Training the Villain to Become a Big Sister Obsessed - Chapter 88

“Dean, letting those children go in just like that, aren’t you worried that they will also be affected by Xi…” Elder Xue was somewhat concerned.

“With Jiu Ying watching, and moreover, Xi is not an utterly evil demon.”

Dean Xuan stood above the clouds, gazing far into Tianhe Town. The corner of her lips held a subtle smile, her voice soft as the wind: “Fuyou, why do you think I let them go?”

Elder Xue thought for a moment and guessed: “Is it to let them bring Tan Zhen out?”

“Tan Zhen…” Dean Xuan sighed. “What a pity.”

Elder Xue looked up and saw a look of regret in the High Immortal’s eyes.

Tan Zhen… can she not be saved?

“It’s not just Tan Zhen. That disciple of Xie You, her obsession is too deep. If she cannot eliminate the obsession in her heart, I fear her path to Immortality will be corrupted,” Dean Xuan said.

The Immortal path corrupted… Falling into demonhood!?

Elder Xue’s eyes widened in shock. Dean Xuan was talking about Xie Qingshuang.

“Don’t worry too much. These children are actually quite excellent,” Dean Xuan laughed. “Perhaps they will bring us unexpected surprises.”

“I wish it could stay like this forever.” Cang Wu, nestled against Lan Shan Jun, let out a sigh of contentment, her voice carrying the drowsiness of the afternoon.

Lan Shan Jun had this thought earlier. Upon hearing that Cang Wu felt the same way, Lan Shan Jun narrowed her eyes, a smile touching her lips. Just as she was about to agree, a thread of clarity suddenly appeared in her mind. Lan Shan Jun swallowed the words on the tip of her tongue, her eyes instantly becoming vigilant.

Something is wrong.

“What’s wrong, Elder Sister?” Cang Wu rubbed against her, her arms wrapped around the woman’s neck.

Lan Shan Jun sat up slightly, used her hand to cup Cang Wu’s face, and looked straight into her eyes.

The originally clear eyes now seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, gradually becoming lost in this grand dream.

“Cang Wu?”

Lan Shan Jun wanted to pat Cang Wu’s face to wake her up, but eventually, she reluctantly changed it to a gentle pinch.

Pinching her cheek had no effect. Instead, it made Cang Wu more confused. She smiled, placing her face into the woman’s palm, allowing her to pinch it.

Lan Shan Jun: “…”

Thinking back to when Zhao Chen was influenced by the Spiritual Snake bloodline and lost her sanity, Lan Shan Jun thought of a solution.

“Bu Jin (Endless).”

Hearing the summons, Bu Jin detached itself from Cang Wu’s hand. Obediently, it came before Lan Shan Jun and split into gold and silver.

The moment it split, the golden chain transformed into sparkling golden characters. The characters circled around the two of them. As Lan Shan Jun chanted the Heart Calming Incantation, they entered Cang Wu’s heart one by one.

The youth’s eyes flashed with a hint of gold, then slowly closed.

Lan Shan Jun held Cang Wu. After a moment of hesitation, she placed the golden hoop, which the Chaos Map had transformed into, onto Cang Wu’s hand.

Tianhe Town was clearly not right. It seemed to unconsciously affect people’s minds, causing them to slowly sink and become lost within it.

Lan Shan Jun left the Heart Calming Incantation within the Chaos Map, allowing it to promptly pull Cang Wu’s lost consciousness back.

When Cang Wu slowly opened her eyes, she realized that she had just been affected by Tianhe Town.

“Elder Sister,” Cang Wu was a little annoyed. How had she not noticed at all?

Lan Shan Jun reached out and hugged her, gently stroking and rubbing the hair at the back of her head: “It’s okay. I’m here.”

Cang Wu took a deep breath of the surrounding clean scent, feeling her mind becoming a little fuzzy again. She shook her head and consciously stood up.

Lan Shan Jun also stood up afterward: “Let’s go find the others.”

They had to inform Ling Guang and the others about this situation so they could be prepared.

The two walked side by side on the street of Tianhe Town. The three main streets were now devoid of people coming and going. Not even the sounds of insects or birds could be heard. It was eerily quiet, like a dead city.

Walking step by step, human figures finally appeared in their sight.

It was Xiao Jiu and Mo Huaisheng. They were sitting together, drinking fish soup. The girl who made the fish soup for them looked very young. She had a smile on her face and seemed happy that people liked her fish soup.

Lan Shan Jun watched from afar, feeling that the smile was somewhat false, even eerie—a facade built upon suffering.

“Xiao Jiu, Huaisheng.” Lan Shan Jun walked over and called their names, but her eyes were fixed on the girl making the fish soup.

Xiao Jiu smiled with narrowed eyes. Seeing Lan Shan Jun and Cang Wu approach, she patted the empty seat beside her and enthusiastically invited: “Come quickly. Miss Linlin’s cooking is excellent.”

The girl named Linlin smiled faintly at Lan Shan Jun and Cang Wu when she heard this.

Lan Shan Jun pursed her lips. She joined two fingers and touched the golden hoop on Cang Wu’s finger. A faint gold spread out. Lan Shan Jun turned her wrist, drawing out golden characters.

The low, slow Heart Calming Incantation was spoken from her mouth. The characters drilled into the center of the two people’s brows one by one.

Seeing their eyes gradually clear up, Lan Shan Jun slowly withdrew her spiritual power. However, the last part of the Heart Calming Incantation broke free from Lan Shan Jun’s control and flew directly toward Linlin.

The instant the golden characters entered her body, Linlin’s pupils suddenly turned golden. The smile on her face vanished, replaced by pain and struggle. She reached out to Lan Shan Jun, her mouth opening and closing, but she couldn’t make any sound.

Lan Shan Jun deciphered her lip movements—

Save me.

However, before Lan Shan Jun could act, Linlin’s struggling expression slowly faded away, and the smile returned to her face.

“Elder Sister, she…” Cang Wu saw it too.

Lan Shan Jun frowned. She took a step forward and firmly grasped Linlin’s wrist. Linlin looked at her in confusion.

After a few breaths, Lan Shan Jun released Linlin, her expression somewhat grim.

Earlier, the female lead had swung her sword at the townspeople, but those people were illusory, and would regenerate even if killed.

But this Linlin in front of her was alive.

Not only was she alive, but Linlin had a spiritual root and a Gold Core within her. She was once a cultivator, at least in the Gold Core Realm, but Linlin’s spiritual power was scarce and constantly draining away.

Lan Shan Jun’s mind was in turmoil. If they had stumbled into Tianhe Town by mistake, she would think that this town was wicked, confusing people and trapping them here, and Linlin had become like this for that reason. But Elder Xue had guided them into Tianhe Town. Even if this was a test of their state of mind, why include illusory people alongside truly living ones? If they hadn’t found out and accidentally killed these people…

Elder Xue wouldn’t do such a thing. Tianhe Town was probably more than just a test.

During Lan Shan Jun’s contemplation, Xiao Jiu and Mo Huaisheng also came to their senses. The two exchanged glances, their expressions equally solemn.

“Lan Shan.”

When Lan Shan Jun told them about Linlin, Xiao Jiu and Mo Huaisheng both widened their eyes in shock. A living person!?

When truth and illusion are mixed, it is hardest to discern. They had no idea how many living people like Linlin were in Tianhe Town.

“Could Tan Zhen also have been affected by Tianhe Town to become like this? If she could wake up, perhaps…” Mo Huaisheng’s words trailed off halfway.

Her statement was illogical. If Tan Zhen was affected by Tianhe Town, how would she know she was dying soon? Therefore, there was no question of ‘waking up.’ Tan Zhen had always been awake.

Lan Shan Jun felt a headache coming on from all the thinking. Sensing a familiar aura approaching, a hand took hers.

“Elder Sister, are you tired?”

“I’m alright.” Lan Shan Jun shook her head. She hadn’t used much spiritual power, but this feeling of being veiled in mist made her feel uneasy.

She had a strong feeling that something was about to happen in Tianhe Town.

Next, she went to find Ling Guang and Song Qingcheng. They were also affected and had lost some of their mental clarity.

After Lan Shan Jun woke them up, the group went to Zhao Chen’s courtyard together.

After everyone was clear-headed—

Silence spread. No one spoke first. They were all young people, and all held the status of Young Masters or Young Sect Leaders of immortal sects, yet they had been lost and unprepared in this town without realizing it.

It was utterly humiliating.

“Thump, thump, thump…”

A dull knocking sound reached everyone’s ears. Their gaze followed the sound, which was Cang Wu boringly tapping the table with her fingers.

Lan Shan Jun reached out, took Cang Wu’s hand to make her quiet for a moment, and spoke first: “The second day is almost over.”

The sky outside was already so dark that not a shred of light could be seen. No stars or moon were visible, as if a thick layer of dark clouds was pressing down.

Elder Xue had guided them here to eliminate a demon, but now they didn’t even know where the demon to be eliminated was, and furthermore, this town felt strange in every corner.

“Linlin understood the Heart Calming Incantation. She regained clarity for a brief moment. What about the other people in the town…” Lan Shan Jun began.

Mo Huaisheng took over her sentence: “If we wake up the others, perhaps we can find out more about Tianhe Town.”

They might even learn about the demon here.

“I agree.” Xiao Jiu raised her hand high.

Ling Guang also raised her hand: “I agree too.”

Among them, besides Lan Shan Jun, who could awaken the lost with the Chaos Map and the Heart Calming Incantation, Xiao Jiu had the Heart Guiding Bell, and Mo Huaisheng’s flute music also had a certain calming and focusing effect.

“I can distinguish the aura of living people,” Zhao Chen also raised her hand.

So, the group once again secretly took the Young Lady out from the backyard.

With Zhao Chen identifying the aura and Song Qingcheng’s spell formations for positioning, they quickly found other living people similar to Linlin.

These people were all cultivators, some of whom were even descendants of immortal sects. Without exception, they had all lost their minds and were trapped here. Their spiritual power was constantly dissipating, contributing to the making of this perfect place that was Tianhe Town.

But they soon discovered a problem. The Heart Calming Incantation, the Heart Guiding Bell, and the healing sounds of the Listening Snow Pavilion all failed to wake these people. At most, they were lucid for less than a breath, not even enough time to blink their eyes.

Therefore, Lan Shan Jun proposed trying to wake up one person with their combined efforts. Zhao Chen had also been awakened by their combined efforts. If the Spiritual Snake bloodline could be suppressed, the people in Tianhe Town should also be salvageable.

They found Linlin again. The sound of the bell and the flute entered her ears simultaneously. The woman’s eyes radiated golden light.

Chanting the Heart Calming Incantation repeatedly, Lan Shan Jun felt Linlin’s struggle lessen. She slowly bent down.

The next second, a hand forcefully grabbed her.

Blood overflowed from Linlin’s eyes. She stared at Lan Shan Jun in anguish, sobbing softly: “Run, hurry and run. This town… it eats people.”

Linlin had no desire left to live. She only wanted to use her last remaining sanity and strength to make the people who had come here run. If they ran, they could survive.

Xiao Jiu and Mo Huaisheng on the other side immediately stopped their efforts when they saw this.

Lan Shan Jun’s hand, holding Linlin’s shoulder, trembled uncontrollably. She watched dazedly as Linlin’s facial skin withered bit by bit, finally turning into dust right where she stood.

It seemed she had made a wrong decision.

Linlin was dead.

Lan Shan Jun took a step back. Someone embraced her shoulder from behind.

She turned her head blankly, saw Cang Wu, and muttered to herself, half-questioning and half-disbelieving: “She died?”

Cang Wu’s heart clenched. She knew her Elder Sister couldn’t bear to see things like this, but…

“Wait!”

Everyone in the room stepped back, watching helplessly as Linlin, who had disappeared, suddenly propped up her clothes again, standing before them once more.

Xiao Jiu’s face was pale: “Is she dead or alive after all?”

Zhao Chen carefully discerned, then confirmed: “She is not a living person. She is composed of spiritual power.”

She paused: “And… demon power.”

The moment her words fell, a powerful wave of demon power surged toward them. Everyone was startled and quickly evaded.

Cang Wu carried her Elder Sister and leaped into the distance. She whispered: “Elder Sister, don’t blame yourself. Linlin was harmed by this wicked town. Her death has nothing to do with you. And being able to regain her consciousness before death to realize her situation, she must have been happy.”

Lan Shan Jun nodded, suppressing her emotions. She looked at the surging shadow below, and a sense of familiarity suddenly welled up in her heart.

She felt like she had seen it somewhere…

“What exactly is this thing?” Xiao Jiu climbed up, covered in dust. She hadn’t been paying attention and was swept away by the thing’s tail.

In the dark night, the demon shadow was like ink, making its direction hard to discern.

“Be careful.”

Song Qingcheng deployed a spell formation, placing a small formation under everyone’s feet.

“This is a Great Demon.”

Demons are divided into strong and weak. Only demon beasts that are five hundred years old or more can be called Great Demons.

At the same time, the jade tokens at their waists flickered, but no one had time to look.

Mu Fu’an, who was still guarding Tan Zhen’s house: “Chao is gone.”

Cang Wu remembered Ling Wang’s words earlier—the Great Demon Xi. The entire Tianhe Town was formed by her demon power.

It seemed their actions tonight had startled Xi.

The Azure Dragon’s aura spread out. Cang Wu wanted to see if the bloodline suppression of a demon beast would work on this Xi.

The first to sense the Azure Dragon’s aura were Zhao Chen and Ling Guang. The Four Directions had deep ties. They observed the reaction of the demon shadow. If the Four Directions’ aura worked, they could combine their strength to force the Great Demon to retreat.

The instant the aura touched the demon shadow, Cang Wu’s pupils contracted sharply. She violently dodged to the side. Her other hand used spiritual power to push the woman away quickly and decisively.

A Great Demon of five hundred years or more simply didn’t care about the Azure Dragon’s aura. Even with the demon beast bloodline suppression, she could resist it and crush this little Azure Dragon.

Lan Shan Jun swung her chain-blade to bring Cang Wu back, while watching the demon shadow. The sense of familiarity grew stronger.

Suddenly—

The blurry image became clear. She knew where she had seen this demon before!

The white bone she saw when she fell into the Tianhe Waterfall was exactly the appearance of the demon shadow before her.

The demon she saw had been reduced to white bone, so what was this one? Could there be two Great Demons in Tianhe Town?

“Zhao Chen, is this thing alive!?” Lan Shan Jun shouted.

Zhao Chen quickly replied: “Yes! But her aura is very weak. I can feel her aura spread throughout the entire town.”

Lan Shan Jun caught Cang Wu. Stepping on the wind and Song Qingcheng’s spell formation, her speed was extremely fast.

“Elder Sister, this town is all created by her demon power,” Cang Wu finally revealed.

She hadn’t said it earlier, fearing her Elder Sister would ask how she knew this, and fearing her Elder Sister would learn of Ling Wang’s existence. Cang Wu selfishly wanted to keep it hidden.

In the urgency of the moment, Lan Shan Jun didn’t have time to ask. She just nodded quickly in response. The demon shadow behind them was relentlessly pursuing.

Ling Guang and the others were not spared either. This Great Demon actually had six tails. Just one tail was enough to keep each of them busy for a while.

But as they ran, Lan Shan Jun seemed to notice something wrong. The demon shadow seemed to be constantly driving them toward the outside of Tianhe Town.

Although those tails looked fierce and powerful, they didn’t genuinely hurt them.

“Demon! You shall not harm anyone here!”

The gloomy mist parted like clouds clearing to reveal the sun. The dim moonlight shone down. A sword cultivator stood on the street of Tianhe Town, holding a sword.

A shadowy figure followed sneakily behind the sword cultivator.

The demon shadow heard Tan Zhen’s voice. It abandoned all its entanglement and turned to attack her.

“This demon… is concealing its aura.” Xiao Jiu was confused.

Concealing one’s aura entirely during a fight is only possible for one reason: it doesn’t want the opponent to recognize it.

Tan Zhen’s hand gripping the sword trembled slightly, but facing the demon coming towards her, she still responded calmly, her moves connecting smoothly.

The Senior was already physically weak. How could they stand by and watch her confront a Great Demon alone?

“Go, help her!”

One by one, they went up, and one by one, they were thrown far away.

Xiao Jiu, who had been thrown three or four times, finally understood something. She looked at the intense fight between the person and the demon, and guessed in pain: “Is this demon doing this on purpose?”

She just wanted to fight Tan Zhen and didn’t want them to interfere.

“Mm.” Ling Guang nodded. She saw it too.

The Great Demon’s strength was self-evident. If she truly wanted to take their lives, she wouldn’t need to sweep them away like trash with her tail.

“It’s the third day.” Lan Shan Jun narrowed her eyes, seeing a ray of sunlight at the edge of the distant sky.

Today, Tan Zhen was supposed to develop her heart demon and fall into the Tianhe Waterfall with Chao.

“Chao disappeared just now. I followed Tan Zhen out. Why are you guys fighting a demon?” Mu Fu’an bypassed Tan Zhen and the Great Demon and came to the group.

“Chao is gone?” Lan Shan Jun’s gaze fell on the Great Demon fighting Tan Zhen.

Unsurprisingly, this Great Demon was Chao.

Cang Wu frowned slightly. Chao, Xi. Similar names. Are they the same entity? Or two different ones?

The sun rose halfway. The Tianhe Town before their eyes suddenly changed its appearance. Blood and corpses were everywhere on the street.

“What…” Ling Guang’s eyes widened.

What was going on? They hadn’t slept all night. How did a perfectly fine town suddenly become filled with dead people?

“Qingcheng, am I seeing things again?” Ling Guang rubbed her eyes in disbelief. When she looked again, blood filled the streets. The townspeople who had been smiling yesterday were now lying dead in front of their homes, their eyes wide open.

“This is an illusion created by the Great Demon’s power. She didn’t kill anyone last night,” Lan Shan Jun took a deep breath.

The hand at her side slowly tightened. Only Linlin died last night, and everything before them was fake.

“Why would she…” Xiao Jiu’s sentence was unfinished.

“It’s you!?” Tan Zhen’s shocked voice came through.

The Great Demon transformed into the person she was once most familiar with. The demon’s appearance was beautiful, and every move was filled with demonic energy and bloodiness.

“No! It’s not you! You’re not her!” Tan Zhen denied it, her eyes red with denial. She stared at the woman in front of her, her eyes practically tearing.

Xi tilted her head and smiled at Tan Zhen: “A’Zhen, don’t you recognize me?”

“I’ve been looking for you for a long time. So you were here.”

Tan Zhen could barely hold her sword. She looked blankly at the blood-stained bricks and tiles around her. Familiar faces were before her eyes. They were all dead, killed by the Great Demon.

“Fake! Fake! This isn’t real!” Tan Zhen clutched her head in pain. She pounded herself hard, tears of blood flowing from the corners of her eyes.

In a flash, her best friend, Shan Jing, appeared, covered in blood, accusing her: “Tan Zhen! You disgrace the title of Sword Venerable’s disciple! You are confusing right and wrong, good and evil! She is clearly a heinous demon. Why won’t you kill her!”

“No, she’s not.” Tan Zhen subconsciously tried to defend the ‘evil demon’ she spoke of.

But then, Shan Jing’s figure appeared again. A sword pierced through her heart, blood gushed out, staining her fayi and refusing to stop.

That sword was Heaven Light, Tan Zhen’s own Divine Martial weapon.

Tan Zhen looked in disbelief at the hand holding the sword. Shan Jing continued to move forward. The blade completely passed through her heart, leaving no room for survival.

“No, why would you do this to me…” Tan Zhen was in agony. She had killed her best friend with her own hands.

Shan Jing placed her blood-stained hand on Tan Zhen’s shoulder. She managed to pull out a final smile: “Tan Zhen, didn’t you say you wanted to eliminate evil and promote good? Didn’t you say you hate evil as if it were a mortal enemy? She wiped out my entire Shan family! Shouldn’t you kill her? But… why did you kill me!? Why!?”

“Tan Zhen!”

Tan Zhen suddenly woke up with a start. She trembled all over, unable to hold her sword any longer, and threw it away.

Xi’s expression slowly withdrew. She tightly clenched her hands. Hearing Shan Jing’s name from Tan Zhen’s mouth made her wish she could dig up that person’s grave and rip out her bones, ensuring she would find no peace even after death.

“Xi, did you kill these people?” Tan Zhen asked, seemingly having lost all strength, in a murmur.

Xi forced a difficult smile. She tried to appear indifferent. She held out her hand, where remnants of blood were still wet.

“Yes. I killed everyone in Tianhe Town.”

Tan Zhen bent down and picked up the sword again. She gritted her teeth and aimed the sword tip at Xi: “Why did you kill them? They were innocent.”

“Yes, innocent. Just like the Shan family…”

Before Xi could finish, Tan Zhen angrily interrupted her: “Don’t mention the Shan family!”

“I… I should have killed you long ago.” Tan Zhen herself didn’t realize that as she said this, her face was covered in tears, and her eyes held immense reluctance and disappointment.

“Yes.” Xi sighed. “You should have killed me long ago.”

If you had killed me, you wouldn’t have to suffer like this.

Suppressing the bitterness in her heart, Xi opened her arms and walked toward Tan Zhen step by step. She showed a mocking smile: “A’Zhen, kill me.”

“Can you bear to kill me? I didn’t leave a single survivor in the Shan family. What’s one Tianhe Town to me? Don’t you agree?”

“Shut up!” Tan Zhen slashed out with her sword.

Xi easily dodged the strike, while continuing to say things that provoked Tan Zhen, but subtly guiding her toward the Tianhe Waterfall with her movements.

“Tan Zhen, as a disciple of the Sword Venerable, you are naturally upright, noble, and morally clear. You once said that both humans and demons have good and evil, and that bad people should be executed and evil demons should not remain in the world. Shan Jing was not a good person, you killed her, so what about me?”

Listening to these words, the murderous intent in Tan Zhen’s heart boiled. She chased after her without hesitation, playing right into Xi’s hands.

“Ah???”

Xiao Jiu pointed at the person and the demon heading toward the Tianhe Waterfall.

“Why are you ‘Ah-ing’? Chase them,” Ling Guang slapped her.

Xiao Jiu quickly tucked her chin in and hurried to use her spiritual power to follow.

After listening for a while, Lan Shan Jun drew one conclusion—

“Xi is deliberately provoking Tan Zhen to kill herself.”

Tan Zhen’s frenzied state was likely due to the heart demon’s influence, making her unable to distinguish between the present and the past.

“So, the ‘demon elimination’ refers to Tan Zhen?”