After the Villainess Awakens

“What should I do about this! I still have to go to the Jisheng Hall to set up the formation with my fellow disciples at dawn.”

Xiao Mian pointed at his face, his brows furrowed. Leng Mu Wei blinked, rubbed her eyes again, and made sure that she wasn’t seeing things. Then, she looked at his face full of large bumps, completely baffled.

She reached out a finger and poked one of the bumps on Xiao Mian’s face. It was purplish-red and hard to the touch, exactly the same as those on the back of the Poison Flame Beast except for the size.

“This, this…” Leng Mu Wei sobered up instantly. Her hands were waving frantically in the air for a moment, then she turned and ran towards the house, shouting as she ran, “Master! Get up! Something big happened!”

Thus, as the first light of dawn appeared, Hua Yanyue and Leng Mu Wei brought Xiao Mian into the cellar of the hut and began to search for various medicinal pills, trying to remove the poisonous bumps on his face.

Ruined, ruined!

Fenlian fluttered around the room, reporting to the Law, “Xiao Mian’s handsome face is completely ruined!”

The Law was like a dying old man, only sighing these two days.

This was the first time Xiao Mian had seen the entire medicine vault. He was deeply shocked by the amount of medicine stored here, but he quickly became anxious again because after trying several kinds, the poisonous bumps on his face still wouldn’t go away.

Finally, Hua Yanyue took out a Rejuvenation Pill from the top of the cabinet. This was a very precious pill, refined from the scales of the Kun Fish under three thousand feet of ice. She only had a few pills, originally intended for herself in case her face was ever blown up by the alchemy furnace. But now, this medicine man, Xiao Mian, was more important!

“Eat this. Even if you only have half a head left, it can restore it for you,” Hua Yanyue said. “It also has a very good healing effect. Consider yourself lucky, kid.”

Hua Yanyue tossed the pill to Xiao Mian, then dumped out all the pills she had just refined last night. Since she was already up, she might as well prepare new herbs and reconfigure the pill formula.

Leng Mu Wei also breathed a sigh of relief. It was fine for Xiao Mian to suffer some torment while testing the medicine, but it would be a sin if his face was really ruined like this.

Not to mention that the more she looked at him, the more handsome Xiao Mian seemed. He was pleasant to look at and had good character. Leng Mu Wei had no ill feelings towards him. In the plot, when Xiao Mian’s Demonic Bone awakened later on, he would become a stunningly beautiful Demonic Lord. His love with Leng Tianyin was a clash of righteousness and evil, a legendary romance between a celestial maiden and a demon, and he definitely couldn’t have a head full of bumps.

After all, this wasn’t a story about a human and a beast.

“Alright, alright, you’ll be fine after eating this,” Leng Mu Wei said. “But, Brother Xiao, if you’re not busy, why don’t you eat the pill first and then tell me about the abnormality you felt last night or this morning. When these poisonous bumps appeared, were they painful or itchy…”

As she spoke, she picked up a notebook and began to record Xiao Mian’s reactions. Xiao Mian held the pill in his hand, ready to bring it to his mouth, but when Leng Mu Wei lowered her head and Hua Yanyue was busy with the alchemy furnace, he moved the hand holding the pill away from his mouth.

He put the pill away in his sleeve, then lowered his head and put on his cloak, covering his face again. Then, he began to carefully describe how he had started to feel itchy all over his body before going to bed last night.

After he finished speaking and left, Leng Mu Wei and Hua Yanyue adjusted the pill formula based on his description, caught another Poison Flame Beast to draw its blood, and refined a new furnace of pills.

As they were making a scene with their pill refining, Xiao Mian, with his face covered and wearing a cloak, was setting up the formation. His whole body was itchy and painful, but he didn’t take the Rejuvenation Pill.

Just by getting close to the pill, he could feel the powerful spiritual energy contained within it. Its effect was probably more than just rejuvenation. Perhaps it could also clear blocked meridians and even purify spiritual roots.

After all, the Second Elder had said that it could even regrow half a head. How precious must it be?

Xiao Mian didn’t intend to eat it, and he wanted to wait and see. The medicinal power in his body seemed to be weakening with time, and it would eventually dissipate completely. He wanted to see if he could recover by then.

But it was too itchy, especially after he started to sweat. The itching was piercing. He didn’t dare to touch his face, so he could only scratch the itch on his arms.

This itch tormented him for two days and two nights, and finally, under his constant circulation of spiritual energy, it gradually disappeared. However, many scratches on his arms left scars.

Xiao Mian tried ordinary Beauty Retaining Pills, but the scars only faded a little and couldn’t be completely removed.

But he didn’t care. He was a man, after all. What did it matter if he had some scars on his arms?

On the third day, the night they had agreed to meet came again.

Leng Mu Wei brought the readjusted pills and waited by the cliff. This time, she felt particularly uneasy. She couldn’t help but think that Xiao Mian had been harmed so badly last time. She wondered if the Rejuvenation Pill would leave any other side effects. He probably wouldn’t come…

Then, she saw Xiao Mian walking towards her with his usual dignified and handsome appearance.

Leng Mu Wei stared at his face for a good while. Seeing that there were no scars or discoloration left, she smiled and said, “Brother Xiao, you’re here!”

Xiao Mian stopped in front of her and slightly curved his lips, still reserved and not saying much, “Yes.”

However, he was particularly talkative today. No matter what Leng Mu Wei said, he was very cooperative.

Leng Mu Wei felt that something was not quite right.

But she couldn’t figure out what was wrong for a while. Besides, wasn’t it better that Xiao Mian was easy to talk to? So, she gave Xiao Mian the pills with the modified formula.

Xiao Mian took them without hesitation and swallowed them with water. However, he didn’t immediately circulate his spiritual energy to resist the medicinal properties as usual. Instead, he took out a paper package from his arms. When he opened it, there were two pieces of pastry inside.

He picked up the slightly chipped one and handed the complete one to Leng Mu Wei, “New pastries from the Spirit Valley Hall. I haven’t given them to the disciples to try yet. I asked someone I know to bring them. Try it.”

Xiao Mian put the other piece into his mouth, ignoring the rising medicinal power and the burning sensation in his insides. His eyes held a glimmer that made Leng Mu Wei a little afraid to look directly at him as he watched her take the pastry and put it into her mouth, swallowing it whole.

“The taste… Eh, it’s a bit strange.” Leng Mu Wei didn’t care after eating it and asked Xiao Mian, “How do you feel about the medicinal power?”

Xiao Mian pursed his lips slightly, threw the uneaten half of the pastry on the ground, pressed his hand against his chest, and said in a low, raspy voice, “My insides feel like they’re burning.”

“That’s right!” Leng Mu Wei said with a smile, “Master is truly amazing! She said this is a pill that can cure water poison!”

“You know, when Water Spiritual Root cultivators advance in their cultivation, if they are invaded by evil spirits, it will form water poison that is extremely difficult to cure. The toxin enters the bones. In the past, the usual treatment was to scrape the bones and cleanse the soul.”

Leng Mu Wei’s face was full of admiration, “But with this pill, in the future, Water Spiritual Root cultivators won’t have to be afraid to even go down the mountain every time they reach a critical juncture in their cultivation!”

“Brother Xiao, you have a Water Spiritual Root too, right? I’ll keep a share for you. When you need to advance in your cultivation, just come to me for it.”

As Leng Mu Wei spoke, she took out her little notebook and started recording. Xiao Mian gripped the sword at his side, suppressing a muffled groan. The burning sensation in his abdomen almost melted him.

He curled up. If he started circulating his spiritual energy to resist it now, he would feel better, but he was still forcing himself to look at Leng Mu Wei, to see her reaction after she ate the pastry mixed with the Rejuvenation Pill powder, to see if the scar on her face would disappear.

However, his vision quickly blurred, and no matter how wide he opened his eyes, he couldn’t see clearly. At this moment, his eyes were surging with emotions that he couldn’t suppress. As long as Leng Mu Wei looked up at this moment, even a fool could tell what Xiao Mian was thinking.

It was a pity that Leng Mu Wei was looking down at her notebook, completely focused on recording, and didn’t look up at Xiao Mian at all. She just kept asking about his reaction, and Xiao Mian answered truthfully, though each word was difficult to utter.

It wasn’t until he couldn’t speak anymore and fainted from the pain that Leng Mu Wei looked at him in a panic.

“Eh? Master’s description of the reactions was all correct, but it shouldn’t have caused him to faint…” Leng Mu Wei saw that he wasn’t responding and hurriedly leaned down to check his breathing.

Thank goodness, he was still breathing…

Leng Mu Wei quickly recorded his fainting symptoms and even pried open his eyes to take a look. They weren’t bloodshot.

Logically speaking, demonic beast blood shouldn’t be used in alchemy. There had never been such an attempt in the history of alchemy. Only Hua Yanyue would use it in this world because most of her alchemy was self-created.

According to her, all things in the world coexisted and countered each other. Even the human race and the demon race, who cultivated, complemented each other. Everything could be refined, so there was no need to be restricted to one method. Moreover, she had already found a way to remove the demonic energy from demonic beasts and demonic creatures. What was there to be afraid of trying?

Leng Mu Wei felt that everything she said made sense. After all, those pills did have the effects that Hua Yanyue described, and the blood and flesh of demonic beasts were much easier to obtain than those rare and precious herbs.

However, they still needed to be extra careful. If the demonic energy wasn’t completely removed, problems would arise.

Leng Mu Wei checked and found nothing unusual about Xiao Mian, so she was slightly relieved and waited for the medicinal effects to wear off and for him to wake up on his own.

She took out Hua Yanyue’s notes and began to read. There was no need for any light; her eyesight was terrifyingly good now.

However, as she was reading the notes, Leng Mu Wei felt an itch on her cheek and reached up to scratch it twice.

Her whole body was also feeling hot, which she attributed to being startled by thinking that Xiao Mian had stopped breathing earlier.

She didn’t pay much attention to it and continued reading. But before she could finish a few pages, her wrist was grabbed again.

Xiao Mian was awake. Leng Mu Wei quickly asked, “How do you feel, Brother Xiao? You have a Water Spiritual Root, so logically, this pill shouldn’t harm you…”

“I’m in so much pain…” Xiao Mian lay on the ground, curling up towards Leng Mu Wei. He was clutching Leng Mu Wei’s wrist with great force, causing Leng Mu Wei to fall towards him, landing right in front of him.

The two of them were face to face on the ground. Xiao Mian’s vision was a little unfocused. He bit his lip until it bled, finally able to see Leng Mu Wei, who was close at hand.

“Brother Xiao? What…”

Leng Mu Wei stopped talking, or rather, she froze, her entire body, including her lips.

Xiao Mian’s warm palm cupped her cheek, while his other hand reached under her head, his warm fingers wrapping around the back of her neck.

He… He was even caressing her cheek and the back of her neck!

What was going on? Could it be that the Poison Flame Beast really had an aphrodisiac effect?! Master clearly said it didn’t!

“Brother Xiao, wait…” Leng Mu Wei almost popped her eyeballs out as Xiao Mian’s warm breath drew near, brushing against the corner of her mouth.

She stammered, unable to speak properly, “Xiao, Xiao, Xiao Xiao Mian, you…”

Another touch.

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