The Villainous Senior Brother Doesn't Want to Wash White [Transmigration] - Chapter 19

Ji Yanqing never expected that this seemingly deadlocked mission would actually be resolved by his beauty!

Moreover, was he actually very beautiful? Why had he never noticed this before!

Ji Yanqing had always believed his looks were just average. After all, every time he encountered those supporting characters, they never seemed to be attracted by his appearance; instead, they hated him so much their teeth itched.

It must be because his daily acting skills were too superb! That’s why they automatically ignored his looks and only noticed his essence as a villain!

“We owe it to Fellow Daoist Zhang this time.”

At some point, Liu Ningyun had taken Ji Yanqing’s hair ribbon into his hand. He now handed it over, his gaze toward Ji Yanqing filled with a hint of a smile and appreciation.

“Hmph, he just has a good skin bag, that’s all.”

Liu Ziyi snorted, but if one looked closely, it wasn’t hard to find a trace of crimson appearing on her cheeks.

Thinking about it now, Ji Yanqing’s peach-blossom eyes never looked at people directly, and whenever he spoke, it was those irritatingly cold and annoying words. Naturally, it was impossible to like him. But even so, it was undeniable that Ji Yanqing was indeed a beauty.

Meng Xingchen and Qi Ye’s expressions, however, showed no change. Meng Xingchen was a sword cultivator who already had a Dao companion; in his heart, the most beautiful thing was naturally the longsword in his hand, though that didn’t stop him from looking at Ji Yanqing with eyes that appreciated beauty.

Qi Ye discreetly looked away, but the scene just now had already replayed in his mind an infinite number of times…

Suddenly becoming the focus of the group, Ji Yanqing was a bit unaccustomed. Just then, he sensed an exceptionally scorching gaze. Unlike the purely appreciative eyes of the others, this one was filled with lust and greed, making one feel an instinctive disgust.

Ji Yanqing’s right hand pinched a spell gesture. With a swish, a sharp golden needle shot straight toward Chen Jia, stopping just barely in front of him. The cold, gleaming tip of the needle was only an inch away from Chen Jia’s eyeball; if it moved forward even slightly, it could pierce through.

Chen Jia’s eyes widened, and the greed and lust in his eyes instantly turned into terror. He didn’t dare to move a muscle, asking in a trembling voice, “What… what are you doing?”

“Nothing. If you look at me with those eyes again next time, this needle might not stop so timely.”

Ji Yanqing spoke to Chen Jia with his chin slightly raised. His tone was unusually soft, but the words he spoke made one’s whole body turn cold. After Ji Yanqing finished speaking, the golden needle turned into a streak of light and disappeared.

But Chen Jia understood now. Although this person had scattered black hair and eyes containing deep emotion, and was beautiful beyond words, he was not someone he could afford to provoke. He turned his head, looking at the others with lingering fear, still not quite sure what was happening.

“Chen Jia, someone asked us to rescue you and take you back.”

Liu Ningyun coughed lightly. Because he didn’t know the identities of the girl and the middle-aged man, he referred to them collectively as “someone.”

Chen Jia understood, asking quite urgently, “It must be the people from the Ling Mansion. I wonder if you have seen Sister Ling…”

But just as he finished, the cave suddenly began to vibrate. Chen Jia’s expression changed, and he said fearfully, “It’s the fox demon coming back. Let’s leave quickly.”

With an extra person, Chen Jia, plus Ji Yanqing who was constantly dawdling at the very back, the road back to the Ling Mansion seemed much longer and more difficult than when they came.

Unwittingly, the group arrived in a dense forest, surrounded by thick fog, making it impossible to see the path ahead.

Liu Ziyi frowned as she looked around, muttering to herself, “Strange. We clearly didn’t walk through here when we came.”

Another illusion array.

With just one look, Ji Yanqing saw through it; they had stepped into an illusion array. Ji Yanqing’s cultivation talent was excellent, and he knew a thing or two about various Daoist methods. But in order to complete his mission better, Ji Yanqing had unhesitatingly chosen the skill that only villains excel in—Illusion.

Illusion primarily relies on a cultivator’s imagination, and Ji Yanqing, with his “brain holes” (imagination), naturally became a one-in-a-million illusion genius.

Ji Yanqing remained silent, but that didn’t mean others couldn’t see it. Chen Jia seemed to suddenly remember something, shouting loudly, “This is an illusion! Previously, it was because I saw… that I was captured!” While saying this, he desperately grabbed Liu Ningyun’s long sleeve; after all, among so many people, only Liu Ningyun looked the most approachable.

From Chen Jia’s vague sentence, Liu Ningyun sensed something. He spoke up to remind them, “Close your eyes. No matter what you see, do not leave.”

However, just as Liu Ningyun finished speaking, Ji Yanqing saw Qi Ye walk into the mist. Seeing Qi Ye’s silhouette about to disappear, Ji Yanqing hesitated for a moment but followed him.

The two walked one after the other. Ji Yanqing’s pace wasn’t slow, but for some reason, he always maintained a distance of one zhang (about 3.3 meters) from Qi Ye. Ji Yanqing thought for a moment and simply stopped in his tracks.

Only then did Qi Ye notice Ji Yanqing following behind him. He stopped, looking a bit lost and surprised. “Senior Brother, why… are you here? What happened to me just now?”

But Ji Yanqing had already seen through everything, saying indifferently, “Stop pretending. Your fox tail is already showing.”

Hearing Ji Yanqing say this, “Qi Ye” instinctively looked behind himself. But at a glance, his back was empty; there was no tail showing at all. At this point, he realized he had been tricked and simply stopped pretending.

He revealed a brilliant smile completely uncharacteristic of Qi Ye. With a bang, another cloud of thick smoke rose, and the “Qi Ye” before him turned into a youth dressed in white. The youth was handsome, with a thick, bewitching air between his brows, and his long, narrow eyes contained a myriad of romantic charms.

The white-clad youth looked at Ji Yanqing and said with a beaming smile, “Beauty, I have no ill will toward you. I spent quite a bit of effort to lure Chen Jia into my cave, and now he’s been rescued by you. I can’t beat you all in a fight, so I could only snatch you away to see if I could use you to exchange for Chen Jia.”

The youth placed special emphasis on the word “snatch.”

“It’s not ‘snatched,’ I came here myself,” Ji Yanqing corrected. As he spoke, his gaze drifted toward the spiritual sword hanging at the fox demon’s waist.

The spiritual sword was about three feet long, its scabbard like frost and snow. Although not unsheathed, one could already feel a dense spiritual aura; it was an extremely rare Heaven-grade ice-attribute spiritual sword.

The fox demon suddenly understood. “Beauty, when you followed me into the mist earlier, I thought you had taken a liking to me. Turns out you took a liking to my spiritual sword.”

Ji Yanqing snorted, then asked, “Hmph, as long as you understand.”

The fox demon had cultivated for nearly a thousand years and seen all sorts of people, but someone like Ji Yanqing, who was so calm after being “kidnapped,” was a first for him. He deliberately moved closer to Ji Yanqing, saying in a quite ambiguous tone, “Beauty still has the mind to stare at this sword? Now that it’s just you and me here, aren’t you afraid I might do something to you?”

Ji Yanqing squinted at the fox demon and asked, “So, what are you going to do?”

Fox Demon: “…”

Your reaction really makes me feel like I have no face.

The other party clearly wasn’t falling for his tricks, so the fox demon gave up the teasing and replied, “I want to use Chen Jia to enter the Ling Mansion and take something away.”

The fox demon answered this way primarily because Ji Yanqing’s looks and personality suited his taste. His plan was to wait for the other four to use Chen Jia for the exchange. Since they hadn’t arrived yet, the fox demon simply told Ji Yanqing his purpose.

Hearing this, Ji Yanqing’s eyes suddenly lit up. He turned to the fox demon and proposed, “How about this: I’ll help you. After the matter is done, you give this spiritual sword to me. What do you think?”

Wait, shouldn’t this beauty be someone hired by the Ling Mansion? He… he’s actually an ally? No, that’s not right. How come I don’t remember knowing such a beautiful human?

The fox demon was dumbfounded. After a long while, he asked, “Why… why do you want to help me?”

Ji Yanqing answered very righteously, “We’re all villains. Of course we should work together to stir up trouble.”

The fox demon’s long, narrow eyes narrowed slightly as he observed Ji Yanqing, seemingly thinking carefully about how much of his words were believable.

It seems making an NPC cooperate with me isn’t that easy, Ji Yanqing thought. Just as he was about to try persuading him further, the fox demon made a decision. “Fine, I agree. If you really help me get that item, I’ll give this spiritual sword to you.”

Plan successful!

Ji Yanqing was secretly delighted. Even if this couldn’t prevent Qi Ye from getting the glazed lamp, at least he could get the spiritual sword to complete the main mission.

The man and the demon tentatively established a cooperative relationship. The fox demon then asked Ji Yanqing quite curiously, “But how do you plan to help me enter the Chen Mansion? That Chen Mansion is heavily guarded, and I usually can’t enter at all. If I use illusion, my demonic aura will be revealed.”

“It’s not just you fox demons who know illusion,” Ji Yanqing said smugly. As soon as his words fell, the fox demon had turned into Ji Yanqing’s appearance, while Ji Yanqing hid his own form.

The fox demon looked himself over, then looked at the semi-transparent Ji Yanqing. He couldn’t help but praise, “Beauty can not only break my barrier, but your illusion is also on par with mine. Most importantly, you possess beauty not inferior to mine. I… admit defeat.”

Is possessing beauty actually the most important thing?

No wonder the method to break that illusion earlier relied on face value. Ji Yanqing thought of the experience of being “scammed” earlier and was about to complain a bit about this face-obsessed fox, when just then, another figure walked out from the thick fog.

He was gripping his spiritual sword tightly, looking completely exhausted, yet he struggled to support himself as he walked forward.

“Senior Brother…”

Seeing the fox demon who had already taken Ji Yanqing’s appearance, Qi Ye’s eyes shone with a sparkle of joy, but he stopped in his tracks, not daring to step forward, fearing that this scene before him was also his hallucination.

The fox demon whispered to Ji Yanqing, “No one can walk out of my mist illusion in less than half an hour. Forcing a breakthrough will cause a backlash to oneself. Your Dao companion really has you in his heart.”

Ji Yanqing: ???

Seeing Qi Ye in this state, and hearing the fox demon say the illusion would cause backlash, Ji Yanqing was originally a bit worried, wanting to ask if it would damage his cultivation and how to recover. But hearing the last sentence, he swallowed the words that were at the tip of his tongue, leaving only a head full of question marks.

Is this fox demon’s eyesight bad?

Otherwise, why would he think Qi Ye is my Dao companion?