There was no hesitation at all.
Su Jiu followed silently behind him, the two of them passing through the sect one after the other.
"Take me to the rift," Su Ji said without looking back.
Su Jiu's footsteps paused slightly. She didn't ask any questions, just gave a soft "Mm" and walked ahead to lead the way.
She led Su Ji past the halls of the front mountain, heading straight for the back mountain of the Acacia Sect.
This place was filled with overlapping peaks and rarely visited by people. Only a single winding path led deep into the mountains.
Eventually, the two stopped in front of a cliff.
This was the place where successive sect masters went into life-and-death seclusion.
A waterfall dozens of feet high cascaded down from the top of the cliff. The water roared, and the splashing mist refracted faint rainbows in the sunlight.
"It's right behind there."
Su Jiu pointed at the massive curtain of water.
Su Ji nodded, took the lead, and walked straight through.
The freezing water was instantly isolated by spiritual energy, unable to soak his robes.
But the moment he passed through the water curtain, the roaring sound of the water around him abruptly vanished.
Behind the waterfall lay a hidden world.
It was a massive naturally formed cave. The light was dim, and the damp rock walls were covered with moss that emitted a faint fluorescence.
In the deepest part of the cave, the air exhibited a bizarre distortion.
There was no light there, nor any physical entity. It was just an area about the height of a person where all approaching light and sound were silently swallowed, as if space itself had caved in there.
This was the rift leading outside of Great Xia.
Su Ji walked up to that distorted void, feeling the aura emanating from it, an aura completely out of place in this world.
He turned around and looked at Su Jiu, who had followed him in.
Su Jiu was also looking at him. Her moon-white palace dress stood out strikingly in the dim cave.
Su Ji took a deep breath and squeezed out what he thought was a very dashing smile.
"Junior Sister, let us part ways here."
Hearing this, a trace of confusion appeared in Su Jiu's clear fox-like eyes.
"Part ways here?"
"Yes," Su Ji nodded, beginning the speech he had prepared long ago. "I'll go scout the way first. This journey is perilous, you..."
Before he could finish, Su Jiu interrupted him.
"Does Senior Brother think I will be a burden?"
Her voice was cold and clear, betraying neither joy nor anger.
Su Ji's expression remained unchanged: "No, that's not what I meant..."
"Although my strength is indeed somewhat lacking compared to Soul Formation cultivators."
Su Jiu continued on her own, raising her eyes and looking seriously at Su Ji.
"I also have some special methods that can amplify Senior Brother's strength. I won't hold you back."
Su Ji looked at her pretty face, which was full of earnestness.
He knew that Su Jiu was not lying.
The Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox clan might indeed have secret techniques that could elevate his combat prowess to another level.
But the problem was...
Su Ji sighed, the expression on his face collapsing.
He found that a heroic farewell didn't seem to suit him.
"No."
He gave up explaining, his tone carrying a bit of helplessness.
"It's that if you go, I won't have any chance at all."
Su Jiu furrowed her brows, the confusion in her eyes deepening.
"Why?"
"Because..." Su Ji scratched his head, feeling it was a bit hard to say, but he bit the bullet and continued, "Because the cause of the conflict was that the two guys responsible for registration at the ascension point took a fancy to you and planned to capture you to present to some big shot above them."
"And then, I fought them."
The cave fell into an eerie silence.
There was only the muffled sound of the waterfall passing through the water curtain in the distance.
Su Jiu just stood there, motionless.
Her beautiful fox-like eyes slowly, little by little, widened.
The expression on her face went from confusion, to astonishment, and finally to pure bewilderment.
Seeing her dumbfounded appearance, Su Ji added another sentence to increase his persuasiveness.
"So, you see, as long as you don't show up, they shouldn't have any reason to attack me directly."
"At least there will be some time to maneuver."
"I might even be able to sneak in."
Su Jiu did not answer.
Her mind was currently echoing with the words Su Ji had just spoken.
Just this?
The future she had imagined.
That future battle should have been magnificent and tragic.
When she and Su Ji stepped hand in hand out of Great Xia and appeared in that unfamiliar world.
The Soul Formation cultivators guarding the passage would immediately notice the anomaly about them.
"This boy comes from the land of Great Xia, and actually attempts to use tricks to deceive the heavens and cross the sea?"
One of the old men would have a solemn expression, his eyes shooting out sharp glints.
The other would stroke his beard and ponder, his voice old but powerful.
"He carries the aura of 'them'..."
"Have the people of Great Xia made a comeback with the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox clan?"
"The plot behind this is massive, we cannot let him live!"
"The two of us must join forces and strangle him in the cradle!"
"Otherwise, there will be endless trouble!"
"If he does not die! A great terror will descend, just like a hundred thousand years ago, and we will never have peace!"
Then, a great battle would erupt.
Su Ji would unreservedly unleash his full combat power.
She would also activate the bloodline of the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox and fight side by side with him.
The four of them, in pairs, bearing different ideals, fighting for different worlds.
For Great Xia and their own future, they would engage in a supremely elevated battle of destiny with those two Soul Formation old monsters who had lived for a thousand years!
Magnificent and profoundly moving!
However...
The future in reality.
"Yo, this chick is not bad, let's take her back and present her to the lord."
"Present your mom! You're courting death!"
"Hey, still dare to resist? Watch me beat you to death!"
...
The huge contrast made Su Jiu feel her brain buzz and go completely blank.
She felt that her wild and tragic imaginations were, at this moment, smashed to pieces by Su Ji's most plain and unadorned language.
An indescribable sense of shame rushed straight from the soles of her feet to the top of her head.
Seeing her like this, Su Ji thought she was blaming herself because of this absurd truth.
He stepped forward, patted her shoulder, and comforted her earnestly with the tone of someone who had been there.
"Junior Sister, you don't need to be too sad."
"That's just how the world is; being good-looking really does easily attract trouble."
"Look at your Senior Brother me, I've never had this kind of trouble."
"If some big shot really took a fancy to me, I wouldn't resist. If their cultivation is high enough, how ugly could they be?"
"I'd let her raise it high..."
Su Jiu suddenly raised her head.
The murderous intent in her watery eyes converged into a sentence spoken through gritted teeth.
"Su Ji!"
"Shut up!"
Su Ji was stunned by her sudden outburst.
Why was she getting angry?
However, after Su Jiu roared this sentence, there was nothing else.
She just stood there, her head lowered, unconsciously drawing circles on the ground with her toe.
The atmosphere in the cave instantly became awkward to the extreme.
Su Ji coughed dryly twice, trying to break the eerie silence.
"So, Junior Sister, you see..."
Su Jiu abruptly interrupted him, her voice hurried and fast, carrying a bit of panic that even she hadn't noticed.
"It is fine, I can still go with you, Senior Brother."
"I have a method to evade their detection."
Su Ji was puzzled. "Evade the detection of Soul Formation cultivators? Are you sure?"
In the Glimpse of Destiny, Su Jiu also had a disguise. She had obviously considered this kind of situation, but her disguise had been easily seen through.
"I am sure."
"What method?"
"Senior Brother, do you remember that half a drop of my natal blood essence is attached to you?"
Su Ji dug around in his pants. "You mean..."
Su Jiu hastily interrupted him. "Do not take it out!"
Su Ji had no choice but to stop, muttering, "It is not like you have not seen it before..."
"So what are you planning to do?"
"I can hide within that half drop of natal blood essence."
Su Ji's hand froze slightly as he pulled up his pants.
Su Ji: ???
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
