Although Meng Li was surprised that Situ Xue hadn’t chased after her, she couldn’t help but feel delighted. After all, if Situ Xue had seriously pursued her, let alone running away, Meng Li would probably have been pinned down in two or three moves.
“Ever since I came to this world, I’ve been this passive every single day. Why can’t I just transfer over the levels from my account?!”
Meng Li walked down the path, utterly dejected. Disciples constantly passed by her, but none of them noticed this small figure. Although the early game in that world was indeed tough, she had eventually leveled up and cleared everything.
“This feeling of playing a new account is just too awful. And besides…”
As Meng Li thought, she turned her head to look back towards Jade Candle Peak. At its summit, that familiar, oppressive pressure still enveloped her entire being. Meng Li shook her head. Not only had she not received any rewards or a golden finger, but now she also had a Shizun who had been reborn holding her back.
“Even if I try to go find treasures based on my memory, the risk is just too great…”
Unknowingly, Meng Li had walked to the foot of the Sect’s Alchemy Peak. She clearly knew there was a treasure in the forest below Alchemy Peak. But what of it? Meng Li sighed helplessly and then decided to leave this troublesome place.
“All methods to increase my strength are blocked…”
Meng Li lowered her head and looked at herself. Although her constitution had been improved, if she truly had to follow the cultivation path, by the time she cultivated up a few levels, most of her time would have passed.
“As expected, shortcuts are addictive…”
Walking along, Meng Li pondered other methods. However, after only a few steps, a round object suddenly rolled to her feet. Meng Li’s pace halted. Curiously, she picked up the round thing.
“What is this? Why does it smell burnt…”
“Wait, wait! Please don’t pick that up!”
“Eh?”
Just as Meng Li picked up the object and before she could even take a good look, a burst of flame erupted from within it. Startled, Meng Li wanted to throw it away, but it was too late. A violent explosion bloomed from her hand.
Meng Li felt as if the object in her hand had become as bright as broad daylight. It was another sensation of tasting death. Though she didn’t understand why she felt this way, in that instant, she could clearly sense that she was about to die.
【One Qi Transforms into the Three Pure Ones: Evil】
“Get out of the way!”
A figure split from her body at almost extreme speed, then snatched the spherical object from her hand. Meng Li looked at that face, identical to her own. Before she could even react, she was shoved away.
Immediately after, a light as bright as day burst forth. A massive boom echoed around Alchemy Peak. Meng Li was also sent flying by the resulting shockwave. She only stopped after slamming into a nearby tree, dazedly looking at the scene before her.
“Who am I? Where am I? What just happened?”
Meng Li lifted her head, completely stupefied. She then saw a figure in the distance slowly running towards her. She tried to stand up, but her entire body went limp. She collapsed straight to the ground. In the moment before she fainted, Meng Li felt the connection to the Evil Self within her abruptly sever.
“Why am I so unlucky today…”
“Are you alright?! Wake up! Oh no! Oh no! Killing a fellow disciple… I’m definitely dead!! Please, I beg you, don’t die…!”
Meng Li looked hazily at the figure before her. She couldn’t see clearly who it was. She only felt herself being gently picked up. After that, she knew nothing more. Meng Li felt as if she had a very long dream.
In the dream, she stood outside a large gate. The longsword in her hand dripped with blood. The expression on her face was one of pleasure. Countless corpses lay on the ground around her. The flowing blood even converged into a small river.
“Senior Sister, if you had just handed over the item, wouldn’t that have been better? Why force me to do this~?”
“Meng Li!!!!! I’ll kill you!!!!”
Meng Li looked at the green-haired woman before her, dressed in the same disciple robes as herself. A face that should have been gentle and refined was now filled with hatred, as if wanting to swallow her alive.
“My Senior Sister from last time said the same thing. Guess what happened~”
Watching the other’s furious expression, Meng Li not only felt no fear but instead slowly drew out the Myriad Souls Banner from her body. The expression on her face was extremely smug, as if she were admiring her own masterpiece.
“She’s doing quite well in my banner~ Hahaha~”
Meng Li slowly walked out from the shadows. The real Meng Li watched her dream self, who had already become a tall, graceful beauty. Her flirtatious appearance even made her own heart flutter. For some reason, that evil feeling made her seem exactly like a villain.
“You just wanted the Peacock Bell Wood!! But you wiped out my ancestors! Killed my closest family!! I’ll kill you!! I’ll kill you!!”
The young maiden before her angrily picked up a longsword from the ground. She gripped it tightly and charged at the other. However, Meng Li merely raised her hand slightly. The maiden was grabbed by the neck and slowly lifted into the air.
“Aiya, Senior Sister, you’re simply too weak. Right now, you can’t even get close to me~”
With a surge of force, Meng Li slammed her onto the ground. Looking at the fury and unwillingness in the maiden’s eyes, Meng Li felt utterly intoxicated. At this moment, tears of regret also streamed down the maiden’s face. She had thought the other was just a simple, innocent girl. She had even trusted her so much.
“After what you’ve done! Aren’t you afraid of retribution?!”
“Retribution? I’m living quite well right now, aren’t I~?”
“Kill you, I’ll kill you!!”
“Alas, I still prefer my Senior Sister who called me ‘Little Li Junior Sister’ before. Forget it, I’m a bit pressed for time. Now that the item is in hand, I might as well clean up the mess…”
Meng Li looked at the fellow Senior Sister pinned beneath her. She had already maxed out the affection meter, even to the point where the other would have willingly given her the item. But how could Meng Li be so honest? She could have just asked for it.
Merely because she felt bored, Meng Li slowly pointed the longsword in her hand towards this vast family. In a single night, not even a single scream came from the entire clan. By the time the maiden pushed open her door in the early morning, what she saw was her Junior Sister standing in the center of the courtyard and her already fallen family.
“W-why…”
“Sorry, it’s breakfast time now. Oh, wait, that’s probably not what you meant by ‘why.’ Why did I do this? It was… because I was bored~”
Meng Li stretched out a finger, evaluating the other’s appearance. After all, she had long since mastered this character’s affection strategy. But how could Meng Li possibly take the normal route, especially when watching the maiden’s furious expression?
“Senior Sister’s appearance has a certain flavor. Compared to my two Senior Sisters, she still falls a bit short. But, since I’ve been out for a while, I’ll have to trouble Senior Sister to keep me company for a bit longer~”
With a gentle lift of Spiritual Power from Meng Li’s hand, the other was firmly held in her grasp. Meng Li gently stepped over the corpses at her feet and slowly walked into the ancestral hall. She swept her gaze around. Before even using her Spiritual Power to search, she immediately spotted the hem of a garment sticking out from beneath a table.
“Alas, I can’t let Shizun and the others know about today’s matters. It would lower their affection progression…”
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