That feeling was strange, making Zhu Lan feel as if her body was completely out of her own control.
She didn’t like it one bit.
What was even worse was that Zhu Lan felt like even her saliva had been entirely replaced.
Blech!
After regaining a bit of her strength, Zhu Lan ran straight to the spirit spring on the back mountain to bathe.
“God! Your devout believer, Zhu Lan, offers her most humble respect. Please grant a miracle and wash away the filth on her body. Amitabha!”
“Eh? Junior Sister, what are you doing? Why are your hands raised toward the sky while you’re muttering?”
Bai Xue’s voice from not far away pulled Zhu Lan back to reality.
“Haha, I haven’t exercised in a while, so I’m just stretching.”
Zhu Lan thought she had cleverly covered up her embarrassment.
“Oh, right. Junior Sister, you’re here to soak in the spirit spring, right? Perfect, come join me.”
“Sure.”
It wasn’t bad to have someone to chat with while soaking in the spirit spring.
However, several minutes later…
“Junior Sister, why are your lips a bit swollen? They’re even torn!”
“Junior Sister, why are there so many pinch marks!”
“Junior Sister, why is there a mark on your neck…”
Zhu Lan inspected her body and found that every word Senior Sister Bai Xue said was true.
‘Damn it, when did the male lead do this while I wasn’t looking?’
They were that red?
She had even been given a hickey?!
“Ah!”
Bai Xue gasped, pointing at Zhu Lan in shock.
“Junior Sister, your…”
Zhu Lan looked down and almost burst into tears.
Even her “small buns” had fallen victim to his hands.
Why hadn’t she felt it at the time?
Zhu Lan recalled the situation; she only remembered her body feeling incredibly hot—so hot that her mind had been a muddle, leaving her with no choice but to let Ye Feng have his way with her.
Now that Zhu Lan’s body was covered in suspicious marks, Senior Sister Bai Xue was no fool. Her gaze grew sharp.
“Junior Sister, have you been deceived by some scoundrel?”
“No, I haven’t.”
Zhu Lan was already starting to choke up, and her words sounded hollow and unconvincing.
“Sigh.”
Seeing that Zhu Lan was unwilling to speak, Bai Xue didn’t push any further.
“Those wretched men don’t know moderation. We women have to be the wise ones. If something happens, we are always the ones who lose out.”
Zhu Lan hadn’t expected Ye Feng to be so over-the-top.
Her usual interactions with him had led her to believe he was just a bit sharp-tongued, causing her to overlook the fact that Ye Feng was a hot-blooded man.
“Mm-hmm. Senior Sister, don’t worry. It didn’t reach that point. I’ll be more careful in the future.”
Bai Xue felt pity for this little junior sister who had only recently joined their sect.
In the past, the Spirit Beast Peak was so vast that only she and her master lived there.
Her master was busy and often had to travel around, leaving her alone with a bunch of beasts, which inevitably got lonely.
Later, a little junior sister and a mysterious senior brother joined the peak.
That mysterious senior brother was also nowhere to be found all day, so the only one she got along with was the junior sister.
Now, the marks on the junior sister’s body led her to believe that the girl’s innocent nature had been exploited by a scoundrel, and she had lost her virtue.
“This won’t do, Junior Sister. If such a person exists in our sect, the entire sect is disgraced by that scoundrel. Tell me who it is, and I will help you bring the villain to the Law Enforcement Hall.”
With someone caring for her, Zhu Lan felt a warmth in her heart, but she couldn’t possibly say it.
If she spoke up, her senior sister would be caught in the middle.
Besides, even if she made a brave move, she would surely be annihilated by the male lead’s protagonist halo.
Zhu Lan forced a smile.
“Senior Sister, thank you, but it’s fine! It’s already in the past, and I didn’t suffer any substantial harm. I’ll just pay more attention in the future.”
The future…
To be honest, Zhu Lan wasn’t sure if Ye Feng would continue to act as he pleased after she tactfully expressed her dissatisfaction.
She was just a weakling.
She couldn’t beat the male lead in a fight, and now that she had the Bone-Eroding Worm in her body, she couldn’t run away.
She would just have to take it one step at a time.
Seeing her junior sister being so strong and sensible, Bai Xue pulled Zhu Lan into a sympathetic hug.
However, she held her in the wrong position.
Zhu Lan suddenly felt her vision go dark, her breathing blocked by two indescribable objects.
Was she getting a face-full of “cleansing milk”?
But without the influence of hormones, Zhu Lan found the experience quite dull after three seconds of bliss.
‘Good senior sister, it must be very tiring to walk every day.’
“How is the egg you chose? Are there any signs of it hatching?”
Bai Xue asked caringly, “I’ll teach you some techniques to make the egg hatch faster. Take a look at my spiritual beast.”
Bai Xue beckoned, and a small flying squirrel soaring in the sky landed obediently in her hand.
“I call him Xiao Bai. Xiao Bai is a Flying Squirrel. When he grows up, his body can reach two meters in length, and he can carry people through the air.”
“Hello, Xiao Bai!”
Zhu Lan waved at the small flying squirrel.
The squirrel seemed to understand human speech and actually nodded to Zhu Lan.
Zhu Lan was amazed by her discovery.
She asked, “Senior Sister, can Xiao Bai understand us?”
Bai Xue smiled.
“He has developed spiritual intelligence, so he can understand some simple phrases. When his cultivation grows stronger, he will even learn our human language and speak.”
Hearing this, Zhu Lan began to look forward to the super-sized egg in her cultivation room.
Thus, when Bai Xue talked about the precautions for hatching monster eggs, Zhu Lan listened with exceptional focus.
“Place the monster egg in a warmer area.”
Zhu Lan flipped through her notes, but she couldn’t think of a way to create a greenhouse environment.
‘Put it in a bucket of hot water?’
It would probably be cooked through.
“Drip blood onto the eggshell every day. That way, the monster will recognize you as its master once it hatches.”
Zhu Lan followed the instructions and placed a drop of blood on the shell.
She wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but she seemed to see her blood ripple like a drop of water hitting a surface the moment it touched the eggshell.
The bloodstain vanished instantly.
Zhu Lan dripped a few more drops and found that it really was the case.
‘The eggshell drinks blood?’
Zhu Lan stopped the bleeding and looked at the giant egg, talking to herself.
“Child! You’d better be incredibly powerful. When the time comes, kick the male lead to the ground with one foot, and then we’ll live a good life together. Your mother is being bullied so miserably by the male lead right now that I can’t even stand up. If I give you any more blood, I’ll become anemic. Be more understanding toward your mother; in this chaotic world, it’s just the two of us depending on each other. Boohoo…”
Zhu Lan flopped onto the bed, physically and mentally exhausted.
She didn’t even know when she fell asleep.
After the giant egg in the room absorbed all the blood on its surface, it gave a gentle shake.