Training the Villain to Become a Big Sister Obsessed - Chapter 89.1

The group chased Tan Zhen and Xi to the Tianhe Waterfall. Everything happened too suddenly. They didn’t know why Xi would create the illusion of a massacre, nor why she repeatedly provoked Tan Zhen, hoping the sword cultivator would kill her.

They were unaware of the history between the two.

“Tan Zhen! Are you still going to hesitate?” Xi looked coldly at the sword cultivator who still wouldn’t strike. “Are you worthy of your Master? Are you worthy of the words you once spoke!”

“The words I once spoke…”

Tan Zhen muttered. The sound of a still-young voice echoed in her ears—

She said: “It doesn’t matter if they are a relative or a friend, wrong is wrong. Even if she is my junior sister, if she does something wrong, I must discipline her.”

She said: “If one day my sword cannot execute wickedness, I shall never hold a sword again.”

She said: “A single sword stroke to bring peace to the Four Seas, good and evil resides in my own heart.”

…

But what is good? What is evil? And ultimately, whose fault is it…

Tan Zhen suddenly looked up. The world before her eyes split into two: half dark and half bright.

Shan Jing stood in the dark half, holding a white jade bone fan, smiling faintly as she saluted her: “It’s a pleasure to meet you. My name is Shan Jing. What is the Immortal Friend’s name?”

Behind her were the corpses of countless demon beasts, all skinned, gutted, and tortured to death.

On the other side, Xi tilted her head and smiled at her, her eyes crescent-shaped: “You’re a sword cultivator? You’re not very strong, are you? You can’t even dodge one of my tails.”

Behind her was the entire Shan family, old and young.

Shan Jing, Xi.

Tan Zhen couldn’t distinguish between them. Her eyes were bloodshot. She reached out to the two of them: “Why did you have to do this? Weren’t we friends?”

“Friends?” Shan Jing took a step forward. The white jade bone fan in her hand was stained with demon blood. She looked at Tan Zhen with a hideous expression: “Yes, we were friends. But why could you kill me but refuse to strike her!”

Shan Jing pointed a finger toward Xi on the other side.

Tan Zhen turned to look. Xi was still smiling, but she was covered in blood, and her hands were stained with human lives.

Shan Jing continued speaking: “If you don’t kill her, you will never be able to hold your sword again. You are unworthy.”

Tan Zhen looked down at the sword in her hand, the Divine Martial Heaven Light. Once, Heaven Light was the sword that punished evil, renowned throughout the Four Seas in her hand. Now, it was dull and without edge, unable to even cut the grass by the roadside.

“Don’t force me, don’t force me…” Tan Zhen looked at Shan Jing, tears streaming down her face: “I killed you, I’ll pay for it.”

Saying this, Tan Zhen suddenly placed the sword against her own neck. She felt as though she had fallen into a swamp. She struggled to climb out, but the dead people and demons under the mud kept pulling at her legs. She had no strength left…

A life for a life, then.

“What gives you the right to just die like this? I won’t accept it! Kill Xi! Kill her!” Shan Jing lunged forward, grabbed Tan Zhen’s hand, and slowly guided her hand to aim the sword at Xi opposite them.

“Kill her, and you won’t be in so much pain.”

At this moment, Tan Zhen was completely separated by the distinct world. Her entire being turned dark, just like Shan Jing.

Tan Zhen was controlled by her heart demon.

When Lan Shan Jun and the others arrived, what they saw was Tan Zhen, covered in demonic energy, glaring at Xi with her sword, desperately wanting to execute her immediately.

Xi showed no disappointment or sadness at the sight of Tan Zhen like this. Instead, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Below the Tianhe Waterfall, the Great Demon revealed her true form, her demon energy spilling out.

“A’Zhen, let yourself go,” Xi murmured.

The sword energy instantly swept away the surrounding aura. Xi was prepared.

But after a long silence, she didn’t feel Heaven Light pierce her heart. Warm blood splattered onto her face.

Xi’s eyelashes trembled as she opened her eyes. She looked desperately at Tan Zhen, who had once again ended her own life with the sword.

Demon power preserved Tan Zhen’s last breath of life. The Tianhe Waterfall rushed down, submerging both Tan Zhen and Xi.

“Wait—!”

Before Lan Shan Jun could recover from the shock of Tan Zhen’s suicide, the world suddenly began to spin.

The Tianhe Waterfall and Tianhe Town twisted and intertwined, eventually becoming chaos, and then slowly separated and carved, forming a new Tianhe Waterfall and a new Tianhe Town.

Lan Shan Jun looked at the completely refreshed Tianhe Town before her. The steamed bun stall was still there, the old woman was also there, watching her with a loving smile.

The people around her were gone. Although she had grabbed Cang Wu during the chaos, now she was alone.

[The entire Tianhe Town is created by her demon power.]

She is Xi, and also Chao.

Xi and Tan Zhen were once friends. After what happened between them, Xi created a false Tianhe Town. The people inside were also illusions created by her demon power. Only Tan Zhen was real. Later, Linlin and the other living people likely wandered in by mistake, were affected, and slowly assimilated by Tianhe Town.

Lan Shan Jun thought about this while quickly walking toward “home.”

Xi disguised herself as Chao and approached Tan Zhen. She killed all the people in Tianhe Town in front of her, provoking Tan Zhen, hoping she would kill her.

But when Tan Zhen was controlled by her heart demon and about to swing her sword at herself, Lan Shan Jun saw love in Xi’s eyes. She loved Tan Zhen.

Pushing the door open with both hands, a flash of light passed through Lan Shan Jun’s eyes.

Perhaps Xi was doing this precisely to help Tan Zhen dispel her heart demon.

“Elder Sister!” Hearing the noise, Cang Wu rushed out of the room.

Reaching out to hug the pouncing Cang Wu, the anxiety in Lan Shan Jun’s heart also settled.

Thank goodness, it wasn’t too bad. Cang Wu was still here.

Cang Wu hugged the woman tightly. She had suddenly returned to the small courtyard from under the Tianhe Waterfall. She didn’t even have a chance to react.

In that instant, Cang Wu was secretly angry at herself, angry that she wasn’t strong enough. If she had enough power, everything would be under her control, and she wouldn’t feel so helpless.

She could completely protect her Elder Sister.

[You will eventually become me.]

Ling Wang’s words echoed in her ears. Cang Wu couldn’t help but tighten her grip.

Feeling the slightly painful embrace, Lan Shan Jun didn’t struggle. She tilted her head against Cang Wu, her palm gently patting her back.

She must have been scared just now.

The two hugged for a long time. They only slowly let go when they heard the lively shouts from outside the courtyard.

Lan Shan Jun touched Cang Wu’s face. Seeing her slightly red eyes, she pursed her lips and chuckled softly, then gently pulled her down.

A warm kiss landed on her eyes, and then imprinted on her lips.

“Don’t be afraid. I didn’t leave.”

Cang Wu gripped the section of the sleeve in her hand tightly. Her panicked heart was completely soothed by this extremely gentle kiss.

The chain on her knuckles began to heat up. Cang Wu ignored it. She greedily indulged in the closeness of her Elder Sister’s aura.

After a light kiss, Lan Shan Jun led Cang Wu out the door. Tianhe Town outside the courtyard was peaceful and harmonious, still green mountains and clear waters. The bloody massacre from not long ago seemed to have never existed.

Seeing Linlin making fish soup not far away, Lan Shan Jun’s gaze paused.

This Linlin should be an illusion created by Xi’s demon power.

Taking a slight breath, Lan Shan Jun’s eyes shifted and saw Xiao Jiu rushing onto the street, followed by Ling Guang and Song Qingcheng. They were obviously also puzzled by the current situation.

The three saw Lan Shan Jun and Cang Wu on the other side and converged toward them simultaneously.

“What’s going on? We suddenly came back?” Xiao Jiu was full of confusion and cautiously asked: “Did Senior Tan Zhen die?”

They all saw Tan Zhen slit her own throat with the sword at the end.

“No,” Song Qingcheng looked straight ahead and raised a finger.

“Who is this person?”

“I don’t know her. An outsider, perhaps.”

“She’s too badly injured. If she isn’t saved, she’ll die.”

“Are you going to save her?”

“I… I can’t save her.”

Familiar dialogue, familiar people. It was still Tan Zhen walking out and taking Chao away.

“Tan Zhen, do you really want to save her?” someone else asked.

“Yes, I will save her.” Tan Zhen still said the same thing.

They witnessed the exact same scene and the exact same dialogue again. Ling Guang slowly widened her eyes and pointed at Tan Zhen’s retreating back: “How, how, how, how did she… recover so fast?”

Tan Zhen hadn’t held back when she committed suicide. The wound on her neck was deep and long, but the Tan Zhen just now had no injury on her neck at all!

“Could this Senior Tan Zhen also be fake?” Xiao Jiu suspected.

Several pairs of eyes looked at each other.

Not long after—

They once again stole Miss Zhao Chen out.

This time, Mu Fu’an was not the only one sneaking into Tan Zhen’s courtyard.

Outside the courtyard, Song Qingcheng slowly activated a spell formation, projecting the figures of Tan Zhen and Chao.

Chao’s appearance was different from Xi’s, but the aura couldn’t deceive them. They were the same person.

They seemed to be reliving the events.

“Tianhe Town fundamentally doesn’t exist. It was formed by Xi’s demon power. Then the current situation should also be related to her.”

Lan Shan Jun pondered the scenes from a while ago. Xi successfully provoked Tan Zhen to the point where she couldn’t control her heart demon. Tan Zhen aimed the sword at Xi. Xi wanted her to kill herself, but in the end, Tan Zhen couldn’t bring herself to do it and instead swung the sword at herself.

In that instant, the emotion that flashed in Xi’s eyes was not surprise, but despair, like the despair of having experienced it a thousand times, yet still unable to change the result.

This Tianhe Town seemed to be a cycle of reincarnation. The key to breaking the cycle lay with Tan Zhen and Xi.

Lan Shan Jun expressed her thoughts. Thinking back to what Jiu Ying had said about eliminating the demon, they concluded that Elder Xue guided them into Tianhe Town precisely to help dispel Tan Zhen’s heart demon.

But to dispel the heart demon, they needed to know what Tan Zhen’s heart demon was, and they needed to know her past.

Given Tan Zhen’s current state, she probably wouldn’t mention the past at all.

“Then we can only find out what Tan Zhen went through from Xi.”

“We have to draw Tan Zhen away first.”

“How do we draw her away?”

As soon as Xiao Jiu asked, several gazes unanimously shifted to one person.

Zhao Chen smiled slightly.

Zhao Chen’s identity was the most suitable. Conveniently, Tan Zhen was about to go treat the Young Lady’s illness and discuss dissolving the engagement.

Zhao Chen was responsible for keeping Tan Zhen occupied, while the task of extracting information from Xi fell to Lan Shan Jun.

Not long after Tan Zhen left, Xi was basking in the sun in the courtyard. When she sensed a strange aura approaching, she keenly opened her eyes to look.

It was a person from Tianhe Town, holding a kitten and looking over.

Her brow furrowed slightly. Xi observed her.

Lan Shan Jun, holding the miniaturized, original form of Xiao Jiu, said to Xi: “I’m looking for Tan Zhen.”

“She’s not here,” Xi replied coldly. She initially thought the person outside the courtyard would leave consciously after hearing this, but unexpectedly, she boldly walked in.

Xi’s brow furrowed deeper. This person had no manners.

“I said, Tan Zhen isn’t here.”

Lan Shan Jun smiled and found a spot to sit down: “Then I’ll wait for her to come back.”

Xi: “…”

Not only was she holding a cat, but she also had a gaudy bird standing on her shoulder.

Seeing that Xi wasn’t volunteering information, Lan Shan Jun tried to strike up a conversation: “Little Jiu suddenly got sick somehow. Doctor Tan is the only one in town with some medical skills, so I thought I’d ask her to take a look.”

The sick Little (Xiao) Jiu (Jiu) cooperated perfectly, straightening her legs and twitching.

Lan Shan Jun’s forehead twitched. She thought: You’re sick, not dead. Why are you kicking your legs?

“Chiu, chiu—” Ling Guang mocked from the shoulder.

Xiao Jiu heard this and slowly softened, looking truly on the verge of death.

Xi’s attention wasn’t on them. She only said softly: “She is still as kind-hearted toward small animals.”

Lan Shan Jun’s eyes brightened. She followed up: “Yes, Doctor Tan is truly a kind-hearted person. Are you Doctor Tan’s friend, Miss?”

Hearing the word “friend,” Xi was momentarily dazed. She moved her lips, but ultimately didn’t say yes or no.

After a moment of silence, Xi looked at the kitten in Lan Shan Jun’s arms and proactively held out her hand: “Where is she sick? I can also help take a look.”

Xiao Jiu nervously gripped Lan Shan Jun’s sleeve.

Lan Shan Jun evaded her hand, chuckling softly: “You’re injured, Miss. How can I trouble you?”

Xi’s expression didn’t change at the rejection of her good intentions. She nodded faintly.

“I heard that Doctor Tan and that young lady are soon to be married. Are you here specifically to attend the ceremony, Miss?” Lan Shan Jun tried to strike up another conversation.

Xi’s eyes finally showed some turbulence. Her voice turned cold: “No.”

“Tan Zhen won’t stay here forever. She doesn’t belong here.”

Lan Shan Jun nodded: “Yes. Doctor Tan’s swordsmanship is extraordinary. She should be achieving great things.”

Xi slowly focused her gaze on Lan Shan Jun. Lan Shan Jun unconsciously pinched a handful of soft fur.

Xiao Jiu let out a loud aow!

Just as Lan Shan Jun was about to explain her words, the sharp edge around Xi suddenly withdrew. She raised a finger to her forehead, a look of fatigue showing in her expression.

“Are you troubled, Miss?” Lan Shan Jun took the opportunity to ask.

Perhaps she had endured being alone for too long. Xi initially didn’t want to speak, but facing the woman’s light-colored, clear eyes, she hesitated.

“I want to save her.”

The “her” Xi spoke of was Tan Zhen.

Lan Shan Jun hadn’t guessed wrong. Xi was doing all this for Tan Zhen’s heart demon.

“Can you tell me about it?” Lan Shan Jun’s tone was soft, like a gentle breeze, without any sharpness—warm and peaceful.

Xi was stunned. Her eyes stared blankly at a single spot. Memories flooded her mind.

She told Tan Zhen’s story.

The young sword cultivator entered the world. Her identity as the Sword Venerable’s disciple had already drawn much attention, but what was even more brilliant was her swordsmanship and character. She did many deeds of punishing evil and promoting good throughout the Four Seas, and many people and demons came to know her.

After the Divine Martial Heaven Light recognized her as its master, Tan Zhen instantly became the top of the Heaven’s Secrets Ranking, surpassing her senior sister Xie You and junior sister Xing Yuan, and causing many hesitant cultivators who had considered joining other immortal sects to turn toward the East Sea, hoping to become disciples of Yanggu.

Tan Zhen rarely returned to Yanggu, spending most of her time training in the Four Seas. She also befriended many cultivators and demons, with Shan Jing, Xi, and Jiu Ying being the closest.