After I Play-and-Runned the World's Number One Sword Cultivator - Chapter 1

“The prerequisite plot is 100% complete. The host’s courting mission has concluded, and the courting rating is S.”

“The new body matched according to the rating has finished loading and is currently scanning. Compatibility 100%, adaptation 90%, soul integrity 70%…”

“Congratulations to the host. From this day forward, you are free.”

Amidst a burst of mechanical sounds, Qin Zhizhi struggled to open her eyes. Her brain was still an absolute mess; the severe pain of self-extracting her own Dantian seemed to still be stimulating her nerves, and the wrenching pain in her abdomen made her unable to resist curling up her body.

It really was too goddamned painful! If she had known earlier, she would have chosen a different method to break free!

Just like what is written in countless web novels, Qin Zhizhi transmigrated into a book. She transmigrated into the body of Qin Zhizhi, the daughter of the former sect master of the Tiantong Sect—an old-line sect in the cultivation world. Although her father passed away early, the one who inherited the position of sect master was Qin Zhizhi’s Senior Brother. From childhood, she was pampered in thousands of ways; whatever she wanted, she got. Unfortunately, such a character was only a piece of cannon fodder used to push the plot forward in the book; otherwise, it would have truly been a walkover victory.

As for how the original book’s male lead, Xie Yutai, firmed up his Dao heart and dominated the immortal realm, Qin Zhizhi didn’t understand it very well, and the system said she didn’t need to know. Her transmigration was like a prequel; as long as she followed the plot, relentlessly pestered the male lead until he was so intensely annoyed by the disturbance that he married her, and then dumped him, she would be able to regain her freedom after walking through this segment of the plotline.

Qin Zhizhi thought to herself: To think such a good thing actually exists?

Having never played the role of a scumbag girl in all her years of growing up, she really was looking forward to it, looking forward to it immensely.

After the sword cultivator grand competition that year, behind the noble, aloof, incomparably brilliant, and peerless Chief Disciple of the Guiyuan Sect—Xie Yutai—there suddenly appeared a little tail that could not be shaken off no matter what: the Tiantong Sect female cultivator, Qin Zhizhi.

After going through ninety-nine and eighty-one tribulations—especially the final tribulation, where Qin Zhizhi nearly lost her own little life—Xie Yutai finally came to the door in person to ask for Qin Zhizhi’s hand in marriage. They would soon, under the gossiping onlookers of the entire cultivation world, bind themselves as Dao companions, and Qin Zhizhi’s mission was also drawing to a close.

Her final mission was to reject the marriage with Xie Yutai and then find a way to break free and escape, because the system said that this body of Qin Zhizhi’s could no longer be used once the grand wedding day passed.

What kind of ghost setting was this? Qin Zhizhi completely failed to comprehend it. So it turned out that this body she transmigrated into actually had a time limit; was it because the preservatives weren’t used enough, or was the system just at this low level? Setting aside the matter of the body for the moment, the requirement to reject the marriage was actually also a bit ridiculous.

One must know, who within the entire cultivation world didn’t know and who wasn’t aware of just how deeply infatuated Qin Zhizhi was with Xie Yutai, to the point of even declaring that she would marry no one else but him. There was fundamentally no logic for her to say she wouldn’t marry him on the day of the wedding; wouldn’t this completely collapse the character design? Furthermore, Qin Zhizhi narcissistically felt that Xie Yutai ought to like her.

During the process of getting along, inside an inadvertent glance. The hand that would always extend over in a timely manner, the sword edge that split open the thick fog in a timely manner, the Xie Yutai who wouldn’t lose his temper no matter how obsessively she clung to him, and who would help cover for her no matter what kind of disaster she caused. To say that he didn’t like her himself, was this reasonable? Qin Zhizhi thought, she herself was so good-looking and so cute, who could possibly hold themselves back?

Just as she was worrying over how to regret the marriage, the evidence that Xie Yutai fundamentally didn’t like her was delivered before Qin Zhizhi one by one.

On that day, to save Xie Yutai, Qin Zhizhi’s cultivation was completely destroyed, and she nearly had her soul scattered right on the spot. While still in the late stages of recovery, Xie Yutai came to the Tiantong Sect to ask for her hand in marriage. Why was that? Because the Sect Master of the Tiantong Sect—Qin Zhizhi’s Senior Brother, her beloved Senior Brother Fu Xingyun—had personally paid a visit to his door, using coercion and bribery to leave Xie Yutai no way out, forcing him to absolute necessity to marry Qin Zhizhi. This was using a favor to force a return.

It was also because, on that day when Qin Zhizhi’s soul was on the verge of scattering, Xie Yutai was forced out of helplessness to ingest the Yin-Yang Symbiotic Pistil along with her, only barely managing to save Qin Zhizhi’s life. But after ingesting the Yin-Yang Symbiotic Pistil, the two of them had to regularly engage in dual cultivation; otherwise, they would be unable to withstand the life force of the immortal herb and explode their bodies to death. Qin Zhizhi, whose cultivation was entirely destroyed, was already a useless person. If she wished to step onto the immortal path again, she had to rely on dual cultivation with Xie Yutai. But at the same time, she would also become a burden that Xie Yutai could never shake off. Who would like a burden that had to rely on oneself just to live?

It was even more because what Xie Yutai cultivated was none other than the “Supreme Oblivion” (Taishang Wangqing); the word ’emotion’ was an absolute encumbrance to him. He could not, absolutely could not, fall in love with Qin Zhizhi. This was the fatal blow.

For a moment, it was unexpectedly hard to tell who exactly had wronged whom.

Qin Zhizhi retrospectively remembered that Xie Yutai seemed to have rejected her many times; he indeed did not like her. The reason he hadn’t made things difficult for Qin Zhizhi and had tolerated her time and time again was merely because his personal upbringing was truly good.

All in all, Qin Zhizhi was grateful to Xie Yutai. She had finally found a reason to complete the mission.

On the day of the covenant ceremony, under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Qin Zhizhi flung off her bridal veil. Using that dagger gifted to her by Xie Yutai—of course, to a certain extent, it was one she had stubbornly demanded herself—she tremblingly sliced open her own Dantian. Deep within the Dantian, the Yin pistil of the Yin-Yang Symbiotic Pistil was currently emitting a faint, dark blue, glimmering light.

“Xie Yutai, from now on, you and I are quits.”

I am returning the Yin pistil to you; you no longer need to tie down your entire immortal path because of a so-called life-saving grace.

Looking at the Xie Yutai before her, Qin Zhizhi actually felt quite a bit of carefree pleasure.

Unexpected, wasn’t it? Actually, the Qin Zhizhi who had been pampered since childhood had always been a proud little girl.

“Xie Yutai, I’m not marrying you anymore.”

She wanted Xie Yutai to marry her very much, but not for the sake of gratitude. She wanted to marry Xie Yutai, yet she could absolutely never tolerate becoming a burden. If what she obtained wasn’t what she pursued, what meaning did all of this have after all. It would have been better to let Qin Zhizhi have her soul scattered at that critical moment; at least it would have left behind a shred of beautiful memory.

However… none of these were important anymore.

System: “Host, are you feeling bad?”

Qin Zhizhi clutched her abdomen, simply lacking the energy to even voice a complaint. What kind of dog question was this: “Your Dantian was sliced open, can you not feel bad?”

The system fell silent for a moment: “No, what I wanted to ask was, Xie Yutai treating you like this, do you feel bad?”

Qin Zhizhi froze. This question… how should she put it, she really seemed to have never thought about it.

And so, she thought about it seriously.

System: “How is it?”

Qin Zhizhi: “…Damn it, of course it’s still my stomach that hurts more!”

Her muddled head finally, slowly became clear. Feeling a bit dizzy, Qin Zhizhi closed her eyes to calm her mood, and simultaneously began to receive the memories belonging to this new body. The Qin Zhizhi in modern society had transmigrated here due to an accident; her parents had passed away early and she had no attachments, so after completing the mission, she didn’t absolutely have to go back. Furthermore, the system had also promised that based on the circumstances of her mission completion, it would find her a good bod—holy shit!

The very first reaction in Qin Zhizhi’s mind after finishing reading the memories—was this a body that a little rookie like her, who started at the peak yet had to work herself to death just to get an S rating, was worthy of possessing? Was she worthy? Was she worthy?

This body’s name was Qin Zhizhi (秦芝芝), age eighteen, and she was the daughter of the city lord of Wudu City. The Wudu City Lord’s original wife passed away early, so he elevated his concubine to the position of primary wife. That concubine gave birth to a son and a daughter; the son, Qin Guanlou, had already begun cultivating, and the daughter, Qin Zhijie, grew up to be as beautiful as a flower and loved to engage in all sorts of status-matching and comparisons with Qin Zhizhi since childhood. When Qin Zhizhi’s biological mother was still alive, she was an old acquaintance of the mother of Jun Wuya, a disciple of the Heguang Sect, so a marriage contract had been settled between Jun and Qin early on. But Qin Zhijie loved to suppress Qin Zhizhi in everything; how could she possibly let the matter drop when it came to the marriage? She unexpectedly plotted with that concubine to knock Qin Zhizhi unconscious, preparing to sell her off to a place of demonic cultivation. Qin Zhizhi’s body was delicate and weak, and she lost her life during the process of being resold on the black market.

And then, Qin Zhizhi  arrived.

On the road of being resold to the place of demonic cultivation.

No wonder her entire body felt uncomfortable. She had originally thought it was the aftereffects of having her Dantian sliced open. So it turned out to be because this body was inherently very weak. Ha ha.

Look at this person, how happily she is smiling after her rebirth.