Competing with the Male Lead for the Female Lead (Transmigration) - Chapter 5

The moment she entered the water, Lan Feier shivered violently. She felt like her whole body was about to freeze into ice, and her limbs wouldn’t obey her commands.

The fact that those disciples were able to walk in the water proved that it wasn’t deep, but in the area she was in, the water was bottomless. All she could see was a vast expanse of white, and she couldn’t see or hear anything.

In the water, all she felt was cold, a cold that made every inch of her skin and her brain ache.

Lan Feier trod water to maintain her balance and looked up, but above was also a vast expanse of white. She vigorously kicked her legs and swam upwards.

“Plop!”

She only kicked twice before breaking the surface, spitting out water and wiping her face. Looking around, she was in the same place where she had jumped down. It seemed that she couldn’t see the surface from underwater.

She took a breath and submerged again. Underwater, it was a vast expanse of white. She couldn’t see anything, neither Wen Wuning nor the Jiao. She swam downwards.

She had no strength, no protective treasures, and wasn’t a protagonist with plot armor.

Now she could only rely on her intuition.

She couldn’t discern direction underwater, so she kept diving in one direction.

The cold and the lack of a sense of direction gradually made Lan Feier feel agitated. She had probably been underwater for two or three minutes, but still hadn’t seen Wen Wuning or the Jiao. She was almost starting to doubt if the Jiao had even brought Wen Wuning here.

She dove for another four minutes. Just when Lan Feier was about to give up, she suddenly saw a dark shadow in the white expanse. She struggled to move her stiff limbs towards it.

As she slowly approached, she saw a strange scene. Not far away, the two were embracing in the water. To be precise, the Jiao’s arms and its white tail, almost five or six meters long, were tightly entwining Wen Wuning.

This scene made many absurd and somewhat inappropriate thoughts flash through Lan Feier’s mind at an inopportune time.

Because of the Jiao’s abundant hair, Lan Feier couldn’t see Wen Wuning’s face and couldn’t determine if she was conscious.

Fearing the Jiao’s ferocity, Lan Feier stopped swimming. She wasn’t sure what the Jiao had brought Wen Wuning here for, whether it wanted to take Wen Wuning’s life, nor was she clear about the Jiao’s current state. Why hadn’t the Jiao attacked her even though she was so close?

Lan Feier didn’t think for long, maybe just a second or two, before she gently swam towards the two.

No matter what, she would take a gamble.

Getting closer, she noticed that both of them had their eyes closed and were even mouth-to-mouth. Lan Feier’s expression stiffened. If she didn’t know Wen Wuning was a woman, she would have suspected that the Jiao was sucking yang energy like a female ghost.

The careful Lan Feier noticed that the Jiao’s lower body, which was originally that of a Jiao, was slowly turning into human legs, and something that a woman shouldn’t have appeared below the Jiao’s gradually receding scales on its lower abdomen.

Lan Feier’s brain went blank, and her worldview was about to collapse.

How did she not know that the Jiao was a hermaphrodite! How could the Jiao be a hermaphrodite?! Lan Feier forced herself to calm down and stared fixedly at that place. It was indeed there; she hadn’t seen wrong.

But this shouldn’t be the case. If the Jiao had this characteristic, the book couldn’t have failed to mention it, and the male lead’s tastes couldn’t be this heavy!

Then there was only one possibility: the butterfly effect.

Perhaps the Jiao’s gender was uncertain before transforming into a human, and now, for some unknown reason, it was transforming into a man or a hermaphrodite?

As for what it would do after transforming into a man, Lan Feier felt a chill in her heart. Wen Wuning truly had that irresistible charm. She had avoided Sheng Baihe, but now a Jiao had come along. Lan Feier didn’t know how to even begin to comment.

In the water, due to the resistance, the sword wasn’t easy to use. Lan Feier had no choice but to swim forward like this. Looking at the scene up close was even more terrifying, yet also somewhat beautiful. If she wasn’t also in this book, she would definitely think the Jiao’s actions were really exciting—daring to steal a woman from the male lead, what a real man, ah, what a real woman!

Looking at the two who were as close as glue, Lan Feier scratched her head and thought for a while. Finally, she swam behind Wen Wuning, stepped on the Jiao’s shoulders to gain leverage, and hugged Wen Wuning, holding her breath as she tried to pull her away with all her might.

The Jiao’s body was as stiff as an ice sculpture at this moment. Lan Feier exerted all her strength, and bubbles gurgled out of her mouth and nose. She couldn’t budge them even a little. Fortunately, Wen Wuning’s body was relatively flexible. Lan Feier felt her hand slip, and Wen Wuning slid out of the Jiao’s clutches.

At the same time, she also keenly felt that the Jiao had ‘woken up’.

A sound that a human could never make, a sound that was indescribable, pierced her eardrums like a sharp sword through several meters of water.

Lan Feier’s brain felt like it was being stabbed with needles, but she didn’t dare to delay for even a moment. She scooped up the limp Wen Wuning and kicked her legs like a propeller, swimming upwards. She swam for a long distance before stealing a glance back, only to see that the Jiao hadn’t chased after her at all.

That was right. If the Jiao had wanted to chase her, she wouldn’t have been able to escape this far.

In the white expanse, the Jiao was still letting out ear-piercing screams, while its whole body was rapidly reverting to its beastly form. However, this time, its screams didn’t seem to be out of anger but pain, and the reversion wasn’t like the attack on the shore just now. It seemed to be suffering a backlash.

Its extraordinarily long white tail thrashed wildly in the water. Scales quickly spread from its lower abdomen upwards, soon covering its arms and body. The thing that shouldn’t have been on its lower abdomen also disappeared.

A pair of sharp claws clutched at the scales that continued to crawl up its face, and it looked painfully in Wen Wuning’s direction, its cries extremely shrill.

Hair as black as weeds floated in the white expanse, the Jiao’s face exquisitely beautiful yet contorted in pain.

For a moment, Lan Feier felt like a villain, a bad guy.

However, seeing the writhing, disgusting, and ugly Jiao body in her eyes, and recalling the bl00d basin-like mouth that had bitten people without hesitation just now, Lan Feier’s already meager sympathy dwindled even further.

She turned her head and continued swimming upwards with Wen Wuning.

Not taking advantage of its weakened state was already a great act of mercy.

Wen Wuning woke up at this time. Her back was to Lan Feier. As soon as she woke up, she saw the terrifying scene below. Turning her head, she saw her junior sister with round cheeks and a face so shriveled it was purplish, clearly from holding her breath for too long.

Wen Wuning quickly turned around, clamped Lan Feier between her waist, and flew upwards. In just ten seconds, the surroundings suddenly warmed up, the coldness enveloping them disappeared, and they broke through the water’s surface, landing wetly on a stone pillar.

The painful screams of the Jiao echoed throughout the cave, the sound even clearer and more piercing than underwater.

Wen Wuning had lost consciousness as soon as the Jiao took her underwater. She didn’t know what had happened.

Lan Feier, who had just come ashore, was shivering all over, her whole body bluish-purple, and tormented by this monster sound piercing her ears. She was in a terrible state. Wen Wuning quickly took out a set of her own clothes and draped them over her, then transferred her spiritual power to warm her. Wen Wuning was also only at the Qi Refining stage, and her spiritual power wasn’t abundant. Fortunately, Lan Feier was only suffering from the cold and it wasn’t severe. Her body temperature returned to normal in a short while.

Both of their clothes and hair were still dripping wet. Lan Feier hugged the dry clothes draped over her and stood up, shivering, but still relatively calm. “Senior Sister, this place is not suitable for a long stay. Let’s leave first.”

Lan Feier picked up Wen Wuning’s sword and gave it to her. Wen Wuning took the sword and stared at Lan Feier for a while, her expression somewhat complicated.

Then she looked at the light circle underwater and recalled what she had seen in the water, and couldn’t help but ask, “What happened? What was that thing just now?”

“It was a Jiao. It seemed to want to use Senior Sister’s power to transform into a human, but I interrupted it. It should have suffered a backlash.”

Wen Wuning didn’t react. Lan Feier looked at her in confusion, only to see an expression on Wen Wuning’s face that she felt shouldn’t be there at all at this moment: pity.

“Cultivation is not easy, especially for these monster beasts. Even after hundreds of years of cultivation, they may not be able to take human form.”

Lan Feier’s expression immediately turned cold.

Not noticing Lan Feier’s strangeness, Wen Wuning thought for a moment and took out a palm-sized flower from her Qiankun bag. The flower petals were bright red, fresh, and tender, full of spiritual power. She threw the flower into the water and watched it slowly sink, saying softly, “I hope it can survive this tribulation.”

After that, they didn’t linger any longer. Wen Wuning led Lan Feier and flew up from the chasm they had fallen through.

Before leaving, Wen Wuning didn’t forget to find Lan Feier’s sword that had fallen into the water and return it to her.

Back on the ground, the first thing Wen Wuning wanted to do was to find Sheng Baihe and settle the score. She followed the traces Sheng Baihe had left behind. Lan Feier silently followed her for a while. When they left the more dangerous dense forest, she called out to Wen Wuning.

“Senior Sister, I heard there are ginseng dolls in the Tomb Mountain. I came in this time to catch one to take back. There are only a few days left before the space closes. Let’s part ways here.”

Wen Wuning stopped and turned back, frowning slightly. Tomb Mountain wasn’t in the same direction she was going, and it would be a bit risky for Lan Feier to go catch a ginseng doll alone for a few days. After thinking for a moment, Wen Wuning considered that Sheng Baihe’s matter could be dealt with after they got out, so she decided to go with Lan Feier to catch the ginseng doll first.

“Okay, let’s go.” Saying this, she turned towards the direction of Tomb Mountain.

Lan Feier looked at her in confusion. “Senior Sister is going too?”

“Mm.”

“Senior Sister also wants a ginseng doll?”

“No.”

“Then what is Senior Sister going to do?”

Wen Wuning instead looked puzzled and said, “Naturally, to help you catch it.”

Lan Feier immediately and imperceptibly took half a step back, saying politely, “Thank you for Senior Sister’s kindness, but this is my own cultivation. I do want a ginseng doll, but I want even more a ginseng doll that I catch with my own strength.”

It was common for people to cultivate together, so if Wen Wuning hadn’t noticed Lan Feier’s strangeness by now, she would truly be blind.

“Junior Sister, what’s wrong with you?” But knowing and being good at handling the situation were two different things, and Wen Wuning was clearly not good at the latter.

Lan Feier lazily lifted her eyelids and glanced at the woman. Her wet hair was already half-dry, falling in strands on her shoulders without looking disheveled. Instead, she looked a bit more approachable and less aloof than before, with beautiful features and pink lips. Her half-dry white clothes clung to her body, arousing the imagination.

Even in such a disheveled state, she was still a beauty, but a beauty who could cause trouble.

Putting aside the Jiao, which would definitely be a hidden danger in the future, just the female lead’s actions just now had shown her what a Mary Sue white lotus was. She had originally thought the female lead was a flower on a high mountain, cold and noble, but she turned out to be a disgusting Mary Sue white lotus.

Those with different paths cannot walk together.

“Maybe I haven’t recovered from the cold just now,” Lan Feier said perfunctorily.

Wen Wuning frowned and sized her up, clearly not believing her. Lan Feier, feeling annoyed, didn’t bother to pretend anymore, turned around and left. “Senior Sister, farewell.”

Wen Wuning wasn’t the type to offer a warm face to a cold backside. On the contrary, she was usually the one with a cold face and a cold backside, and someone who rejected others offering a warm face to her cold backside.

Therefore, Lan Feier’s attitude made her feel awkward.

Watching Lan Feier walk away and disappear from her sight, Wen Wuning felt a bit hurt, but more than that, she was confused by her sudden change in attitude.

Hadn’t she said she respected this senior sister the most? She had even risked her life several times to save her, never abandoning her.

How could she have changed so suddenly?

Thinking about it, Wen Wuning couldn’t figure it out.

But she still had to follow.

Ginseng dolls weren’t aggressive, but Tomb Mountain was still somewhat dangerous. Although this junior sister was clever, intelligent, and cautious, her cultivation was too low. Following her would still be safer.