Chapter 7: Sister, I Caught You
As a blind person, before Lou Yunxiao had even learned how to use spiritual power to explore his surroundings, he was thrown into the peril-fraught Demon Soul River. All he could perceive, apart from the darkness, was the cold.
And the suffocating sensation of river water submerging his head.
When he mobilized his spiritual power to raise a protective shield, those Demon Souls scrambled to tear and bite at it, shattering the shield and causing him to drown again.
The Demon Souls weren’t stupid; they could sense that the Fox Fire Ning Ke left in Lou Yunxiao’s chest was dangerous, so they didn’t touch it.
Instead, they stubbornly gnawed at other parts of Lou Yunxiao’s body.
Like piranhas born with sharp teeth, they almost wanted to devour Lou Yunxiao whole.
In the novel, Lou Yunxiao possessed an extremely pure Ice Attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root, which was the fundamental reason for his incredibly fast cultivation speed.
But this Ice Spiritual Root naturally suppressed fire.
So, although the Fox Fire Ning Ke gave him saved his life, it also formed a check and balance against his Ice Spiritual Root.
It was like specialization in a field; specializing in one subject could make one a genius, but trying to grasp two might lead to achieving nothing in either.
It could be said that the current Lou Yunxiao was like a contradiction.
Dao was Yang, Demon was Yin.
Fire was warm, Ice was cold.
They were inherently incompatible, yet they had to be made to obediently listen and be used by a small boy like Lou Yunxiao.
The difficulty involved could be imagined.
Pain swept through his entire body. Lou Yunxiao opened his mouth to breathe, only to gulp down river water. Even widening his eyes, he couldn’t sense a trace of light.
His whole body was covered with crawling Demon Souls, leaving only that single point of warmth in his chest.
The vague memories of last night became increasingly clear in this extreme danger.
He remembered that this fire was given to him by his sister.
Supreme Yang and Supreme Fierceness. It impacted his Ice Spiritual Root with waves of stinging pain, yet it made the Demon Souls dare not act rashly.
This terrifying power, comparable to an exotic fire of heaven and earth.
It was Sister who gave it to him.
If he didn’t use it well, it would be an insult to this exotic fire.
It would be letting down Sister’s grace and expectations for him.
Thinking of this, Lou Yunxiao’s hollow, spiritless eyes seemed to light up with a faint glow. His youthful, handsome face was surrounded by floating black hair, and the Demon Souls tearing at him densely like black silk made him look like a water demon in a dark river.
His lips parted and closed as he chanted: “Demon is Yin, then use Ice to assist it; Dao is Yang, then use Fire to assist it.”
“This uniquely endowed opportunity, I will absolutely not let it go to waste in my hands!”
After speaking, he tried to mobilize the flame with his left hand, running it only through the meridians on the left side of his body, while mobilizing the Ice Spiritual Root’s power with his right hand, running it only through the meridians on the right side.
For a moment, it was a world of ice and fire. The newly repaired meridians burst inch by inch, beads of blood seeping out of his skin, only to be greedily swallowed by the Demon Souls.
As one fell, the other rose. Under this multiple layering of pain, Lou Yunxiao never thought of giving up, stubbornly holding on, persisting…
In the blink of an eye, seven days passed.
By the Demon Soul River, Ning Ke had switched his tea for refreshing spiritual fruit juice. He sat with his legs crossed, chatting idly with Xiao Yuan.
“Say, Xiao Yuan, think about it. If I hadn’t transmigrated to do this mission, who would Lou Yunxiao’s real ‘White Moonlight’ be?”
[Who knows?] Xiao Yuan, who had a pretentious voice before, had also become lackadaisical after spending a few days with Ning Ke. She said: [I’m just a poor worker, just following my master’s orders to look after this novel world.]
[Your question exceeds my authority level, so I can’t answer you either.]
“Tsk, asking you is useless every time.” Ning Ke took a sip of fruit juice, shaking his head. “Look at this brat’s innocent appearance right now. Who would have thought he’d turn into someone so hypocritical later, accepting the heroine’s confession while still holding a White Moonlight in his heart? It shows he has a bit of scum in him when it comes to relationships.”
“But I really envy that he’ll have so many women scrambling to like him in the future. Unlike me, single for over twenty years in the modern world. Even walking past the community garden on my way home from work, I’d get kicked by couples showing off their affection.”
The more he spoke, the more sour he felt. Ning Ke raised his cup and said, “Sigh, a toast to all the single dogs. Ning will drink this cup first…”
Boom—
A loud noise made Ning Ke jolt. If not for his demonic power protecting him, he probably would have spilled fruit juice all over himself.
It made him blurt out a curse in the national dialect. He pulled down his sunglasses and looked at the river surface, which had just emitted an explosion and was now bubbling gurgle gurgle. He twitched the corner of his mouth.
“What? Is he blasting the fish pond?”
Before his voice could fade, there was another Boom—
The river water shot up in a sharp protrusion, exploding three stories high.
It caused the intro music of the ’86 version of Journey to the West—the part where the river explodes and Sun Wukong flips out of the stone—to loop in Ning Ke’s brain.
Deng deng deng deng deng deng deng deng, deng deng deng deng deng deng deng deng…
Unfortunately, the expected Monkey King didn’t run out. Instead, a disheveled “water ghost” in ragged clothes ran out.
Looking closely, if it wasn’t Lou Yunxiao, who else could it be?
Ning Ke’s eyes lit up. This kid didn’t let down my expectations after all, coming out on his own in such a short time.
Just as he was about to say hello, he saw the little water ghost sway in mid-air for two seconds, then with a splat, fall back into the river…
Ning Ke, with his hand half-extended: “Mm, he came out, but not completely.”
“Uncertain. Let’s watch a bit longer.”
The river surface did not calm down. Instead, within a radius of one li, the river water was visibly forming a bizarre division.
One side was constantly churning and boiling, occasionally exploding; the other side was freezing into thin ice, cracking into ice shards, then freezing again, and cracking again.
The aura emitting from the boiling side was the pure spiritual power of the Daoist school, while the freezing side was almost integrated with the Demon Soul River, pan-black with demonic energy.
Ning Ke put away his joking attitude and frowned.
Probing with his divine sense into the river bottom, he could feel that Lou Yunxiao’s physical state was extremely unstable.
Turning extremely cold one moment, and extremely hot the next.
According to the principle of thermal expansion and contraction, it was highly likely that Lou Yunxiao wouldn’t turn into Sun Wukong, but would instead become that rock that exploded after Sun Wukong jumped out.
With a boom, not even dregs would remain.
Thinking of this, Ning Ke put down the juice cup. His exquisite white satin boots stepped onto the river surface, walking on the thin ice as if it were flat ground.
Wherever he passed, not a single Demon Soul dared to approach.
His skirt, pure as first snow, moved gently with the wind. His waist-length black hair, bound only by a jade hairpin, brushed past that peerlessly beautiful and cold face. Walking there, he looked like a fairy descending to the world.
Making heaven and earth lose their color.
Just as this “Beautiful Fairy” stopped at the edge of the ice, Fox Fire burning in his palm, planning to roll up his sleeves and haul Lou Yunxiao out of the water, a pale, thin hand suddenly grabbed the surface of the ice!
The disheveled boy raised his head from the water, choking out a mouthful of river water mixed with blood. His other hand quickly yet extremely carefully grasped the hem of Ning Ke’s skirt.
He was clearly staring at Ning Ke with those blind eyes.
Yet, for a moment, Ning Ke had the illusion of being seen through by him.
He heard Lou Yunxiao smile and say to him:
“Sister, I caught you.”
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translator, how about ushing, chinese terms for sis and brother???, they fit best in em-