Transmigration! The System Wants Me to Pursue the Abstinent Senior Sister - Chapter 55

A foul stench permeated the air, but Qin Yiqiu remained unfazed. Having undergone countless trials since childhood, even standing amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood wouldn’t shake her composure in the slightest.

Luo Yunhuan, however, nearly vomited.

Still, she suppressed her nausea and considered the situation. Using her senior sister’s treasured sword to poke through the elephant demon’s stomach felt too disrespectful after all, the stomach was filled with food residue.

Luo Yunhuan glanced around and recalled that, for the sake of convenience in gathering rare poisonous mushrooms and herbs, she had specially purchased a pair of gloves that could block out disgusting substances.

She put on the gloves.

Qin Yiqiu still found it strange. Her junior sister claimed to have sensed something unusual inside the elephant, yet she herself hadn’t detected anything.

Was it because her spiritual power had been depleted too much, dulling her sensitivity?

While Qin Yiqiu was puzzling over this, Luo Yunhuan had already rummaged through the pile of plant debris and retrieved the ring. She quickly rinsed it using her water-based cultivation technique.

Only then did she stand up.

“This is it!”

Luo Yunhuan crushed the ring directly and then reminded the system to bring out the two treasures she had prepared earlier.

Immediately after, Qin Yiqiu felt a distortion in space, as if two objects were being spat out from a warped hole in the void.

They were a secret manual and a longsword.

Both gleamed with a golden radiance.

“Senior Sister, we’re really lucky! This elephant demon actually had a ring left behind by a powerful expert inside it!”

At this moment, Luo Yunhuan truly felt like an NPC, reciting lines from a pre-written script.

But there was no other way. To avoid suspicion, she had to go through such convoluted steps just to gift these items to her senior sister and legitimize her own use of them.

Qin Yiqiu lowered her gaze to look.

She picked up the longsword first.

After checking to ensure it wasn’t poisoned, she noticed the sword trembling slightly, as if afraid of her.

It was actually a flying sword with a sword spirit.

Could such a shabby storage ring really contain so many treasures?

For a brief moment, Qin Yiqiu felt a flicker of doubt, but she would never suspect her junior sister. So she quickly dismissed the thought and crouched down to pick up the secret manual.

“Junior Sister, this flying sword is of excellent quality. After we return, I’ll ask our martial uncle to appraise it for you. If there’s no risk of it turning on its master, you can perform the blood-binding ritual.”

Luo Yunhuan accepted it with both hands.

A smile graced her eyes.

“Senior Sister, we discovered these items together. Especially since you were the one who killed that damned elephant demon, this should belong to you.”

“I have a four-element spiritual root. Cultivating with these manuals wouldn’t be of much use to me anyway.”

Since she was planning to switch to the talisman-making profession, it had little to do with spiritual cultivation her spiritual roots would only serve a supplementary role.

Qin Yiqiu shook her head.

“You were the one who found this, Junior Sister. It’s naturally yours. How could I take what belongs to you? I only helped you cut open the elephant.”

Even though she had already realized that this was a heaven-tier ice-attribute cultivation manual.

The Yun Jian Mountain Sect, revered as the leader of the righteous path, had dominated the continent for tens of thousands of years as the strongest sect. Yet, the sect possessed only one or two heaven-tier manuals.

And none of them were ice-attribute. Qin Yiqiu’s ice-based techniques relied on the stimulation of her emotionless cultivation method to reach their full potential.

The emotionless cultivation method was, in the truest sense, a top-grade heaven-tier technique, on par with this ice-attribute manual.

Though puzzled as to why such a rare treasure would appear in the stomach of a Golden Core-stage beast, upon reflection, the ancient secret realm held far too many treasures.

Thus, it was possible that the ring had been accidentally swallowed by the elephant demon while it was grazing.

Ordinary people, upon seeing such a treasure, would often turn against their own brothers countless examples existed. Even for a high-grade Earth-tier cultivation technique, bloodshed and family ruin between siblings were not uncommon.

If the sect elders were to see such a cultivation manual, they would undoubtedly confiscate it for the sect. Junior Sister no longer had the authority to decide its fate.

Therefore, Qin Yiqiu wanted someone to keep it safe.

This was something Junior Sister had obtained through her own hard work. She had no desire to seize it. Whether Junior Sister chose to give it to someone else, auction it, or contribute it to the sect was her own decision not something Qin Yiqiu should interfere with.

Encountering an extremely rare cultivation manual like this would almost certainly greatly increase one’s chances of ascending to immortality. Yet Qin Yiqiu could restrain her desires.

Neither joy nor sorrow.

This was the secret to her successful cultivation of the Emotionless Art. Though her path of emotional tribulations was fraught with hardships, she could control her ambition and greed exceptionally well.

Luo Yunhuan seemed somewhat surprised. In her imagination, she could easily hand over the cultivation manual.

Unexpectedly, the senior sister had refused. Was it because the ring was discovered by her and not by Senior Sister?

How truly honorable.

Luo Yunhuan clasped her hands behind her back. Though her hair was slightly disheveled, it accentuated a unique kind of beauty.

“Senior Sister, this is an Ice Spirit Root cultivation manual. Don’t you want it?”

Luo Yunhuan leaned in close. Qin Yiqiu’s fingers tightened around the manual as she gently shook her head.

“I’m not in the habit of taking others’ belongings.”

But Luo Yunhuan raised an eyebrow, her clear laughter ringing softly.

“If I say I’m giving it to you, then it’s yours.”

“However, Senior Sister, you’ll have to compensate me.”

Luo Yunhuan was pushing her luck.

A faint anticipation had already begun to stir within her. If someone as beautiful as Qin Yiqiu were to blush, tainted with desire, it would surely be quite amusing.

“Junior Sister, you may not realize the value of this cultivation manual. It’s comparable to the Emotionless Art.”

Before Qin Yiqiu could finish speaking, Luo Yunhuan took her hand. The warmth enveloped the cold, sending her heart into a frantic tremor.

“I know.”

“But a Heaven-tier cultivation manual is of little use to me.”

“I want something else instead.”

Luo Yunhuan was the type to seize the moment and take the initiative. If she waited for Qin Yiqiu to make a move, she might as well turn into a stone statue longing for her wife.

Better to take the initiative and earn a bit more conquest points.

“Something else?”

“That’s right. Didn’t you say you’d cultivate with me, Senior Sister?”

“I want to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage. You can help me, right?”

“Consider this an exchange.”

Luo Yunhuan’s pink tongue swept across her teeth. In her heart, she thought her idea was brilliant it would not only earn her conquest points but also allow her to advance to Foundation Establishment. Truly killing two birds with one stone.

“You mean.”

Qin Yiqiu understood that if she nodded now, it might imply tacit permission for Junior Sister to cross that forbidden line, inching closer to the day they would stand before the Severing Emotions Platform.

But she couldn’t refuse.

This wasn’t due to the temptation of the Heaven-tier cultivation manual.

It was the lure of instinct, amplified by the art itself.

One can only resist a single temptation; under a dual assault, even the strongest of hearts will shatter.

“Has Senior Sister understood?”

The junior sister, who had always been timid and relied on her for protection, now held the upper hand in matters of the heart.

“For the next few months, if I come looking for you, you can’t refuse. You must be available whenever I call.”

Twirling a strand of her blue hair with fair fingers, Luo Yunhuan thought delightedly that trading an ice-element cultivation manual for such benefits and even getting to share Senior Sister’s bed was an absolute steal!