After Transmigrating into a Book as a Cannon Fodder Character, The System Turned out to be Completely Unreliable! - Chapter 56

Chapter 56: The Goddess Mingyue

Ye Lingxi listened to their conversation, dazedly looking at the man holding a fan. Why did he look so familiar? Lan Mushu came over to help Ye Lingxi up.

“Xiao Xi.”

Ye Lingxi shook her head. “I’m fine. It’s just that Ji Fuyu, she…”

“We already know.”

Ye Lingxi bit her lip. “You all already knew?”

Lan Mushu nodded.

Ye Lingxi: “…”

You all knew, yet still came to save us?

Weren’t you afraid I’d turn out to be the villain?

“You all…” Ye Lingxi wanted to ask more, but Lan Mushu just kept brushing the dust off her clothes.

Ye Lingxi could tell that asking anything now would be pointless, so she changed the topic: “How did you come from Mu Yun?”

“It was Senior Brother.”

“Senior Brother?” Ye Lingxi was confused. Logically speaking, shouldn’t Su Yunli be from the same generation as Fu Guang? Why call him ‘Senior Brother’ and not ‘Martial Uncle’? She had wanted to ask this before too.

“Isn’t he your Martial Uncle?”

“Oh, he doesn’t let us call him that. Says it makes him sound too old.”

Ye Lingxi: “…”

So that’s it. Makes him sound younger. She glanced at Su Yunli and Fu Guang and pretty much understood—so you two are a couple.

Ye Lingxi shook her head repeatedly.

“You all! Don’t get so full of yourselves!” Lian Qi couldn’t take it anymore. “This is my territory! You’re far too arrogant!”

“Oh? My dear brother, after all these years, your temper is still so fiery.”

Lian Qi: “Brother? Did you ever treat me like one? When I was judged and sentenced, why didn’t you come help me?”

Su Yunli said seriously, “You broke the Heavenly Dao yourself—how could you blame me? Ten strikes of heavenly thunder was already lenient.”

Lian Qi’s chest boiled like bubbling water, fury soaring, eyes bulging, his temple veins throbbed. “You’ve gone too far!” Unable to endure, he counterattacked.

Su Yunli stepped in front of them and easily crushed his talisman paper. Waving his folding fan across Lian Qi’s face, he said, “Your cultivation is indeed stronger, but unfortunately, with an impure heart, you’ll never reach the highest realm.”

Lian Qi was left speechless.

Su Yunli turned and asked Fu Guang with concern, “Ah Fu, are you alright?”

Fuguang replied, “I’m fine.”

Lan Mushu asked, “Senior Brother, you once said you were self-learning talismans. Why are you two brothers now?”

“That’s a long story. I’ll tell you when we return.”

“But we still need to uncover the truth about Baicao and Rong Kingdom.”

“We’ll explain it all once we’re back. Right now, our priority is to take care of him.”

Lian Qi listened to their conversation, as if they didn’t see him as a threat at all, and even dared to openly say they’d deal with him right under his nose.

“You sure talk big!” Lian Qi took a deep breath and summoned black talismans that wrapped around his body, merging into one. He transformed into a monster.

Su Yunli shouted, “No good! He’s used dark magic!”

“We must stop him!”

Everyone unleashed their spiritual power to attack the monstrous Lian Qi. His body grew massive, limbs long and thin, his form squirmed like flesh, roaring at them, thick mucus splattering over everyone.

Su Yunli was especially disgusted: “I mean, if you want to turn into a monster, fine—but why such an ugly form?”

As he held his fan over his face, Ye Lingxi suddenly remembered where she’d seen him before. It was when she had just entered Qingyang Sect and met a man with a fan covering his face—he disappeared instantly.

Of course, he’s also a “sister.” No wonder he gave off such a feminine vibe.

“I’ll kill you all! Ruined everything!” Lian Qi roared.

Everyone brandished their weapons. Su Yunli used his Wind Silence Fan to strike a gust at Lian Qi. The monster couldn’t withstand the wind and cried out, “That fan originally belonged to me!”

“You think everything belongs to you. Brother, you’re just too greedy.” Su Yunli paused his wind attack, and the two behind him launched an attack together.

Lian Qi used his long limbs to knock both aside. “Trying to sneak attack me? You’re too naïve. Fu Guang, hand over the Five-Colored Spirit Stone, or I’ll kill you all here!”

“You sure have a big mouth. If we give it to you, the ones who’ll suffer won’t just be us, but also all the innocent people.” Su Yunli turned to Fu Guang and said, “Don’t give it to him.”

Fu Guang took out the Five-Colored Spirit Stone. “We can use it to defeat him.” In Fu Guang’s hand, the stone radiated dazzling light, growing brighter and brighter.

“What’s happening? Yunli?” Fu Guang called his name as the stone began to dart around uncontrollably. Everyone scrambled to catch it, but no one could hold it.

“Catch the Five-Colored Spirit Stone! Don’t let it get away!”

Ye Lingxi and Lan Mushu got up to try. It slipped out of Lan Mushu’s hands and flew straight toward Ye Lingxi, landing with a whoosh on her forehead.

Ye Lingxi didn’t know what had happened. She touched her forehead—it felt hot. Then her body began to change.

Everyone stared at her. A five-colored light lifted her into the air. Ye Lingxi’s hands trembled, but she refused to let go of the sword she held.

She tried hard to suppress the immense energy inside, but the Five-Colored Spirit Stone seemed about to burst her body.

She helplessly cried up to the sky, trying to release the pain.

Lan Mushu asked, “Senior Brother, what’s happening?”

“I’m not sure either.”

“It’s because the Five-Colored Spirit Stone chose her,” said Fu Guang.

“You’re certain?” Su Yunli doubted his ears.

“Yes. The stone had no reaction in my hand all this time. When we escaped outside, only the spiritual powers of a few of us had touched it. It chose Ye Lingxi.”

Lan Mushu looked at Ye Lingxi’s pained expression. “But if it chose her, why is she in so much pain? Because her divine sense refuses to accept it?”

“Why?”

“Such truths cannot be revealed. We can’t say it directly.”

Lan Mushu asked anxiously, “Why?”

“No reason. Don’t make things hard for your Senior Brother. We really can’t say it. It would affect her tribulation.”

Could it be she has some unspeakable secret? Other than knowing Ji Fuyu, what else?

“Could her tribulation be related to the Demon King?”

The two stayed silent.

“I see,” Lan Mushu said, seeming to understand.

“But even so, can’t we help her?”

“We can’t.”

Lan Mushu gripped her Immortal Vine Whip tightly.

Lian Qi saw that the stone had chosen her and laughed maniacally. “Excellent, excellent! Then I’ll just eat you all together and become the most powerful being!” He launched himself, mouth wide, aiming to swallow Ye Lingxi whole.

Ye Lingxi saw that gaping maw hurtling toward her. She wanted to run, but couldn’t move at all—she could only watch helplessly.

Help! His mouth must smell terrible.

Wuwuwu~ System, come back! If you don’t return now, I’m really going to be eaten! I’ll never complain about you again, I swear!

Pa! A whip cracked across Lian Qi’s body.

His sharp claws scraped across the stone ground, sending sparks flying. A green lash mark appeared on his body—it was poisonous. He clutched the wound, but any movement brought pain.

Lan Mushu retrieved her whip and stared him down. “You’re not allowed to touch her!”

Ye Lingxi was deeply moved. She wanted to speak, but her head felt like it would explode. A strong light enveloped the entire area, and when Ye Lingxi woke again, she had become a completely different person.

“Lian Qi, do you still refuse to repent?!”

Lian Qi heard the tone and snapped his head up. A woman stood above, expression grim—the face he most feared. She was stunningly beautiful, her long black hair billowing, skin pale, eyes sharp and angled, lips red and teeth white.

She looked down on him, holding the Black Obsidian Sword, which under her presence became the most supreme divine weapon.

Fu Guang and Su Yunli immediately bowed and shouted in unison, “Greetings, Goddess Mingyue!”

Lan Mushu was slightly stunned. Su Yunli tugged on her sleeve to get her to kneel as well.

“Ming Yue… Shangshen…” Lian Qi panicked inside. “Mingyue Shangshen, you’ve returned. I… I only did all of this to bring you back!”

Clearly, the woman in the air didn’t believe a word. “You’ve harmed innocent people time and again, caused the Rong Kingdom to vanish from this world, stolen the Spirit Stone, framed others—any one of these crimes is enough for you to be executed.”

“Please spare me, Goddess Mingyue!” Lian Qi tried to find an excuse, but she didn’t give him a chance.

“Today is the day you die.”
She raised the Black Obsidian Sword and struck directly at him. Lian Qi was completely paralyzed, able only to watch as the blade pierced toward his heart.

He could no longer speak. The bl00d in his body turned black, and as she infused it with even more divine power, his entire being turned to dust and vanished from the world.

“Spare me—”

“Go plead for mercy in the underworld with the people of Rong Kingdom.” With that, she turned to face the three standing behind her.

None of them dared to lift their heads.

“You’ve done well. Fu Guang, you did very well.”

“But in the end, Rong Kingdom still perished.”

“Perhaps… it was fate.”

“Lian Sheng, do you resent me for what I did?”

“No, he brought this upon himself.”

She smiled slightly, then looked at Lan Mushu and softly said, “Thank you.” Then she collapsed.

“Ming Yue Shangshen!” Fu Guang quickly caught the falling Ye Lingxi in his arms. The sword in her hand clattered to the ground with a clear, ringing sound.

Lan Mushu stared blankly at the person from just now, her gaze frozen and unable to return to reality for a long while.