Competing with the Male Lead for the Female Lead (Transmigration) - Chapter 4

Observing the terrain here, this should be a treasure land, but in Sheng Baihe’s memory, there wasn’t a treasure land that corresponded to this place.

“Who?!” The disciples in the water, shivering from the cold, looked warily at the newcomer.

They were just small fries. Sheng Baihe sneered inwardly but still maintained a gentle and composed demeanor. “Wen family, Sheng Baihe.”

“So it’s Senior Brother Sheng. This water is really strange, it’s freezing us to the bone.”

“I see this place is unusual. Everyone should come up quickly.”

Several disciples who were about to come up stopped at these words, exchanged glances, and thought that the more peculiar a place was, the more likely it was to hide treasures. They said, “Senior Brother Sheng, please wait for us up there for a moment. When our junior brother fell, he didn’t know where he lost something, and we have to help him find it.”

Having said that, the disciples scattered in the water as if looking for something. Sheng Baihe stood high on the stone pillar and looked down at them, sneering.

If something really fell, it should be nearby. Why go so far? Knowing their intentions, Sheng Baihe didn’t expose them, waiting to reap the benefits.

While standing above, he took this opportunity to carefully examine the cave again, recalling the several treasures he would obtain in this interspatial space and which location’s description resembled this place.

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly noticed something was wrong. Why was it so quiet? He looked down and saw that the few disciples who had been there just now were all gone!

A chill ran down his spine, and the air seemed to freeze instantly.

Sheng Baihe immediately gripped his sword hilt and observed the area below.

The disciples were still nowhere to be seen, and there were no other abnormalities.

Cold sweat dripped down his back. To be able to take away eight people without his knowledge, the things here were extraordinary.

Sheng Baihe retreated involuntarily, wanting to go back the way he came. Although this stone crevice was deep, it couldn’t stop him.

But he couldn’t help but feel a sense of frustration. He was the protagonist, how could he be forced to flee in such a disheveled manner?

Therefore, he took a breath and said loudly, “To whichever immortal resides in this treasure cave, we have rashly intruded and disturbed your honorable self. We hope your honorable self will forgive us.”

Everything was quiet, with no response.

Sheng Baihe had doubts in his heart, fearing that he was scaring himself. Perhaps there was nothing powerful in this cave at all.

But he still didn’t have the courage to go down and investigate.

Taking two steps back, preparing to leave and bring people to investigate another day, he suddenly caught sight of a dark shadow in the water, right in the center of the patch of light.

He stopped, staring intently. He saw what looked like a person floating on the water’s surface. The light from the bottom reflected the person’s graceful figure. Long hair spread out on the water’s surface. It was a woman.

Not one of the disciples who had just fallen.

Was she alive or dead? Was she the owner of the cave or one of the cultivators who had fallen earlier?

Sheng Baihe resisted the urge to go forward and peek. He took two steps back and, in the manner of a respectful protagonist, bowed to the figure. He raised his head, preparing to leave, but saw that the figure originally floating in the water had stood up at some point. Her bare upper body emerged from the water, while her lower body was hidden in the water, making it impossible to see clearly.

But just seeing her upper body made Sheng Baihe gasp.

He knew this person.

But why was she here at this time?!

The woman in the water had long hair as lush as seaweed, covering most of her bare upper body. The exposed skin was as white as snow, but even more was covered in white scales with a faint blue glow.

Her face, with scales covering her forehead, was exquisitely beautiful but devoid of human warmth. Her eyes were narrow and long like a demon’s, with a pair of eerie blue vertical pupils embedded in them. At this moment, these pupils were staring directly at him.

There was no human emotion in these eyes, only the cold-bloodedness of a wild beast.

Sheng Baihe felt like he was being stared at by an ancient behemoth, and a chill ran up his spine. He knew this person, but at the same time, he doubted if this was really the person he knew.

Among his many harem concubines, there were humans, demons, and monsters.

One of the monsters was a Jiao (a mythical dragon-like creature) that had evolved from a cold python. However, she didn’t appear until the middle to late part of the book. At that time, she could already fully transform into a human and planned to evolve into a dragon.

She became one of Sheng Baihe’s harem concubines because someone had broken into her cave while she was trying to evolve into a dragon, wanting to kill and eat her. Sheng Baihe, who was passing by, helped her. But after this incident, the Jiao was injured and found it difficult to evolve into a dragon.

Evolving into a dragon was an instinct ingrained in her genes, just like humans crave pleasure.

After losing the possibility of becoming a dragon herself, she sought out Sheng Baihe, the only human she felt any goodwill towards, who had helped her. She laid an egg for him, intending to entrust the hope of evolving into a dragon to this egg.

That happened hundreds of years later. At that time, the Jiao had transformed into a human and walked among humans, possessing some human nature, unlike now when she was still like a wild beast.

Even if she wasn’t as strong now as she was then, and hadn’t fully evolved into human form, she was still stronger than the current Sheng Baihe. Moreover, she was now a completely inhuman monster beast. There was no way Sheng Baihe could reason with her. Running away was the best option.

He didn’t have time to think about why he had encountered the Jiao here.

“I won’t disturb your honorable self any longer. I will leave now.”

Without another word, Sheng Baihe turned around, used the force of his momentum, and flew towards the chasm in the cave ceiling. The moment he moved, two strands of white mist like arrows suddenly shot out of the water, intertwining as they flew around the stone pillar towards Sheng Baihe.

Sheng Baihe was not as fast as this thing. He was caught up in mid-air. Seeing that these two strands were about to wrap around his feet, he swung his sword to strike them. To his surprise, this thing was like mist and was easily split apart by his sword. Just as he was about to feel happy, he saw blue ice crystals immediately spread across the sword blade that had touched the mist. This strange blue color, like a potent poison, quickly spread towards the hilt. Sheng Baihe immediately shook his hand and threw the sword away, flying towards the chasm without looking back, scrambling upwards.

Only two people remained in the cave now. Wen Wuning couldn’t move, so she couldn’t see what was happening, while Lan Feier, who had been watching the whole time, was so shocked that her jaw dropped.

Like the male lead Sheng Baihe, she also recognized the Jiao. She was equally surprised to encounter the Jiao at this time. She knew that in the later stages, the Jiao was about to transform into a dragon, which was like a human ascending to immortality. Although she ultimately failed, she was already an incredible great monster at that time.

How could they have encountered her now?!

Wen Wuning only knew that Sheng Baihe had left but didn’t know anything else. However, she could feel the unstable emotions of Lan Feier beside her.

“What’s wrong?” Wen Wuning’s voice was very soft, almost just a breath, but Lan Feier immediately covered her mouth as if facing a formidable enemy.

Wen Wuning was still unclear about the situation, while the Jiao in the water, who had already revealed a fierce look due to Sheng Baihe’s escape, suddenly looked towards them. Lan Feier felt a fear in her heart, scooped up Wen Wuning’s waist, and before she could exert any force, she felt a chill all around her. The air seemed to solidify, as if a tremendous force was pressing down on her.

Lan Feier turned her head with difficulty and saw that the Jiao had already appeared behind her.

The Jiao opened its huge mouth and lunged at her. Lan Feier’s bl00d instantly froze, and she watched helplessly as the huge mouth approached.

Suddenly, her vision blurred, and she and Wen Wuning switched positions.

Wen Wuning didn’t have time to grab her sword and grabbed the Jiao’s ferocious jaws with her bare hands.

Lan Feier stared blankly as the Jiao’s sharp venomous fangs pierced Wen Wuning’s palm, and bl00d flowed from the huge mouth.

Everything happened in an instant.

This scene shocked Lan Feier so much that she couldn’t forget it for a long time. But at this moment, she didn’t have time to think too much because Wen Wuning’s sword was in her hand.

Lan Feier gripped the sword with both hands, stood up, and stabbed towards the Jiao’s eyes. Life and death hung in the balance at this moment. If there was a fourth bystander who could see Lan Feier’s current appearance, they would definitely think this was the most vicious and evil person they had ever seen in their life.

But the Jiao suddenly seemed a bit strange. Her originally Jiao-like huge mouth returned to a human mouth, holding Wen Wuning’s finger. Her remarkably long tongue nimbly licked all the bl00d from Wen Wuning’s hand, not wasting a single drop, and brought it into her mouth.

The Jiao was also changing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The scales on her forehead disappeared, turning into human skin.

After licking all the bl00d from Wen Wuning’s hand, she held both of Wen Wuning’s hands and forcefully sucked the wound on her palm.

She looked very much like a child sucking on candy, but her inhumanly cold appearance told the two that she was not as harmless as a child.

Both of them were stunned by this scene. Lan Feier was the first to react. She remembered where the Jiao’s vital point was. The sword that was originally aimed at her eyes turned towards her waist.

The Jiao felt the threat, released the hand in her mouth, opened her mouth towards Lan Feier, revealing a ferocious beastly look, but didn’t attack her. Instead, she wrapped around the defenseless Wen Wuning, turned around, and plunged into the water.

“Senior Sister!”

Lan Feier rushed forward and only saw the white long tail flick on the water’s surface. Both of them were gone.

Her gaze anxiously searched the water, but she couldn’t find any trace of them.

Guessing that the Jiao was related to the light circle in the water, Lan Feier picked up Wen Wuning’s sword and flew towards that area.

Landing on a stone pillar at the edge of the light patch, the water surface was calm and still, and the cave was as silent as when they had first arrived.

She couldn’t describe what she was feeling at this moment.

Wen Wuning was just a character in the book. She had saved Wen Wuning just because she happened to be there and acted on a whim, not because she had any feelings for Wen Wuning.

Now there were two paths in front of her: one was to jump down and look for Wen Wuning, and the other was to leave now. Although it would be a bit difficult for her to get back up with her abilities, she could still manage it.

Looking at the deep, dark water below, she knew that if she went down, it would be almost certain death. But Wen Wuning, as the female lead, definitely wouldn’t die here. She still had to fall in love with the male lead in the future.

However, some changes had already occurred in the plot. This time, Wen Wuning hadn’t had a relationship with the protagonist. Would this cause a butterfly effect and change the female lead’s future fate as well?

Then she couldn’t be sure if the female lead would escape this calamity.

Holding Wen Wuning’s sword in her hand.

If Wen Wuning had been willing to follow the plot properly, they wouldn’t have fallen into this cave, and they wouldn’t have encountered the Jiao.

If she hadn’t intervened…

Lan Feier looked at the water’s surface with a complicated gaze. She didn’t want to owe anyone a favor. If she survived this time, she would never again risk her life for anyone, and she would never again interfere with anything that might affect the plot.

Even if she was weak and just a passerby, she had her own way of protecting herself. She would never entrust her back to anyone, absolutely anyone.

With a splash, Lan Feier plunged into the water.