The No.1 Undercover in the Immortal World-Chapter 266 - 265: The Ruse of Self-Inflicted Injury Fails
Although Snow Maiden’s interference was persistent, Lin Yun remained undistracted, focusing on drawing out the fire poison from within her body.
But his mind began to wander aimlessly.
He thought back to when Yuquan experienced something similar with Dongfang Hongyue, wondering how he had managed to cure the fire poison.
Well, the priest must have had profound cultivation and probably could resolve it himself, right?
"Ah Yun, some of the fire has risen."
Snow Maiden reminded him shyly.
The area was near her vital meridians and difficult to control. With Snow Maiden’s strength greatly depleted and Lin Yun having thrown her into disarray, she accidentally allowed the fire poison to inch closer to her meridians.
In such a critical moment, she couldn’t afford to worry about anything else. There wasn’t much fire poison left, and she could only rely on Lin Yun to help her.
Lin Yun: "..."
Are you causing trouble?
And you get something good out of it?
Lin Yun pushed forward like a wild boar rooting around in cabbage.
Finally, he succeeded in drawing out all of the fire poison from Snow Maiden, but her face remained flushed.
As a Snow Maiden, she had never had physical contact with a man, let alone at such a private area, repeatedly being touched by Lin Yun.
"Snow Maiden, are you feeling better from your injuries?"
Outside the tent, Wutulu and Bandarawa were growing increasingly anxious.
After more than an hour with no response from inside, it was only natural for them to be concerned.
Just as Snow Maiden was about to reply, Lin Yun unexpectedly fell onto her. She couldn’t help but cry out in surprise. Hearing her cry, the two men rushed in only to see Lin Yun with his head buried in her chest, seemingly in the midst of something inappropriate.
The two warriors were instantly enraged, their faces turning red as they both threw punches without any agreement.
In the hearts of these warriors, Snow Maiden was their idol, the eternal goddess. And now that their goddess was injured, they saw a rotten youngster taking liberties with her!
They held nothing back as they launched their attacks.
However, all of this had been within Lin Yun’s calculations.
Combining a "beauty trap" with "damsel in distress," and then throwing in a bit of self-injury, even someone as naive as Snow Maiden would fall for it—or at least stand on the edge of falling.
Besides, for a woman as pure and untainted as her, physical closeness was the first step to opening her heart.
So, Lin Yun pretended to collapse from exhaustion, executing a perfect "bury-in-chest" technique.
The timing was also perfect. With someone asking from outside and Snow Maiden giving a subconscious cry, it would draw people in, and they would inevitably attack him upon seeing such a scene.
Once they realized it was a misunderstanding, Snow Maiden would feel even more guilty. By then, she would be fully trapped in his ploy.
However...
Lin Yun had miscalculated Snow Maiden’s reaction. As the two warriors pummeled with their fists, Snow Maiden instinctively held Lin Yun tightly, cast Mystic Ice Armor on herself, and turned her back to meet the blows.
Wutulu and Bandarawa quickly tried to pull back their punches. Although it was a little late, the Mystic Ice Armor prevented Snow Maiden from getting injured.
After taking the two hits, Snow Maiden initially wanted to release Lin Yun and explain the situation, but considering the hole now in her clothes, she continued holding onto him, saying, "Leave us. Ah Yun is merely healing me."
"This..."
"Out!"
Seeing Snow Maiden’s anger, Bandarawa and Wutulu reluctantly left the tent. Only then did Snow Maiden turn to Lin Yun. Seeing his face red and swollen, she realized he had injured himself while trying to absorb the fire poison for her.
With Lin Yun’s level of cultivation, controlling such intense fire poison was indeed very difficult.
Fortunately, this time it was Lin Yun who got poisoned with fire toxin, and the Snow Maiden could cast a spell to cure him, so there was no need for her to suck the poison out with her mouth like Lin Yun would have to.
Lin Yun greatly regretted this.
Such a pity.
The self-harm strategy didn’t work out, and instead, he started to feel somewhat sorry for her, especially since the Snow Maiden had instinctively protected him when they faced danger, causing Lin Yun to feel somewhat guilty.
But he suppressed that sympathy nonetheless.
The Snow Maiden was indeed innocent; she was a simple girl, but to the Central Plains people, the Great Desert was an invader, and the Snow Maiden was the leader of the invaders.
Lin Yun had no other choice; if he had been lenient, the Central Plains would fall, and the frontier town would inevitably become a hell of corpses and bloodshed.
"Are you feeling better now?"
After the Snow Maiden cast the Ice Spirit Spell to cure Lin Yun of the fire poison, he nodded and said, "I’m fine now, thank you, sister."
After speaking, his gaze shifted to the torn part of the Snow Maiden’s clothes.
That glance made the Snow Maiden shy again, and naturally, it also stirred her heart when she recalled the previous incidents.
But she was too embarrassed to bring it up since, at that time, Lin Yun was merely trying to save her.
Her hand brushed over the torn area, and her white robe mended itself automatically; the capability of this garment was certainly comparable to Elder Hu’s.
"Sister always wears a veil, so I didn’t know you were so beautiful," Lin Yun said, looking at the Snow Maiden’s face, which was truly delicate, as if carved by a knife, a beauty seemingly not of this Mortal Realm.
The Snow Maiden, flattered by his compliment, became even more bashful, and suddenly a white veil covered her face, leaving only her eyes visible.
"Ah Yun, you’re handsome too. Everything we have is a gift from the Snow Mountain God, so we need to be grateful to our Father God," the Snow Maiden replied, still not feeling romantic affection towards Lin Yun, with her shyness being a natural emotion.
As it was now, she was encouraging Lin Yun to join her in praising the Father God.
Lin Yun: "..."
The Snow Maiden really wasn’t as easy to win over as she seemed.
However, their relationship had actually gotten much closer, which could be seen in the decreased physical distance between them.
When the Snow Maiden first thought Lin Yun was her brother, they had not made any physical contact, and they kept a distance of more than three feet while talking. Now that they had physical contact, the distance was only a few inches.
Given enough time, abducting the Snow Maiden wasn’t a dream.
"Sister, what should we do next?"
Originally, the Snow Maiden’s estimate was that she would have a fierce battle with Lin Yu before returning to the Snow Mountain Divine Church to find the insider traitor, and then swiftly attack the Mountain and Sea Pass to complete her strategic mission.
Currently, Balder, the third-ranked warrior, along with a few others, were battling at the Mountain and Sea Pass, evenly matched with the defending troops.
The Snow Maiden was not originally on the list of combatants, but since she was here and considering the variable of the insider traitor, she could no longer stay out of the matter.
Now that she was the highest commander, many decisions had to be made by her.
"Stick to the original plan, we’ll hold back on attacking the Mountain and Sea Pass for now and head back to Snow Mountain. I underestimated those people from the Central Plains," the Snow Maiden said.
The Snow Maiden learned a lesson after confronting Dongfang Hongyue; she had always thought she was invincible, at least on the Grasslands. Dongfang Hongyue proved otherwise.
In theory, you might be impressive, but actual combat is the only true test of the truth.
Not only did she accomplish the feat of fire overcoming water by excelling in their battle of wits, but Dongfang Hongyue’s unpredictable attacks also gave the Snow Maiden a hard time in the subsequent spell battles.
Now the Snow Maiden didn’t dare to be arrogant at all; so, for the conquest of the Central Plains, she had to be more cautious. To be on the safe side, she should return to Snow Mountain first, weed out the insider traitor, and then head south to attack the cities.
"If we all leave, who will stay behind to defend?"
