Title: After the Villainess Awakens
Translator: Fuyu
Chapter 8 - Why? It was so unfair! (3)
The punishment didn't last long. Leng Mushi stubbornly gritted her teeth and didn't faint. Leng Tianyin didn't know what was wrong with her sister and hastily went forward to try to help her up, but Leng Mushi had curled up in a ball, and she couldn't help her up.
By the time Leng Mushi was finally able to take a breath, she saw that the battle situation had changed for the better. Sure enough, once the injured puppets were cut off from the blood pool, they could only squirm and shriek and were unable to get up.
Leng Mushi opened her mouth and weakly said with a pissed off expression, "Get off. You're kneeling on my stomach…"
Leng Tianyin hastily moved back. As a result of not knowing what to do and being almost scared out of her wits, she used too much strength to move back and shattered the protective barrier that was already on the verge of collapse and was thin as mist.
"Ah…" Leng Mushi saw her hitting the barrier and raised her hand before dropping it. She accepted her fate. Fine, the plot would be brought back on track anyways. Since she didn't break the barrier, then Leng Tianyin had to bump into it.
In a split second, Leng Mushi heard the screams of the puppets. The vibration from their screams almost caused her ears to bleed. She silently cursed. Sure enough, even though she endured the novel's law's punishment, the plot would still go in that damn direction.
Just like the three immortals that couldn't replenish their spiritual energy here, the puppets couldn't replenish their demonic energy once they were cut off from the blood pool. Now that Leng Mushi and Leng Tianyin were no longer protected by the barrier, their bodies attracted the crawling puppets. Consuming their flesh could help the puppets regain their strength.
And thus, the puppets that had been flung onto this space screeched and crawled towards them.
Leng Mushi grabbed Leng Tianyin to run around in this small space. Their steps were uneven. The ground was covered in slippery, corrosive blood. If they slipped, the blood would melt away a layer of their skin.
The three immortals wanted to help them, but there were increasingly more puppets coming out of the blood pool.
"Hey! Xiao Mian, give me a weapon!" Leng Mushi only knew Xiao Mian's name, so she could only yell out his name.
She didn't want to tear the puppets apart with her hands again. Their blood was corrosive. Fortunately, the puppets had just gotten in each other's way and fallen on top of each other while she and Leng Tianyin ran around in circles. For the time being, the puppets wouldn't hurt them.
Xiao Mian glanced at Leng Mushi, disabled a puppet with one slash of his sword, and dragged the puppet's body parts away from the blood pool. From his storage bag, he took out a beginner sword that was given to every disciple upon acceptance into the sect. He stuck that sword into a puppet and flung it towards Leng Mushi and Leng Tianyin.
"Big Brothers, do you have any more?" Leng Mushi grabbed the sword and shouted at the other two immortals while chopping down the puppets.
One of the shixiongs followed suit and threw a beginner sword towards them. With weapons in hand, Leng Mushi and Leng Tianyin supported each other in running and chopping up the puppets.
That's right. They were chopping. They were pampered young ladies. They had no idea how to use a sword. It was already impressive that they weren't overcome with fright and crawling on the ground like the puppets. They were just wildly swinging the swords and hacking away at the puppets.
Leng Mushi guessed that they were able to resist the puppets because of Leng Tianyin's heroine luck.
However, this didn't mean that they would be able to win and survive. Just when they thought they had the upper hand, the puppets stopped appearing in the blood pool. The blood pool began to boil, and then a head the size of a house appeared. The head was followed by an upper body and finally hands and arms that could span the entire space.
Unlike the previous puppets that had crooked mouths and slanted eyes, this creature had a beautiful face. When she stretched her upper body out from the blood pool, she looked at everyone and giggled.
Although her voice was intimidatingly loud, her tone was gentle as she said, "Little creatures, you have so much vitality. I like you. How about this? Let's play a game…"
The blood on the painted skin demoness disappeared, and she slightly shrunk until she was the size of a golden buddha statue in Buddhist temples.
Leng Mushi thought; sure, she already knew what would happen next. It would be a game of choosing one person to live.
Just as Leng Mushi was muttering to herself, she heard the giant painted skin demoness say, "Since ancient times, a deeply loving couple will say sweet words to each, but who knows how they'll behave when they encounter disaster…"
The painted skin demoness's voice suddenly became sharp, making Leng Mushi feel as if her head was buzzing.
"Love will become a poisonous sword, stabbing you, your flesh will rot away and be torn into pieces!"
Her sharp, eardrum-piercing voice echoed in the cavernous space, and everyone covered their ears.
When the echoes of her scream ended, she returned to a normal-sounding, extremely gentle tone. Her finger circled among the group before pointing at Xiao Mian.
"Choose, which of these two women do you want me to spare? Once you choose, I'll let you and her safely out of this place."
Leng Mushi wanted to curse. She wanted to jump up, point at the painted skin demoness's nose, and curse her out for saying that Xiao Mian would be the one choosing.
There was no doubt who Xiao Mian would choose to save.