The Cold And Aloof Senior Sister Keeps Flirting With Me - Chapter 56.1

The overly gentle creatures will always be bullied.

The White Fox flicked its tail and looked at her gently: “If you save me, I will marry you.”

Yan Jue was silent for a moment: “…That won’t be necessary.”

Yan Jue was looking at the White Fox through a small window.

She glanced over, confirming that Qi Xianqing and the others had gone far away and wouldn’t see her, then walked to the door.

Yan Jue grasped the doorknob and pulled hard.

The door didn’t budge and faintly emitted a blue light.

This was a room covered in restrictions.

Although Yan Jue had consulted Qi Xianqing about array formations while traveling today, this blue glowing restriction already belonged to the intermediate level of array formations.

Yan Jue truly had no way to break a restriction of this magnitude.

Yan Jue returned to the window, pressed the golden collar on her neck, and silently recited the Spirit Communication Spell.

The North Sea Dark Iron gently vibrated, then transformed into a slender rope, flying toward the cage and wrapping tightly around the iron bars.

Yan Jue closed her eyes and continued reciting the Spirit Communication Spell, and the North Sea Dark Iron began to pull the iron cage upwards with force.

The iron cage was lifted up by the North Sea Dark Iron.

With a loud “clank,” the iron cage flipped out of the window.

The White Fox inside the cage was also thrown into a dizzy spin, staring at her with a face full of complaints, its gaze somewhat petulant.

It seemed naturally seductive, if Yan Jue were just a mortal, she might actually be mesmerized by such a look.

The White Fox was initially staring at Yan Jue’s face, but as it looked, it suddenly discovered something in Yan Jue’s eyes.

It seemed to be an extremely faint… golden light.

The White Fox’s pupils contracted, and the entire fox instantly prostrated itself on the ground: “Is the Maiden of the Red Fox clan?”

Yan Jue: “Precisely.”

White Fox: “This servant had eyes but failed to recognize a superior; please forgive me, Maiden.”

Red Foxes hold a high status within the Fox Clan, and Yan Jue was long accustomed to it.

The White Fox said coyly, “Can the Maiden release this servant now?”

Yan Jue: “…”

Whether it was her imagination or not, she felt that the White Fox’s tone when speaking to her was a little strange.

Yan Jue crouched in front of the iron cage and stared at the White Fox: “Before I release you, I have a few questions to ask.”

White Fox: “Maiden, speak your mind.”

Yan Jue: “Who captured you?”

White Fox: “It was the Skin-Painter Ghost. She is collecting animal pelts, so she captured me.”

Yan Jue was slightly startled. She had previously read the name of the Skin-Painter Ghost in the Sutra Repository.

The Skin-Painter Ghost was originally a green faced, sharp fanged hungry ghost. Her greatest hobby was collecting all kinds of skin pelts and wearing them to walk among humans, making it impossible for ordinary people to detect anything amiss.

Was the one who tried to abduct her outside the courtyard gate just now the Skin Painter Ghost?

No wonder.

By using a human skin to conceal the sinister qi on her body, Yan Jue couldn’t detect it.

Yan Jue: “Alright, second question: Is the case of the three missing beauties in Fengxian Town these days also related to the Skin Painter Ghost?”

White Fox: “Yes, the Skin Painter Ghost captures not only animals but also people. She especially enjoys collecting the skins of beautiful people.”

So that was it. That’s why the big, fat man from the Southern Tower who came to patrol hadn’t encountered the trafficker even once. Yan Jue had seen him at the inn earlier and felt his appearance was somewhat indescribable.

So, he was just too ugly, so ugly that even the Skin-Painter Ghost didn’t want to capture him.

The Skin Painter Ghost only captures beauties.

Yan Jue: “Do you usually live around here?”

White Fox: “Maiden, you tease~ why are you asking about this servant’s dwelling?”

Yan Jue: “…”

Yan Jue tapped the cage and said seriously: “Speak properly.”

The White Fox’s expression immediately became respectful: “Yes. This servant lives in this vicinity.”

Yan Jue: “When did the Skin-Painter Ghost arrive here? Or has she always been in the Luoyun Mountain area?”

Today, she and Qi Xianqing encountered many Water Ghosts on Luoyun Mountain.

Logically, there shouldn’t be so many Water Ghosts in the same area.

This group of Water Ghosts appeared in large numbers at the same time and in the same place; they were summoned.

If the Skin Painter Ghost also appeared recently, the matter would be even more suspicious.

It might be that someone deliberately lured a large number of evil ghosts to frame the Five Dragon Sect’s only Immortal Spirit Body.

Although Yan Jue knew that as the female lead, Qi Xianqing had many people who wanted to harm her and would experience many hardships along the way, the ending would ultimately be beautiful. Still, she wanted to understand the situation better.

If things could go smoothly, who would want hardship? The plot has already deviated too much from the original, so Yan Jue needs to understand the situation more.

White Fox: “She wasn’t here before; the Skin Painter Ghost only appeared last month. I was also captured last month.”

Yan Jue pondered for a moment, then opened the cage: “I have no more questions. You may go.”

The White Fox looked up, stared at her, and seemed to blow her a flirtatious glance.

It suddenly spat out half a piece of jade from its mouth, then scurried away.

Yan Jue was slightly stunned.

This piece of jade was faintly purple, with sharp edges, appearing to have fallen off from somewhere.

Yan Jue was momentarily confused, and a very familiar feeling suddenly flashed through her mind.

She immediately pulled out the broken jade that Jia Ni from Xiaoxing Village had given her yesterday from her Cosmos Bag and pieced the two pieces of jade together.

No wonder she felt the jade the White Fox spat out was so familiar.

It actually seemed to be from the same piece of jade as the one the girl from Xiaoxing Village gave her!

The fragments of these two jades fit together perfectly without any gaps.

It was clearly a jade pendant.

But it was still missing two pieces.

Yan Jue rested her chin in her hand, deep in thought.

She had read many cultivation novels in modern times. Could this fragmented piece of jade be the key to opening some secret realm…

It couldn’t be such a coincidence.

After all, this was something only the male lead should encounter.

Did she inadvertently steal the male lead’s opportunity again…

Yan Jue lowered her head and pieced the jade fragments back together.

She could vaguely make out the character.

Yan Jue’s eyes flickered. She put the jade pendant into her Cosmos Bag, flashed her body, and followed the direction where Qi Xianqing and Chu Fu had disappeared.

The door of the house was knocked open, and thick dust rolled down.

Qi Xianqing narrowed her eyes.

In the empty house, no trace of humans was found.

Qi Xianqing said: “The place you detected with your divine sense outside the door was here.”

Chu Fu held his hands together, frowning as he looked around: “But there’s no one here. Only…”

He suddenly discovered something, his pupils instantly contracted, and he nearly cried out in surprise: “This is…”

Yan Jue looked down from the roof not far away, suddenly saw something, and her pupils instantly contracted. She was also utterly shocked for a moment.

On the shelves inside the house were two human skins hanging.

The two human skins were perfectly peeled from the faces. One could vaguely see the exquisite facial features on them, reflecting the moonlight and appearing especially gruesome.

“Skin Painter Ghost.”

The disgust in Qi Xianqing’s eyes flashed and disappeared. She said expressionlessly, “The reason you can’t see people is because there is a restriction.”

Yan Jue stood quietly on a rooftop about eight zhang away from the two.

Her hearing was excellent; even from a distance, in an extremely quiet environment, she could hear the conversation of the people over there.

Yan Jue narrowed her eyes, looking towards the roof of the house, and indeed saw a faint layer of green light on it.

Qi Xianqing: “Disciples in the Foundation Establishment stage should have started learning array formations. Do you still remember how to break an array?”

Chu Fu was now stumped.

As a key reserve disciple of the Five Dragon Sect, he had indeed studied array formations.

But this course was always treated lightly. Most Five Dragon Sect disciples were Sword Cultivators, and the obscure and difficult array formation course was the kind that only one in ten disciples would listen to seriously, and the one who did was usually the most rigid student in the class.

Chu Fu remained silent.

Earlier in the day, when they were descending the mountain, Yan Jue had pestered Qi Xianqing to teach her trigram judgment, so she had a slight understanding of how to crack this type of array.

If green light floated on the array, it belonged to a primary array formation.

If blue light, it was an intermediate array formation. For example, the house where the White Fox was imprisoned just now was of this type.

If golden light was floating, it was an advanced array formation that only Great Experts above the Sixth Stage could set up.

Yan Jue stared at the layer of green light on the roof, lost in thought.

Qi Xianqing suddenly said: “Why don’t you demonstrate it for him, Junior Sister Yan.”

Yan Jue was standing on the roof. She was so startled when she suddenly heard Qi Xianqing call her that she almost fell off.

Qi Xianqing turned around with her hands behind her back, and her gaze met Yan Jue’s.

What the heck? I clearly took a Qi Concealing Pill. How did Qi Xianqing detect my presence? Has her divine sense reached such a terrifying level?

“…”

Yan Jue suddenly realized that an hour had passed.

The effect of the Qi Concealing Pill seems to have worn off.

In a flash, the immortal sword “Candle Shadow” on Qi Xianqing’s back suddenly slipped out of its scabbard. The shadowy-green figure flashed across the sky like lightning and appeared before Yan Jue in the next second.

When Yan Jue saw Candle Shadow, her entire body instantly stiffened.

The cold blade of Candle Shadow somehow pressed against Yan Jue’s back, affectionately rubbing against it.

Pat-pat.

Then it pushed Yan Jue.

Yan Jue awkwardly jumped down from the roof, landing precisely in front of Qi Xianqing.

Qi Xianqing walked next to Yan Jue and suddenly noticed that sometime in the past month, Yan Jue had somehow grown taller again.

Yan Jue used to be slightly shorter than her, but now she was the same height.

Qi Xianqing slightly raised her eyes and asked softly, “Care to explain?”

Yan Jue forced herself to explain the situation to Qi Xianqing briefly: “I went out for a stroll just now, and then I met an old woman on the road. I escorted her home, but who knew she was a Skin…”

Since the White Fox told her about the Skin Painter Ghost, Yan Jue omitted that part: “…human trafficker.”

Qi Xianqing: “Junior Sister has great spirits. After such a tiring journey during the day, you still have the leisure to shop.”

Yan Jue: “…”

Why does she feel like Qi Xianqing is a little unhappy?

Qi Xianqing: “How do you break this restriction?”

At the same time, Candle Shadow secretly poked her in the back, urging her to speak quickly.

This was only the lowest-level array formation. Yan Jue could still solve it.

Since it was Yan Jue’s first time breaking an array, she frowned slightly and spent about half a cup of tea’s time judging the positions of various trigrams.

“Qian, Gen, charging the gate…”

Recalling how Qi Xianqing broke restrictions, she took out a low-grade spirit stone the size of a fingernail from her Cosmos Bag and threw it out with a wave of her hand.

The spirit stone drew a graceful arc in the air, smashing right onto the painting on the opposite wall.

The green light on the ceiling grew brighter.

Yan Jue then threw out another spirit stone, which landed exactly on the window over there.

A faint sound suddenly echoed in the air.

The barrier covering the room gradually disappeared.

What appeared in Yan Jue’s eyes was a woman with a horrified expression. She wore a light pink flowy skirt, her hair was disheveled, and she was huddled in the corner, looking extremely miserable.

This woman had clearly been held captive by the monster here for a long time. Her complexion was very pale, her lips were trembling, and her face was covered in tears a true sight of a beauty weeping, like pear blossoms touched by rain.

Yan Jue stared at her, and she stared at Yan Jue. They were both stunned.

The woman was too frightened to speak.

Yan Jue squatted beside her and comforted her for a long time before learning the general context of the matter.

The three missing beauties in Fengxian Town were Jiang, the courtesan from Tanchun Tower, Madam Song, the third daughter of the Song family, and Madam Xu, the eldest daughter of the Xu family.

Any one of these three women was devastatingly beautiful, capable of being selected for the imperial harem.

The sole survivor among the three was Madam Xu, Xu Sijin.

And the culprit behind this incident was actually a Skin Painter Ghost.

This Skin Painter Ghost, for some unknown reason, had targeted this small town. She didn’t capture ordinary people she only captured beauties.

This Madam Xu might not have satisfied the Skin Painter Ghost’s standards of beauty and was left here untouched, thus escaping harm.

Chu Fu sighed with emotion: “Thanks to Senior Sister Yan…”

Madam Xu had been crying incessantly ever since she saw the three of them, and the originally quiet room became quite chaotic.

Chu Fu smiled at her gently: “Don’t be afraid. I’ll take you home now.”

Chu Fu:

“Where is your home…”

Qi Xianqing suddenly interrupted him: “Don’t leave yet. Did you see how she broke the restriction just now?”

Yan Jue couldn’t help but feel awkward. Qi Xianqing was indeed very serious as the team leading Senior Sister.

But all of Chu Fu’s energy had been focused on admiring the beauty, so how could he have paid attention to how Yan Jue broke the restriction? He stammered: “I didn’t.”

Qi Xianqing: “Every mission is a great opportunity to learn knowledge. Doing this wastes not only my time but also yours.”

Her voice was without any noticeable fluctuation, still very flat, but her words were stern.

This was the first time Yan Jue had seen Qi Xianqing reprimand someone.

Just as Yan Jue found this novel, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her chest!

Her eyes went black, and she instantly felt unsteady on her feet.

It’s over.

It’s because of her again; the relationship between the male and female leads is strained again.

“…”

Why is she always the one getting hurt…

Yan Jue’s legs went weak, and tears welled up in her beautiful phoenix eyes. She looked like she was about to fall.

Qi Xianqing was stunned and stepped forward to support her: “What’s wrong?”

Yan Jue said weakly: “Senior Sister… don’t scold him, don’t scold him…”

“Junior Brother Chu is only in the Foundation Establishment stage he still has a long time to learn. Moreover, he is already very clever, surpassing most Foundation Establishment disciples…”

Qi Xianqing frowned, her expression becoming even colder.

Chu Fu had been so tense that he wanted to find a hole to crawl into, keeping his head down, but then he heard Yan Jue say this.

Oh, my god, that woman is actually speaking up for me…

It seems she still loves me. Chu Fu couldn’t help but curve his lips, but he put on a look of disgust: “Senior Sister Yan, what are you saying? I really don’t know array formations, and you don’t need to cover for me! As disciples of the Five Dragon Sect, we must strive for excellence, and all kinds of knowledge must be learned.”

Chu Fu humbly admitted his mistake, but Yan Jue didn’t hear a word of it.

Chu Fu’s expression became increasingly solemn: “Senior Sister scolding me is for my own good. Furthermore, the fact that I don’t know array formations is true!”

Stop talking, stop talking…

Yan Jue leaned against Qi Xianqing’s shoulder. With every word Chu Fu spoke, the pain in her chest intensified. She knew without a doubt that Qi Xianqing’s favorability toward Chu Fu was plummeting dangerously with Chu Fu’s non-stop talking.

It’s over. Why does she feel like she’s made Qi Xianqing dislike Chu Fu even more…!