The Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character Captured the Villainous Demon Venerable - Chapter 37

Chapter 37: She Fed Her One of Them. ……

Mo Xun was carried all the way back to the Diyun Demonic Sect by Yun Wushang’s demonic qi.

After landing and entering the cave, Mo Xun looked at Yun Wushang’s back as she walked ahead and couldn’t help but ask her: “You clearly don’t like Senior Sister Jiuqu, yet you still saved her. Was that out of fellow-disciple affection, or purely an instinct to save someone?”

“Neither.” Yun Wushang replied, flicked her sleeve, turned around, and elegantly sat on the stone bed. “I just found those two Lingjian cultivators unpleasant to look at.”

If she genuinely just found those two Lingjian cultivators unpleasant, she could have simply killed them. There was no need to shield Chu Jiuqu from the attack first.

Regardless of Yun Wushang’s reason for saving Chu Jiuqu, it proved that the Demonic Venerable had both compassion and righteousness.

“Last night, you allowed me to ask one question. Now, I’ve decided what to ask,” Mo Xun said, sitting directly on the ground.

Since Yun Wushang’s bed was also carved from stone, sitting on the bed or the ground made little difference to her.

Yun Wushang sat on the edge of the bed, looking down at her: “Ask.”

Mo Xun relaxed, propped up one leg, resting her arm on it. She paid no attention to Yun Wushang’s tone and asked on her own: “Who taught you how to draw talismans? You don’t seem very proficient in arrays, but your talisman drawing skills are impeccable.”

She tried to ask in a casual tone as much as possible, lest Yun Wushang think she wanted her to teach her how to draw talismans. Although Mo Xun did indeed want to.

Mo Xun: “I remember when I was undergoing tribulation, you used a talisman plate to activate a restriction. How can a restriction be made into a talisman plate?”

Yun Wushang: “It’s simple. When making the talisman plate, activate the restriction and compress it into the talisman plate. My restriction is called ‘Wushang,’ and unlike your Turtle Array, it can only block attacks from realms lower than mine. For me, having recovered to the Mahayana stage, it is useless.”

“What Turtle Array! Mine is called the Black Tortoise Retaliation Array!” Mo Xun protested with dissatisfaction. As soon as her voice fell, she saw Yun Wushang curve her lips.

Yun Wushang rarely smiled. Especially after resuming her Demonic Venerable identity, she almost only sneered. But at this moment, her smile was very gentle and joyful. It was like a breeze brushing past a blossoming tree, shaking down countless pink petals.

Mo Xun stared blankly, unable to regain her composure for a long time.

Until the System’s voice rang in her mind: Learned Yun Wushang’s past, received 3 reward points! Already stored 34 reward points for the Host!

Mo Xun snapped back to reality and smiled at Yun Wushang: “Since we’re back, do you want to try the effect of the Desire Inciting Pill?”

She almost forgot to do the mission.

If Yun Wushang went into seclusion in the secret chamber again, who knew when she would come out next.

Yun Wushang showed clear hesitation upon hearing this, but after a moment of silence, she still said, “Alright.”

Mo Xun realized that this time, Yun Wushang didn’t really want it, but she compromised for her sake.

What did this signify? That Yun Wushang was trusting her more and more, and indulging her more and more?

An indescribable emotion surged in Mo Xun’s heart, not guilt, nor purely pleasure.

And whatever this emotion was, at this moment, she genuinely wanted to possess Yun Wushang, to pin Yun Wushang beneath her, and to admire the expression on her face that only she could witness.

This was not about the mission; it was what she wanted to do herself.

Mo Xun took out two Desire Inciting Pills from her storage pouch, put both in her mouth, then got up and approached Yun Wushang, wrapping her arms around her waist, lowering her head, kissing her lips, and feeding her one of the pills.

Yun Wushang didn’t resist. She accepted the pill Mo Xun fed her by mouth and swallowed it, but she couldn’t help but inwardly grumble.

Yun Wushang: You refined the Desire Inciting Pill to Six-Grade High… isn’t that a bit much?

Every grade difference in a pill’s quality meant a huge difference in effect.

A Five-Grade Qi Nourishing Pill could only raise a cultivator from Early Golden Core to Mid Golden Core, but a Six-Grade Qi Nourishing Pill could raise one from Early Golden Core all the way to Golden Core Great Perfection.

Yun Wushang didn’t dare to imagine what the effect of a Six-Grade Desire Inciting Pill would be.

And she soon found out.

Before one kiss was over, her heartbeat uncontrollably accelerated, her body became hot, and she became extremely sensitive.

Every touch from Mo Xun caused her body to spasm. Even just the brush of Mo Xun’s lips on her neck sent an elated shiver through her entire body.

Yun Wushang’s breathing grew heavy. She didn’t have the patience to wait for Mo Xun to remove her robes and pulled off her own sash.

The robes parted, exposing her pale shoulders. The cool temperature of the cave dwelling licked her skin but failed to dissipate much of the heat.

An uncontrollable moan escaped Yun Wushang’s throat. She wrapped her arms around Mo Xun’s waist and entwined her legs around her, looking like she wanted to embed Mo Xun entirely into her own body.

“Don’t rush, I’ll satisfy you properly,” Mo Xun kissed Yun Wushang’s ear, gently soothing her while reaching her hand down.

She secretly circulated spiritual energy to offset part of the pill’s effect, so she felt fine. Compared to a violent frenzy driven by desire, she definitely preferred a relatively calm, gradual progression.

Starting slowly from the surface and delving deeper, becoming more and more intense, like a chronic poison.

This process felt less like serving and more like training.

Watching Yun Wushang’s body crumble under her soothing touch, uttering sounds she would never normally make, Mo Xun felt an unprecedented satisfaction.

I might be a little crazy too. Mo Xun thought.

Yet, she had never been this way before.

Rather, Yun Wushang was the first—the first person she wanted to touch all over, whose touch she never tired of, and whom she always wanted to delve deeper into, deeper, wanting to possess her entirely, integrate her into her bones and blood…

She wanted to kiss her, embrace her, touch her, and do anything to her.

At the same time, she also wanted to do anything within her power for her.

The effect of the Desire Inciting Pill was indeed intense. Crucially, Yun Wushang hadn’t thought to use demonic qi to dissolve the medicinal effect, resulting in the session lasting a full three days.

Three days later, Mo Xun felt an aversion, a reluctance to let her fingers touch water for a long time.

And Yun Wushang nestled in her arms, behaving as meekly as a kitten.

System: Worthy of the Host! Already stored 49 reward points for the Host!

Mo Xun: “…”

System: Host, what’s wrong? Can you hear my voice?

Mo Xun: …I hear you. Nothing, just that my mind is a bit blank from the act… It turns out excessive indulgence really does hurt the brain, which is why I’ve always restrained myself from watching too many lesbian films. Oh, and I can’t watch them now anyway.

System: …

It took Mo Xun a while longer to recover. Her mind started working again, and she sorted out what she needed to do next. Then she tentatively asked Yun Wushang, who was in her arms: “Wushang, can you help me with something?”

Yun Wushang opened her eyes from Mo Xun’s embrace, her gaze still slightly bewildered: “…What is it?”

“I want to try refining an artifact. Can you help me…”

“No.”

Mo Xun was interrupted by Yun Wushang without hesitation before she could finish speaking.

Now it was Mo Xun’s turn to be confused. It took her a long moment to recover: “Why won’t you let me refine an artifact? Both times you cut me off before I finished. You can forbid me from refining artifacts, but at least tell me why.”

The last time Yun Wushang interrupted, Mo Xun thought it was because she didn’t trust her and didn’t want her to refine a powerful artifact to boost her combat power. But Yun Wushang allowed her to refine pills and advance her realm. In contrast, forbidding her from refining artifacts seemed odd.

Mo Xun was determined to get to the bottom of this today.

Perhaps sensing Mo Xun’s dissatisfaction and determination to know the answer, Yun Wushang was silent for a moment before saying: “There is an Elder in the Tianshan Immortal Sect who is skilled in artifact refining. I… dislike her.”

Mo Xun: “Just because of that?”

Yun Wushang: “Yes.”

Mo Xun: “Male or female? Alive or dead?”

Yun Wushang: “Female, and still alive.”

Mo Xun: “Why is she still alive?”

Yun Wushang: “Because, for now, I still can’t defeat her.”

“Oh.” Mo Xun sighed in relief, then frowned. “She is her, and I am me. It’s too strange to forbid me from refining artifacts just because she does. She also wears clothes. Do you forbid me from wearing clothes because you hate her?”

“I didn’t say that.” Yun Wushang said coldly, getting up from Mo Xun’s embrace, drawing her clothes together around her body, and walking off the bed toward the secret chamber. “You’ve delayed me for quite a few days. I need to continue my seclusion. If you want to practice your sword, you can go outside the cave. With me covering you, no one dares to touch you.”

As soon as she finished speaking, before her hand even touched the secret chamber door, her legs suddenly gave out, and she stumbled forward.

Mo Xun was startled by this. When she reacted, she had already used a Star Shift Array to flash beside Yun Wushang and wrapped her arms around her waist.

When Mo Xun spoke again, her tone was much gentler: “You’re going into seclusion right after we finished? Why don’t you take a bath first, and then rest?”

“No need.” Yun Wushang pushed her away, her ears red. Before entering the secret chamber, she emphasized again, “In any case, you are not allowed to refine artifacts.”

With that, she pushed open the secret chamber door, entered, and closed the door.

Mo Xun looked at the tightly shut stone door, frowning slightly, strongly suspecting that Yun Wushang had fled into the secret chamber because she didn’t want to explain why she forbade her from refining artifacts.

Mo Xun wanted to drag her out and ask for a clear explanation, but ultimately, she didn’t dare.

No matter what, Yun Wushang was a Mahayana stage demonic cultivator. Without the life-and-death contract protecting her, she could crush her with a single thought.

System: Learned Yun Wushang’s past, received 3 reward points. Friendly reminder, Host, you now have 52 reward points available for redemption!

Mo Xun: “…What past did I learn about her?”

System: Because there is an Elder in the Tianshan Immortal Sect who is skilled in artifact refining, she hates her, and therefore hates artifact refiners.

Mo Xun: That counts too.

Mo Xun suddenly became interested in this Elder. She wondered how she had offended Yun Wushang.

But the System definitely wouldn’t say, and Yun Wushang likely wouldn’t tell her. She couldn’t immediately think of anyone else to ask.

Never mind. She should indeed go outside the cave to practice her sword now.

Thinking this, Mo Xun cleaned herself and her clothes, then flew out of the cave with her sword and began practicing her technique in the open space outside the entrance.

The third stage of the Shuiyue Sword Manual, “Tide of the Full Moon,” whipped up large waves of water to block the enemy’s vision, ward off the enemy’s spells, and simultaneously close the gap for additional sword strikes.

The difficulty of this stage lay not in the fine manipulation, but in the need to consume a large amount of spiritual energy in one go, and to lock onto the enemy’s target position without sight, laying the foundation for the fourth stage, “Misty Water Diffusion.”

This was not difficult for Mo Xun, who had advanced to the Late-Nascent Soul stage. Therefore, in just one day, she successfully executed “Tide of the Full Moon” once.

After practicing the Shuiyue Sword Manual, she immediately began practicing the Sword Control Technique.

Mo Xun had already mastered the third stage, “Killing Intent Into Sword.” She wanted to challenge the fourth stage, “Integrated Attack and Defense.” Since she couldn’t simultaneously control four swords for both attack and defense, she started by controlling two swords, one dedicated to offense and one dedicated to defense.

However, just as she was getting the hang of it, a person suddenly landed beside her.

Catching her in the corner of her eye, a thought suddenly crossed Mo Xun’s mind.

Mo Xun: Should I ask her to help me gather artifact refining materials, and secretly refine it behind Yun Wushang’s back?

As soon as the thought emerged, she dismissed it.

No, forget it. This Meiyan is untrustworthy. It’s fine to trick some words out of her, but if I genuinely ask her to keep a secret for me, I probably won’t have a moment of peace.

She should first listen to what nonsense she intended to spout.

Thinking this, Mo Xun put away her sword, turned to face her, and flashed a harmless smile: “Sister Meiyan, it’s so good to see you’re alright! I was startled when the Demonic Venerable threw you away!”

Meiyan crossed her arms and slowly walked a circle around Mo Xun, her eyes full of scrutiny: “The Demonic Venerable Mistress actually allows you to leave the cave?”

“Perhaps she’s satisfied with the pills I refined,” Mo Xun replied, then suddenly put on a wronged expression. “Sister Meiyan, you don’t know, when she first captured me, she actually locked me in an iron cage like a dog, and placed a restriction on the cage to suppress my spiritual energy! It was too much! But as I became more obedient, she became more indulgent towards me. I was always afraid she had inappropriate designs on me, but she surprisingly didn’t. Sister Meiyan, do you really think the Demonic Venerable likes women?”

Mo Xun’s words were half true, half false, the hardest kind to distinguish.

Meiyan seemed to believe it, letting out a cold laugh before saying: “It wasn’t me who said the Demonic Venerable likes women. The rumor came from the Tianshan Immortal Sect where she used to be. But even if it’s true, it’s normal that she hasn’t made a move on you, because our Demonic Venerable has always been cold-hearted and without desire.”

Mo Xun: Are you sure she’s not loyal and righteous, with desires and needs?

Meiyan sensed the doubt in Mo Xun’s eyes, but she misinterpreted it. She earnestly advised: “Don’t look at how well she treats you now. Once you lose your value, she will abandon you without hesitation. Just like when she led the demons of the Demonic Realm to attack the cultivation world, she found she couldn’t win, so she turned around and killed her most capable general, blaming everything on her, saying she started the war and had nothing to do with it herself. Ha! Killing her own people to trade for peace between the cultivation world and the Demonic Realm—how foolish, how cold-blooded and ruthless!”

It was now the second day, and Mo Xun could gain reward points by completing missions again. However, after Meiyan finished speaking, she didn’t hear any system prompt.

Mo Xun: She’s lying.

System: Yes.

Mo Xun: I didn’t expect the System mission to be useful in reverse, for judging whether someone is lying about things related to Yun Wushang.

Mo Xun looked at Meiyan, feigning surprise: “Something like that happened? Which general? I’ll ask the Demonic Venerable later to see what she has to say.”

“You!” Meiyan realized she had been tricked into revealing information again. Her teeth ground audibly, but in the end, she could only honestly tell the truth, lest Yun Wushang stab another hole in her.

“…Her name was Chimo. She and I were once Palace Masters of the Chimei Palace. We jointly led the Chimei Palace,” Meiyan said irritably. “Actually, I don’t know who started the war between the immortal and demonic realms back then, but as a demonic cultivator, how could the Demonic Venerable turn her elbow outward? Killing her own people to give an explanation to the cultivation world—that is betrayal!”

Mo Xun blinked: “So the Demonic Venerable is not completely hostile to the cultivation world? That’s really good news for me, as an immortal cultivator!”

Meiyan rolled her eyes and left, steaming with anger.

“Hey, wait a moment,” Mo Xun quickly called out to her. “Are there any demons in the Demonic Realm who are skilled at artifact refining?”

“Huh?” Meiyan stopped, uttered that surprised sound, and then suddenly burst into laughter!

She laughed as she turned her body back, looking at Mo Xun as if she were looking at an idiot: “…Demonic cultivators refining artifacts? What foolishness are you talking about? Artifact refining is time-consuming and requires immense patience, so artifact refiners all have extremely stable emotions. And for us demonic cultivators, if we could achieve emotional stability, why would we have fallen to the Demonic Path?”

After saying this, she laughed wildly again, a frantic and mad laugh. After finishing, she said: “If the Demonic Venerable is said to be cold-hearted, then artifact refiners are heartless and gutless!”

As her words fell, she turned and left without waiting for Mo Xun’s reply, looking genuinely afraid that if she delayed even a moment, she would be tricked into revealing more information.

Mo Xun looked in the direction she left, deep in thought.

I didn’t expect that…

So, Yun Wushang didn’t hate artifact refiners, but hated heartless and gutless people?

But… did only heartless and gutless people refine artifacts?

After extracting this information from Meiyan, Mo Xun was truly a little afraid to refine artifacts.

But if she didn’t refine artifacts, how was she supposed to prepare a protective artifact for Chu Jiuqu?

Through an auction? She didn’t know if her spirit stones were sufficient.

Or, should she ask Meiyan to help her gather some more medicinal herbs, refine a few dozen Qi Nourishing Pills to give to Chu Jiuqu, and help her advance to the Integration stage sooner?

No, blindly raising her realm without undergoing various trials was tantamount to pulling up seedlings to help them grow, which might not be good for Chu Jiuqu.

Damn it. She still needed to quickly gain the ability to move freely. Then, whether through auction or self-refinement, she needed to get the protective artifact into Chu Jiuqu’s hands, help her survive her death tribulation, and then find a way to explain things to Yun Wushang.

Would she accept her explanation?

If she didn’t accept it…

She could slowly coax Yun Wushang if she got angry, but if Chu Jiuqu died, nothing she did could reverse it. At that time, she would surely be filled with regret.

Besides, regardless of whether Yun Wushang loved her or not, she couldn’t dominate her, deciding for her what she could and couldn’t do.

Although she didn’t mind staying by Yun Wushang’s side and “serving” her for life, she was ultimately a person with her own thoughts, not Yun Wushang’s plaything.

So what if she really became an artifact refiner?

After making her decision, Mo Xun was no longer confused. She practiced her sword for a while longer and then returned to the cave dwelling to meditate and enter a state of stillness.

However, for some reason, after meditating for two full days, her cultivation only had the most basic improvement. She couldn’t feel the stagnation that indicated reaching the limit and being ready to advance to the next level.

Mo Xun felt she might not be suited for sword practice, so she picked up the Array Formation Compendium and began studying arrays.

After mastering more than a dozen new arrays, she meditated again and entered stillness. Nothing happened.

Then I’ll refine pills. That has to work, right?

She relied on pill refining to advance from Early-Nascent Soul to Mid-Nascent Soul. The Qi Nourishing Pills just bridged the final gap.

Thinking this, Mo Xun refined all the herbs in her storage pouch, filled all 100 porcelain bottles, and then meditated and entered stillness.

Two days later, she opened her eyes and stared blankly into the void.

The trip to the Shuiyue Immortal Sect didn’t help her much in comprehending the Dao of Heaven, but it did increase her understanding of human nature.

Although she cultivated the Dao of Man, she couldn’t truly immerse herself in the human world. She needed to stand outside the mundane world and view it from the perspective of heaven.

But… she felt like this wasn’t why she hit a cultivation bottleneck.

She needed trials, she needed to encounter new things.

But while she was still at the Shuiyue Immortal Sect, she could find people for philosophical discussions and duels. Who could she find now? She couldn’t possibly find demonic cultivators.

Mo Xun lay flat in Yun Wushang’s cave dwelling, racking her brains to find a breakthrough.

Perhaps if I sleep, everything will fall into place?

But unfortunately, Mo Xun was not the type to slack off.

If she couldn’t find that breakthrough, she would be so uncomfortable she couldn’t sleep.

Medical cultivation!

Mo Xun nearly forgot her actual profession. As a medical student, she hadn’t thought of cultivating medicine after transmigration!

However, when she first transmigrated, she most needed combat power, so she truly couldn’t spare time to improve her medical cultivation.

But now was the time.

A cultivator sat beneath a medical banner, dressed in a white robe with cyan trim, her long hair casually tied behind her head, loudly shouting: “Free medical consultation for demonic cultivators! I treat all illnesses! If cured, no charge! If not cured… I can’t help it, but I guarantee I won’t kill you!”

Mo Xun set up this medical banner on a whim, thinking no demonic cultivators would come. Unexpectedly, after only two shouts, a female demonic cultivator with two black tear marks painted on her face floated in front of her, asking in a plaintive tone: “Free medical consultation, is that true?”

“It is, it is!” Mo Xun didn’t mind her ghost-like makeup at all and smiled at her: “What seems to be bothering you?”

The person’s realm was higher than hers. Before getting her permission, Mo Xun couldn’t scan her directly with her divine sense, so she could only ask first.

The demonic cultivator clutched her chest, saying plaintively: “My heart hurts.”

Mo Xun: “Alright, do you mind if I scan you with my divine sense?”

“I don’t mind,” the demonic cultivator was straightforward. “As long as you can stop my heart from hurting, I’m willing to do anything.”

Mo Xun was very satisfied with the patient’s cooperation. She released her divine sense to scan her entire body, however…

Mo Xun: …I can’t see any problems?

Just as she was wondering how to speak, the demonic cultivator suddenly started crying loudly: “Why? Why is there so much hatred after being abandoned by the one I love? And so much regret after killing the one I loved? My heart truly hurts, it hurts so much!”

As she spoke, she suddenly grabbed Mo Xun’s hands, startling Mo Xun!

“Little cultivator, can you help me dig out my heart but keep me alive? If you can do that, I will be your…”

Before she finished speaking, a powerful burst of demonic qi suddenly erupted from the cave dwelling behind Mo Xun, sweeping the demonic cultivator’s body and throwing her high into the air!

Mo Xun stared blankly at the direction she was thrown for a long while, then turned to look behind her.

She saw Yun Wushang, dressed in a dark black robe, standing there, her eyes full of displeasure: “Don’t want a heart? Then die.”

She finished speaking, turned her gaze to Mo Xun, and narrowed her eyes slightly: “What are you messing with now?”