Chapter 31 Part 2

There were indeed precious medical texts here that were normally hard to find. Jiang Sujin couldn’t fully comprehend them at a glance, nor did she expect to be able to take them with her. So she copied them down, planning to bring the notes back to show her Master and to facilitate later study.

After returning the books she’d copied to their respective places, she stood up and looked outside. She suddenly realized how late it had gotten. Oh no! Knowing Sister Ying Suanli’s habits, she should have started dinner by now. I wonder if my absence made that lonely old soul feel neglected.

With that thought, Jiang Sujin hurriedly started descending the stairs. She went all the way down to the third floor, the qin chamber. Halfway down the staircase, a strong smell of alcohol hit her.

Frowning curiously, she walked over and looked up. She was shocked!

The third-floor qin chamber, originally elegant and refined, was now covered in puddles of water and pieces of broken jade. Everything was soaking wet. Mixed with the smell of wine and the remnants of broken jars, it was hard to tell if the floor was covered in just water or more wine.

But that wasn’t what shocked Jiang Sujin the most. What absolutely floored her were the three women collapsed on the floor!

One was the snake demon with a strangely colored tail, sprawled out and fast asleep, snoring away. One was the master of Chasing Moon City, the Moon-Chasing Devil Venerable, lying on the ground with her brows tightly knitted. And the last one… was Jiang Sujin’s respected Sister Ying Suanli! She was currently curled up on her side, a serene look on her face, wearing nothing but a light blue outer robe!

The robe was soaked from the spilled alcohol and water, becoming semi-transparent. It was the only thing covering her. Beneath it, there were no other clothes. It clung to Sister Ying Suanli’s body, faintly revealing… what was most alarming was that, if Jiang Sujin remembered correctly, that outer robe had previously been worn by the Moon-Chasing Devil Venerable!

Jiang Sujin threw herself down beside Li Jiangying. Pulling out clothes from her Storage Bag, she hastily draped them over her and cried out miserably, “Sister Ying Suanli! Wake up!”

Li Jiangying had been sleeping soundly when someone suddenly shook her awake. Disoriented, she opened her eyes to see Jiang Sujin’s panicked face. Li Jiangying yawned. “Morning, Sujin.”

“It’s not early, Sister Ying Suanli! Really, not early at all!” Jiang Sujin frantically pointed things out to her. “Look! Look, please! No, no, Sister, put on some clothes first!”

Li Jiangying raised an eyebrow and looked down. “?!”

Her expression instantly froze. “What… what happened?!”

Memories from before she passed out slowly trickled back. Li Jiangying remembered now! The little madwoman had soaked herself drunk in wine. Then the Moon-Chasing Devil Venerable came to challenge her to a drinking contest. And as they drank, she felt… so… hot?!

And then… nothing.

Li Jiangying couldn’t help but arch one brow high, her face full of helplessness and shock. She quietly lifted the robe covering her and peeked underneath. Good. There were no strange marks on her body. No strange sensations, either.

Just then, roused by Jiang Sujin’s commotion, the City Lord and the snake demon on the floor slowly began to wake up. Li Yueying raised her head and first sought out her Yingying. Finding her, her face twisted into fury and shock. “Yingying!!!”

She paddled her hands against the floor and shot over like a fish. In a charging tackle, she hugged Li Jiangying. “Yingying! Who was it?! Was it this woman?!”

She furiously pointed a claw at Zhu Yue, who had just sat up and was holding her neck, frowning deeply and looking miserable.

Zhu Yue looked over, completely bewildered. She saw her own robe draped over Li Jiangying. A string of question marks seemed to bubble up over her head.

“Stop messing around!” Li Jiangying pushed Li Yueying away and hurriedly got dressed with Jiang Sujin’s help. She stood up unsteadily, her head still spinning with the dizziness of a hangover.

Li Jiangying looked angrily at Zhu Yue. “City Lord! I never imagined… you were this type of person!”

Zhu Yue: “?? What are you talking about?”

“Even if you can’t stand the sight of me, even if you wanted to humiliate me… there was no need to do something this extreme!” Li Jiangying condemned her, scorned her, accused her!

Zhu Yue became furious too. She stood up, snatched at the air, and the blue outer robe lying on the floor flew into her hand. “Impudence! This Venerable One is not the kind of scum you describe! Even if I wanted to humiliate you, I wouldn’t resort to this!”

Li Jiangying curled her lip. “Hah! If it wasn’t you, could it have been A-Yue?”

Li Yueying, who was hugging her waist with her face buried in Li Jiangying’s chest, nodded her head vehemently at this. “Yeah! Yeah!”

Zhu Yue smashed her palm down in rage, shattering a table. “Enough! Who’s to say you weren’t trying to take advantage of your drunken state to cling to This Venerable One? I wouldn’t even fancy you!”

“Tsk…” Li Jiangying looked at her with utter disgust.

The little madwoman turned toward Zhu Yue and made a face, sticking out her tongue. “Nyeh nyeh nyeh!”

Seeing Li Yueying colluding so shamelessly with that fortunate yet insufferable woman, Zhu Yue’s face flushed red with fury, her head swimming. She truly felt like killing that woman, consequences be damned!

She wanted to say more, but then she saw Li Yueying wrap an arm around Li Jiangying’s neck and pull her head down, motioning for Li Jiangying to look.

“Yingying… Yingying…” Li Yueying pitifully pointed at her own tail, mottled unevenly with pink showing through the black. “Tail… even uglier!”

Li Jiangying’s attention was immediately drawn to it. A look of guilt flashing in her eyes, she quickly coaxed, “Good girl. Wash it a few more times and it will definitely be clean. I promise I won’t lie to you!”

“Really?” Li Yueying pouted, her voice sweet and soft, acting spoiled right in front of everyone.

“Really, truly. Absolutely, I won’t lie to you!” Li Jiangying raised three fingers and swore solemnly.

“Yingying is the best!” Li Yueying’s face broke into a huge smile. Her tail straightened, her body shot upward, and she planted a big kiss on the side of Li Jiangying’s face.

She was utterly uninhibited in her intimacy with Li Jiangying. Li Jiangying, however, was acutely aware that there were outsiders present. Awkwardly, she turned her head away and wiped her cheek, glaring at the grinning mad snake demon. “Stop that!”

Zhu Yue could not bear to watch any longer.

Her jealousy was like mold spreading in a dark corner, growing patch by patch, tangling around her heart until she couldn’t breathe, feeling ice-cold all over.

Zhu Yue took a slow breath. Her intense emotions gradually subsided. She suddenly curved her lips into an icy smile aimed at Li Jiangying. “Daoist Ying.”

Calmly and evenly, she said, “How interesting. This Venerable One will remember today’s events. Very good. Very good.” As she spoke, her tone lifted into a laugh. “Little Ying Suanli… the days to come are long. This Venerable One will certainly entertain you and A-Yue well.”

With that, she turned and left the Star-Picking Tower.

Watching her departing back, Li Jiangying couldn’t help but frown. She had a distinct feeling… that the Moon-Chasing Devil Venerable was hatching some strange scheme.

“Sister Ying Suanli, are you alright?” Jiang Sujin asked anxiously.

Li Jiangying shook her head. “I’m fine.” Then she smiled, “Don’t worry too much. After all, you’re not her target.”

Afterward, Li Jiangying rang the bell to summon servants to clean up the mess. They ate dinner together, and then Jiang Sujin left first.

Li Jiangying had no intention of letting her stay in the Star-Picking Tower. Jiang Sujin remained in that small courtyard outside—it was more convenient for escape.

Probably a hangover from the alcohol, Li Jiangying felt dizzy and unwell. She couldn’t read any books, either. Leaning against the headboard, she felt drowsy. “Yueying, go train.”

Li Yueying clung to her waist, burying her head to act spoiled. “No~ I want to stay with Yingying.”

Li Jiangying knocked her on the head. “Go train, now! If you don’t train, do you want the Moon-Chasing Devil Venerable to humiliate me like that again?”

“Well… in that case…” Li Yueying softly raised a single claw and said, very earnestly, “Actually… there’s a way to train super, super, super fast.”

“What is it?” Li Jiangying asked, curious.

“Hehe!” The earnest little madwoman’s expression instantly crumbled into a huge, gleeful grin. She flung her arms wide and pounced, pushing Li Jiangying down onto the bed.

She wagged her tail in delight and shouted, “I want to Dual Cultivate with Yingying! Ahahahaha! Go ahead and scream! You can scream your lungs out, but no one will come to save you!”

“?? Which reckless fool taught you this?” Li Jiangying stared coldly at her tongue flickering in and out. “I won’t Dual Cultivate with an ugly-tailed snake. And besides, I still can’t cultivate.”

Li Yueying slowly wilted. Kicked aside by Li Jiangying’s foot, she collapsed onto the bed and started rolling around, hugging her own tail. “Wuwu… my tail!”

Li Jiangying impatiently hit her with a pillow. “Stop slacking off and go train!”

Li Yueying pouted, extremely unwilling. “But Yingying… I’m scared I’ll go crazy… I don’t want to be mean to Yingying!!”

Li Jiangying: “What gave you the illusion that the current you is the normal one, and that the fierce Li Yueying is the crazy one?”

Wait. That wasn’t right. What did the little madwoman mean by that?

She suddenly sat bolt upright, grabbed the little madwoman’s ear, and forced her to look up. Squinting, Li Jiangying studied her suspiciously. “Li Yueying, tell me the truth! Do you remember what happened after your personality changed?!”

Li Yueying: “…”

She suddenly widened her eyes, her tail going rigid. She freed her ear from Li Jiangying’s grasp, flipped off the bed, and bolted upstairs in a panic. “I’m gonna train! Gonna protect Yingying! I’m gonna train!”

Li Jiangying threw the pillow at her. “You just wait!!!”

In the dead of night, Li Jiangying was jolted awake again. She clutched her chest, staring at the two glowing bright spots above her in the dark. She suspected the other party was here to assassinate her. “City Lord… why do you love disturbing the populace so late at night?”

“Little Ying Suanli, how about I just kill you?” Zhu Yue smiled, reaching out to wrap a hand around Li Jiangying’s throat. With just a slight tightening, Li Jiangying found herself gasping for air.

Instinctively, she grabbed Zhu Yue’s hand, trying to pry it away. “Cough, cough… you jest, City Lord. If you truly wanted me dead, you would have acted long ago.”

“Aiyah, no fun at all.” Disinterested, Zhu Yue released Li Jiangying’s neck, but then suddenly grasped her wrist. “You’re right. I don’t actually want to kill you just yet. But I am rather curious… you’re a mere mortal. What makes you qualified to stay by her side?”

She threw Li Jiangying a flirtatious glance, though it looked more like a glare. The next instant, a vast current of Water Element Devil Qi flooded into Li Jiangying’s body through her acupoints.

Although the Water Element Devil Qi was immense, there was a stubborn trace of pure Fire Element Devil Qi mixed within it. Both women looked at each other in shock and exclaimed simultaneously, “You have a Fire Element Body?!”