Clear spring water flowed over every part of her body. Meng Li slowly opened her eyes, looking at everything around her in confusion. A soft call sounded in her ear. Meng Li slowly turned her head and saw Ye Qinglian already at her side.
“Junior Sister, you slept for so long. Did you have some nightmare? Why not tell Senior Sister about it～”
“El-! Eldest Senior Sister!”
Meng Li looked at the familiar and gentle figure beside her. Her eyes reddened, and she immediately burst into tears. She threw herself into that gentle embrace, feeling the other party’s soft caress. Meng Li instantly relaxed completely, as if everything just now had been nothing more than a nightmare.
“Senior Sister, I just knew you’re the most kind-hearted and beautiful～”
“Is that so? Then stay with me forever from now on. No matter when, I can soothe your heart～”
“Hehe, that’s not bad either, if Eldest Senior Sister could hold me every day～”
“Is that so? Then… why won’t I do…”
While still immersed in the intoxicating fragrance on the other’s body, Meng Li suddenly felt the voice in her ear change, becoming both familiar and somewhat strange. Meng Li abruptly raised her head, only to find that the one holding her now had changed from the previous Ye Qinglian to Situ Xue.
“Si-! Senior Sister Situ!!!”
“Why won’t I do, little Junior Sister…”
“That’s not it! I didn’t! That was just a misunderstanding! No! Don’t!!”
Meng Li retreated two steps in panic, watching Situ Xue walk towards her step by step. For some reason, a trace of inexplicable fear now appeared in her heart. The other party drew her long sword, and Situ Xue’s face transformed into Ling Qingyue’s.
“So it is you indeed, my dear good disciple. You’ve taken on this form again. Doesn’t this mean I can only personally come to Purge the Sect…”
“Shi-… Shizun!!!”
Ling Qingyue gently wiped the long sword in her hand, then immediately charged forward, the sword pointing directly at Meng Li’s heart. Looking at this scene before her, Meng Li’s body trembled violently. Without another thought, she turned and ran backward.
She had no idea where this pitch-black place was. Shizun had inexplicably started wanting to kill her again. Meng Li just wanted to quickly escape this place. However, after running two steps, she collided head-on with a figure.
“Little Junior Sister, where did you go just now? Senior Sister was looking for you so hard～”
Meng Li looked up and found that the figure she had collided with was precisely Ye Qinglian, who had suddenly vanished earlier. Meng Li instantly felt she was saved and hurriedly embraced her. Although her body was still trembling, it was as if she had found a safe support.
“Shi… Senior Sister! Shizun, she wants to kill me! Quick, help me persuade her…”
“Aiya, that’s truly unfortunate～”
Meng Li thought to herself: With Eldest Senior Sister here, Shizun at least won’t directly cut me down with one sword. As long as it’s not instant death, there will be room for maneuver. Thinking of this, Meng Li’s heart steadied somewhat.
“If Shizun wants to kill you, then isn’t it fine if you just go ahead and die～?”
“Eh?”
Meng Li had just relaxed her guard when Ye Qinglian’s words sounded in her ear once more. Now, that seductive voice beside her ear carried a few more wicked undertones. Sensing something amiss, Meng Li slowly raised her head, only to meet not the sky-blue eyes like the heavens, but a pair of sinister crimson-red eyes.
Meng Li froze, then her legs went weak, and she sat down on the ground. It was after Ye Qinglian had been led by her to become the Devil Venerable that those red eyes had appeared. Now, the other party’s crimson-red pupils seemed to explain everything already.
“Just like what you said to me then: Don’t cause trouble for Shizun～”
Meng Li was just about to say something when the sound of a long sword piercing through bone rang out throughout the entire space. Meng Li looked at the long sword that had pierced through her chest from behind. Somewhat stiffly, she turned her head and saw Ling Qingyue’s killing-intent-filled eyes behind her.
Meng Li wanted to cry for help to Ye Qinglian before her, but the other party was just laughing maniacally on the spot. Meng Li began to despair in her heart. She slightly turned her head to the side and found that in the shadows, Situ Xue was also standing there, just watching everything before her with indifferent eyes.
“Th-This… so this is my end. It’s truly too despairing…”
Feeling the suffocating sensation surging over her, Meng Li abruptly sat up from the bed, gasping for fresh air. The various scenes from just now still made her somewhat breathless at this moment. She touched her chest and found it completely intact, even somewhat soft.
“Huff, huff… I do have a bit of substance, huh. No, no, that just now, all of it was an illusion. Too good, too good…!”
After inspecting her body, Meng Li felt relieved and lay back down on the bed. She never expected to have such a nightmare just now. Meng Li still felt her legs somewhat weak even now.
“Too terrifying. To actually have this kind of nightmare about being imprisoned by Second Senior Sister and hunted down by Shizun…”
After calming down, Meng Li reached out to wipe the cold sweat from her forehead. However, the sound of chains clanking rang in her ears. Meng Li’s movements stopped instantly as she looked at the chains on her wrists.
“So this isn’t a dream after all…”
Through the window of the Cave Abode, Meng Li watched the sunlight shining in. The light spilled over her body, giving her entire being a cozy, warm comfort. Meng Li rubbed her head and slowly sat up from the bed. The chains around her body collided, producing crisp sounds.
“Was I unconscious for a whole day? Why is the sun so high again?”
Meng Li sat on the edge of the bed, gently sniffing her own body. It still emitted a honey-like fragrance. Meng Li licked the back of her hand and found it was still sweet. Meng Li, looking utterly dejected, hugged herself and sat on one side of the bed. Just for saying one wrong sentence, she had been tormented like this. She didn’t know how many more times she could endure it.
Just then, an ahoge slowly poked out from beside the window. The silvery-white ahoge shimmered somewhat under the daylight. After the ahoge twitched a few times, confirming there was no danger, it immediately poked its head out.
“Junior! You’re finally awake! This Old One has been crouching here for three days!”
Just as Meng Li was about to continue lamenting her miserable transmigration life, a figure suddenly appeared by the window. He Xian’er’s form was light and agile, and with just a few bounces, she flipped in through the window.
“Sen-… Senior! What are you doing here?!”
“It couldn’t be helped. This Old One cannot allow scenes of fellow sect members, Senior Sister and Junior Sister, destroying each other. Don’t be afraid, this Old One will rescue you now～!”
“Great! I thought I’d really be stuck here for ten years! I thought that day when you watched me being taken away and just stood there frozen, it was because you didn’t want to come save me!”
“Cough, cough, cough… Let’s not bring that up again. This Old One was just trying to avoid hurting your Senior Sister…”
He Xian’er turned her head away in embarrassment while quickly arriving at the bedside, looking at Meng Li chained to the bed. Meng Li’s clothes had long since changed from the disciple uniform to a set of extremely sensual white silk garments. The faintly discernible feeling was like wearing mist on her body.
“How are you dressed like this? What’s the difference between this and not wearing anything…”
“Aiya, Senior, now is not the time to focus on these things! You need to take me away, quick!”
“Well, about that, this Old One has no way either.”
Meng Li got off the bed and came to He Xian’er’s side, thinking the other party might have some way to take her away. She hadn’t expected He Xian’er to give her this kind of line directly. Meng Li instantly felt that the Spirit Beast before her was even more unreliable than she had imagined.
But looking at the other party’s confident expression, Meng Li didn’t react for a moment. After a while, Meng Li thought she had misheard and stubbornly tried to ask again.
“Senior, you really have no way to save me?”
“Sen-… Senior, what did you just say?”
“It can’t be done. I originally wanted to rescue you, but I didn’t expect you to be tied with the Immortal-Binding Chain. This Old One also has no way～”
“Wha— Then why did you come over just now saying you’d rescue me!”
“One always needs to make an entrance accompanied by emotionally moving lines～”
Meng Li was already thoroughly speechless. What had she been thinking when she chose this Spirit Beast while playing the game back then? At that time, it seemed to be because of the other party’s mature woman figure. Meng Li now looked at the loli appearance before her and rubbed her head.
“If Senior has no way, then you might as well leave quickly. If Senior Sister discovers…”
“It’s fine, as long as we don’t trigger the warning Magic Array Little Xuezi set up. Besides, I can still stay and chat with you.”
“Senior sure is humorous…”
“Speaking of which, this kind of warning device Little Xuezi set up, even this is the first time I’ve seen it.”
He Xian’er casually pointed to the Spirit Crystal beside her glowing with red light. Meng Li looked in the direction the other party pointed and found that there was indeed a red stone glowing continuously. She couldn’t help but think to herself: Even if I could get rid of this chain, I probably wouldn’t be able to escape.
“Since Senior also has no way to help me escape from here, then I’ll have to take this chance, before this red light goes out, to leave quickly…”
Meng Li thought about relying on her ultra-high game strategy experience to try and find a way to break the situation. After all, although some parts had deviated from the plot’s development, the game should still have some reference value. However, He Xian’er walked over to the side, towards the red-glowing stone.
“It triggers when the red light goes out? Why do I remember that this time it was set up so that the red light lighting up triggers it…”
He Xian’er looked at the red stone before her. Just one casual sentence made Meng Li, who had been lying on the bed thinking, abruptly sit up. She opened her mouth to shout something, but the door before her was already kicked open with a bang.
“It seems we’ve all arrived at a very coincidental time…”
Hearing that voice, slightly cold and clear, Meng Li felt only a deep chill. Even He Xian’er beside her didn’t react in time to the other party’s sudden appearance.
“Lit-! Little Xuezi!”
He Xian’er looked at that familiar figure with a face full of shock. Meng Li turned her head, glanced at Situ Xue standing at the doorway with icy eyes, then lay down on the bed and looked at the familiar ceiling.
“Sigh, I just knew it…”
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