Volume 3, Chapter 413 – Come, Sister Will Help You Bathe

The girl clutched her cheek, swollen red from the slap, and stared at Chi Muxue in terror.

She stumbled backward several steps, then dropped to her knees with a thud.

“Young Miss… I, I was wrong! Please show mercy, Young Miss!”

Chi Muxue said coldly, “I’m curious. Whose Chi family is this Chi family exactly?”

“Chi Xiyan is my cousin. Her mother, Chi Jingyun, is the current family head’s own younger sister.”

“With behavior like this, are you people not showing far too little respect for the direct line of the Chi family?”

The girl being questioned moved her mouth, about to speak, when she suddenly felt a chill against her neck. A long sword was already pressed there.

It was a silver white spirit sword.

The Young Miss’s natal sword.

The sharp edge of the blade broke her skin, and bright red blood slowly welled up from the wound.

The girl’s face turned deathly pale, and her whole body shook like a sieve.

Chi Muxue said, “Do you really think I wouldn’t dare kill someone?”

The girl pressed her forehead to the ground, not daring to say a word.

Chi Muxue’s gaze turned sharp. Her small hand gave a flick, and the long sword in her grip shot straight out.

With a clang, it lodged into the wall nearby.

Pinned there alongside it was another girl, who had been trying to sneak out through the window.

The blade had pierced through her shoulder, nailing her to the wall.

“So bold? Did you think I couldn’t see you?”

Chi Muxue glanced over coldly.

She raised her hand in a gesture, and the flying sword lodged in the wall shot back into her palm with a whistle.

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Blood that had been pooling in the girl’s wound gushed out, and she collapsed to the ground.

A sword cultivator! A Fourth Realm sword cultivator!

A nine year old Fourth Realm sword cultivator!

Although Chi Xiyan had no cultivation now, she had once been a sword cultivator herself, and she could clearly judge the girl’s sword cultivation just from watching her.

No matter how one looked at it, a nine year old at the Fourth Realm as a sword cultivator was simply astonishing.

Unless, this girl…

“A sword dao heavenly constitution… a reincarnated Sword Venerable…”

Chi Xiyan murmured to herself.

She was beginning to understand what this world was.

What the Illusory Heart Realm was showing her was another version of her life.

A world line in which Chi Muxue, the true heiress, had never been lost by the Chi family.

Chi Xiyan lowered her eyes slightly.

If Muxue had never been lost by the Chi family back then, she would have grown up like this instead, becoming the true eldest daughter of the Chi family.

She wouldn’t have drifted among common folk. She would have received the Chi family’s full support and cultivation resources.

A nine year old Fourth Realm sword cultivator, brilliant and extraordinary. That was the life that should have been hers.

Thinking of this, Chi Xiyan lowered her eyes a little more.

“So what this Illusory Heart Realm is showing…”

“What I fear most… is Muxue…”

“I’m afraid that Muxue will take away everything that belongs to me…”

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Chi Xiyan bowed her head, her eyes half closed.

Considering this possibility, she couldn’t quite name what she felt in her heart.

She had indeed worried about something like this before.

The Dao contract on Muxue existed precisely because of this.

This much, she couldn’t deny.

“Is the questioning of the formation trying to make me see this clearly?”

“Making me experience what my life would be like after everything is taken away by Muxue…”

Chi Xiyan closed her eyes.

She lifted one hand and pressed it gently against her own chest.

Her soaked clothing was unusually cold.

Even beneath that thin layer of fabric, where her heart kept beating without pause, her palm couldn’t feel even a trace of warmth.

Suddenly, a warm touch pressed against Chi Xiyan’s hand.

“!!”

Chi Xiyan jerked her head up and saw Chi Muxue’s young, lovely face in front of her.

Chi Xiyan instinctively tried to pull her hand back, but Chi Muxue held it firmly in place.

Burning warmth completely enveloped her cold palm.

“I’m sorry…” The girl pressed her lips together. “I didn’t expect they would go this far, completely without restraint… The Chi family has clearly been far too lenient in overseeing the schoolhouse…”

Chi Xiyan could feel the grip on her hand tighten a little more.

That malice, seeping through her skin, kept spreading into her body.

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“It’s alright now, it’s all over. Sister is here!” Chi Muxue held Chi Xiyan’s hand tightly.

Chi Xiyan watched her in silence, a trace of blankness in her eyes.

Chi Muxue raised her hand and gently brushed the back of it against Chi Xiyan’s cheek.

The warmth from the back of that hand, gentle and sunlit, made Chi Xiyan’s cheek stiffen slightly.

“You have no spiritual energy protecting you, you need to change into clean clothes, or you’ll catch a chill.”

As she spoke, she lowered her hand and glanced at the pool nearby.

As that comforting warmth left her cheek, Chi Xiyan felt as though something had been pulled out of her heart.

Chi Muxue tested the temperature of the pool water. “This water is too cold, and it’s not clean either. You were injured recently. Using this wouldn’t be good for your body.”

She turned her head and said to Chi Xiyan, “Xiyan, let me take you to my courtyard instead.”

“Huh?” Chi Xiyan looked up, her face full of surprise.

Chi Muxue frowned slightly. “… Little Xiyan is a girl, it wouldn’t be good if someone saw you like this. Let me just take you there directly.”

With that, she walked over and lightly pinched together a hand seal with her fingers.

The silver white spirit sword responded to her call and circled once around Chi Xiyan.

Chi Xiyan found the scenery around her shifting rapidly.

A dizzying sensation washed over her, and when it passed, she found herself deep inside a room both familiar and strange.

Familiar, because this was Chi Xiyan’s own room in reality.

Strange, because the furnishings and decor of this room were completely different from what she remembered.

This was… Muxue’s room.

The atmosphere of the room carried Muxue’s distinct style.

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Chi Xiyan looked up at the girl before her. “Was that just now… teleportation?”

“Oh, you’re asking about that.” Chi Muxue waved her hand casually. “It’s just a small trick I learned after fusing my natal sword into the manor’s protective formation. Not worth mentioning.”

So it was the Chi family’s great formation…

Chi Xiyan felt a complicated taste rise in her heart.

In her own memory, the right to use the Chi family’s great formation had always been firmly held by Chi Jingwen alone.

Even Chi Xiyan, as the eldest daughter of the Chi family, had no authority to access it.

Yet here, Chi Muxue could not only access the Chi family’s great formation, but could even fuse her own natal sword into it, drawing on its power.

So this was the true treatment given to the eldest daughter of the Chi family.

Chi Xiyan curved her lips in a bitter smile.

Chi Muxue didn’t notice her expression. She pushed the door open, called in a few maidservants, and gave them a few instructions.

Chi Xiyan heard her, and understood that Muxue was having them prepare hot water and bath medicine.

She looked again at the bathing pool in the room.

A familiar feeling rose up in Chi Xiyan’s heart.

Could this girl possibly be planning to…

Just as Chi Xiyan’s thoughts spiraled, Chi Muxue walked over with a bright smile, a towel now in her hands.

“Come, little Xiyan, take off your clothes first. Sister will help you bathe.”

Chi Xiyan’s mind went blank the instant she heard this.

This place, this scene, it was identical to the moment when she had first brought Muxue back to the Chi family.