Quick Transmigration: The Supporting Female Lead Stays Out of It - Chapter 45: Peerless Under Heaven 7

Lin Dan felt like a prisoner, and Bai Yan was the jailer responsible for watching the prisoner. However, her mentality had always been very good, so she waved her hand and said it was nothing, and that was that. Seeing that she was indeed fine, Bai Yan poured a cup of strong liquor and sipped it lightly.

After the two had eaten, they returned to their respective rooms. For the convenience of watching over her, Bai Yan also took an upper room, which was right next to Lin Dan’s. As long as she made the slightest movement, he, with only a wall between them, would immediately notice. Lin Dan didn’t feel constrained, either. After returning to her room, she took a bath and started to meditate. Because she was in excruciating pain in her body all the time, there was no way for her to sleep well, so she could only calm down and enter a state of meditation. Fortunately, after cultivating to her level, whether she slept or not was not important. She only needed to meditate for two hours each day to stay spirited.

After she entered meditation, Bai Yan walked to the window, seemingly looking into the distance, but actually concentrating on sensing the movements next door. The sound of her breathing became shallower and slower, until it completely disappeared. This was the highest state of Zen meditation, called “turtle breath,” which could only be achieved by high monks or people with particularly clear minds.

But Lin Dan was suffering the pain of a thousand cuts every moment. How could she completely forget the pain and enter a state of selflessness? Bai Yan frowned, his expression bewildered. After a moment, a stern look appeared again, and he immediately leaped out of the window, stepping on the leaves to fly to Lin Dan’s window, and then he was stunned.

He saw that Lin Dan hadn’t, as he thought, made a pretense of entering meditation and then run out to kill someone. She was still sitting cross-legged on the bed, her hands forming a hand seal and hovering in the air above her knees, her eyes tightly closed, her face tranquil, completely forgetting herself. That Asura blade was also placed on her lap, faintly gleaming with a crimson, cold light.

There were only a knife and a person in the room, and nothing happened.

Bai Yan’s stern expression stiffened for a moment, and then was replaced by a faint awkwardness. This was the first time he had miscalculated something, and it was also the first time he had misunderstood a person. This was truly… He shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly, but he didn’t leave. Instead, he sat cross-legged on the tree trunk and began to meditate, three yards away from Lin Dan.

But his mind kept flashing with various scenes from today. No matter what, he couldn’t quickly enter Zen meditation like usual. Lin Dan’s knife smashing He Chongling’s heart, Lin Dan’s invincibility against a hundred people, Lin Dan’s adherence to the bottom line and never crossing it… Her firm and resolute face, her resolute and unyielding yet clear and transparent gaze, always lingered in Bai Yan’s mind, making him unable to let go.

He could hardly believe that this was the inheritor of the Asura blade in the legend. She hadn’t gone mad, hadn’t killed indiscriminately, and her every move was no different from ordinary people. If it were Bai Yan himself, he was completely unsure if he could achieve Lin Dan’s level. The pain of a thousand cuts without end. Thinking of that feeling alone was enough to make one’s heart tremble. If he could make himself feel slightly better, Bai Yan would not only slaughter his enemies, but would probably kill everyone on the Eastern Tang Continent.

He had already stood at the top of the mountains, his strength was so strong, but he couldn’t guarantee that he could do better than Lin Dan. Lin Dan’s character was probably even more resolute than he had imagined. He just didn’t know how long she could hold on.

Thinking of this, Bai Yan opened his eyes and looked at Lin Dan, and seeing that her face was still peaceful, he couldn’t help but reveal a trace of admiration in his eyes.

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The next day, Lin Dan went out with her knife after casually eating some breakfast. She was now alone, with no home to go to, so she could only wander around. The excruciating pain in her body was indeed hard to bear, and the feeling of killing was indeed exhilarating, but so what? She couldn’t let herself lose her humanity for the sake of momentary pleasure. Without humanity, would she still be Lin Dan?

Bai Yan followed her from a distance, and seeing that she was just walking around, strolling, and even picking up and studying things that were fun to her, like a young girl who rarely left home and was unfamiliar with worldly affairs, he couldn’t help but reveal a slight smile in his eyes. Speaking of which, Lin Dan was only seventeen years old this year, one year younger than his disciple He Yufei, yet she had already seen through the coldness of the world.

Who could be heartless and emotionless without experiencing the deepest despair and the most painful struggle? But Lin Dan had done it, she had forcibly dug out her own heart… Thinking of this, the smile in Bai Yan’s eyes slowly faded, and the heart that hadn’t produced any ripples for a long time actually ached slightly.

At this moment, the sound of a commotion came from a pharmacy on the street. After a moment, a young man was thrown out by two burly men, and he struggled to climb the steps, shouting miserably, “Please, give me one! I really can’t find a suitable medicinal guide. The people nearby have all moved away, and the area near Never-aging City is all barren mountains and wild lands, with no signs of human habitation…”

Lin Dan put down the cloth tiger in her hand and looked at the young man, a thoughtful look in her eyes. She hadn’t thought about it if he hadn’t brought it up. The area near Never-aging City was indeed desolate and uninhabited. She hadn’t even encountered a small village along the way. But in principle, there would always be many small towns built around large cities, because people were gregarious animals and liked to live together. In contrast, Never-aging City, which occupied such a vast area, was so prosperous in the city, yet it was like an isolated island, with no families within a thousand miles. This was very strange.

Furthermore, what was a medicinal guide? As soon as she thought of this, Lin Dan was stunned to find that the young man’s black hair was rapidly turning gray. In just a blink of an eye, it was completely white. After a moment, he actually fell to the ground and died. Looking at his exposed skin again, it was full of wrinkles and spots, like an old man of seventy or eighty years old.

Lin Dan took a step forward to see what was going on, but saw a line of constables walking over and carrying the man’s corpse away. There was no sign of shock on the faces of the onlookers, but instead they gloated and pointed, “Look, that’s the fate of not being able to find a medicinal guide! Let’s work harder and go further to find it. If we don’t complete the mission assigned by the city lord this year, we won’t get the pills.”

Lin Dan silently wrote down these words and then walked away. Back at the inn, the enthusiastic shop assistant had already prepared lunch for her and also recommended that she go to the East City to have a look. That was the most prosperous area of Never-aging City, with inns and restaurants everywhere, and the hustle and bustle of people coming and going was very lively.

Lin Dan nodded without a second thought, and after eating lunch and sitting for a while, she went to East City. As soon as she walked out of the inn, she saw He Yufei running over, panting, and shouting, “Master, I finally found you!”

Lin Dan turned sideways to let her pounce on Bai Yan. The person that the original owner hated the most and loved the most were now both with Lin Dan, but it didn’t affect her in the slightest. But when they brushed past each other, she noticed that the eyes of the people around them looked at He Yufei were a little strange, as if they were very covetous of her. Their eyes were the same when they looked at her, but they were slightly restrained due to the large blade in her hand.

Lin Dan’s eyes were slightly dark, but she didn’t show anything on her face, and continued to walk towards East City.

Since that day, He Yufei had used her full strength to chase after the two, but was still thrown far away. It was only when she arrived in Never-aging City that she was exhausted, and she couldn’t even stand still. She hung on Bai Yan’s body and complained in a sweet voice, “Master, you actually left me alone. I’m so sad!” While saying this, she made two weird, coquettish sounds.

Bai Yan looked down at her and said in a deep voice, “This place is dangerous, you go away first.”

“What danger, where’s the danger?” He Yufei immediately stood up straight and looked around, her black and white eyes were full of cunning expressions.

“Well, you can follow along if you want.” Seeing that Lin Dan was walking further and further away, Bai Yan had no choice but to let He Yufei stay.

East City was indeed very prosperous. People came and went on the street, rubbing shoulders, and the shouts, singing, and noise merged into a scene of prosperity. Lin Dan was walking in this splendor, her eyes were cold and her expression was indifferent. She was observing the people around her and observing the scenes around her, and the more she looked, the stranger she felt. There were no old people or children on the street. There were only young and middle-aged men coming and going, and there were very few women, only a few scattered ones, and they all showed interest and curiosity, obviously outsiders, which was very weird.

Bai Yan frowned slightly and walked slowly.

He Yufei, however, was completely unaware, thinking everything was new and everything was fun. She was grabbing Bai Yan’s sleeve and lingering among the vendors, and constantly begging him to buy her delicate and small objects. Bai Yan only cared about taking out silver, but his eyes were fixed on Lin Dan’s figure. He knew that Never-aging City was strange, but his most important mission was to watch Lin Dan. Everything else had to come later.

Seeing Lin Dan entering a cloth shop, he immediately pushed He Yufei in as well and said lightly, “Go and pick out some clothes.”

He Yufei mistakenly thought he was going to buy clothes for her, so her smile became even sweeter. She replied yes crisply, and then ran in. Seeing Lin Dan, who was also choosing clothes, she revealed a hint of timidity, but she also knew that there must be a reason why her master was following the other party, so she didn’t think too much.

“Lin Dan, do you need my help?” she inquired hesitantly.

“No need.” Lin Dan walked into the fitting room with a set of black skirts.

The shopkeeper served Bai Yan a pot of hot tea and also picked out several sets of beautiful skirts for He Yufei, pushing her into another changing room. This was the largest cloth shop in East City, and they only made women’s clothes, and only sold flashy women’s fabrics, and didn’t do business with men.

Lin Dan stared at the black skirt in her arms, which was filled with a rich fragrance, and her eyebrows were slightly raised. On the other side, He Yufei happily spread out the skirt and was about to put it on her body, but the next moment she fainted. Hearing the thud of her falling to the ground, Lin Dan also “fainted” gracefully. Two quarters of an hour later, after realizing that He Yufei had woken up, Lin Dan also opened her eyes. The two of them had been imprisoned in a dungeon, and the surroundings were filled with a strong stench. There were also intermittent cries, and the atmosphere was very frightening.

“Where is this? Where’s my master?” He Yufei rubbed her temples, which were throbbing with pain, and after a moment she cried out in horror, “My, my strength is gone. What did you do to me?”

“What are you arguing about? You’re in Never-aging City, what do you need martial arts for? Just obediently have babies for us, hahaha…” Two green-robed martial artists walked to the prison door with torches. Using the light of the fire, He Yufei finally saw the scene in the dungeon.

There were many cells like hers, side by side, row after row, each containing three to four young women. They had vacant eyes, limp hands and feet; some were softly weeping, some were groaning in pain, and some were carrying huge bellies, not knowing if they were alive or dead.