The Game with Fairies

Under the dim light of the oil lamp, Li Muyang glanced at his adopted sister on the bed and said,

“I’ll just sleep on the floor. Doctor Lin said your injuries need rest, and you shouldn’t move carelessly. Otherwise, the demonic energy inside you will continue to corrode your body.”

“It’s just the beginning. The next few days are going to be increasingly difficult for you.”

“I’ll go to Yunxiao City again tomorrow. How much money do you have left? Give it all to me, and I’ll buy some spiritual medicine for you.”

“Also, where did our father’s friend say to meet? The sect gate will close in three days, so it should be about time.”

“When I get back with the spiritual medicine, I’ll refine it for your healing.”

Li Muyang had simply planned out the next few days.

The girl curled up under the blanket shrank her neck and said cautiously,

“Um… Brother, you’re not angry, are you? I’ve spent all your money…”

If it were her brother from before, he definitely wouldn’t have been willing to spend that money on her.

The girl nervously watched Li Muyang, carefully observing his expression.

Li Muyang glared at her and said, “I’ll write you an IOU. Consider this money as a loan from you to me, and you can pay me back when you can earn money.”

Li Yuechan felt embarrassed after noticing Li Muyang’s displeasure, so she quickly changed the subject.

“When I left home, Auntie gave me thirty-five taels of gold, which I converted into banknotes and hid away.”

“They’re hidden in a book I carry with me. Brother, you can find it if you look in my room tomorrow.”

The amount the girl mentioned made Li Muyang pause.

“How much?”

Thirty-five taels…?

He only got twenty taels, but this adopted sister got thirty-five.

Who is the real child here?

Li Muyang was momentarily speechless.

Li Yuechan hurriedly explained, “When I left, Auntie said she wanted me to carry more. If you, uh… if you run out of money, she told me to give you some.”

This answer made Li Muyang understand.

It seemed that the original owner of the body was so unreliable, always squandering money on Ning Wan’er, that his mother didn’t trust him and thus gave a portion of the gold to his adopted sister.

That way, his adopted sister could still bail him out if Li Muyang ran out of money in the Demon Sect.

Tsk… The original owner of this body was really worrisome.

Li Muyang shook his head and said, “Alright, go to sleep. You won’t have such leisure tomorrow.”

Doctor Lin had said that once the residual demonic energy began to corrode the body, various complications would arise, such as high fever, unconsciousness, and increasingly intense stabbing pain… The worst is yet to come for this girl! ɽА

After preparing his makeshift bed, Li Muyang blew out the oil lamp and lay down in a corner of the room.

The hard cold earthen floor was even more uncomfortable than the hard bed.

Li Muyang rolled around a couple of times, but he’s still not used to it.

In the darkness, the girl on the bed suddenly spoke up, her voice hesitant,

“Um… Brother, can I ask you a question?”

In the darkness, Li Muyang glanced at the bed, barely making out a pair of watery eyes in the dim light, watching him intently.

It seemed very serious.

“What is it?” Li Muyang asked, frowning.

This little girl, why was she being so mysterious?

After a long silence in the dark, the girl on the bed suddenly took a deep breath and covered her head with the blanket.

“Never mind, you should sleep, Brother. I’m going to sleep too.”

Soon, the sound of the girl’s even breathing could be heard from the bed as if she had fallen asleep.

Not bothering to ask further, Li Muyang thought that girls of this age might just be like that, inexplicably mysterious.

He closed his eyes, trying to will himself to sleep.

Because of the disruption caused by his adopted sister, Li Muyang hadn’t been able to eat his spiritual rice or play games that night.

He couldn’t very well cook high-grade spiritual rice in front of her…

Fortunately, Li Muyang had already dug a secret little cellar in the house, where he hid the spiritual rice, so he wasn’t worried about thieves even if someone broke into the house.

After some time, Li Muyang quickly fell asleep.

When he woke up the next morning, Li Yuechan’s condition had indeed worsened significantly.

Her face was even paler, her body trembling slightly from the internal flesh being corroded, seemingly enduring severe pain.

He could faintly see a pale red beneath her fair skin on her right shoulder.

Her entire right arm and half of her right face were also covered in this dull blood-red.

If the condition continued to deteriorate, all the flesh that turned dark red would rot away.

At this moment, Li Yuechan was no longer the lively and clever girl from the night before.

She lay weakly curled up in the blanket, her body shaking, and said to Li Muyang,

“Brother… don’t lift my blanket…”

The girl seemed to be in so much pain that her consciousness was becoming delirious and talking nonsense.

Who in their right mind would lift her blanket for no reason?

Li Muyang couldn’t help but sigh after seeing her like this.

Although he didn’t have much affection for this adopted sister, seeing such a young girl suffer in front of him still stirred his compassion.

Li Muyang sat by the bed and talked to her until her consciousness cleared up a bit and the pain in her body temporarily subsided, then he got up and left the house.

He arrived at Li Yuechan’s cottage at the foot of the mountain and found the banknotes tucked inside a book.

Afterwards, he made a trip to Yunxiao City and purchased spiritual medicine worth thirty-five taels of gold.

By chance, he ran into the friend of his old man, Li Damu, who handed over the spiritual medicine he brought.

These medicines were prepared by Li Damu for the siblings in the demonic sect to cultivate with, and their value was much higher than what Li Muyang had anticipated.

But now, Li Muyang had brought all of them back to the small house and refined them completely using the medicine cauldron.

After all the spiritual medicines were successfully refined, he produced three bowls of medicinal liquid.

Li Muyang carefully woke up the girl who was in pain and unconscious, and had her drink the three steaming bowls of medicinal liquid.

After consuming the three bowls, about half of the black lines on the girl’s right wrist disappeared.

The blood-red color on her right cheek had mostly faded, the blood-red on her shoulder had completely vanished, and only the part of her arm below the elbow remained red.

With the nourishment from the spiritual liquid and the removal of the demonic energy, the girl was finally in much less pain.

She came to her senses, looked at Li Muyang in front of her, and at the opened medicine chests beside her.

Smelling the fragrance of the medicine in the air, Li Yuechan blinked.

“Brother, where did you get so many spiritual medicines…”

Li Muyang sighed, “I’ve refined all the spiritual medicines sent from home, but unfortunately, it’s still not quite enough.”

The girl fell silent.

She looked at the pile of empty medicine chests in the room, then at the black line on her wrist, and finally murmured hesitantly.

“…Actually, you don’t have to worry about me. It doesn’t matter if this flesh rots away. Maybe I can find a way to regenerate flesh and blood once I reach a higher level of cultivation or if I get promoted to the Inner Sect.”

“Brother, you don’t have to worry anymore. It’s just an arm, it won’t affect anything.”

The girl quietly comforted Li Muyang.

Li Muyang, however, glanced at her with a blank expression.

“Do I look like I’m worried about you?”

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