The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits
Chapter 385 - 389: The Demon’s Gratitude (12)

Chapter 385: Chapter 389: The Demon’s Gratitude (12)

If it weren’t for her carelessness, mistaking the other for nothing more than a humble mortal and inadvertently falling for her trick, being wounded by the other’s talisman paper.

She wouldn’t have had to wait so long to seek revenge.

She couldn’t figure out which great master had drawn that yellow talisman thrown at her that day, its power was so immense that not only did it burn her skin, but some force it carried remained, stubbornly hindering the healing of her wounds.

Could they be those hidden masters in the Capital?

Yu Jiaolan once heard her mother mention that there were several masters in the Capital capable of inflicting great harm upon them demons.

However, those few had minor connections with her mother and would turn a blind eye as long as she didn’t go too far.

With this thought, as Yu Jiaolan looked at her wound, a shiver of fear took root deep within her heart, then dissipated, overwhelmed by a rising tide of hatred.

Once she got her hands on that woman’s skin, she would make sure to torture her soul thoroughly.

How dare she, how dare she harm her...

She must consume her soul slowly, chewing bite by bite, to quell the hatred in her heart.

Yu Jiaolan transferred all her grudge against humankind onto Shi Jiaojiao.

The once clear and spirited soul of a Carp Spirit slowly turned black.

Yu Jiaolan was drenched as if she had been fished out of the water.

The water dripping down from her red dress hemmed seemed to spring to life, falling to the floor, then creeping up the wooden door.

The "sizzling" sound indicated the water bore a potent corrosive quality.

Soon enough, the door frame was eroded away, creating a hole just tall enough for a person to pass through.

As Yu Jiaolan’s grin stretched across her face at the threshold of the room, the yellow talisman on the door sprang into action.

The Carp Spirit’s foot instantly retracted, but the red dress, transformed from her scales, was too slow to draw back and, like the door corroded by the drops from her body, the hem of her dress lost a piece to the corrosion of the yellow talisman.

The same yellow talisman again brought back the piercing pain she felt when the talisman paper was adhered to her body.

Her fingers involuntarily covered the wound on her abdomen, which began to throb anew.

Especially so after Wu Youzei, her little friend, told her that her body harbored centipedes typically kept by humans.

Yu Jiaolan wasn’t stupid and instantly connected the dots to the food fed into the pond by that so-called benefactor.

Wu Youzei had also deduced that her identity must have been discovered, so the food surely contained subtle evils hard to notice.

Sure enough, as soon as Wu Youzei rid her of the parasites within, her magical powers swiftly returned.

But for now, what she urgently needed was to rid herself of this detestable shell, and afterward, she would most definitely seek out that benefactor again.

Just as Wu Youzei had suggested, humans are despicable creatures; even if that benefactor had saved her life, she would not let them off.

Yu Jiaolan bitterly thought to herself, mother was wrong.

Indeed, only one’s own kind could be the best. Why should humans, frail and deceitful, who were not even worthy of serving them demons, have access to the best resources in the world?

The Heavenly Dao is unjust.

The Carp Spirit could never have imagined that her mother had repeatedly warned her not to associate with Wu Youzei.

This demon, Wu Youzei, had an unstable nature, strayed from the Righteous Path, and harbored extreme animosity towards humans, unable to achieve true enlightenment.

As a result, when Yu Niang was injured and unable to look after her daughter, the Carp Spirit herself, Yu Jiaolan, ended up tormenting herself into this current state.

Totally led astray by Wu Youzei.

Confronted with the threat of the yellow talisman, Yu Jiaolan took out a small porcelain bottle filled with black ink.

This ink was the poisonous ink from the body of Wu Youzei.

She splashed it towards the yellow talisman, which immediately turned to ashes, no longer existing.

With methodical precision, she cleared away all the talisman papers blocking her path, and her trust in Wu Youzei surged even higher.

She no longer held it against him for his evasiveness, his unwillingness to help her seek revenge.

The commotion outside was enough to wake even Shi Jiaojiao, who could sleep like a log.

When Yu Jiaolan stepped into the room, she saw the beautiful girl shivering, clutching a yellow talisman, and looking out the door warily.

"You, you evil demon, leave immediately, or else... or else I’ll have the master come to deal with you."

Shi Jiaojiao made a show of threatening to yell for help loudly.

Yu Jiaolan revealed sharp, glistening teeth, smiling maliciously like someone teasing their prey: "Go ahead and shout, even if you scream your throat raw, I doubt anyone will hear."

"And if they do hear, all the better; they can join you in my belly – wouldn’t that be nice?"

The demon’s words intimidated Shi Jiaojiao into closing her mouth tight, no longer attempting to cry out for help.

If... if what the demon said was true, wouldn’t her call for help cause another person harm because of her?

Even at such a life-and-death crossroad, the young girl’s innocence remained untainted at heart.

"Why, why... I have never wronged you; why do you want to harm me?" Even in death, Shi Jiaojiao wanted to be a ghost that understood its fate.

As if she had already decided that her prey was meat on the chopping board, Yu Jiaolan was in no hurry to end Shi Jiaojiao’s life.

She preferred to enjoy the sight of the sheer terror spreading across that exquisite face because of her presence.

It gave her a sense of unparalleled thrill and excitement...

Yu Jiaolan dragged her feet and found a place to sit; a long, sticky trail marked where she had walked.

Frustrated, she tugged at her hair and, using the reflective surface of the copper mirror on the dressing table, saw her own disheveled and bloated form, including a protruding belly.

Her gaze then shifted to the woman huddled in the corner of the bed.

With venomous jealousy, she coveted that stunning beauty, believing it should rightfully be hers.

As a red carp, her scales had shone brilliantly, and she’d been immensely proud of herself.

Among the fish, she was the most beautiful, and even her mother had always admired her beauty.

Even after taking human form, she should have been the most beautiful.

"Who allowed you to have the beauty that shouldn’t belong to you..." Yu Jiaolan spat out the words through clenched teeth.

Shi Jiaojiao didn’t understand, "One’s appearance is a gift from their parents; how can it be a matter of ’should’ or ’shouldn’t’?"

"If you’re not as beautiful, it’s because your parents did not ’gift’ you as well."

Nevertheless facing death, Shi Jiaojiao’s courage swelled greatly, puffing with anger, she retorted with a huff.

"You deserve to die."

Yu Jiaolan, infuriated and embarrassed, stood up abruptly, ready to end this woman’s life.

Yet, her mind involuntarily conjured the image of her kind mother from the words of this girl.

Her mother had golden scales that looked beautiful, but her human form was plain. Could it really be as the girl said, that she took after her own mother?