Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

“I’m Yuyan, and here’s Wuji Sect’s pendant.”

Yuyan sighed, her left hand somewhat embarrassedly covering her chest while her right hand pulled out her pendant to prove her identity.

Being stared at suspiciously by several guards just now made her want to die of embarrassment. Throughout this whole journey, Yuyan hadn’t interacted with other people and had almost forgotten that her original Taoist robes had been shredded. This outfit was the weird maid costume Yino had given her.

This maid outfit was already strange just from the name alone.

And wearing it was even weirder! Although the outfit covered everything properly on the surface, the chest and waist areas were actually very form-fitting and figure-hugging. The seemingly modest over-the-knee skirt was actually not modest at all underneath. Yuyan still remembered the shame she’d felt putting on this white silk garter ensemble for the first time! She’d lived most of her life and had never worn such fancy lingerie before.

Beautiful – it really was quite beautiful.

But Yuyan was a relatively conservative woman. This kind of costume was fine for her to wear for Yino’s private enjoyment, but now she actually had to wear it out in public….

“Ah… it really is Lady Yuyan… please enter…”

The guards got quite an eyeful today.

They were just low-level workers who couldn’t imagine what methods this rich young master had used to get the famous Destiny girl of Wuji sect to wear a maid outfit.

They didn’t dare speak up or stare too much – just kept their heads down and waved them through.

“Heh…”

Yino smiled, also quite humbly returning their salute.

But just as the two were about to step through the city gate, the dragon girl in the distance descended from the sky with divine authority—

“Stop!!!”

CRASH CRASH CRASH—!

The dragongirl landed, dust flying everywhere, covering the entire Jin City checkpoint in a cloud of yellow earth.

After a long moment, when everyone opened their eyes through the dust, they saw the dragon girl who’d finally caught up had already tackled the young man to the ground, grabbing his collar—

“Yino! You were deliberately avoiding me, weren’t you!”

Nina was livid.

She was already pissed about getting bullied by those old bastards in Western Province City. Now when she saw Yino return, she was overjoyed – but he’d completely ignored all her calls and even sped up trying to ditch her.

What the hell was that about!

Sure, they’d only known each other briefly, but these past few days, Nina had fought alongside Yino on the battlefield as friends.

Nina wasn’t some man-eating monster. She was obviously worried about Yino – so how could he just turn his back on her like this!

“How would I dare avoid you, boss?”

Yino was pinned down by Nina. This familiar view from below inevitably reminded him of his three encounters with Nina back in Western Province City.

Back then, he’d swiped her treasure and afterward got pushed down and straddled by Nina just like this.

“Yino, you know I was worried sick about you! How could you just irresponsibly slam that city gate shut all by yourself!”

Though anger dominated, now that they were actually face to face, Nina couldn’t hide her worry from waiting a full day and night.

All this time, Yino had vanished without a trace. Everyone said he was definitely dead, which kept Nina constantly on edge. She’d rarely gotten permission from her master to come down and have fun for a few days, but then her first good friend just died like that – Nina couldn’t handle it.

“Look, I saw there wasn’t time and was afraid the Demon Abyss tide would flood into the city, so I had to close the gate temporarily…”

“See! You’re such an idiot!”

Coming from Dragon Palace royalty, even when Nina was this furious, she couldn’t manage any truly harsh curse words.

Actually, Yino’s answer didn’t surprise her at all. She just still couldn’t emotionally accept it.

“So after you got swallowed by the Demon Abyss tide, where the hell have you been all this time?”

No point rehashing the past. Nina wanted to get straight to the important stuff.

As soon as she said this, Yino shot a pleading look at Yuyan, but Yuyan just crossed her arms and watched him with obvious curiosity, clearly wanting to hear this story too.

No choice – Yino sighed helplessly:

“After the Demon Abyss tide swept me away, when I woke up I was in some city beneath the Demon Abyss…”

“Demon Abyss City?!”

Nina immediately reacted to just those few keywords.

Hearing the term “Demon Abyss City,” Yuyan standing nearby also looked quite curious.

“Yeah, the Demon Abyss tide accidentally transported me to Demon Abyss City…”

“Then below Demon Abyss City, I happened to save this poor little girl named Erli.”

“So I followed Erli to where she lived and ended up defeating some foreman who was enslaving workers in the mines…”

“After that, I took Erli and we ran for our lives, but accidentally stumbled into this weird crimson palace…”

Yino started telling his story seriously.

His experiences had not only Nina listening intently, but Yuyan refused to miss a single detail.

She’d actually wanted to ask about all this but kept forgetting during their journey.

“A crimson palace? Can you describe it more specifically?”

Her dragon instincts made Nina more serious than ever.

Yino thought for a moment and spoke honestly:

“The palace had this crimson atmosphere, and deep in the main hall there was this huge heart with thick blood vessels stuck all around it. The heart was surrounded by this red barrier…”

“You – you didn’t stumble into the Pain Mother Goddess’s shrine, did you?!!”

Nina’s face went white with shock as she grabbed Yino’s collar and shook him hard.

Honestly, forget Yino- even Nina with her true dragon bloodline wouldn’t dare venture into that evil cult’s headquarters!

That kind of place meant certain death!

“Yino, you… you’re not messing with me, are you? Don’t scare me like this!”

Thinking about it, Nina muttered to herself while turning to look at Yuyan nearby.

But right now, Yuyan’s expression was equally grave, with hints of post-traumatic fear in her eyes.

“Seriously, you actually went to the Pain Mother Goddess’s main shrine?!”

If Nina were an emoji right now, she’d definitely be wide-eyed, hunched over like a shrimp at her computer desk.

Yino shrugged casually and nodded helplessly.

“I didn’t want to either! I stumbled in by accident – what was I supposed to do!”

“But how did you manage to come out alive? Wait, are you still the same Yino I remember?”

Nina was questioning everything about her existence.

She felt like all the knowledge she’d learned following her master over the years was completely useless – this wasn’t how immortal cultivation worked at all!

“Hey, let me finish telling my story first… I mean, explaining! Anyway, I’m definitely still me – senior sister can vouch for that…”

Yino waved Nina off and sat up from the ground, brushing off his collar while saying earnestly: “Nina, don’t freak out about what I’m going to tell you next.”

“You… you’re not about to tell me you destroyed the Pain Mother Goddess’s heart, are you?”

The dragon girl looked incredulous as she joked.

But the moment she finished speaking, Yino seemed to latch onto her words, pointing excitedly—

“Hey! Don’t say that – seriously, don’t say that!”

“How did you know that at the crucial moment, senior sister and I had perfect synchronization, combined our swords, both unleashed our hidden potential, found the heart’s weak spot and took down the heart in one strike!”

“I’m not bragging here.”

“Your Majesty, don’t you think it’s weird?”

“This Demon Abyss tide that should’ve lasted a week – how did it suddenly recede in less than a day?”

Nina: ???

Yuyan: …Combined swords?