Title: After the Villainess Awakens
Translator: Fuyu
Chapter 18 - Do you want to see? (2)
There was a knock on the door.
"Wait a second." In any case, Leng Mushi straightened out her clothing before opening the door. The three delectable… ahem, the three immortals entered the room. Leng Mushi closed the door. When she turned around, the three immortals raised their hands with their swords clasped in between and bowed to her.
Their attitude was very solemn and respectful, and their expression was extremely serious. They were as serious as visiting a grave. Leng Mushi almost died on the spot.
"What… are you doing?" Leng Mushi leaned back on the door.
Xiao Mian was the first to straighten up and put away his sword. He seriously said to Leng Mushi, "Miss Leng, thank you for your quick-wittedness and daring in tricking the powerful demoness. That gave us the opportunity to seek out an elder. My two shixiongs and I owe our lives to Miss Leng, so we naturally have to express our earnest gratitude."
After Xiao Mian finished speaking, his baby-faced shixiong said, "Your kindness is too great. We can only keep it in our hearts. When you become our shimei (junior disciple sister)..."
He patted Xiao Mian's other shixiong and said, "... He and I will take care of you."
Leng Mushi smiled.
The baby-faced shixiong suddenly said, "I always hear you call Xiao Mian, Brother Xiao, but you only address us as Immortals. You have no idea what our names are, do you?!"
That was the truth. Leng Mushi could have asked Leng Tianyin, but she chose to wait. She defied the plot and saved these two people. Their two lives were her first step in successfully fighting against fate. She had to ask them for their names in person for it to be solemn enough so that she wouldn't regret it.
She didn't expect that they would notice and asked her about it. She felt so embarrassed.
"Haha, what's with your expression? I know we're not as charming and elegant as your Brother Xiao. Our looks don't attract you. It's alright. We don't care about that. My name is Yi Tu. Not the yi in yitu that means intentions. It's the yi in yitu that means easy and simple, and the tu in tumo that means conspire." After saying that, Shixiong Yi Tu patted the tall and serious man beside him.
That serious shixiong sheepishly smiled at Leng Mushi. "I'm called Xing Zhou. The xing in xingxing that means stars. The zhou in shazhou that means sandbank."
Leng Mushi nodded and returned his smile. She obediently called out, "Shixiong Yi Tu, Shixiong Xing Zhou."
Yi Tu laughed. He had a lively temperament and liked to joke around. He teased, "I thought you would call me Brother Yi and call Xing Zhou Brother Xing."
Leng Mushi's face turned a bit red. Even though she had experienced a lot these past days, she was still a teenager. She bit her lip and sincerely smiled. She bashfully introduced herself, "Shixiongs, you already know that my name is Leng Mushi. I also have a nickname, Nianci. You guys can just call me Nianci in the future."
Leng Mushi had male friends growing up. Thus, she didn't have other girls' coyness in keeping her nickname a secret that wasn't easily shared.
If she entered the immortal sect, she wouldn't have to uphold the mortal realm's etiquette. She also preferred hearing people call her by the nickname that her mother had given her over her full name. Moreover, she had gone through life and death with these three people.
She was shy for a moment before saying without timidity, "Besides, I'm planning on joining Taichu Sect. I'll naturally call you Shixiong instead of Brother."
"Ah! Yeah! Nianci!" Yi Tu clicked his tongue and suddenly clapped his hands. "Oh you, I forgot about this until you mentioned it. How can you be so bold?! Elder Qu Yang was going to make an exception and accept you as a disciple!"
Xiao Mian couldn't resist saying, "You messed up your chance. The elder had asked me your age. He came to your room just to accept you as his disciple."
Xing Zhou nodded on the side. "Yeah."
Leng Mushi was dumbfounded. "What do you mean? He didn't say anything."
"What's there to say?" Xiao Mian said, "He spoke with pressure, but you refused to kneel. The elder naturally felt awkward about bringing it up."
Leng Mushi almost jumped up. "What? Ahhh! He said that immortal sects don't observe the mortal realm's etiquette rules. That's why I didn't kneel. How could I have known he said one thing, but meant something else?"
Leng Mushi couldn't be more regretful. Knowing that she shouldn't criticize an elder, she was about to apologize when she saw that the other three didn't blame her. Thus, she showed an unhappy look and said, "So it's over for me. Will I still be able to enter the sect?"
Xiao Mian's expression was a bit strange. He said, "Elder Qu Yang has a warm and kind temperament. He naturally wouldn't suppress his juniors. But you asked… those words. It'll be impossible to become his disciple now."
Yi Tu said, "Yeah, although you enter the path of cultivation early, that only means you showed your spiritual roots. Many immortals that have no chance of entering a sect will stumble onto the path of cultivation without knowing it. Their bodies will only be a little bit better than others. It doesn't mean anything."
Xing Zhou spoke again. "Moreover, your spiritual roots are too messy. Although the elders of the Taichu Sect cultivate in different ways, most of their cultivation methods require a pure spiritual root. A pure spiritual root of gold, wood, water, fire, or earth are all good. Having two spiritual roots is barely acceptable. More than two spiritual roots and you won't be qualified. As someone with five spiritual roots, you have the messiest one. Although it can be considered special, I don't know of any elder and cultivation method that's suitable for your spiritual roots."
What more could Leng Mushi say? She originally had a chance, but that rubbish, lustful Fenlian wanted to chase after old, dried out meat and caused her to lose such a powerful, ready-made shizun just like that!
Fenlian didn't make a peep. She probably knew that she had made a mistake.
Leng Mushi's expression was so mournful, and she had suddenly stopped talking. She touched her injured face.
Xiao Mian tightened his grip on his spiritual sword and said, "Don't worry. When we return to the sect, I'll go visit my shizun and ask him if he'll accept you as a disciple."
T/N: Next update on Saturday, February 10th, 10:15 PM EST.