Ch. 18.1 Wickedly Attractive

Lin Jiu wordlessly stared at the snake.

At the moment, her feet were around 1 meter from the ground as she was pulled forward by an unseeable force like a kite. The wind whipped her hair around her face, and her expression and aura felt intensely creepy.

The blood-red snake trembled as it moved its head far away from her.

“No!” Lin Jiu cried out, flustered, “I’m not even tired out yet, how can you feel weak! You’re still worried that anything will happen to me?!”

The blood snake became even weaker, slowing down its speed.

Lin Jiu had a bad feeling about this—it looked like it was planning to kick her off.

As expected, its body loosened, and the coils of the blood-red snake flung her away!  If Lin Jiu hadn’t gotten a hold of the snake’s body at the last moment, she would have crashed straight down!

Lin Jiu let out an unwilling and angry scream. “Hey! You can’t abandon me!”

“Hiss—”Ji Yuan gasped like he was having a toothache.

The blood-red snake crazily twisted his body, trying hard to fling off Lin Jiu like she was a piece of gum sticking to him.

Lin Jiu held on to the snake’s body even tighter like she was playing tug of war, her two slender legs dangling in midair, but stamina was quickly being depleted.

“Stop, stop for a while!” she yelled, then moderated her voice to a more conversational tone. “I’m not going to bother you anymore but you’ll have to put me somewhere safe, nicely.”

“…”

Go away!

Lin Jiu tried her best to advise him. “You see, you just took me into your embrace—”

“I didn’t!” Ji Yuan, the blood snake, blurted.

Lin Jiu ignored him “You’re going to dump me now! But if I come back now, how embarrassing will that be?” she said in an accusatory tone.

“…”

“Won’t you bear responsibility for the things you’ve done?” Lin Jiu said, and started sobbing. “I already said that I won’t bother you anymore, you just have to get me somewhere safe… Heug, why are you like this! First you caught me, and now you’re abandoning me without even giving me some money to head back—”

“Stop,” Ji Yuan, the blood snake said, “I’ve never killed a woman before, don’t force me to make an exception.”

“Ok,” Lin Jiu continued. “Then just slowly put me down.”

The blood snake reluctantly stopped on one of the small dunes.

He straightened his body and said to Lin Jiu, “Forget it. You do seem quite pitiful, like the girls that I dumped, so I won’t make things even harder for you. Just stay here. Even if Wei Liang didn’t fall for you, he won’t just leave you here, so sooner or later he’ll come looking for you. I’m leaving now, and let’s hope we don’t see each other ever again.”

Lin Jiu quickly grabbed the snake’s tail. “Can you leave a scent here, so that the other magical creatures don’t eat me alive?”

Ji Yuan the blood snake was speechless, but he soon relented. “Close your eyes, and don’t peak.”

Lin Jiu covered her face with her fingers, and peaked out from the gaps in between her fingers.

She could see the snake’s tail rise, then, like a puppy peeing on the pole, it left small indescribable stains around her.

“…”

Sure enough, evil and attractive are all just lies! In private, these men weren’t any better than dogs!

“This woman is so odd,” Ji Yuan the blood snake said, taking a few slithers back and taking her in. “Even if you’re greedy for my looks and it’s pissing me off, for some reason, I feel that you have a scent that makes me feel close to you. You remind me of my mother.”

“…”

Lin Jiu wanted to be in a relationship, but he wanted to be her son.

“Wow!” the blood snake softly exclaimed, and he straightened his body and gave a weird laugh. “Wei Liang is so capable!”

Wei Liang? Did he settle the battle back there?

The blood snake arrogantly tilted his head. “I’m leaving!”

He slid right into the ground, leaving her behind completely.

Lin Jiu stared speechlessly at the sky

God, what kind of weird script did she get?!

The resurrected Senior Brother who mysteriously hated her, the cold and refined male lead wanted to sleep with her every day, the attractive evil boss who almost had her, and now wanted to be her son? As expected, the villainess wasn’t worthy of the violent evil character and the loyal male supporting character.

Except for the fact that the female lead, Liu Qing Yin, hated her like in the book, all the other relationships are all jumbled up.

Lin Jiu stood slightly far away from the weird stains, then hugged her knees and pitifully squatted down in the wind.

***

On the other side, when Wei Liang realized that Lin Jiu had been captured, his body erupted with coldness.

In one breath, the evil creatures silently disintegrated.

In another breath, the indomitable demon’s feet started to freeze, and a split second later, it froze until the top of its skull.

‘Hua—Cha—’

The demon shattered into millions of ice crystals. Ji Yuan’s pupils contracted as the demon’s shoulders shattered beneath his feet. His body started to rise like a big red butterfly then disappeared in thin air after two flashes.

Wei Liang didn’t chase after him. Instead, his hand swept across the ground and ice crystals exploded from behind him like a splendid ice firework. Without looking, he adjusted his sleeves and ran straight to the direction that Lin Jiu disappeared from.

Mu Rong Chun dazedly watched this scene develop and he was left speechless from the shock.

When did master’s swords skills become this way?

As Mu Rong Chun was sitting numb with shock, Wei Liang’s forgotten sword bounced up from the floor, softly humming, and pointed at the direction that Liu Qing Yin disappeared to.

Mu Rong Jun didn’t give it much thought and hopped on the sword. The sword quivered and turned into the streak of light, then shot off towards the horizon.

The blood snake that captured Liu Qing Yin was much more active. It enveloped her and flew south in full speed towards Qian Qi Pass. If they managed to cross the pass into the land of the evil clan, even someone as powerful as Wei Liang wouldn’t easily be able to step in.

Mu Rong Chun sharpened his cultivation skills to the extreme and headed north in hot pursuit. However, the longer he chased them, the more his heart sank.

It was clear that Ji Yuan’s target from the start was Liu Qing Yin and not Lin Jiu. When he abducted them both, one motive was to satisfy his humor, and the other was to lead his opponent away—Ji Yuan knew that Wei Liang’s would purposely not choose to save Liu Qing Yin to avoid people from gossiping.

Mu Rong Chun became so anxious that he suddenly felt the blade underneath his feet slightly sink, like it wanted to get rid of him.

He quickly thought of another plan, and summoned his sword and stepped across onto it. An incandescent light ignited on Wei Liang’s flying sword, and it trembled slightly before shooting out of sight.

Mu Rong Chun tried his best to catch up. The evil clan behind him started to gather, but he wasn’t thinking about how to escape anymore when all he wanted to do was save his junior apprentice.

In no time at all, a row of towering mountains started to appear, stretching endlessly on each side of the horizon.

A pale green fortress caught his attention below.

Qian Qi Pass, he’s here!

An endless stream of demons from Qian Qi Pass started to fill the flat land. Mu Rong Chun could hear the screams and uproars of the demons from behind him, and he looked back to see the army swarming like a dark tide. He subconsciously clenched his fist as courage started to rise beneath him.

It was likely that he would die a hero today.

Suddenly, the swordsman’s gaze was caught by a glistening sword towards the left.

A man in a white robe was holding a winter sword with one hand, while the other hand held tightly onto Liu Qing Yin. Every time he slashed his blade, a white light in the shape of a fan dispersed into the air, disintegrating the creatures that came into contact with it.

“Mas—Master?” Mu Rong Chun stammered out his joy and he hurriedly descended towards them.

As he got near to them, he realized that the man in the white robe wasn’t Master Wei Liang, but Senior Brother Qing Yun Xi.

“Senior Brother!” Mu Rong Chun cried. He didn’t have much time to think, and he joined the battle and helped Qing Yun Xi block the attacks coming towards his back.

Qing Yun Xi turned towards Mu Rong Chun at his arrival. “Take her away, I’ll fight them off.” Qing Yun Xi’s voice was cold, deep and reassuring. For a split second, Mu Rong Chun thought that the person right before him was the Master. They were both cool, calm and also reassuring.

Mu Rong Chun tightly squeezed the hilt of his sword. If he could survive today, he would put his heart into cultivating so he could become someone dependable like Master and Senior Brother!

He took over Liu Qing Yin’s soft body, and Mu Rong Chun suddenly calmed down. He realised that he wasn’t a good match with Apprentice Liu, and that she should be with someone like Senior Brother.

The three of them fought alongside each other as the evil clan poured towards them fast.

***

Just when Qing Yun Xi, Mu Rong Chun and Liu Qing Ying successfully met up, Wei Liang found Lin Jiu. She looked grim and disheveled as she sat at the bottom of the small sand dune, but Wei Liang’s cold expression instantly filled with colour and life. His gaze softened as he focused his gaze on her and inspected her from bottom to top.

“Are you okay?” he asked.

Lin Jiu flashed him a sweet smile. Wei Liang bent down, and his big shadow felt so real as he pressed against Lin Jiu’s body.

His gaze looked very dangerous. “I picked you, so how do you plan to die?”

Lin Jiu froze. She suddenly remembered the sentence she shouted at him as she was swept away.

“If you dare choose me, I’ll die before your eyes!”

She froze again.

Wei Liang didn’t save the female lead, but came for her? This…

“So?” Wei Liang came even closer to her, his cold breath tickling Lin Jiu’s forehead, his tone deep. “How are you going to die?”

Lin Jiu felt that Wei Lang looked slightly like an ice volcano that would erupt any second. Frightened, she looked guiltily up at him and softly explained. “I said that so I could save myself from embarrassment.”

Wei Liang gave a chuckle, and he reached out one hand and took a hold of her chin. His handsome and delicate face drew close to her ears, one word at a time, he fiercely said two words to her.

Lin Jiu very slowly sucked a deep breath of fresh air.

She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She turned her head to the side and stared into Wei Liang’s eyes. His thin lips slowly formed into a deadly smile, as his gaze grew scorching hot as he fixated on her like a wolf.

“…??!!!”

Did she mishear him just now?

Did those two words really come out of Wei Liang’s mouth?

The Wei Liang in front of her was fake, right?!

Maybe it was Ji Yuan that regretted his decision and disguised himself as Wei Liang to annoy her?!

But even a flirtatious person like Ji Yuan would never deliberately say something like this to Liu Qing Yin.

Wei Liang smiled again, and he stretched out his big hand to grab her shoulder and lift her up. He tucked her messy hair from her face, his fingers intentionally caressing her ear.

“…”

Lin Jiu was terrified!

Save me!