I Reloaded the Save File! [Transmigration] - Chapter 17

A few days after returning to the sect, Zuo Wuyi’s cultivation successfully broke through to the late Qi Cultivation Stage. Counting from when Zuo Wuyi first channeled Qi into her body, she had only been cultivating for four months. Such a cultivation speed could no longer be described merely as “genius”; it was simply monstrous.

Upon learning this news, Xuan Shuang immediately summoned Zuo Wuyi and gave her a magical artifact capable of concealing her aura.

“Your cultivation speed is excessively fast. Do not expose your speed to outsiders until you have sufficient strength,” Xuan Shuang’s tone was very serious, and her gaze remained fixed on Zuo Wuyi.

“Yes, this disciple obeys,” Zuo Wuyi obediently put on the magical artifact Xuan Shuang gave her.

As Zuo Wuyi put on the artifact, the jade pendant hanging around her neck was partially exposed. Upon seeing it clearly, a hint of surprise flashed in Xuan Shuang’s eyes. Was this not the defensive artifact she had given to Yun Mu? Had Yun Mu already given even this to her Junior Sister?

Xuan Shuang frowned slightly, then quickly relaxed. This was good. Since Yun Mu valued her Junior Sister so much, she finally had an attachment of her own and would not always regard herself as a mere passerby.

“Wuyi, starting now, you will come to me every day at the Chen (7-9 a.m.)… no, at Si (9-11 a.m.) hour. I will personally guide your cultivation,” Xuan Shuang was a little worried, fearing that such a rapid cultivation speed might leave hidden dangers for her young disciple.

“Understood, Revered Master,” Zuo Wuyi was not against Xuan Shuang personally guiding her. After all, she had received plenty of care from Xuan Shuang in her previous life.

More importantly, Xuan Shuang was the only person she knew who had successfully achieved Ascension. The Heavenly Dao seemed to favor her; even the lightning tribulation for Ascension was merely a perfunctory few strikes. Since Xuan Shuang was so favored by the Heavenly Dao, she definitely could not be a bad person.

“That’s good. You spend this period diligently following Revered Master. I need to enter seclusion for a period,” Upon hearing that her Revered Master would personally guide Zuo Wuyi, the worry in Mo Xiao’s heart instantly disappeared.

“Seclusion?” Zuo Wuyi’s eyes widened. “Mo Xiao, didn’t you just break through to the late Golden Core Stage a while ago? Why are you entering seclusion again?”

Mo Xiao raised an eyebrow. “Didn’t you just channel Qi into your body? Besides, that was a year ago.”

Zuo Wuyi was speechless, muttering quietly, “How can the Qi Cultivation Stage compare to the Golden Core Stage…” Breaking through the Qi Cultivation Stage was very easy as long as one’s internal spiritual energy was sufficient. However, after successfully forming a Golden Core, one needed not only to cultivate but also to cultivate their Dao.

“How long will you be in seclusion?” Zuo Wuyi asked dejectedly. She couldn’t possibly stop Mo Xiao from going into seclusion.

Mo Xiao did not answer, but instead recalled how long it took her to break through to the Nascent Soul Stage last time. “Fast, three years. Slow, five years.” She had taken five years in her past life. With experience this time, it should be a little faster.

Zuo Wuyi did not speak. Breaking through to the Nascent Soul Stage did indeed take a long time; she knew that much. “Then, you won’t break through to the Nascent Soul Stage and then go back on your word, will you?”

“Go back on what word?” Mo Xiao asked.

“Going back on us starting over, of course!” Zuo Wuyi stopped stubbornly denying her feelings this time and pressed urgently. “You said before that we have both changed, and maybe now we are suited to be together.”

Upon hearing Zuo Wuyi’s words, Mo Xiao sighed softly, unable to help recalling the moment they broke up.

Matters of the heart were difficult to assign blame to. If she thought about it from the other side, the Zuo Wuyi of the past had merely wanted her to spend more time with her. That’s why she had used money to interfere with the research progress, wanting to advance the project through other means.

Later, Zuo Wuyi worried that those actions would be discovered, so she chose to use a string of lies to cover up her initial mistake. This was like a snowball rolling bigger and bigger; once one lie was exposed, everything would truly fall apart.

If she really wanted to be strict, the person to blame should have been the researcher who instigated Zuo Wuyi to do wrong. After all, Zuo Wuyi, facing a Ph.D. specializing in psychology, couldn’t cope with him; it was only normal. Unfortunately, by the time Mo Xiao found out, it was already too late.

From Mo Xiao’s perspective at the time, she was simply unwilling to abandon a research topic she had worked on for so long. Whether the outcome was good or bad, once she decided to do it, she had to finish it. She couldn’t allow Zuo Wuyi’s interference to completely mess up the entire research institute and almost cause their hard-earned research results to be plagiarized.

Thus, both of them at the time had their own inexplicable pride and vanity. Neither was willing to humble themselves and admit fault. Coupled with the fact that neither truly understood the other’s thoughts, the stalemate caused what was initially a joke about breaking up to become a reality.

Mo Xiao had actually considered finding Zuo Wuyi to clarify things after learning the truth, but when she saw that Zuo Wuyi lived more freely after leaving her, she dismissed the idea.

Since being apart allowed the other person to live more easily, then perhaps breaking up was not a wrong decision.

“Mo Xiao, why aren’t you saying anything? Are you still blaming me for what I did back then?” Zuo Wuyi was afraid of Mo Xiao’s silence. That’s how it was back then—Mo Xiao just looked at her for a long time without saying a word.

“Initially, I thought that the past was in the past, and we could simply be the most familiar of strangers,” Mo Xiao’s scattered thoughts were pulled back by Zuo Wuyi. “But some things don’t seem as simple as I thought.”

She found she couldn’t ignore Zuo Wuyi’s existence, nor could she control the inexplicable… possessiveness that arose. And Zuo Wuyi, she seemed to care about her even more than Mo Xiao had imagined.

“Zuo Wuyi, I admit that I still have feelings for you, so I plan to give us both a chance.” Mo Xiao simply laid out her thoughts. “I know exactly what kind of person you are, and I am willing to accept it. So, I hope you can be more honest with me in the future. I am not as… fragile and delicate as you imagine.”

She had simply chosen not to bother with trivial matters before, which made her appear unique and clean. But this did not mean she was a fragile doll, nor did it mean that her heart was pure white and couldn’t tolerate any blemish.

Zuo Wuyi scratched her face in a gesture of concealment. If Mo Xiao knew that her past life self had killed many people and directly caused the collapse of the entire world, would she feel…

“Mo Xiao, do you still remember the original appearance of this world?” Zuo Wuyi gently changed the subject.

“Not clearly. I might have remembered at first, but now I don’t have much of an impression.” Mo Xiao only remembered that Zuo Wuyi and Xuan Min were the pillars of this world, and that she needed to ensure the two of them wouldn’t hate each other and eventually perish together.

“I won’t bring up the past. I will be honest with you in the future,” Zuo Wuyi said. She decided to treat it as if she had just transmigrated and would restart properly with Mo Xiao. “I definitely won’t repeat my past mistakes. I won’t interfere with your cultivation!”

“Good,” Mo Xiao nodded. “While I am gone, cultivate properly.”

“Mhm.” Zuo Wuyi nodded in assurance.

During the time Mo Xiao is in seclusion, she will simply manage to cultivate to the Foundation Establishment Stage.