Senior Sister Is Too Weak and Cannot Take Care Of Herself (Transmigration) - Chapter 32

Afraid of looking pathetic in front of the sect master, Tang Huan clenched her hands into fists and bit her lower lip, using the pain to stay clear-headed. Her body was slick with sweat, her breathing rapid and shallow. She was so hot she felt like she would evaporate, but she never made a sound that would cause any shame.

But all her bravado vanished the moment she saw Qin Su.

Looking at Qin Su standing in the courtyard, Tang Huan felt as if she were dreaming and almost started crying.

“Go on,” the sect master’s aged voice echoed behind Tang Huan. Her body then rose into the air and was set down right in front of Qin Su.

The scent of Qin Su, unique to her, filled Tang Huan’s nostrils, proving that none of this was a dream. Qin Su really was out of seclusion.

“—Senior Sister,” Tang Huan’s emotions became incredibly complex. Her nose stung, and she couldn’t help but murmur.

With a soft sigh, a cool hand came to rest on Tang Huan’s forehead. Tang Huan’s senses, which had been dulled by the pain, suddenly returned in that instant. She blinked, looked up at Qin Su’s familiar face, and tears began to flow uncontrollably.

How embarrassing! Qin Su had seen her at her most pathetic again.

Tang Huan had planned everything out: she would get a spot in the secret realm and surprise Qin Su when she came out of seclusion. But things had gone wrong again. Everything was a mess…

Remembering everything that had happened, Tang Huan sniffled, trying to wipe away her tears, but they just kept flowing. Seeing Qin Su made the heat she had been so desperately suppressing feel like it was reaching its limit. Tang Huan could no longer control the strange yet familiar surge of passion inside her and reached out to hug Qin Su.

“Senior Sister, save me—”

Tang Huan felt both shame and sadness, but her body seemed to have lost control. She pleaded softly, her eyes welling with tears, her voice as sweet as honey. Because of the drug’s effects, a clear blush bloomed on her cheeks, making her look like a ripe, plump, and juicy fruit ready to be picked.

Qin Su’s eyes fluttered closed, her throat bobbed slightly, and she pursed her lips, looking away. The courtyard gate was closed, and the sect master had silently left Qin Su’s cave.

Qin Su lowered her eyes, a glimmer of light appearing at her fingertips. The familiar cool spiritual energy once again flowed into Tang Huan’s body, moving along the same path as before, slowly calming the chaotic spiritual energy in Tang Huan’s body.

This time, the spiritual energy Qin Su poured into Tang Huan was much stronger than before. If the last time felt like a small stream flowing, this time, it was like a river. With so much spiritual energy flowing in, if Qin Su had even the slightest ill intention or if Tang Huan had resisted, all of Tang Huan’s meridians would have been greatly damaged. But because Tang Huan had put her complete trust in Qin Su, Qin Su’s spiritual energy was able to move through her body without any obstruction.

Qin Su looked at Tang Huan, whose eyes were filled with trust, and a flicker appeared in her own eyes as she pursed her lips. As the spiritual energy flowed, Qin Su’s face gradually became pale, and Tang Huan’s tearful eyes began to clear up.

“—Senior Sister, I lost.” When she spoke again, Tang Huan’s voice had lost that heartbreaking sweetness. She sniffled and lowered her head sadly, looking like an abandoned puppy.

“You can’t blame yourself,” Qin Su sighed. “It was an accident. The Nong Grass just activated the Ku Ling Grass poison in your body prematurely.”

“Nong Grass?” Tang Huan looked up, blinking in confusion.

“Nong Grass itself is not poisonous, but you live with me, and a scent I often use in my incense is Silver Bell Flowers. When Silver Bell Flowers are mixed with Nong Grass, it can cause dizziness. That person’s goal was probably to make you dizzy and lose the match. It’s just that they didn’t know you had the Ku Ling Grass poison in your body, and the scent of the Nong Grass would accelerate its effects…”

Tang Huan’s eyes went wide. She remembered the strange scent she had smelled on her opponent during the match and instantly understood everything. She didn’t have to guess who was behind this.

It was Bai Feng. 

The original novel said that Bai Feng had an aunt named Huang Pu who was an expert in various medicines and herbs. This was likely her idea. But unlike the narrow-minded Bai Feng, Huang Pu didn’t want to help Bai Feng do bad things. She only did it because Bai Feng’s parents had been kind to her. Later in the story, Bai Feng and Huang Pu had a falling out over Ren Jingmu, and Huang Pu sadly left Bai Feng’s side.

The book only included this part to show Bai Feng’s deep love for Ren Jingmu and how she was willing to cut off her own limbs for him. Tang Huan, however, found inspiration in this part of the story, and a certain idea began to take shape in her mind. Bai Feng had tried to harm her again and again. Tang Huan was not one to cause trouble, but she was not afraid of it, either. Bai Feng’s actions this time had completely enraged her.

Besides, she was already on Bai Feng’s bad side. If she kept putting up with it, Bai Feng would only become more and more brazen. Tang Huan wanted to get revenge.

As the drug’s effects slowly subsided, Tang Huan became more and more clear-headed. She understood everything that had happened, but she couldn’t help but feel defeated. She had an idea, but she had no way of getting close to Bai Feng. After all, she had lost this match, and she no longer had a chance to enter the secret realm.

The thought of Bai Feng’s vicious schemes being used on Qin Su, and the fact that Qin Su was so naive and would fall for the trap, made Tang Huan anxious. She furrowed her brows, racking her brain for a way to protect Qin Su. She then saw Qin Su take her hand off her forehead. Her pale face looked up, and she coughed lightly twice, her eyes fixed on Tang Huan’s face. “Junior Sister, the matches at the bottom of the mountain aren’t over yet. Do you want to go down and watch?”

This time, it had taken much less time for the poison to be removed. Tang Huan found it strange, but her eyes lit up when she heard Qin Su’s words. Her heart instantly sped up, and she was so happy she almost jumped up and down. So Qin Su had healed her so quickly because she wanted her to make it in time for her second match?

She had been so focused on her loss that she had forgotten that the eliminated disciples would get a second chance to fight. Three of them would be chosen to enter the secret realm. But Qin Su’s face looked very bad…

Tang Huan looked at Qin Su worriedly. She didn’t feel comfortable leaving at a time like this, but she saw Qin Su gently shake her head.

“Junior Sister, go on! I just need to rest for a little while.” Qin Su said softly, covering her mouth with a handkerchief and coughing a few times. 

“The sect master just sent me a message saying he’s letting you keep your spot in the second round of matches. If you don’t go now, you won’t make it in time for the drawing of lots. Don’t let the sect master’s kindness go to waste…”

Tang Huan scratched her head. Although she didn’t know why the sect master was suddenly so nice to her, since Qin Su had said so, Tang Huan no longer hesitated. She immediately summoned her sword and flew into the air. Before she flew down the mountain, Tang Huan felt a little uneasy and couldn’t help but look back. Qin Su was already standing up. As if she knew Tang Huan would look back, Qin Su smiled at her under the flower tree.

A round moon hung high in the sky, and falling petals landed on the beautiful woman’s shoulders. The person and the scenery were both so beautiful that the image looked incredibly harmonious. Seeing Qin Su’s smile, Tang Huan couldn’t help but blush again. She instinctively puffed out her chest. Waaah! My precious character is so beautiful! I must not let her efforts go to waste! I must protect her!

It wasn’t until she felt that Tang Huan had left Baiwu Peak that Qin Su’s face became expressionless. She lowered her eyes, and the smile on her face disappeared. She looked at the handkerchief in her hand, which had a clear patch of bright red on it.

This body was truly getting worse. A slightly faster circulation of her cultivation technique had caused a backlash, and the resulting chaotic spiritual energy had made her cough up bl00d.

If this had happened before, Qin Su would have been happy to let things go, and she might have even deliberately exaggerated her symptoms. But she would have to remove the poison from Tang Huan’s body two more times, so she had to find a way to live longer. At the very least, she had to not make Tang Huan worry while she was still alive.

The thought of Tang Huan made Qin Su’s brows furrow. She had feigned seclusion to get away from Tang Huan, but during her seclusion, she was always restless. She couldn’t help but use her spiritual sense to watch Tang Huan’s second match. In Qin Su’s mind, Tang Huan was a kind and simple person. Even though she was a diligent cultivator, she lacked the fierceness of a sword cultivator. She had a good talent, but it was not likely she would reach the peak.

Qin Su had never expected Tang Huan to show such resilience on the stage, and even make a breakthrough. If Tang Huan were anyone else, Qin Su would have praised her for her explosive power in a desperate situation. But seeing Tang Huan get beaten up like that by her opponent, Qin Su felt an incredible sense of frustration. There was even a faint pain in her chest.

This feeling was so foreign to Qin Su. It became even more intense when she heard Tang Huan spouting nonsense at her door, only reporting the good news and hiding the bad. When she used her spiritual sense to see Tang Huan applying medicine to her wounds in secret, she couldn’t help but secretly appear and heal Tang Huan’s injuries. When she saw Tang Huan subconsciously trying to scratch her wounds in her sleep, she had a strange impulse to take Tang Huan’s consciousness into her Spiritual Realm.

When a person’s consciousness leaves their body, they can no longer feel their body’s pain. This was the first time Qin Su had ever brought someone into her Spiritual Realm. A Spiritual Realm is the life of a cultivator, and unless a person is extremely trusted, they would never be allowed to enter.

As the master of her Spiritual Realm, Qin Su could make it manifest into all sorts of different scenes. She had brought Tang Huan in so quickly that she hadn’t had a chance to change its appearance. Her Spiritual Realm was always silent and barren, but she never expected Tang Huan to be so comfortable in it. Thinking of her own confusion, Qin Su couldn’t help but change her appearance and appear before Tang Huan. As she had expected, Tang Huan thought it was all a dream.

Tang Huan seemed to have separated her and the daytime Qin Su into two different people. Qin Su thought about it for a moment and decided to let Tang Huan believe what she wanted. After all, she and the white-robed Qin Su were indeed two different personalities. The white-robed Qin Su was like a dream she had manifested over her long life.

The Tang Huan in the dream was incredibly honest. Qin Su had never expected that Tang Huan was pushing herself so hard all for her sake. The faint pain in her chest disappeared completely when she heard Tang Huan’s answer, replaced by a strange, bittersweet emotion that lingered in her heart like a tide that wouldn’t stop.

Qin Su had always been very wary of such uncontrolled, foreign emotions. But driven by this uncontrollable emotion, she couldn’t help but offer to teach Tang Huan sword techniques. She didn’t expect Tang Huan to win; she just wanted her to be able to protect herself.

The sword technique Qin Su had created was a temporary one. It was designed specifically for Tang Huan’s current level of cultivation and could greatly improve her skills in a short amount of time. She never expected that Tang Huan would not want to practice. After all, Tang Huan had seemed so diligent during the day. Tang Huan had even tried to use a clumsy excuse to distract her. People in the world were fighting to get her guidance, and here she was, painstakingly creating a sword technique for Tang Huan, only to be tossed aside like trash. Qin Su felt utterly helpless.

But for a person as lazy as Tang Huan to push herself so hard just to protect her from being bullied by Bai Feng, and to have gotten so beaten up on the stage… Thinking of this, Qin Su couldn’t find it in her to be angry.

Fortunately, even though Tang Huan was lazy, she was still obedient and began to practice. She had thought that once she taught Tang Huan this technique, she would have given her a skill to protect herself and repaid her kindness. But Qin Su never expected that Tang Huan would be so bold as to kiss her when she wasn’t paying attention!

Even though Qin Su knew Tang Huan’s kiss was just an expression of affection and not intimacy, no different from when Tang Huan kissed her pet beasts, Qin Su still froze for a moment. Qin Su was truly shocked. She didn’t know how to react. She was so shocked that her Spiritual Realm began to shake and uncontrollably kicked Tang Huan’s consciousness out.

Being kicked out of the Spiritual Realm was extremely dangerous. At best, it would damage a person’s consciousness, and at worst, it would cause serious injury. If Tang Huan had resisted, the Spiritual Realm would have attacked her subconsciously. Qin Su quickly went to retrieve Tang Huan’s consciousness. She never expected that the little troublemaker had no sense of danger at all. She still thought it was a dream and didn’t panic at all when she was kicked out of the Spiritual Realm. But because of her carefree attitude, she was unharmed. Qin Su breathed a sigh of relief.

On the outside, she looked calm, but in her heart, she was at a loss for what to do with Tang Huan. What was even more frustrating was that Tang Huan compared her to the daytime Qin Su and seemed to prefer the person she pretended to be.

Qin Su had long known that people liked kind and gentle people, and very few people liked cold and distant sword cultivators. But for some reason, Qin Su suddenly felt a little angry. After all, Tang Huan had kissed her, but all she wanted was for her to forget about it and go back to missing the white-robed Qin Su… She knew it was illogical to be angry at a junior like this, but for some reason, even though she knew her anger was childish, it still grew stronger.

Finally, Qin Su remembered a memory from her childhood. When she couldn’t find anyone to practice with, she would conjure up a wisp of her consciousness and spar with her other self. And now, she had a ready-made consciousness to spar with.

She couldn’t take her anger out on Tang Huan, but she could take it out on herself. Besides, the consciousness of the white-robed Qin Su would have to die eventually. It would be better to let her get used to Qin Su’s death now, so when the true parting came, Tang Huan wouldn’t be too heartbroken.

This is my Spiritual Realm. I am the master of this world. Aside from Tang Huan, who thinks this is a dream, no one will know that the composed and revered Patriarch Xuan Ling (Qin Su) would do something so childish.

With this thought in mind, Qin Su became more and more uninhibited when she was with Tang Huan. And Tang Huan had already convinced herself that Qin Su was an imaginary character. Her attitude toward her was different from her usual care and affection. She looked so innocent, honest, and lovely. Seeing Tang Huan’s expressions made Qin Su feel a surge of happiness.

Thinking of how proud Tang Huan was when she called herself a genius in her Spiritual Realm these past few days, Qin Su couldn’t help but let out a smile.

I have to watch over this ‘genius’ that I ‘pushed too hard’ and see her achieve her dreams under everyone’s gaze.

Qin Su walked back to her room, sighed softly, and released her consciousness to watch the events on the martial arts stage. In her eyes was a gentle smile she didn’t even realize was there.