The Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character Captured the Villainous Demon Venerable - Chapter 24

Chapter 24: After All, It’s the First Time.

Mo Xun looked at Yun Wushang speechlessly.

It was clear that Yun Wushang genuinely wanted to learn her movement technique.

It made sense; who wouldn’t want to learn a movement technique that could evade all attacks? Especially since Yun Wushang excelled at offense but was weak defensively. If she could learn this technique to compensate for her shortcomings, she would be unrivaled in the cultivation world.

However…

Mo Xun: I genuinely don’t know any movement technique!

“Forget it, I’ll do the killing myself.” Mo Xun took off the talisman marked “Omni-directional Sound” and handed it back to Yun Wushang. “You should go back. You are injured; go rest well.”

Yun Wushang took the talisman from her hand, letting it turn into powder and dissipate.

She put one hand behind her back, her gaze towards Mo Xun filled with scrutiny: “Can you go through with it?”

“What’s there to be hesitant about? Scum… bad people shouldn’t exist in this world! I’ve said before, I hate people who harm others for their own selfish gain the most!” Mo Xun spoke with righteous indignation.

Mo Xun had never killed anyone and didn’t know if she would hesitate when the time came, but she understood clearly that in this cultivation world, where the law did not reach, if bad people weren’t punished, they would become completely unrestrained.

Here, the Heavenly Dao is the law, and the Heavenly Dao is the decree.

Law means fairness, law means justice. Decree means rules, decree means order.

Following the Heavenly Dao, enacting the justice in one’s heart, and maintaining human order is also part of cultivation.

To enhance her comprehension, increase her cultivation, and achieve Nascent Soul formation soon, Mo Xun had to kill this person.

But she didn’t want Yun Wushang present for her first kill.

If she didn’t perform well, she’d inevitably be mocked. If she performed too well, she worried about arousing suspicion.

So, after speaking, Mo Xun softened her voice and advised Yun Wushang: “Please go back. Don’t watch. I’ll be nervous if you watch. After all, it’s the first time.”

Yun Wushang stared at Mo Xun for a moment, then lowered her eyes in thought for a brief period. Finally, she said “Fine,” turned, and left.

The scum man had been stuck at the middle Golden Core stage for years. Bai Muqing always valued talent; Mo Xun didn’t know why she had taken a liking to him.

As Mo Xun flew closer, the scum man sensed the fluctuation of spiritual energy and sharply turned around.

Thus, a beautiful, innocent, androgynous face entered Mo Xun’s field of vision.

Mo Xun: …My Master is a face connoisseur.

Although she was stunned by the scum man’s face for an instant, there was no hesitation in Mo Xun’s expression or movement.

Once close enough, she leaped off her sword, pointed her index and middle fingers together, and directed her sword at the scum man!

There were no words, and no time for the opponent to react. The sharp long sword, controlled by spiritual energy, cut through the air and charged straight for the scum man’s chest!

“Damn it!” The scum man didn’t have time to dodge and raised his arms to protect his chest.

However, the sword blade cut into his arm, cleanly severing the arm bone, then plunged into his chest, penetrating through his back!

Everything happened in an instant. When the scum man regained his senses, there was already a horrific bloody hole in his chest!

He widened his eyes in disbelief. At the end of his life, he gasped his cause of death: “Killing intent channeled into the sword…”

The Spirit Sword Immortal Sect is a sword cultivation sect. The Imperial Sword Art is one of their core cultivation methods, and all outer disciples possess a copy.

Among cultivators of the same stage, many have reached the second level, “Sword Flight,” but those who reached the third level, “Killing Intent into the Sword,” were few and far between.

The reason is that killing intent is not merely murderous intent; it’s the power released instantly by spiritual energy driven by murderous intent.

It’s not hard to release a single burst of killing intent, but maintaining its existence for a long time and manipulating it like spiritual energy is something only a few can achieve.

The scum man couldn’t understand even until his death why a fellow Spirit Sword cultivator like him, who couldn’t achieve it after years of effort, was defeated by a female cultivator from the Water Moon Immortal Sect who used the very same technique to kill him!

The scum man’s body fell backward, his eyes wide in death.

Mo Xun recalled the sword to her hand, gave it a sharp flick in the air, splattering the remaining blood onto the scum man’s corpse.

Her heart was beating a bit fast, and her arm was slightly trembling.

But other than that, she felt fine.

No fear, no confusion. Only the satisfaction of achieving her goal and the exhilaration of killing someone who deserved it.

This was actually the first time Mo Xun had successfully performed the Killing Intent into the Sword technique. She also didn’t expect that merely replacing Bai Muqing with Yun Wushang in her mind during the secret meeting would generate such a continuous surge of killing intent. Her spiritual energy fluctuated violently like boiling water, transforming into churning killing intent, boosting the sword’s speed and sharpness severalfold.

Mo Xun confirmed there was no more blood on the sword before sheathing it.

Just as she was pondering what to do with the scum man’s corpse, a figure suddenly flew in from the sky, and an extremely powerful pressure descended with her!

“Insolent junior! How dare you murder my disciple!”

The newcomer was a female cultivator. After angrily speaking these words, she formed seals, and six flying swords instantly appeared around her!

Mo Xun’s pupils sharply contracted: Bad! It’s the fifth level of the ‘Imperial Sword Art’: Six-Sword Unification!

The female cultivator pointed at Mo Xun with her sword fingers. The six swords immediately sliced through the air, scrambling to stab her!

Mo Xun quickly raised her hands to form seals, condensing spiritual energy. Before she could be pierced by the swords, she used the Shifting Stars and Changing Constellations Formation to teleport herself ten steps away!

The advantage of her modified formation was that the spiritual objects needed for activation didn’t require much spiritual energy. The downside was that the teleportation distance was genuinely short; ten steps was the limit.

And at this distance, she evaded the swords but couldn’t evade the sword aura.

The sword aura from the six blades was slightly sharper than the swords themselves. It caught up to Mo Xun, slicing through her sleeve and cutting several strands of her hair even from a distance.

The silver bracelet on her wrist sensed the danger and instantly formed a protective shield!

Mo Xun: My Evil-Ward Aegis!

Now, Mo Xun couldn’t even force this protective artifact onto Chu Jiuqu if she wanted to.

However, whether she could survive this female cultivator was an unknown.

The Evil-Ward Aegis, rumored to withstand the full-force attack of a Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivator, was instantly destroyed just by being brushed by the opponent’s sword aura. The opponent’s cultivation level was clearly above Nascent Soul!

Mo Xun didn’t bother confirming the opponent’s stage. She continuously activated five Shifting Stars and Changing Constellations Formations, fleeing at full speed toward the Water Moon Peak.

However, just as Water Moon Peak was within reach, she suddenly stopped.

No! The Water Moon Immortal Sect has no cultivator above the Nascent Soul stage! I can’t implicate Master and my fellow disciples!

Thinking this, Mo Xun decisively turned and fled in a different direction.

Sensing her intention, the female cultivator sneered: “You don’t want to implicate your sect? Today, I will destroy this sect to be buried with my disciple!”

She said this and released more spiritual energy. The six swords all pointed toward the Water Moon Immortal Sect!

Mo Xun let out an exasperated tsk, activated a Shifting Stars and Changing Constellations Formation to turn back, and confronted the female cultivator: “Your disciple toyed with my Master’s affections; his death is well-deserved!”

“Nonsense!” The female cultivator raised a hand, about to launch an attack.

Suddenly, a figure descended from the sky, landing between her and Mo Xun, blocking their view of each other.

Seeing who it was, Mo Xun’s eyes widened in disbelief.

It was Yun Wushang.

Mo Xun didn’t know if Yun Wushang rushed over after sensing the opponent’s aura or if she had been hiding nearby all along.

Mo Xun: System! Exchange all my reward points for healing, quick!

System: “Acknowledged! 19 reward points have all been exchanged for Reward Three. Host’s spiritual energy healing now surpasses all cultivators of the same stage in injury recovery speed, allowing Yun Wushang to fully recover within one day!”

Mo Xun: “Yun Wushang, I…”

Mo Xun wanted to say that she would heal her injuries immediately, but after only uttering the word “I,” she was interrupted by Yun Wushang.

“Silence. Watch.” Yun Wushang said calmly, raising one hand. With a flip of her palm, a black token appeared between her index and middle fingers. It was engraved with two flowing characters, clearly in Yun Wushang’s handwriting.

“Ice Burial,” Yun Wushang murmured softly, then casually tossed the token toward the female cultivator.

“A mere Golden Core, how dare you…” the female cultivator scoffed. Halfway through her sentence, her expression suddenly changed.

After the token was deployed, the surrounding air instantly grew cold.

It grew progressively colder at a palpable speed, so cold that the body couldn’t endure it.

The female cultivator raised her right hand to her eyes in disbelief, watching as her palm gradually became encased in ice.

By the time she realized something was terribly wrong and tried to flee, it was too late.

The increasingly cold air froze her breath. Ice rapidly climbed along her body until it covered all her exposed skin, swallowing and burying her entirely, locking down all her movement.

A moment later, with a crack, the ice layer fractured. Immediately followed by more similar sounds, more cracks appeared on the ice.

Finally, the entire block of ice crumbled along the dense network of cracks. The female cultivator’s body shattered along with the ice layer, falling in scattered pieces into the deep gorge.

Her six swords, losing their spiritual energy support, fell with her.

Mo Xun quickly used her own spiritual energy to catch the swords and guide them to her side.

She couldn’t simultaneously manipulate six swords to launch organized attacks, but she could manage to wield them all at once.

After storing the spoils of war in her Storage Pouch, Mo Xun looked at Yun Wushang, remaining silent for a long time before tentatively asking: “What was that just now?”

“A talisman,” Yun Wushang replied with her back to Mo Xun. “Made of sandalwood as the paper and shaped into a token, it can be preserved longer.”

Mo Xun: “Instantly killing a Soul Transformation cultivator?”

Yun Wushang: “My former Master was at the Great Vehicle stage. A token she made is more than sufficient to destroy a Soul Transformation cultivator. It’s nothing surprising.”

Mo Xun: “Your former Master was also a Variant Ice Spirit Root and could draw talismans?”

Yun Wushang: “…”

Mo Xun regretted asking the moment the words left her mouth. She knew Yun Wushang’s true identity, so she was well aware that the token was something Yun Wushang made before she was seriously injured, as a contingency.

Since she knew, why ask? If she revealed anything, it wouldn’t benefit Mo Xun.

But…

Mo Xun was genuinely curious why Yun Wushang would risk exposing herself to save her.

Was it because of the life-and-death pact? Or…

What am I thinking? What else could it be besides the life-and-death pact?

Mo Xun dismissed her thoughts, lowered her head, and spoke in a tone of guilt: “I see. A token given to you by your former Master must have been very important to you. It’s all because of me that you lost something cherished…”

Mo Xun was genuinely remorseful, not just because she had forced Yun Wushang to use a life-saving token, but also because she had nearly implicated the entire sect.

It was all because she failed to consider every possible scenario before acting, leading to the female cultivator catching her off guard and almost causing a catastrophe.

It was all because she wasn’t strong enough, making her so passive, forced to flee miserably. Forget fighting back, she didn’t even have the right to negotiate with the opponent.

Yun Wushang turned around and looked at Mo Xun.

The woman, with her hair tied high, hung her head, letting the loose strands on her face obscure her heroic beauty. Her brows were slightly furrowed, her lips slightly pressed—a picture of genuine guilt.

Yun Wushang sighed quietly and said: “If you were willing to teach me your movement technique, this wouldn’t have happened.”

Mo Xun: “…”

Mo Xun: This is the only thing I truly cannot do!

“Forget it,” Yun Wushang crossed her arms and said calmly. “It wasn’t anything important. That woman was the one who expelled me from the sect first. There is only resentment between us, no debt of gratitude.”

“Did you… have feelings for her?” Mo Xun probed.

Yun Wushang’s beautiful eyes instantly narrowed, concealing a flash of anger: “She was my Master, my adoptive mother.”

Mo Xun: “So?”

“So, how could I possibly…” Halfway through, Yun Wushang seemed to think of something. She raised an eyebrow, and her expression shifted to one of playful amusement: “In your eyes, Master and disciple can also become dual cultivation partners?”

Why not?

That’s why people say being a Master is a high-risk profession.

But on second thought, the master-disciple relationship in ancient times might be similar to the teacher-student relationship today, where there’s an imbalance of power, easily leading to one party being subjected to the other, which is why it’s universally frowned upon.

Thinking this, Mo Xun swallowed the three words she was about to say and replied in a different way: “Dual cultivation partners are one thing, and feelings are another. Whether to become dual cultivation partners is a mutual choice, but feelings are hard to suppress. If one falls in love, then they’ve fallen in love. If I were to fall in love with my Master, I would choose to bury those feelings deep down until after I graduated and became stronger than her, only then would I proactively confess.”

After Mo Xun spoke, Yun Wushang looked at her, remained silent for a moment, and then said faintly: “I have never loved anyone.”

Mo Xun replied with an “Mhm,” indicating she understood.

Her “Mhm” was calm, seemingly understated, yet the corners of her lips were uncontrollably turning up, and she nervously glanced away.

Yun Wushang took in her reaction completely and couldn’t help but curve her own lips slightly. Then she turned her head to the side and said calmly: “Let’s go back.”

“Wait, I’m going to loot the bod… I mean, I have something I’m interested in. I’ll be quick.” Mo Xun said, flew up on her sword, and headed toward the barren mountain.

Yun Wushang watched the direction she flew, hesitated for a moment, and then followed.

Mo Xun returned to the scum man’s corpse, drew her sword, used the tip to pry open his collar, found his Storage Pouch, and then used spiritual energy to guide it into her hand.

She closed her eyes and scanned the contents of the pouch with her spiritual consciousness. She found the blue porcelain bottle Bai Muqing had given the scum man, which contained five Nascent Soul Pills.

“Heh, the prize for first place in the Immortal Sect Grand Competition is only so-so,” Mo Xun said, taking out the porcelain bottle and putting it into her own pouch.

The scum man’s pouch also contained other pills and materials for alchemy and artifact refining, which Mo Xun took as well.

A cultivation technique named Heaven-Slaying Primordial Sword Art was taken.

A herb encyclopedia named Compendium of A Hundred Herbs was taken.

A spiritual jade slip inscribed with Fundamentals of Artifact Refining was taken.

Yun Wushang quietly watched Mo Xun take out items from the scum man’s pouch one by one and put them into her own pouch, her movements so practiced she looked like a repeat offender.

Finally, Yun Wushang couldn’t help but ask: “What did you do before joining the immortal sect?”

“Hmm…” Mo Xun couldn’t recall the cannon fodder female supporting character’s background; perhaps it was never mentioned in the original novel.

Since that was the case, she improvised based on her own situation: “I was born into a medical family and studied medicine since childhood. Later, my parents passed away. To avoid starvation, I joined the immortal sect to cultivate. After all, cultivation allows one to fast.”

Yun Wushang: “…Then did you ever learn that taking things without permission is stealing?”

“Ah, so that’s what you wanted to talk about.” Mo Xun paused her scavenging, looked at the corpse on the ground, and spoke to it: “Your belongings are mine now. If you don’t object, I’ll take that as your consent.”

After a moment of silence, Mo Xun looked at Yun Wushang, looking completely innocent: “See? He didn’t speak. He agreed.”

“…” Yun Wushang gave Mo Xun a look of exasperated acknowledgment, letting her understand it herself.

Mo Xun returned a look that said, “As expected of me,” and then asked: “Were you following me all along?”

Yun Wushang snorted lightly: “If I hadn’t followed, I would have been buried with you.”

Mo Xun: “…I apologize.”

Yun Wushang: “In the future, no matter where you go or what you want to do—be it killing or looting—inform me. I will go with you.”

Mo Xun: ?

Mo Xun: I’m not that wicked, am I?

“After all, you are the other half of my life,” Yun Wushang said, suddenly curving her lips, a flash of playfulness in her eyes. “I would worry if something happened to you.”

Mo Xun: “…”

Mo Xun: Crap, she learned my sweet talk.

Mo Xun was about to complain that Yun Wushang was plagiarizing her when she suddenly found a letter in the scum man’s pouch, which instantly captured her full attention.

The scum man’s name was written in the bottom right corner of the letter, and his Master’s name (likely the female cultivator frozen into ice by Yun Wushang) was in the top left.

Yun Wushang only glanced at it, then disgustedly pressed the letter paper onto Mo Xun’s face.

Mo Xun hastily retrieved the letter and gently complained: “Don’t wrinkle it. This is important physical evidence. Whether Master can wake up depends on this.”