Chapter 244

Chapter 244: Wen Xuan Gets Back the Access Jade Token but Is Put in Confinement

With the earlier humiliation from Bai Mu Mu piled on, Wen Xuan acted especially harshly, then began rummaging through her room.

Even though she had expected Wen Xuan to make a move, Bai Mu Mu still felt a spike of spite. She sneered and said: “Second Senior Brother, is that Access Jade Token really that important to you?”

Her words hinted at something else.

A flicker of unease crossed Wen Xuan’s eyes as he answered coolly: “The Access Jade Token is mine to begin with.” [He must not let Bai Mu Mu learn that the token carries Shen Sang Ruo’s feelings for him.]

Bai Mu Mu asked coldly: “Wen Xuan, do you even know what kind of consequences you’re bringing on yourself?”

Wen Xuan kept searching as he said: “Consequences? I’m only taking back what’s mine and I didn’t hurt you. Even if Master and Sect Master Shen punish me, it’ll just be another trip to the Disciplinary Hall.” He had already been to the Confinement Chamber once; he would not fear the Disciplinary Hall.

His voice chilled as he pressed down his anger: “It’s because I am thinking about the consequences that I didn’t kill you outright. If you hadn’t tempted me, how would I have almost made a huge mistake and nearly taken Little Ruo’s life?”

He tightened his grip and hissed: “If I weren’t going to seek Little Ruo to atone, I would have cut you down today. Be glad Little Ruo matters far more to me than you do. She keeps me from losing my reason, and that’s the only reason you’re still alive.”

He knew that if he killed Bai Mu Mu, he would never make it out of the Flying Cloud Sect and would fail to find Little Ruo.

Bai Mu Mu had thought Wen Xuan’s words no longer had power to hurt her, but the latter half twisted her face with rage.

Seeing he had touched a nerve, Wen Xuan pressed on: “So what if you schemed for years? Look at you now. You will never compare to Little Ruo. Little Ruo shines like a star today, while your cultivation has fallen, your spiritual root is damaged, and you can only curl up here like a filthy maggot in a gutter.”

Bai Mu Mu hated Shen Sang Ruo, hated being compared to her, and hated hearing she could not match her. In the whole Cultivation World, only Shen Sang Ruo could truly break her defenses. But she would never admit it. [Once my System is fixed, Shen Sang Ruo will be nothing to me.]

So she turned her tongue like a blade and attacked Wen Xuan instead: “So what? Do you think she’ll even look at you? After what you did to her, she’ll just feel sick when she sees you. What good could any of you be?”

She laughed low and sharp: “She already has a new Master, a Senior Brother, and a Senior Sister at her side. She threw you away long ago.”

[Bai Mu Mu used “True Word,” dealing ten thousand points of true damage to Wen Xuan.]

Wen Xuan took several deep breaths and held himself back from shoving a mute pill down her throat. He bit out: “Weren’t you also the one thrown away? Why do you think Sect Master Shen and Master haven’t come to see you all this time?”

He laid the words bare: “It’s because you’ve become half a cripple. And after what we said, a thorn grew in their hearts. They don’t want to see you.”

He struck where it hurt most: “Sect Master Shen and Master want Little Ruo to return. Can’t you tell they want her to replace you as Young Sect Master?”

Wen Xuan’s eyes hardened as he made his vow: “Little Ruo will soon return to the Flying Cloud Sect. We’ll go back to how we were, and you will never again ruin our bond with her.”

At that moment, he pulled open a cabinet and found the thing he longed for most—the Access Jade Token. His vicious look vanished, replaced by pure joy as he said: “Found it.”

Ignoring Bai Mu Mu, who was so angry she looked about to cough blood, he strode off the main peak.

He pressed the Access Jade Token to his chest like it was the most precious thing in his life. [With this, I can finally go find Shen Sang Ruo.] He never noticed Bai Mu Mu’s venomous gaze behind him.

Wen Xuan left without unsealing the acupoints he had struck. Bai Mu Mu still could not move. If the System were not under repair, she would never have suffered such humiliation. [Just a few more days and the System will be back. Then I can rise again.]

As for that Access Jade Token, she let Wen Xuan take it on purpose. It was only a fake made with the last of the System’s energy. She had promised she would not let him get the real one so easily.

She called in a whisper: “System.”

[System repairing… progress 90 percent. Estimated time remaining: one day.]

The next day, Master Ling Xiao woke up, and news spread from the main peak that Bai Mu Mu was gravely ill.

Shen Dao Chen felt a deep dislike toward her and did not want to see her, but he could not truly ignore her. He hurried to her room. Bai Mu Mu saw him and began to sob as she said: “Father, Second Senior Brother tried to kill me.”

She looked pitiful beyond words.

Furious, Shen Dao Chen seized Wen Xuan—who had been preparing to leave the Flying Cloud Sect to seek Shen Sang Ruo—and dragged him before him. He thundered: “I thought you truly repented and truly cared for Mu Mu, but you never changed. You only pretended to visit her so you could injure her. I sentence you to the top floor of the Disciplinary Tower as a warning to all.”

The Disciplinary Tower was where the Disciplinary Hall confined disciples who broke rules. The first floor meant one month. The top floor meant ten years.

Wen Xuan paled. Why was Bai Mu Mu suddenly gravely injured? He had not harmed her at all. Ten years. How could Little Ruo wait for ten years?

He rushed to defend himself: “Sect Master Shen, I did not injure her. I only sealed her acupoints to take back my Access Jade Token.”

Shen Dao Chen’s voice was cold: “We have checked. The Spiritual Power that caused Mu Mu’s wounds is yours. What else do you have to say?”

Wen Xuan froze, then reacted at once: “She used the Malevolent Spirit on her body to smear me. Sect Master Shen, please believe me.”

He pleaded in a panic: “I cannot go to the Disciplinary Tower. We really cannot delay any longer. Little Ruo has no feeling for us now. We must retrieve her feelings at once.”

But the moment Shen Dao Chen heard the words “Malevolent Spirit,” he flung Wen Xuan straight into the Disciplinary Tower. The rest of Wen Xuan’s words scattered on the wind.

After dealing with Wen Xuan, Shen Dao Chen returned to the main peak to see Bai Mu Mu.

Her face did not look good. Part of it was her fake injury, but more was the drop in Shen Dao Chen’s and Master Ling Xiao’s favorability toward her.

No one expected that when the System finished repairs, the first sound in her mind would be:

[Ding: Shen Dao Chen favorability -10. Current favorability: 75.]

[Ding: Master Ling Xiao favorability -15. Current favorability: 76.]

Conquest was no longer her main mission, but if she could win them over and then kill them, she could seize most of their cultivation. She had been only a few points short. Now she was more than twenty points short again. [How can I not be furious?]

Shen Dao Chen sat by her bed and said gently: “Mu Mu, it was Father’s neglect. I have sent Wen Xuan to the top floor of the Disciplinary Tower. Rest well. Father will personally guard you.”

Bai Mu Mu sneered in her heart: [Didn’t you want to go find Shen Sang Ruo? Let’s see how you go now.]