Chapter 1
Rebirth
Su Qingyi died, again.
The reason she said ‘again’ was because she had died once before.
The first time was 50 years ago. She ran away with a young man from a good family in the 21st Century. She had just been cheated on by her boyfriend, so she grabbed someone from the side to beat her honest and gentle civil servant boyfriend, Qin Zichen. She was not satisfied with only a fight, so she paid some groups to hang a big-character poster in public and took one of her male friends to pretend as her new lover and humiliate the other party. After all was said and done, she traveled abroad to relax and start a new relationship. Sadly for her, her plane crashed on the way abroad.
The plane exploded and the next time she blinked her eyes open, she had become another person.
She had read countless romance novels and was sure that she transmigrated.
Not to the Qing Dynasty. Not to the Jin and Wei Dynasties either! But to a World of Cultivation!
In this world, she could do without staying at home all day because of propriety or deal with palace drama! The way to deal with things in this world was through force! People here tested their Spiritual Roots when they were born. Through their life, they devoted themselves only to enlightenment and ascension.
And her new body, Ran Yan, was the biggest Mary Sue in this Cultivation World.
She was of noble birth and her parents were both powerful Nascent Soul[1] cultivators. At the age of five, she entered the largest Fu Xiu[2] Sect, Xing Yun Sect, under the tutelage of the Sect Leader and became his first disciple. Simply put, she was the heir of the Xing Yun Sect. She had Fire Spiritual Roots and natural talent. When Su Qingyi transmigrated, she was less than 18 years old. It was 40 years since she transmigrated into this body and she was at the age of 58 years old. With her attainments in spells and talismans, she was one of the very few Aces in the world. Her promotion speed was comparable to Jian Xiu[3] Jing Yan from the Tianjian Sect, a genius who only appeared once in thousands of years.
In addition to being powerful and capable, she also had a beautiful appearance and many suitors. Her parents were happily married and loved her greatly. Her teachers, brothers, and sisters treated her like her biological parents. Her confidants and friends were all over the world. It could be said that she had a Heaven-defying Golden Finger.
Su Qingyi had lived a perfect life for forty years, and had long forgotten all about the unhappy life in the 21st century until she picked up a little disciple and discovered that her happy life must come to an end.
Speaking of it, she did have some impure motives when she picked up her little disciple. The little disciple was lying on the side of the road with meridians broken, he was dying. She initially planned to only save him to accumulate virtue. Who knew, when she turned him over, that young man was a calamitous beauty that none could compare to.
Even in the Cultivation World where there were as many beauties as there were dogs, his face still shocked Su Qingyi. Thus, without hesitation, she picked up the young man to raise him well.
She discovered the young man’s name was Xie Hantan, he had excellent Spiritual Roots and physique. Although his meridians were broken, it did not hinder her expectations for him, so she accepted him as a disciple and fed him elixir every day. Her goal was to cultivate him into a good husband.
But who knew that the young man she raised to be her husband … suddenly blackened?
Truthfully, up until now, she still had not figured out what really happened at that time. She felt that she had just woken up from a deep sleep and her whole person cut a sorry figure. She didn’t know why she was in the Demon Realm.
She heard whispers that she was possessed by the Demon.
She heard whispers that she killed her parents, her Shizun, and her relatives to prove her Dao.
She heard whispers that she refined her Spiritual Roots using the disciples of the Ten Great Sects.
When she heard the whispers, she almost ran back to Xing Yun Sect in a heartbeat. How could she kill so many people just to prove her Dao, including her parents, teachers, and friends?! There was no way she was the one who did it.
She never thought about attaining Immortality when she transmigrated, let alone proving her Dao and ruining her life because of it!
But, her voice was not heard. The Ten Great Sects chased her around like a dog. Her tenacity was something that made everyone marvel. Under the encirclement and suppression of the whole Cultivation World, she could escape the encirclement time and again. She broke through the Mahayana Realm in only ten years. Her title as the number one Fu Xiu in the Cultivation World was well-deserved一 even if she was a Demonic Cultivator.
Blood debts kept piling on her shoulder, she degenerated, the kindness she carried from the 21st Century to cherish human life vanished little by little, a human life was mere nothing for her at that time. In the scene of chaos, Xie Hantan rose up as the Sect Leader of the Xing Yun Sect. He led her out with a letter from her brother who was said to be seriously ill. She went. Yet, she was sent to the siege of the Righteous Cultivators.
Snow fell heavily that day. She watched Xie Hantan hold her brother, Ran Mo, on the bluestone steps. She was below, surrounded by countless cultivators who wanted to kill her. The ground was littered with blood.
The man she rescued from the road was now looking at her with indifference.
At that point, she realized. All this was inextricably linked with her disciple.
Was she sad?
Maybe a little. After all, the first person she thought she wanted to fall in love with in this Cultivation World was him. Her love life failed miserably in her previous life. She pursued that person without giving up for years, yet she was cheated on. This life’s love life seemed to not be very successful either. She pursued him and was stabbed in the back.
Even if she had a strong mentality, it was inevitable that she would be a bit hurt. She coughed a mouthful of blood and decided that if she would die here, she would drag Xie Hantan on the high platform to die together with her. Just like Qin Zichen, who she beat up and cheated on back. To treat those people who had betrayed her, she would be as ruthless as the autumn breeze sweeping away the leaves.
She leaped forward and bolted towards Xie Hantan. At the same time, a sword mixed with thunder aura flew over her, with the light as bright as the sun and the moon, it instantly broke the layers of enchantment she created and pierced her body!
She was a Master Fu Xiu in the Mahayana Realm. Only a few people in this world could successfully hurt her just from a single attack.
She paused in front of Xie Hantan. Her brother hugged Xie Hantan’s arms and watched her in horror.
That look in his eyes made her heart ache as if it was resonating with the sword that pierced through her heart. She vaguely heard the disciples of the Tian Jian Sect shouting Jing Yan-shishu[4] but these didn’t enter her mind. She scrutinized Xie Hantan and Ran Mo for a long time. At long last, the corners of her mouth curled up.
“I really shouldn’t have saved you back then.” Her voice cracked. Xie Hantan’s countenance changed, “Shifu….”
“In the end, only Jian Xian[5] Jing Yan… can kill me… My death… is a dignified death.” She whispered. She didn’t understand why she was shedding tears. “Jiejie[6] is still very awesome, right, A’Mo[7]?” ”
Ran Mo stared blankly at Su Qingyi. He parted his lips but said nothing.
Su Qingyi’s body gradually broke into pieces.
So, she died. Again.
When she died, she heard a mechanical sound ringing in her ears.
“The Plot’s Foundation is 100% built. Activating the System.”
“Ding! The Jinjiang Heavenly Dao System is successfully activated. Registering the Host in process.”
“The New Body successfully registered. Scanning the Host in process.”
“The fit is 100%. The damage is 70%. Repairing in process…”
“Repair 10%… Repair 50%…”
“Ding! The body is successfully repaired. Connecting to the System in process…”
“The System is completely connected. The Host may now examine it.”
The mechanical sound stopped. Su Qingyi opened her eyes arduously.
All around her was pitch black. She took a long time adapting to the light. She glanced around.
This place was a cave about ten square meters in size. Iron bars were installed at the door, which appeared to be purposefully placed there to be used for confinement. There was a lamp in the cave, swaying in the wind. Relying on the swaying candle, Su Qingyi saw a dressing table, a stone bed, a wardrobe, and a desk arranged in the cave. Although it was simple, it was evidently a woman’s residence.
She sat cross-legged on the stone bed. The Book of “True Tricks of the Trade of Five Elements Meditation” lay on her lap. She knew this book by heart. Legend had it that this was a book left by the only ascendant of a Five Spiritual Root Daojun long ago. Unfortunately, the book was incomplete and couldn’t be practiced. Still, it’s a book that every influential family had their hands on with hopes it could actually be used.
But……
She unfurled her eyes sadly. After a week of trying to operate her Spiritual Power— judging from the seven to eight broken meridians in this body, this fool must have really practiced with this book.
It was estimated the original owner of this body died because of this… and she was reborn in her body.
She cracked her neck and got to her feet. She strolled to the mirror. A petite girl materialized in the mirror. She appeared less than 1.6 meters tall. It seemed that she was extremely thin due to long-term malnutrition. The only place with a little meat was… her chest.
Even wearing a loose robe, she could still see the curve of the surging chest. Whether she was Su Qingyi in the 21st century or Ran Yan in the cultivation world, she never had such a plump chest. Having been flat-chested for more than 70 years, Su Qingyi seemed to be an upstart who unexpectedly became rich. She couldn’t help but weigh it on her chest.
This is definitely an E-Cup ah…
She mulled over it earnestly and burst out laughing.
She inspected the girl’s face. There was a palm print on her face. It appeared that she was beaten before she died. Her facial features were delicate and pretty. Her face was sallow. The most good-looking part was her crescent eyes as if she was born with a smile and could make people feel better just by looking at her face. Su Qingyi stared at her face and froze. Minutes passed before she shakingly stroked her face and pinched it in disbelief.
This face was exactly the same as her face in the 21st Century. Delicate and pretty. The only exception was her skin was more tender and her body was thinner.
She was still in shock when a voice rang in her mind.
“Activating the Host’s Role.”
And a few bolded lines appeared in the mirror.
Name: Su Qingyi
Age: 18
Identity: Daughter of the Chengtian City’s Lord.
Biography: Her biological mother died early. So, her stepmother was unscrupulous. She was born with five spiritual roots, a waste. Her looks were ordinary. She was engaged to Mo Yun of the Tian Jian Sect when she was little. Her sister, Su Qinglian, had both Fire and Thunder Spiritual Roots. She was intelligent and had a beautiful appearance. She loved Mo Yun, so she repulsed Su Qingyi. She colluded with her mother to frame Su Qingyi and locked Su Qingyi in the dungeon to prevent her from marrying. Su Qingyi forcibly practiced the book in order to escape in time with the wedding and prevent her sister from getting married in her stead. Nevertheless, her meridians were cut off and she died.
Fuck!
The first reaction in Su Qingyi’s mind was— What the hell is this plot!
An icy mechanical voice was the one who responded to her question. “Hello, Host. I’m Jinjiang Heavenly Dao System, Codename 007. I will be the one to guide the Host to complete the task, set things right, and rise to the top! Host, don’t panic, and don’t be afraid. You have me! I am your most loyal little Assistant.”
Su Qingyi got a general understanding of what it was and she asked curiously, “What are your goal?”
On second thought, she reacted and exclaimed, “Are you the one behind my transmigration?! You are also the one behind my rebirth, aren’t you?”
“Host, please calm down. We just grant you a chance to experience a different life. Look, in the 21st century, your parents divorced. You had a bad relationship with your family. Your appearance was mediocre. You got cheated on. You were hurt. You studied hard but still failed. You earnestly earn money but you couldn’t even buy a 120-square-meter house. That kind of life, wasn’t it painful to live like that? You see, when you come to this Cultivation World, you have money, power, and talent. You are beautiful and have a good temperament. You own houses everywhere. Your suitors line up from the top of the city to the bottom of the city. You can easily pick them, only, you don’t want them.”
Su Qingyi quietly listened to the System’s words. Her anger reached its peak. She sat on the stone bed with her legs crossed and sneered, “Go on, keep talking. Why don’t you mention the part where I was hunted down like a dog for ten years? About my dead father, dead mother, dead teacher, and dead friends in this Cultivation World? About how I was betrayed by my most trusted disciple and my younger brother so that other people could pierce my heart with swords and cut me to thousand pieces?”
“Host, you are aware you have been cut to thousand pieces? ”
The System’s voice was cold and mechanical, but it revealed obvious doubts in its question. Su Qingyi was floored. She rose to her feet and roared, “Fuck! I really did get cut into thousand pieces?!”
The System, “……”
Su Qingyi stood on the stone bed and flew into a rage, “Which son of a bitch dared to move Laozi[8]’s corpse?!”
The System, “Host, this is not important. The important thing is that now you have completed the fundamental plot and can officially start the main line task! Time is limited, so please be sure to familiarize yourself with the System quickly to complete the main line.”
Su Qingyi was reticent. Half a day later, she replied earnestly, “I know every word you say, but I can’t understand it.”
The System, “……”
The atmosphere was stagnant. Then, the cold mechanical sound twisted into a grumpy juvenile voice, “The fuck? Are you an idiot?! Laozi had said it so clearly and you still can’t understand it?! You have transmigrated into a novel. Now, you’ve finished your role in that book and you are about to start helping the Son of Heaven to counterattack and ascend into a God! Do you understand it now?! Understand, right?! You understand, right?!!!”
The boy’s voice made Su Qingyi’s eardrum split. She mostly understood now.
“To sum it up, my task is to assist the protagonist to become a God?”
“No. Not the protagonist, the Villain. The Protagonist is made to be a Son of Heaven with Heaven-defying luck by the Author, but actually, it doesn’t conform with the Heavenly Dao. Thus, Jinjiang Heavenly Dao System exists to correct this kind of unreasonable plot in the book, starting with reversing the plot. Ran Yan, who you were before, is the first step to reverse the plot. You successfully influenced the Male Lead and foreshadowed the end of the Male Lead…”
“Who is the Male Lead?” The System spoke as if the Male Lead was her acquaintance, so Su Qingyi scrunched her brows. The system restored its voice back to the cold mechanical sound, “Xie Hantan. He is this book Male Lead, he has the bloodline of the Demon Race. Unfortunately, he was exiled into the mortal world and nearly wiped out by the Ten Great Sects. When he was nine, he was able to join the Tian Jian Sect thanks to his constitution, but he was rejected by Tian Jian Sect Jing Yan-daojun because of his impure mind. Later, he was accepted by Jing Yan’s Shimei[9], Ruan Mozhu, because he was so handsome. Ruan Mozhu and Xie Hantan had affection for each other. In order to cure Ruan Mozhu, Xie Hantan broke into Tian Jian Sect’s forbidden area in the back of the mountain. He obtained the inheritance of Demonic Cultivation there. Jing Yan discovered it and he knocked him down the cliff. He also cut off his meridians and destroyed his Spiritual Roots. Ruan Mozhu jumped down the cliff after hearing that news. She repaired Xie Hantan’s Spiritual Roots using her whole cultivation, and then she died of serious injury. Xie Hantan had since formed a grudge with Jing Yan. He was saved by Ran Yan who passed by. Ran Yan took a fancy to Xie Hantan’s face and forced him to Dual Cultivate with her. Xie Hantan was extremely humiliated by Ran Yan’s persecution. After Dual Cultivating…”
“Hold on!” Su Qingyi really couldn’t listen to it any longer, “When did I force him to Dual Cultivate with me?! I admit that I think he looks good, but our relationship didn’t develop into that…!”
“I’m narrating the original plot in the book.” The System replied frostily. Su Qingyi waved her hand in irritation, “Fine. Go on.”
“Ran Yan coveted Xie Hantan’s beauty, but she didn’t really like him. She often beats Xie Hantan. So, Xie Hantan had great hatred for her. At this point, Ran Shu took great care of Xie Hantan. Xie Hantan and Ran Shu admired each other. With Ran Shu’s help, Xie Hantan designed to kill Ran Yan. He successfully became the Leader of the Xing Yun Sect and began to rectify the Xing Yun Sect. In an accident, Ran Shu saved Jing Yan, and as a result, Jing Yan fell in love with Ran Shu…”
Reaching that point, the System was silent. Su Qingyi waited for a long time and discovered the System had no intention to continue. She urged, “What happened after that?!”
“The Host has insufficient points so the story can’t be disclosed.”
Su Qingyi came to a realization, “Wait, does that mean you also omitted a lot of key plots?!”
The System, “Correct. Like, why did your parents, teachers, and friends die? And, what did Xie Hantan do in the end? Also, what impact did your transmigration to Ran Yan have on Xie Hantan, which caused the distortion of the plot?”
Su Qingyi’s complexion was not good. She had investigated the matter of those events for ten years and she had made no progress. Frankly, she had died once, so her fear of death was not so great. She could endure the false accusation that she killed the disciples of the Ten Great Sects for her cultivation. She could endure the dirty water thrown on her and her death. What she couldn’t bear was the death of her parents, teachers, relatives, and friends.
She had lived in the Cultivation World for 50 years and had long treated it as a new life. She regarded the people here as real people, so she always felt the heart-wrenching pain and anguish whenever she recalled that night. However, she had no one to speak to and no one to rely on. The pain and tears in those ten years were turned into blood and buried in her heart.
She listened to System say so much. She acknowledged that the System must be able to help her. So she questioned, “You can tell me the truth of that event and you can also help me get revenge, right?”
“Yes, Host, this is one of my roles. ”
“Then, what is it that you want?” Just like signing a contract with the Devil, Su Qingyi was aware there was no free meal in the world and there were always equivalent exchanges.
“Complete the main line of the plot and assist the Son of Heaven to become a God. In the process, Host will gradually find out the truth of the past and complete her revenge.”
“Let me ask you one question,” Su Qingyi’s voice was chilling, “Is Xie Hantan the one behind it?”
“This question is not a question I can answer, but in order to avoid the Host going astray, this System will grant you special treatment and answer it. The answer is, no.”
Su Qingyi remained wordless. She had been tracking down this matter for ten years. Back then, she was a cultivator in Mahayana Realm and she still couldn’t find a trace of truth. In the present, she was someone with five Spiritual Roots in her body. It was even more far-fetched for her to find it.
The System waited quietly for her answer. Minutes passed and she made up her mind, “What is the talent of the person I required to help?”
“Variant Thunder Spiritual Root with Sword Spiritual Body.”
Sounds awesome……
“How about that person’s cultivation?”
“Great.”
“Such a person still needs my assistance to ascend?” Su Qingyi blinked, “Is he mentally retarded?”
“The task’s target is not mentally retarded. It’s just… He always meets with a bumpy road.”
This would be easy ah. A single Spiritual Root with Sword Spiritual Body and great cultivation. The obstacle to ascend was basically nothing. He wasn’t mentally retarded and merely always met with bumpy roads. All was fine! She was here now!
After all, she used to be a Master in the Mahayana Realm!
Her current body may be a waste with five Spiritual Roots. But, it didn’t matter! She had experienced the world and had a good foundation!
She mulled it over. Eventually, she nodded, “Okay, I accept your offer.”
“The host accepts the task. The task is now enabled. Requesting the Host to accept the first task: Overthrow the Female Lead and Rescue the Boss!”
Su Qingyi, “Save the Boss? Who?”
“The task’s target, Tian Jian Sect Jing Yan-daojun! The Strongest in this book. The task is to rescue Jing Yan before Ran Shu and assure that Jing Yan won’t have feelings for Ran Shu! There are three days left before Jing Yan meets with a mishap, please get ready to set off and reach the task location!”
The name of the task’s target made Su Qingyi pause her movements.
Jing Yan, ah… Enemies were indeed bound to meet on a narrow road[10].
Footnotes
For the level of the Cultivation Realm, check the ToC. ↵
符修 – fú xiū. Spell Cultivator. Cultivator spealizing in Spell and Talismans.↵
剑修 – jiàn xiū. Sword Cultivator. Cultivator spealizing in Sword.↵
师叔 – shī shū; lit. Senior Martial Uncle.↵
剑仙 – jiàn xiān. Sword Immortal.↵
姐姐 – jiějiě; lit. Big Sister, Eldest Sister. Term used for a woman that is older than you. Can be used as self-adress.↵
阿 – ā. Used in front of someone’s name, 阿 is an endearment.↵
老子 – lǎozi; lit. Old Father. “I, your father,” Prideful and arrogant way of “I.” Commanding respect. Another variation of arrogant “I” is 老娘 (lǎoniang).↵
师妹 – shī mèi; Junior Martial Sister.↵
冤家路窄 – yuān jiā lù zhǎi. One can’t avoid one’s enemy (much as one wants to). Enemies are likely to meet each other.↵
Lei’s Corner
Edited: LOL. I don’t even realize I omitted 1.7k words. My bad.
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Copy-pasta from my other post.
Hello, I’m Lei泪(lèi). Please just treat me as an extension of Ry.
I called dibs on both of MSB’s novels she wanted to translate after she is done with TVIRAD or WfOD because it will take too long if I wait for her :)
I will at least update this once a week.
I’m not fluent in English, though. So, my translation may be choppy, but at least it will be readable. And for that, please don’t copy this to another site or retranslate it without my permission. If you want to translate it to another language, just use the RAW. It will be more helpful than my patchy translation.
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Aaahh one of the 1st MSB novel that i read XD..
I swear someday i will apply to be an apprentice in Tianjian sect, i want to meet Zichen, Jun Yan, Wushuang, Gutang, etc…
Will enjoy your translation! ❤❤❤