After Redeeming The Beautiful and Tragic Heroine [Transmigration] - Chapter 21

Heaven was trying to destroy her!

Yu Yuan lamented inwardly, but her movements were ceaseless.

She timed it perfectly. The moment the first Shadow Corpse climbed into the Lake Pavilion, she flung both of her remaining Corpse Dissolving Talismans, creating an angle that gave the Shadow Corpse no room to maneuver. It instantly dissolved into a pool of bloody water.

The remaining three Shadow Corpses were smarter.

Seeing their leader perish, they didn’t dare to act rashly anymore.

The one shrinking furthest back was the previously lucky one-armed Shadow Corpse. It let out a low growl and kept its eyes locked on Yu Yuan’s hand.

Yu Yuan had no more Corpse Dissolving Talismans left in her hand.

She remained in a standoff with the three submerged Shadow Corpses, neither side making the next move.

The silence lasted until the one-armed Shadow Corpse suddenly raised its voice, letting out a bizarre, long cry that sounded like a wail.

Only then did the other Shadow Corpses stir.

The two uninjured Shadow Corpses moved quickly in the water, and in the next moment, they were standing inside the Lake Pavilion.

Yu Yuan hadn’t expected them to be so fast.

Her heart stopped for a beat. Then, she flipped her hand, and a clarinet appeared dramatically in her grasp.

Yu Yuan didn’t want to admit it, but her Natal Artifact was, in fact, the same type of clarinet played by Squidward Tentacles.

More fatally, her clarinet skills were even worse than Squidward’s.

For years, the new disciples of the Miaoyin Sect thought she was hiding her true ability and refused to show off.

But the older disciples of the Miaoyin Sect knew better—their Young Sect Master wasn’t holding back; she was safeguarding their lives.

After all, whenever Yu Yuan’s clarinet made an appearance, everything within a hundred miles was guaranteed to suffer.

The Shadow Corpses had never seen a clarinet.

They stood in the pavilion, raising their hands to grab Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan dodged, muttering, “You brought this upon yourselves!”

Her hesitation gone, she pressed her lips against the clarinet and began to play, heedless of the consequences.

A sound like ghosts wailing and wolves howling erupted from the instrument.

The two Shadow Corpses visibly stiffened, then frantically reached up to cover their ears.

Yu Yuan watched them and thought she could vaguely read two words from their contorted mouths: Holy $h!t!

Yu Yuan’s mouth twitched. Is it really that bad?

The System’s mechanical voice sounded in her Sea of Consciousness, answering her:

【Host, upon evaluation, the sound generated by your clarinet performance can stop a child from crying at night.】

Yu Yuan: …

She silently closed the mind link with the System, choosing to ignore how awful she sounded. Instead, she concentrated, using her willpower to command the last purple talisman in her storage bag to fly out and hover over her head.

The Clear-Sky Thunderbolt Talisman.

Yu Yuan had secretly learned it from the cultivation world’s top Talisman Master.

This talisman could summon a powerful purple lightning, comparable to heavenly thunder, for the user’s purposes.

However, using the talisman incurred a great cost to oneself, so Yu Yuan wouldn’t have brought it out unless she was absolutely desperate.

Yu Yuan closed her eyes and released her divine sense. The scenery of the entire Lake Pavilion unfolded in her Sea of Consciousness.

Three Shadow Corpses in total.

Excluding the two Shadow Corpses in the pavilion immobilized by her clarinet, one was still moving?!

Yu Yuan was shocked.

The two Shadow Corpses that had first climbed up acted like a wall in front of her, preventing her from noticing that the one-armed Shadow Corpse had no ears.

No ears meant it was naturally unaffected by her clarinet.

Yu Yuan’s heart skipped a beat, but she quickly calmed down.

Never mind, dealing with one is better than none, she comforted herself.

After all, the Clear-Sky Thunderbolt Talisman was a ‘no turning back’ kind of spell, so she couldn’t stop now.

Above her head, the purple talisman flickered with golden, fragmented lightning.

Yu Yuan focused her will, and a moment later, a loud “Rumble!” sounded in her ears. Three dark-purple bolts of lightning simultaneously struck the darkness outside the pavilion.

Two bolts of purple lightning landed accurately on the two Shadow Corpses in front of Yu Yuan.

They were scorched black, fell to the ground, and shattered into pieces, losing their complete form.

The final Shadow Corpse remained.

It had retreated underwater. The purple lightning caused two-person-high splashes on the lake surface but didn’t harm it in the slightest.

Yu Yuan’s heart sank at the sight. The cold sweat on her forehead condensed on her pale lips.

Yu Yuan actually wanted to summon one more bolt of purple lightning to eliminate the Shadow Corpse.

But she knew that summoning one more bolt would mean gambling her own life against the Shadow Corpse.

Thus, after only a moment of hesitation, she retracted the Clear-Sky Thunderbolt Talisman and opened her somewhat clouded eyes.

Her vision was blurry. Yu Yuan stumbled, but quickly stabilized herself.

In front of her, the two Shadow Corpses had become two piles of charcoal.

Following the layout she remembered, Yu Yuan stepped around them, preparing to leave the Lake Pavilion.

Unexpectedly, the entire Lake Pavilion had been placed under a restriction at some point.

The moment Yu Yuan stepped out, the restriction violently rebounded her back into the pavilion, sending her crashing heavily to the ground.

At the same time, the Shadow Corpse in the water reappeared, climbing into the Lake Pavilion once more.

A cold, viscous aura surrounded her.

In Yu Yuan’s blurry vision, a figure grew larger and larger.

She sat on the ground, watching in horror, desperately shuffling backward.

But the Shadow Corpse relentlessly advanced, refusing to let Yu Yuan go.

It raised its one good hand and reached for Yu Yuan’s neck, intending to strangle her.

Yu Yuan felt the intense chill on her neck and guessed the Shadow Corpse’s intention.

She gripped the clarinet in her hand, planning to violently smash the Shadow Corpse with it.

However, just as the Shadow Corpse was about to touch her neck, and as she raised the clarinet, a white shadow flashed past her eyes.

Then, Yu Yuan only heard a “crack.” In her hazy vision, a new spherical object appeared, rolling off her foot and splashing into the lake with a “plop.”

The Shadow Corpse’s neck had been broken?!

Yu Yuan was shocked.

She looked at the white figure, tentatively grasping the corner of the other person’s sleeve.

“Master, is that you?” Yu Yuan asked cautiously.

“It’s me,” Xue Qingshu replied, wiping the residue of the Shadow Corpse’s black blood from her hand.

Yu Yuan let out a sigh of relief upon hearing her voice.

Then, realizing that Xue Qingshu had just snapped the Shadow Corpse’s neck with her bare hand, she panicked, grabbing the other woman’s hand and anxiously asking: “Master, is your hand injured?”

Xue Qingshu stared at Yu Yuan’s blurry eyes: “I’m fine.”

She allowed Yu Yuan to hold her hand, but deliberately used a light blade to slice a long gash across her own palm just as Yu Yuan touched her.

As a result, Yu Yuan felt a hand full of blood the moment she touched her.

Yu Yuan: !

She says she’s fine? Is my villain master trying to kill herself and log off early?

I am not taking the blame for this!

Also, Shadow Corpse blood is highly toxic. If my villain master is assimilated, ten of me wouldn’t be able to fight her!

Yu Yuan didn’t want to be dragged down right after barely surviving, especially by her suddenly heroic villain master.

So, she quickly reached into her storage bag and retrieved a small porcelain bottle.

The bottle contained the “Cleanser of a Hundred Poisons.”

This was part of the reason Yu Yuan had dared to fight the Shadow Corpses so boldly.

This item was something Yu Qinzhong had sought out for her and her sister. It could cure a hundred poisons, including the Shadow Corpse poison.

Yu Yuan poured a few drops onto Xue Qingshu’s palm.

The remaining Shadow Corpse blood in Xue Qingshu’s palm instantly turned into clear water, and the wound she had deliberately cut healed at a visible speed.

Yu Yuan held Xue Qingshu’s hand, silently counting the time.

When enough time had passed, she reached out her fingertip and tentatively touched Xue Qingshu’s hand, wanting to confirm that the injury was completely healed.

Xue Qingshu didn’t stop her, allowing Yu Yuan to touch her.

However, the feather-light, ticklish pressure of Yu Yuan’s fingers made her purse her lips. She felt a wave of discomfort.

But Xue Qingshu didn’t want to interrupt Yu Yuan.

So, she endured it.

Until Yu Yuan’s fingertip landed on her palm for what felt like the tenth time. Losing patience, she grabbed the other woman’s hand and pulled her into her embrace.

“That’s enough.”

Her breath brushed against Yu Yuan’s ear.

Yu Yuan’s ears instantly turned red. She quickly scrambled away from Xue Qingshu and knelt to the side.

“Ma-Master, that… that was this disciple overstepping!”

Yu Yuan held her own hands, having analyzed every possible meaning of Xue Qingshu’s “That’s enough,” and lowered her head, wishing she could bury herself in the dirt right now.

I actually dared to blindly touch my villain master’s little hand!

I must be insane.

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