Chapter 51: An Enormous Misunderstanding

The plan formed in her mind, and Ye Wenxin concealed the smile that was creeping onto her lips, beginning to make her emotional preparations, intending to execute the plan on this windy and dark night.

“Big Sister Mute, since you’re not obediently listening to me, then take this pill.” With that, Ye Wenxin took out the bottle of Spring Return Pill and handed it to the beautiful mute.

The beautiful mute slowly opened her eyes, staring at the Spring Return Pill, seeming to not fully understand its relationship with Qi Deviation.

“I’m an alchemist, and I read in a book about a kind of pill that can contain Qi Deviation. By the way, the medicine I gave you a few days ago was that one.” Ye Wenxin’s acting was natural; she did not believe that the seemingly innocent beautiful mute could detect the malice she was hiding.

The beautiful mute did not move but instead stared at the bottle in Ye Wenxin’s hand for a few seconds before taking it, nodding lightly at Ye Wenxin, but showing no intention of eating it.

“This can alleviate your Qi Deviation. Eat it now. If it’s not enough, I have more.” Ye Wenxin became even more proactive; she did not believe that the Spring Return Pill would have no effect on the beautiful mute and wanted to continue this daring experiment.

The beautiful mute glanced at Ye Wenxin again, then finally opened the bottle, took out the pill inside, swallowed it, and began meditating again.

Ye Wenxin patiently waited for a few seconds, but the beautiful mute remained motionless, making Ye Wenxin even more puzzled. Even the Spring Return Pill, which could affect her, seemed powerless against the beautiful mute.

“Big Sister Mute, do you feel hot?” Ye Wenxin kindly asked for her feedback again. The beautiful mute opened her eyes, nodded, and then closed them again.

“This is a normal reaction. After taking the medicine, you might feel very hot. You don’t need to endure it…” Ye Wenxin continued to advise. She did not believe that the beautiful mute was devoid of human emotions and desires and urged her to follow her instincts.

But no matter how Ye Wenxin persuaded, the beautiful mute remained unmoved. Ye Wenxin gave up and took out the Heart-Cleansing Pill from her bag of holding.

“If you can’t stand the heat, take this. I’m so tired today, I’ll go to sleep first.” Saying this, she took out a blanket from her bag of holding and lay down on the grassy mound nearby to sleep.

As exhaustion set in, Ye Wenxin quickly fell asleep, while the beautiful mute, who was supposed to be meditating, finally opened her eyes.

Her eyes carried a heat that was absent in her usual demeanor, and her back was already soaked with sweat. She gazed at Ye Wenxin in the distance, afraid that her movements might attract Ye Wenxin’s attention.

Until she was sure that Ye Wenxin was still asleep, the beautiful mute resumed her meditation, pondering a question in her mind.

“Zhu Ling, what’s wrong with me?”

After a few seconds, a cold female voice replied, “Mistress, you’ve been poisoned.”

The beautiful mute’s gaze turned cold. “What poison?”

The emotionless voice answered, “That little girl gave you Spring Return Pill again.”

The beautiful mute remained calm but seemed puzzled about Ye Wenxin’s intentions. “Spring Return Pill? Is it the kind of drug used for mating?”

Zhu Ling continued to answer, “Yes, Mistress, this little girl wants to have s**¹ with you.”

It was clearly a shameful matter, yet Zhu Ling did not seem to have any emotions and simply answered the beautiful mute’s questions in a straightforward manner.

The beautiful mute seemed a bit incredulous about the thoughts of a thirteen-year-old child, yet could not help but cast a few more glances at Ye Wenxin.

She did not hate this girl named Ye Wenxin. The girl had saved her several times and brought her back from the brink of death when she was in Qi Deviation, but what she could not comprehend even more, was how could such a girl be interested in her, another woman?

Last time, because of Zhu Ling’s reminder, she avoided taking a large amount of the Spring Return Pill, and instead gave the drug to Ye Wenxin back through her lips. This time, although she hesitated, seeing Ye Wenxin’s sincere expression, she still tried to eat it again.

She did not expect that this Spring Return Pill would be so potent. If it were not for Zhu Ling’s necklace around her neck, the beautiful mute would have been controlled by this drug.

The beautiful mute’s mood was complicated. She thought she really had no desires, but she was still defeated by a mere drug.

Just when the beautiful mute was thinking about messy things, the woman named Zhu Ling continued, “Mistress, this girl has an Iceborn Constitution. She has probably taken a fancy to Mistress’s cultivation and wants to use you as a human furnace.”

It was still that same cold tone, but the words said were so wonderful that the mute was a little surprised. But if she thought about it carefully, Iceborn was an unusual constitution. No wonder this girl was always touching her.

Seeing that the beautiful mute did not respond for a long time, Zhu Ling said again, “Mistress, kill her.”

The beautiful mute still gave no reply.

“Mistress, I have a hunch that she will definitely become your future disaster. If you want to be free from worldly desires, you must kill all factors that cause instability,” the voice reminded again, and the beautiful mute’s eyes returned to their usual indifference.

The excess emotions were completely absorbed, and she became an emotionless fairy again.

She walked towards Ye Wenxin without hesitation, intending to directly kill this unstable factor, but the voice in her mind sounded again.

“Wait, Mistress, this person might be useful to you.”

Zhu Ling’s voice reminded again, but it made the beautiful mute breathe a sigh of relief.

“What else is there to use?”

“That on the ground is a genuine Heart-Cleansing Pill, which can help clear Mistress’s confused meridians.”

Zhu Ling replied, as if everything she had just done was just to test whether the beautiful mute could really bring herself to kill anyone for the sake of becoming stronger.

Hearing this, the beautiful mute returned to her position, opened the bottle, and swallowed the Heart-Cleansing Pill. The pill dissolved instantly upon entering her mouth, easing her previously uncomfortable body and somewhat calming her confused meridians.

“Mistress, did I say something nonsensical again just now?” Not only that, but Zhu Ling’s previously icy voice suddenly softened, as if she had just awakened from a nightmare.

The beautiful mute listened with regret, “Sorry, it was all because I fell into Qi Deviation, causing you to also suffer from the hostile energy’s backlash.”

“That’s not Mistress’s fault, this Zhu Ling willingly became a demon. But what this girl said is right, Mistress can’t continue practicing so aggressively. If you go into Qi Deviation again, this time Zhu Ling may not be able to resist.” The gentle Zhu Ling reminded the beautiful mute, if were not for the Heart-Cleansing Pill, the beautiful mute probably would not be able to control her thoughts right now, let alone the demonized Zhu Ling.

It felt as if being controlled by another self, which scared the beautiful mute a little too.

“I understand, I’ll take a break for a while.” The beautiful mute finally agreed to let go of her cultivation, her gaze falling on Ye Wenxin’s sleeping figure over there, then she took out a bed from her storage ring.

The bed was made of jade, and the quilt was made of fine silk, showing that the bed was quite expensive. After taking out the bed, she walked back Ye Wenxin, but the voice in her mind reminded her again.

“Mistress, this girl is thinking about using you as a human furnace in her mind all the time. You can’t sleep with her.”

“I know.”

The beautiful mute cared not, she carefully lifted Ye Wenxin and placed her on the jade bed, then she walked back to the pile of hay.

“…”

Even Zhu Ling, who had been mutually dependent on the beautiful mute since birth, was speechless when she saw what the beautiful mute did. But it was the beautiful mute’s decision, and as a servant, Zhu Ling could not influence it. She could only silently pray in her heart that Ye Wenxin would be crushed to death by the stalactite above her head.

However, that did not happen, and because of the jade bed, Ye Wenxin even had a pleasant dream.

She dreamed of returning to Earth and living an ordinary life.

“Do you know, we have a new teacher at our school, she’s super pretty.” The gossiping at her desk remained the same, but strangely, instead of discussing a male teacher, she was talking about a female one.

Ye Wenxin listened with disdain, “Just a female teacher, aren’t you into guys? Why the sudden change in sexual orientation?”

Ye Wenxin’s remark was neither big nor small, but after saying it, everyone looked at her as if she were a ghost.

“Are you okay, Wenxin? No woman likes men in this world.” Seeing Ye Wenxin’s abnormal behavior, her classmates’ faces became even uglier, as if Ye Wenxin, who liked men, was some kind of monster.

Ye Wenxin was even more bewildered. She realized she was dreaming, and it was quite a terrifying nightmare. In this dream, women were with women.

“Look, the teacher is here, oh my god, it’s really Miss Fengya… I’m so excited…” Even more terrifyingly, Ye Wenxin heard that damn name even in her dream.

Gritting her teeth with hatred, Ye Wenxin’s gaze also turned towards the platform. But before she could see what Fairy Fengya actually looked like, she felt a stabbing pain in her stomach.

The pain startled her awake abruptly. Upon looking around, she noticed that Hei Tong had appeared in the cavern at some point and was trying to throw her off the jade bed.

“You…” Ye Wenxin was at a loss, but Hei Tong in her spirit beast form did not give her any face at all. She casually threw Ye Wenxin’s small body onto the grass heap and squatted on the jade bed, silently threatening Ye Wenxin with her eyes.

Still confused about the situation, Ye Wenxin naturally recoiled, accidentally touching the cold hand beside her. Startled, Ye Wenxin withdrew her hand, only to realize that the person lying on the grass was the beautiful mute.

Strangely, the beautiful mute was not meditating. When she noticed Ye Wenxin’s movements, she even silently shifted away a bit. The movement was subtle, but compared to their previous interactions, it seemed like the beautiful mute was deliberately keeping a distance.

Perplexed, Ye Wenxin tried moving again, but the beautiful mute simply stood up and walked towards the cavern’s entrance, not giving Ye Wenxin any chance to inquire about the situation.

“What happened?” Ye Wenxin was baffled, trying to find answers from Hei Tong.

Hei Tong did not respond right away. It was not until the beautiful mute left that she transformed back into human form, “I wanted to ask you the same thing! I’ve been gone for a few days, and that lass stopped cultivating and fell asleep. She even took out the jade bed I’ve only slept on once. What the hell did you do to her, you bastard?!” Hei Tong shook Ye Wenxin vigorously, venting her frustration.

Ye Wenxin was dumbfounded. She wanted to know what had happened to the beautiful mute, but it seemed like she no longer had the chance.

---

1. Yes, author did censor this. When I used chrome page translate tho, it somehow connected the dots even though there wasn’t even an actual word in the original Chinese text, just three asterisks… ↩︎