Transmigrated as the Little Concubine of a Paper-Thin Man - Chapter 34

Shi Yunjii was very cautious.

She left the brocade pouch in her sleeping chambers, which had the most protective restrictions, and only took the Key of All Spirits with her to meet Huan Zhu. To prevent the two attendant maidens from suspecting why she lingered in the pavilion for so long every day, this time she deliberately caught the butterfly that Huan Zhu had transformed into, holding it in her hand, and strolled along the mountain stream.

The stream water babbled, and even if Huan Zhu made some noise, the two maidens, whose cultivation was not high, would not immediately notice anything.

“Where is the key?” The butterfly flapped its wings vigorously in her hand, its two slender antennae waving ceaselessly. “Did you really get the key?”

Shi Yunjii placed her other hand on her waist, covering the area where she kept the Key of All Spirits, and silently retorted: [Can’t you feel it?]

After the initial excitement, Huan Zhu slowly calmed down.

The butterfly’s antennae trembled, seemingly observing Shi Yunjii’s expression. A moment later, she asked, “You got the key so easily? Did Yan Ling not suspect anything?”

[That’s none of your business, is it?] Shi Yunjii took out the key directly, gripping it in her palm. [The Yan Ling of the past could casually discard the Key of All Spirits. Now that she is the Sect Master of the Flying Immortal Sect, would she still place importance on this small thing?]

Huan Zhu was silent for a moment.

Finally, the butterfly flapped its wings and flew onto her shoulder: “Alright, give me the key.”

Shi Yunjii, however, showed no intention of lifting her hand to hand over the item.

She stared silently at the butterfly and asked: [Do you really have a way to dispel the heart demon?]

Huan Zhu immediately understood her meaning and chuckled lightly: “I told you, I am a demonic cultivator. In the Demon Realm, there are many demonic cultivators who fell from immortality because of the growth of heart demons. A heart demon, to put it plainly, is the deepest desire in one’s heart. Generally speaking, any normal cultivator can use reason to suppress their undue desires.

“But if, for some reason, such as the desire being suppressed for too long causing distortion, or cultivation going awry, or even being framed, the demon of desire hidden deep within the heart can be directly released. At this time, the cultivator’s reason will be concealed, and his actions will be controlled by the heart demon, which is his true desire.”

The deepest desire in one’s heart.

Hearing this description, Shi Yunjii’s heart twisted into a knot. She felt a little short of breath, but it wasn’t purely due to sadness. Remembering Yan Ling’s affectionate yet sorrowful gaze when she looked at her at night, she only felt heartache.

She asked: [After a heart demon develops… does that person know they are being controlled by the heart demon?]

“What kind of strange question is that?”

Huan Zhu’s voice carried a hint of disdain: “After a heart demon develops, the original self falls into deep slumber. How could they possibly know they are being controlled by the heart demon? If they knew they were being controlled by the heart demon, wouldn’t they try every possible way to get rid of it?

“But truthfully, if one is rational enough and has a firm enough will, the heart demon won’t cause much trouble and might be extinguished by the host the moment it shows its head.”

Shi Yunjii was overwhelmed with mixed emotions.

She tightly clenched the Key of All Spirits and looked at the butterfly: [Since the heart demon is so powerful, what method do you have to solve it?]

“You cultivators certainly cannot, but that doesn’t mean we demonic cultivators have no way.” Huan Zhu said, “There is a kind of Li Sheng Flower that only blooms in the deep abyss of the Demon Realm, and it is the purest spiritual plant in this world. The antidote for the heart demon prepared from it can awaken the host’s consciousness and help them fight the heart demon.” She paused here, then sneered: “I don’t need to tell you how precious the Li Sheng Flower is. Yet you still don’t trust me and insist that I provide two doses of the heart demon antidote.

“Do you know, this time I had to make a huge sacrifice to exchange for two doses of the antidote from other demonic cultivators for you. Alas, now I still have to figure out a way to find a demonic cultivator to send to you for testing the medicine. I don’t know how much hair I lost last night.”

Shi Yunjii lowered her eyes in thought.

A moment later, she looked up, simultaneously handing the Key of All Spirits towards the butterfly: [Take it. The test subject and the antidote must be delivered to me before Yan Ling’s enthronement ceremony.]

The butterfly flapped its wings, and the Key of All Spirits detached from Shi Yunjii’s hand, shrinking into a piece of fluff, which the butterfly tightly embraced with its soft feet.

“You can rest assured about that.” Before leaving, Huan Zhu didn’t forget to caution, “You should still think carefully about how to fulfill your promise regarding the ‘Dao Heart Box.’ Yan Ling doesn’t value the Key of All Spirits, but she treats the ‘Dao Heart Box’ as more important than her life.

“Don’t let it be that you fail to get the box, wasting all my efforts.”

With that, without waiting for Shi Yunjii’s reply, she flapped her wings and fluttered away.

After this, Shi Yunjii went for a walk in the mountains every afternoon.

The butterfly disappeared for nearly half a month. Seeing that the enthronement ceremony and the Dao Companion ceremony were completely ready, Shi Yunjii was burning with anxiety. She thought she had been fooled again, and that Huan Zhu’s return this time was probably just to take the Key of All Spirits, as it was also a rare treasure in this world. Just as she was blaming herself for being careless, the day before the ceremony was about to begin, she surprisingly saw the butterfly’s figure by the pavilion again.

Approaching the butterfly, Shi Yunjii indeed heard Huan Zhu’s voice again: “I have prepared everything, but the Flying Immortal Sect is currently under strict lockdown, so I cannot bring the test subject in for you to see.”

Shi Yunjii: [Then what should we do?]

Huan Zhu: “Come here early tomorrow, and then pretend to sleep inside this pavilion. I will use magic to transform your Nascent Soul into a butterfly and take your Nascent Soul out.”

So, the next day, Shi Yunjii went to the rendezvous as agreed.

Just a few minutes after closing her eyes, she heard Huan Zhu’s voice calling her: “Relax, don’t resist.” Something reached into her mind, dragging her out of her body. The next moment, Shi Yunjii only felt light all over, as if she was in the clouds.

She opened her eyes and found that, just as Huan Zhu had said, she had turned into another butterfly. Huan Zhu led the way in front, and the two butterflies, one after the other, flew out of Ling Ling Peak and outside the sphere of influence of the Flying Immortal Sect.

When they arrived at the destination, Huan Zhu restored Shi Yunjii to her human form.

In a hidden room, Huan Zhu materialized, holding two sachets of medicine and two transparent, glass-like, three-petaled flowers.

She said: “Swallow the medicine and the Li Sheng Flower together, and you can achieve the goal of curing the heart demon. I will give you two sachets of medicine and one flower. Among them, one complete dose of the antidote is for your test, and the extra separate sachet you can keep yourself, lest you constantly worry that I might play a trick.

“As for this last Li Sheng Flower, you need to exchange it for the ‘Dao Heart Box’.”

Shi Yunjii pondered for a moment and nodded, indicating her agreement with the plan.

During the time Huan Zhu was gone, she had also used her own methods to search for many materials in the Flying Immortal Sect’s library. She knew the characteristics of the Li Sheng Flower, and if Huan Zhu dared to deceive her with a fake Li Sheng Flower, she would be able to tell at a glance.

Seeing her agree, Huan Zhu handed the items to her.

Shi Yunjii couldn’t tell the difference between the two medicine sachets, but she carefully examined the Li Sheng Flower and confirmed that the material was correct. She thought for a moment, opened the sachets separately, but they both contained white powder, making it impossible to distinguish.

She rewrapped the medicine sachets, put them away, and looked at Huan Zhu: [Let’s go.]

Huan Zhu smiled wickedly.

She led Shi Yunjii towards the depths of the room, opened a secret passage, and took her to the underground chamber. After walking for a while, they reached an underground cell. Huan Zhu pointed to a figure in the corner of the room: “Look, that’s the person for your medicine test.”

Shi Yunjii frowned and picked up the candlelight from the wall to get closer to the test subject.

Just as she reached the door, the test subject raised his head, their eyes meeting.

Shi Yunjii froze on the spot.

She didn’t know why she had this reaction; she was certain she didn’t know the person in front of her. This dazed reaction did not come from her soul but seemed like a kind of subconscious action of the body.

The next moment, the test subject rolled to the door, wriggling his body and shouting at her: “Junior Sister—Junior Sister—why are you running away? Where do you think you can run to? Hahahahaha, the Sect Master position is mine! You are mine too! Everything of the Yun clan is mine.

“You come here! Come here—”

Jiang Shu!

The name flashed through Shi Yunjii’s mind, and she turned to look at Huan Zhu beside her.

Huan Zhu smiled wickedly: “How about that? Meeting an old acquaintance, shouldn’t you thank me?”

At this, Shi Yunjii completely confirmed the identity of the person in front of her—Jiang Shu, the murderer of the original body, Yun Jii’s, father.

Jiang Shu, who was originally a respected figure of the Yun clan, was now haggard, his eyes bloodshot, barking like a mad dog in the dirty cell, a truly miserable sight.

This scene caused Shi Yunjii’s body to tremble uncontrollably.

Huan Zhu placed a hand on her shoulder: “Do you know? When he was still sane, I interrogated him, and it was indeed he who ambushed your Ling Ling Immortal Lord, which caused Yan Ling to be poisoned and develop a heart demon.”

Upon hearing this, Shi Yunjii’s gaze towards Jiang Shu also became fierce.

It was indeed after being ambushed in the Yun clan that Yan Ling’s temperament changed drastically!

But Huan Zhu continued: “Tsk tsk, I still don’t understand how such a small fry could ambush the Heaven’s Chosen, Ling Ling Immortal Lord? Yan Ling is not your useless father. How could she have fallen for the trap so easily?

“Little Yunjii, tell me, is he lying?”

Shi Yunjii took a deep breath, didn’t answer, and only asked: [He’s been afflicted by a heart demon?]

Huan Zhu nodded: “I had already sent people to the Demon Realm to catch a test subject for you, but when I ‘casually’ went to the Yun clan to investigate, I happened to find him, and coincidentally, he still had a little bit of the poison he used to ambush Yan Ling left.” Speaking of this, Huan Zhu chuckled: “I also wondered what kind of medicine could be so potent, inducing a heart demon just like that? So I conveniently used it on him too.

“Sure enough, look, the person has become like this now.”

Shi Yunjii sneered: [I previously said I wanted to see him, and you said it was impossible.]

Huan Zhu feigned ignorance: “Ah? When? Did that happen?”

She covered her mouth with her hand: “Haha, maybe I didn’t expect the Yun clan to be so weak. When I first went in to investigate, I was prepared to be extremely cautious, but once I actually encountered this Sect Master, I realized he was just a silver-plated spearhead, completely useless, haha.

“So, I took him back with me.”

Shi Yunjii certainly wouldn’t believe her words.

Huan Zhu smiled faintly: “Speaking of which, I’ve fulfilled several of your requests, haven’t I? You’ve gotten a great bargain.”

Shi Yunjii looked at the frantic Jiang Shu: [In his current state, what can I even say to him?]

Huan Zhu shrugged: “It doesn’t matter.”

She urged: “Aren’t you going to test the medicine? Hurry up and get it done, I still need to send you back. Don’t worry about going in, I’ve already broken his limbs, he can’t resist.”

Shi Yunjii walked to the door, looking at Jiang Shu collapsed on the ground, she found that the hand holding the medicine sachet and the Li Sheng Flower was too heavy to lift.

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