Training the Villain to Become a Big Sister Obsessed - Chapter 100

When Ling Guang and Song Qing-cheng brought Mu Fu-an to Elder Yu’s small courtyard, Mu Fu-an suddenly saw a blur and was thrown backward.

Ling Guang was startled and immediately grabbed Song Qing-cheng beside her.

Mu Fu-an herself hadn’t figured out the situation when she heard a low roar near her ear: “The antidote!”

Recognizing it was Cang Wu, Mu Fu-an lowered the talisman she was about to throw. She asked confusedly: “What antidote?”

Cang Wu clenched her fists and spoke through gritted teeth: “The antidote for Reincarnation.”

Mu Fu-an’s mind raced. Seeing her current state, she felt uneasy.

Only one person could make Cang Wu so furious and distraught.

“Reincarnation… has no antidote.”

Her words were the same as Elder Yu’s. In her fury, Cang Wu struck out a palm. She hadn’t mobilized her spiritual power, but the wind from her palm grazed past Mu Fu-an’s ear, lifting her hair.

“Cang Wu!” Ling Guang quickly came over, pulled Cang Wu away, and asked: “What is going on? What is Reincarnation?”

“Lan Shan and Xiao Jiu have both been poisoned by Reincarnation. It is a secret medicine of the Valley of a Thousand Poisons that rots the body and devours the soul. It is the unsolvable medicine,” Mo Huai-sheng explained gravely.

Ling Guang turned her head to look at her in disbelief. Then her gaze fell back on Cang Wu. Without needing to ask for confirmation again, Cang Wu’s current semi-demonic appearance proved that everything she had just heard was true.

“There must be an antidote.”

Cang Wu said this with a trembling voice, then stormed into the house and carried Lan Shan-jun away.

By the time Ling Guang and the others rushed inside, they were already gone.

When Ling Guang saw that half of Xiao Jiu’s arm had turned black and purple, and her entire palm was beginning to fester, tears welled up. She stammered incoherently: “How… could this happen? No… they…”

In her panic, she turned to look at Song Qing-cheng. Her vision was obscured by tears. A warm hand covered her eyes, accompanied by a familiar presence.

As a Young Hall Master, she shouldn’t shed tears easily, but Ling Guang was naturally prone to crying. She cried when she was in pain, she cried when others were in pain, she cried reading novels, and she cried listening to stories. Whenever she cried over these things, Song Qing-cheng would cover her eyes so that others wouldn’t see her tears.

Usually, Ling Guang cried silently, quickly wiping away her tears. But this time, she couldn’t control her low sobs. Song Qing-cheng reached out and hugged her. Ling Guang naturally buried her face in her neck.

Her scalding tears soaked the Dharma robe there. Song Qing-cheng’s gaze was fixed on Xiao Jiu’s arm, her brows tightly furrowed.

「Reincarnation is indeed an unsolvable medicine. Before her body completely rots, why don’t you just burn it with a fire? At least it would be a dignified end, and save you from helplessly raging at a pile of rotten flesh a couple of days from now.」

The Spirit King’s words were quite gleeful. She truly hoped Lan Shan-jun would die like this, so she could see what this Cang Wu would become.

“Shut up,” Cang Wu coldly scoffed. “You have an undeserved reputation, yet you still know nothing.”

「A provocation? It won’t work on me.」

Cang Wu ignored her, composed herself, and stood before the Cloud Chamber. The Cloud Chamber’s door was wide open. Grandmaster Xuan leaned lightly against the doorway, wearing the pale green Dharma robe of Yang Valley loosely, her expression listless.

“Grandmaster Xuan.”

Grandmaster Xuan looked up at her, her gaze slowly moving down to Lan Shan-jun. A single look was enough to know what had happened.

“You came to me for an antidote. Instead of asking me, why not look in the Cloud Dream Lake? The medicinal primer for Reincarnation is the Puti Heart. Its potency lies there. If you find something that can restrain the Puti Heart, there is still a chance to rescue their souls.”

With that single guiding sentence, Cang Wu expressed her thanks and prepared to head to the Cloud Dream Lake. A stream of immortal energy suddenly descended, striking Lan Shan-jun’s glabella.

“Recreate her physical body and find the object that counters the Puti Heart within seven days.”

Cang Wu committed this to memory and immediately messaged the others with Grandmaster Xuan’s exact words.

The Cloud Dream Lake was under Elder Yu’s jurisdiction. This time, they were given special permission to enter and search.

Xiao Jiu had the Four Directions bloodline, so the Reincarnation poison’s spread was much slower than in Lan Shan-jun. However, Grandmaster Xuan’s immortal energy delayed the poison in Lan Shan-jun, so the time frame for both of them wasn’t significantly different.

Lan Shan-jun and Xiao Jiu were placed with Elder Yu. Zhao Chen, whose eyes were still affected, also stayed behind. The others, who should have returned, unanimously followed Cang Wu to the Cloud Dream Lake.

Cang Wu looked at them, bowing with cupped hands: “…Thank you.”

Ling Guang lifted her hand, her eyes still red, highly displeased with her attitude: “What are you doing? Lan Shan and Xiao Jiu are our friends. When they are in trouble, how can we just stand by and do nothing?”

“Exactly,” Mo Huai-sheng said. “I have already sent a message back. You don’t need to worry about those things. Saving them is the priority.”

Mu Fu-an nodded in agreement.

Ling Guang glanced at Song Qing-cheng, who hadn’t spoken yet. She tapped her lower back. Song Qing-cheng came back to herself and spoke softly: “As Grandmaster Xuan said, we need to reconstruct their bodies and find the object that restrains the Puti Heart. Why don’t we split up? Although the materials needed to reconstruct a body are rare, Floating Jade Island possesses them. I can go and ask my mother.”

Ling Guang’s eyes lit up: “Aunt Song will definitely give them!”

“Ling Guang, will you come with me, or follow Cang Wu into the Cloud Dream Lake?” Song Qing-cheng asked.

Ling Guang gave a soft “Nghm,” hesitating, and then looked at her: “I want to stay.”

Song Qing-cheng smiled at her, reaching out to rub her eyes: “Then wait for me to return.”

“Okay.”

Ling Guang stepped forward and hugged her, kissing her on the lips with a loud smack.

Although they were usually inseparable, this was the first time they had been so openly affectionate in front of others. Song Qing-cheng pressed her lips together, her face flushed.

“I’m leaving.”

The teleportation formation activated, and Song Qing-cheng slowly disappeared before everyone.

“Let’s start searching as quickly as possible.”

The jade tokens contained Elder Yu’s spiritual energy, and the Cloud Dream Lake did not reject them.

After learning from Elder Yu that Xiao Jiu was poisoned by Reincarnation, Elder Xue immediately sought out Grandmaster Xuan. She had just arrived when Cang Wu came, and she heard everything Grandmaster Xuan said clearly from inside the room.

“Can Reincarnation truly be solved?” Elder Xue’s expression was anxious.

Grandmaster Xuan sighed: “Immortals do not know everything.”

“But didn’t Grandmaster just say… that by reconstructing the body and finding the object that counters the Puti Heart, they could…” Elder Xue paused. She recalled Grandmaster Xuan’s words to Cang Wu. She hadn’t actually spoken of an antidote.

She only said there was a chance to rescue their souls.

“But how can Xiao Jiu reconstruct her body? Even for a Vermillion Bird, they must have an intact body for Nirvana to rebirth.” Elder Xue’s words suddenly sparked a thought in her mind. She seized it tightly, asking: “The Heavenly Dao would not allow the bloodline of the Four Directions to be severed. Xiao Jiu is the only pure-blooded White Tiger in a hundred years…”

Elder Xue watched Grandmaster Xuan’s divination hand, and her face grew paler.

Grandmaster Xuan slowly opened her eyes, glanced at the distraught Elder Xue, and said calmly: “Just now, the White Tiger Hall gave birth to another pure-blooded White Tiger.”

The Heavenly Dao would indeed not allow the bloodline of the Four Directions to be severed; it would create a new opportunity.

The light in Elder Xue’s eyes was completely extinguished. She drooped her eyes listlessly, whispering: “So, has the Heavenly Dao forsaken Xiao Jiu?”

Grandmaster Xuan looked at her and said softly: “Being forsaken by the Heavenly Dao does not mean their path to life is cut off. Fu You, how can you be less hopeful than those children? Even though they know Reincarnation is the unsolvable medicine, they will desperately carve out a path for their friends to live.”

“Fu You, I remember you were quite ambitious when you were only a hundred years old. Just like these children, when facing a crisis, you dared to compete with Heaven, to take a risk and try, regardless of the outcome.”

Elder Xue’s face stiffened, then she offered a bitter smile: “Grandmaster, please stop jesting with me. Bringing up old history only sounds like a joke.”

How could I not have competed or tried? Heaven is Heaven, pressing down upon them, insurmountable.

“Not necessarily.” There was no teasing amusement in Grandmaster Xuan’s eyes; her smiling expression held a degree of anticipation. “Perhaps this time, you can compete your way through.”

Elder Xue slowly turned her eyes to look at the immortal before her. Having been an Elder at Qingyun Academy and having heard Grandmaster Xuan speak often, she knew her words always carried weight.

Then Xiao Jiu…

“Fu You, return to the White Tiger Hall,” Grandmaster Xuan pressed her glabella. “The Soul-Guiding Bell is here with Xiao Jiu. She can’t return now that she’s poisoned. Since a new young tiger has been born in the White Tiger Hall, go and look after it.”

Elder Xue frowned slightly, but nodded in compliance when Grandmaster Xuan looked her way.

Cloud Dream Lake—

Cang Wu floated in the air, rapidly flipping through the scrolls about the Puti Tree in her hands, reading one and discarding it, only for the discarded scroll to automatically roll up and return to its original position.

The books stated that the Puti Tree originally had no roots or seeds; it was a spiritual tree transformed by the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth, blooming every five hundred years, bearing fruit every five hundred years, and giving birth to the Puti Heart after one thousand years.

The Puti Tree was not considered a particularly rare spiritual tree in the Four Seas, but a Puti Tree that had grown a Puti Heart was highly sought after and difficult to obtain.

“It’s all the same information!” Cang Wu frustratedly threw down another scroll, raising her hand to hit the nearby bookshelf.

“My scrolls also only contain vague descriptions. There is no mention of an object that counters the Puti Heart,” Ling Guang said while continuing her search.

She looked up, seeing tall bookshelves soaring into the clouds. They were only beneath the cloud layer. They didn’t know what the scene above the clouds was like.

The Cloud Dream Lake was vast and boundless. When would they finish their search?

「I know which scroll contains what you are looking for,” the Spirit King spoke up very opportunely.

Cang Wu pressed down on her eyelids, tightly gripping the scroll in her hand.

The Spirit King would never reveal a clue so easily.

“What do you want me to do?”

「At least you have some sense,」 the Spirit King chuckled, her voice low and cold, sounding like mockery.

「You currently have no sword. I want you to return to Yang Valley and seek a sword in the Vault of Gold.」

“What sword?”

「Yue Cang Qiong (Moon Sky Dome), your sword.」

“My sword?” Cang Wu frowned slightly, scoffing. “Is it my sword, or your sword?”

The Spirit King repeated her line: 「What difference is there between you and me?」

Cang Wu thought inwardly, Of course there’s a difference. My Senior Sister is a thousand times better than yours.

After her inner grumbling, Cang Wu didn’t answer but asked back: “Which scroll?”

This was an agreement.

「The Compendium of Spiritual Objects」

Cang Wu softly repeated the title. Looking up again, the Compendium of Spiritual Objects she was looking for was right before her, the very next scroll she was about to pick up.

For a moment, Cang Wu felt the Spirit King was playing a trick on her.

She hesitated, then took down the scroll.

She opened it.

The very first spiritual object introduced was the Puti Tree. She scanned the contents quickly; it was the same information she had seen before.

On the last page describing the Puti Tree, Cang Wu’s fingers suddenly stopped. She slowly narrowed her eyes, looking at the spiritual object listed immediately after the Puti Tree.

Glazed Hundred Leaves.

The name sounded very familiar. She seemed to have heard it somewhere before.

「That is the object you need to counter the Puti Heart, but as far as I know, this item became extinct a hundred years ago.」