The Cold And Aloof Senior Sister Keeps Flirting With Me - Chapter 13

“Senior Sister?!”

Yan Jue twitched the corner of her lips, suddenly feeling that her entire being was unwell: “The Senior Sister you’re talking about, is it the Senior Sister I’m thinking of…”

Du Ming: “In our Five Dragon Mountain, who else could it be but Dream Heng Monarch Qi Xianqing.”

Yan Jue: “Forget it, I’m not going.”

Who would want to be led by that killing fiend.

Du Ming: “Right? Let’s come earlier tomorrow, maybe we can run into some senior brothers or sisters who are actually short on people?”

Yan Jue left with Du Ming, but couldn’t help but look back.

In the team not far away, she indeed saw the figure of Qi Xianqing.

The high and mighty Dream Heng Monarch was wearing a plain white long skirt, standing in the center of the crowd not far away, with a dark black long sword on her back. Her entire demeanor was incomparably cold and dusty, like an exiled immortal.

Actually, Yan Jue hadn’t never worked with Qi Xianqing before.

For example, in the Drunken Spring Pavilion incident, she had witnessed Qi Xianqing’s excellent execution ability.

If she wanted to latch onto a powerful figure, choosing Qi Xianqing would undoubtedly be a good option.

But in her current awkward situation, it should be best to stay as far away from Qi Xianqing as possible.

If it were before, Yan Jue would definitely have thought that way.

However, now…

Yan Jue couldn’t help but recall Qi Xianqing at the lakeside that night.

Qi Xianqing was clearly… a very gentle person.

And that night, Qi Xianqing’s hair ribbon was cut by the Immortal Sword ‘Candle Shadow’, didn’t she even use the flower Yan Jue gave her as a hairpin?

If Qi Xianqing hated her or anything else… she probably wouldn’t use the flower she gave as a hairpin, right?

So it could be confirmed that Qi Xianqing didn’t hate her to the bone right now.

The danger of her joining Qi Xianqing’s team wasn’t great.

She, the cannon fodder, had many unforeseen changes and didn’t know if she could receive missions in the future. It was best for her to complete these initial missions as soon as possible.

If she could use Qi Xianqing, she might as well use her a bit.

Yan Jue was very clear about her time of death: it was on the eve of the Five Dragon Peak Meeting, and her identity exposure was related to another matter.

This meant that before then, Qi Xianqing wouldn’t kill her outright.

Thinking this, Yan Jue walked towards Qi Xianqing’s direction.

“…”

Qi Xianqing’s original plan was to go into seclusion immediately after arriving at the mountain, but she didn’t expect to break through ahead of schedule, so seclusion was no longer necessary.

Qi Xianqing had always been a person with strong planning, since she had already broken through, she might as well lead her junior brothers and sisters down the mountain one more time before the Five Dragon Peak Meeting to avoid wasting time.

Then, as Qi Xianqing stood in the center of the crowd, she suddenly saw a fair-skinned girl with red lips and white teeth run over from that direction.

Under the sunlight, the girl wore a lotus-green pleated skirt, which seemed to make everything around her lose its luster.

Everyone avoided her with distaste, even Chu Fu, who was beside her, became cold and looked away.

“…”

Yan Jue ran to the center of the crowd only to find Chu Fu standing beside Qi Xianqing, looking at her indifferently.

Yan Jue: “?”

It was like a thunderclap exploding above her head. Yan Jue looked at Qi Xianqing, then at Chu Fu, and suddenly realized with a delayed sense that Qi Xianqing was leading Chu Fu down the mountain for a mission this time.

Chu Fu was still in the Qi Refining stage, but Yan Jue could already sense that his spiritual aura had undergone an earth-shattering change.

Yan Jue didn’t expect Chu Fu to break through so quickly.

It seemed he was already at the peak of the Qi Refining stage, preparing to charge into the Great Perfection!

Yan Jue stood not far from him and seemed to feel a clean and pure spiritual power constantly pouring out.

So… this seemed to be an extremely important plot point in the original novel.

This was the first mission Chu Fu and Qi Xianqing executed together.

It was during this mission that Chu Fu used various magic treasures and divine abilities obtained from his Golden Finger that made the heroine Qi Xianqing see him in a new light, laying the groundwork for their later passionate relationship.

Later, Qi Xianqing admired Chu Fu’s resourcefulness and would always bring this junior brother Chu Fu with her on missions down the mountain, allowing Chu Fu to gain many opportunities.

Because both of them had extremely high aptitudes, the entire Demon Realm and Devil Realm were terrified of them, and every time Qi Xianqing and Chu Fu descended the mountain, it was referred to as the “Twin Fiends Descending the Mountain.”

So wasn’t she… stumbling into the crucial episode of Chu Fu and Qi Xianqing?!

Yan Jue stared blankly at Chu Fu, forgetting what she was supposed to do next for a moment.

The people around them saw this and started whispering.

“Look at her… staring blankly at Chu Fu…”

“Junior Brother Chu is so pitiful, how could he be entangled by her right after taking on a low-level mission.”

“Could it be that she wants to join the Senior Sister’s team for Chu Fu’s sake?”

Yan Jue snapped back to her senses and looked hesitantly towards Qi Xianqing.

Qi Xianqing glanced at her faintly, almost freezing Yan Jue stiff.

That expression was totally different from the one that night!

Yan Jue started feeling sour again, why was Qi Xianqing so gentle to a little fox, but so cold towards her.

Du Ming saw Yan Jue run back again, so she had to follow her. She was startled when she saw Yan Jue staring blankly at Chu Fu, and quickly approached, saying with a smile: “Senior Sister, she hasn’t finished her initial missions yet, why don’t you take her along?”

“Sure, we happen to be one person short here. Which sect is Junior Sister from?” A voice rang out nearby. It was a girl with a topknot and the rest of her ink-black hair falling cleanly and bravely over her shoulders, with a rather bold and bright appearance.

Yan Jue smiled and said: “I am an outer disciple of the Water Cloud Sect.”

Outer disciple.

Not outer probationary disciple.

The two words, but this status was often worlds apart.

After she finished speaking, there was a moment of silence all around.

The girl said: “An outer disciple, huh? That’s not very popular. Since you’re from the Water Cloud Sect, Junior Sister must be used to using water-based divine abilities, right? Water-based abilities are very weak before the Illumination Realm. No wonder no one else wants you. Junior Sister is like a little flower that needs protection right now, not very useful. You can only be protected during missions, hahaha!”

Yan Jue: “…”

You are truly outspoken.

The girl reached out and put her arm around her shoulder: “Hello, my name is Duan Luxi, I’m currently in the early stage of the Illumination Realm. You can just call me Senior Sister. Come on in.”

Yan Jue looked further away: “Is that really okay?”

Duan Luxi laughed heartily: “Senior Sister is very casual; her silence means agreement. Don’t look at her fierce appearance, she’s actually much better than other team-leading senior sisters.”

As expected, Qi Xianqing glanced at Yan Jue and turned away.

Chu Fu stood far away staring at Yan Jue, with a barely perceptible smile beneath his cold expression.

Because there was an un-Illuminated disciple in the team, they couldn’t fly on swords, so the four of them had to walk down the mountain.

Yan Jue walked along, feeling speechless.

This was too much of a coincidence; precisely the day she decided to look for a mission, she ran into the crucial plot point between the male lead and the female lead.

If it were before, it wouldn’t matter; she wouldn’t want to meddle in how those two scoundrels loved or hated each other. But after the few interactions with Qi Xianqing…

She really felt that the male lead in the novel didn’t deserve Qi Xianqing.

If the progress of their relationship was destined to be accompanied by her death as cannon fodder, then didn’t that mean that preventing them from falling in love would prevent her death?

During the journey, Yan Jue kept a distance from Qi Xianqing, but she could still feel that faint, subtle direction continuously invading her fragile senses.

Yan Jue felt a bit restless, turned to look at Duan Luxi, and humbly inquired about the contents of the mission token.

Duan Luxi told Yan Jue about the content of the token.

Madam Huang from Nanxing Town, at the foot of Five Dragon Mountain, had been mentally unstable for a year. Servants could hear laughter coming from the madam’s room at night, and the madam would often make strange movements in the middle of the night, which were baffling. Whenever servants got close, Madam Huang would start hitting them and screaming sharply.

The family suspected she was possessed by an evil spirit and thus invited an immortal master from Five Dragon Mountain to exorcise the evil.

Mission Level: D (Fourth Level). Mission Duration: Seven Days.

Although this mission also took place in a mortal’s home, because it involved something as difficult to deal with as an evil spirit, the mission level was the fourth level, D.

A D-level mission could be said to be neither too difficult nor too easy, requiring three to four people to complete.

So for this descent, Qi Xianqing led the team, with Chu Fu, Duan Luxi from the Mu Yin Sect, and the temporarily added Yan Jue.

Because a Senior Sister was leading, the execution time for the mission was drastically reduced, from the usual one month to seven days.

Yan Jue stared at the token for a while, feeling that this mission was as strange as the last one.

She suddenly noticed the item on Duan Luxi’s back.

A giant, dark green sword. The reason Yan Jue thought it was a giant sword was because compared to Qi Xianqing’s long sword, this one was wide and thick, completely disproportionate to Duan Luxi’s size.

Yan Jue: “Senior Sister, is this your Natal Magic Artifact?”

The original novel mainly focused on the male lead and his harem, with little introduction to these supporting characters.

Yan Jue was very curious and asked after hesitating for a long time.

Because this was a cultivation world, most people were very taboo about others asking about their divine abilities or magic artifacts. In this cruel world, everyone had one or two life saving items that needed to be kept hidden.

No one wanted to present themselves completely naked to others.

Duan Luxi didn’t care at all: “This is a sword I forged myself. It feels good to use, so I brought it. My grades are usually poor, so I don’t qualify to retrieve a sword from the Sword Mound Valley.”

Yan Jue was stunned for a moment. No wonder this sword was so special and so large.

Duan Luxi: “It’s called ‘Mu Xi’ (Osmanthus).”

Every magic artifact in this world had its own name.

Chu Fu had been secretly observing Yan Jue since a while ago. Seeing that the girl had been talking to others for so long without intending to speak to him, he couldn’t help but frown.

He knew this woman well.

The reason she came to join this mission was most likely because of him.

But Yan Jue had been talking to others for so long and hadn’t sought him out, which made Chu Fu a little unable to figure her out.

Originally, Yan Jue was just a boring object in his eyes.

But for some reason, being ignored by her these few days had stirred up a deep sense of dissatisfaction and desire for conquest in Chu Fu’s heart.

The group soon arrived at the foot of Five Dragon Mountain and walked out of the mountain for about half an hour.

The sun was high in the sky.

Duan Luxi: “So tired, so tired. I haven’t walked this far in a long time. Can’t we just fly on swords?”

Qi Xianqing didn’t turn her head back, her voice plain: “Did you forget? Those below the Illumination Realm cannot fly on swords. We can only walk.”

It was spring, and the air already carried a hint of summer heat, making it very hot under the blazing sun.

Yan Jue walked on the outermost edge of the group, secretly glancing at Qi Xianqing with the corner of her eye.

Qi Xianqing had been able to fly on swords since the early Illumination stage, so she probably rarely had to endure such strenuous walking, but she showed no signs of fatigue, her expression remained calm, her breathing even and long.

An hour passed, and everyone was exhausted.

Chu Fu reached into his Qiankun Bag at his waist, wondering if he should speak: “Senior Sister, I…”

Yan Jue’s mind went blank, and alarm bells immediately rang in her heart.

This was one of the original plots in the novel.

In the novel The Heavenly Way is Hard to Seek, the male lead had a Golden Finger.

When the male lead first arrived at the mountain, he discovered a cave where a severely injured supreme expert from the Devil Realm was clinging to life.

The male lead then brought water and food to the expert in the cave every day.

Later, when the expert fully recovered, he imparted divine skills and various divine weapons to the male lead.

And at this turning point in the relationship between the male and female leads, Yan Jue had read this part carefully.

The sky was high and the people were thirsty, everyone was tired, and then the male lead Chu Fu took out his “Hundred Pace Cart” from his Qiankun Bag. Everyone sat on the cart and moved forward, reaching Nanxing Town in less than the time it takes an incense stick to burn.

The female lead Qi Xianqing was extremely pleased.

Chu Fu: “I have a”

Before he could finish speaking, Yan Jue suddenly staggered, cried out in surprise, and fell to the ground.

She hadn’t controlled the force of this fall well; what was supposed to be a feigned fall turned into a real one. The pain made her gasp, and she happened to fall right in front of Qi Xianqing.

Duan Luxi was startled: “Junior Sister Yan, are you alright?”

Yan Jue clutched her leg, sitting on the ground groaning: “My ankle is sprained, it hurts so much, I can’t get up.”

Duan Luxi: “Then what should we do? Maybe I can carry you?”

Qi Xianqing raised an eyebrow and turned to look at her.

Duan Luxi’s words were completely overconfident. She herself hadn’t walked long distances in a long time and was already exhausted to the point of collapse.

Chu Fu stood far away watching, his face turning green and white in turn. Everyone was already tired from walking. If he took out the Hundred Pace Cart at this moment and invited Qi Xianqing and the others to ride it to their destination, it would be a huge contribution to the team.

But now this idiot had fallen, and if he took out the cart now, it would look like he was showing concern for this woman.

Chu Fu had already half-inserted his hand into his Qiankun Bag, but now it was inconvenient to take it out.

Yan Jue squinted, her long phoenix eyes welling up with moisture. She looked up at Qi Xianqing, only to see the other party faintly turn her gaze away: “You can even fall while walking, you’re really useful.”

Yan Jue: “…Damn it!”

Duan Luxi had already crouched down in front of Yan Jue: “Come, Junior Sister, I’ll carry you.”

Yan Jue smiled: “Hahaha, thank you, Senior”

Before she could finish speaking, she suddenly saw a black, thin sword appear on Duan Luxi’s shoulder out of nowhere.

Qi Xianqing held the “Candle Shadow Immortal Sword” in her hand, the tip of the sword lightly tapped Duan Luxi’s shoulder, then passed over her to look faintly at Yan Jue: “I will carry you.”

Yan Jue: “Jee?!”