Achieving A Happy Ending With The Tragic Female Lead [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 33

Wanqi Yue held the talismans Su Mi had given her, feeling a bit disgruntled. “Eldest Martial Sister, can’t I stay with you?”

The position Su Mi had chosen for her was somewhat remote. Although she was slightly dissatisfied with her sister’s “favoritism” toward the Mountain Lord, she currently didn’t want to be separated from her at all.

“The formations at that location are more complex. I wouldn’t feel at ease leaving them to anyone else,” Su Mi explained.

Upon hearing this reason, Wanqi Yue’s dissatisfaction vanished instantly. Instead, it was replaced by a sense of joy, feeling that her sister’s assignment was a mark of high regard.

“Don’t lose focus later, lest something goes wrong. No matter who experiences an accident on their side, don’t worry too much,” Su Mi said, suddenly glancing toward the side.

Wanqi Yue wanted to ask why, but she saw Su Mi suddenly lean in. A kiss, carrying a cold and clear scent, landed on her lips.

It was a brief touch, yet soft and real.

Su Mi’s expression remained composed, showing little emotion, but the tips of her ears were tinged with an uncharacteristic heat, as if she felt a lingering shyness for her bold action.

She reached out and lightly brushed Wanqi Yue’s lips. “Go now.”

Wanqi Yue was stunned by this unexpected pleasant surprise. For a moment, she forgot what she wanted to ask and left in a daze.

[Master, why did you lie to the female lead?]

As a portable system, Coal Ball could see the distribution of the formations. The place the female lead was heading to wasn’t complex at all, the most intricate formations were actually right here with Su Mi.

Su Mi watched Wanqi Yue’s receding figure and said meaningfully, “I didn’t lie to her. For her, that is the most complex formation.”

Coal Ball looked at Yue Qianzhou in the distance and couldn’t help but speak up.

[The male lead definitely won’t stay well-behaved today. By not keeping the female lead by your side, aren’t you giving him a golden opportunity?]

Su Mi countered, “Have I given him ‘accidental’ opportunities rarely? Has he ever succeeded?”

Coal Ball wanted to say more, but remembering its experience from the day before yesterday, it immediately shut its mouth.

The female lead is already yours, whatever you say is right.

Outside, the guards holding Su Mi’s talismans had reached their positions. Following instructions, they placed the talismans upward, and a pale blue light screen instantly spread across the sky.

Simultaneously, those inside the barrier who possessed no spiritual power were sent out one by one by a surge of energy. Several guards stood outside, looking at each other in confusion, unsure if this was an accident or intended.

While they were dazed, swarms of blood crows flew in from the distance, crashing into the barrier and dissolving into mists of blood. Faint red blood-colored patterns immediately appeared atop the nearly completed barrier.

At that moment, someone tried to approach again. As soon as they touched the barrier, they let out a scream. The palm that touched the barrier was charred black, faintly emitting a dark energy.

The completed barrier blocked sound, so those inside only heard a faint commotion. Furthermore, when the people inside looked up, they couldn’t see the blood-colored patterns clinging to the outside like maggots on a bone.

With the barrier set, the people inside began to dismantle the formations.

The formations in this small courtyard were widely distributed and cleverly linked. A single misstep would trigger the entire system. The talismans Su Mi provided were specifically designed to help them forcibly suppress the other formations, allowing them to deal with them one by one, greatly reducing risk and difficulty.

Thus, with the strength Yue Qianzhou was currently displaying, he was able to join the ranks of those helping.

Su Mi stepped across a patch of overgrown floor tiles toward the dilapidated house. She could clearly feel that the formations near this area were much stronger than those outside.

Outside the house stood a half-withered tree, its bare branches appearing desolate and decaying.

Su Mi withdrew her gaze and continued forward. As she stepped into the house, several blood crows quietly appeared on the tree behind her, silently watching her enter.

The air inside was thick with fine dust, and the furniture was already teetering. The moment she entered, the cloth curtains hanging in the room billowed without any wind, and strange noises reached her ears, all proclaiming that this place did not welcome outsiders.

Su Mi held two talismans between her fingers, placing them on opposite sides of the room. The disturbances were instantly suppressed by half. She located the weakest point of the formation and began the delicate process of unraveling it.

While she was fully concentrated, her ears caught a slight, subtle movement. she glanced back slightly, a talisman appearing between her fingers with a flick of her wrist.

A tiny crack suddenly appeared on the floor behind her, snaking toward her position.

The crack stopped less than an inch away from her. Then, the stone tiles were suddenly thrust upward as a blood-red crow erupted from beneath.

Su Mi turned and took a step back, brushing away the flying debris. The stones hit the ground, kicking up a thick layer of dust that resembled a gray mist.

Her talisman landed perfectly against the crow’s sharp beak. Spiritual energy extended from the talisman, instantly enveloping the bird.

Su Mi’s right hand was still busy dismantling the local formation. Dealing with two tasks at once, she remained cautious.

However, before Su Mi could do anything else, the trapped blood crow suddenly self-detonated. The unknown substance contained within the spiritual energy began to thrash violently.

BOOM….

A loud explosion erupted outside. Su Mi looked through the broken door toward the source of the sound. The half-withered tree at the entrance had collapsed heavily onto the ground, its fallen branches trembling.

The wind following the tree’s fall whistled past Su Mi, making her robes flutter loudly.

In the next instant, a raging fire exploded into life, instantly igniting the withered tree. Due to the uneven heat, the thick trunk began to warp, and the wood fibers snapped with a series of loud cracks. Eerily, the black fire even began to circle the house, burning a perimeter.

It looked as though it intended to isolate the house Su Mi was in from everyone else.

The people outside were clearly startled by this scene. Through the soaring flames, Su Mi looked toward Yue Qianzhou. His figure was hidden behind the leaping black fire, distorted and indistinct, but she could feel a malice from him that was almost tangible.

Wanqi Yue looked at the soaring flames before her. In her anxiety, she recalled Su Mi’s previous instructions and hesitated, perhaps she truly should trust her Eldest Martial Sister.

Immediately after, the formation she was responsible for encountered an issue. It felt as if an invisible force from underground was sabotaging and consuming the arrays, causing chaotic deviations in the local patterns. As one move affects the whole, Wanqi Yue was forced to use her spiritual power to violently suppress the triggered formations.

Meanwhile, Yue Qianzhou approached Wanqi Yue’s side to seek help: “Miss Wanqi, it seems I can no longer hold down my side.”

Wanqi Yue had no time to spare for him at all. She took a hurried glance in the direction he came from: “Then leave this place at once.”

It wasn’t just Wanqi Yue, the others were facing similar situations.

As a medical cultivator, Qiao Wuyu’s cultivation in spiritual power was naturally inferior to the others. When trouble arose, it was Fang Yun beside her who supported her. As time passed, the latter also began to show signs of strain, leaving them unable to worry about Su Mi’s situation.

Inside the house, Su Mi only had time to cast a single glance at the burning tree outside. The thing she had imprisoned with her spiritual power suddenly began to grow, eventually shattering the cage of energy. Countless blood crows erupted from within, charging straight at Su Mi.

Coal Ball reminded her: [This is the male lead’s handiwork.]

Su Mi raised her hand and crushed a blood crow through the air. The dead crow instantly exploded, its blood droplets splitting again into several more crows. They seemed determined to surround her.

At this moment, she couldn’t care about the formations inside the house. She dodged the crows that kept pouncing at her and headed for the door. Outside, the soaring black fire suddenly shifted direction, lunging straight toward her.

Su Mi reached out to block it directly, using an indisputable surge of spiritual power to forcibly suppress the black flames. On the other side, the blood crows following her were growing in number, and the faint black mist thickened as the crows multiplied.

Unlike the Mountain Lord’s black mist, these dark vapors were wreathed in a cold, slimy aura, this was demonic energy.

The sky full of blood crows was about to enclose the area where she stood.

Su Mi looked toward Yue Qianzhou and let out a cold laugh. She crushed a talisman, and a complex array immediately lit up beneath her feet. Pale gold runes rose slowly from the circle, and after a flash of blue light, the array flowing on the ground doubled in size.

Yue Qianzhou, who was busy currying favor at Wanqi Yue’s side, suddenly felt the ground light up beneath him. A soaring white light instantly locked him within. His expression changed abruptly, but before he could say a word, he vanished from before Wanqi Yue.

The moment Yue Qianzhou appeared within the barrier, a hemispherical blood-red shield covered the courtyard, and the light inside dimmed instantly. He immediately felt a massive surge of spiritual power descending from above and was forced to use his true strength to block it.

“Why stop the act?” Su Mi’s cold, silent voice rang out.

Yue Qianzhou rose slowly, the hypocritical kindness fading from his face. He realized there must have been something wrong with the talisman Su Mi gave him earlier, he should have thrown it away immediately.

A sinister smile appeared in his eyes, accompanied by a hidden hatred rising from his chest. “Immortal Su, why can’t you just die quietly?”

Su Mi’s eyes lowered as a faint, flowing light emerged from her palms as she formed hand seals. Her fingertips seemed gilded with a layer of radiance. “Then you are welcome to try.”

“What is that?” Qiao Wuyu turned to look at the massive blood-red barrier, a trace of shock in her eyes.

Fang Yun’s eyes darkened. “It’s demonic energy.”

The other disciples had never seen demonic energy before; they only felt that the aura was incredibly unsettling.

The more Wanqi Yue looked at where her Eldest Martial Sister was, the more uneasy she became. She increased the flow of her spiritual power until she forcibly destroyed the fluctuating formations entirely. The price for this was the exhaustion of double her usual spiritual power.

Seeing this, the others followed suit, but even with several times the effort, they could only temporarily stabilize their arrays.

Without a word, Wanqi Yue stepped toward the black flames, attempting to extinguish them. To her surprise, the spiritual power she unleashed actually fueled the black fire, as if she were feeding it gasoline.

“Junior Sister, don’t act recklessly.” Fang Yun had also consumed a large amount of energy and was no longer as steady as usual. She ordered the other disciples to retreat from the courtyard first, leaving only herself and Wanqi Yue.

“Second Senior Sister, how do we break this barrier?” Wanqi Yue was anxious but knew she shouldn’t be brash.

Fang Yun’s face remained grim as she stayed silent for a moment before saying: “Let’s try to destroy it by force together.”

Facing the raging fire, Fang Yun raised her sword and swung. She managed to carve out a gap by sheer force, and the two of them entered the interior through this temporary opening.

As soon as they approached the barrier, blood crows emerged from the shield and pounced on them.

Wanqi Yue took charge of slaying them while Fang Yun attempted to sabotage the barrier.

Fang Yun discovered that the blood crow patterns on the array seemed to be alive. She tried to kill the crows on the surface, the moment a section was cleared, the barrier became much more fragile. She took advantage of these gaps to begin her destruction.

Before long, the blood-red barrier let out an overburdened cracking sound. Tiny fissures appeared on the surface, growing larger until it shattered completely. The massive impact knocked both of them back.

Wanqi Yue landed further away than Fang Yun, nearly touching the sinister black fire.

Inside the barrier, the two figures who had been locked in a stalemate were revealed. Su Mi’s arm, which she used to block a long sword, was covered in numerous bloody wounds, looking as if she had been pecked. Yue Qianzhou’s right arm hung limp at his side.

Yue Qianzhou suddenly turned his head toward Fang Yun and sent a silent secret transmission: Now is your chance. As long as you kill her, you will be the number one. No one will ever…

But before he could finish his sentence, he saw a sword pierce through his chest. He slowly lowered his head and watched the dripping blood trickle down the tip of the blade.

Yue Qianzhou’s face contorted instantly. A powerful, freezing demonic energy erupted from his wound, directly blasting Fang Yun away.

Su Mi, standing in front of him, was also forced back several steps before finding her footing. Blood flowed slowly from her palm to her fingertips, gathering and dripping onto the ground.

“Eldest Martial Sister!” Wanqi Yue ran to Su Mi’s side, her eyes, filled with clear light, brimming with worry.

Su Mi shook her head silently at her, signaling her not to worry.

“Why?! Don’t you hate her?!” Yue Qianzhou stared at Fang Yun with eyes nearly popping out of his head. He clutched his wound as it continued to bleed, and the demonic energy on his body seemed to be slowly intensifying. “She is the one who took everything you were supposed to have, and I could have helped you!”

Fang Yun propped herself up with her sword. Gasping for air, she looked up at Yue Qianzhou and said word by word: “What makes you think I would ever betray my own sister for the sake of a man?”