LGHTNOVELBOOK 46: Rumors Say Third Senior Brother is a Pervert
As the two were engaged in a heated battle, they suddenly found themselves unable to move, restrained by another force.
Qin Xixue was momentarily stunned before reacting angrily, glaring at Chu Sang who was calmly walking out of the formation. She gritted her teeth, “It was you!”
So she had set this up? Apparently, she was never trapped by the formation at all. Instead, she took advantage of their fierce battle to secretly arrange a formation, waiting for the perfect moment to capture them both in one fell swoop.
Two high-level binding formations were more than enough to trap Qin Xixue and Zhao Yun. Even with the female protagonist’s numerous treasures, it would take some time to break the formation, and that time was sufficient.
How despicable, truly despicable.
How could there be such a shameless person in this world?!
The two were furious but helpless, only able to watch as Chu Sang flew to the lotus platform and collected the lotus seed. She even waved enthusiastically at them, “Farewell, you two!”
The moment the lotus seed was removed, the illusion along with the round tower vanished.
“Boom—”
Everyone was ejected from the secret realm.
As people looked around the wilderness in confusion, with Ge Xiang and Qiu Xiude even thinking they had fallen into another illusion, Chu Sang took advantage of the chaos to escape with her senior brothers and sisters, avoiding the bloody battle that was sure to follow.
Back at the sect, as Sikong Qiu was helping Chengying bandage his shoulder wound, he turned to see his little junior sister offering a blue lotus seed to him.
Meeting his surprised and delighted gaze, Chu Sang preemptively said with a sweet smile, “Fourth Senior Sister, please accept it. This lotus seed was meant for you all along!”
She already possessed an exceptional fire spirit root. Once her spirit root was fully repaired, it would already be among the top-tier spirit roots, with a cultivation speed unmatched by others. The chaos spirit root wouldn’t be of much use to her.
The other senior brothers and sisters also possessed excellent dual spirit roots.
Comparatively, Fourth Senior Sister needed the chaos spirit root more.
“The Chaos Lotus Seed is just a seed, it hasn’t grown into a Chaos Blue Lotus yet. The cultivation conditions for the blue lotus are extremely demanding. Fourth Senior Sister, you’ll need to nourish it daily with spiritual energy and blood for three years before the seed will bloom into a blue lotus……” Obtaining the blue lotus wasn’t the most difficult step; the most challenging part was successfully nurturing the Chaos Blue Lotus to bloom, which required tremendous effort and time. Not everyone had such perseverance.
Chu Sang believed Fourth Senior Sister could do it.
Sikong Qiu was so moved she didn’t know what to say. She nodded and solemnly accepted the lotus seed. The next day, she went into seclusion.
Chu Sang’s mind also received a notification—
[Villain Sikong Qiu’s Corruption Value -10, Host can randomly distribute +10 attribute points!]
[Villain Sikong Qiu’s current Corruption Value: 20]
[10 points remaining for free distribution, please choose attributes to enhance—]
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While Chu Sang and the others were exploring the secret realm, Su Chen’an and Wen Renyue stayed behind to diligently manage the business.
After pondering for a while, they began to understand those confusing concepts their little junior sister mentioned, like “bundled sales,” “membership system,” “points rewards,” and so on.
Within a few months, the sales of the Treasure Pavilion skyrocketed. In the most recent month, monthly sales broke through the barrier of one million high-grade spirit stones, something they couldn’t have even imagined before.
“I’ve never seen so many spirit stones in my life,” Wen Renyue cupped her face, her mouth agape.
Su Chen’an said, “Who has?”
He had always considered himself quite knowledgeable, but compared to his little junior sister’s cunning methods, he felt he had been too naive before.
The sect’s ranking had also risen to over five thousand. Although there was still a considerable distance to their goal, it was now within sight.
While Lingqing Sect was once a major sect ten thousand years ago, its current territory had shrunk to just a few small hills.
Chu Sang had never been to the Eastern Peak near the back mountain, nor had she seen any of her senior brothers and sisters go there. Assuming it was an unremarkable barren hill, she decided to go survey the terrain, considering whether to plant vegetables or raise pigs.
As she walked, there was a rustling sound from the undergrowth behind her. Chu Sang stopped, initially thinking it was a low-level beast from the area.
However, a massive shadow suddenly enveloped her entire body.
The speed of the beast far exceeded Chu Sang’s expectations. Before she could draw her sword or take out a talisman, a thick, long snake tail swiftly coiled around her entire body, lifting her into the air, allowing her to see the creature clearly.
It turned out to be an enormous snake beast, easily several dozen meters long. It brought its head close to her face, flicking its crimson tongue, its damp, salty breath brushing against her cheeks. The layers of interlocking black and red scales were like mysterious, abstruse runes, glinting with a cold light in the sunlight. Most terrifyingly—
This was a Nascent Soul stage beast?!
How could such a powerful beast appear in their small, insignificant sect??!
Chu Sang felt her life was in danger.
However, the great snake didn’t exhibit the savage bloodthirst she had seen in other beasts. At least, it didn’t seem to have much appetite for her, nor did it show much aggression. Instead, it lowered its head to sniff her storage bag, “Hiss~” Even extending its tongue to lick it, seeming somewhat anxious and helpless.
Chu Sang even bizarrely detected a hint of pitifulness in its demeanor.
She blinked, belatedly realizing that her storage bag contained the cat food she had previously prepared for Xiao Bai.
However, Xiao Bai had always been very picky, so the cat food had hardly been touched and had just been left in the storage bag. She had almost forgotten about it.
Could it be… Perhaps… Maybe……?
Chu Sang pursed her lips and tentatively opened her storage bag. The previously listless great snake immediately perked up, opening its cavernous mouth and devouring the small amount of beast food in one gulp, then licked its lips, still unsatisfied.
Then, it gently uncoiled its tail, setting her down on the ground with surprising gentleness, before silently slithering into the forest and disappearing.
Sitting on the ground, Chu Sang felt as if she had just experienced a dream. She pursed her dry lips, then dashed off to the training ground to find Tantai Ming. Mu Chihuai and Wen Renyue were also there. “Sixth Senior Brother, Seventh Senior Brother, Third Senior Sister, something big has happened. There’s a Nascent Soul stage great snake on our sect’s Eastern Peak!”
“You went to the Eastern Peak?”
The three remained quite calm. Tantai Ming sheathed his sword and jumped down from the stone platform, walking over to her in two or three steps. “The great snake you encountered should be Third Senior Brother’s beast companion, not an outside beast. Don’t worry!”
“Hmm, I didn’t expect that little snake to have reached Nascent Soul stage after a few years,” Wen Renyue said with a look of disbelief. “I remember when it was just an ordinary first-grade beast when it was small. I really don’t know how Third Senior Brother raised it.”
“Third Senior Brother?”
Chu Sang blinked. She had been in the sect for over half a year but had never seen this Third Senior Brother. So he had been living on the Eastern Peak of the sect all along? How come she had never seen him come out?
Tantai Ming scratched his head, seeming to ponder how to explain. “…Well, Little Junior Sister, you’d better not go there again.”
“It’s fortunate you didn’t encounter Third Senior Brother himself this time. If you accidentally ran into Third Senior Brother, you’d be done for! None of us could save you!”
Chu Sang, “……Huh?”
They were fellow disciples of the same sect, so why was this Third Senior Brother being described as some kind of terrible monster to be avoided at all costs?
Tantai Ming had always been upright and honest, and wouldn’t casually slander others. Every word he said was true. “To make a comparison, Second Senior Brother might have an episode once every few years, but Third Senior Brother is in a constant state of madness.”
“When he has an episode, he not only harms himself but others too!”
“When I was little, he almost tied me up and tried to roast me. Later, he was confined to the Eastern Peak by the Sect Leader and Master, forbidden from leaving. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be seeing me now!”
“On the day I joined the sect, I still remember it clearly, Third Senior Brother’s first words to me were—’What a beautiful head.’ ” Wen Renyue shuddered at the memory. “If the Sect Leader hadn’t been there at the time, I suspect my head wouldn’t have been safe.”
Mu Chihuai said, “He once complimented my eyes, saying they were beautiful. That night, he came to find me with a knife.”
Tantai Ming concluded, “Third Senior Brother is a pervert!” He pointed at Mu Chihuai nearby, “Even more perverted than this pervert.”
Unusually, Mu Chihuai didn’t refute, nodding, “He’s right.”
“……”
Is it really that exaggerated? To make even Sixth Senior Brother, a pervert himself, call someone else a pervert??
Chu Sang…… Chu Sang had a bit of a rebellious streak in her. The very next day after promising not to go, she went to Wen Renyue to get a large bag of beast food and snuck off to the Eastern Peak to feed the great snake.
After just a few days of feeding, the great snake no longer waited for Chu Sang to find it, but would arrive early at the usual spot to wait for her.
This continued for about half a month. One evening, Chu Sang went as usual to feed the great snake with a large bag of beast food. However, on this day, the great snake didn’t appear.
“Bang!” A sharp pain struck the back of her neck, and she blacked out, losing consciousness.
When she woke up, Chu Sang found herself lying on a bed in an unfamiliar small bamboo hut. Outside the window, the sky had completely darkened. No oil lamps were lit inside the hut, making it extremely dim. A strong, fragrant scent of alcohol permeated the air—pleasant, but somewhat acrid.
As she turned her head, she came face to face with a row of expressionless, pale faces on the wall. “……”
She almost ascended on the spot.
She quickly realized these were not real people, but a row of puppets lined up against the wall.
The puppets were made too realistically, almost like wax figures, triggering an uncanny valley effect.
Chu Sang breathed a sigh of relief. Just as she was about to get out of bed, her foot kicked something that rolled to the wall with a clear, crisp sound.
Looking down, she saw it was a skull.
“……”
The wooden door creaked, someone was coming! Chu Sang quickly looked away, flipping back onto the bed, crossing her hands over her chest, the very picture of a peaceful corpse.
The sound of rustling clothes drew nearer. A cold finger with prominent joints touched her face, its slightly sharp nail gently grazing her skin.
The man’s deep voice whispered intimately in her ear, “What exquisite, beautiful skin. So white and tender. If it could be peeled off intact, it would be absolutely perfect.”
“Let me think, which knife should I use?”
The sound of a drawer opening. “This one is nice. The blade is long, thin, and sharp. It will be quick, you won’t feel any pain……”
“……” Chu Sang opened her eyes, staring straight at him, not expecting this person to be serious.
The man lowered his head, his curly black hair falling onto her face. The scent of alcohol wafted over as he said with an ambiguous smile, “Awake? Not sleeping anymore?”
He wasn’t surprised at all, clearly having known all along that she was pretending to be asleep.
“Hmm, how long have I been alone here? Three years, five years, or ten years? It seems like it’s been ten years. You’re the first person who dared to intrude here. How interesting……”
He casually tossed the knife to the ground, lowering his gaze to scrutinize her carefully, sighing wistfully, “You’re quite brave. Why don’t you stay and keep me company?”
Chu Sang calmly replied, “What if I said I wandered in here by mistake? Would you believe me?”
“……You still want to leave?”
A hint of panic flashed across his face as he tightly gripped one of her hands, softly murmuring, “I’m all alone here. I’m very lonely. Don’t leave me. Stay and keep me company……”
“Alright.”
She nodded without hesitation.
“Then, if you dare to run, I’ll kill you.” He paused for a moment, then smiled again, saying in a low voice, “If you dare to run, I’ll turn you into a puppet.”
“That way, you can stay by my side forever.”
“Don’t worry, I won’t run—” As if!
This Third Senior Brother really did seem a bit mentally unstable.
Chu Sang strongly suspected that if he was in a bad mood, he might skin her alive in the next moment and turn her into a puppet.
So when he went out and locked the door behind him, Chu Sang stuck a concealment talisman on herself and used a teleportation talisman to escape.
Outside, the sky was gradually brightening. Halfway through her escape, she ran into a stone wall. Looking up, she realized it was the great snake.
She was about to ask the snake brother to take her away, considering their half-month feeding relationship, when suddenly, a tall red figure appeared behind the great snake. It was Third Senior Brother.
Chu Sang thought, Snake brother, you’re not loyal at all, selling me out so quickly!!
The man was sitting in a wheelchair, raising one hand, his wide robes fluttering dramatically in the wind.
She found herself frozen in place, unable to move, not even able to use a bit of spiritual energy.
This person had at least Nascent Soul stage power.
Even higher than Second Senior Brother’s strength!
“What did I just say? Since you dared to run, be prepared to face the consequences.”
Earlier in the hut, the light had been too dim for Chu Sang to see his face clearly. Now, as dawn broke, the man before her had an exceptionally sickly pale complexion, but his lips were unusually red. His wide red robe and long, curly dark hair billowed in the mountain breeze, like a red-robed ghost appearing out of thin air in broad daylight, or like a withered and decaying red spider lily.
At the thought of killing someone, his mood improved, and he curved his lips in a slight smile. The small red mole at the corner of his eye seemed particularly alluring and beautiful.
His grip tightened inch by inch.
He really wanted to kill her.
—A great snake, puppets, a black-haired, red-robed, venomous and violent beauty, and a crippled yandere.
A name appeared in Chu Sang’s mind—Mu Changqing.
Indeed, birds of a feather flock together.
She had caught another big villain boss.
“Third Senior Brother!”
Mu Changqing curved his lips in a beautiful smile, “What? Want to beg for mercy?”
Although he had been confined to the Eastern Peak for nearly ten years, it didn’t mean he was completely unaware of outside affairs.
He knew very well that the sect had recently gained a new junior sister, and he also knew that the person before him was his new junior sister, but…… what did that have to do with him?
He didn’t care.
To him, she was no different from a stranger.
He could kill her with just a twitch of his finger.
“Didn’t those guys tell you? Don’t come here to bother me unless it’s important. Since you’ve come, just stay here, stay here forever to keep me company.”
“If you want to run, I’ll turn you into a puppet. After all, only puppets will obey forever.” He said softly, “What were you going to say earlier? That you didn’t intentionally intrude here?”
Chu Sang replied earnestly, “No, I came here specifically to find you!”
“……To find me?” The smile on Mu Changqing’s face faded, seemingly surprised by her words.
She came specifically to find him?
To find him, the troublemaker?
Others avoided him like the plague, wasn’t she afraid of him?
Chu Sang spoke with sincere expression, “I’ve been in the sect for half a year now and have never met Third Senior Brother. After learning you were here, I came specifically to bring a gift for Third Senior Brother.”
“Very well, I’m curious to see what you’ve brought.” Mu Changqing’s interest was piqued. “If it doesn’t satisfy me, you’ll still die.”
Chu Sang took out an object from her storage bag.