When Earth Awakened, I Became a Sword Saintess

Chapter 124 : A Meeting Under the Night

124: A Meeting Under the Night

After resting well for the day on Saturday, Yuyin returned to the academy dormitory in the evening.

Opening the door, she found it empty, and Yuyin couldn't help but feel a bit of coldness. Because Yuyin was away, Little Yuan and Yingluo had each gone home for the weekend. Of course, they would definitely be there for the finals tomorrow afternoon.

The finals...

Yuyin gazed out the window at the serene night of the lake. Facing Senior Sister Lian, even now she wasn't confident of victory, but she had already done her best.

"Senior Sister Lian is just too obsessed with what she demands, perhaps what she believes is perfection. But she has no ill will towards me. Even if I truly cannot defeat her tomorrow, it's nothing. Perhaps, she cares more about this victory than I do. But I... will go all out."

The glass reflected Yuyin's long hair over her shoulders, and the determined charm on her beautiful, radiant face.

The night was deep. After her bath, Yuyin lay alone on her bed, looking at her phone for a while. This was a common occurrence for most girls, but Yuyin rarely did it. Apart from resting, too much of her time was spent either cultivating or thinking about cultivation, or in the God-Devouring Chess...

She might possess a cultivation talent that ordinary girls could not hope to match, but she also faced a threat to a woman's very foundation that they could not possibly imagine.

"Ding..." At this moment, the doorbell rang.

"Could it be Yingluo?" She didn't have permission for the fingerprint recognition. If the dorm supervisor wasn't around on the weekend, she might not be able to get in.

Yuyin opened the visual door intercom and froze.

On the screen, the Student Council President, Lan Lianyue, wearing a dark long dress, was standing at the door.

"Lian, Senior Sister Lian?"

Yuyin hurriedly put on a bra, changed into a light lavender shirt, and slipped on a dark blue short skirt, rushing downstairs.

"Five minutes." When Senior Sister Lian saw Yuyin run down, her long, beautiful legs wrapped in a tight short skirt, she said, "You're really something. But it's only two floors, and you made the Student Council President wait downstairs for five minutes."

Yuyin was slightly out of breath. She had forgotten to fasten a button on her chest. She had been wearing her pajamas, after all. She couldn't just come down to see the Student Council President like that, could she? She had to dress a bit more formally. "Senior Sister Lian, may I ask why you are looking for me so late?"

Lan Lianyue smiled casually. "The competition is tomorrow. I can't sleep. Will you walk with me?"

Yuyin couldn't guess Senior Sister Lian's intentions for a moment. Who went for a walk with their opponent on the night before the finals?

However, she didn't refuse and walked with Lan Lianyue along the small path on East Yushan.

At this time, East Yushan was very quiet. The tall, towering trees left a hardy impression against the slightly purplish night sky. A cool mountain breeze blew, and faintly, small, floating Night Spirits could be seen wandering.

The two girls were long accustomed to these things and paid them no mind. They walked along the mountain path for a long time without speaking.

"Senior Sister Lian, did you come to me because you have something to say?" Finally, Yuyin couldn't help but ask.

Lan Lianyue walked behind Yuyin, looking at her slender waist cinched by the shirt and her round, full bottom wrapped by the short skirt, and couldn't help but show a loving smile. Ah, why did she still harbor fantasies about this girl who had rejected her time and again?

"Xia Yuyin, you should know the result of tomorrow's competition." Lan Lianyue said.

"Senior Sister?" Yuyin turned around. She was much taller than her, not to mention that she was wearing high heels and standing on the upward slope of the path. "How can you know the result before we've even competed?"

"Hmph." Lan Lianyue sneered. Suddenly, with an unquestionable pace, she quickly closed the distance, forcing a bewildered Yuyin to retreat until she was backed against the foot of a several-hundred-year-old tree.

Smack.

Lan Lianyue's slender but strong hand pressed against the rough trunk of the large tree beside Yuyin's soft, slender shoulder.

"Xia Yuyin, you clearly know that you don't have the slightest chance of winning. You... will definitely lose to me tomorrow." A hint of icy, orchid blue was in Senior Sister Lian's gaze.

"...Senior Sister Lian, before the competition, I don't want to argue about this issue." Yuyin was also displeased. Her chances of winning might not be high, but she couldn't just have her defeat declared like this, could she? Yuyin respected the strong, but her self-esteem was also strong.

"That's right. This is an issue that doesn't need to be argued at all. I will make you suffer a crushing defeat, to the point where you won't even have the strength to catch your breath and admit defeat." Feeling Yuyin's defiance, Lan Lianyue's desire to dominate was further stimulated. She moved closer, stood on her tiptoes, and her body was already pressed against Yuyin's chest.

Feeling Yuyin's rich, feminine scent, light after her bath, made Lan Lianyue even more resolute. "I'm not here to mock you or to show off my strength. I have no need to do that. Yuyin, everything this world is facing, with your sensitivity, how could you not know? I've sought you out again and again because I value you. I need you."

"I mean, I need your strength, a person like you." Lan Lianyue softened her tone slightly. She looked up, her eyes meeting Yuyin's, shimmering with the deep blue of the night. "If you lose to me tomorrow, then... promise me that you will join us, and from now on, obey me!"

Under the cover of the ancient tree in the moonlight, the two girls' bodies were pressed together. Although Yuyin was very repulsed by Lan Lianyue's attitude of saying whatever she wanted and not putting others in her eyes at all, this physical contact still made her heart beat faster.

"Yuyin? You seem to be breathing very heavily? Hehe, is this your body's honest reaction? You actually... want to obey me? It's just that your dignity won't allow you to accept it so easily. You need me to defeat you in front of everyone, to prove my strength, before you will willingly obey? Is that it? A girl like you is truly completely different from me, but... I understand you best, and... I don't dislike it." Lan Lianyue said, her aggressive tone softening as she stood on her tiptoes and whispered in Yuyin's ear.

"Hmph, I don't want to discuss matters of the body. Even if what you say is true, it won't affect my mind. Where do you think I do my thinking, Senior Sister Lian?" Yuyin looked down at her calmly, revealing a queen-like pride and unyieldingness.

"Interesting..." Lan Lianyue became even more excited and giggled.

"Xia Yuyin, no matter how stubborn you are with your words today, after I defeat you at my feet tomorrow, in front of the entire academy and all the guests, without the slightest arrogance, very kindly, in the name of this world, I will sincerely invite you to join us. At that time, what face will you have to refuse?" Lan Lianyue said in a dreamy voice.

"Senior Sister Lian, why bring the world into it? Those words are too grand. You only need to invite me to join the Student Council in the name of the academy, for the safety of our Lingdu. Not as a condition for being driven by you personally, or for both of us to become appendages of Lan Lingfeng, to be his foil. If you do that, then I tell you, tomorrow, regardless of victory or defeat, I will agree." Yuyin said sincerely, yet without losing her pride.

"Oh?" Lan Lianyue let go of Yuyin and took two steps back.

"The academy and the Student Council have been good to me. Even if I refused you, the Student Council has never made things difficult for me. Why should I refuse?" Yuyin said.

"Hmph, you say that nicely, but you have in fact already refused me twice." Lan Lianyue questioned.

"The reason for that... surely you must understand, Senior Sister? I am willing to serve the academy and the Student Council, but I don't want to use it as a condition for being driven by others."

"What a joke. If you join the Student Council, wouldn't you still have to obey my orders?"

"Senior Sister Lian, with you and I being such sensitive people, I don't think I need to elaborate on the difference here, do I?"

"Hehehe, fine... Then can I take it that you've agreed? As long as you lose to me tomorrow, you will accept my invitation and join the Student Council?" Lan Lianyue spun lightly on the mountain path, not caring that her steps landed on the edge of a steep slope, her gaze fixed only on Yuyin.

"You can interpret it however you want. That's your business." Yuyin said.

"Hehehehe..." Lan Lianyue stood under the night sky, laughing charmingly. "You... are still a kind girl. You also understand gratitude, but you care too much about some principles that are essentially baseless, stubbornly refusing to obey me, yet you are willing to obey the Student Council President? Do you think I have no way to combine the Student Council, myself, and my brother? At that time, the upper echelons of the academy will also absolutely support it. The Student Council will become my brother's backing. I can do that. Do you believe me?"

"I may believe that you have this ability, Senior Sister, but that's different." Yuyin said. "I, Xia Yuyin, will always reserve the right to choose for myself."

"Perhaps I admire your persistence. You are very charming, so much so that you have caused tension between me and my best friend. She actually seems to lean towards you... But I have to say, this is the naivety of youth."

Lan Lianyue walked up to Yuyin and gently grasped a lock of her long hair, as if she loved this long hair and couldn't bear to let it go, wanting to control it forever. "Xia Yuyin, I'm telling you, in this world, no one has absolute power of choice. Today, you and I live under this falsely peaceful night sky. You can still insist on your so-called self in front of me, but... do you truly understand?"

"Xia Yuyin, in the face of absolute power, you have no right to choose at all. The only thing you can do is obey, display your ability and charm to please and curry favor, in order to gain greater recognition and value for yourself. That is life, the essence of every person's life."

After Lan Lianyue finished speaking, Yuyin's chest rose and fell deeply. She stared at Senior Sister Lian, silent for a long time, but her strong gaze perhaps reflected her soul at this moment.

Clearly, it was a peerlessly beautiful body that the powerful of the world were infatuated with and wanted to conquer and dominate, but what Yuyin possessed was a strength that even the men of the world could not match.

Even a strong man would submit to a stronger one.

But Yuyin... she would not.

Lan Lianyue opened her jade-white fingers, and Yuyin's beautiful hair slowly fell.

"Tomorrow, I will let you experience this power, Xia Yuyin."

With that, Lan Lianyue flicked her beautiful, tragic long hair and turned to leave.

Leaving Yuyin standing quietly in her original spot. Her gaze, although gentle and beautiful, was not weak.

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The next afternoon, the sky was overcast. The sun shone in the east, while it rained in the west.

In the Lingdu Source Martial Academy's Main Martial Arts Dojo, the finals between the two peerlessly talented female students began!