Transmigrated As The Villain's Sword (GL) - Chapter 15
When Ling Chenyan said those words, Li Xiu’s sword spirit was nearby. He sneered and said to Ling Chenyan, “Coward.”
Ling Chenyan blinked and retorted, “But my master is willing to protect me.”
The sword spirit let out a cold laugh. “We are born to be swords, meant to protect our masters. You actually need your master to protect you, you’ve really lost face for us sword spirits.”
Ling Chenyan: “Born to be a sword, I’m very sorry, but there’s nothing I can do. My master is willing.”
Sword Spirit: “…” Knock it off.
“What’s so great about that? My master even made a sword tassel for me himself!” Li Xiu’s sword spirit shook the slightly simple tassel on its body, showing off.
Ling Chenyan really wanted to say that her master had even given Guan Luowei betrothal gifts, but she didn’t dare. She could only look at Guan Luowei with pitiful eyes and said coquettishly, “Master, I want one too~”
Ling Chenyan gave a real-time broadcast of the two swords’ conversation. Guan Luowei, who heard the entire process: “…”
She glanced at Ling Chenyan without saying a word.
Li Xiu’s sword spirit felt a sense of victory and left smugly to find its master.
Although Ling Chenyan snorted and looked unhappy, she didn’t take it to heart. She had only said it casually, and it was expected that Guan Luowei wouldn’t agree. After all, asking the big villain to make a sword tassel for her was too unbelievable.
••••
The town was already shrouded in thick fog, and even the buildings could only be seen as pointy corners, as if foreshadowing a major event tonight.
Guan Luowei and the others split into two groups. Senior Sister Liu Su and Zhang Cheng went out to investigate, while the task of protecting the inn was given to Guan Luowei and Li Xiu and the others.
Compared to going out to investigate, staying here was clearly more dangerous.
The three who stayed guarded outside the inn, each responsible for one direction. Apart from Guan Luowei, the other two had rather solemn expressions. The fog was too thick, even making it difficult for them to breathe.
The night grew darker, like a lump of thick ink that couldn’t be dissolved, squeezed together as if about to drip.
Ling Chenyan hid behind Guan Luowei, her sword body couldn’t help but tremble, and said, “Master, isn’t it a bit too cold?”
Guan Luowei glanced at her, then condensed some “spiritual power” with her fingertips and pressed it against the sword hilt, saying, “Bear with it, it’ll be better in a moment.”
With this “spiritual power,” Ling Chenyan felt much warmer. Seeing that the monster wasn’t coming, she felt both nervous and scared. She was about to wander around and go into the inn when she heard Guan Luowei whisper, “It’s here.”
The fog suddenly intensified, and the air that had been lively before suddenly became deathly still, as if something frightening was slowly walking out from the depths of the darkness.
Guan Luowei was the first to realize it had arrived. From the depths of the thick fog, she saw the monster.
Dark, cold, evil, like a moving viscous mass, she couldn’t feel a trace of life from it, only endless deathly stillness and sinister aura. Using the cover of the thick fog, it approached them slowly and lightly, or rather, approached the inn. Just like the rumors said, this thing didn’t seem to want to hurt them, only preparing to drag away two pregnant women.
Guan Luowei didn’t speak to warn them, but when it was only a few steps away from the inn, Li Xiu finally noticed its arrival.
“It’s over there!” Li Xiu shouted coldly and took the lead, flying out with his sword.
Li Si and Guan Luowei stayed behind, watching Li Xiu fight the monster.
When Li Si saw the monster’s true form, he couldn’t help but feel a dizzy spell. He was gritting his teeth, preparing to guard the inn, but at that moment, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of bl00d and fainted.
Ling Chenyan looked at the person who suddenly fell, startled, and said, “Why did he fall? Wasn’t it not his turn to attack yet?”
“Too weak,” Guan Luowei said. “Looking at the true form of this monster for too long will cause inner demons to arise. Those with insufficient cultivation will be like him.”
There was another sentence Guan Luowei didn’t say: this was still under the premise that the monster didn’t want to hurt them; otherwise, he wouldn’t have just fainted.
At the moment, Li Xiu was fighting fiercely with the monster. The people inside the inn seemed to realize what was happening outside, and the inn that had been noisy just now suddenly became silent.
Wang Er looked nervously at the two figures entangled in battle outside the window, his heart in his throat. He hoped that the immortal masters who had come this time could hold on.
Ling Chenyan watched Li Xiu fight the monster with his sword. Every time the sword went out, it would return with some thick black viscous substance. She didn’t know what it was, but she felt that it would definitely be uncomfortable to have that stuff stick to her.
“Master, in a moment, I mean if… if Li Xiu can’t defeat that monster, how will you fight it?” Ling Chenyan thought weakly in her heart, wouldn’t she have to use a sword like Li Xiu?
However, Guan Luowei only chuckled lightly and said, “Even a senior brother in the Golden Core can’t defeat it, how could I?”
After all, she was just a junior sister in the mid-Foundation Establishment.
Ling Chenyan was a bit dumbfounded. “Then, then you’re not going to care about these pregnant women?”
Guan Luowei stared at the two people not far away, not answering her, only saying, “Li Xiu is about to lose.”
Almost as soon as the words left her mouth, Li Xiu was sent flying backward, spitting out bl00d, and the sword in his hand also flew out and stuck into a house. He barely managed to stand up and transmitted a message to Guan Luowei’s ear, “Junior Sister, hurry back and get reinforcements. I’ll hold them off here.”
After speaking, he charged forward again. The result was obvious: Li Xiu was sent flying out again. This time, the viscous, cold thing lost its patience and directly met Li Xiu’s eyes with its red pupils, no longer giving him a chance to charge forward.
Li Xiu’s sword spirit was also extremely anxious and said to Ling Chenyan, “You and your master hurry up and leave! This guy is too dangerous, quickly go back and get reinforcements!”
Li Xiu and his sword spirit, both unconscious, were telling them to leave. Clearly, they felt that the current situation was beyond their ability to handle. But Ling Chenyan, seeing the black mass getting closer and closer to the inn door, still looked anxiously at Guan Luowei.
Guan Luowei turned around, preparing to leave.
“Master!” Ling Chenyan called out to her, “Aren’t you going to save them?”
Guan Luowei paused and said, “Senior Brother told me to go back and get reinforcements.”
This meant she wasn’t going to save them.
Ling Chenyan didn’t know why Guan Luowei was doing this, but she couldn’t just leave and ignore the lives of those pregnant women.
Forget it, she was still a sword after all. Cutting something like that shouldn’t hurt, right?
Guan Luowei turned around, just about to leave, when she saw the silly sword beside her “whoosh” and disappear. Her expression changed, and she turned her head to see the silver sword had already pierced into the back of the black mass, causing some thick black viscous substance to burst out.
It was injured.
The next second, a cold and sinister aura suddenly enveloped Ling Chenyan, and a cold, suffocating breath felt like an icy hand tightly gripping Ling Chenyan’s throat.
Clearly, it had been angered by Ling Chenyan.
Just as the monster was furiously about to crush the silver sword, another powerful aura that made its whole body tremble snatched the silver sword from its grasp and delivered a fatal blow.
The silver sword was snatched away, and the monster’s body flew uncontrollably into the sky, exploding with a “bang” like fireworks.
The thick fog dispersed, revealing a corner of gray-blue sky. The viscous black matter filled the sky, fluttering and falling.
Guan Luowei erected a barrier, looked at the sword in her hand, and was about to speak when she heard the silver sword exclaim, “Wow, it exploded! Like fireworks, just a bit smelly.”
Guan Luowei’s gaze fell on the sword, somewhat dazed. For the first time, she began to wonder what the soul inside this sword looked like.
Before she could recover, the little girl’s clear laughter rang in her ears again, “Master, I knew it, you would definitely come to save me.”
She had known all along?
Guan Luowei came back to her senses, narrowed her eyes, and looked at her, saying, “So, you deliberately put yourself in danger?”
Ling Chenyan: “…” Crap, slap my mouth.
“How could that be?” Ling Chenyan said guiltily, “I was just a little anxious, I didn’t think so much. You didn’t want to care about them because to cultivators, human lives are like grass, I can understand Master, but I can’t do it.”
She was a good youth of the 21st century. She couldn’t do that, having the ability but not saving people in danger. But she knew that Guan Luowei would definitely save her.
Guan Luowei listened carefully to the girl saying those words one by one. After she finished, she sighed helplessly and said, “Who said I wasn’t going to care about them?”
This time it was Ling Chenyan’s turn to be stunned. “But weren’t you going back to get reinforcements?”
Guan Luowei’s eyes narrowed slightly, looking somewhat embarrassed to speak. After a long while, she said, “The explosion would be a bit smelly and poisonous, so I wanted to lure it out before making a move.”
Ling Chenyan: “…”?
“But it was about to enter the inn, how were you going to lure it out?”
“I strengthened the formation, it would have been seriously injured.”
“But how did you know it would definitely chase you?”
“I didn’t know,” Guan Luowei glanced at Ling Chenyan and said faintly, “I was going to chase it.”
Ling Chenyan: “…So, you didn’t regard human lives as grass? And you weren’t going to ignore them? You just didn’t make a move here because that smelly mud would affect the people in the town?”
Ling Chenyan, as if thinking of something, said excitedly, “Master, you’re so good!”
Guan Luowei felt a bit uncomfortable being praised. She covered the smile at the corner of her mouth with a clenched fist and was about to speak when her peripheral vision suddenly caught a sneaky sword.
Her eyes narrowed, and she reached out to take the sword in her hand, a look of understanding appearing on her face. “So it was you.”
Ling Chenyan followed Guan Luowei’s movements and saw Li Xiu’s sword spirit.
At this moment, it was trembling and gave Ling Chenyan a thumbs up, forcing a miserable smile and saying, “Sword Brother, brave, brave, brave… so brave.”
Ling Chenyan ignored its flattery and said with a hook of her lips, “Saw everything?”
Referring to Guan Luowei’s true strength and the demonic power she used. Sentient objects were most sensitive to these things.
“No, no, no,” Li Xiu’s sword spirit shook its head like a rattle drum. “I can also pretend I didn’t see anything.”
It cautiously glanced at Guan Luowei and said to Ling Chenyan, “Sword Brother, I, uh, I have something to do, I’ll take my leave first.”
Guan Luowei tightened her grip without a word. Seeing that Li Xiu’s sword spirit was about to die and disappear, Ling Chenyan suddenly said, “How about this, you swear by the Heavenly Dao and acknowledge me as your big brother, and we’ll spare your life.”
Guan Luowei’s hand paused upon hearing this, and Li Xiu’s sword spirit quickly said, “This, this, this, isn’t that inappropriate?”
Acknowledging her as its big brother meant that they would be on the same boat from now on. If this matter was revealed, it would also be implicated.
“Oh, then forget it,” Ling Chenyan said, “Master, go ahead.”
“Wait, wait, wait a moment!” The sword spirit was about to cry. “I agree, I agree, okay?”
A moment later, Ling Chenyan watched the sword spirit go to its unconscious master with tearful eyes and couldn’t help but turn her head and smile at Guan Luowei. It was then that she realized that Guan Luowei’s gaze had already fallen on her at some point.
The smelly mud falling from the sky had already stopped, but Guan Luowei still held up the barrier for the two of them, like a small, independent world standing alone in a precarious world. No matter how the outside world raged, the place she was was her safe haven.
Author’s Note:
Monster: You’re so great and noble, you used my corpse to make fireworks to please your wife.