Training the Villain to Become a Big Sister Obsessed - Chapter 89.2

Tan Zhen first met Shan Jing. The two became fast friends and trained together, repeatedly experiencing life-and-death situations, becoming the closest of confidantes.

Tan Zhen’s Dao heart had always been stable until she personally witnessed Shan Jing killing white foxes to extract their demon bones. Those white foxes had only caught a few rabbits and pheasants to satisfy their hunger, yet Shan Jing labeled them as utterly evil demons and killed them all. Among them were even young foxes that had not yet developed sentience.

Tan Zhen questioned Shan Jing. Shan Jing did not feel she had done anything wrong. Since then, Tan Zhen realized that Shan Jing seemed to harbor a deep hatred for demons. Regardless of good or evil, as long as she found an excuse, she would kill them and take their bones. Shan Jing’s white jade bone fan was made from hundred-year-old demon bones.

Shan Jing told her that her entire Shan family had been murdered by demon beasts. Tan Zhen also learned why Shan Jing hated the demon race so much. Unable to bear Shan Jing killing demons so casually, Tan Zhen parted ways with her during their training. She accidentally stumbled upon a place of pure spiritual energy and met Xi and Jiu Ying.

Xi and Jiu Ying possessed the bloodline of an ancient Great Demon and had cultivated for nearly three hundred years. They protected a group of small, weak, and defenseless demons in their seclusion.

Tan Zhen was friendly to the small demons, and they all liked her. Tan Zhen stayed there with the group of demons for over a year. Over the time spent together, she gradually developed a different kind of affection for Xi.

Having been away from Yanggu for a long time, Tan Zhen intended to take Xi back with her, to tell her Master, Senior Sister, and Junior Sister that she had someone she loved, and also wanted Xi to see the scenery of Yanggu, the place where she grew up.

However, before Tan Zhen could take Xi back to Yanggu, they encountered a heavily injured Shan Jing. With her friend gravely wounded, how could Tan Zhen abandon her? She took Shan Jing back to the small demons’ secluded area to heal, telling everyone that this was her best friend.

Shan Jing was severely injured and showed no signs of waking up even after half a month of recuperation. Tan Zhen went to the Spiritual Medicine Valley to search for herbs for her. But when she returned with the medicine, most of the small demons were dead or injured. Shan Jing and Xi had been battling fiercely for three days and three nights, both killing with bloodlust in their eyes.

Shan Jing claimed that Xi was the evil demon who had killed her entire family. Xi countered that Shan Jing had deliberately feigned serious injury to trick Tan Zhen into leaving to find medicine, and then attacked the small demons in her absence.

Shan Jing admitted to killing the small demons, and Xi also admitted that the matter of the Shan family was her doing.

One was her closest friend, the other her beloved. Tan Zhen could not draw her sword.

“Finally…” Xi spoke with intense hatred in her voice. Demonic energy permeated the entire Tianhe Town. “The sword cultivator killed her friend with her own hands, but because of the dying words of that person, she developed a heart demon, and her Dao heart shattered.”

Having heard Xi’s story, Lan Shan Jun could roughly guess the subsequent events.

After killing Shan Jing, Tan Zhen was affected by the heart demon and dared not see Xi again, so she left. Xi then used her demon power to create the non-existent Tianhe Town, providing Tan Zhen with a tranquil and peaceful haven that belonged only to her.

Shan Jing killed so many demons regardless of good or evil, she deserved to die. Tan Zhen killed her. But Xi also wiped out the entire Shan family, yet Tan Zhen couldn’t bring herself to strike her…

The heart demon constantly reminded and tormented Tan Zhen, plunging her into a nightmare.

After realizing this, Xi wanted to use the Tianhe Town she created to help Tan Zhen overcome her heart demon. She lured Tan Zhen to kill her.

“Do you think she’s an idiot?” Xi murmured. “She actually wanted to kill herself.”

Lan Shan Jun wanted to ask something, but her eyes shifted and she saw Tan Zhen had already walked out of the courtyard.

“!”

She quickly stood up. Xi also saw Tan Zhen. She collected her emotions and smiled at Tan Zhen: “Someone is looking for you.”

Tan Zhen’s gaze fell on Lan Shan Jun’s face. Her expression was somewhat confused. She didn’t remember who this person was.

The person was, after all, the Senior Sister of her Master, so by seniority, she should be addressed as Senior Aunt. However, the current situation was unsuitable for performing a formal bow. Lan Shan Jun slightly bowed and handed the kitten in her arms over: “Doctor Tan, could you please examine her?”

Xiao Jiu nervously retracted her claws.

Tan Zhen reached out, pinching the back of the kitten’s neck. Her finger touched its belly, and after contemplating for a moment: “She’s just overfull.”

Lan Shan Jun: “…”

Ling Guang: “Chiu, chiu—” Haha!

Lan Shan Jun smiled: “Thank you, Doctor Tan. I shall take my leave now.”

Tan Zhen nodded.

Lan Shan Jun left the small courtyard and flashed to the side. Xiao Jiu and Ling Guang reverted to their human forms on the spot.

Xiao Jiu rubbed her belly, scared: “That scared me to death.”

Good thing she cleverly swallowed a huge gulp of air.

Cang Wu, who had been waiting here for a long time, quietly walked over to her Elder Sister. She looked down at the few black and white hairs and narrowed her eyes.

Lan Shan Jun noticed Cang Wu and quickly cast a cleansing spell on herself, removing all the attached hairs.

Cang Wu was satisfied. She smiled, reached out, and rubbed against her Elder Sister, holding her.

“Hey, hey, there are other people here,” Ling Guang couldn’t stand it.

“People?” Cang Wu glanced at her and Xiao Jiu.

Ling Guang: “…”

Xiao Jiu: “…”

After Lan Shan Jun finished recounting the story told by Xi, Mu Fu’an let out an “Ah,” saying: “Senior Tan Zhen’s heart demon is actually her best friend.”

“Killing your own best friend with your own hands, that’s too sad,” Ling Guang hugged Song Qingcheng, her eyes red-rimmed.

She had secretly cried once when Xi was telling the story, even wiping her tears on Lan Shan Jun’s clothes. Now, hearing it again, she still couldn’t help herself.

“Does that mean only killing Xi can dispel the heart demon?” Xiao Jiu questioned.

If they wanted to help Tan Zhen dispel her heart demon, they had to help her kill Xi.

Killing a friend with one’s own hands was cruel. But killing the one she loved with her own hands, how was that any less cruel?

“I’m afraid Tan Zhen’s heart demon is not Shan Jing,” Lan Shan Jun met their gazes and stated frankly: “It is herself.”

The heart demon is born from the heart, and the one trapped in the heart demon is herself.

The former Tan Zhen distinguished between good and evil in both humans and demons. She killed Shan Jing for harming demons, but she couldn’t bring herself to strike Xi, who wiped out the Shan family. Tan Zhen couldn’t face her former self.

“Then that’s even harder! If she can’t figure it out, when will this heart demon be dispelled?” Xiao Jiu slumped over the table, muttering: “No wonder Dean Xuan and the Elders always want us to dispel heart demons and stabilize our state of mind.”

“Heart demons are truly terrifying.” Ling Guang reached out and rubbed her chest, then rubbed Song Qingcheng’s: “No, no, we’re not afraid.”

Song Qingcheng’s eyes moved slightly. She gripped Ling Guang’s hand.

“Someone is approaching here,” Zhao Chen suddenly said with a serious expression. “The killing intent is very heavy.”

“Killing intent?” Xiao Jiu just asked.

A layer of frost instantly rose around the room, constantly closing in on them.

Frost flowers bloomed on the silver-white ground, beautiful and lovely, yet secretly holding sharp edges. The petals were like blades. Lan Shan Jun’s gaze froze.

Sword-born flower, Night Epiphyllum.

“Bang—!”

Zhao Chen’s backyard collapsed with a loud sound. Several streaks of light leaped out at the moment of collapse.

“Who is it? Just coming up and… Senior Sister Xie??” Ling Guang looked at the person in front of her in astonishment. She blinked repeatedly, confirming she hadn’t mistaken the person.

Catching sight of the demonic energy surrounding her, she initially thought it was Tan Zhen’s heart demon coming out. But when she saw the face, she was stunned.

“Senior Sister Xie, what are you doing!?” Lan Shan Jun’s heart tightened.

Xie Qingshuang’s eyes moved, and she saw Lan Shan Jun. She curved her lips: “Eliminating a demon.”

“Eliminating a demon? Where is there a demon here, Senior Sister Xie, you must be mistaken.” Xiao Jiu didn’t dare to say that Xie Qingshuang herself looked quite like a demon right now. The demonic energy surrounding her was exactly like what they had seen with Tan Zhen earlier.

The frosty white Night Epiphyllum pointed at Cang Wu. Xie Qingshuang’s face was cold: “She is the demon.”

Cang Wu clenched her hand. The Chaos Map slowly condensed into the phantom of a sword. A layer of blood mist rose around the sword body.

Seeing the blood mist, the killing intent in Xie Qingshuang’s eyes intensified: “Demon head, prepare to die!”

Lan Shan Jun instantly stepped in front of Cang Wu, facing the tip of Xie Qingshuang’s sword. She said firmly: “Senior Sister Xie, Cang Wu is not a demon.”

“Lan Shan, are you still so deluded!”

Xie Qingshuang scoffed coldly: “You’re showing such deep sisterly affection here now, but didn’t you also go to the East Sea Secret Realm originally to kill her?”

Lan Shan Jun’s body instantly stiffened. She opened her mouth: “You… how do you know?”

Cang Wu suddenly looked up, her eyes wide with shock.