Senior Sister is a Big Shot

"Ye Xuan..."

Xia Lengyue's voice was terribly hoarse, every word seemingly squeezed through her teeth: "Do you... really think so?"

Ye Xuan shrank his neck, looking completely innocent. "Y-yes. Aren't all mortals like this? There are three forms of unfilial conduct, and having no descendants is the worst. Senior Sister, you are an immortal. You probably can't understand the thoughts of us laymen."

"Laymen... what a layman."

Xia Lengyue closed her eyes and took a deep breath, her chest heaving violently.

She desperately suppressed the killing intent within her body.

I can't scare him.

He hasn't recovered his memories yet.

He is just a mortal right now; it's normal for him to have such thoughts.

I must endure. I will slowly train him.

After a long while, Xia Lengyue opened her eyes again.

The killing intent in her eyes had been restrained, returning to a stagnant, pool-like calmness.

She pulled out a handkerchief and slowly wiped the tea stains and powder from her hands.

"Have you never thought about... finding someone within the sect?" Xia Lengyue suddenly asked.

Ye Xuan froze for a moment, then waved his hand with a bitter smile. "Senior Sister, don't make fun of me. The female cultivators in the sect are all arrogant fairies. I am just a handyman; who would ever look my way?"

Xia Lengyue stared at him intently, seeming to hint at something. "What if... someone doesn't mind? What if someone is willing to become your Dao companion?"

This was already an explicit declaration.

This was simply a freebie question.

But Ye Xuan knew that this was also a lethal trap.

If he agreed now, their relationship would be established.

Once established, if she noticed even the slightest thing wrong with him, or discovered he was just acting, he would be doomed eternally.

More importantly, he didn't want to be with a ticking time bomb that could go crazy at any moment.

Thus, Ye Xuan sighed, a trace of extreme inferiority and bitterness appearing on his face:

"Senior Sister, you don't understand."

"Even if a fairy really went blind and took a liking to me, I still couldn't agree."

"Why?" Xia Lengyue didn't understand.

Ye Xuan pointed at his own hair, then pointed at Xia Lengyue's eternally youthful face:

"There is a difference between immortals and mortals."

"Think about it. I cannot reach the Foundation Establishment stage, so my lifespan won't exceed a hundred years. Decades later, when I'm eighty, I'll have a head full of white hair, a face full of wrinkles, and all my teeth will have fallen out. And that fairy? She will still be youthful and beautiful, her appearance unchanged."

"When that time comes and we walk out together, others will say: Look, the fairy brought an old grandpa with her. How mismatched."

"That kind of inferiority, that kind of gap... I can't bear it. Rather than torturing each other like that, I might as well find a mortal woman, grow old together, and be buried together. That is the happiness I want."

These words were like a sharp knife, fiercely piercing into Xia Lengyue's chest.

In her previous life.

She and Zhao Wuji stood together, a perfect match of a talented man and a beautiful woman.

And Ye Xuan, standing in the corner, must have watched them with this exact same feeling of inferiority, right?

So... he had always cared about this.

So... the tragedy of the previous life was because our paces weren't aligned.

Xia Lengyue looked at Ye Xuan's face, dimmed by his sense of inferiority, and the anger in her heart instantly turned into infinite pity and heartache.

Yes.

I shouldn't blame him for wanting to find a mortal.

It was because I failed to give him enough sense of security; it was because he felt he wasn't worthy of me.

As long as this problem is solved...

As long as I let him cultivate too, let him achieve immortality too...

Then he wouldn't need to find a mortal woman, and he could be with me forever!

Thinking of this, a flash of resolute light crossed Xia Lengyue's eyes.

She suddenly stood up.

"Wait for me a moment."

After saying that, she turned and rushed into the cave dwelling behind her.

Ye Xuan sat on the stone stool and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

"Phew... Did I manage to bluff my way through this? That killing intent just now almost made me wet myself."

A moment later.

Xia Lengyue came out.

She held an ancient wooden box in her hands, its surface plastered with several restriction seals.

She walked up to Ye Xuan and solemnly placed the wooden box on the table.

"Ye Xuan."

Xia Lengyue's eyes were more serious than ever before, even carrying a trace of fanaticism. "Didn't you say that you didn't dare to pursue fairies because your five-element spiritual root prevented you from cultivating?"

"What if... I give you a chance. A chance for a five-element spiritual root to become a peerless genius. Will you... still go looking for eight or ten mortal women?"

Ye Xuan looked at the wooden box, his eyelids twitching wildly.

An extremely ominous premonition welled up in his heart.

"Senior Sister... what is this?"

Xia Lengyue undid the restrictions and slowly opened the wooden box.

Inside lay quietly an ancient jade slip emitting a five-colored glow.

The moment he saw that jade slip, Ye Xuan was completely dumbfounded.

That was the Five Elements Chaos Sutra.

How could she have it?

"Take it."

Xia Lengyue threw this immortal scripture, which was enough to cause a storm of blood and slaughter in the cultivation world, into Ye Xuan's arms like she was throwing away trash.

"This is..." Ye Xuan held the text, his hands shaking like a leaf.

Xia Lengyue looked down at him from above, her eyes as deep as an abyss:

"This is the Five Elements Chaos Sutra. A supreme cultivation method specifically for those with a five-element spiritual root. By cultivating this method, your trash spiritual root will become the strongest spiritual root in the world."

She leaned down, moving close to Ye Xuan's ear. Her warm breath sprayed against his neck, yet her voice was so cold it brought despair:

"Ye Xuan, don't even think about running."

"And don't even think about looking for any mortal women."

"Cultivate it. If you can't reach Foundation Establishment, I will break your legs. If you can't reach the Golden Core stage, I will lock you up on Lengyue Peak, and you won't be allowed to go anywhere."

Ye Xuan didn't speak; he was entirely stupefied.

Forcing down his internal ecstasy and horror, he put on a show of deep gratitude and overwhelming trepidation in front of his Senior Sister.

It wasn't until Xia Lengyue waved her hand in satisfaction, dismissing him, that Ye Xuan felt like he had been granted amnesty, practically crawling and rolling as he fled the suffocating Lengyue Peak.

Upon returning to his dilapidated handyman's hut, the moment he closed the door, Ye Xuan leaned his back against the wooden panels and slid to the floor as if completely drained.

He panted heavily, his heart beating like a drum, not out of excitement, but out of a delayed, bone-deep fear.

He opened his hand and looked at the ancient jade slip in his palm. On the jade slip, the five large characters for the Five Elements Chaos Sutra emitted a faint glow.

"She really is her..." Ye Xuan muttered to himself, his voice dry.

The cultivation method was real.

The familiar gentleness and guilt that flashed in Xia Lengyue's eyes when she handed him the method were also real.

This was enough to prove that Xia Lengyue was one of the female leads from the game!

Then, what was Xia Lengyue's strength at the game's final ending?

After the awakening of the True Phoenix Heart, relying on her world-destroying power, her Dao heart shattered but her cultivation base skyrocketed.

Although the game didn't explicitly state it, to be able to blast away the countless experts of both the righteous and demonic paths who besieged her, her strength had probably long surpassed the Body Integration stage, perhaps even reaching the higher Tribulation Transcendence stage!

A living, breathing supreme mighty figure at least at the Body Integration stage had come here, carrying endless remorse and paranoia toward her past life husband.

And he himself was that husband she felt remorse toward.

This realization made Ye Xuan's head spin.

He scrambled up abruptly and paced anxiously around the cramped room, a crazy thought surging uncontrollably into his mind—Escape!

Right now! Immediately! Flee the Azure Cloud Sect!

Escape to a place she could never find!

However, this thought only lasted for three seconds before he snuffed it out with a bitter smile.

Flee?

What a joke.

With Xia Lengyue's currently unfathomable strength, a mere sweep of her divine sense would likely bring the entire Azure Cloud Sect and a thousand miles around it under her control.

As a handyman without any cultivation, the moment he stepped out of the mountain gate, he would be caught and dragged back like a little chick.

Ye Xuan sat back on his bed powerlessly, feeling that his life had become a dead end.

Fleeing was a dead end.

Not fleeing meant being kept as a pet by a terrifyingly powerful yandere, with no days of peace.

Right then, a completely different thought slithered into his mind like a venomous snake.

Since you cannot resist, why not accept it?

A voice tempted him in his heart.

Think about it, Ye Xuan. What are you now? A piece of trash with five spirit roots, a handyman bullied by everyone. But as long as you nod, as long as you play the role of the husband from her past life well, what will you get?

You will get a wife who is at least a Body Integration realm expert! She will hold you in the palm of her hand and treat you as a priceless treasure. In the entire cultivation world, who would dare mess with you? Countless resources, top-tier cultivation methods, and supreme pills will be piled up in front of you like trash.

You will not even need to work hard to ascend to the heavens in a single bound, enjoying the glory and wealth that countless cultivators could not obtain in several lifetimes of struggle!

Is this not ten thousand times better than being a miserable handyman? What are you still hesitating for?

Ye Xuan's breathing quickened; the temptation of this proposal was too great.

No need to work hard, no need to risk your life, just lie flat, and you can have everything...

Ye Xuan's breathing became even more rapid.

To an ordinary person who had just transmigrated and had no foundation, the temptation was unimaginably immense.

However, just as his mind wavered and he was almost persuaded by this thought, a dusty, humiliating scene burned fiercely deep in his mind like a brand.

Cold stone walls, heart-wrenching pants, a woman's bone-meltingly charming moans, Zhao Wuji's triumphant laughter...

Mmm... Senior Brother Zhao... be gentle...

Junior Sister... your Lunar Physique truly lives up to its reputation...

To be able to serve as Senior Brother's cultivation cauldron... is a blessing Yue'er... cultivated over several lifetimes...

Blergh!

Ye Xuan suddenly bent over, letting out a violent bout of dry heaving.

His face instantly turned deathly pale, his eyes filled with bloodshot veins. This feeling of disgust and humiliation, even as just a memory, made his stomach churn furiously.

Dammit!

He smashed his fist fiercely against the wall. His finger bones instantly cracked, dripping with blood, but he felt no pain whatsoever.

Let me accept her? Let me be her convenient husband?

To hell with that!

Ye Xuan's eyes were bloodshot red.

Xia Lengyue!

What makes you think that with this kind of charity-like gesture, you can erase the things you have done?

Who do you think you are?

The Ye Xuan in the game who died for you was played by me!

I did it for the SSS rating!

It was to clear the game!

If I accepted it, what would I be?

An absolute cuckold that even I would look down upon!

A gigolo wagging his tail for pity, relying on a woman's guilt from her past life!

No!

Never!

Ye Xuan jerked his head up. The confusion and hesitation in his eyes were swept away, replaced by the desperate madness and absolute resolve of someone pushed to the brink.

Strength!

What I need is my own strength!

He tightly gripped the jade slip of the Five Elements Chaos Sutra, his nails digging deeply into his flesh.

Xia Lengyue, do you not feel you owe me? Do you not want to compensate me?

Fine! I will accept your compensation!

Your cultivation methods, your pills, your spirit stones, I want them all!

I will use everything you give me to cultivate a power capable of crushing you!

One day, I will make you kneel before me!

Not out of guilt, but out of fear!

One day, I will make you understand that I, Ye Xuan, am never anyone's accessory!