Transmigrated As The Villain's Sword (GL) - Chapter 17
The cave fell into a silence that was somewhat eerie. Ling Chenyan slowly widened her eyes and asked back, “You want to go with me?”
Jin Jin nodded vigorously and said, “That person outside is very strange. If I stay here any longer, I feel like something bad will happen. So, Sister Yin Ye, please take me to another place.”
Ling Chenyan: “…” Good heavens, she had thought this kid had finally decided to leave the Lingxiao Immortal Sect.
“Sigh,” Ling Chenyan sighed and said, “Then do you still want to stay in the Lingxiao Immortal Sect?”
Jin Jin frowned, looking somewhat conflicted. “Yes, I always feel like I need to wait for someone here.”
Ling Chenyan said to the system in her heart: [It seems the constraints of the original plot are really strong.]
System: [After all, it’s the original plot. There will always be some unseen influence.]
“Okay,” Ling Chenyan replied, “but I might not be able to take you away right now. I need to go back and ask my master.”
Jin Jin breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Okay~”
Although Ling Chenyan had promised to let Jin Jin stay in the Lingxiao Immortal Sect, she wouldn’t give up just yet. Ling Chenyan took out the small snacks and toys she had bought these past few days from her personal space and started playing with Jin Jin.
••••
Night fell.
On the other side, Guan Luowei was looking at the jade pendant in her hand, her brow furrowed tightly. After trying for a while longer and seeing that the jade pendant still didn’t react, Guan Luowei finally stopped.
*Knock knock knock*
The sound of knocking on the door rang out. Guan Luowei swept her divine sense and saw that the one knocking outside the door was indeed her silver sword.
She got up and opened the door, slightly raising an eyebrow. “Why the polite knocking today?”
Ling Chenyan: “…”
She squeezed into the room and said mysteriously to Guan Luowei, “Master, guess what that kid told me today?”
“What?” Guan Luowei closed the door and walked inside, glancing at her. “It wouldn’t be that he wants to follow you, would it?”
Seeing Ling Chenyan’s shocked and speechless expression, Guan Luowei raised an eyebrow and said, “Did I actually guess right?”
“More or less,” Ling Chenyan came back to her senses and chuckled. “He said he wants to go to another place, but he still wants to stay in the Lingxiao Immortal Sect.”
Guan Luowei nodded, thinking that divine artifacts were indeed not that easy to trick away.
Ling Chenyan fell silent for a moment, not knowing what to say. Guan Luowei suddenly turned her head to look at her, her eyes flickering, and a faint, suspicious blush rose on her face. “I want to take a bath, you go out first.”
Ling Chenyan: “…”
[System, why do I feel like the big villain is wary of me?]
[Be confident, remove the “feel like”.]
Ling Chenyan said rather resentfully, “But it’s already dark outside, I’m afraid of the dark and the cold.”
Guan Luowei raised her eyes to look at it, a hint of hesitation flashing in her eyes. She knew how delicate her sword could be. If it were before, she might not have deliberately driven the silver sword away, but now, she could hear Ling Chenyan’s inner thoughts.
Guan Luowei lowered her eyelashes and finally sighed helplessly. She cast a spell in the already small room to create a small space for the silver sword to stay, and then blocked the silver sword’s view before going to take a bath with peace of mind.
Although Ling Chenyan stayed in the room as she wished, she looked at the small patch of land she was in and sighed. [System, do you think this is necessary? I’m just a little sword, why is she guarding against me like she’s guarding against a wolf?]
System: [Because you’re worth it.]
Ling Chenyan: […]
Although Ling Chenyan’s view was blocked, she couldn’t see the outside scene, but her hearing wasn’t blocked. The movements outside seemed particularly noisy in such a quiet environment.
[System, I think I can hear the big villain taking off her clothes.]
The system didn’t reply, but Guan Luowei outside, upon hearing this, paused in taking off her clothes, her face flushing even more. She bit her lip, took off her clothes, and quickly entered the bathtub.
[System, I think I heard the big villain get into the bathtub, so envious, I feel like I haven’t taken a bath in a long time, I almost forgot the feeling of water splashing on me.]
[System, I heard the big villain splashing water again.]
[System, I suddenly remembered that the last time I seemed to have taken a bath with the big villain.]
[Sys…]
When Ling Chenyan spoke for the nth time, the system couldn’t bear it anymore and said, [Can you shut up? Are you live-streaming someone else’s bath?]
Ling Chenyan: […I just wanted to take a bath too.]
System: [System speechless.jpg]
Outside, Guan Luowei, after hearing Ling Chenyan’s series of words, finally couldn’t help but quickly finish her bath.
Ling Chenyan was still complaining when she saw the restriction in front of her suddenly disappear. Guan Luowei, with her long hair loose, looked down at her, her cold eyes carrying a hint of moisture, and asked her, “Do you want to bathe?”
After saying that, Guan Luowei felt a wave of regret. Ling Chenyan was still a sword, was she asking a sword if it wanted to bathe? If Ling Chenyan noticed something…
Ling Chenyan’s eyes lit up, and she said decisively, “Yes, Master!”
Guan Luowei: “…” Her worries were indeed unnecessary.
Guan Luowei prepared another tub of water for her and then stood by the tub, looking at the silver sword with wide eyes.
Guan Luowei raised an eyebrow and said, “The water is ready.”
“I know,” Ling Chenyan became shy for some reason. “Could you also… like you did before…”
“No.” Guan Luowei interrupted her, glanced at the silver sword up and down, and said, “Besides, I don’t think there’s anything good to look at on you.”
Ling Chenyan: “…”
She lowered her head and looked at her sword body, which was exposed all day long, and fell silent. If the scabbard was the sword’s clothes, then wasn’t she essentially running around naked every day?
In the end, Guan Luowei still didn’t block herself. She just sat by the bed, her black hair draped over her shoulders, holding a scroll in her hand, her eyes half-lowered as she looked at the scroll.
Ling Chenyan thought that since she was just a sword body now, Guan Luowei wouldn’t be able to see anything even if she looked. So, she plunged into the wooden tub, the whole sword floating up and down happily, humming an unknown song.
Guan Luowei, who was originally leaning on the bed reading, heard the singing and slightly shifted her gaze from the book to the very happy silver sword.
She found that this sword had a magical ability, always able to make her feel happy again when she was in a bad mood.
For example, at this moment, looking at the sword floating up and down, she slightly amusedly curled her lips, thinking to herself that so this was how spirit swords took baths.
Ling Chenyan was happily bathing when she suddenly received a system notification: [Host, the big villain is peeking at you!]
Ling Chenyan: “!”
She immediately became defensive, the entire sword submerging into the water.
Guan Luowei, her gaze direct and unwavering, looked with slight curiosity at the sword that had suddenly sunk into the water. Then, to her puzzled gaze, half of the sword hilt secretly appeared at the edge of the tub, like a little imp quietly poking its head out to see what its master was doing.
Cute enough to make one laugh.
Guan Luowei thought this, and naturally couldn’t help but smile.
She curled her lips, her clear gaze falling on the sword, and asked, “What are you doing?”
Ling Chenyan was shocked, not expecting this shameless woman to dare ask what she was doing. Shouldn’t she ask herself why she was peeking at a sword taking a bath?
Guan Luowei watched the sword retreat in the tub as if frightened. Just as she was about to speak, she saw the wooden tub “crack” and split in half from the middle.
Guan Luowei: “…”
Ling Chenyan: “…”
After a long while, Guan Luowei sighed faintly, put down the book in her hand, pinched her fingers to cast a spell to remove the water, then restored the broken wooden tub, and reached out to watch the silver sword obediently fall into her palm.
She looked it up and down and said, “It does look a lot cleaner.”
Ling Chenyan’s hanging heart slowly relaxed. She knew that Guan Luowei wouldn’t care about such things. So, she happily lay in Guan Luowei’s palm and said, “Of course.”
••••
The next day, Li Xiu and Zhang Cheng woke up together. Liu Su sent someone to convey some news, and after that, the matter was considered to be over.
All the Demon Clan disciples were dead. Guan Luowei’s mission here should have ended, but she decided to stay for a few more days.
One reason was the Illusion God Lyre, and the other was Mu Yunze.
Mu Yunze had disappeared without a trace after their meeting that day. Guan Luowei knew he was recuperating and wasn’t worried that he was plotting against her.
Because she had tried, and the Heavenly Dao didn’t allow others to know about rebirth. Whenever she tried to say it, there would always be a restriction preventing her from speaking.
With this matter settled, the once-every-five-years sect competition would be held in a few days.
The sect competition was jointly organized by several famous sects in the cultivation world to select the most outstanding disciples in their sects for competition. The strength of the disciples was a symbol of the sect’s strength. In previous years, the Lingxiao Immortal Sect had always held the first place in these competitions.
Guan Luowei was naturally not interested in this, because she had noticed that Ling Chenyan had been a bit strange these past few days. Every night, she would secretly sneak out for a while and then return with a big smile, no longer afraid of the dark or the cold.
In Ling Chenyan’s eyes, Guan Luowei had also been a bit strange these past few days. During the day, she would always make her go out for a while, and then she would secretly do something without her knowing.
Ten days before the sect competition, Ling Chenyan went to find the Illusion God Lyre again.
Before leaving, Jin Jin suddenly said with a mischievous look in his eyes, “Sister Yin Ye, I’ve prepared a big gift for you! You’ll only know what it is when you get back!”
Ling Chenyan was full of doubts but didn’t pester him to ask. Instead, she hurriedly bid him farewell. On the way back, she kept thinking about what the big gift Jin Jin had mentioned was. When she passed a certain place, a familiar sword shadow was already leaning against the roadside waiting for her. “Big Brother, are we still going tonight…”
“No, not going anymore,” Ling Chenyan said. “The entire sect is almost turned upside down.”
These past few days, she would find Li Xiu’s sword spirit every night to “hunt for treasure” within the sect. As for what treasure they were hunting for, it was naturally the treasures secretly hoarded by those bad old men.
She thought that it wasn’t very convenient for her as just a sword, so she called her little brother along.
The two had been secretly “treasure hunting” for some time. Every night, both swords earned a lot, causing Li Xiu’s sword spirit to admire her immensely. The title “Big Brother” had also gone from reluctant at the beginning to being said smoothly and frequently now.
After dismissing Li Xiu’s sword spirit, Ling Chenyan excitedly prepared to go back and tell Guan Luowei about her gains these past few days.
Seeing the bamboo house getting closer and closer, Ling Chenyan excitedly pushed open the door, then closed it in one swift motion. She turned around excitedly, went around the screen, and was about to shout, but when she saw the scene behind the screen, the entire sword suddenly froze, the words in her mouth choked in her throat, unable to be uttered.
Inside the bathtub behind the screen was a beauty. Only her head was visible, her black hair was wet, she was lightly biting her lower lip, and she looked at her with a face full of shame and indignation.
And in those bright and clear eyes like glass, she clearly saw her own reflection—in the form of a human.