Wanxi Rebirth - Chapter 10

Yue Tingxi took the “Half-Hour Hourglass” from the storage cabinet in her inner-chamber cave dwelling, connected it with her spiritual consciousness, and began to make the most of her time to beat someone up.

She took the body bag that Miss Qin handed her while cleaning up the evidence, put it over Lin Chaoyao’s head, and then covered her hands with her sleeves, wrapping them again and again to ensure that her punches wouldn’t leave fingerprints. Only then did she begin to hit the area where his face was located!

Even though Lin Chaoyao, who had been taken down by the poison pill, was as limp as a sack of potatoes or a punching bag, Yue Tingxi—who had just been freed from the endless pain he had caused and had been reborn—needed such a human punching bag who couldn’t utter a word of garbage to vent her anger.

With the thought, “When you hit a scumbag, hit their face,” she landed every punch precisely on Lin Chaoyao’s face. When she felt she hit a tooth, she would add two more punches. Her legs weren’t idle either, as she kicked Lin Chaoyao’s dantian dozens of times—the very spot where her skin had been cut open by a long sword in her previous life!

If it weren’t for the inconvenience of having to clean up too much obvious evidence, she would have loved to use her snake tail to pierce through every one of his most fragile and sensitive parts!

Yue Tingxi never thought she would one day use such a despicable fighting style against someone!

But at this moment, she knew very well that the scumbag Lin deserved it.

She soon smelled the rusty scent of fresh blood. After having her abdomen cut open and her core taken, her nose had only been able to smell this scent during every tortured day and night on the Demon-Locking Platform.

Later, the blood was dried by the sun, and the wounds rotted and became infested with maggots. What did that smell like? She couldn’t quite remember anymore.

—The current smell of blood, however, made her feel incredibly relieved, even giving her a sense of excitement that her great revenge was about to be exacted.

This was just the beginning.

When her final kick landed hard, she saw Lin Chaoyao suddenly convulse and seemed to hear a muffled groan. He then curled up in pain, his hands instinctively covering the spot.

“He’s not very durable!” Yue Tingxi sneered in her heart, kicking Lin Chaoyao in front of Qin Suiliu and motioning for her to start hitting him.

Qin Suiliu crouched down, lifted the body bag, and revealed Lin Chaoyao’s blood-soaked head.

Then, she did something that left Yue Tingxi perplexed once more.

She plucked a few strands of his hair and used a tube-shaped magical artifact thinner than a pinky finger to suck up the blood dripping from Lin Chaoyao’s lips.

“…What are you doing?” Yue Tingxi was utterly bewildered and couldn’t help but ask through a spiritual message.

“Collecting a sample. That way, it’ll be harder to see through a disguise as him in the future,” Qin Suiliu quickly put these things into her storage bag. “If necessary, I can do this to others, too. But I hope to use it as little as possible.”

She stood up. “Let’s go. It’s time to go home and save someone.”

“You’re not going to beat him up?” Yue Tingxi asked in surprise. “No matter what, he embarrassed you and the entire Qin family, right?”

“Precisely because of that, I’ll remember this debt for now, and he still owes that beating,” Qin Suiliu answered calmly.

Yue Tingxi, however, could see that her emotions were not as calm and composed as they appeared on the surface. There was a thick, hidden hatred churning in her eyes, just like how Yue Tingxi had felt right after she came back to life.

But she and Miss Qin had only just met, and for now and in the future, they would be no more than temporary allies unless something unexpected happened. Since Qin Suiliu didn’t want to say more, Yue Tingxi had no place to pry.

So Yue Tingxi took the peach wood box containing the “living puppet,” confirmed that no corpse odor was leaking out, and carefully placed it into her inner-chamber cave dwelling.

“I’ll go put He Shen in there, too, and then we’ll go home together.” Sensing that Miss Qin was in a bad mood, she also emphasized the word “home.”

At the very least, the Qin family was still a warm and peaceful haven, a place where she and Miss Qin could find a moment of peace.

[Beep—Host?]

[Toxins have been metabolized. Now checking for body damage…]

Lin Chaoyao woke up to a sharp pain, and the overwhelming stench of corpses made him almost vomit. He immediately grabbed the bag over his head, trying to tear it off, but the cord at the opening of the bag strangled his neck and chin, almost suffocating him.

He was furious. He chanted a spell with his fingers, a sword hummed, and in the next second, a flash of sword light shredded the thing covering his head.

“…What happened after I passed out?” Forcing himself to suppress the discomfort in his heart, he asked the system in a low voice while healing himself. “Who came to this room? What did they do to me?”

[I’m sorry, Host. This part of the record cannot be accessed.]

Now, two women in the system’s notes were “missing” and “untraceable.” The lack of a record was the clearest record of all. Lin Chaoyao immediately confirmed the identity of the visitors, and the anger in his eyes burned even hotter.

He spat out a broken, blood-stained tooth and cursed, but then he realized his voice was now whistling. His expression darkened even more. “How did they suddenly find their way to the ghost market?! Where’s He Shen?!”

[I’m sorry, Host. I cannot trace He Shen’s current location.]

[However, his action history from when he went to the basement to get supplies until the record disappeared is still preserved.]

Without needing to be told, the system brought up all the footage from that period and played it automatically.

Not long after, it heard the sound of the host cursing in his heart, but this time, the target of his curses was He Shen.

“Are you really okay?”

On the way back to the Qin family home, in the flying carriage, Qin Suiliu looked at Yue Tingxi with unease, but she didn’t dare lower her gaze.

“I’m fine. High-level demon clans all have inner-chamber cave dwellings. Among us snake demons, there are even those who specialize in the art of devouring,” Yue Tingxi confidently patted her own abdomen. “I just don’t know what state of ‘dying yet not dead’ that woman is in. It would be great if we could save her…”

“You really want to save her?” Qin Suiliu asked.

“Yeah… I’ve been through something similar,” Yue Tingxi vaguely explained. “If we really can’t save her, I’ll give her a quick death. That’s better than enduring this torture, neither human nor demon.”

Dying yet not dead… she understood what that felt like.

Unable to live, unable to die, one could only watch their life slowly drain away. If no one gave them a quick death, they would even have to feel their body rot, allowing maggots to crawl all over their flesh and wounds, and then there would be the long wait for death to arrive.

After she finished speaking, she began to use her spiritual consciousness to observe the “living puppet” sealed in the peach wood box, trying to personally confirm the girl’s state. She didn’t notice that Qin Suiliu’s breathing had instantly become rapid.

At this moment, Qin Suiliu’s mind was in a jumble, her ears ringing. Only Yue Tingxi’s words from before still echoed.

—”Been through something similar.”

What has Yue Tingxi been through? When did it happen? In the past? After she was taken down the mountain by Lin Chaoyao? Or…

No… No! She can’t come back! She, of all people, cannot come back from that time!!

Qin Suiliu instinctively lowered her head, pretending to have her hands in her sleeves, and tightly pinched her own wrist, scratching out a series of hideous red marks where no one could see.

She desperately tried to hold back her emotions and her urge to ask for more details, opened her mouth, and made a promise she wasn’t sure of.

“I will bring her back to life.”

“Huh?” Yue Tingxi retracted her spiritual consciousness and looked up in surprise.

“Many generations ago, the Qin family also fought against the Spirit Masters who colluded with demons to bring disaster to the human world,” Qin Suiliu said softly. “There should be records of this in the clan.”

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