When Yun Fuzhao was a child living in the countryside, she was bitten by a rat snake.
Its sharp fangs pierced her calf, and the memory of its cold scales left a lasting shadow on her heart.
About the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Yun Fuzhao woke up.
The moment she opened her eyes, a flat, snake-like head was staring coolly at her.
Her heart pounded wildly, and she almost fainted again.
[This doesn’t look like a snake.]
[It has two bony bumps on its head, and its tail isn’t pointed.
Instead, it has something like a fin standing upright.]
[This is a Heavenly Spirit Beast.
It couldn’t possibly be…
the long-extinct Dragon Clan, could it?]
Hearing this, Yun Fuzhao immediately sat up.
She suppressed the fear in her heart and carefully examined the spirit beast before her.
It was just as they said—very different from a snake.
But she still couldn’t quite accept it yet.
It was so close that Yun Fuzhao could even see its scales squirming.
Her scalp instantly went numb.
The little snake looked at her and suddenly opened its mouth wide.
Its mouth was bright red, filled with neat rows of teeth, unlike a snake which only has sharp fangs.
Yun Fuzhao pondered for a moment.
‘It’s not hungry, is it?’
[Yu, feed it that Beast Core of yours.]
Yun Fuzhao took the third grade Demon Core from her storage bag and tried to stuff it into the little snake’s mouth, but the Beast Core was bigger than its head.
Just as she was about to split the Demon Core in half, the little guy swallowed the Beast Core in one gulp.
Before long, the little snake’s eyes rolled back, and it began to twitch.
Yun Fuzhao was shocked.
The thought that her precious Heaven Rank treasure might choke to death was a huge loss she couldn’t bear.
All her fear was instantly thrown to the back of her mind as she picked up the little snake and began to shake it wildly.
She swung it with flair, like she was making hand-pulled noodles.
The Great Powers: […]
Despite Yun Fuzhao’s brutal treatment, the little snake actually managed to swallow the Beast Core.
Then, with a twist of its head, it wrapped itself around her arm.
Yun Fuzhao’s scalp tingled.
Her entire arm went numb, feeling like a prosthesis that had just been attached.
She squeezed her eyes shut, then looked at the little snake, trembling.
The little White Snake flicked its tongue at her obediently, then opened its mouth and bit her sharply.
“!”
‘This little bastard was clearly getting revenge on me!’
The bite wasn’t hard; Yun Fuzhao only felt a brief sting of pain.
After biting her, the little White Snake raised its head again, its expression clearly smug.
Yun Fuzhao clicked her tongue.
‘What a little tsundere.’
For some reason, some of the fear she felt for it began to dissipate.
“Just dump him here.
No one will find him.”
“Boss, he’s not actually dead, is he?”
“If he’s dead, he’s dead.
Who’s going to notice a dead mute?”
Yun Fuzhao’s position was secluded, so the disciples didn’t spot her.
From the patterns on their sleeves, Yun Fuzhao determined they were from the Inner Sect.
In the Wuya Sword Sect, Direct Disciples have a white crane pattern, Inner Sect Disciples have green bamboo, and Outer Disciples have a cloud pattern.
Judging by their conversation, it was a clear case of the strong bullying the weak.
This was a common sight everywhere, to say nothing of a Sect with such a rigid hierarchy.
After they left, Yun Fuzhao walked toward the disciple lying on the ground, his condition unknown.
His cuffs bore the cloud pattern, just as she expected.
Here, Outer Disciples were the lowest of the low.
Anyone could step on them a few times.
The little white snake crawled onto her shoulder, curiously sizing up the person on the ground.
[The Yun Family Team 1 Wei Heyu: Unbelievable!
To harm a fellow disciple…
they have no regard for the Sect’s rules!]
The Wuya Sword Sect of today was no longer the one Wei Heyu had founded.
Under Meng Ci’er’s leadership, the entire Sect was going downhill.
Infighting, the law of the jungle, bullying fellow disciples…
Not only did Meng Ci’er fail to stop this, but he actually considered it normal, believing it helped the disciples grow.
The Sect had become a Purgatory that devoured people whole, leaving no bones behind.
If they were to face an external enemy in the future, how many would unite to resist them?
A Sect without unity was nothing but a heap of loose sand.
As Yun Fuzhao got closer, she stepped on something.
She picked it up and saw it was a Token.
The name “Yu Ze” was engraved on it.
Yu Ze?!
Yun Fuzhao was stunned.
Wasn’t Yu Ze the main villain of this novel?
In the novel, Yu Ze was the head of the Demon Realm, a thoroughly dark, twisted, paranoid psycho.
Unable to win the female lead’s love, he plotted to imprison her.
The female lead resisted to the death, and their romance was a mix of agonizing and sweet, leading many readers to demand that Yu Ze be made the main love interest.
This great villain’s backstory was also extremely tragic and cliché.
His father was the Demon Lord, and his mother was a Great Power from the Human Clan.
Their love was not accepted by either realm.
His mother was executed by the Cultivation World, and his father died trying to avenge her.
The Demon Lord’s death completely escalated the conflict between the two realms, even leading to a great war.
Yu Ze’s identity made him an outcast in both worlds.
He was abandoned as a child, then later adopted by a human couple.
At the age of ten, he was sold to a brothel.
It was the Fifth Elder of the Wuya Sword Sect who brought him back and made him an Outer Disciple.
This was what saved him from being defiled.
With such a miserable backstory, he naturally needed a “little sun” like the female lead to heal him.
The female lead saved Yu Ze when he was being bullied and was exceptionally kind to him from then on.
In their daily interactions, Yu Ze fell in love with her.
Then came the melodrama: Yu Ze discovered that one of the people who had executed his mother was none other than Yu Nian’er’s master, Meng Ci’er.
Their relationship hit rock bottom when Yu Ze killed Meng Ci’er.
In short, their romance provided many of the novel’s tear-jerking moments.
Right now, Yun Fuzhao didn’t know why Yu Ze had arrived at the Wuya Sword Sect ahead of schedule.
According to the plot, he wasn’t supposed to arrive for some time.
‘Could it be that my presence has changed the direction of the plot?’
Yun Fuzhao stared at him.
Later in the story, Yu Ze would become a ruthless villain who killed without batting an eye.
What if Yu Nian’er got upset someday and had him kill her?
The more she thought about it, the more possible it seemed.
Yun Fuzhao pulled out a dagger.
‘Maybe I should just kill him now and save myself the future trouble.’
Yun Fuzhao was a little nervous.
Although she knew that death was a perfectly normal occurrence in the Cultivation World, her heart still felt heavy when it came to actually doing the deed.
‘If he doesn’t die, the one who dies later might be me.’
The moment the thought formed, Yun Fuzhao shut her eyes and viciously plunged the dagger toward his neck!
[SPARE HIM!]
A line of enlarged text suddenly filled her vision.
Yun Fuzhao slammed on the brakes in the nick of time.
[Yu, he is my nephew.
Could you spare his life?]
[Xi Muzhe has gifted 10,000 Cultivation points]
Since he’d put it that way…
well, it’s not like she was an unreasonable person.
She also felt that killing people was a very impolite thing to do.
Yun Fuzhao withdrew her hand.
If this Great Power said Yu Ze was his nephew, didn’t that make him Yu Ze’s father’s brother?
‘He’s from the Demon Clan too?’
Yun Fuzhao was a little surprised.
She had assumed that the Great Power live-streaming system was mostly filled with Great Powers from the Cultivation World.
She hadn’t expected any from the Demon Clan.
[Xi Muzhe has joined the fan club.]
[The Yun Family Team 1 Xi Muzhe: Yu, he looks badly injured.
Could you save his life?]
[Xi Muzhe has gifted 10,000 Cultivation points]
Yun Fuzhao’s eyes lit up.
“Absolutely no problem!
I don’t have many hobbies, you see.
I just love saving people.”