Senior Sister Went Mad After My Fake Death Chapter 70

The Yanqiu group walking ahead soon noticed something was wrong behind them.
How was there only Han Xiao? Where had Jiang Chunai gone?
Lan Xu was still the one most concerned about Jiang Chunai. She noticed first and quickly shot a not-so-friendly gaze at Han Xiao.
—She had always harbored a certain dislike for Han Xiao.
Even though she no longer had other feelings for Jiang Chunai.
She held no goodwill for Han Xiao, and Han Xiao returned the sentiment.
Han Xiao was still lost in the feeling of the little red-and-white snake coiled around her wrist. By the time she looked up, Lan Xu had already been staring at her with that unfriendly gaze for quite some time.
Their eyes met.
Eyes immersed in joy met eyes filled with a mix of anger and confusion.
One in front, one behind.
Lan Xu did not retract her gaze, continuing to look Han Xiao up and down.
Han Xiao’s previously relaxed expression instantly froze into ice.
“What are you looking at?” Han Xiao lowered her hand, the smile vanishing from her face, her tone exceptionally stiff. “Since you can still see me, you should know that the path is forward.”
She could read the ill will in Lan Xu’s eyes at a glance.
…Fortunately, she had no fond feelings for her either.
It was merely a fleeting thought that had crossed her mind many years ago: whoever Jiang Chunai looked at, she would kill.
Who was Lan Xu?
Yes, Lan Xu was one of those “whomevers.”
Lan Xu was taken aback by her words, as if not expecting Han Xiao to be so stunningly direct. She paused for a moment before saying, “I’m not looking at you, don’t flatter yourself… Besides, don’t you know who I’m looking for?”
Han Xiao raised an eyebrow. “Then why are you still looking?”
The little red-and-white snake still coiled around Han Xiao’s wrist at this very moment:…
Han Xiao, really. It seems all those years pretending to be human had been for naught. No wonder she usually has such a cold and otherworldly demeanor; in reality, this is how she interacts with people normally.
Of course, Jiang Chunai wasn’t implying that Han Xiao was being normal right now.
Lan Xu clenched her fists in annoyance. “Han Xiao, I’ll say it again. I’m not looking at you. I’m just concerned about my junior sister!”
A smile tugged at Han Xiao’s lips as she corrected her in a light tone, “First of all, she is my junior sister.”
Lan Xu was clearly angered by this, a flush of crimson rising to her cheeks.
Zhi Zhi, who had been listening from the side, hurried over to break up the fight. “Alright, alright, no matter whose junior sister she is, she’s still Zhi Zhi’s Senior Sister!”
This was not untrue.
Whether in Yanqiu or the Bright Snow Sect, Zhi Zhi was Jiang Chunai’s junior sister.
But Zhi Zhi soon noticed something was amiss. “So, where did my Senior Sister go?”
Her four eyes darted around in confusion until she finally spotted a flash of red and white on Han Xiao’s wrist. Her eyes instantly lit up. “I know!”
“Found you, Senior Sister!” Zhi Zhi exclaimed happily, placing the little red-and-white snake in her own palm. She lowered her head, observing it from an extremely, extremely close distance while muttering, “Senior Sister Chunai, the day has finally come when you are in the palm of my hand!”
Jiang Chunai, being held strangely in someone’s palm:…
Why does that sound like I’m about to get some payback?
The Yanqiu group would soon meet up with the other immortal sects. Jiang Chunai considered that people from the Bright Snow Sect would be there, and since she was once a famous cultivator of that sect, it wouldn’t do to appear in the form of a small snake. So, she changed back into her human form.
No one reacted much, except for Zhi Zhi, who followed behind, sighing dramatically. “Senior Sister wasn’t even in my hand for very long… What a pity!”
Jiang Chunai silently thought to herself that it was no pity at all.
After all, someone still needed her support.
But after returning to her human form, Jiang Chunai found that the two who had been at each other’s throats just moments ago were still in a tense standoff.
Han Xiao, whom Jiang Chunai was most worried about, still maintained that lofty air. An occasional jab at Lan Xu was enough to make her fume.
“…Weren’t you looking back for Jiang Chunai? Is she paying you any mind now?” Han Xiao said coolly, despite her best efforts to suppress the smugness in her voice.
Lan Xu’s expression hadn’t improved since. “So-so what? Han Xiao, let me tell you, it’s only Chongji who’s gone. Who knows if we’ll be standing on opposite sides in the future.”
“That’s right. Which is why I was thinking of not letting you see my junior sister.”
“You!” Lan Xu was so angry she turned her face away and stalked ahead toward the main road to meet up with Mei Shengchi and the others without another word.
Although Jiang Chunai was dumbfounded by what she’d heard, she still found it amusing.
She gently tugged on the still-majestic Han Xiao and asked the still-recovering snake, “Aren’t you afraid Lan Xu will find out you have no spiritual energy, come over one night while you’re sleeping, and…”
As she spoke, Jiang Chunai made a neck-slitting gesture with her hand.
As the saying goes, strike while your enemy is down. Was Han Xiao truly not concerned at all?
Who would have thought that Han Xiao would prop her chin on her hand, think seriously for two breaths, and then look up, her expression a stark contrast to Jiang Chunai’s teasing, and say, word by word, “Never thought about it.”
Jiang Chunai was instantly speechless.
But just a little while ago, when she had just woken up and before the others found them, that hadn’t been Han Xiao’s response to her.
Was being abandoned more important to her than being beaten or ambushed?
Thinking of this, Jiang Chunai covered her mouth to hide a smile and deliberately slowed her pace.
When she looked up again, she saw Han Xiao still walking ahead, her posture still that of the Immortal Lord’s first disciple.
But her steps were even slower than before, deliberately waiting for her to catch up.
“What, waiting for me on purpose?” Even after catching up, Jiang Chunai didn’t forget to tease her.
Han Xiao gave Jiang Chunai a long look and said, “I can’t walk well right now.” She pointed to the small of her back. “It hurts. It just healed, so I can’t walk well.”
Jiang Chunai glanced at her, about to speak, but stopped as the words reached her throat.
Oh well. Some people are just… how to put it?
She couldn’t be bothered to expose her.
When the Yanqiu group met up with the hundred immortal sects, the atmosphere between them was equally tense.
Yu Lingzi and Mei Shengchi stood together on one side, while Dao Lord Qiming and the Mengling Immortal Manor’s Sect Leader, Su Yun, stood together on the other, glaring at them like tigers watching their prey.
Between them lay a person’s corpse.
It was a body Jiang Chunai and Han Xiao were all too familiar with—it was Su Yanchen.
“Dao Lord Qiming, an elder from your sect killed a junior from our sect—a junior with a limitless future, no less. Do you have an explanation?” the Mengling Sect Leader demanded aggressively.
Losing Su Jianqing had already been heartbreaking enough for her. This time, she was determined to get an answer from Dao Lord Qiming and Mei Shengchi.
Dao Lord Qiming’s brow was now furrowed enough to crush a fly. What was he supposed to say?
When Mei Shengchi had charged over earlier, she had clearly stated that she had already betrayed the sect! But Dao Lord Qiming couldn’t say that. That wasn’t a proper explanation.
The enraged Mengling Sect Leader did not notice the group that had emerged from the side.
Yu Lingzi, however, did. Her cool gaze swept over. “You’re back? Come to Master’s side. I knew you would find them.”
Mei Shengchi, who had looked like her mind was wandering, immediately changed her expression upon seeing Jiang Chunai and Han Xiao’s return. She actually smiled and went to greet them, asking solicitously, “I thought that if you fell into the sea, you might not make it out alive.”
“After all, sealing Chongji is a difficult task. Casualties… are to be expected…”
The faces of everyone present turned pale upon hearing this, especially the Mengling Sect Leader.
She was about to erupt, but Dao Lord Qiming suddenly pulled her sleeve and whispered something to her, likely about making plans later, which temporarily quelled her anger.
So, after Dao Lord Qiming finished speaking, the Mengling Sect Leader angrily took her people and left in a huff.
What followed was simple.
As soon as the Mengling Sect Leader left, Mei Shengchi—who almost never smiled—immediately wiped the grin from her face and gave a slight nod to Dao Lord Qiming. “Thank you, nonetheless, Fuguang.”
When they had counted the casualties earlier, she had discovered that her own prized disciple had died in the tsunami summoned by Chongji.
She didn’t expect that he would still be willing to help her.
Dao Lord Qiming felt a lump in his throat, but he still managed a strained smile, as if accepting the sacrifice made in the name of slaying demons and defending the righteous path.
After some pleasantries, they all decided where they would go next.
During her fifteen years of absence, Mei Shengchi had been living on a small island prepared for her by Yu Lingzi, far from the Central Plains. Thus, Jiang Chunai’s desire to visit her had to be abandoned.
Besides, Jiang Chunai had to take Han Xiao back to see their daughter.
This mother she had never met.
Tianli was curled up alone at home. Her mother had been gone for many days, and she had heard from others in the sect that many people had been dispatched to fight a decisive battle with the ancient demon god, Chongji.
…But she hasn’t come back after so long. Did something happen?
Just then, she heard a knock on the door.
Startled, Tianli scrambled up and gently opened the door.
The door opened inward. The shadow of the door and the tall shadow of a woman fell upon her, making Tianli stumble backward in fright. Then, she saw a face so exquisitely beautiful that it seemed she had only ever seen it in her dreams.
Standing beside the woman was her strict mother.
“M-Mother, you’re back?” Tianli smiled, revealing her two canine teeth.
Her mother had once told her that these were her egg teeth that hadn’t fully receded when she hatched, and they had turned out like this when she took human form.
Jiang Chunai nodded lightly. “I’m back.”
Tianli’s eyes darted around—
She keenly noticed that her mother’s hand was actually linked with that woman’s hand!
It wasn’t a full ten-fingered clasp, but at the very least, their pinkies were intertwined.
How could her always-stern mother make such a gesture? And with a woman she had never seen in real life, so intimately?
She knew that her mother had raised her alone. While no one in Yanqiu asked, people outside the sect would.
Her mother’s answer was always the same: she was a widow who had raised Tianli all by herself.
For so many years, that had never changed.
But… how to explain the current situation?
There was only one answer.
And so, without much hesitation, before either of them could speak, Tianli met Han Xiao’s gaze with fervent eyes. “Mother!”
The gentle expression on Han Xiao’s face suddenly changed.