Senior, are you going to be a heartless and unjust person

Inside the ring was a void of empty space.

A stunningly beautiful woman dressed in crimson red like fire, with two golden bells hanging from her waist, slowly opened her soul-stealing phoenix eyes. Her gaze was filled with confusion.

"Have I been reborn?"

Danxia murmured softly, her expression dazed.

In her previous life, she had done everything she could for Ye Shu. Since he had taken her as his master, she naturally taught him everything she knew, treating him like her own son.

Although she had absorbed his spiritual energy for fifteen years, causing him to suffer endless scorn.

But she had imparted immortal arts to him, guided his cultivation, and forcefully possessed his body multiple times during life-and-death situations to save him from peril. She had even sacrificed her own origin essence to rescue him and pave the way for his future.

She believed she owed Ye Shu nothing.

Yet, in the end... what did she get in return?

A rebellious disciple who dared to defile his master!

Seeing her peerless beauty, he couldn't hide the wicked desires in his heart. But that was somewhat inevitable, and Danxia didn't blame him for it. What truly chilled her to the bone was that when she exhausted her origin essence to save him from mortal danger, he abandoned her in a death trap just to escape, leaving her to be besieged by enemies... (PS: These are all fake memories fabricated by the system; in reality, none of this ever happened.)

To think that she, a peerless Pill Venerable of her generation, had actually been so blind?

"Since the heavens have allowed me to live another life, this time..."

Danxia's eyes flickered. The confusion in her gaze completely vanished, replaced by a bone-chilling determination and sharpness. Her red robes fluttered without wind, and the red bells at her waist chimed crisply.

"I absolutely will not repeat the same mistakes!"

Meanwhile, outside the ring.

Ye Shu was sweating profusely.

A faint pill-fragrant breeze blew through the rundown little hut. This was a sign that Danxia had already awakened.

Who would have thought he would encounter a life-and-death crisis so soon?

Damn it, the normal plot shouldn't be like this!

According to the plot scenes Xiaobai had shown him, shouldn't he be like an unkillable cockroach, tangling with the villain all the way to the grand finale before being slain with a single sword strike?

With his current cultivation base of having just entered the Qi Condensation realm...

He simply couldn't find any way to survive at Danxia's hands!

Xiaobai seemed to see through Ye Shu's confusion and spoke up:

"Because that system has already absorbed the destiny of many worlds, it is now incredibly powerful and no longer needs to hide itself."

"You mean..."

Ye Shu gritted his teeth, his face looking awful.

"This son of a bitch isn't even bothering to act anymore. It's planning to kill me right at the start to steal my destiny?"

God damn it, why does it become a hell-difficulty dungeon the moment it's his turn?

"Exactly."

Xiaobai nodded.

"Exactly my ass!" Ye Shu couldn't help but curse out loud. "At a time like this, shouldn't you, the Heavenly Dao, be helping me think of a way out? Or just give me a cheat, slap her to death, or teleport me away!"

He stomped his feet in anxiety. The ring was growing hotter and hotter. In a dozen breaths or so, Danxia would emerge.

Xiaobai finally realized the severity of the problem. Her little face turned pale, and she spun around in a panic:

"I-I want to as well!"

"But as the Heavenly Dao, I don't dare to directly interfere with the world. I can only use an invisible hand to make macro-adjustments, like making it easier for you to encounter fortuitous events. But I can't directly apply force to the living beings of this world, or I'll suffer a backlash from the laws of reality!"

"Just to snatch you over here, I've already been reduced to looking like a little loli!"

Hearing this, Ye Shu suddenly raised his head, his eyes filled with shock.

"Damn it, you were the one who dragged me from Earth to this dogshit place where they only add salt to their stir-fries?!"

His voice was laced with astonishment.

But before he had time to ask anything else, his vision blurred the next second, and the wind in the rundown hut instantly stopped.

A fiery red silhouette appeared before his eyes.

She was aloof and beautiful. Just by standing there, her presence caused the space inside the small hut to distort slightly.

Ye Shu's expression was ugly.

Even if it was merely the remnant soul of a Void Refinement realm expert, the pressure was not something a newly advanced Qi Condensation cultivator like him could endure. If Danxia hadn't held back, he would likely be kneeling on the ground right now.

In the past, he had rejoiced over this.

His grandpa in the ring wasn't some wretched old man or an old lady, but a breathtakingly beautiful peerless fairy. Just looking at her was a feast for the eyes. He had even fantasized about a beautiful future where master and disciple shared a deep bond, roaming the world with their swords.

But now...

If he had known better, he would have thrown this thing into a latrine pit.

"Ye Shu..."

Danxia stood barefoot in the void, looking at Ye Shu. The handsome youth before her gradually overlapped with the rebellious disciple who would abandon her in the future.

"I once truly thought that if you restored my physical body, and if you harbored no wicked thoughts and did not betray me, I would give everything I had to help you reach the pinnacle of the Great Dao. I might even... have married you. What a pity..."

She sighed softly in her heart and slowly raised her right hand. A wisp of nether-blue flame slowly rose from her fingertip.

Although it was a flame, Ye Shu felt a blast of freezing cold.

This was Danxia's exclusive flame. There were nineteen types of exotic flames in the world, and the one in Danxia's hand was ranked tenth: the Nether Ice Flame.

Ye Shu had previously seen Danxia use it on a Golden Core realm rat demon. It instantly froze the demon into an ice sculpture before turning it into fiery ash, not even leaving behind its demon core.

Ye Shu didn't think he was more durable than a demon core.

"Ye Shu..." Xiaobai stood to the side and spoke up softly with concern, "She looks like she really wants 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 the Heavenly Dao did not require him to speak out loud.

"If you are destined to betray me... it is better to end it early..."

Danxia's voice was even colder than the flame.

Having said that, she flicked her finger.

The tongue of flame immediately drifted forward, aiming straight for the center of Ye Shu's brow. If it touched him, his body would die and his Dao would vanish.

However, in the face of life and death.

Ye Shu was unprecedentedly calm at this moment.

His eyes revealed seven parts shock, five parts confusion, and three parts innocence as he said faintly, "Senior... are you trying to kill this junior? Could you please tell me the reason?"

Hearing this, Danxia was slightly stunned.

Only at this moment 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 out of nowhere and suddenly decided to ruthlessly kill him.

This realization shook her state of mind.

The ice flame stopped three inches from the tip of Ye Shu's nose, no longer moving.

"Forget it. We were master and disciple after all. I should at least let him die understanding why."

Danxia sighed softly in her heart and slowly spoke:

"That's right, I am going to kill you."

"Did I do something wrong?" Ye Shu tried hard to pretend he didn't know the reason, adding a bit of grievance to his voice.

"It is not that the present you did anything wrong, but that the future you... betrayed me. Since the heavens have given me a second chance, I refuse to repeat the same mistakes. Our bond as master and disciple ends here."

Danxia didn't want to elaborate, only speaking indifferently.

Having said that, she prepared to flick her finger again.

But she saw Ye Shu's face darken slightly: "So... is Senior going to be a heartless, ungrateful person?"

The descending ice flame stopped once again.