After Redeeming The Beautiful and Tragic Heroine [Transmigration] - Chapter 39.1

Inside the courtyard where Yu Yuan was staying.

The sounds of blades and swords mingled with the notes of a flute, rising and falling in succession.

In the center of the courtyard, Yi Yue leaned back to dodge a sword, but another immediately followed, slicing her arm.

Blood welled from the wound, staining half of her sleeve.

Yi Yue let out a low gasp of pain, but dared not stop. She gritted her teeth and continued to block the subsequent flurry of swords raining down on her.

“A’Yan, go help her.”

Yu Yuan had just rushed back to her courtyard rooftop and spoke immediately to Yu Yan.

Yu Yan responded, flying down from the roof. Wielding a long flute, she quickly managed to reverse the pressure on the two black-robed Shalemo assassins who were flanking Yi Yue.

“Young Sect Master, I’ll take care of the rest,” Qin Beilu said, looking at Elder Yunting and Qin Niang, who were entangled in a brawl with the remaining black-robed figures.

Yu Yuan looked in their direction as well.

She gripped the Teleportation Talisman in her hand, pondered for a moment, and nodded. “Senior Sister, please be careful.”

“Understood,” Qin Beilu replied simply and joined the fray.

Only Yu Yuan and Xue Qingshu remained on the rooftop.

Xue Qingshu slowly sat down, her gaze sweeping below and finally settling on the area beneath the stone table.

Under the stone table, Wei Haoran was hiding, trembling uncontrollably.

Xue Qingshu’s slender brow raised slightly. She lowered her eyes to glance at Yu Yuan, who was clutching a talisman and muttering a spell beside her. With a slight movement of her hand hidden in her sleeve, a wisp of spiritual energy flew from her fingertip and landed on the stone table above Wei Haoran’s head.

The stone table let out a muffled groan and cracked open.

Wei Haoran shivered. Before he could react, he found himself involuntarily standing up from the ground, wrapping his arms around a black-robed assassin, and sinking his teeth in.

“Aaaargh! What the hell!” The bitten assassin cried out in pain, wanting to cleave Wei Haoran with his sword.

However, orders from above strictly forbade harming Wei Haoran.

Therefore, he could only endure the agony, not daring to touch a single hair on the man.

The battle grew increasingly chaotic with the addition of Yu Yan and the others. Yu Yuan, clutching the Teleportation Talismans, felt a dilemma.

Originally, she had planned to solve everything with just one talisman, but now, it seemed she would have to waste two more.

Yu Yuan painfully dug out the last two Teleportation Talismans from her storage pouch, recited the spell, and the paper slowly flew out from between her fingers, dropping into the confused battle in the small courtyard.

The Teleportation Talismans weaved among the black-robed figures, and the barely visible golden dust settled on their bodies.

Yu Yuan closed her eyes. In her Sea of Consciousness, the locations marked by the golden dust lit up one after another.

Five, four, three, two, one.

As the last marker succeeded, Yu Yuan swiftly pinched her fingers. A faint light flashed from her fingertip, and the talismans instantly transformed into a beam of light that enveloped the entire courtyard.

When the light dissipated, the black-robed figures had vanished from the courtyard.

The people in the courtyard sighed in relief and collapsed to the ground.

Yu Yuan looked down at everyone, then whirled around and jumped off the roof. She walked over to Yu Yan, pulled her up from the ground, and asked, “Are you alright?”

Yu Yan leaned her full weight on Yu Yuan and shook her head. “I’m fine.”

“That’s good,” Yu Yuan let out a sigh of relief and used a Cleansing Spell to remove the bloodstains from Yu Yan’s body.

“Fairy Yu—” Yi Yue, who was lying in a pool of blood, suddenly spoke up.

Hearing her voice, Yu Yuan put one arm around Yu Yan, looked down at Yi Yue on the ground, and her breath hitched.

Yi Yue was covered in injuries, and every one of them was severe, nearly exposing bone.

Yu Yuan quickly helped Yu Yan stand straight, then knelt down herself, carefully lifting Yi Yue from the blood and using a spell to stop the bleeding.

“Fairy Yi, where else are you hurt?” Yu Yuan asked urgently, feeling Yi Yue’s increasingly faint breathing.

Yi Yue leaned against Yu Yuan, her consciousness already fading. “Injured… I’m not injured.”

Her eyes were clouded. After she finished speaking, a mouthful of metallic sweetness surged up, spilling over the corner of her mouth and staining her chest.

“Fairy Yu, please… please don’t mind me. Go save Changyu… Changyu Lin. She was captured because she tried to help me,” Yi Yue whispered faintly.

Yu Yuan frowned. “Fairy Yi, but you right now—”

—your problem is more serious.

Before she could finish, the person in her arms passed out.

“Big Sister, what do we do?” Yu Yan crouched down and asked.

Yu Yuan gripped Yi Yue’s wrist, sighed, and lowered her head. “I can’t save her.”

The blades and swords those Shalemo used were all poisoned.

Yi Yue had taken so many direct hits; the poison had already infiltrated her spiritual meridians. Even an Immortal—

An Immortal…

Yu Yuan’s thoughts paused, and she looked up, a solution dawning on her. “Changyu Lin can save her! We need to find Changyu Lin!”

Changyu Lin was from the Xuhai Merman race, and her blood, the blood of the Merman Princess who was currently cross-dressing as a man could save Yi Yue.

“A’Yan, quickly use the Tracing Spell to find Changyu Lin’s location,” Yu Yuan instructed.

Yu Yan quickly said “Oh,” stood up, and began the spell.

Beside them, the others recovered their senses.

They all gathered around Yu Yuan, their eyes on Yi Yue in her arms.

“She looks like she’s beyond saving,” Elder Yunting was the first to speak.

Everyone glanced at her, silently agreeing but choosing not to comment.

After a long time, Yu Yan finally returned, saying she had found Changyu Lin’s location. Only then did everyone begin to move.

The location Yu Yan had traced was inside a rock garden.

Yu Yuan carried Yi Yue onto her back and followed Yu Yan, leading the large group through the Mo Residence garden. After several twists and turns, they stopped inside the rock garden.

There was almost no light inside the structure.

A few sparse beams of light filtered through the cracks in the rock, hitting a few corners randomly.

“I wonder where the mechanism is hidden?” Yu Yan fumbled along the rough, uneven rock wall, unable to find anything amiss.

Qin Beilu stood beside her, examining a different section.

She tapped the rock wall lightly, listening to the solid sound from within, equally without a clue.

Qin Niang, who was silently following Yu Yuan, glanced between the two of them and suggested softly, “If we destroy the rock garden, the mechanism should expose itself, shouldn’t it?”

Hearing this, Yu Yuan shook her head. “That’s too risky.”

Elder Yunting chimed in agreement. “Exactly. If the mechanism is integral to the rock garden itself, destroying the whole thing will destroy the mechanism too. At that point, we would be….”

—destroying the path before finding the door.

Before Elder Yunting could finish, Xue Qingshu, who had been silent all this time, destroyed a corner of the rock garden.

Elder Yunting gasped!

Her eyes wide, she exclaimed, “Wen Ti, if you do that—”

—have you considered the consequences?

She was interrupted again. She heard a rumble from the intact rock garden behind her, and immediately afterward, a passage suddenly opened beneath her feet.

“Ah!” Elder Yunting shrieked, tumbling into the deep passage.

The rest of the group exchanged glances, then surrounded the passage, craning their necks to look inside.

“I didn’t expect destroying the rock garden to actually work,” Yu Yan tossed a small stone into the passage. “Even if it was just a corner, it still counts as destroying the rock garden.”

As her words fell, the stone she threw landed.

They heard a low groan from Elder Yunting below. Then, a resentful voice floated up, “Who? Who threw that rock on purpose? When we return to the Sect, I’ll see to it that—”

—I lock you in the Law Enforcement Hall.

Before she could finish, Xue Qingshu kicked another small stone into the passage.

“Noisy,” Xue Qingshu said coldly.

The people by the edge of the passage looked at her, then back into the depths of the tunnel, stifling their laughter.

Yu Yuan, with Yi Yue on her back, turned to Xue Qingshu. “How did you know the mechanism was here?”

She didn’t remember Xue Qingshu ever visiting this place in the original novel.

Of course, if this were part of the ‘reborn’ plot, it would make sense.

Xue Qingshu leaned against the stone wall, her gaze on the few beams of light hitting the opposite wall. “The light was avoiding this spot, so I just tried it.”

The implication: Hey, I just guessed, and I was right.

Yu Yuan pursed her lips, didn’t ask further, and turned her attention back to the passage.

The sounds of Elder Yunting were gone.

Yu Yuan threw an Illuminating Talisman down, and the entire passage was instantly revealed clearly to everyone.

The tunnel was about ten feet deep. Elder Yunting was not at the bottom; only two small stones lay quietly beside a set of footprints.

“Let’s go down,” Yu Yuan told the others. With a spin, she flew down into the passage.

Yu Yan and Qin Beilu exchanged a look and quickly followed.

Qin Niang, unwilling to be left behind, took a deep breath and jumped in as well.

Outside the passage, only Wei Haoran and Xue Qingshu remained.

Wei Haoran eyed the pitch-black passage, swallowed hard, and looked up at Xue Qingshu. “Immortal Lord, perhaps we shouldn’t….”

—go in.

Before he could finish, a white shadow suddenly flashed before his eyes. Xue Qingshu had vanished.

Wei Haoran sighed, resigned.

He was forced to follow the main group.

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