The Magical Beast Mountain Range is an extremely vast leyline; even if the Villain knew Ye Shu was within it, it would be impossible to know his exact location.
After all, no novel could ever be that detailed.
Of course, if the Villain truly knew…
Then Ye Shu would have no tricks left.
He would just have to hand it over.
Splash~
Right outside the dilapidated little wooden hut was a crystal-clear stream.
Ye Shu shed his clothes, leaving only his undergarments, revealing his lean, muscular physique as he slowly waded into the river.
The icy river water cleared his mind considerably.
He had worked up a sweat in the hut earlier, and the sticky feeling all over his body was unpleasant.
Soaking now indeed felt much more comfortable.
The spot he chose had beautiful scenery and few high-rank Demonic Beasts, save for the occasional roar.
If it weren’t for his currently low cultivation and the ticking time bomb that was Danxia, living here in seclusion wouldn’t be a bad idea.
“Phew~”
Ye Shu sat cross-legged in the water with his head above the surface, resting his arms on his knees as he slowly entered a meditative state and began his breathing exercises.
At that moment, Xiao Bai followed him out.
Seeing Ye Shu wearing only his undergarments, her small face flushed.
She spread her fingers to cover her eyes while curiously peeking at Ye Shu as he sat in the stream.
“Are you…
Cultivating?”
“What else?” Ye Shu said flatly.
“At least you have some ambition.”
Xiao Bai gave a light huff.
She had thought her hubby—er, no, her Child of Destiny—was truly going to just rot away.
But after watching for a while, she suddenly noticed something was wrong.
“You, you, you!
You aren’t Cultivating the Flame Mantra?!”
She jumped up abruptly, her eyes wide with disbelief as she stared at Ye Shu.
“You mean the one Danxia taught me?”
Ye Shu frowned.
“Yes!” Xiao Bai nodded.
“You should be Cultivating the Flame Mantra, then slowly devouring Heavenly Flames to evolve it, eventually reaching a Heaven Rank Cultivation Technique and achieving Immortal Ascension after devouring exactly nineteen Heavenly Flames.”
“But you…
you actually didn’t choose the Flame Mantra?”
Xiao Bai’s eyes went wide as she said in distress, “You actually chose the Profound Rank Cultivation Technique she gave you and lost a growth-type Immortal Ascension technique!
You…
you’re so muddled!”
Ye Shu didn’t even lift an eyelid.
“You mean to say I should choose a technique where I must collect nineteen Heavenly Flames to achieve Immortal Ascension—where missing even one won’t do—and where my Cultivation speed would be incredibly slow without them?”
“Do you think I have a hole in my head?”
Xiao Bai was stunned by his words, then snapped back in annoyance, “Then, then what Cultivation Technique are you learning?”
“My self-created ‘Circumference of Heavenly Stars’.”
Ye Shu said calmly.
Even though it was a self-created technique, his expression was as calm as if he had just eaten thirty small buns.
“Self…
self-created??”
“A Cultivation Technique??”
Hearing this, Xiao Bai’s eyes became perfectly round, far more shocked than when she heard he hadn’t chosen the Flame Mantra.
“That’s right.”
Ye Shu nodded.
“You didn’t think that while my cultivation was wasted, I was just some fool taking insults, flirting with my childhood sweetheart, and waiting to die at home, did you?”
“Since my Dantian was broken, I used my acupoints to hold Spiritual Qi.
There are 361 Acupoints in the human body; I opened them one by one and connected them into a whole, creating a self-contained cycle that simulates the movement of the stars in the heavens.”
“Then…
then what rank is your technique?”
Xiao Bai listened in a daze and asked subconsciously.
“I’m not sure.”
Ye Shu replied.
“My Spiritual Qi storage is over three hundred times higher than an ordinary person’s.
At the same time, because my Qi Sea is broader, there are no so-called Bottlenecks for a Breakthrough…
It’s at least higher than the Immortal Rank.”
“I’ve provisionally labeled it as—Emperor Grade.”
“Huh?”
Xiao Bai was dumbfounded, her face practically screaming ‘Are you freaking kidding me?’.
“No, you’re not even twenty and only at the third level of Qi Refining, yet you’re telling me you created a technique that far surpasses the Immortal Rank?
Do you think that’s logical?”
“Is it not?”
Ye Shu countered.
“I am the protagonist; it’s normal for me to be exceptionally gifted, right?”
“Back in the world of mathematics, Russell wrote ‘Principia Mathematica’ in his twenties and shocked the world.
I, Ye Shu, began creating my own technique at fifteen, reached Minor Achievement in five years, and created the prototype of an ‘Emperor Grade’ technique.
That’s quite logical, isn’t it?”
This…
Somehow, it actually seemed a bit logical.
But this was just too strange!
Xiao Bai racked her brain but couldn’t figure it out.
She felt her protagonist shouldn’t be this smart.
The Transmigrator effect.
It must be the Transmigrator effect.
Using a Transmigrator to deal with the System was definitely her best decision yet!
It was worth the price of her becoming smaller.
“Hehehe…”
Seeing her hubby—er, no, her Child of Destiny—being so impressive, Xiao Bai couldn’t help but crouch by the river and giggle foolishly.
She could already see the bright future where her protagonist punches the Villain, kicks the female lead of destiny, reclaims his Luck, suppresses the System, and leads her, the Heavenly Dao, to the Peak.
She had even thought of the title for his biography.
It would be called—
“Destined Villain?
Then What Does That Make Me, the Child of Luck!”
Just as she was immersed in her fantasy, Ye Shu suddenly spoke up.
“What was my original plot?
Or rather, is there any Opportunity that can’t be stolen by the Villain and his lot, something only I can obtain?”
Hearing this, Xiao Bai snapped out of her fantasy.
“An Opportunity only you can obtain…”
She frowned in thought.
After a moment, she raised her hand and said loudly, “Yes, yes!
You have a sword called the qingxuan sword.
it’s the treasure of the Qingxuan Sect.
It has been passed down since ancient times and has never recognized a master—it only recognizes you.”
“qingxuan sword?”
Ye Shu was taken aback.
Wait, wait, wait, that’s not right.
Following the usual Xiao Huohuo tropes, he should be going to some academy, not a Sect.
“Then how was I supposed to get this sword?”
Ye Shu asked again.
“Oh, that’s actually quite simple.
You were supposed to be training in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and encounter a female Disciple from the Qingxuan Sect.
You two would train here together, and after various life-and-death experiences and shared hardships, you would eventually develop feelings for each other.”
Xiao Bai recalled the plot, her words coming out fast.
“To protect her, you would reveal part of your strength and potential.
She would then recommend you to join the Qingxuan Sect.
After entering, during a Sect competition or a Secret Realm trial, you would perform brilliantly and trigger a resonance with the qingxuan sword, finally successfully gaining the recognition of this ancient divine sword.”
“Well?
Isn’t that plot amazing?”
Xiao Bai huffed proudly, her large eyes full of self-satisfaction.
This was a god-tier plot she had written after reading countless textbooks.
However, to her surprise…
Ye Shu suddenly snapped his eyes open, his teeth gritted and his expression grim.
This made Xiao Bai’s heart skip a beat, because the last time Ye Shu had that look, Danxia was about to kill him.
“You mean to say…”
Ye Shu gritted out each word.
“There is a Female Lead in the Magical Beast Mountain Range right now, and she likely knows my current location?”
Almost as soon as he finished speaking.
A brilliant sword light slashed across the horizon, accompanied by an enraged feminine shout.
“Thief Ye!
Give me your life!”