Silver lightning, twisting like giant serpents, crashed down relentlessly upon the seemingly slender figure standing at the center. The violet bolts carried a terrifying force capable of destroying heaven and earth.
Countless eyes were fixed upon Wuji Peak, filled with anxiety and apprehension.
“Why does Senior Sister Qin’s heavenly tribulation feel even stronger than Grandmaster’s was a hundred years ago? She’ll be alright… won’t she?”
“Senior Sister Su Su will definitely be fine! She’s the most gifted disciple of our generation.”
A group of young women gathered together, quietly discussing Qin Su’s heavenly tribulation. Their voices could not hide their concern. As Langfeng Sect’s most beloved senior sister, Qin Su’s ascension tribulation had the entire sect worried.
When the silver heavenly lightning finally disappeared, the many beautiful young women could not help but smile with relief and delight. They had already begun wondering what congratulatory gifts they should prepare for their senior sister. Once she had passed her heavenly tribulation, she would truly become an immortal.
Suddenly, a young woman in a green dress turned deathly pale, her lips losing all color.
The leaden clouds that had dispersed suddenly gathered once more. Dark clouds pressed down as though they would crush the world beneath them, brewing an even more terrifying storm. Qin Su’s heavenly tribulation… actually had a second wave!
Such a thing was completely unheard of.
A colossal bolt of heavenly lightning burst from the leaden clouds, its terrifying might surpassing even the previous strike.
…
Silver heavenly lightning mixed with violet thunder crashed down upon her body. The agony penetrated straight into her soul.
She let out a muffled groan, struggling to keep her consciousness from slipping away.
She had no idea why her heavenly tribulation had suddenly gained another stage, but all she could do was survive it with everything she had.
Qin Su was not originally from this cultivation world.
One day, after waking from sleep, she found herself in this world of immortal cultivation. Through a fortunate twist of fate, she caught the eye of the Langfeng Sect’s sect master and was accepted as his disciple. After using a celestial fruit to form a physical body, she officially stepped onto the path of cultivation, her cultivation advancing by leaps and bounds.
Now she had reached the most critical moment. If she successfully overcame this heavenly tribulation, she would become a true immortal.
She had barely endured the end of the tribulation and had not even had time to refine her natal spirit artifact when an even more violent heavenly tribulation began gathering above her head.
What the hell!
Since when did heavenly tribulations come with a buy one, get one free deal?
If she failed to survive this tribulation, her body and soul would both be utterly destroyed.
Even at the peak of her strength, she would not have been confident of surviving such a tribulation. Much less now, when she was at her weakest. Whether she could even last a single breath was uncertain.
Qin Su gritted her teeth, determination flashing across her beautiful face.
Even if she had to destroy her natal spirit artifact, she would never wait helplessly for death. By chance, she had once learned a secret technique that allowed her to temporarily gain overwhelming power by detonating her natal spirit artifact.
Once she survived this heavenly tribulation, she would definitely cultivate her natal spirit treasure anew, then bribe it with a thousand high-grade spirit stones.
The explosion of her natal spirit artifact caused her strength to soar in an instant. The overwhelming pain blurred her vision.
Through the haze, she vaguely saw a fiery red fox leaping toward her.
Darkness swallowed Qin Su’s vision, and she lost consciousness.
…
Immersed in darkness, Qin Su was awakened by a piercing light and slowly opened her eyes.
She had survived?
Did that mean she had successfully overcome the heavenly tribulation?
Her head ached. She had no memory whatsoever of what happened after detonating her natal spirit artifact. Even how she had survived the tribulation remained a blur.
Qin Su quickly calmed herself and noticed countless tiny halos of light floating around her.
She casually reached out and gathered one into her hand, only to discover that the shattered light was actually one of her memories.
At the age of seventeen, she had been admitted to the university she had always dreamed of attending. Her loving uncle and aunt had even held a celebration banquet for her. Her cousin, Qin Tian, had reluctantly given her a signed photograph of her favorite idol as a congratulatory gift.
Although it had only happened two years earlier, seeing the memory again made it feel like something from a distant dream. After all, she had already spent a thousand years in the other world.
Had her soul not become extraordinarily powerful, granting her perfect recall, she would probably have forgotten everything that had happened before her transmigration.
Unhurriedly, Qin Su reviewed all the memories floating around her once more. Then she noticed several dark-colored halos in the distance.
Her heart stirred.
The dark halos drifted toward her and surrounded her. With a casual wave of her hand, she gathered them into her grasp.
After seeing the memories contained within those dark halos, Qin Su’s face darkened completely.
Those dark halos did not belong to her, they belonged to someone else.
She had always believed that she had simply fallen asleep before transmigrating into another world. Only now did she discover the truth. A transmigrator had forcibly seized her body, driven her soul out, and taken her place.
With the help of a so-called Life Winner System, the transmigrator had used Qin Su’s body to build an extraordinarily successful life in this world. She had become a beauty influencer with over two million followers across China, a bestselling novelist adored by countless readers whose three novels had all been adapted, and her stunning appearance had even earned her audition invitations from famous directors.
Her love life was every bit as spectacular as her career.
Xu Xiao, K City’s newly risen business tycoon, appeared domineering and cold in public, yet was deeply devoted to her in private. He protected her every step of the way and even broke off his engagement with his wealthy fiancée for her sake.
Tang Zhixing, the handsome and aloof Best Actor of the entertainment industry, cared for her attentively and used his extensive connections to help the transmigrator thrive in show business. Thanks to him, she built countless valuable relationships and repeatedly humiliated his ex-girlfriend.
Ji Yuan, the campus heartthrob, had initially pursued her because of a bet. Now, however, he had completely fallen for her and was hopelessly infatuated, rejecting the confessions of countless girls because of her.
Not to mention the many other admirers and secret crushes. If they lined up, the queue could stretch from the north gate of the campus all the way to the south gate.
In stark contrast to her popularity with men, the transmigrator had made enemies of countless women. The domineering CEO’s former fiancée, the Best Actor’s ex-girlfriend, the campus heartthrob’s longtime admirer, all these so-called vicious supporting female characters took turns trying to frame her. In the end, however, every one of them suffered the consequences of their own schemes, their reputations ruined beyond repair. Needless to say, they hated the transmigrator with a passion.
Qin Su could only sneer inwardly.
The transmigrator had driven her soul from her own body, stolen her flesh, and left her with this mountain of trouble. She really was something.
Qin Su finally understood why she had failed her heavenly tribulation.
The karmic ties attached to this body had never been severed.
She opened her eyes again and quickly found the other soul residing within her body. The soul occupying her flesh emitted a foul stench, tinged with the faint scent of blood.
The transmigrator’s soul did not resemble the body’s appearance very much. Her features were delicate, but carried an unmistakably sinister air.
Qin Su casually waved her hand, and the soul instantly appeared before her.
The transmigrator’s expression changed drastically as she opened her mouth to speak.
Qin Su gave her no chance.
A cold light flashed through her eyes, and the transmigrator’s soul was seized in her hand. Qin Su closed her slender fingers.
In an instant, the soul was completely shattered, her body and soul annihilated.
A wisp of black mist escaped from between Qin Su’s fingers, moving so quickly that she failed to catch it.
Her expression turned cold.
Had she not been struck by the heavenly tribulation and suffered a drastic loss in cultivation, that remnant soul would never have had the opportunity to escape.
After a long while, her brows gradually relaxed.
The transmigrator’s soul had been gravely wounded and was on the verge of total destruction. She should no longer be capable of causing any trouble.
Besides, her greatest cheat remained behind.
Qin Su shifted her gaze toward another silver halo.
From beginning to end, she had sensed no emotional fluctuations from that consciousness.
“The Life Winner System is at your service. Bind with this system and begin your journey toward becoming a winner in life. As a new user, you will also receive a Beginner’s Gift Pack and a lottery draw.“
A mechanical voice rang out as the silver halo flew toward Qin Su, attempting to bind itself to her.
Just as Qin Su was about to destroy the system once and for all, a massive hammer suddenly flew out from inside her body and smashed the system into a crumpled ball.
The next instant, the hammer transformed into a cat and swallowed the system whole.
Round, chubby eyes.
Bright orange fur.
It was unmistakably her natal spirit artifact, Qianjin.
Oddly enough, although Qin Su herself was slender, the natal spirit artifact bound to her by blood had always taken the form of an orange tabby cat.
To survive the heavenly tribulation, she had been forced to self-destruct her natal spirit artifact. She had thought she would have to cultivate it all over again from scratch.
She had never expected that it had not been completely destroyed after all.
There was still hope of saving it.
Only…
Her natal spirit artifact had originally looked like a plump orange tabby.
Now it had become so tiny that it could fit in the palm of her hand.
Qin Su’s heart ached terribly.
How much would it have to eat before it regained its original size?
After swallowing the system, Qianjin’s previously translucent body became noticeably more solid.
Clearly, this so-called system was an exceptionally nourishing tonic for Qianjin.
Then it transformed into a streak of light and entered Qin Su’s chest, where it would continue to be nurtured.
The corners of Qin Su’s lips curved upward ever so slightly.
At the same time, she finally regained complete control of her body.
…
Qin Su opened her eyes and stared blankly at her fair, delicate hands.
A thousand years had passed.
She had returned.
With a thought, a flame no larger than a soybean ignited at her fingertips.
Qin Su stared at the tiny flame, feeling as though a knife were twisting through her heart.
She had cultivated diligently for a thousand years. Yet after returning to this world, all of that cultivation had vanished. Relying solely on the strength of her soul, she could now barely conjure a flame this small.
That also meant that if she wanted to regain the overwhelming power she once possessed, capable of commanding the winds and summoning the rain, she would have to begin cultivating all over again.
Years of cultivation had tempered her into someone with an unshakable will.
Once the heartache subsided, she immediately began considering her future cultivation.
To her, the most important matters now were settling the karmic ties left in this world and resuming her cultivation.
Fortunately, she still remembered every detail of the cultivation technique she practiced.
The only real concern was that the spiritual energy in this world was painfully thin, making it far from suitable for cultivation.
At the thought of this, Qin Su frowned slightly.
No matter how talented she was, without sufficient spiritual energy, there was nothing she could do.
Her gaze landed on a jade bracelet resting atop the dressing table nearby.
A faint trace of spiritual energy lingered around it.
Qin Su walked over, picked up the bracelet, and a faint smile appeared on her face.
She searched through every cabinet and drawer in the room.
Only naturally formed gemstones contained spiritual energy, and the purer the gemstone, the richer the spiritual energy it possessed.
Excellent.
She would use them to set up a Spirit Gathering Array, making cultivation much more convenient.
She would begin with body tempering.
She wrote down the medicinal formula required for tempering the body. Halfway through writing it, her phone suddenly rang, breaking the silence of the room.
Qin Su glanced at the screen. The caller ID displayed the name Xin Ying.
Xin Ying was the beauty queen of Nanhua University’s Department of Fine Arts and had a long-standing crush on the campus heartthrob, Ji Yuanye. On Valentine’s Day, she had even confessed to him in public, only to be ruthlessly rejected, becoming the laughingstock of the school.
Qin Su answered the call, and an enraged female voice immediately came through.
“You shameless flirt! You’re already dating President Xu, yet you’re still seducing Ji Yuanye. I saw it with my own eyes. The two of you had dinner together yesterday!”
“Name your price. What will it take for you to leave Ji Yuanye?”
The corner of Qin Su’s mouth twitched.
Clearly, this was yet another mess left behind by the transmigrator.
She had been about to say that she had no interest whatsoever in domineering CEOs or campus heartthrobs and that Xin Ying could put her mind completely at ease. Then her eyes fell on the jewelry lying on the table, and she immediately changed her mind.
“Then give me one million.”
“Give me one million, and I’ll leave him.”