The atmosphere fell into silence for a moment.
Stunned—not only were the surrounding spectator spirit beasts dumbfounded, but even the "tool beast" itself froze in place.
What... just happened?
Why did I instinctively kneel on the ground like that?
To be honest, the sight of a massive spirit beast kneeling before you was quite dramatic.
Especially when this very beast had been wearing an arrogant expression just moments ago.
Qin Luo took a closer look at the spirit beast.
Aside from its snow-white fur and the strange scales covering its body, it also had a pair of translucent horns on its head, wreathed in faint wisps of cold air.
Horns?
Interesting.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Qin Luo blinked, and suddenly, an image flashed through his mind.
It was that peculiar little pet by Su Muwan's side during his previous journey to the primordial world—a journey he had taken through a realistic dream conjured by the bronze cauldron.
Xiaobai.
For some reason, Qin Luo thought of that strange-looking little cat.
Huh?
What a coincidence.
Could that cat still be alive after all this time?
How did it survive?
Qin Luo quickly ran a mental calculation.
In an instant, a scene unfolded in his mind.
["Immortal Su!! What do you think you're doing?!"]
["Do you have any idea how many will die if you start the Immortal-Demon War?! Come back with us now!! Let the Immortal Court’s Tribunal decide your punishment!!"]
["Tch. How tiresome."]
[Splat!]
["!! Su Muwan!! You vile woman!! You just killed an Immortal King!! This is treason!! Immortal Su is betraying the Celestial Court!!"]
["Sniff... Master... why would you do this...?"]
["Hmph. Since when do I, Su Muwan, need others to tell me how to act?"]
Qin Luo blinked again.
Good news—this really was the same Xiaobai from back then.
Bad news—Su Muwan was once again the villain.
The Immortal-Demon War... the shattering of both the Immortal and Demon Realms...
It seemed Su Muwan was the catalyst for it all.
But...
Huh?
How was she connected to this?
Wasn’t she just the female lead of a minor world?
Qin Luo couldn’t make sense of it.
Could it be because of the bronze cauldron??
If so, that thing was even more ridiculously overpowered than he thought.
It could alter the course of the greater cosmos?
Returning to the present...
Su Muwan looked down at the spirit beast prostrating before her and snorted. "Would’ve been easier if you’d just done this from the start."
The snow-white spirit beast seemed to snap out of its daze.
Instantly, shame and fury overtook it. It scrambled to its feet, baring its fangs at Su Muwan. "Human! Don’t get too full of yourself!"
"This Sovereign merely—"
Before it could finish—
"Sit!"
Su Muwan barked.
Whoosh!
"Wahh... (╥﹏╥)"
The spirit beast immediately dropped back into a submissive crouch.
It was bewildered.
Why was this happening?
Why was it obeying this woman’s commands?
Once was bad enough, but now it had reflexively complied a second time!
Aside from its true master, no one should be able to—... Wait.
As the realization dawned, the spirit beast’s eyes widened in shock as it stared at Su Muwan.
It had noticed the resemblance earlier—Su Muwan looked strikingly similar to its master.
But it hadn’t dwelled on it. Now, however, this instinctive obedience... this soul-deep compulsion...
Could it be?!
At this thought, the spirit beast’s pupils constricted into icy-blue slits.
Su Muwan’s haughty gaze—the way she looked at others as if they were mere trash—
Perfectly overlapped with a figure buried deep in its memories.
"...Master...?"
It murmured, as if seeking final confirmation.
"Hey, hey—I told you not to bare your fangs at—... Huh?"
Su Muwan had been about to scold it again, but then she noticed the spirit beast trembling violently.
Two frozen tears rolled from its eyes.
She recoiled in alarm. "Qin Luo! Why is this thing crying?!"
The next moment—
Huummm—
A blinding light erupted from the spirit beast’s body as the power of divine laws surged like a tidal wave, churning the sea of clouds.
When the spectacle faded...
"MASTER!!"
A silver-bell-like wail pierced the heavens.
As the radiance dissipated, a silver-haired girl stood before Qin Luo and Su Muwan.
"Waaahh!!"
She lunged at Su Muwan like a fledgling bird returning to its nest. "I missed you so much!!!"
Splat!
Su Muwan sidestepped, and the girl faceplanted onto the clouds.
...What?
What was going on?!
Even Su Muwan was stunned. "Who the hell are you?!"
Then it hit her.
She whirled toward Qin Luo, aghast. "Qin Luo! What did you do behind my back?! Who trained her to act like this?!"
Qin Luo’s eye twitched. "Young Mistress, what are you talking about? This is your pet."
"No way! I don’t remember raising something this big—... Wait, is she even human?"
"Xiaobai. Remember her?"
"Xiaobai?"
"That cat-like thing that did nothing but gorge on spirit fruits—or even the pits—like a little glutton."
"Oh. That Xiaobai."
Su Muwan finally connected the dots. She stared in disbelief at the silver-haired girl sprawled on the ground.
It was hard to reconcile the image of that chubby little furball with this girl.
Meanwhile, Xiaobai lifted her tear-streaked face, looking up at Su Muwan with watery eyes. "Master! It’s me, Xiaobai!"
"After the Immortal-Demon War, you were hunted down by the other Immortal Sovereigns and vanished!"
"I’ve been waiting for you all this time! The Immortal and Demon Realms shattered, the greater cosmos reshaped itself, and malevolent entities emerged..."
"Three million years... I waited three million years!!"
"And now... I’ve finally found you again! Waaahh!"
She burst into another round of sobbing.
Su Muwan’s lips twitched. "Three million years ago, I wasn’t even born yet..."
Even if her previous experience had been through the bronze cauldron’s time-leap, the whole "Immortal-Demon War" plotline hadn’t even happened yet, right?
"Impossible!"
Xiaobai thrust out her small hand, revealing a frost-patterned mark on its back.
She explained, "This is the contract seal you carved yourself! You said once this mark was made, I’d always be able to sense your presence!"
"Although..."
She wiped her tears. "Even now, this close to you, the seal isn’t reacting at all..."
Su Muwan stared blankly at the frost pattern.
Then she crouched down, rubbed Xiaobai’s hand...
...and opened her palm to reveal a smudge of black grime.
"Look. It came off," she said matter-of-factly.
Xiaobai: ?
Qin Luo also crouched and poked the mark. "So it was just drawn on. No wonder it didn’t do anything."
"But..."
He gave Su Muwan a look of mild disbelief. "Young Mistress, was it really okay to deceive your pet like that?"
Su Muwan coughed. "I probably just thought it’d be fun to tease her... Wait, no!"
She glared at Qin Luo. "I’ve never done anything like this! I refuse to take responsibility for it!"
While Qin Luo and Su Muwan were more or less piecing things together, Xiaobai remained frozen in place.
She stared at her half-erased "contract seal."
So... this wasn’t the real thing?
"No... that can't be... If not, then why would I listen to you?"
"Uh..."
Qin Luo offered an explanation: "Maybe you really have been brainwashed by the young miss."
!!
"Ugh—!"
Xiaobai fainted.
g Yu was preparing for retirement when her organization decided to eliminate her. She transmigrated to a zombie apocalypse world. However, a tiny unexpected situation occurred: She somehow transformed into an adorable little girl?!
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."
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?!
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?"
