After Transmigrating, I and the Female Lead Both Found It 'Really Fragrant' (GL) - Chapter 46
Zhao Ke thought to himself: “Little fellow? Disobedient? Is he talking about…”
He subconsciously looked at Shen Qiqi beside him, only to see her standing there, her eyes wide open, and her fair cheeks turning red at a visible speed.
Zhao Ke: “…” Alright, no need to ask, he should have known who it was.
Shen Qiqi covered her hot cheeks, not daring to look directly at the other two. She couldn’t help but feel a surge of joy in her heart, and stammered, “My… my Senior Sister, is she okay? Did Si Tuyun bully her? Did she say anything else?”
“Little one, you have too many questions,” Ji Zhihua said. “However, the young master didn’t say anything else.”
Shen Qiqi’s shoulders slumped in disappointment, and she mumbled, “Oh…”
Seeing this, Zhao Ke kindly comforted her, “Aren’t you going to find Senior Sister Liu? You should save these questions to ask her in person.”
“Senior Brother Zhao is right.” Shen Qiqi took a deep breath and regained her composure. She looked at Ji Zhihua and hesitated, “Senior Ji…”
Seeing Ji Zhihua’s displeased expression, she quickly changed her words, “Miss Ji, you appeared here so openly, won’t you be seen by the water mirror?”
“It doesn’t matter,” Ji Zhihua said calmly, “I’ve been hiding my demonic energy and figure since just now. All they can see is an ordinary disciple who has been following you.”
Shen Qiqi was speechless, “…Wait, isn’t a stalker not much better than a demon cultivator?!”
Ji Zhihua said that she was just an ordinary disciple, which wasn’t entirely accurate. With a wave of her hand, dozens or even hundreds of corpses swarmed forward, creating a grand scene like the Spring Festival travel rush. It is said that these corpses looked like ordinary spirit beast summons in the water mirror, with thick skin, high HP, and the ability to both fight and take care of people, making them incredibly useful.
Having a Core Formation stage expert following them was like openly cheating. All the demonic beasts and spirit beasts they encountered along the way were knocked away by her, and even if they were of equal strength, they could be slowly ground down by the sheer number of corpses.
These obedient and well-behaved corpses looked somewhat cute, and Shen Qiqi was filled with envy. She suddenly wanted to get one for herself.
The black eagle on her shoulder seemed to sense her thoughts and lowered its head to rub against her cheek, tickling her.
Shen Qiqi raised her hand to stroke its feathers. It was as smooth as spring water, just like black mist. She took a bag of earthworms from her bag, pulled one out, and held it in front of the black eagle.
The black eagle glanced at it and shook its head, uninterested.
“You don’t like it?” Shen Qiqi took out a live, hopping wild rabbit and muttered, “Why are you so picky…”
The black eagle chirped twice, and this time it seemed to like it. It flapped its wings and grabbed the rabbit’s ears in its beak. The white rabbit struggled in the air with its short legs. It ate in a very strange way. Its beak suddenly opened wide, and it swallowed the rabbit whole, then slowly digested and swallowed it like a snake wrapping around its prey. The rabbit completely disappeared into its black mist-formed body, and the ground was clean, without a trace left behind.
Shen Qiqi watched for a while, feeling that this way of eating was not wasteful and clean. She smiled and teased the black eagle’s beak, “Why does your call sound like a chick!”
The black eagle burped, folded its wings, and found a good spot on her shoulder to squat down.
Zhao Ke beside her was surprised, “Junior Sister, you actually carry rabbits with you?”
“My Senior Sister raised them before, and I thought they were cute so I brought them with me. I didn’t expect them to come in handy.” Shen Qiqi said, “I originally wanted to pet them, but it’s a pity that they ended up being eaten.”
Zhao Ke and Ji Zhihua looked at each other.
Ji Zhihua frowned and said, “Won’t your Senior Sister be angry that you fed the rabbit she raised to the bird? If anyone dared to touch my treasure, I would want to cut her into pieces on the spot!”
“No way,” Shen Qiqi blinked, “…They were raised to be eaten anyway. Before, when I said I wanted to eat spicy rabbit head, she caught a few rabbits and brought them back. Later, when I got tired of eating them, she started raising them as pets.”
Zhao Ke looked enlightened, while Ji Zhihua smiled ambiguously, “If you wanted the stars and the moon, would she pick them for you too?”
Shen Qiqi’s cheeks flushed again, and she murmured, “…Not really. The stars and moon would suit my Senior Sister better!”
The three of them chatted and walked until they reached a small lake. The temperature here was cooler than other places, like taking a bath in a gentle spring breeze, making people feel refreshed and clear, as if all the impurities and desires in their bodies had been washed away.
Zhao Ke stopped and carefully sensed, suddenly revealing a look of surprise, “Great, this is a natural spiritual vein!”
A spiritual vein is a place with a large amount of spiritual energy, and it is very rare. If a cultivator cultivates and adjusts their breath here, they can achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Shen Qiqi scanned the area and worried, “This shouldn’t be another transformed mirage turtle, right?”
The black eagle jumped off her shoulder, flapped its wings, and quickly flew towards the center of the lake. Everyone saw it gently tap the surface of the lake with its beak, then turned its head and called out to Shen Qiqi, as if saying that everything was safe.
Everyone felt relieved and sat down by the lake to rest.
Shen Qiqi scooped up a handful of water with her hands and slowly drank it, only to feel a full and gentle spiritual energy flowing through her meridians. When it reached her dantian, a golden light flashed, and the spiritual energy instantly turned into experience points, making her cultivation level rise rapidly.
She exclaimed: “It’s really a treasure land, there’s treasure everywhere!” She then drank several large wooden buckets full, and still felt it was not enough.
Zhao Ke laughed helplessly, “Junior Sister, slow down. If you drink too much, you might suffer from backlash and have difficulty digesting it.”
“I’m not drinking for myself, this is for my Senior Sister.” Shen Qiqi was lying by the lake, filling up the water without looking up.
Ji Zhihua praised, “Good, you’re loyal and righteous!”
After resting for a while and feeling relaxed, Shen Qiqi drooped her head and suddenly felt a little sleepy.
Seeing this, Ji Zhihua laughed and said, “It’s okay, you can sleep. I’ll have my darlings keep watch.” With that, dozens of living corpses burst from the ground and stood upright not far away, like a row of loyal soldiers. The crows and vultures passing by hurriedly avoided them, looking like they had seen a ghost.
Zhao Ke also said, “Junior Sister, you rest for a while. It’s very hot now, so let’s wait until after noon to leave.”
Shen Qiqi had originally planned to go up the mountain to find her senior sister first, but she was so sleepy that she couldn’t help it. She took a hammock from her bag, tied it to a tree, and planned to sleep for a while. She pillowed her head on the curled-up black eagle and soon fell asleep.
In her dream, the scenery was like an abyss, dark and without light. Deep in the endless chaos, a familiar voice gradually came: “Shen Qi… Shen Qi…”
Shen Qiqi pricked up her ears and ran towards the sound. After a while, she finally saw a white figure standing in front of her. She was furious and grabbed the other person’s beard and started to beat him up, “Old man! You almost killed me and my Senior Sister, you know that!”
“Aiya, aiya! Lighter! Lighter!” The old man covered his face and cried, “What are you in such a hurry for? You won’t die!”
“I’ll beat you to death… Ah? What?!” Shen Qiqi stopped her movements and widened her eyes, “I won’t die?”
The old man took a few steps back to put some distance between them, and touched his beard in embarrassment, “I told you before, your spiritual energy comes from the origin of the Heavenly Dao! The Heavenly Dao is the purest and most righteous, unlike ordinary people. In theory, as long as your dantian is not destroyed, no matter how much damage your physical body suffers, it can be slowly repaired with the purest spiritual energy.”
Oh, this golden finger sounds pretty good, it’s acceptable.
Shen Qiqi kicked him again, “Why did you suddenly cut off my supply of spiritual energy when I was maintaining the fire wall that day?”
“Of course it was to kill Liu Shuang!” The old man’s hair stood on end, and he said urgently, “Have you forgotten the fate of the 24 immortals of the Heavenly Realm? She personally crushed the origin of the Heavenly Dao and broke through the Heavenly Realm! She, she actually wanted to kill the immortals and gods! This act is extremely terrifying, this person cannot be allowed to stay in the world!”
Shen Qiqi was equally furious, “You did it on purpose, right? You know I like her, how could you bear to do it? I don’t have such a great heart, I don’t care if the gods in the sky are dead or alive! I just want her to be safe!”
The old man sneered, “How beautiful you think! She is incompatible with the Heavenly Dao, and she will never give up until death. Once the Heavenly Dao is broken, you will surely die, and there will be no possibility of reincarnation.”
Shen Qiqi’s expression changed: So, she and Liu Shuang must have a winner and a loser, and one of them must die? Isn’t this a dead end?
She immediately put down her burden and protested, “I won’t do it, you can just find someone else to replace me, you find me another body, and I’ll just be an ordinary person!”
“Do you think I don’t want to?” The old man’s eyes were like copper bells, and he glared, “You, as the supreme creator god, are the only one who can control the power of the origin of the Heavenly Dao, how can you be easily replaced by anyone?”
Shen Qiqi narrowed her eyes and looked at him thoughtfully, “Then who are you? Don’t tell me you’re also an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao.”
“Hmph, incarnation of the Heavenly Dao? Ignorant brat!” The old man was proud, and he raised his head and chest, “I am the Nanming Immortal Emperor!”
Shen Qiqi carefully recalled the plot in the book, and vaguely remembered something.
The Nanming clan, where the Nanming Immortal Emperor resided, was the guardian of the order of the Heavenly Dao, and for thousands of years, they had maintained the balance between the Heavenly Dao laws and the six realms of reincarnation.
The gods in the heavenly realm each had their own responsibilities, such as controlling water, fire, wind, and rain, while the Nanming clan was born to maintain the operation of the Heavenly Dao. Anyone who violated the order would be struck by heavenly thunder and fire. In the original book, Liu Shuang fought her way up to the Heavenly Realm, and she was struck by 9981 thunderbolts of fire from the Nanming Immortal Emperor.
“So you’re a god too,” Shen Qiqi snorted coldly, “No wonder you’re so arrogant… Can gods just hurt people casually?”
“Liu Shuang is no ordinary person, she is the future invincible Demon Lord!” The Nanming Immortal Emperor gritted his teeth, “She massacres living beings and slaughters all living things… She is a cursed star who can do anything! You, an ignorant god, actually want to protect her!”
•••••
A desolate mountain, Pagoda Cave.
The giant demonic beast collapsed with a thunderous sound. Liu Shuang pulled the long sword out of its body, and with a tearing sound, she brought out some blurred flesh from the wound. She turned and left, casually wiping the bl00d off the sword.
She injured the group of demonic beasts, skinned them, but did not give them a fatal blow. Instead, she waited for them to bleed to death here. Behind her, Si Tuyun looked at the dying beasts at her feet and sighed in his heart: She’s clearly a righteous cultivator, but she’s even more vicious than a demon cultivator. How much hatred must she have…
While pondering in his heart, Liu Shuang glanced at him and suddenly said, “Si Tuyun”.
Her voice was clear and cold, as if she could see into his heart. He immediately came back to his senses and replied nervously, “Miss Liu, what is it?”
Liu Shuang didn’t bother arguing with him. She took a piece of paper from her sleeve and handed it over, “Help me check these words.”
Si Tuyun took the paper and looked at the words on it, curiously saying, “These words, I happen to recognize.”
“You recognize them?”
Si Tuyun shook his head, “Not completely. I read some miscellaneous books a long time ago, and I know a little bit about them.”
Liu Shuang frowned and said, “Then tell me, what are these words?”
“These should be the ancient language from the Heavenly Realm, a long time ago. The person who wrote that book said it was left over from the creation of the world, who knows?” Si Tuyun laughed, “If it really is from the creation of the world, then who were these words spoken to? The mountain beasts?”
Liu Shuang pursed her lips, her heart moved, “…The Heavenly Realm?”
Si Tuyun said, “Yes, these characters are extremely complex, obviously created by those old stubborn people in the Heavenly Realm. Our Demon Realm doesn’t have such complex characters! Let me see… The first two characters, I only recognize one, it should be ‘Tian’ (heaven), and the last two are ‘Mo Zhu’ (demon lord). I don’t quite recognize the rest.”
Liu Shuang lowered her eyes and said softly, “This is enough. Thank you.”
“I wonder where Miss Liu saw the ancient language? These characters are really rare, and there are very few books that mention them,” Si Tuyun laughed lightly, “If you don’t mind, I can take it back to the Demon Realm and ask someone else. There should be people there who specialize in ancient languages.”
“Okay,” Liu Shuang nodded, “Thank you.”
Si Tuyun carefully put away the white paper and said, “Sigh, you don’t need to be so polite. If it weren’t for your help, I’m afraid I…”
Just then, a deafening shout came from the entrance of the cave, echoing endlessly through the long cave: “Young Master! Young Master!”
“Who is it?” Si Tuyun’s beautiful eyebrows furrowed, and he impatiently said, “Come in.”
A demon general wearing armor ran into the middle, shouting repeatedly, “Young Master! Young Master!”
Liu Shuang looked sideways. Si Tuyun glanced at him and said, “Stop shouting, say what you have to say.”
“Ji Zhihua sent a message saying that she has already caught up with Shen Qiqi,” the demon general knelt on one knee and said loudly, “However, according to her, Shen Qiqi is coming to find Miss Liu and is already on her way.”
Liu Shuang was startled, “…She’s coming to find me? Does she know the way?” She had originally thought that Shen Qiqi would continue exploring forward, but she didn’t expect the other party to come looking for her!
The demon general hesitated, “Well, it seems like she does.”
Si Tuyun cursed, “Damn it, where did she get to?”
The demon general cautiously said, “She’s almost at the foot of the mountain.”
Isn’t that terrible?! What if the junior sister bursts in and sees this scene…
Liu Shuang lowered her head and looked at herself, who was completely unharmed, and then at the pile of Core Formation stage demonic beasts at her feet, and fell into a speechless silence.
Author’s Note: Here I am! Thank you all! They’ll be able to meet each other soon!