“Huh? What did you say?”
Liu Ruyi, who had been dozing off in her chair, suddenly jolted awake. She rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked at him with a blank expression.
“Nothing.”
Ye Shu shook his head. Just now, when he had observed the top of Liu Ruyi’s head, he saw a boundless sea of karma—so deep it was impossible to fathom.
Just how many people had this woman killed?
“Mmm...”
Liu Ruyi stood up and circled around him a few times. “Still no improvement, huh? Sigh...”
She flopped onto the bed and let out a heavy sigh.
Seeing her so dejected, Ye Shu couldn’t help but ask curiously, “What’s wrong? Aren’t you usually full of energy?”
Oh, it's all because of our cult leader.
Liu Ruyi tugged at her hair in irritation, turned her head, and looked at Ye Shu with exasperation. “You’ve been with our demonic sect for almost three months now, right? The leader has high expectations for you. He sees you as the rising star of the sect, grooming you to be the next Saint Son.”
“Now the entire sect knows you’re the Saint Son.”
“So...”
“So?”
Ye Shu looked at her, waiting for her to continue.
“So, as the Saint Son, you naturally need to show a little bit of demonic traits, right? Potential is potential, but if your heart isn’t aligned with our demonic ways, even the highest potential is a threat to us. So the leader wants you to demonstrate your sincerity.”
“Sincerity?”
“Exactly, sincerity.”
Liu Ruyi nodded. “You can also think of it as a blood oath. They want you to participate in a blood sacrifice, so that you can never return to the righteous path—and to see if you’re truly joining the demonic sect with your whole heart.”
“And during those days, I just happened to be away.”
“I see...”
Ye Shu nodded, a glint of sharpness flashing in his eyes.
The blood sacrifice itself didn’t matter. The key point was that Liu Ruyi wouldn’t be there.
He hadn’t expected the opportunity to come so soon.
Pretending to think it over, he paused for a moment before speaking. “It’s fine. I can do it.”
“You can?”
Hearing this, Liu Ruyi shot him a surprised look.
She had only been venting; she hadn’t expected him to agree.
This scoundrel was supposed to be righteous, indifferent to good and evil—how could he agree to a blood sacrifice?
Something’s off. Something is definitely off!
Alarms blared in Liu Ruyi’s mind. She dropped her playful expression and stared at Ye Shu seriously.
“You’re not planning to use the blood sacrifice as a chance to escape, are you?”
“How could that be?”
Ye Shu gave her a reassuring smile. “Didn’t you make it clear before? If I leave the demonic sect, you’ll die. I’m not exactly a good person, but I wouldn’t let my savior die because of me.”
“Don’t you trust my character?”
Liu Ruyi stared into his eyes for a long time, then let out a cold laugh.
“Trust is the most fragile thing in this world.”
With that, she clapped her hands lightly.
“Aqi, come in.”
The figure outside the door, Aqi, answered the call. He walked over to Liu Ruyi and bowed respectfully. “Your orders, Saintess?”
“From today on, you will watch him every step of the way.”
“Wherever he goes, you follow.”
“Whatever he does, you observe from the side.”
“If he makes even the slightest suspicious move, you break his legs, tie him up with rope, and throw him back onto the bed. And make sure not to hurt him,” Liu Ruyi said coldly.
If it weren’t for urgent matters elsewhere, she would have liked to keep Ye Shu leashed to her side, never letting him out of her sight.
“Understood.”
Aqi nodded, then moved to the corner of the room, his eyes fixed unblinkingly on Ye Shu’s every move.
What the hell?
Ye Shu was so exasperated he almost laughed.
Not hurting him and breaking his legs—how could those two things be done at the same time?
“Is all this necessary?”
“Isn’t it?” Liu Ruyi glared at him icily. “If you try to run, I won’t hesitate to lock you in this basement and keep you in a place where you’ll never see the light of day again. You’ll have plenty to suffer then.”
If he didn’t want to embrace the demonic path, that could be slowly corrected.
But betrayal? That was unforgivable!
“...”
Ye Shu was completely thrown off by her sudden shift in attitude.
One moment she was gentle and playful, the next she was cold as ice, exuding murderous intent.
Truly, a demon saintess couldn’t be judged by ordinary standards.
“Don’t worry. I won’t make things difficult for you.” Ye Shu looked straight at Liu Ruyi’s face and gave a very earnest promise.
“You’d better mean that,” Liu Ruyi shot back with a cold glance, then turned and walked away, leaving only a back in flowing red behind her.
Ye Shu slowly let out a breath and sat back down on the bed. He glanced at Aqi, who stood in the corner, then crossed his legs and sat in meditation.
Everything was ready—all that was needed now was the east wind (the right moment).
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
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nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
