Wanxi Rebirth - Chapter 2

Yue Tingxi really couldn’t understand why Miss Qin had made such a foolish move when a great opportunity was right in front of her. Even though Yue Tingxi’s demon body wasn’t as potent as her demon core, it was more than enough to recover and sustain her through a battle.

She swore that even as a ghost, she would never forgive her. She just couldn’t swallow this injustice!

“So what? I’m completely dead. Why are you telling me all this? To laugh at me?!” she asked impatiently, addressing the dark gold characters surrounding her. “Spit it out! Or just kill me already! Otherwise, I’ll detonate my divine soul, and whatever you are, we’ll all be blown to bits together!”

Her nature was straightforward, but the five years of being a “puppet” to the Azure Radiance Sect’s Sect Master had twisted her personality, making her temper increasingly volatile.

There was no response from her surroundings. Only the dark gold characters that enveloped her began to spin once more.

Before Yue Tingxi could ask another question, her body plummeted into the darkness below.

She lost consciousness again, so she didn’t hear the strange female voice that began to sound in the space she had just left:

【Confirmed: Key subject [Yue Tingxi] has died.】

【Confirmed: Key subject [Qin Suliu] has died.】

【Beginning the 81st world reboot.】

【According to the residual power of the God of Worldly Affairs—the “Nine-Nine-Returns-to-One” law, the enemy’s memory retention and carried items have been successfully wiped clean.】

【Adjusting key subject’s memory retention from the 80th cycle to 100%, and granting the [Chronicle of Worldly Affairs] as a reference for counter-action.】

【Reboot progress: 18%… 41%… 66%… 100%. World reboot successful.】

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“…Elders of the Jade Splendor Gate…have come…to wish the Azure Radiance Sect’s Sect Master and…a long and happy life together!”

“Again! A single cup isn’t enough on such a joyous day!”

…Whose voice is that?

Yue Tingxi vaguely heard people talking not far away. At first, she couldn’t hear clearly, but soon the voices were so distinct she wished she were deaf.

“You really spoil that Miss Yue! You won’t even let her toast the guests!”

“He can be patient for now, but once they’re in the bridal chamber, with all the lovemaking…”

Along with the festive sounds of gongs and drums, well-wishes and crude, vulgar jokes reached her ears.

Yue Tingxi’s eyes snapped open, and she squinted as the light from the red candles in the room stung them.

Ha! Even after death, she couldn’t find peace. Was she doomed to dream of her wedding night?!

Her annoyance caused her to immediately reveal her snake tail, ready to smash the expensive red sandalwood furniture in the bedroom.

But in the instant she saw her own black tail, Yue Tingxi’s mind cleared.

She could control herself again!!

When that wicked spell was in effect, she couldn’t do anything without Lin Chaoyao’s command. She could only sit there, stay still, and be a complete puppet. Because of her profound cultivation and pure demon core, she only needed to take a fast-breaking pill every once in a while to maintain her state, tirelessly.

Yue Tingxi was overjoyed. Fearing it was a dream, she bit herself hard.

Her fangs almost cut to the bone. The sharp pain and the scent of blood in her mouth only made her feel more euphoric.

But she quickly forced herself to calm down.

Thinking it through, she was currently sitting in the bridal chamber, which was the sleeping quarters of Lin Chaoyao, the Sect Master of the Azure Radiance Sect.

If Lin Chaoyao were to enter, would that evil spell take effect again, turning her back into a “puppet”?

She didn’t know how she had returned to this time or how long she would have control over herself, but since there was a clear opportunity, she absolutely could not sit still and repeat her past mistakes!

While resolving this, Yue Tingxi quickly considered where she could seek refuge and how to get revenge.

She held a deep grudge. Lin Chaoyao had ruined her carefree life of cultivation, turning her into a puppet for five years, and had subjected her to a full month of torment in the Demon-Slaying Formation—the pain of having her tail severed, her abdomen torn open, and her heart and bones gnawed away! She couldn’t just let this go!

His grand plan to unify the human realm? He could dream about that in hell!

Yue Tingxi had initially wanted to return to her hometown, Cinderfall Mountain, and explain to the guardian, the Jade Mountain Hermit, her fear and concerns about the human cultivators’ evil sorcery. She hoped the hermit could strengthen the mountain’s barrier to temporarily prevent humans from entering.

But then she looked down at her wedding dress and listened to the sounds of congratulations, toasts, gongs, and drums from outside. She decided that going home was not a good choice.

No matter what happened before she woke up, the fact that she was sitting here meant that Lin Chaoyao, the Sect Master of the Azure Radiance Sect, had already held the wedding banquet. All the immortal sects now knew she was his new wife.

If she disappeared and her trail led to Cinderfall Mountain, Lin Chaoyao would surely send people to find her.

Cinderfall Mountain was a demon mountain located in the human realm, bound by a ten-thousand-year-old pact. If someone took advantage of this situation and twisted the story, claiming the mountain demons had abducted the new wife of a human sect leader, and then went on a killing spree against the mountain demons, wouldn’t that implicate innocent lives?

Not only could she not go back, she had to deliberately lead her trail elsewhere.

This way, if Lin Chaoyao dared to step foot on Cinderfall Mountain, he would be the one starting trouble. The Jade Mountain Hermit could even use the pact to alert the great demons of the mountain to stand against him.

Suppressing her longing for home, Yue Tingxi silently recited the names of the mountain demons she cared about. She pulled off her red veil, tossed it on the table, and unsealed a jar of wine, taking a few large gulps to hold in her mouth.

Then, she reverted to her true form as a black whip snake, holding the wine in her mouth. She slithered out through a small crack in the room and sprinkled the wine along her path.

She had already decided where she was going next.

“7364, the losses are confirmed. Report the error immediately!”

Amidst the clinking of glasses at the wedding banquet, the young man in the festive robes smiled as he toasted guests, while calmly giving orders to his system.

【I’m sorry, Host. I am temporarily unable to breach the barrier of this small world to contact the Transmigration Administration Bureau!】

“So my thousands of items are just gone?!” Lin Chaoyao suppressed his rage. “My memory retention is also wiped? How am I supposed to continue the mission?!”

【I’m sorry, Host, but before the mission started, this system repeatedly confirmed the danger level of this mission with you.】

【The difficulty of this world’s strategy is rated SSS-level by the bureau. There is a possibility of repeated reboots. Once a reboot occurs, the host’s memory retention cannot be guaranteed, and the items consumed by the host will not be returned.】

【But the host still insisted on…】

“Enough! Wiped is wiped, why are you being so wise after the fact!” Lin Chaoyao snapped, unable to maintain his smile toward the guests.

Using the excuse of being unable to hold his liquor, he found an empty room to rest in. Taking a deep breath, he continued speaking to the system: “On the bright side, after so many reboots, the world’s correction force should have exhausted its power. This isn’t just the last time, it’s also the easiest chance to take over this small world! Hurry up and organize the character, map, and plot data. Send it to me whenever you have a moment!”

Under the cover of night, no one immersed in the festivities noticed the silent departure of a black whip snake.

Yue Tingxi intended to go to the Qin Residence to find Qin Suliu.

It was true that she couldn’t swallow the injustice from her previous life, but more importantly, she believed that Miss Qin and the Qin family had significant value she could leverage.

In the Chronicle of Worldly Affairs that had been imprinted in her memory after death, Qin Suliu was described as the “vicious female antagonist who obstructs the love of the male and female leads.” This was a complete inversion of the truth—to be fair, Qin Suliu was the legitimate fiancée of the Azure Radiance Sect’s Sect Master, and Yue Tingxi was the intruder who had appeared out of nowhere. But this also gave Yue Tingxi a reason to approach Qin Suliu.

Whether it was the rumors she had heard herself in her previous life or the records in the Chronicle of Worldly Affairs, on the night of the male and female leads’ wedding, Qin Suliu had practiced her sword all night outside her sleeping quarters.

This should be enough to prove that Miss Qin was quite bothered by her fiancé marrying another woman.

Even though the contents of the book infuriated her, Yue Tingxi did not deny its reference value.

After all, most of the events recorded in it were things she had personally experienced, witnessed, or heard about in her previous life. If she didn’t intervene, they would likely happen again in this life as time went on.

For example, the ongoing wedding of the “female lead” and “male lead,” and the upcoming destruction of the Qin family and the disappearance of Qin Suliu.

And… the bloody massacre of Cinderfall Mountain by the immortal sects.

The spring night breeze was cool, but Yue Tingxi felt a chilling cold and her mind was exceptionally clear.

That was the tragedy that occurred after she died on the Demon-Locking Platform.

The Azure Radiance Sect’s Sect Master had used her demon core to break the seal on Cinderfall Mountain, secretly releasing a great demon from thousands of years ago that had once plagued the world, devouring both humans and demons.

Afterward, he used this as an excuse to lead the immortal sects to break the mountain’s barrier and slaughter their way in to kill the great demon, under the pretense of “preventing it from harming the world again.”

The cultivators killed any demon they saw, not even sparing the younglings who had just gained sentience.

Cinderfall Mountain was named for the sweet streams that encircled it. After the immortal sects went on a killing frenzy, the entire mountain’s water sources were stained with the blood of humans and demons, and it no longer resembled a paradise.

Yue Tingxi thought that since she could escape the “wedding night” that was fated to happen, perhaps with a little more effort, she could also prevent the series of disasters that would follow.

Her next step was to pretend to be an innocent, pitiful woman whose heart had been betrayed, and expose the Azure Radiance Sect’s Sect Master’s true face to Miss Qin.

If all went well, Qin Suliu should agree to a temporary alliance with her to bring down Lin Chaoyao and make him notorious in the human realm. This way, killing him would become a righteous act of “doing justice on behalf of heaven.”

To make her plan more convincing, Yue Tingxi deliberately didn’t take off the complicated red wedding dress. She even used a tree branch and sharp leaves to tear it in several places, making herself look sufficiently disheveled. She wore it all the way to the Qin Residence.

She had initially wanted to enter through the main gate in her human form but worried that the human customs would get her turned away—visiting such a prominent family usually required a formal visit card. So, she took a detour, shrank her demon body, and slipped in through a crack in the wall.

As soon as she entered the Qin Residence, she heard a clear and childish voice say angrily, “That dog Lin must have betrayed my sister’s heart, which is why she’s having nightmares at night! I’ll go to the Azure Radiance Sect right now and…”

“Careful what you say, Drinking Light.”

Then came Qin Suliu’s voice, slow and gentle like water, “My family and I have not fallen to the point where we can’t live without him. He’s just a white-eyed wolf. If he can’t be tamed, we’ll just kill him. He’s not worth our attention.”

Yue Tingxi: …?!

Hold on, you’re the one who needs to be “careful what you say” right now, aren’t you?!

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