After Redeeming the Villain, I Was Obliterated by the System - Chapter 31

Su Zhanyun could bear it no longer. With a strike of his sword, he smashed the table in Lin Sui’s room yet again.

With a loud bang, Lin Sui, who was leaning against the headboard, nearly tumbled onto the floor.

Beside him, Mo Bai, who was still administering medical treatment to Lin Sui, could no longer watch in silence.

“Eldest Senior Brother, Junior Brother needs rest. Absolute rest.”

“From what I see, he does not need it at all!” Su Zhanyun retracted his sword.

He could not calm his current state of mind. The moment he saw his Junior Brother’s life-bound soul tablet nearly dimming to total darkness, he had ignored the fact that his Junior Brother was in secluded cultivation and broken in by force.

Upon entering, he saw his Junior Brother sitting by the edge of the bed, his right hand gripping the headboard. His slender fingers were pressing so hard they nearly sunk into the wood. His head was lowered, and his snow-white inner robes were already stained a bright, vivid crimson with blood, while his trousers were utterly drenched in it.

Hearing the noise, the person on the bed raised his head, his dilated pupils trying their hardest to focus. Blood kept welling up from his mouth, and his life force was dissipating rapidly.

Su Zhanyun had hastily used the magic treasure left behind by their Shizun just to hang onto his Junior Brother’s life.

Mo Bai had arrived shortly after, barely managing to protect their Junior Brother’s nearly shattered divine soul.

How could Su Zhanyun not be afraid? How could he not be furious?

“Junior Brother, just tell Eldest Senior Brother properly. Did you sneak out?” Mo Bai’s temperament was much gentler. Although he was also terrified and angry inside, he was clearly much more stable than Su Zhanyun.

“I have never gone out,” Lin Sui replied stubbornly. He indeed had not gone out using this body, so it did not count as a lie.

“Good, good, good! You will not tell the truth, will you?! Today, I want to see exactly who it is that can make you abandon your seclusion and rush off to seek death!” Su Zhanyun’s face contorted with rage. His spiritual energy was about to probe into Lin Sui’s sea of consciousness to extract his memories of the past few days.

Mo Bai stopped him just in time. Even his usually good temper crumbled at this moment, “Sect Master! Junior Brother’s sea of consciousness has been tampered with by a demonic cultivator! If you probe into it like this, do you want Junior Brother to become an idiot?”

“Senior Brothers, I am tired. My seclusion is not finished yet. Please leave first,” Lin Sui said, dismissing his guests.

Su Zhanyun was about to erupt again, but seeing Lin Sui’s face, which could not possibly get any paler, he let out a heavy, cold snort. “Lin Zuizhi, do not wait until I find out on my own what you went to do before you regret it!”

“Eldest Senior Brother, I really have never gone out.” Lin Sui recalled that he had indeed appeared in that illusionary realm twice, but that was an illusionary realm. Plus, his physical body had truly never left the room.

“Heh.” Su Zhanyun turned back in anger, frightening Mo Bai into quickly dragging him away.

“Eldest Senior Brother, since we broke into Junior Brother’s seclusion this time, the duration of his seclusion will have to be extended again.”

Su Zhanyun flung off Mo Bai’s hand and walked out of the room. He cast several more restrictions until the entire room was enveloped in golden light before speaking.

“Do you think this is the first time we have broken in? If Shizun had not left half of his spiritual energy to Junior Brother before ascending, would he even be alive today?”

The words Mo Bai was about to say choked in his throat. It was true. If Shizun had not left behind so many magic treasures and half of his spiritual energy for Junior Brother, his Junior Brother’s soul would probably have scattered to the winds a month after Shizun’s ascension.

The moment Su Zhanyun and Mo Bai left, Lin Sui’s body went limp, and he collapsed.

He had been saving the villain for less than half a month, yet he had already been on the brink of death twice!

It seemed he had to find the male protagonist as soon as possible and let the villain steal the protagonist’s role!

Upon returning to his other body, Lin Sui was so exhausted that he could not even open his eyes. His eyeballs rolled slightly beneath his lids, and he simply gave up trying.

“Junior Brother Zhu! Junior Brother Zhu, my Junior Brother’s eyelids moved just now! I did not see wrongly this time! They moved!” Xiao Qingyan was incredibly excited. His hand trembled as he held Lin Sui’s. If his Junior Brother still did not wake up, he had already considered going to look for the demonic cultivator.

Did that demonic cultivator not call him Demon Venerable? Someone in the Demon Race must be able to save his Junior Brother. After all, it was he who had used demonic energy to erase his Junior Brother’s memories. He did it so that even if the erasure was discovered, the people of the cultivation world would have no way to extract that demonic energy.

But he had never expected it to turn out like this. He thought it was just a tiny segment of memory, and that nothing would go wrong.

Xiao Qingyan felt boundless regret. If he could do it over again, he would absolutely not do that.

This was all because of his Shizun!

Lin Sui could not open his eyes, but just as he was thinking that the villain actually possessed a sense of self-reproach, he heard the villain shift the blame onto him again in the very next sentence. Furious, his chest heaved, and he choked straight into consciousness.

“Cough, cough, cough!”

Whether it was from anger or from coughing, the veins on Lin Sui’s fair and delicate neck bulged. If one looked closely, they could even see the pulse of the blood vessels.

Soon, his face and neck flushed entirely red from coughing.

“Junior Brother, Junior Brother.” Xiao Qingyan hastily supported Lin Sui into a sitting position. He felt his Junior Brother’s back visibly stiffen the moment he touched it.

The coughs were forced back into his Junior Brother’s throat, causing his entire back to arch. Because he was too thin, his pair of shoulder blades protruded, resembling a butterfly fluttering its wings with every shudder of its master’s body.

Xiao Qingyan did not know why his Junior Brother still held such great resistance toward him. It was only when he saw that his Junior Brother showed the same resistance while Zhu Jiayu checked his pulse that he breathed a sigh of relief.

Presumably, his Junior Brother just did not like intimate contact.

Fortunately, it was a good thing he had restrained himself before and had not done anything too excessive to his Junior Brother.

He believed that sooner or later, he would move his Junior Brother’s heart.

“Senior Brother Xiao, Junior Brother Lin is no longer in any serious danger. He just cannot overexert himself.” Zhu Jiayu’s gaze toward Lin Sui turned peculiar. He was highly curious about how someone whose divine soul was nearly shattered just moments ago could fully recover in a mere half day.

“Are you certain?” Xiao Qingyan frowned, deeply skeptical of Zhu Jiayu’s words.

Even a great cultivator could not possibly be perfectly fine after sleeping for only half a day when their divine soul was heavily traumatized and their sea of consciousness was invaded by demonic energy.

Zhu Jiayu knew that anyone would find this hard to believe. He packed away the silver needles beside him. “If Senior Brother Xiao does not believe it, you can check for yourself. There seems to be an extremely powerful spiritual energy inside Junior Brother’s body that is sustaining his life.”

Xiao Qingyan recalled the spiritual energy that had previously blocked him from entering his Junior Brother’s sea of consciousness, and only then did he drop his doubts.

“Senior Brother Xiao, I am fine,” Lin Sui spoke up immediately, terrified that Xiao Qingyan would connect the dots about him through Zhu Jiayu’s words.

Xiao Qingyan’s focus returned to Lin Sui. Noticing Lin Sui’s dry, chapped lips, he stood up to pour a cup of tea and handed it to him.

Lin Sui had felt an unbearable thirst upon waking up, so he accepted the tea Xiao Qingyan handed over.

“I will head back first. Senior Brother Feng’s whereabouts are still unknown. We need to find Senior Brother Feng as soon as possible. I worry that he has already met with foul play.” Zhu Jiayu’s voice grew quieter toward the end. He stopped pursuing the topic and changed the subject.

“Senior Brother Xiao, I heard from Senior Brother Feng that Immortal Venerable Mo is your Martial Uncle. How is he? I am hoping to choose him as my Shizun during the inner sect disciple selection in half a year.”

Zhu Jiayu’s eyes were bright, seemingly liking Mo Bai immensely, and his voice became cheerful.

Martial Uncle Mo?

“Senior Brother Xiao?” Seeing Xiao Qingyan dazing off, Zhu Jiayu called out again.

Only then did Xiao Qingyan snap back to reality. He spoke honestly, “Martial Uncle Mo is a very gentle person, and he treats his disciples very well.”

Of course, he treated his Shizun even better, always standing behind his Shizun unconditionally, regardless of right or wrong.

Even the Sect Master did the same.

The kind of dynamic where no matter how great a mistake his Shizun made, his Shizun’s Senior Brothers would always stand behind him, shielding him from the consequences.

Envy.

He was actually somewhat envious.

He also wished that when he made a mistake or was wrongly accused, his Shizun could stand by his side unconditionally.

“Senior Brother Xiao?”

Hearing Lin Sui call him, the indescribable bitterness in Xiao Qingyan’s heart instantly vanished.

His Junior Brother was also standing behind him unconditionally! He still had his Junior Brother!