Wanxi Rebirth - Chapter 13

Yue Tingxi’s attention was still on the unconscious girl, so she didn’t notice Qin Suliu’s unusual behavior.

Since she didn’t get a response, she assumed the young mistress wasn’t interested in what she had to say and continued with the matter on her mind. “Oh, right, what do you plan to do with that Spirit Medium? Execute him directly? Or hand him over to the Immortal Alliance?”

While the young mistress was interrogating the man, Yue Tingxi had spent an hour catching up on the rules of the Human Realm, and she had just read about the Immortal Alliance.

Just as mortals have a government responsible for legal judgments, the various immortal sects also have the Immortal Alliance, an organization that handles major incidents.

For evil cultivators like Spirit Mediums, who shouldn’t exist in the Human Realm, if the sect that captures them believes private execution is inappropriate or doesn’t know what to do, they can follow the proper procedures and send an envoy to escort them to the Immortal Alliance, handing everything over to them.

“Although Spirit Mediums are not openly present in the Human Realm, we’ve now seen a remnant lurking in the ghost market, and it’s likely not an isolated case,” Qin Suliu slowly replied, coming back to her senses. “He Shen isn’t a fully-fledged Spirit Medium, but he is indeed quite talented in this path. Since we managed to catch him alive…”

Seeing that she had stopped speaking and paused meaningfully, Yue Tingxi was shocked.

“You want to keep him?!” she blurted out. “Are you crazy?!”

That’s a Spirit Medium! They’re in the same category as demons who wreak havoc on the human world and kill and devour both humans and demons! They should be exterminated on sight!

“Executing him or sending him away would completely cut off our knowledge of Spirit Mediums,” Qin Suliu looked her in the eye and calmly explained. “If Lin Chaoyao can collude with one Spirit Medium, there’s no guarantee there won’t be a second or a third. If we can’t control all the Spirit Mediums he knows, at least we need to be more familiar with their background than he is.”

“That way, if he ever uses the power of Spirit Mediums against us in the future, we’ll be able to protect ourselves.”

Yue Tingxi opened her mouth to argue but then remembered the night the Qin family was annihilated, as recorded in the Book of Worldly Affairs.

The Qin family… was indeed destroyed by malevolent ghosts and evil spirits that only Spirit Mediums could command.

Although the record in the Book of Worldly Affairs was incomplete and she couldn’t determine who had colluded with the Spirit Medium to destroy the Qin family from the few lines of description, the annihilation was indeed highly likely to happen in the future. Given the young mistress Qin’s nature, since she knew about the existence of Spirit Mediums and Lin Chaoyao’s potential threat, she would definitely prepare for a rainy day.

But Yue Tingxi still didn’t agree with the approach.

“…No matter what, you have to first convince your family members,” she tried to bring up the Qin family. “That’s a Spirit Medium, someone everyone hates, and the Qin family… I’ve read that you’re classified as a family with a ‘gentlemanly demeanor.’ Keeping such a menace doesn’t seem like the action of a gentleman, does it?”

“I’ll figure out a way to explain the pros and cons to my family,” Qin Suliu nodded. “If I can’t, I’ll ask them to grant me some time to get more information before I kill him.”

Seeing that she had made up her mind, Yue Tingxi gritted her molars and said no more.

It’s easy for loved ones’ strong opposition to backfire, and she was merely a temporary ally of the young mistress Qin, so it was better to speak less and make fewer mistakes.

What she didn’t know was that Qin Suliu had fabricated a whole host of high-sounding reasons, burying her own dark, selfish motives deep inside.

— Execute him immediately? That would be letting this guy off too easily. Send him to the Immortal Alliance? That would be giving Lin Chaoyao a golden opportunity to get him back. A person who deserves to be slowly and painfully killed should naturally be held securely in her own hands to feel at ease.

Thinking of this, Qin Suliu couldn’t help but ask, “What about you, Miss Tingxi? What do you plan to do with him?”

“Me…” Yue Tingxi thought about it seriously. “At the very least, he has to pay the debt he owes the victims first, and then we’ll decide based on the situation. However…”

She paused. “I want him to die, and I want him to die a death that is not too easy.”

No matter what his backstory is, if he preys on innocent people and uses their lives and suffering to achieve his so-called grand ambition, then he shouldn’t be surprised when those innocent victims, once free from his control, exact their revenge.

She felt that Qin Suliu was silent for a few seconds before she replied, “We’re of the same mind.”

The “Piercing the Seven Orifices” needle treatment lasted for about two hours before it stopped.

After Lan Kongming personally escorted the girl to her herbal bath, Yue Tingxi couldn’t help but look at the forty-two silver needles arranged neatly on a medicinal cloth.

They were now all blackened by corpse poison and would need to be thoroughly burned with a fierce fire afterward. Otherwise, the corpse poison would gradually spread into the air and infect anyone who inhaled it.

After all that spiritual energy she had transferred, the spiritual stone bag given by the young mistress Qin was now deflated. Fortunately, the corpse poison was expelled smoothly, which meant the most difficult stage had passed.

“If the herbal bath works well, she’ll wake up tonight,” Qin Suliu pushed open the window, letting the evening breeze blow in. “With my mother watching over her, you don’t need to worry.”

Without realizing it, night had fallen.

Relieved by her words, Yue Tingxi finally relaxed.

She was about to find a place to continue reading the rule book when Qin Suliu called out to her. “Miss Tingxi, you’ve been busy all day. Why don’t you have a meal to replenish your energy?”

For cultivators, both human and demon, once their cultivation reaches a certain level, they can go into “Inedia,” relying on Inedia pills to replace food or simply not eating at all to ensure the purity of their spiritual energy.

However, many cultivators believe that food also contains spiritual energy. In addition, the art of food has been a long-standing tradition in the Human Realm, so the concept of “nutritional supplements” came to be: maintaining the habit of three meals a day, but eating only specially cultivated ingredients like spiritual rice and spiritual fish, which can provide spiritual energy through normal cooking.

Yue Tingxi subconsciously patted her stomach.

Although she had been in Inedia for a long time, she was one of those cultivators who believed in “nutritional supplements.” When she was cultivating in the mountains, she often caught spiritual fish, hunted wild rabbits and mountain chickens, and even had a pond where she grew spiritual lotuses. When she was in a good mood, she would go foraging for fresh ingredients to cook a delicious meal for herself.

Furthermore, being invited to a meal by the young mistress Qin, just like her willingness to spend money on people, was a good sign that they were getting closer.

“Okay!” Yue Tingxi readily agreed. “Where are we eating? What are we eating?”

“There’s a room in my sleeping quarters that’s close to the water feature. I like to eat there while watching the fish,” Qin Suliu said. “The small kitchen only has some simple home-style dishes and snacks. If you think that’s not enough…”

“That’s enough then. I’m not picky; as long as it’s enough to fill me up,” Yue Tingxi said casually, then suddenly remembered that when humans invite others for a meal, the host and guest sit together.

This was unlike the demon clans in Creek Mountain. If they wanted to apologize to someone, they would send a hot meal directly outside the other party’s cave or lair. If the apology was accepted, the food would be taken; if not, the one who sent it would be directly driven away. Or everyone would gather around a bonfire to roast things together. It was rare for two demons to sit together for a meal.

Yue Tingxi tried to recall and realized the last time she had a face-to-face meal with another person was twenty years ago, when she was trying to cheer up that little girl. Even Luo Yansha had never shared a table with her.

Until she sent the little girl away, she didn’t even know her name or identity. She just roughly guessed, based on her experience wandering the Human Realm, that the girl was probably a noblewoman from a famous family.

She still remembered that the little girl ate in a very refined way and had a lot of rules.

For example, she had to rinse her mouth with clear tea and wash her hands with spring water before the meal. She couldn’t chew with loud “smacking” sounds. She had to drink soup one spoonful at a time, not directly from the bowl. After the meal, she had to carefully wipe her mouth with a napkin and then rinse her mouth again.

Her thoughts returned to the present, and Yue Tingxi couldn’t help but sneak a glance at Qin Suliu.

She wondered if the young mistress Qin had similar rules.

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