Quick Transmigration: The Supporting Female Lead Stays Out of It - Chapter 44: Peerless Under Heaven 6

Lin Dan was not the original owner and would not be blinded by emotions. If Bai Yan was really just a weak scholar, he would not have stayed in the Eastern Saint Sect with peace of mind, nor would he have trained He Yufei into a first-rate master in such a short time. Since he concealed his true nature, he must have had ulterior motives.

Bai Yan’s face showed no sign of panic; he slowly nodded. “Yes.”

Lin Dan immediately stood up, drew the Asura blade, which was soaked in fresh bl00d, and said in a deep voice, “Why?” She couldn’t sense Bai Yan’s aura; he was just like an ordinary person, but the more so, the more terrifying he seemed. With Lin Dan’s current cultivation, she could see through a person’s background at a glance; however, she couldn’t see through Bai Yan, which meant that Bai Yan’s realm was more than one level above hers.

What realm was above the Half-step Grandmaster…the Grandmaster!

Lin Dan clenched the hilt of the knife, took a step forward, her posture as if facing a great enemy, but her expression remained calm.

Bai Yan was still standing with his hands behind his back and slowly said, “The Asura blade was originally a forbidden technique of my sect, but it was stolen by the Eastern Saint Sect. My master said before his death—if the Asura descends, the entire sect must be mobilized to jointly eliminate it.”

So it was. Lin Dan nodded slightly to express her understanding. She wasn’t interested in Bai Yan’s sect and origin, but she understood why his master would leave such a last will. Once the Asura blade was cultivated, it was easy to fall into a frenzy of killing and lose reason; what was even more frightening was that the life energy within the cultivator’s body would firmly protect their heart veins, preventing this person from being killed no matter what.

What kind of impact would a monster who only knew how to kill wantonly, but could never be killed, have on the outside world? Lin Dan closed her eyes, as if she had already foreseen the tragic scene of bl00d flowing into rivers and corpses strewn across the fields. She didn’t defend herself, but just raised the knife and said calmly, “Come, fight.”

Bai Yan, however, didn’t move for a long time, his eyes scanning her face back and forth, and then looking at the line at her feet.

He Yufei was completely confused; she looked at Lin Dan for a while, and then looked at Bai Yan for a while, and asked in astonishment, “Master, you… do you know martial arts?” He Chongling had examined Bai Yan’s pulse before; he was clearly an ordinary person without inner energy.

Neither Bai Yan nor Lin Dan paid any attention to her, but just stood in a standoff, their gazes fixed on each other.

After a long while, Bai Yan took a step back and said lightly, “I won’t kill you today; you can go.”

Lin Dan quickly understood what he meant; although he had spared her, it didn’t mean that he would not pursue the matter from now on. He just wouldn’t make a move today, but tomorrow, or the day after, it wouldn’t be certain. Furthermore, when he mentioned the words “kill you,” his tone was firm, as if killing a Half-step Grandmaster was an easy task for him. From this, it could be seen that this person must be one of the five Grandmasters, and his cultivation was far from what Lin Dan could match now.

If you could live well, why seek death? Lin Dan wasn’t a fool, so she immediately put away the Asura blade and flew away. Bai Yan tapped his toes lightly and followed closely behind.

Looking at the backs of the two, which seemed ethereal and slow, but were actually thousands of miles away in the blink of an eye, He Yufei couldn’t regain her senses for a long time. She thought Lin Dan was a pitiful and sad woman, but she didn’t expect that this person would cut off He Chongling with one strike, more decisive than anyone else; she thought Bai Yan was a weak scholar, but she didn’t expect that the other party wouldn’t be at a disadvantage at all in front of Lin Dan, the Half-step Grandmaster.

Wouldn’t that mean that Bai Yan was a Grandmaster? He Yufei’s eyes lit up as she finally regained the ability to think, and immediately chased after them, shouting repeatedly, “Master, wait for me!” She had just casually attached herself to a master, but she didn’t expect him to be one of the five Grandmasters; her luck was too good!

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Lin Dan hurried on, trying to shake off Bai Yan, but no matter how fast her pace was, Bai Yan would always maintain a distance not too far or too close to her; he was fast when she was fast, and he was slow when she was slow, like a cat toying with a mouse. If it were someone else, they would have probably been driven to be irritable and panic-stricken long ago, but Lin Dan wasn’t the least bit annoyed, but instead completely slowed down her pace, and walked towards the nearest city. The original owner didn’t have much affection for the Eastern Saint Sect, so she didn’t intend to go back.

The Eastern Tang Continent respected martial arts; sects were everywhere, and the power of the Jianghu was far more vast than that of the imperial court. Many cities were owned by major sects and didn’t belong to the royal family. Lin Dan walked to the city gate, looked up at the plaque hanging on the beam, and saw a few large characters written with a flourish—Never-aging City.

This name was interesting. Lin Dan looked carefully for a while, paid the entrance fee, and then found an inn and prepared to settle down, “Shopkeeper, bring me a few signature dishes and a pot of strong wine; if there’s an upper room, give me an upper room.” She put a tael of silver on the counter.

“Alright, please be seated, honored guest. The signature dishes of this inn are braised frog and boiled beef; this humble one will have the cook prepare it for you immediately. Here is the key to the upper room; please keep it safe; it’s the first room on the left on the second floor. It’s three coins of silver; I’ll weigh it for you.” The shop assistant put the silver on the scale.

Lin Dan said, “You don’t need to give me change; just give me a bucket of hot water, I want to take a bath.” The black clothes she was wearing had already been soaked with bl00d, and were heavy.

Only then did the shop assistant notice her precious knife and the hem of her clothes, which were dripping bl00d and staining a large area of the floor, and there was an overpowering stench permeating the inn. No need to ask, this person must have been killing someone earlier, and she had killed quite a few!

“Alright, thank you for the reward, honored guest; this humble one will go and boil water for you.” The shop assistant retracted his gaze, continued to weigh the silver, then cut off the excess and put it in his own pocket, and then happily ran to the back kitchen to boil water, without showing a hint of fear.

The guests in the inn also turned a blind eye to Lin Dan, as if they hadn’t seen the bl00d on the ground and the series of horrifying bl00d footprints.

The strange reactions of the crowd made Lin Dan alert. She slowly walked to the position by the window and sat down, pondering: these people’s attitudes were so strange; either they were used to seeing bl00d, or they weren’t right in the head. But it was obviously impossible for everyone to be abnormal, so the answer was only one thing—for these people, killing and staining bl00d was already an ordinary thing. However, this had nothing to do with her, so there was no need to delve into it.

Thinking of this, Lin Dan took out a pair of chopsticks from a bamboo tube and took out a handkerchief from her arms, and was about to wipe the tableware, but saw that the handkerchief was covered with black and red bloodstains, even dirtier than the chopsticks. Her brows furrowed slightly, and she stared at the chopsticks and the handkerchief in a daze.

Bai Yan stood at the door, watching for a long time, and seeing that she was always in a daze and hadn’t noticed his arrival, so he slowly walked over. He leaned over to look at Lin Dan, his gaze extremely complex, as if studying an unfathomable mystery, or as if observing a ferocious beast.

“Are you going to eat?” he asked in a low voice.

Lin Dan then came back to her senses and glanced at him indifferently. The dishes had been ordered, and the chopsticks were also taken, so wasn’t she eating?

Bai Yan experienced the feeling of being looked down upon for the first time. Although Lin Dan didn’t say anything, her eyes clearly showed: you just asked a useless question. However, he never expected that Lin Dan, who had hurried thousands of miles, would come to this city just to sit down and eat a good meal.

The Asura blade was originally a forbidden technique of his sect, so he knew better than anyone else the consequences of cultivating the Asura blade. Severing emotions and cutting off love was already difficult, and the excruciating pain could completely destroy a strong person with a firm will. In order to alleviate that kind of pain, practitioners would invariably fall into the abyss of killing, and eventually become possessed and die; those tragic scenes of bl00d flowing into rivers and corpses strewn across the fields were all recorded in the sect’s canon.

But now, Lin Dan was clearly already at the peak of her training, but there was no trace of pain on her face, nor was there any madness in her eyes; apart from her complexion being paler than usual, there was no abnormality on her body. She had hurried here, paid the entrance fee, ordered two dishes, booked a room, and also called for a bucket of water; every move she made was normal, entirely a traveler worn out from travel. If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, Bai Yan wouldn’t have believed that she was cultivating the Asura blade, and he wouldn’t have believed that she was suffering the pain of a thousand cuts every moment.

“Where will you go in the future?” The always cold and capricious Bai Yan couldn’t help but ask another question. He originally planned to kill Lin Dan, but seeing that she had always adhered to that bottom line and hadn’t killed indiscriminately, he hesitated. This was the first time he had felt sympathy for a great enemy of the sect; this shouldn’t be.

“I’ll see as I go,” Lin Dan folded the bl00d-stained handkerchief neatly and put it back in her arms.

Bai Yan passed his own handkerchief over and declared, “I will follow you.”

Lin Dan took the handkerchief and wiped the two pairs of chopsticks, gave one to Bai Yan, and took the other herself, and then nodded, “You may.” She knew why Bai Yan would follow closely; it was to prevent her from killing innocent people. Once she lost control, Bai Yan would immediately eliminate her. Letting him follow was equivalent to hanging a sharp blade above her head, and she would face death at any time. But Lin Dan wasn’t afraid, and even felt a little relieved. If she really lost control, and couldn’t even cut off her own heart veins, she also hoped that there would be a person strong enough to kill her immediately.

Bai Yan’s eyebrows rose slightly and he didn’t expect her to agree so readily, and he couldn’t help but look at her carefully.

Lin Dan, however, didn’t care about his scrutiny at all, and began to eat when the dishes were served. Ever since Bai Yan and He Yufei eloped and were imprisoned in the dungeon, the original owner hadn’t eaten much. She could be emaciated for her, but Lin Dan couldn’t stand the hunger; however, as soon as she took a bite, her brows furrowed deeply, because the chef’s skills were really too poor; the frog meat wasn’t seasoned to remove the fishiness, and the boiled beef was too tough to chew, so it needed to be stewed for another half an hour to be flavorful.

After just one bite, the correct way to make these two dishes inexplicably appeared in her mind, even though she had never held a kitchen knife or been in the kitchen since she came to this world, she was also convinced that she could definitely make the most authentic delicious food.

“Could it be that I was a chef in my past life?” she thought with a complicated expression, putting down her bowl and chopsticks.

Bai Yan stared fixedly at her, and said in a low voice, “What’s wrong with you?” In his eyes, Lin Dan was a wild beast on the verge of madness, ready to suddenly attack and kill at any moment.