Inside the ring lay a space of nothingness.
A stunning woman dressed in fiery red, with two golden bells hanging from her waist, slowly opened her soul-captivating Phoenix Eyes.
Her gaze was clouded with confusion.
“I’ve been reborn?”
Danxia murmured softly, her expression dazed.
In her previous life, she had been truly dedicated to Ye Shu.
Since he had taken her as his Master, she naturally taught him everything she knew, treating him like her own son.
Though she had absorbed his spiritual power for fifteen years, causing him to suffer endless cold shoulders from others…
She had also taught him immortal arts, guided his cultivation, and forcibly possessed his body multiple times during life-and-death moments to save him from peril.
She had even gone as far as exhausting her own Origin to save him, smoothing his path forward.
She believed she owed Ye Shu nothing.
But in the end…
what did she get in return?
A Rebellious Disciple who defied his Master!
Seeing her unparalleled beauty, he could not hide the evil thoughts in his heart.
However, Danxia did not blame him for that, as it was perhaps inevitable.
What truly turned her heart cold was that while she was exhausting her Origin to save him from a desperate situation, he had abandoned her in a death trap just to save his own life, leaving her to be besieged by enemies…
(PS: These are all false memories shaped by the System; in reality, none of this ever happened.)
To think that she, a Pill Sovereign, had actually misjudged someone so completely.
“Since the heavens have allowed me to live again, this time…”
Danxia’s eyes flickered, the confusion vanishing, replaced by a bone-chilling determination and sharpness.
Her red robes fluttered even without wind, and the red bells at her waist rang crisply.
“I will certainly not repeat the same mistake!”
Meanwhile, outside the ring.
Ye Shu was breaking out in a cold sweat.
A faint Pill Wind began to blow within the small shack—a sign that Danxia had already awakened.
Who could have imagined encountering a life-and-death crisis so quickly?
Damn it, the normal plot shouldn’t be like this!
According to the plot scenes Xiao Bai showed him, shouldn’t he be like an unkillable cockroach, entangling with the Villain until the finale before being slain by a single sword strike?
With his current cultivation having only just entered the Qi Refining stage…
He simply couldn’t find a way to survive Danxia’s hand!
Xiao Bai seemed to see through Ye Shu’s confusion and spoke up:
“Because that System has already absorbed the Luck of many worlds, it is now very powerful and no longer needs to hide itself.”
“You mean…”
Ye Shu grit his teeth, his expression grim.
“That son of a bitch isn’t even pretending anymore?
It’s planning to take me out right at the start to seize my Luck?”
Dammit, why did it turn into a Hell-mode instance the moment it was his turn?
“Correct.”
Xiao Bai nodded.
“‘Correct’ my foot!” Ye Shu couldn’t help but curse.
“At a time like this, shouldn’t you, the Heavenly Dao, be helping me find a way out?
Or just give me a cheat, slap her to death, or teleport me away!”
He was jumping with anxiety.
The ring was growing increasingly scalding; in another dozen breaths, Danxia would emerge.
Xiao Bai finally realized the severity of the problem.
Her small face turned deathly pale as she paced in circles anxiously.
“I-I want to help too!”
“But as the Heavenly Dao, I don’t dare to interfere with the world directly.
I can only use an invisible hand for macro-adjustments, like making it easier for you to encounter fortuitous events.
I cannot exert power upon the living beings of this world, otherwise I’ll suffer a backlash from the Law!”
“Just to summon you here, I’ve already turned into this little loli form!”
Hearing this, Ye Shu suddenly looked up, his eyes wide with shock.
“Dammit, was it you who brought me from Earth to this shitty place where they only use salt for cooking?!”
His voice was filled with shock.
But before he could ask anything more, in the next second, his vision blurred and the wind in the small shack ceased instantly.
A fiery red figure appeared before his eyes.
She was cold and elegant; her mere presence caused the space in the small shack to warp slightly.
Ye Shu’s expression was ugly.
Even as a remnant soul of the Void Refinement Realm, her pressure was not something a Cultivator who had just entered Qi Refining could endure.
If Danxia hadn’t shown mercy, he would likely be kneeling on the ground by now.
In the past, he had been happy about this.
The ‘old grandpa’ in his ring wasn’t some old man or old woman, but a breathtakingly beautiful Fairy who was a feast for the eyes.
He had even fantasized about a beautiful future of deep Master-disciple affection, roaming the world together with their swords.
But now…
If he had known, he should have thrown this thing into a latrine.
“Ye Shu…”
Danxia stood barefoot in the Void Realm, looking at Ye Shu.
The handsome youth before her eyes gradually overlapped with the Rebellious Disciple who would abandon her in the future.
“I truly once thought that if you restored my body, and if you never harbored evil thoughts or betrayed me, I would give everything to help you reach the peak of the Great Dao.
I even thought…
what would be the harm in marrying you?
It’s a pity…”
She sighed softly in her heart and slowly raised her right hand.
A wisp of eerie blue flame rose from her fingertip.
Though it was a flame, Ye Shu felt a wave of biting cold.
This was Danxia’s exclusive flame.
Of the nineteen types of Exotic Flames in the world, the one in Danxia’s hand was the tenth-ranked ‘Netherworld Ice Flame’.
Ye Shu had previously seen Danxia use it against a rat demon in the Golden Core Stage; it had instantly frozen the creature into an ice sculpture before turning it into fiery ash, leaving not even a demon core behind.
Ye Shu didn’t think he was more durable than a demon core.
“Ye Shu…” Xiao Bai stood to the side, speaking in a small, worried voice, “She really seems like she’s going to kill you, what do we do…”
“Shut up!
I’m thinking!”
Ye Shu shouted in his heart.
Mortals could not see the Heavenly Dao, and his communication with her didn’t require him to speak aloud.
“If you are destined to betray me…
it is better to end this early…”
Danxia’s voice was colder than the fire.
With that, she flicked her finger.
The tiny flame drifted forward, aimed straight for the space between Ye Shu’s brows.
If it touched him, his body would perish and his Dao would vanish.
However, facing death…
Ye Shu was calmer than ever before.
His eyes showed seven parts shock, five parts bewilderment, and three parts innocence as he said softly, “Senior…
are you going to kill this junior?
Could you tell me the reason?”
Hearing this, Danxia was slightly stunned.
Only now did she realize that the Ye Shu before her was not the Ye Shu of the future.
In his eyes, his Master had simply appeared suddenly and then just as suddenly tried to viciously strike him down.
This realization caused her heart to waver.
The ice flame stopped three inches from the tip of Ye Shu’s nose, moving no further.
“Forget it, we were Master and disciple after all.
I’ll let him die knowing the truth.”
Danxia sighed in her heart and slowly spoke:
“Indeed, I am going to kill you.”
“Did I do something wrong?” Ye Shu tried his best to act as if he didn’t know the reason, his voice carrying a hint of grievance.
“It’s not that the current you did anything wrong, but the future you…
betrayed me.
Since the heavens have let me live again, I am unwilling to repeat the same mistake.
Our bond as Master and disciple ends here.”
Danxia was unwilling to say more and spoke indifferently.
Having said that, she was about to flick her finger again.
But she saw Ye Shu’s expression darken slightly: “So…
Senior, are you going to be a heartless, unjust, and ungrateful person?”
The ice flame that had just emerged stopped once again.