The morning light filtered through the gap in the curtains, casting a soft glow on Su Di'er's forehead.
Li Moran, who had long since woken up, walked silently to the window and pulled the curtains tightly shut.
In the dim, quiet room, a faint luminescence radiated from the young girl's forehead.
It was the Ice Lotus mark Li Moran had left behind during her first playthrough.
By now, Li Moran had already navigated the early stages of the plot. The storyline had just reached the point where Su Di'er took her as a master and began her martial training.
This was the favorite stage for all cultivators. They would often deliberately slow down the pace of their cultivation, purposefully delaying Su Di'er from truly entering the Qi Condensation stage for as long as possible.
In a way, it was similar to how many players of Red Dead Redemption 2 in her previous life, after clearing the game, would choose to keep Arthur in the town of Valentine forever.
Li Moran did not intentionally stall for time.
In fact, she couldn't have stalled even if she wanted to.
The stats granted by the Ice Lotus mark were simply too absurd. Su Di'er gained experience points every day just by breathing and sleeping...
Because of this, Li Moran simply slowed down their cultivation schedule. Instead, she took a page out of Zhou Qiaoling's book and frequently brought Su Di'er along to do things unrelated to cultivation.
The only difference was that while Zhou Qiaoling would take Su Di'er out to scam and swindle people, Li Moran preferred to take her sightseeing to enjoy the beauty of nature.
At this moment, looking at the icy, translucent glow radiating from the mark on the young girl's forehead, Li Moran could not help but frown.
Because Su Di'er's level had increased again.
This also meant that they were one step closer to the final ending.
The hopeful goodwill from her first playthrough had, in a sense, become a curse in her second playthrough.
Li Moran let out a soft sigh, revealing a rare expression of gentleness.
Just as she stepped up to the bed, she was caught completely off guard when the young girl suddenly threw herself into her arms.
"Li Ang."
"I had a dream."
"In my dream, you were riding on seven-colored auspicious clouds, just like the storytellers say... and with a single strike of your sword, you opened the Gates of Heaven."
"But..."
The young girl's back suddenly began to tremble slightly, her voice choking with emotion.
"But when I tried to hug you, you shattered into pieces... just like the clouds..."
"Li Ang... please, don't leave me..."
Li Moran fell silent.
Memories that had been buried beneath their recent happy times suddenly came rushing back.
Looking at the tearful girl in front of her, an overwhelming sense of heartbreak caused her usually stable emotions to surge violently.
"Bang!"
A massive boom echoed through the Bingyi Pavilion.
Under the intense emotional fluctuation, the spiritual energy within Li Moran's body shattered the restrictions of the Illusion Tower, instantly severing her connection to the illusion.
"An inner... demon?"
Li Moran frowned but quickly dismissed the thought, immediately circulating her cultivation technique.
Under the influence of her Ice Phoenix Sword Physique, Li Moran had been born aloof and devoid of worldly desires.
The outside world generally believed that this emotionlessness was the price of possessing the Ice Phoenix Sword Physique, and that experiencing emotions would ruin its power.
That was why a strong sense of crisis welled up in Li Moran's heart the moment she noticed her own intense emotional fluctuations.
However, as she circulated her technique and her emotions began to settle, Li Moran gradually sensed something wondrous—
Her Ice Phoenix Sword Physique, which had remained completely stagnant since birth, was actually showing signs of breaking through its shackles at this very moment!
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Lihuo Peak, Lingyu Pavilion.
[Emotion Points +99999]
"It worked!"
Lu Ze clapped his hands in excitement, gleefully exiting the illusion.
It was exactly as he had predicted. For a cultivator like Li Moran, the Demonic Path Points generated from an emotional breakdown were far higher than those of ordinary cultivators!
Somehow, he had managed to push her to the point of disconnecting this time, and the Demonic Path Points he earned were even greater than what he got from those top-tier big shots!
"Not bad, not bad at all. With this, I can break through again..."
Lu Ze narrowed his eyes as he examined the emotion points in the system interface.
After all the grinding in this second playthrough, his Demonic Path Points had skyrocketed, pushing him all the way to the threshold of the late Nascent Soul stage.
Just as he was preparing to meditate and break through on the spot, a terrifyingly cold, frosty aura swept over from the distant Wenjian Peak.
Lu Ze suddenly shuddered.
"Why do I feel..."
"A chill down my spine..."
igrating to the cultivation world for two hundred years, I've managed to lie low and reach the Nascent Soul stage. Only now does my golden finger arrive? ...
[Dao Companion Rental System]. By renting himself out as a temporary dao companion to daughters of destiny, Qin Hao could obtain generous rewards. His service philosophy was simple: play the role of the devoted lover, resolve their troubles, depart without a trace once the matter was settled, and absolutely avoid entangling karma. However, those daughters of destiny didn't see it that way. That night, all the major powers across the Three Realms and Nine Heavens jointly besieged the Qin Clan, plunging it into an unprecedented crisis. "It's Su Qingyue! The peerless sword immortal who attained the Dao and became an Immortal Emperor in a thousand years, the one who severed the River of Time with a single sword strike! When... when did our Qin Clan make an enemy of her?" Qin Hao stepped forward, clearing his throat lightly: "Ahem, Ancestors, don't panic. She's here for me. To be honest... she's my ex-girlfriend." From another direction, the newly ascended Empress of the Demon Realm arrived with ten thousand demons pressing on the border: "Qin Hao! Today, the entire Qin Clan shall be buried with you!" Hearing this, the Qin Clan ancestors all turned their eyes sharply towards Qin Hao. Qin Hao scratched his head somewhat sheepishly: "The Demon Empress... she's also my ex-girlfriend." Before the Qin ancestors could process this, an aloof figure traversed the River of Time: "The Qin Clan deserves annihilation!" Recognizing the newcomer, the Qin ancestors paled in terror: "It's her! Liu Ruyan, the Extinction Empress who ventured alone into the alien realm and suppressed it for an entire epoch! Didn't she vanish into the River of Time long ago? Why would she cross it just to target our clan?" Qin Hao scratched his head again, looking even more embarrassed: "My fault, my fault. She's an ex-girlfriend too." Watching countless celestial maidens descend, the Qin Clan ancestors were utterly astounded: "You scoundrel! Just... just how many women have you gotten involved with over the years?"
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!"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
