Chapter 145

Chapter 145: Sister Won’t Marry Anyone

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Sensing the subtle barrier that Yueyue maintained, Lin Muyu couldn’t help but feel a touch of helplessness.

She gently patted Yueyue’s back. This child’s psychological defenses clearly couldn’t be completely dismantled with just one leisurely flight.

However, Lin Muyu could fully understand Yueyue’s situation.

After all, for someone as young as Yueyue to have experienced such terrible things, it was perfectly normal for her to be guarded around everyone now.

Perhaps once she found the true culprit who had imprisoned Yueyue back then, she could help Yueyue completely resolve her inner trauma?

Lin Muyu gazed at the girl beside her who was pressing her lips together in silence, quietly planning in her heart.

Unfortunately, Yueyue didn’t recognize the true culprit and couldn’t describe their appearance either.

That meant she could only wait for good news from the recording stone, that would be the definitive evidence.

Although that was the case, today’s flight hadn’t been completely without purpose.

At least Yueyue was willing to sit beside her and watch the scenery now, unlike at the beginning when she would shrink into a corner and refuse to speak.

The distance between them had clearly shortened somewhat, which left Lin Muyu quite satisfied.

She looked up at the sky’s edge, where the setting sun was slowly sinking toward the mountain peaks, dyeing the clouds a warm orange color.

There was still plenty of time. She had all the patience in the world to accompany Yueyue. Eventually, the day would come when this child would completely open her heart.

“Yueyue, it’s getting dark. Let’s head back first.”

Lin Muyu withdrew her gaze and spoke softly to the girl beside her.

“Mm-hmm.”

Yueyue quickly nodded in response, though her voice was clearly somewhat absent-minded.

Lin Muyu didn’t ask further questions and led her flying toward the village.

But just as they arrived above the village, Lin Muyu furrowed her brow.

The scene below carried an oddly quiet atmosphere that inexplicably made her heart sink.

“Hmm, what’s going on? Why aren’t the villagers cooking at this hour?”

Lin Muyu hovered in mid-air, her gaze sweeping over the chimneys of every household, all completely clean.

According to normal habits, wisps of cooking smoke should have been rising from the village by this time, and every household’s stove should have been bustling with activity. Why was it so unusually quiet today?

“Wait, could something have happened?”

A thought suddenly flashed through her mind. Lin Muyu’s heart tightened, and her flying sword unconsciously sped up.

“Mm!”

The sudden acceleration made Yueyue sway. She instinctively hugged Lin Muyu tighter and let out a small cry of alarm.

“It’s okay, Yueyue, don’t be afraid.”

Lin Muyu turned her head to reassure her, her heart gradually calming down.

Even if something really had happened, she couldn’t panic.

She needed to first find Xiaoyun and the tree spirit and figure out exactly what had occurred.

Lin Muyu swiftly circled the village on her sword and finally spotted a cluster of villagers in the farmland outside the village.

Among the crowd, the tree spirit’s massive form was particularly conspicuous, its dark green vines waving through the air, clearly busy with something.

“Huh? Are they watching the tree spirit and Xiaoyun spar? But they’ve fought so many times already, how could that still attract the whole village to watch?”

Seeing the tree spirit and the crowd, Lin Muyu first breathed a sigh of relief, at least nothing bad had happened.

But confusion followed. She brought Yueyue down for a precise landing beside Mo Youhua at the edge of the field.

But as soon as she landed, she noticed Mo Youhua’s forehead was covered in cold sweat, as if she were directing an intense battle.

“Youhua, what’s going on? Why is everyone gathered here?”

Lin Muyu quickly set Yueyue down on the ground and stepped forward to ask.

Hearing her voice, Mo Youhua whipped her head around, her face instantly showing delight:

“Sister Lin, you’re finally back! A pig demon broke into the village, and Xiaoyun and the tree spirit are dealing with it.”

“A pig demon?”

Lin Muyu looked in the direction Mo Youhua was pointing and made out the fighting situation in the center of the farmland.

The tree spirit, relying on its massive body, occupied the center of the farmland, its dark green vines continuously wrapping downward.

Meanwhile, Xiaoyun used the vines as cover to nimbly dodge before a wild boar-like demonic beast.

That wild boar was more than twice as large as an ordinary domestic pig, with exposed tusks that looked extremely fierce.

Its bristles stood on end all over its body as it rampaged about madly.

Without the tree spirit’s vines to restrain it, Xiaoyun would have been rammed long ago.

“Oh, the fairy has returned?”

Not long after Lin Muyu dismounted from her flying sword, the surrounding villagers crowded around her, enthusiastically greeting her.

During the time she had stayed in the village, she had helped them solve many problems and had become familiar with all of them.

Lin Muyu felt somewhat bewildered by the crowd and turned to look at a mature middle-aged man among them.

That was the newly appointed Village Chief of Rain Fairy Village. Ever since she had settled here, the village had been renamed Rain Fairy Village.

She pointed at the pig demon still fighting in the distance, her tone carrying some confusion:

“Wait, a demon is about to break into the village, so why aren’t you hiding in your houses? Instead, you’re all here watching?”

“That’s because you’re here now!”

The villagers responded with cheerful smiles, completely relaxed, as if the fighting before them was just an entertaining show.

“With you here, what do we have to fear?”

“?”

Lin Muyu was both amused and exasperated.

She couldn’t stay in Rain Fairy Village forever, that’s why she had specifically cultivated the tree spirit to guard the village.

These villagers were now so carefree because she was present, but what if she wasn’t around someday when they encountered a demonic beast?

It seemed she would need to correct their thinking later. The right response to danger was to hide immediately, not to always rely on her.

But now wasn’t the time to discuss such things. Since she had arrived, she could protect them.

Lin Muyu stopped dwelling on it and raised her hand toward the pig demon, using her Insight ability. A line of information clearly appeared before her eyes:

【Pig Demon

Rank: Late Stage of Demon Entry

Status: Frenzied (unknown cause)】

“Frenzied status?”

Lin Muyu stared at the information and frowned.

Why had this pig demon suddenly fallen into a frenzied state?

However, this also explained why it dared to break into the village.

Pig demons had naturally keen senses of smell. Logically, it should have been impossible for it not to detect the marker scent she had deliberately left in the village.

It must have been that the frenzy had clouded its rational judgment, which was why it dared to so brazenly attack the village.

Lin Muyu didn’t immediately intervene. Instead, she crossed her arms and stood in place to observe.

This was a good opportunity to see what kind of coordination Xiaoyun and the tree spirit had developed during this time.

From the looks of it, the two-on-one situation had indeed managed to restrain the pig demon’s wild rampage.

Xiaoyun’s body was agile. Using the tree spirit’s vines as cover, she could always sidestep at the instant the pig demon charged.

After each dodge, she would smoothly swing out her claws, leaving a bloody mark on the pig demon’s body.

Meanwhile, the tree spirit held the frontline steady, its vines restricting the pig demon’s movements so it couldn’t unleash its full strength.

The pig demon, having lost its reason, didn’t attack the tree spirit that was harassing it, but instead showed full hostility toward Lin Xiaoyun, who was showing off in front of it.

This was the fundamental reason why one tree and one cat could hold off the pig demon.

“Good job!”

Every time Xiaoyun landed a hit, the surrounding villagers would clap and cheer, their voices full of excitement, exactly as if they were watching a performance.

Suddenly, a little boy about 7 or 8 years old, holding his mother’s hand, stood before Lin Muyu with his small face upturned.

“Sister Rain Fairy! Sister Xiaoyun is so amazing!”

The little boy’s eyes sparkled as he pointed toward the fighting, his tone full of admiration.

“I want to cultivate immortality too, and become as amazing as Sister Xiaoyun in the future!”

Lin Muyu looked at his innocent appearance and sighed softly in her heart.

Cultivating immortality wasn’t that easy.

However, faced with a child, she still smiled and coaxed:

“You’re still young. When you grow up, you’ll definitely be able to do it!”

But the little boy’s next sentence directly made the smile freeze on Lin Muyu’s face.

“Then, Sister, when I grow up, can I marry you?”

“?”

Lin Muyu’s smile instantly froze on her face. The corner of her mouth twitched as she repeatedly chanted in her heart “children speak without restraint, children speak without restraint.”

If it weren’t for the fact that the person standing before her was a 7 or 8-year-old child with clear eyes, had anyone else said such a thing, she would have definitely sent them flying with one punch.

Both were around the same age, why was Yueyue so well-behaved in comparison?

Just as she was secretly grumbling, Lin Muyu suddenly felt her hand being gently grasped.

Yueyue beside her had, at some point, grabbed her wrist, her fingertips applying slight pressure, as if somewhat nervous.

Lin Muyu’s heart stirred. She patted Yueyue’s hand, then turned back to the little boy and said irritably:

“No, you can’t. Sister won’t marry anyone.”