How to Be the Perfect Junior Sister to a Reborn Villain - 46
Chapter 46
Day or night, the assaults from both the sky and the ground never stopped for even a breath — wave after wave, endless and relentless.
The corpses of demonic soldiers had already piled up layer upon layer, carpeting the battlefield so thickly that there was hardly any space left to stand.
The air was thick with the stench of bl00d, mixed with an indescribable, nauseating rot that burned the nostrils and turned the stomach.
Li Xi was gasping for air, her strength nearly spent. Beads of sweat clung to her forehead, sliding down her cheeks in thin trails.
She didn’t dare relax even for a moment. With Ruosu Art, she blended herself into the surroundings, concealing her presence to steal a moment’s rest.
Standing atop the giant horn of a fallen demonic beast, she pulled out a handkerchief, tied it around her nose and mouth, then sealed off her sense of smell entirely. Only then did she feel like she could breathe again.
Still, that crawling nausea lingered in the back of her throat.
She swallowed a Fasting Pill and a Spirit-Replenishing Pill, catching her breath as she watched her surroundings.
Her gaze fell on her third senior brother and master, still locked in fierce battle, sword a blur, spiritual energy crackling around them.
Her admiration was genuine.
Around her, most of their sectmates were also reaching their limits. One group after another had started taking turns to rest.
Even her eldest senior sister was recuperating now under the protection of their peers.
Li Xi rose slightly on tiptoe to check on other familiar faces, scanning the chaotic field.
And caught sight of Jin You, his soft, marshmallow-like body just about to fall into a beast’s gaping maw.
At the very last second, a senior brother lunged forward and yanked him back.
And that was that.
Twin flashes of brilliant blue transport light burst across the battlefield as the two of them, still clutching each other, were swallowed whole by a giant demonic beast’s mouth.
Li Xi sucked in a sharp breath.
Tragic. Utterly tragic.
She could only imagine the trauma Jin You was about to have.
When this trial was over, she had to interview him about what it felt like to be “eaten alive.”
Her eyes swept across the field again.
Second and fourth senior brothers weren’t exactly top-tier fighters, but their coordination with nearby sectmates was solid they’d survive, at least for now.
Xiao Cui, though still weak in cultivation, was downright fierce. She never lingered in one place, one punch, one retreat, always on the move.
Her teamwork with the spell cultivator beside her was near flawless.
After a short rest, Li Xi took a deep breath, steadied her mind, and lifted her sword once more, diving back into the fray.
The sky darkened gradually. Night the deadliest phase of the trial had come.
The newly appearing demonic soldiers were all creatures of the night, their speed and senses sharpened in darkness. The danger level instantly doubled.
The ground quaked continuously. A scaled tail whipped wildly across the battlefield, scattering beast corpses like rag dolls and churning up the dirt, and in its wake, bright blue teleportation lights flickered.
Li Xi darted aside just in time, her body light as a swallow. She leaped several times in succession, finally landing squarely on the belly of a giant spider demon’s corpse.
The instant her feet touched it, she gave two involuntary little bounces.
A strange feeling rose in her chest.
Wait… this belly feels… bouncy?
Her expression crumpled. She wanted to cry.
Ancestor Tixing, can we not make this feel so real?
It was downright creepy.
Her eyes scanned the chaotic field again. She gathered her energy, ready to move—
But then a strange gurgling sound rose beneath her feet.
Her stomach dropped. A very bad premonition hit her.
Before she could react, the spider’s belly burst apart with a deafening boom.
In an instant, a storm of putrid, slimy liquid exploded outward like torrential rain.
Countless tiny black shapes shot out in all directions like volleys of arrows, fast and furious.
Li Xi barely managed to throw up a hand and form a spiritual shield, but it was instantly splattered with thick, disgusting goo.
“AAAAHHHHH!”
That was it she snapped. Screaming, she leaped onto her flying sword and fled like a panicked bird.
They’d killed plenty of these spider demons earlier that day. Their bodies littered the field.
No one expected that every single one of those “harmless” corpses would explode releasing hordes of baby spider demons.
Tiny as they were, their numbers were staggering and their venom, lethal.
A single bite, and the toxin would hit instantly.
The battlefield erupted in chaos. Transport lights flared up one after another, shining in dazzling waves among the bursts of spellfire and weapon light a breathtaking, horrifying spectacle.
“Oh my, those lights are quite pretty,” Elder Chengyuan remarked, folding his fan with a snap, his tone dripping with sarcasm.
“If only they stayed bright until sunrise then all those poor little ones who can’t even last till dawn could be sent straight to the Wuhuan Sect for training.
Elder Hengyu didn’t dare say a word. In previous years, only the first thousand to fall faced that punishment.
At this rate, it’d be several thousand more.
He wiped at sweat that wasn’t there.
Forget it, he thought. Whatever the Ancestor says goes.
“I agree,” another elder chimed in. “The Wuhuan trials really toughen people up just what they need.”
Exactly. When they come out, their strength will have risen. Unlike now dying before they can even react.
With that, the matter was decided.
The disciples still fighting below had no idea what was being planned for them. They were too busy surviving.
Meanwhile, the eliminated disciples in the spectator stands weren’t any calmer.
Tao Wen, still at the eighth level of Qi Refining, had been swatted out of the fight by the tail of a crawling demon and had just been teleported back.
He was feeling miserable. Among his peers, he was the only one who hadn’t reached Foundation Establishment yet.
The gap between them just kept growing, and there was nothing he could do about it.
“Oh~ you died too, huh?” Jin said cheerfully, gnawing on a strip of dried meat as he looked over.
I died too, you know! Got flanked from both sides couldn’t hold on. And to top it off, someone pulled me at the wrong time and literally fed me to a demon.
He stuffed another piece into his mouth and chewed furiously, glaring at the same senior brother who had dragged him to his doom.
That senior brother kept bowing in apology, offering him several more packs of jerky as peace offerings.
Beside them sat Wei Yutong, who had been eliminated right at the start.
Tao Wen blinked.
Wait… these two both younger than me, both stronger and they died so early?
Wei Yutong wasn’t touching any food. She was fuming.
Her elimination wasn’t even from battle just bad luck, plain and simple.
When the flying demons appeared, she’d stepped on a loose rock, slipped, and got flattened by a falling beast before anyone could react.
An embarrassing death she didn’t even want to talk about.
Even Lin Zewu, that future lovesick fool pining after Xia Mengxue, hadn’t died yet and she had?
“AAAAHHHHH! I’m going down the mountain to do good deeds! I swear, I’ll build merit until I reach Foundation!” she howled inwardly.