Chapter 23: Qiu Zimei’s Death?

Su Qiulian was silent for a while, then spoke, “Little Shen, do you believe in past and present lives?”

Shen Qingyi, though she didn’t quite understand, still nodded.

She believed!

How could she not?

After all, in her previous life, she’d been an upstanding youth on Blue Star.

In this life, she transmigrated into this cultivation world and even became a blind girl.

But Su Qiulian’s next words left her a little dumbfounded.

Su Qiulian said, “Actually, in our previous lives, Little Shen and I were lovers! This life, I was so excited when I first saw you that I did some things I shouldn’t have to you, but…”

Before Su Qiulian could finish, Shen Qingyi cut her off in shock.

“What do you mean I was your lover in my previous life?! That’s impossible!”

“Impossible… Why is it impossible?”

Because damn it, in my previous life I was from Blue Star!

Shen Qingyi wanted to yell this out, but was it really okay to reveal she was a transmigrator?

Especially when the person in front of her might be a pervert who could devour her without leaving a trace!

Shen Qingyi didn’t dare gamble on it.

She could only flush red and shout, “Impossible is impossible! Don’t try to fool me!”

She didn’t even wait for Su Qiulian to react before pushing her straight out of the room.

“Go, go, go! I want to sleep now! Get out!”

“But Little Shen, don’t you still need to learn attack spells?”

“I’ll learn them tomorrow!”

With that, the door shut right in front of Su Qiulian.

She stared blankly for a while. After sensing that Shen Qingyi inside had already lain on the bed hugging Dog Lian, Su Qiulian scratched her head.

“Is Little Shen so jumpy because of what happened earlier…?”

Thinking this, Su Qiulian felt guilty once more.

“Sigh~ I really have to control myself better!”

Just as she finished speaking, Su Qiulian suddenly sensed something.

She immediately flew out of the courtyard, heading toward the direction of the inn.

***

An hour earlier—

Qiu Ziling and Qiu Zimei had rented two rooms in the inn.

Originally, Qiu Ziling wanted to save money and stay in the same room with Qiu Zimei, but unexpectedly, her stinky little brother insisted on that whole ‘men and women should be separate’ thing and flatly refused!

She was clearly his dearest big sister!

He didn’t know the meaning of frugality at all!

There was nothing she could do but rent two top rooms.

Before going to bed, Qiu Ziling and Qiu Zimei had a hearty meal downstairs.

They discussed their itinerary in town for the next day.

Although the Town Chief said there hadn’t been any suspicious people around recently, the beautiful Miss Shen had said during the day that she’d been harassed by a pervert!

As Miss Shen’s future best friend, she definitely had to investigate thoroughly tomorrow!

So, she and Qiu Zimei divided their search areas: she would search the east side near Miss Shen’s house, and Qiu Zimei would search the other side.

After the plan was settled and dinner was done, she went upstairs to sleep.

Just as she lay down, ready to have a lovely dream about Miss Shen, someone knocked on her door.

She thought Qiu Zimei had something to discuss, but when she opened the door, she found someone kneeling outside.

An Auntie, head wrapped in a kerchief and wearing an apron, knelt before her sobbing with tears and snot running down her face, crying out, “Immortal! Please, you have to help me! My child was just taken away! I beg you, I beg you!”

Qiu Ziling was startled at first but quickly gathered herself and went to knock on Qiu Zimei’s door. Fortunately, he wasn’t asleep yet.

The two of them exchanged a look and immediately sprang into action.

To have a child abducted right under their noses—this was an outright provocation!

Strapping their spiritual swords on their backs again, they questioned the Auntie about where her child had been taken and which way the kidnapper escaped, all while hurrying on and using the compass to locate the direction of Evil Qi nearby.

But when they arrived at the location, the needle on the compass still wouldn’t settle, swinging back and forth restlessly.

“What’s going on? Even if there aren’t any Evil Cultivators nearby, the needle shouldn’t be spinning like this.”

Qiu Zimei looked at the spinning compass needle in confusion.

No wonder there hadn’t been any trace of the demonic path lately—was the compass already broken?

Thinking this, he started fiddling with it on the spot.

Meanwhile, Qiu Ziling stayed by the Auntie’s side, examining every trace in the area and keeping alert to the surroundings.

This was a remote alleyway.

The houses on both sides were already closed, and the neighbors should all have gone to bed early.

There was a shallow ditch nearby.

Qiu Ziling took a look and determined that the kidnapper couldn’t have run that way—the water was more than two meters deep.

But if it was an Evil Cultivator, maybe it was possible!

Thinking so, she resonated her Water Attribute Spiritual Energy with the water in the ditch, searching for any trace of Evil Qi.

Both Qiu Ziling and Qiu Zimei possessed the Water Spiritual Root, but the difference was, Qiu Ziling had a Single Spiritual Root, while Qiu Zimei’s was a dual Water and Wood Spiritual Root.

That was why, when they first entered the sect, Qiu Zimei was selected first, and Qiu Ziling had to wait until the following year.

This meant that although she was Qiu Zimei’s biological elder sister, once they joined the sect she had to call him ‘Senior Brother.’

Of course, she was never willing to call him that, but this brat Qiu Zimei kept calling her ‘Junior Sister’ now and refused to call her ‘Sister’ anymore!

Sigh, her little brother didn’t even want to call her sister anymore—what a failure she’d turned out to be!

Still, it was rare for the two of them to be assigned to the same mission team, so let it be!

Qiu Ziling’s thoughts wandered as she carefully examined the ditch several times.

After confirming there was no trace of Evil Qi, she finally asked Qiu Zimei, “Well? Is the compass fixed yet?”

But, uncharacteristically, Qiu Zimei didn’t answer her.

Qiu Ziling instantly felt something was wrong and rushed up to pat him.

And then—

Qiu Zimei collapsed to the ground at her touch, blood pouring out beneath him.

Qiu Ziling was shocked and hurriedly rolled him over, only to see a huge hole in his chest.

His ribcage and organs were completely shattered.

“Zimei? Zimei!”

Qiu Ziling couldn’t accept this reality, but Qiu Zimei was already lifeless in her arms, his pupils glazed white in death.

When?

When had this happened?!

Was it because she was distracted just now?

She only had this one little brother, and now he’d died right before her eyes, without reason or explanation.

Tears streamed down her face, her grief uncontrollable.

She gently patted Qiu Zimei’s cheek.

“Zimei… Don’t die… Don’t die…”

“It’s okay… your organs are just broken… they haven’t been healed yet… they can still be healed…”

“That’s right! The Shen Immortal Doctor… I heard people say Miss Shen is the renowned Shen Immortal Doctor in this area! She can save you! She can definitely save you…”

Qiu Ziling murmured to herself.

With a stiff expression, she picked up Qiu Zimei in her arms and was about to rush toward Shen Qingyi’s house.

But at that moment, several tentacles suddenly burst out of the previously still ditch, clawing viciously toward her.

“Zimei is dying… don’t block my way…”

Qiu Ziling’s eyes went fierce.

Spiritual power surged through her spiritual vein.

As soon as her Water Attribute Spiritual Energy burst forth, it exploded outward.

Several Water Spiritual Flying Swords hovered in the air.

With a roar, she fought fiercely against the tentacled evil creature blocking her path.