no longer hesitated and intervened in the fight.

“Don’t get distracted. Go help the Taoist nun,” she said to Wanqi Yue.

On the other side, the Taoist nun was struggling to face the Medical Immortal alone. If Wanqi Yue didn’t help, defeat was only a matter of time.

Although Wanqi Yue was reluctant, she chose to listen to her Senior Sister and went to assist the nun.

Su Mi blocked the Mountain Lord’s path. An invisible spiritual pressure expanded abruptly, clashing against the longsword in the other woman’s hand.

Realizing it was impossible to take Su Mi away peacefully, the Mountain Lord tightened her grip. Thick black mist materialized, clawing and lunging toward Su Mi to surround her.

Facing the approaching mist, Su Mi remained unmoved. A blue array slowly rotated in front of her as soon as the black mist touched it, it retreated in fear. Su Mi could feel her spiritual energy circulation gradually slowing down. She sidestepped a thrust and reached out to grab the other’s wrist, which was shrouded in black qi.

Su Mi: “Why are you helping her? Do you know what you are doing?”

The Mountain Lord clearly hadn’t expected this question, her struggle paused for a split second.

Seizing this moment, Su Mi tried to snatch the sword away. But the Mountain Lord reacted quickly as the hilt left her hand, she flipped the direction and gripped it again instantly.

To avoid the strike, Su Mi was forced to let go and retreat.

While fighting the Medical Immortal, Wanqi Yue was still keeping an eye on the situation. Seeing the Mountain Lord’s movement, she froze.

That was a move her Senior Sister used to practice with her in their spare time. Furthermore, she only found out later that Senior Sister had only ever used that move with her.

How did the Mountain Lord know it? Could it be that Senior Sister had secretly used this move with someone else behind her back? No wonder the Mountain Lord always acted so familiar toward her Senior Sister.

This momentary distraction created a massive opening. Her waist was slashed by a seemingly soft white silk ribbon, and blood instantly bloomed across her side.

Seeing this, Su Mi grew agitated. Her spiritual energy and the black mist intertwined and washed out, leaving deep gouges in the walls and stone pillars. The shattered porcelain was crushed into fine powder under the pressure.

The Medical Immortal, fighting one against two, used her white silk to keep everyone at bay. Though she wasn’t handling it with ease, she was holding her ground. But in the next instant, the silk ribbons flying through the air seemed to be frozen, unable to move an inch before exploding into countless hard fragments.

One piece struck the unconscious Lin Huanyi heavily on the head. Waking up in a daze from the pain, her blurred vision saw various robes fluttering. She felt a stinging pain on her face from the spiritual energy and finally recognized a familiar face.

The memories before coming to the City Lord’s mansion rushed back. Indignation flashed in her eyes.

“…It’s you, you l…”

Before she could finish, Lin Huanyi was hit again by a flying piece of wood with a “smack.” She swayed and fainted once more.

Lin Huanyi didn’t attract much attention, but the original stalemate had long been disrupted.

Everyone was injured to varying degrees. The carpet covering the floor was now riddled with holes, exposing the ground beneath.

Su Mi felt a momentary blur in her vision. She lowered her eyes, trying to quietly weather the dizziness, but her gaze was caught by the exposed floor.

She knelt down and tore away the tattered carpet, revealing more of the ground.

Continuous blood-red runes came into view. Clearly, there was a massive array beneath their feet. This room had been a cage for them from the start.

Su Mi’s eyelid twitched, she had a very bad feeling.

The Taoist nun, being well-traveled, recognized the array: “This is the Spirit Displacement Array! She wants to transfer our spiritual energy into the bodies of the people beneath this floor! We must leave before the array fully activates!”

However, the barrier the Medical Immortal and the others had placed around the house was rock-solid. They couldn’t find a breakthrough immediately.

Seeing that they had discovered the array, the Medical Immortal stopped holding back. With the Mountain Lord’s help, though Su Mi and the others could cope for now, the longer it dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would become.

“If the array activates completely, going to the eye of the array might buy us some time,” the nun said, panting.

Su Mi knew her condition couldn’t withstand a prolonged battle. She had to find another way.

“Do you know where the array eye is?”

The eye is usually the weak point of an array. If it could be destroyed in one blow, the array would dissolve. Su Mi didn’t have time to search meticulously.

The nun looked at her. Destroying the eye was indeed the most direct method, but it required immense spiritual power and divine sense. Any mistake would lead to a backlash, which might even accelerate the array’s activation. But at this moment, she could only choose to trust the person before her.

“Between the ‘Departing Bird’ and the ‘Heavenly Dry’ positions. The spiritual energy flow at the eye is different from elsewhere; it occasionally becomes chaotic and unstable.” The nun explained everything she knew in detail.

“Alright, you two hold them off.” Before leaving, Su Mi left Meiqiu (the coal ball) by Wanqi Yue’s side and headed alone toward the direction indicated by the nun. With a sweep of her right hand, she cleared the remaining carpet. Her peripheral vision caught the City Lord shivering in a corner.

She tossed the carpet aside: “If you can still move, move those unconscious people on the floor to the edge.”

The City Lord nodded palely, stood up tremblingly, and began dragging the unconscious bodies.

Su Mi took a deep breath and knelt, her fingers moving slowly along the runes on the ground. She concentrated entirely on finding the eye.

She couldn’t see what was happening behind her. Numerous times she felt a sharp wind approaching, only for it to be neutralized by the others.

Su Mi had placed her back in their hands. In truth, trusting Wanqi Yue allowed her to become more focused.

Seconds and minutes ticked by. Her movements never stopped.

Suddenly, Su Mi’s pupils contracted. At the point where her fingertips touched the array, a massive surge of spiritual energy erupted, forcibly severing the invisible veins of the array. The veins on her forehead pulsed, and a bead of sweat rolled down her tensed jaw.

The arrogant spiritual energy interlaced, buckling the flat floor into several folds. Spider-web-like cracks spread from the floor to the walls and windows.

With a thunderous boom, a massive ceiling beam snapped. The array on the ground seemed to let out a final shriek. The massive impact threw Su Mi backward, her spine slamming hard into the wall. The piercing pain caused a sharp ringing in her ears.

She lowered her head and coughed twice, then looked up to find Wanqi Yue. Seeing that she was relatively safe, Su Mi relaxed slightly.

The Taoist nun had also been blown back by the impact. She wasn’t as lucky, hitting a wooden pillar and falling unconscious.

As the dust settled, a massive hole appeared in the floor.

The Medical Immortal’s scream sounded muffled, as if heard through water. The moment the array broke, she leapt into the hole and emerged carrying a body, her face filled with panic and urgency.

With the array failed, the body the Medical Immortal had tried so hard to preserve began to dissipate. No matter how she tried to stop it, it was futile.

She turned her gaze toward the unconscious people nearby. “Wait for me, I’ll dig out a Golden Core for you first. It will be alright.”

The Medical Immortal rose to move toward them, but she was blocked by a struggling Wanqi Yue, sword in hand. At this moment, the crumbling Medical Immortal could no longer maintain her composure.

“Why? Why must you stop me? This had nothing to do with you from the start! This world has always been about the strong devouring the weak! I only realized it too late.”

Wanqi Yue felt sympathy for her plight in her heart, but she would not show mercy.

The Mountain Lord tried to help the Medical Immortal but was blocked by Su Mi.

“Are you going to continue assisting this evil?” Su Mi asked her.

“She just wants to revive the person most important to her. What is wrong with that?” The Mountain Lord’s voice held a hint of hysteria.

“Then what about those who lost their lives peacefully? What did they do wrong?”

“It’s because they were too weak!” The black mist on the Mountain Lord lunged at Su Mi, trapping her.

On the other side, Wanqi Yue didn’t give the Medical Immortal any chance to get close. Both were battered and refused to yield.

Her lover’s body was fading. Ultimately, the Medical Immortal gave up on the Golden Cores. Dragging her scarred body, she returned to her lover’s side. She clumsily pulled the body into her arms. From behind the white silk covering her eyes, a single drop of blood-tear fell, blooming like a plum blossom on the plain white clothes.

She pressed her face against the other’s lifeless cheek and whispered: “If only I had listened to you back then and hadn’t saved them.”

White light flickered on the Medical Immortal’s forehead, continuously merging into the dissipating body. The hem of her clothes began to harden, slowly turning into white jade from the bottom up until her entire body was transformed. The figure in her arms vanished completely.

At the same moment, in the crowded Medical Immortal Temple, the jade statue of the Medical Immortal suddenly turned into white petals, drifting into the sky and vanishing.

Everything seemed to have settled.

Wanqi Yue gripped her sword hilt, panted, and stood up to look at Su Mi. She called out softly, “Senior Sister…”

She staggered toward the trapped Su Mi, but after only two steps, she collapsed forward. Her spiritual sword slipped from her hand and rolled away. Her fair face was dotted with spots of blood.

Seeing this, Su Mi erupted with spiritual energy, breaking the shackles placed upon her, a trace of blood leaking from the corner of her mouth.

“She will be the death of you!”

Su Mi wiped the blood from her chin and said softly, “She won’t.”

The Mountain Lord stepped forward, her voice echoing: “Even if she won’t today, there will come a day in the future when she will!”

Su Mi had already reached Wanqi Yue. She knelt and gently wiped the blood from the unconscious girl’s face. Lifting her in her arms, she looked at the Mountain Lord: “Why do you think she will?”

“Because…” Because I have seen it. She will cause you to perish along with that villain, your soul scattered, never to enter reincarnation for eternity.

But the Mountain Lord could not speak these words. Just thinking about it made her hands at her sides tremble uncontrollably.

“Why? Why must you protect her like this?” She isn’t worth it.

Su Mi brushed past her, her voice carried back by the wind.

“She is my… Junior Sister.”