Lin Xinyi’s family background was perfect.
Her family had been wealthy merchants since she was a child, and she had never known hardship.
Later, during her apprenticeship ceremony, she was found to have top-grade spiritual roots and was accepted as a disciple under the Sect Master himself.
Her life had been incredibly smooth from the very beginning.
Born with top-grade spiritual roots, she was already at the Qi Refining Realm at birth.
By age 5, she was at the ninth stage of Qi Refining; at age 10, she reached Foundation Establishment; at age 15, she was at the False Core stage; and at age 20, she attained the Golden Core Realm.
In less than 100 years, she had become a Nascent Soul Venerable.
In recent years, she had even shown signs of breaking through to the next realm, and some had even dubbed her a candidate for immortality.
“Rebirth is truly a blessing. How could I possibly lose this time!”
Lin Xinyi looked at the young girl bowing before her, and a wicked smirk played on her lips once again.
She was known as Master Changqing.
Now that she had a second chance at life, how could she possibly repeat the same mistakes?
“What is your name?”
“This disciple is named Bai Qianqian…”
“A fine name… A fine name indeed.”
Lin Xinyi already knew the answer, yet she still wanted to hear the girl say it herself.
She had a second chance, and she had already planned her path of revenge.
She would lead the girl into her trap step by step, destroying her body and soul completely.
That was what Lin Xinyi thought.
That was how it was supposed to be.
From the beginning, Lin Xinyi firmly believed she was the chosen one.
The fact that Heaven had given her this chance was the best proof.
Even if the girl’s talent was heaven-defying or if she had the mandate of heaven, how could Lin Xinyi leave her a path to survive?
If destroying her eyes was useless, she would chop off her limbs.
If falling off a cliff didn’t kill her, she would plunge a sword into her heart.
‘You only have your past life to blame…’
Lin Xinyi hoarded every opportunity for herself, giving her opponent no chance to grow.
Though Bai Qianqian held the title of a direct disciple, the cultivation resources she received each month were worse than those of an outer sect disciple.
Lin Xinyi constantly used the excuse of “tempering her mind” to toy with her.
Lin Xinyi was waiting for an opportunity—an opportunity for a fatal blow that no one would notice.
She had taken all the heaven-defying opportunities for herself and reached a realm she had never achieved in her previous life.
“Damn it, damn it! Why did it turn out like this? Why?!”
Everything should have gone according to her plan.
There were clearly no flaws in her scheme, yet the reality before her felt like a joke, mocking all her efforts.
“So what if you took every opportunity before me? You’re still like a dog, crawling at my feet.”
“No! No! No! No, it shouldn’t be like this! Why is it like this?!”
Lin Xinyi hadn’t even wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth.
She lay there like a stray dog, roaring almost hysterically.
She didn’t understand.
She had lived a second life.
She had utterly destroyed the remnant soul of the Immortal Venerable who had guided the girl from behind the scenes.
She had used her memories of the past life to snatch every immortal opportunity first, and her cultivation realm even suppressed the girl by two whole stages.
This was a winning hand that even a dog could play, yet why did she still lose?
And why was the defeat so absolute?
Lin Xinyi knelt on the ground, unable to comprehend why things had ended up this way.
Everything had been within her plan, yet here she was.
“The moment you laid hands on your own disciple, you should have expected this end…”
Bai Qianqian’s longsword pointed directly at Lin Xinyi’s throat.
Her eyes were filled with disdain, as if crushing Lin Xinyi now was as easy as crushing an ant.
But Lin Xinyi was a proud woman; she steeled her heart and let out a cold laugh.
“You win this time. Just kill me!”
“You dug out my spiritual roots and took my Dao Seed. You think you can die so easily? It won’t be that simple.”
Lin Xinyi sneered.
She clearly didn’t care about Bai Qianqian’s threats.
After all, she had already died once.
What was there to fear in dying again?
Dressed in white robes, Lin Xinyi’s chains rattled, but even so, her pride remained unbroken.
“Whether you want to refine me into a human puppet or sacrifice my soul, do as you please. Do you think I’d be afraid of you?”
Lin Xinyi was only halfway through her sentence when the sound of fabric tearing echoed through the air.
The mocking words at the tip of her tongue were instantly swallowed back down.
A hint of obsession flickered in Bai Qianqian’s eyes as she stared intently at the exquisite body before her.
Lin Xinyi was stunned.
She suddenly remembered the girl’s actions from her previous life and began to panic.
“You! What are you doing?!”
“You plundered all my cultivation resources to raise yourself to such heights. Shouldn’t you pay them back?”
Bai Qianqian looked at Lin Xinyi, who was crawling on the ground like a stray dog.
A strange look gradually appeared in her eyes.
Lin Xinyi was dazed for a moment before she suddenly realized what was happening.
She grabbed a nearby sword, intending to take her own life, but it was knocked away in a single strike.
“Master, you are two realms higher than me and have integrated all my resources. It would be a waste to kill you just like that.”
“Kill me! Kill me now!”
“Master, you should just obediently be my cauldron until my cultivation is restored.”
Bai Qianqian calmly tied up her flowing long hair and twirled it with her fingers.
Under Lin Xinyi’s watchful eyes, she was bound by the chains and thrown onto the bed within the cave dwelling.
As the seasons passed, Lin Xinyi finally came to regret her past, but by then, wasn’t it already too late?
[Lin Xinyi’s Death in Bed x3]
[Meridians severed, cultivation remains, used as a daily cauldron, mental and physical torture, died in despair]
Accompanied by another strange voice in her mind, Lin Xinyi suddenly sat up in bed again, gasping for air.
Looking at the blankets on her body and the familiar Gold-Threaded Cold Jade Bed, she felt her entire body drenched in a cold sweat.
“I… I’m still alive. I’m still alive. Was that a dream? It was just a dream?!”
Lin Xinyi’s hair was a mess.
She didn’t even bother to straighten her clothes as she frantically left her cave dwelling.
She grabbed a disciple who was about to head down the mountain, desperate to confirm something.
The disciple was clearly flustered after being caught, even thinking he had done something wrong.
“I’m asking you, what year is it?!”
“Reporting! Reporting to the Elder, it is currently the year 700 of the Dao Origin Era!”
“The year 700… Great, it’s only the year 700 of the Dao Origin Era…”
Although Lin Xinyi was still shrouded in fear, she refused to change her nature.
Being locked in that cave dwelling and humiliated day and night, it was only her belief in revenge that had kept her from going insane.
She had been waiting for this reincarnation.
“Haha, I’m back! I’ve even returned to an earlier time!”
Lin Xinyi shook her body, feeling exceptionally light.
The chains from her memory of the cave dwelling were gone.
She let go of the disciple, took two steps back, and slumped onto the ground.
She burst into a fit of relaxed, wild laughter.
“It’s earlier than ever before. I don’t believe you can survive this time!”
A ruthless glint appeared in her eyes once more.
Every day in that crude wooden hut, she had been tethered to the bed like a pet.
When the girl was in the mood, she would climb onto the bed and pin her down; when she wasn’t, she would leave Lin Xinyi to entertain herself on the bed.
“This humiliation… I! I will definitely grind your bones to ashes!!”
Relying on the location in her memory, Lin Xinyi arrived at a remote mountain village.
Seeing the smiling faces of the people working in the fields below, the corners of her mouth could no longer be suppressed.
Without hesitation, Lin Xinyi descended like a startled swan into the center of the crowd, her celestial figure slowly landing between heaven and earth.
“This is the place.”
Lin Xinyi had black hair and wore white robes that fluttered even without the wind.
She was naturally beautiful, looking every bit like an immortal in the eyes of ordinary people.
When such a person appeared in the fields, she immediately attracted the attention of everyone farming.
The village head was also alerted and quickly hurried over, leaning on his cane.
“Greetings, Great Immortal! I am the head of this village. I did not know you were coming and failed to welcome you. Please forgive me!”
The old man leaning on his cane couldn’t even hold it steady after seeing Lin Xinyi.
He rushed forward and knelt down to greet her, fearing he might offend the immortal in some way.
The old village head had lived half his life as an ordinary person.
He had seen too many cultivators who called themselves immortals but were no different from demons.
There were even stories of great cultivators who slaughtered 3,000 miles in a fit of rage just to seek a fleeting chance at a breakthrough.
“Is this the Bai Village?”
Looking at the village before her, Lin Xinyi’s eyes were filled with disgust.
She had previously scouted for information and learned the location of Bai Qianqian’s hometown.
She had thought it would be a prosperous place, but she hadn’t expected it to be such a remote fishing village.
“This is indeed the Bai Village. May I ask why the Great Immortal has come here?”
The village head, kneeling on the ground, was already soaked in cold sweat.
He could see the disgust in her eyes.
Mortals were like ants; if they displeased this great being, who knew what would happen?
“Is that so? So this is the place…”
Lin Xinyi looked at the scattered rain gear and the tattered wooden rafts parked by the sea.
She lightly covered her nose and mouth, trying to block the fishy smell in the air.
In such a wretched place, no one would ever imagine that an extraordinary figure would emerge from here in the future.
“However, that won’t happen anymore…”
A wicked smirk appeared on Lin Xinyi’s face.
She no longer cared about keeping up appearances.
Her heart and soul had long since entered a demonic state.
Even though she still looked as cold and elegant as a winter frost, her heart had long since turned black.
“I have come here for nothing else but to give you all an opportunity.”
“Great Immortal, please do not overpraise our village. How could our small fishing village be worthy of an immortal’s opportunity? It’s better if… if the Great Immortal please…”
“What? Are you refusing me?”
The village head bowed his head low, pressing himself against the ground.
His body visibly trembled when he heard those words, and he began to kowtow incessantly.
Lin Xinyi felt annoyed and simply waved her hand, sweeping him aside.
“Bring out all the young children in the village to see me. Anyone who doesn’t show up… I will slaughter the entire village.”
Lin Xinyi spoke as if she were mentioning something trivial, but the village head didn’t dare to delay.
To cultivators, mortals were merely disposable items.
“Rest assured, I am merely looking for a disciple with excellent spiritual roots.”
Lin Xinyi slowly turned her head and scanned the crowd behind her.
She wasn’t worried that these people would run.
After all, when it came to one person dying for the group or the group dying for one person, these ignorant commoners sometimes calculated more clearly than she did.
“There is no need for the Great Immortal to gather the children of the village. I have no one to rely on. Great Immortal, what do you think of my spiritual roots?”
Lin Xinyi had intended to find a quiet spot to wait for these foolish mortals to make a decision.
However, the crowd unexpectedly parted on its own.
A little girl in tattered clothes with a face full of dirt slowly walked out from the crowd.
“I was born with white hair and am considered an ill omen. How about you just kill me?”
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