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.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
