Senior Sister Went Mad After My Fake Death Chapter 65

When Jiang Chunai woke up again, she only felt a slight pain in her head—as if wisps of clouds were churning in her brain, chaotic and throbbing.
She subconsciously frowned, her thoughts as if wrapped in a thick fog, and it was difficult for her to become clear for a while.
Finally, after the pain had subsided a little, she opened her eyes.
What she saw was a carved bed top with an ancient charm. The bed curtains were thin, like smoke or mist, and the light from outside could be faintly seen through them.
She turned her head slightly and saw on the sandalwood low table beside her, a few spiritual flowers that were still stained with dew. A little closer, and there was a familiar figure sitting there.
She looked a bit familiar. She searched her memory for who this person was, and suddenly she felt a pain in her right ring finger.
The pain in her right finger quickly made her realize what had happened.
Her throat was hoarse, and she hissed. The sound quickly attracted the attention of the person sitting next to her.
That person turned around, a pair of round eyes—oh no, not a pair, she had two pairs of round eyes, which rolled up and down. Wasn’t that Zhi Zhi?
Zhi Zhi was sleepy at this time, but when she heard the “hiss” behind her, she suddenly woke up, turned her head to look at Jiang Chunai on the bed, and got up in surprise and joy, and ran to her side with small steps. “Senior Sister Chunai! Senior Sister Chunai! You’re finally awake!”
“Sob, sob… do you know, you’ve been sleeping for many days, Zhi Zhi has been very worried about you,” Zhi Zhi said, and at the same time, she was busy wiping away her four streams of clear tears. Her appearance was no different from what Jiang Chunai remembered. “It’s good that you’re awake, Zhi Zhi will go and call Senior Sister Chang and Sister Lan Xu right now!”
“I’ll go and call them right now and tell them that you’re awake,” Zhi Zhi was still sobbing. After she finished, she turned to leave, but she was stopped by Jiang Chunai, “Zhi Zhi, wait, I have something to ask you.”
Zhi Zhi retracted her foot that had been suspended in mid-air.
Zhi Zhi’s big eyes were bulging as she looked at Jiang Chunai seriously. “Senior Sister Chunai, what do you want to ask Zhi Zhi?”
Jiang Chunai endured the slight discomfort in her whole body and said, “I just heard you say that I was in a coma. How long was I in a coma?”
Zhi Zhi was the best at calculating time. She cleared her throat and told Jiang Chunai everything one by one.
As it turned out, after she had walked out of the Youyun Hall in a daze that day, she had fainted not long after. Fortunately, Master Yu Lingzi and Senior Sister Chang Xin had arrived in time to protect her. Senior Sister Chang Xin had originally said she would assist Master, but seeing her injured, she had still taken her back to Yanqiu first.
Hearing this, Jiang Chunai’s chaotic thoughts gradually returned. She sorted out the whole story and had a general idea of what had happened after she had fainted.
“What did Senior Sister Chang need to assist Master with?” Jiang Chunai suddenly became excited and grabbed Zhi Zhi’s wrist. “After I fainted, what did Master do to the Nether Realm?”
Zhi Zhi was startled and stammered, “D-did what? Ah? I-I…”
Senior Sister had been in a coma for two months, directly missing summer to autumn. And Senior Sister Chang and Sister Lan Xu had things to do—although Sister Lan Xu was also a very considerate person and often came to see Senior Sister Chunai.
But in fact, the one who had been guarding Senior Sister Chunai all along was her, Zhi Zhi.
The woman who had been in a daze for so long had suddenly woken up, and Zhi Zhi had not reacted.
Jiang Chunai finally calmed down and realized that she shouldn’t make things difficult for Zhi Zhi. After all, Zhi Zhi had not been there that day.
Zhi Zhi thought for a moment and said, “How about this, Senior Sister Chunai, you’ve been sleeping for two months, we’ve all been very worried about you. You wait here first, I’ll go and call them over!”
Jiang Chunai nodded.
Zhi Zhi immediately got up and walked towards the threshold. At the end, she even leaned on the threshold and looked at Jiang Chunai with watery eyes. “Senior Sister Chunai, I’ll be right back. You must not miss me too much! Also, you have to think carefully about how to talk to the three of us later!”
“…Think carefully, about what?” Jiang Chunai was confused. When she looked up again, she found that Zhi Zhi at the door had disappeared like a gust of wind.
She didn’t know what to think about.
But soon, Jiang Chunai knew what she had to think about.
Because as soon as Chang Xin and Lan Xu saw her, the questions came pouring in.
“Chunai! You’re finally awake! We’ve been so worried about you for the past two months. There were so many people who wanted to see you that they could have broken this fragile threshold. If it weren’t for Zhi Zhi stopping them, you would have become a public spectacle in our Yanqiu!” Chang Xin said cheerfully.
Jiang Chunai forced a smile and was about to say a few polite words when Lan Xu on the side said very seriously, “Chunai, I have something to ask you. About you.”
“Ah? About me?” Her heart was even more confused. “Did something happen during the two months I was unconscious?”
Compared to Lan Xu having something to ask her, Jiang Chunai also had something hidden in her own heart. She also had something to ask.
However, in the end, it was Lan Xu who spoke first.
Lan Xu gently lifted a corner of the brocade quilt covering Jiang Chunai, her gaze sincere as she said, “Chunai, take out your right hand and let us see.”
“Mmm…” As soon as these words were spoken, Jiang Chunai immediately understood.
There was nothing different about her right hand.
Except for the lines that had been wildly entangled when she had something to do with Han Xiao, except for the severed ring finger, there was nothing else.
Jiang Chunai slowly took out her hand, and at the same time, she did not forget to throw out her own question, “Alright, I’ll let you see. Speaking of which, I haven’t seen you all for a long time. Why are you so serious as soon as we meet?”
Chang Xin’s eyes curved into a smile as she said, “Lan Xu has always been serious, and life and death are also major matters, so we have to be even more careful.”
Jiang Chunai: “I remember, the last time we met was at the foot of the mountain… at that time, we were being pursued by the people of the Mengling Immortal Manor. I followed Han Xiao, what about you two?”
After she finished, her hand was also raised.
With this raise, Jiang Chunai’s eyes widened. Unlike the half-finger that was expected to be exposed, her right hand was properly bandaged.
From the clean appearance of the silk cloth, it was changed daily.
“Open it,” Lan Xu’s voice was low, and she did not pay attention to Jiang Chunai’s question.
Her serious expression made Jiang Chunai feel a bit uncomfortable.
They all knew what a shocking fact was hidden under this clean white silk cloth.
Jiang Chunai took a deep breath. “Alright, I’ll open it. By the way, Zhi Zhi, Sister Lan Xu looks anxious. Why don’t you be happy and tell me how you two escaped?”
She vaguely remembered that at that time, she was on the verge of death, and later she had also sought an answer from Han Xiao. Han Xiao had said that she had not been in time to save them.
Zhi Zhi nodded and quickly took over, “It should be before Han Xiao left, she cast some kind of protective spell on me and Sister Lan Xu. When we woke up, there was already a white halo around our bodies. Han Xiao protected us, right?”
As her voice fell, the white silk cloth that was wrapped in circles also unraveled and slowly fell down, stopping at the same time as Zhi Zhi’s words, revealing a half-severed ring finger.
“What is going on?” the previously silent Lan Xu asked with a very serious expression.
She slowly, slowly moved her gaze from Jiang Chunai’s severed ring finger to Jiang Chunai’s face. “Chunai, when Senior Sister Chang brought you back from the Crimson Smelting City that day, your finger was like this.”
“Tell me, what happened to you in the Crimson Smelting City? I heard…” at this point, a hint of hesitation appeared on Chang Xin’s face, as if it were difficult to say directly, “The day Master went, it happened to be the day of your grand wedding with Han Xiao.”
On the day Jiang Chunai had returned in a coma, Lan Xu had been on tenterhooks and had imagined many possibilities.
But Master Yu Lingzi had not revealed any more to her. No matter how much she asked, Yu Lingzi would not say.
Finally, Yu Lingzi had been annoyed by her and had thrown out a sentence, “After Jiang Chunai wakes up, you can ask her yourself.”
The scene of the grand wedding day flashed before Jiang Chunai’s eyes like a light and shadow.
She had tightly held the Zhu Nian dagger and resolutely stabbed it into Han Xiao’s chest. But Han Xiao had seemed to have gone mad, her hands tightly holding her hand, and instead, she had forcefully pushed the dagger deeper into her own body.
How heart-wrenching, how mad, how resolute.
And then, Han Xiao had threatened her, and she had not hesitated, and blood had splattered on her ring finger.
So-called repayment, it had clearly been two months, but to Jiang Chunai, it was still vivid and undeniable, as if it had been deeply carved into her blood and bones.
She could not forget, she could only remember.
…How should she say it?
Seeing that she had not spoken for a long time, Lan Xu said worriedly, “Chunai, tell me, what exactly happened between you and Han Xiao that day? Why did you lose a finger? Did she attack you after she realized you had other intentions?”
As she spoke, her eyes seemed to be spewing flames.
“No, it’s not like that,” Jiang Chunai shook her head decisively, a stiff smile on her lips. “It’s nothing, she didn’t cut me.”
“She wouldn’t cut me.”
However, Lan Xu did not believe Jiang Chunai’s words.
She hummed softly. “If she wanted to cut off your finger, I certainly wouldn’t be surprised. Chunai, have you forgotten how you were killed by her in the Cave of Severed Affections before?”
A sword through the heart, without even giving an explanation. This was Han Xiao.
“No, it’s not,” Jiang Chunai shook her head in denial.
Perhaps because she had just woken up from a serious illness, Jiang Chunai’s face was still pale. She did not want to get entangled with Lan Xu on this matter anymore.
So she said, “I cut off the finger myself.”
“Huh?!” the three people present all widened their eyes in surprise and let out a sound of disbelief.
Zhi Zhi was the most surprised. “Senior Sister Chunai, you-what did you say, you cut off your own finger?”
So scary, I’ll never go on Senior Sister Chunai’s hand again!
Humans are too scary. How can they just cut off their own fingers at the slightest disagreement?
Jiang Chunai nodded, her tone extremely flat as she said, “Yes, I cut it off myself. It can also be considered to have cut off Han Xiao’s thoughts.”
And even more so, to have cut off her own thoughts.
She knew that Lan Xu was a serious person. If she didn’t explain clearly, she would probably stay here today, waiting for her to explain clearly.
So Jiang Chunai briefly recounted what had happened that night.
She had waited for the late Han Xiao in the wedding chamber. When Han Xiao had approached her and was about to put the ring on her, she had taken out Zhu Nian and had stabbed it into her chest.
She was about to leave, but the ring on her ring finger had acted up and had kept her. She had used the still-bleeding Zhu Nian to cut off her finger.
There was no other embellishment, no love and hate, no determination.
Only a dry description of actions.
After hearing this, the other three still had an expression of disbelief. “Just-just like that, you cut off your own finger?”
Lan Xu was stunned on the spot, her heart filled with mixed feelings.
Jiang Chunai’s narration was too calm, so calm that it was devoid of any emotion, as if her cutting off her own finger was a matter of course.
…A matter of course, an ordinary thing, but if it were really an ordinary feeling, would it be at the cost of cutting off a finger?
Even though Jiang Chunai’s expression was as calm as water, as indifferent as possible, Lan Xu’s heart was still filled with a thousand waves.
She could not imagine how tragic it was when Jiang Chunai had cut off her finger.
She couldn’t imagine it.
Such a calm, warm-hearted Chunai, to actually have such a tragic moment…
A complex look flashed in Lan Xu’s eyes. The originally fiery emotions were as if a basin of cold water had been poured over them, and most of them were instantly extinguished.
She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but she felt as if something was stuck in her throat and could not make a sound. After a long while, she finally let out a long breath.
“Hmm, that’s all,” Jiang Chunai said softly.
Lan Xu closed her eyes slightly, and when she opened them again, the light in her eyes had dimmed a lot. She did not ask any more questions.
Jiang Chunai looked at Lan Xu fixedly, capturing her every subtle expression.
She had originally thought that she would have to say something more to Lan Xu, but Lan Xu’s reaction was not like that.
“So that’s how it is,” Lan Xu replied in a low voice, and actually changed the subject. “When we woke up, we were about to go to Yanqiu, but we ran into the fleeing Yan Linglong.”
Jiang Chunai’s eyes showed surprise. “Yan Linglong? Where is she now?”
“She came to Yanqiu with us, but she left not long after, because she said…”
Jiang Chunai looked at her intently and said, “What did she say?”
“She said that she had killed Cliff Master Mei and had a guilty conscience, so she left Yanqiu.”
Jiang Chunai took a sharp breath.
Tears suddenly welled up in her eyes.
Cliff Master Mei had also passed away.
Before, when she had been in the Bright Snow Sect, the entire sect had not treated her well…
Only Cliff Master Mei had been an exception.
She had protected her, taught her swordsmanship, and also taught her principles.
Even after she had died, she had still worked for her.
In her entire life, she had not very formally thanked Cliff Master Mei.
Regretful emotions came one after another like a tide.
Suddenly, a “thud, thud” of footsteps came from the door. A fellow disciple rushed over, panting, and said, “Sen-Senior Sisters!”
“Master is calling for you!”
Yu Lingzi was still high up on the great hall. But this time, she was not holding a bottle of immortal dew in her hand, and at the foot of the steps, the immortal flowers were still blooming vigorously, competing with each other.
Jiang Chunai had originally said she would bow—but Yu Lingzi had stopped her. “There’s no need to bow. Your injuries haven’t healed yet. Besides, we at Yanqiu don’t really do this.”
Jiang Chunai nodded silently and said, “Yes.”
This sect, Yanqiu, the distinction between high and low was not as obvious as in other sects. They mostly addressed each other as sisters, without a clear distinction of rank.
On the contrary, after Jiang Chunai had awakened and had recovered her former consciousness, she had brought the set of rules from the Bright Snow Sect to Yanqiu.
To this day, Jiang Chunai still suspected that Yu Lingzi’s making her kowtow up the celestial steps, one step at a time, had been a way of “teasing” her.
“Your hand, does it still hurt?” Yu Lingzi got straight to the point.
Jiang Chunai lowered her head and answered honestly, “If Master doesn’t ask, it won’t hurt.”
Just like some memories, if they were not uncovered, they would always be silent.
Hearing this, Yu Lingzi smiled. “What a ‘if Master doesn’t ask, it won’t hurt.’ Then it’s better if I don’t ask. But after all, it’s your right hand, and it’s very important. I still have to get you a new joint. I’ll go to the Pond of Rebirth later, get some water, and send it to you.”
So it turned out that to recover a joint, one had to be conscious.
Otherwise, Yu Lingzi would have done it for her when Jiang Chunai was unconscious.
Jiang Chunai thanked her and suddenly asked, “Master… did you succeed?”
“Huh?” the others looked strange and were stunned by Jiang Chunai’s seemingly out-of-the-blue question. “Succeeded in what?”
But Yu Lingzi understood her meaning and said faintly, “After you fainted, I ignited the Youyun Hall, and I also collected many divine consciousnesses and souls in the bottle of immortal dew…”
Hearing this, Jiang Chunai’s heart suddenly jumped to her throat. She was anxious to know what happened next.
However, the following words made her heart even more suspended.
“After I came back, I carefully looked at those divine consciousnesses. They were all demons, that’s right. But among them, there was no Chongji.”
No Chongji, in other words, they had not succeeded in capturing Chongji.
Jiang Chunai’s eyelashes trembled. “There’s no Chongji among them? Where did He flee to?”
She had gone through all that trouble, but had not gotten the outcome she deserved.
Did she not succeed?
When she calmed down and closed her eyes, her ears were filled with the sound of the demon god’s scream in the vast sea of fire.
At that time, she had thought that she had surely succeeded.
But now her Master was telling her that she had not found Chongji’s divine consciousness.
Then what was her contribution, their contribution, and Cliff Master Mei’s death?
Yu Lingzi saw the disappointment in her eyes and said again, “But don’t worry too much. At the time of the Youyun Hall, Chongji must have been seriously injured. Besides, He has not been fully resurrected. After Han Xiao’s physical body is destroyed, He will flee to other places.”
“So what we have to do now is to find the rest of Him and then seal Him again?”
Yu Lingzi nodded slightly. “Exactly.”
Jiang Chunai still had some confusion in her heart, but Chang Xin’s mouth was faster, and she asked frankly, “Master, after so long, you still haven’t told us the origin of the demon god Chongji’s resurrection and the Spirit Spring Rejuvenation Formation…”
“Chongji was sealed in ancient times, and it has been tens of thousands of years now. Did He make a lot of effort to plan this resurrection? The Spirit Spring Rejuvenation Formation has now been activated nine times, and there’s only one last time. Will He willingly leave?”
The implication was that for them to go and find Chongji’s remnant soul like this, was it a bit too easy?
Yu Lingzi glanced at Chang Xin and said, “Chang Xin, you have to know that we at Yanqiu, and even all the immortal sects, have made no small sacrifices to seal Chongji.”
Chang Xin was silent for a moment and did not speak.
Yu Lingzi’s gaze suddenly sharpened, and she swept a cold glance over the people at the foot of the steps, and then said slowly, “What Chang Xin said is also right. There are some things that you should indeed know.”
“Chang Xin asked correctly. This demon, Chongji, has been around for tens of thousands of years. To rely on a few Spirit Spring Rejuvenation Formations, it is actually not enough to resurrect Him. And even the Spirit Spring Rejuvenation Formation that you know of still has one last formation. Let’s talk about other things first.”
Everyone looked at Yu Lingzi with confusion and curiosity, waiting for her to continue.
“Do you still remember the Pearl of Retrospection? Or do you still remember the ‘six ancient divine artifacts’?”
Lan Xu said, “Of course I remember. The six ancient divine artifacts, the Pearl of Retrospection, the God-Binding Rope, the Decisive Light Lamp, the Mirror of Rebirth, the Formation-Breaking Crossbow, and the Wandering Soul Candle… each has its own wondrous use.”
Yu Lingzi said, “Yes, each has its own wondrous use, but what have you heard of the legends of these divine artifacts in recent years?”
Lan Xu looked at her Master with confusion. “What more? The six ancient divine artifacts, haven’t they all been related to Han Xiao recently? She first betrayed her sect, and at that time, she also wanted to snatch the sect’s divine artifact, but she was defeated and fled.”
“Later she did not submit, but chose to go to the Wunian Sect and snatch their sect’s magical artifact… and she also caused trouble everywhere for the remaining divine artifacts, and activated the Spirit Spring Rejuvenation Formation.”
At this point, Lan Xu’s words involuntarily stopped, and a sudden terror flashed in her eyes.
The other people’s throats also rolled.
Wherever a divine artifact was, Han Xiao would cause trouble there, and the Spirit Spring Rejuvenation Formation would take effect there.
But if the Spirit Spring Rejuvenation Formation had to be activated a total of ten times—that was far more than the number of the six divine artifacts!
Yu Lingzi cast a look of approval. “Exactly. The so-called six ancient divine artifacts, before the Spirit Spring Rejuvenation Formation had been activated multiple times, were a cover, attracting people to go one after another.”
“They are also just a part of Chongji’s conspiracy. This can be seen from the Pearl of Retrospection. Here, look in my hand, this is the real Pearl of Retrospection, not a fake,” Yu Lingzi said with a smile, and a dark blue pearl with a shimmering halo suddenly appeared in her palm.
Everyone still looked at Yu Lingzi with confusion.
They had heard before that the Pearl of Retrospection was the most faked of all the divine artifacts on the market. Even the Pearl of Retrospection that Mei Shengchi had asked Jiang Chunai to find before was a fake.
How could Master be so sure that this Pearl of Retrospection was real?
The smile on Yu Lingzi’s face did not diminish. “I think you must all be wondering why I think so… take a look.”
The Pearl of Retrospection suddenly floated into the air, like a dark blue spirit butterfly that had broken free from its bonds, and flew gracefully into the high sky.
It was as beautiful as a dream. Through its glass-like outer shell, one could seem to see something more inside.
Everyone looked up, their eyes filled with a mixture of surprise and doubt, wanting to know what their Master was going to show them—
but Yu Lingzi’s figure was still graceful, her expression as calm as water. She just quietly looked at the Pearl of Retrospection that had already risen to mid-air.
After the pearl had hovered steadily, her figure flashed, like a light spring breeze, and in the blink of an eye, she appeared under the pearl. She raised her hand lightly, and the Pearl of Retrospection, like an obedient fledgling, obediently fell back into her palm.
But who could have guessed that the next moment, the smile on Yu Lingzi’s gentle face would instantly disappear, like the warm sun in spring suddenly being covered by dark clouds. She suddenly raised her wrist and forcefully threw the Pearl of Retrospection towards the ground.
With a crisp “crack,” the Pearl of Retrospection, which had seemed to be indestructible, instantly shattered, and from the place where the fragments flew, wisps of essence and divine consciousness slowly seeped out.
The power also leaped to the front of everyone.
Chang Xin was horrified. “This-what is this?”
“This is the essence that Chongji has collected. Those who died in the Spirit Spring Rejuvenation Formation reside in such pearls, in such divine artifacts.”
Lan Xu stammered, “Master, you mean to say that Chongji used the Pearl of Retrospection, used the divine artifacts, to collect essence?” even though she had already guessed a thing or two from Senior Sister Chang’s words, when the truth was revealed, she was still in disbelief.
The six ancient divine artifacts, which had been passed down to this day, it was not just one Han Xiao who had fought for them!
It should be known that the six ancient divine artifacts had been passed down to this day, and the disputes they had experienced were definitely not just caused by the birth of one Han Xiao. Long before Han Xiao’s appearance, whether it was the hundred immortal sects or the emperors of the human world, they had all fought to the death to possess these divine artifacts. The scene was chaotic and full of disputes.
Just like a rare treasure, of priceless value, it was perfectly normal for people to go through a lot of trouble to fight for it, and to shed blood. No one would suspect that there was a conspiracy in it.
This was human nature.
Everyone at the foot of the steps couldn’t help but feel a chill spreading from their spines, and a layer of goosebumps instantly appeared on their backs.
“Chongji used the legend to collect the essence of living beings all along. Whether it was the six ancient divine artifacts or the Spirit Spring Rejuvenation Formation, as long as someone used them, as long as someone activated them, they would all be nourishment for His resurrection,” Yu Lingzi’s tone was light. “The so-called ‘divine artifacts’ are just an excuse.”
But Zhi Zhi was still a bit hesitant. “Then are these divine artifacts useful?”
“Useful, of course they are useful. Chongji, that is one of the ten ancient gods. Although he was later sealed, before he was sealed, with his heaven-defying ability, how could it be a difficult thing for him to secretly send his own spiritual energy into these six divine artifacts?” Yu Lingzi paused and then continued, “The reason I know is thanks to Cliff Master Mei, even though she has already passed away.”
She murmured and sighed.
“Every time I used the Pearl of Retrospection, my spiritual energy would dissipate a little. Coincidentally, Cliff Master Mei had used the God-Binding Rope before, and the feeling was exactly the same. You tell me, after so many years, this strange commonality has never been discovered. What do you think?”
“Or is it that the people who have owned the divine artifacts in the past have all kept their mouths shut?” Yu Lingzi’s tone was a bit sarcastic. “The reason why divine artifacts are called divine artifacts is that in the eyes of everyone, they are rare treasures that can bring supreme power and glory. Everyone wants to possess them and rely on them to command the wind and rain in this world, to be above others. In order to monopolize the benefits of the divine artifacts, they are afraid that others will know the secrets, so they all keep their mouths shut, only thinking of their own interests, and completely ignoring the possible hidden dangers. It is precisely this kind of selfish thought that has given the malicious Chongji an opportunity.”
Using divine artifacts and formations to collect essence, and then residing in Han Xiao’s physical body, to see her stir up trouble and watch from the sidelines, it must have been a very pleasant feeling.
“…But fortunately, we destroyed the physical body that He could reside in,” at this point, Yu Lingzi even smiled at Jiang Chunai. “Thank you, Chunai. On this matter, you have done a lot.”
However, Jiang Chunai could only force a smile, and could not even laugh.
The moment she thought of the deceased Cliff Master Mei, she felt uneasy.
Even though her Master’s tone was very confident, they had, after all, not found where Chongji’s remnant soul had gone.
Even if there was no Han Xiao, someone else would appear. What if they became His host at that time?
However, Yu Lingzi seemed not to want to continue this topic. She waved her hand and reminded Jiang Chunai, “That’s all for today. You can go back first. Later, I’ll have someone send you a ‘thing.’ You’ll definitely be happy when you see it.”
“Definitely be happy, a thing?” Jiang Chunai was puzzled.
Yu Lingzi was still smiling. “Perhaps not a ‘thing’… hmm, it should also be a life, right?”