Seeing Little Yu's expression, Jiang Ningshu understood her answer.
For a moment, she grew curious—was it really that enticing?
Hmph, I don’t believe it.
Of course, Jiang Ningshu wouldn’t personally verify it right now, but stirring up some trouble was still an option.
"Hmph, let me give them a little surprise."
With that, Jiang Ningshu walked toward the room.
"Ah, what are you doing?"
Little Yu exclaimed, quickly grabbing hold of Jiang Ningshu.
"Want to join me?"
"Let’s not."
Was this really something they should do?
In the end, Little Yu failed to stop Jiang Ningshu.
Step by step, Jiang Ningshu approached the room.
Su Luo and the others naturally noticed.
"Hold on," Su Luo said to Nangong Xiyun.
Nangong Xiyun flipped over, taking charge.
"Don’t mind her. I don’t believe she’d dare come in."
"Come on, that’s not a bet worth taking."
Su Luo wasn’t afraid, but he felt they should show some respect—both for their own sake and for Jiang Ningshu’s.
"I’ll bet she won’t come in."
Nangong Xiyun refused to believe Jiang Ningshu would enter. Didn’t she know what was happening here?
Then the door opened.
"So you really don’t see me as human, huh?"
Silence fell instantly.
With a snap, Jiang Ningshu closed the door.
She left with a darkened expression.
Originally, she had planned to sit right beside them and watch.
Jiang Ningshu refused to believe they could continue under such circumstances.
But it seemed they just might.
Better not subject herself to that humiliation.
She truly couldn’t understand it at all.
......
And so, Su Luo enjoyed himself for a while before this chapter of their lives finally came to an end.
Back to normal.
"So, what now? Head to the Seven Stars Sword Sect?"
"What do you all think?" Su Luo asked the others.
"Yeah, let’s go," Little Yu said.
The Seven Stars Sword Sect held fond memories for her—it was where her journey with Su Luo began.
Jiang Ningshu, however, remained silent.
"What’s wrong?"
"I feel... something’s off."
"Off how?"
"My cultivation... it’s fading!"
Jiang Ningshu realized it wasn’t her imagination—her cultivation was truly slipping away again, bit by bit.
She had sensed it faintly before, but now it was unmistakable.
Fear crept into her heart. She never wanted to experience that powerless feeling again.
Hearing this, Su Luo chuckled.
"Oh, so that’s it. Don’t worry—this is part of the process for your cultivation to recover. Once this phase passes, you’ll be one step closer to regaining your strength."
Jiang Ningshu was indeed destined to lose her cultivation once more, but it wouldn’t last long. Afterward, her power would surge back even stronger.
Still, this wouldn’t fully restore her to her peak.
The third stage would take time.
"So you’re saying I’ll return to having no cultivation at all?" Jiang Ningshu wasn’t the least bit pleased by this news.
"Yes, but it’s only temporary."
"Fine. I thought I was becoming an ordinary person again."
If that were truly the case, Jiang Ningshu would have wanted to die.
These ups and downs were unbearable.
"You’re scared?" Su Luo had sharp eyes.
"Yeah. I’m afraid that without my cultivation, someone might... take advantage of me."
As she spoke, she glanced at Nangong Xiyun.
Nangong Xiyun immediately flared up, smiling coldly. "How about I take advantage of you now, while you still have your cultivation? That way, you won’t have to worry later."
"How... considerate of you."
Su Luo, however, noticed Jiang Ningshu’s unease ran deeper than expected.
"Don’t worry. When you lose your cultivation, I’ll protect you," Su Luo said solemnly.
"Really? You promise?"
Jiang Ningshu brightened at his words.
Because of this, their plans to visit the Seven Stars Sword Sect were postponed.
If Jiang Ningshu lost her cultivation there, she’d feel too vulnerable.
Nangong Xiyun and Little Yu chatted with Su Luo as usual, but Jiang Ningshu grew increasingly distressed as she felt her power draining away.
Nangong Xiyun smirked. "What’s this? The mighty Jiang Ningshu, deflated so soon?"
Jiang Ningshu shot back, "You might have your turn one day."
With Nangong Xiyun’s talent, reaching her peak cultivation was only a matter of time.
"Who says? Maybe I’ll smoothly transcend the heavenly tribulation."
"I doubt it."
No evidence, but she said it anyway.
Su Luo nodded to himself. If they were still bickering, her spirits weren’t completely broken.
By now, Jiang Ningshu’s cultivation had fallen to the Hollow Void stage.
"Su Luo, is there any way to stop my cultivation from fading?"
"This is a necessary step for your recovery. You should be happy."
"Sigh... but watching it slip away hurts."
Jiang Ningshu vividly recalled the days when she had no cultivation, hiding alone in the Heavenly Demon Sect’s palace.
Living in constant fear.
Even knowing it would be brief, dread gnawed at her.
She grew quieter.
"I’ll stay by your side."
Su Luo didn’t know how else to comfort her, but this much he could promise.
"Mm. I know. I’ll be fine."
Yet the situation worsened faster than expected.
Jiang Ningshu’s cultivation dropped to the Nascent Soul stage.
She could barely take it and began meditating, hoping to slow the decline.
But her efforts were futile.
"Su Luo... will it really come back?"
"Of course. Trust me."
"I do."
Yet her mind kept wandering to dark places.
Su Luo sensed her turmoil. "Just ask whatever’s on your mind. Keeping it bottled up will only make it worse."
"If I lose my cultivation... will you abandon me?"
"No."
"What would you do if you lost your cultivation?"
"Stay home."
......
Jiang Ningshu asked many questions, and Su Luo answered each one.
Her cultivation fell to the Golden Core stage.
"Fine. I accept it. Go ahead, leave. Do as you please."
Her cultivation dropped to the Foundation Establishment stage.
"Stop... please, stay with me. Don’t go."
But no matter how she pleaded, her power continued to dissipate.
Her cultivation dwindled to the Qi Refining stage.
"Don’t go... sob..."
Exhausted from the loss, Jiang Ningshu succumbed to sleep. Yet even in her dreams, she saw her cultivation fading.
She dreamed of being powerless again, abandoned by everyone.
She had no value left.
Jiang Ningshu jolted awake in terror.
"Su Luo! Su Luo! Where are you?"
Su Luo had been holding her hand the entire time, sensing her nightmare.
"I’m here. I’m here."
Seeing him, Jiang Ningshu calmed down.
Then, as clarity returned, she realized—her cultivation was entirely gone.
Once again, she was forced to endure this feeling.
"Everything... is gone."
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?"
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
