How to Be the Perfect Junior Sister to a Reborn Villain - Chapter 4.2

Chapter 4 (Part 2)

Clearly, she must’ve been doing something wrong.

After all, as a woman who had transmigrated into another world, by the laws of every female lead ever, there was no way her talent or comprehension could be the issue.

Even if she only had dual spiritual roots, they must be the best dual roots possible!

Yes, that was the unshakable, blind confidence unique to transmigrated heroines.
A little setback? Please, nothing she couldn’t handle.

So, when the night sky grew deep and quiet, with only the moon and a few scattered stars above, Li Xi leaned against her window, gazing up at the bright moonlight. Tonight, she would try absorbing lunar essence instead.

The courtyard was still and empty, shadows swaying gently beneath the trees. She didn’t dare go outside, it was too eerie at night.
Tomorrow, she decided, she’d move a soft couch by the window so she could “cultivate” there instead.

Taking a deep breath, she tried to regulate her breathing and quiet her restless mind, letting her thoughts drift outward, further and further…

And then, faintly, she really did sense something.

 A soft glow spreads through the air around her.

It shimmered in many colors just like the spiritual energy she’d seen that afternoon.

Tentatively, she reached out with her will, pulling at the blue and green motes that felt the most familiar. Following the method described in the Wandering Harmony Technique, she guided them through her body’s meridians.

Once… twice… three times around.
Gradually, more and more energy flowed in. The blockages in her meridians were being washed away, widened, and repaired as the energy surged through her.

Li Xi clenched her teeth, enduring the sharp pain of her body’s transformation. She kept the technique running, drawing the currents of energy again and again through her limbs.

Impurities were forced out one by one, until finally, after what felt like forever, the spiritual energy formed a perfect cycle within her. A warm current gathered in her dantian, swirling into a small but distinct vortex of energy.

When she opened her eyes the next morning, her head was pounding. Dizzy, lightheaded, she felt like she might’ve had a brain hemorrhage.

Meanwhile, Xiao Cui had discovered her lady hanging halfway out the window like a drying garment. The maid, thinking this must be some new, mystical “cultivation posture,” hadn’t dared wake her.

Li Xi groaned and slowly dragged herself upright, collapsing onto a chair. It took a long while before she recovered enough to think straight again.

She definitely needed a couch by the window next time.
Falling asleep like that was a one-way ticket to death by neck strain.

After resting for a bit, she focused inward and checked her dantian.
And to her astonishment, she realized she had reached the first level of Qi Refining!

“Hahaha! I knew it, I’m a genius!”

Suddenly, the sky seemed bluer, the trees greener, the flowers sweeter.

She inhaled deeply and immediately gagged.
“Ugh… oh my god, what is that smell!?”

“Xiao Cui! Bring water, now I need a bath!”

Heavens above, what was all this grime on her skin? It was clumping together like dried mud!

She was disgusting! A freshly advanced cultivator, about to die from her own stench, how glorious.

“Yes, Miss,” Xiao Cui said quickly. Fortunately, she was a reliable maid and always kept hot water ready since her lady was so particular about cleanliness.

After several vigorous scrubbings, Li Xi finally felt clean again. By then, the sky was fully bright.

Sunlight streamed through the gaps between the leaves, dappling the ground in soft golden patches.

Now that she had drawn spiritual energy into her body, the whole world seemed different.
She could feel the vibrant life pulsing within the trees and the pure vitality within the sunlight.

It was indescribably wondrous.

So this… this was the difference between mortals and cultivators?

Standing beneath the osmanthus tree, the delicate young girl looked as though she had merged into the very essence of nature itself. The sight stunned her senior brothers and sisters, who had come that morning ready to comfort her after another likely failure.

But instead.

Junior Sister has already succeeded in drawing Qi into her body?

Lin Ruo’s eyes lit up in amazement. “What incredible talent!”

Tao Wen nodded, just as impressed. “Truly. It took me a whole month to reach that stage. Junior Sister is far more gifted.”

“She’s just like our Third Brother,” someone added.

Their master, Lin Shanlai, was grinning from ear to ear. “Hahaha! Our sect has gained another prodigy!”

Li Xi beamed. The Cloudsky Sect might be small and poor, but everyone here was so kind that it warmed her heart.

Now she couldn’t help but wonder:
What kind of person was this “sect’s shining star,” the famed Third Senior Brother, Yan Jiuzhi?

Everyone in the sect. From the master to the cook, old Granny Wu sang endless praises of him, yet she hadn’t met him once since joining.

At that very moment, far away in the Mulberry Forest Secret Realm outside Xuancheng,
A young man in blue slowly opened his eyes.