Turning My Junior Sister into a Mary Sue In Xianxia Yuri World - Volume 3 Chapter 57 / Chapter 224: Yiyi and Jiujiu, The Lively Pair in the Cell

Clang—Clang—

The grinding of crude gears made an unsettling noise, as if the elevator might collapse at any moment and send the two plummeting down.

Surrounded by rock walls, the lift was now so dark that they couldn’t see their own hands.

Ye Anping could only rely on the sensation of weightlessness to estimate how far they had descended. Either way, when they left, escaping by the elevator would be impossible. He’d have to open a hole in the mountain wall and ride the sword through the chaotic spiritual veins and snowstorm outside.

However, with the loss of vision, his other senses became heightened.

Even though his head wasn’t pressed to Feng Yudie’s chest, he could hear her heart racing, as if she was frightened.

After a pause, he frowned and asked, “You can speak now. What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, just…” Feng Yudie tightened her grip on Ye Anping’s hand, “I’m a little scared. It’s so dark, and we’re inside a cave…”

Hearing this, Ye Anping suddenly remembered what Xiaotian had told him about the matter involving True Immortal Tai Xu, just before he sent Feng Yudie to Yun Jiujiu that night.

He sighed softly and said, “It’ll be brighter soon.”

“Mm…”

Feng Yudie bit her lip, closing her eyes and focusing on the grinding sound of the gears inside the cave walls, silently counting in her head.

Clang—Clang—

Clang—

…

By the time she reached the 427th count, the grinding stopped, and Feng Yudie slowly opened her eyes.

She and Ye Anping had arrived in a large stone chamber, lit only by a few furnaces in each corner.

There were five other identical elevator platforms leading to unknown places.

“Shh—”

Ye Anping gestured for silence.

Carrying her, he stepped out of the stone chamber and entered a circular passageway.

Doors of various sizes lined both sides of the corridor.

They stuck close to the right wall, walking about a hundred feet before a tall, thin man carrying a sword appeared at the end of the passage.

It seemed the man was heading for the elevator and was walking toward them.

Ye Anping glanced at him briefly, avoiding using his spiritual sense to probe.

Seeing the sword hilt behind the tall man, he assumed the man was most likely a Core Formation cultivator.

He quickly stepped aside with Feng Yudie, lowering his head as the man passed, and respectfully greeted him, “Greetings, senior.”

“Hmm?”

The man paused, nodded in acknowledgment, and continued walking.

But just as Ye Anping was about to move on, the man suddenly turned around.

“Wait.”

“Is there something you need, senior?” Ye Anping asked.

“You’re with He Longyu, right?”

“Yes, senior. I am Ye An, and this is my dao companion. Earlier, Senior He sent us to hold off the pursuers, and she was injured in the process, so…”

The man raised an eyebrow, surprised. “Oh? How did you manage to escape?”

“Thanks to Senior Zhou’s sacrifice, we barely escaped the blade of that pursuer.”

“I see…”

The man raised his eyebrows, nodded slightly, and glanced at Feng Yudie, who was still in Ye Anping’s arms.

He briefly scanned her with his spiritual sense but didn’t find anything suspicious.

He casually handed over a bottle of low-quality pills and said, “Take her to rest first. We still need more people to reinforce the formation. He Longyu is already there. If you don’t know what to do, let him teach you.”

“Understood, senior.”

Ye Anping bowed his head and sighed with relief.

He continued carrying Feng Yudie further down the corridor.

…

Meanwhile, at the lowest level of the Snow Dragon Cave.

In a stone chamber made of dark bricks, the wood in the fire pit crackled and popped. The flickering firelight cast an eerie glow over the entire room.

Yun Yiyi lay against a corner of the stone wall, wrapped in the blanket Yu Shuiting had provided.

Drip—

A drop of water fell from the ceiling and landed on her eyelid.

Yun Yiyi squinted slightly before slowly opening her eyes.

She groggily scanned her surroundings but was suddenly hit by a sharp pain in the back of her head.

After a moment, she remembered that she had been knocked unconscious by the person who had killed her husband.

And as soon as she thought of Ye Anping being killed by those people, a wave of anger surged through her, and she ground her teeth in fury.

However, she quickly suppressed her anger and calmly surveyed her surroundings.

“Where is this…?”

—— “Underground.”

“Huh?!”

A voice suddenly echoed in Yun Yiyi’s ears, startling her.

She tried to turn her head to look but found her body bound, unable to move.

As she twisted, she fell away from the wall and landed on the ground, wriggling like a caterpillar.

“Heh~”

Yun Jiujiu scoffed disdainfully at her pitiful state and turned away, ignoring her.

After struggling for a while and rolling around, Yun Yiyi finally saw that there was another person in the stone chamber—someone with blonde curly hair.

She stared at Yun Jiujiu in silence for a while before asking, “Young lady, are you an inner disciple?”

Clink, clink—

The chains on Yun Jiujiu rattled as she turned her head to look at Yun Yiyi in disbelief and exclaimed, “Young lady? Are you kidding me? I’m Yun Jiujiu!!”

“Huh?”

“Huh, my ass! Are you seriously pretending not to recognize me, or are you just that clueless? In this situation, you’re still cracking jokes with me?!”

Yun Yiyi pouted and gave her a once-over, looking her up and down. “I really didn’t recognize you. Why are you wearing a skirt?”

“I… I… Why can’t I wear a skirt?! Yun Yiyi!! I’m a girl too…”

“A girl, huh?”

“Ugh—screw you!”

Clink, clink—

Yun Jiujiu tried to stand up and hit her, but the chains around her body were like a collar, preventing her from moving an inch.

Frustrated, she shouted outside the room, “Where the hell is everyone?! Unlock these chains! I need to beat her up!”

She’s got some energy… Yun Yiyi thought, exasperated.

She rolled around and finally managed to use a stool to push herself up from the floor.

Glancing around the room, she looked for something to free herself from the blanket she was wrapped in.

However, aside from some stones and the fire pit, there was nothing useful.

After thinking for a bit, Yun Yiyi said, “Can you help me get out of this blanket? I can’t move.”

“Heh~ You don’t see these chains on my hands and feet? Am I supposed to risk my life to help you out of a blanket? At least the person who tied you up was nice enough to give you one. I’m freezing to death over here.”

Yun Yiyi hopped over to Yun Jiujiu but lost her balance and accidentally crashed headfirst into Yun Jiujiu’s chest.

Thud—

“Ugh—” Yun Yiyi gasped in pain. “Your chest is harder than the steel in the Wutian Shadowmoon Sword Pavilion.”

Yun Jiujiu glared at her and bent her head down to bite the corner of the blanket wrapped around Yun Yiyi. “Get off me!!”

“Why get off? Just help me get out of this blanket.”

“I said get off! Roll away, can’t you?”

“I can’t roll.”

“Put some effort into it! You weakling… I’m already biting the corner for you.”

“Wait, wait… Ow, ow, ow! You’re biting my skin!!”

“Pah—!”