Chapter 26: Origins, Quack Doctor Harms People Part 4

The Strategy System’s main task was still the strategy targets, which were fixed. The Punish Evil, Promote Good targets refreshed randomly, so points from completing Love Firmer Than Gold tasks far exceeded those from Punish Evil, Promote Good. Gold, silver, and black represented the value of the strategy targets—gold being the highest, black the lowest. The higher the strategy value, the greater the benefits, of course, for Feng Jin. Those souls pulled over had no system; they only got one strategy task and the plot from the original book. Capturing any strategy target would let them stay in this world forever.

Among them, Shen Yanting was the hardest to capture. Guan Caimei even targeted Shen Yanting, so she didn’t die unjustly.

Bo Xuenong somewhat regretted not stabbing Guan Caimei a few more times, but she was also a bit confused. “How did you think of sharing the system with me?”

“Me!” Feng Jin pointed at her own face, her voice suddenly rising. “I’m only ten years old! Love Firmer Than Gold… Whoever falls for me would be a pervert. Punish Evil, Promote Good… I exchanged for Infinite Strength, but my cultivation is fake. If Guan Caimei hadn’t suppressed her cultivation, I couldn’t even beat her. Besides… I don’t dare to kill anyone. In the Imperial Serenity Sect, only Senior Sister, you, had a high chance of killing.”

She didn’t dare to kill?

Even knowing Feng Jin came from a world without killing, Bo Xuenong still found it hard to understand this flaw. Moreover… She especially couldn’t comprehend how Feng Jin had restarted so many times in that world, failing every task, yet never thought of revenge against her parents. If it were her… She would kill them all. Since the tasks wouldn’t succeed anyway, she’d vent by drawing some blood first.

However… Shen Yanting probably liked people like Feng Jin.

Her thoughts wandered a bit. Feng Jin suddenly raised her hand and swore to her, “Senior Sister, you can use the system to exchange for things in the future too. All the points are for you to use. I…”

Feng Jin glanced at the remaining few dozen points and lowered her head guiltily. “I originally planned to exchange all your earned points for things you need, but those two horses were messed up by Feng Yingbo like that, and Senior Shishu Shen could easily discover your array. I…”

Bo Xuenong didn’t want to hold it against Feng Jin. Her words actually made sense. Although Feng Jin and the system’s appearance brought trouble, without Feng Jin, she wouldn’t know the plot’s direction. She and Shen Yanting would both die on this training trip.

Feng Jin had the resolve to protect her and Shen Yanting. Even without strength, the intention was good enough.

Shen Yanting had said that debts of gratitude must be repaid.

Bo Xuenong’s mind was a bit chaotic, but Shen Yanting’s words remained clear.

She forced herself to calm down and suddenly asked Feng Jin, “Feng Jin, what do you want?”

“Me?” Feng Jin hadn’t expected Bo Xuenong to ask her that. She was a bit surprised but answered honestly. “I want all the souls we pulled over to disappear, so the system doesn’t have to accept punishment. Um… I want to complete the task alive, stay here, and exchange a happy life for my grandmother, though that seems difficult.”

Bo Xuenong’s gaze swept over the strategy target names, then she suddenly pointed at Yu Cenwan. “Can’t you strategy-conquer Yu Cenwan? Isn’t she your mother?”

“How did you…” Feng Jin clutched her chest and scooted back. “Senior Sister, can you not listen to my inner voice from now on?”

“No.” Bo Xuenong rejected her without hesitation and scooted closer to Feng Jin. “Feng Jin, how exactly were you born? Your inner voice wasn’t very clear.”

Feng Jin’s mouth twitched slightly. For once, she had a strong urge to pour out her story. “Because Yu Cenwan was too kind, and Feng Yingbo was too stubborn.”

That year, Yu Cenwan had just fused the Foluo Fruit Bloodline and was being hunted by fellow disciples for becoming a half-demon. On the road, she encountered the gravely injured and poisoned Feng Yingbo. Her innate kindness made it impossible to ignore her, so she not only saved Feng Yingbo but also used the power of the Foluo Fruit twice to do so.

At that time, Yu Cenwan hadn’t yet accepted her new demon body, and using the Foluo Fruit power was very painful for her, yet she did it twice for Feng Yingbo.

Yu Cenwan was anxious to draw away the two groups chasing them and couldn’t wait for Feng Yingbo to wake up.

Uncertain if the first use of Foluo Fruit power would save her, she fed Feng Yingbo one Foluo Fruit and left another in her abdomen as backup.

Yu Cenwan meant well, but the Foluo Fruit had life-swapping power, and the fruit itself bore faint signs of life.

When Feng Yingbo woke up and sensed life in her abdomen, she was terrified and hurried down the mountain overnight to find a physician to check her pulse.

A mortal world quack couldn’t recognize it as a Foluo Fruit and diagnosed her with a pulse of joy.

Feng Yingbo was baffled for half a month—how could her untouched virginal body be pregnant? After thinking it over, she decided to give birth and see. She carried the fruit for months without her belly growing, then vaguely recalled that demon race couples she met on her training journey nurtured offspring by dividing their own blood energy to the child. Feng Yingbo imitated them, popping pills every day to infuse blood energy into the fruit.

When the system brought Feng Jin’s soul to this world and chose a body, it naturally wanted one close to the strategy targets.

That fruit had Yu Cenwan’s blood energy, and the forced incubator was Shen Yanting’s junior sister—one the female protagonist, the other the most important female supporting character. The fruit was a soulless shell, so the system tossed her in without a word. Only with a soul did the fruit truly gain life, and Feng Yingbo finally gave birth smoothly. Otherwise, imitating the demon race by infusing blood energy like that, she might have died again.

After all, demon race blood energy replenished quickly, but human cultivators’ did not.

Feng Jin had always suspected that in the original book plot, Feng Yingbo died this way, since there was no plot for Feng Yingbo in the original book, and her body still had lingering effects from over-infusing blood energy back then. Though she had a nascent soul stage foundation, her body wasn’t as healthy as it seemed.

After Feng Jin was born, the confused Feng Yingbo, unsure of the father’s identity, simply took her back to the Imperial Serenity Sect as a disciple to avoid questions. Feng Jin thought pretending to be dumb and staying as master-disciple was fine, but Feng Yingbo never intended to hide it. From when Feng Jin was three, Feng Yingbo whispered to her every night that she was her mother, not her master.

This often left Feng Jin at a loss. Though she carried Yu Cenwan and Feng Yingbo’s blood, strictly speaking, she wasn’t their daughter.

Feng Jin usually liked Feng Yingbo a lot, but when Feng Yingbo insisted on mother-daughter status, she became very afraid.

In truth, Feng Yingbo still didn’t know exactly how Feng Jin came to be, nor that her unchanging youthful face was because the Foluo Fruit gave her a second life.

Yet she stubbornly wanted to be a good mother, indulging Feng Jin’s little tempers and even forgiving her for avoiding her.

Feng Jin couldn’t understand it. Some people hated their own flesh and blood, so why did Feng Yingbo joyfully accept the mother role before even figuring out how the child came, and treat her so wholeheartedly? Her shell was stuck at ten, but she was two hundred years old, and Feng Yingbo still insisted on holding her to sleep every night like when she was newborn.

……

Even with mental preparation, Bo Xuenong couldn’t help but sigh that she knew too little about Feng Yingbo.

Forcibly dividing one’s own blood energy to a Foluo Fruit and dying that way—there wouldn’t be a second case.

If Yu Cenwan knew the fruit left for Feng Yingbo’s survival might have killed her again in the original book plot, who knew what she’d think.

But Bo Xuenong felt Feng Jin’s thinking was wrong. Even someone like her knew what blood-related family meant. With Feng Yingbo’s and Yu Cenwan’s blood in her, if she wasn’t their child, whose could she be?

“Feng Jin, you really can strategy-conquer Yu Cenwan. She’s your mother. She definitely…”

“Senior Sister, not all parents love their children.”

Bo Xuenong seemed to understand.

Feng Jin wasn’t afraid of Feng Yingbo insisting on mother-daughter status. She was afraid of harboring hope only to face despair again.

Feng Jin had said in her inner voice before that she wanted to take Feng Yingbo to seek refuge with Yu Cenwan, which meant she actually understood that she could try to pursue Yu Cenwan as a strategy target. She just didn’t dare.

She had despaired in blood ties and familial love for too long. Fear outweighed her longing.

Besides, Feng Jin had always been a coward.

Bo Xuenong felt that Feng Jin was a little pitiful. Or perhaps it wasn’t her who felt that way, but rather that she believed Shen Yanting would ache for Feng Jin.

What reaction would someone as good as Shen Yanting have if she heard this story?

Bo Xuenong couldn’t quite imagine it. She imitated Shen Yanting by touching her and reached out to pat Feng Jin’s head, no longer continuing this somewhat heavy discussion. “Next time, can you redeem something useful? Things like cultivation halos are completely unnecessary. From now on, I’ll protect you.”

Feng Jin was stunned. “Senior Sister, are you serious?”

“Dead serious.” Bo Xuenong nodded. “As long as you remain my bosom friend forever.”

“Bosom friend?” Feng Jin was a bit confused. She didn’t even know when she had become Bo Xuenong’s bosom friend. Fortunately, she had read the original book and understood Bo Xuenong’s principles well. She had a sudden realization and immediately declared, “I will resolutely protect Elder Shen! Elder Shen’s life matters more than anything!”

Bo Xuenong immediately grinned from ear to ear. “Exactly!”

Feng Jin’s fear of Bo Xuenong was fading. She suddenly felt that Bo Xuenong was actually quite easy to coax when she wasn’t being crazy.

She boldly tugged at Bo Xuenong’s arm and pointed at the few points she had left. “Senior Sister, you still have some points. Do you want to exchange for anything? According to the system’s rules, anything that exists in this world can be redeemed, and some system-exclusive special abilities are possible too, but your points probably aren’t enough…”

Feng Jin was still earnestly analyzing what the points could be exchanged for when Bo Xuenong suddenly pointed at the names under the Love Firmer Than Gold strategy target section. “Change my name to the same gold color as Master’s.”

Feng Jin: “…”