Miss Fairy, Please Hear Me Out

The finest medicinal herbs often require only the simplest way of eating them.

Xu Yuan had originally been worried that Tian Yan might pull some trick like swallowing without chewing, wrapping the Beguiling Sakura Flower in source qi and hiding it away. In the end, Luo Daofan simply told him that the thing melted the moment it entered the mouth.

While he was at it, the old man also gave him a quick lesson. The reason Joyous Union Powder could be colorless, odorless, and potent enough to knock out even a Sage was precisely because of the Beguiling Sakura Flower, its main ingredient.

That said, using the Beguiling Sakura Flower on its own would not produce any aphrodisiac effect. It would merely trap a person in a very long hallucination. To refine it into Joyous Union Powder, one still needed to add several other ingredients, such as Flame Spirit Liquid.

After swallowing the Beguiling Sakura Flower, Tian Yan immediately sent Xu Yuan a voice transmission. “Xu Changtian, I... I ate it.”

Xu Yuan replied through transmission, “I saw. Don’t fight back for now. Wait for my signal.”

“Wh... what?! This ha... this mad woman is in the Transcendent Realm! If I don’t fight back, I’ll...”

“Be good. Listen.”

The girl’s flat chest rose and fell with anger. After a long moment, she finally spat out one sentence. “If I die, I swear I’m dragging you down with me.”

“Don’t worry. I have no interest in dying for love with a little shrimp like you,” Xu Yuan said with a cheerful laugh.

“Fuck you!” Tian Yan cursed.

After that, Xu Yuan ignored her and immediately followed the plan, shooting toward the woman in red from behind.

As he flew, he asked, “Hey, Old Luo, can Tian Yan really drag me down with her?”

“Isn’t it dying for love?” the Sage’s remnant soul said out of nowhere.

“Looks like you’re not afraid of death at all. You still have the mood to joke around.” Xu Yuan answered with a smile.

The Sage’s remnant soul gave a light snort. “Not very likely.”

“So in other words, she really might be able to take me with her?” Xu Yuan frowned.

The Sage’s remnant soul sighed. “The Heaven Deriving Art is powerful and strange. I only know two of its four chapters, the True Word Chapter and the Heaven Divination Chapter. As for the other two, I have no idea what they can do. But in her current state, it would be very difficult for her to pose any threat to you.”

So asking had basically been pointless.

This portable old grandpa really was unreliable to the bone.

Xu Yuan glanced sideways toward Tian Yan.

After their conversation, Tian Yan had, to her credit, obediently stopped attacking. Instead, she used only defensive mantras like “Hold,” “Shield,” and “Steady Mind,” struggling bitterly beneath the mad woman’s ghostly assault, which came rolling in like a tide.

And thanks to Tian Yan, once the threat disappeared, the mad woman stopped darting around everywhere. She stood quietly in the void, staring at Tian Yan while muttering insane little phrases under her breath.

Just as Xu Yuan was about to fly within a hundred feet of the mad woman, the Sage’s remnant soul suddenly spoke again. “Xu boy, are you really sure this crazy hag won’t attack you?”

The corner of Xu Yuan’s eye twitched. He knew Luo Daofan feared death, but he had not expected the man to fear it quite this much.

Still, at this moment, he could understand why the old grandpa was worried. After all, what they were about to do really was dangerous. They were going to charge up a big move and ambush this mad woman right in front of her face. Forget the old grandpa. Even he himself did not feel confident about this.

Back in Azure Point, after obtaining the cherry blossom mark from the Beguiling Divine Sakura, this mad woman in red would turn into something like a neutral NPC. As long as you were careful not to hit her, you could dance yourself silly right beside her and she would not care. In other words, the Saintess’ soul key gave the player one chance to launch a sneak attack on this boss.

Xu Yuan had done exactly that before. One ultimate skill had shaved off a full fifth of the boss’s health bar. Now that the game had become reality, if they struck a vital point, perhaps it would not be as simple as one fifth.

But by the same logic, reality had far too many variables. Who could guarantee that nothing would go wrong?

Xu Yuan pondered for a moment, then still replied in a low voice, “Just do it. I’ve already learned the sword skill you taught me back in Stillwater. With your soul power supporting me, I should be able to teleport out directly.”

After a brief pause, Xu Yuan glanced sideways at Tian Yan, who was still fighting bitterly on the other side. “Tian Yan has already eaten the Beguiling Sakura Flower. With only half an hour left on the countdown, she’ll definitely fight with everything she has. If things really don’t work out, we’ll just sell Tian Yan out and run.”

The Sage’s remnant soul fell silent for a moment, then let out a quiet sigh. “Ah... even when I followed those disciples of mine, I never had to gamble my life like this, not the way I do with you, brat.”

“Enough. Cut the nonsense.”

As Luo Daofan and Xu Yuan bickered, the two of them had already arrived close to the mad woman in red.

The woman in red glanced at Xu Yuan, then ignored him.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan immediately took out the Clear Whisper sword and assumed his stance. At the same time, the Sage’s remnant soul began charging up their big move right in front of her.

Ran Qingmo, who had been controlling the observation array, saw the scene below and silently withdrew her soul intent from the formation.

Around her was a rather dim secret chamber. Twisted tree roots covered almost the entire room, with only a faint thread of light seeping in from the end of the passage.

The woman in black robes slowly rose to her feet and walked along the root-covered corridor toward the outside world.

As she walked, she took out a black sword. Her steps were neither hurried nor slow, because she needed to circulate her cultivation and gather her qi.

The corridor was long, but perfectly straight. By the time she reached the end, the wisp of blue ghost-light on the black sword in her hand had grown dazzling to the extreme.

The end of the corridor was wrapped in brilliant sunlight from the outside, like a doorway made of light.

In the silence, Ran Qingmo slowly stepped out of that glowing passage.

A scene of waterside pavilions and terraces entered her eyes. It was none other than the already ruined Sakura Leech Lake.

The vermilion corridor had collapsed across the lake’s surface. The water was pitted and broken. Green blood flowing from the corpses of the leeches had dyed the once-clear lake into a muddy mess.

Her cool gaze swept over everything one piece at a time. Then Ran Qingmo slowly turned her eyes back behind her.

Unlike the ruined pavilions and terraces around the lake, the enormous cherry tree in the center remained completely intact, even after enduring the world-shattering aftermath of Tian Yan and the mad woman’s battle.

There was not even a single pit on the platform beneath it.

Ran Qingmo stared at the withered Beguiling Divine Sakura for several breaths, then slowly walked a full circle around it.

As she moved, cold air spread from the blade in her hand. Ice crystals visible to the naked eye rapidly crept outward, freezing the surrounding lake water solid, along with the leech corpses floating within it.

After circling once, she stopped quietly at the entrance to the tree hollow.

Fifteen minutes later, the glow on the black sword’s blade had reached its limit.

Ran Qingmo raised her fair hand slightly, then suddenly swept it through the air.

The sword tip moved like a brush.

As it traced across the air, a thin line appeared, like a seam carved into space itself.

In the very next instant, the thin line swept dozens of meters forward and stamped itself onto the massive trunk of the Beguiling Divine Sakura.

Frigid energy spread across the tree’s body at terrifying speed.

At the same time, the already-frozen lake around it began to churn. Eight enormous ice spikes shot up from within, stabbing straight toward the giant cherry tree at the center.

BOOM! Wood chips flew everywhere. By the time the world seemed to snap back into focus, the center of Sakura Leech Lake had become a frozen hell of ice crystals.

The trunk of the Beguiling Divine Sakura had been cut halfway through at the middle. The crimson sap spilling from the wound was frozen solid by shards of ice. From top to bottom, eight points on the trunk had been pierced straight through by the eight giant icicles that had risen from the lake.

Bone-chilling cold spread up and down from every place where the ice spikes touched the tree.

In an instant, the Beguiling Divine Sakura had become an enormous ice sculpture.

But when she saw this, Ran Qingmo’s expression did not relax in the slightest. Instead, a hint of seriousness appeared in her cool, quiet eyes. She had not cut through the Beguiling Divine Sakura.

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