Chapter 1: Junior Sister’s Development Plan!
This was Zhouxing territory, the year 2095 of the Immortal Era.
It was the peak of winter, and snowflakes flew through the bone-chilling cold, but the martial stage of the Hundred Lotus Sect was bustling with activity.
A four-year-old boy led a three-year-old girl, energetically practicing martial arts in the snow.
“Spread your legs, keep your hands straight! Follow my command, throw an uppercut with your right hand!” The boy, Ye Anping, was red-faced and enthusiastic, while the girl’s lips were turning blue from the cold, struggling to keep up. He wore a thick quilted coat wrapped like a bear, but the girl wore only a thin sports suit.
“Senior brother, I’m cooold,” the girl whimpered.
In a tone that mimicked a grown-up, the boy crossed his arms and replied, “Endure it. The cold won’t harm you. The frigid air of this winter is beneficial for you.”
Meanwhile, a maid accompanying them couldn’t bear to watch the shivering girl. She approached the boy and whispered, “Young Master, please don’t bully Junior Sister Pei. She looks so pitiful. Her nose is freezing in this snow.”
The boy, Ye Anping, looked disdainfully at the maid and asserted, “Who’s bullying her? This is the practice of cultivation.”
The maid sighed and sympathetically observed the girl. The boy’s nature was stubborn, and he wouldn’t listen to anyone except his parents, sect master, and his wife. So, she had to retreat to the side, thinking of reporting to the sect master later to teach him a lesson. She also planned to bring some charcoal to provide heat to the girls after they finished the training.
Ye Anping was the sect leader’s only son and had a reputation for being an oppressive young master within the Hundred Lotus Sect. However, in the maid’s memory, he was once an adorable child before the arrival of Pei Lianxue. He used to be cute, fond of being pampered, and enjoyed eating sweets. However, since the arrival of Pei Lianxue, his behavior has taken a drastic turn. He stopped eating sweets and lost his adorable charm, becoming a tyrant towards Junior Sister Pei.
Regardless of day or night, he relentlessly bullied Pei Lianxue. He would pull her back whenever she tried to escape, claiming it was for her good. The sect master, busy with responsibilities, remained unaware of this behavior.
The maid sighed in sympathy while Ye Anping shook his head, feeling a strange sense of injustice. He knew he had been perceived as a spoiled young master bullying others, but only he understood the true reason behind his actions.
Pei Lianxue and the Hundred Lotus Sect were in danger and would face a calamity in ten years. A gravely injured demon cultivator, Wu You, sought a living person to heal him with blood and arrived at the Hundred Lotus Sect.
Under Wu You’s bloodthirsty blade, over a thousand disciples perished, and their blood flowed from the peak to the foot of the mountain. Pei Lianxue would be the sole survivor but would later be enslaved by Wu You, turned into a human cauldron, and eventually transformed into blood, enduring perpetual suffering in the Demon Sect’s blood pool. (Ed Note: “human cauldron” often refers to a person used as a vessel for cultivation by a more powerful character.)
Hence, he had to speed up her training schedule, and those seemingly harsh methods were tailored to accommodate Pei Lianxue’s constitution and spiritual potential.
As for how he knew this, it was because this world was identical to the fantasy Xianxia game he had played before. Essentially, this was the game world of “Sword of Heaven.” Yes, Ye Anping was a dimensional traveler. However, he wasn’t to be a reincarnation of the protagonist or antagonist, instead of the fifteen-year-old son of the sect master in Hundred Lotus Sect – a cannon fodder who would die early in the original game.
In the game, there was a simple description of his end – That day, rivers of blood flowed up and down from the Hundred Lotus Sect. Under Wu You’s bloody sword, the sect master was beheaded, and his fifteen-year-old son became a delicacy for the beasts in the mountains…
To be a young master, Ye Anping had a good cultivation aptitude with water and wood spiritual roots. However, even the protagonist barely survived Wu You due to the protagonist’s plot armor.
Without such plot armor, Ye Anping felt a vast gap between himself and Wu You. Therefore, he placed his hopes on Pei Lianxue, who possessed extraordinary talent concealed under her seemingly average qualifications – an ordinary disciple with three spiritual roots when in actuality, she had a rare aptitude for single-water spiritual root, and her original future’s tragic end was just because of it. Ye Anping secretly resolved to train her strong enough before the arrival of the despicable Wu You while he observed her trembling in the cold. He frowned, approached her, and gently took her wrist.
“Junior sister,” Ye Anping called.
Pei Lianxue’s eyes lit up, and, teeth chattering, she asked, “S-s-senior brother, c-c-can we go back now?”
The maid sighed at the pitiful state of the child, but in the next moment, Ye Anping uttered a shocking statement, “Well! Let’s start forging bones from now on.”
Pei Lianxue, not understanding what “bone forging” meant, tilted her head in confusion.
“Huh?”
The next moment, Ye Anping held his breath, exerted all his strength, and forcefully pulled her right hand.
Click— A crisp sound.
Her right elbow joint was dislocated.
“…”
Pei Lianxue’s body was rapidly freezing, so she didn’t feel the pain. But seeing her right hand twist in an odd direction, her pupils involuntarily shrank into small round holes, her mouth slowly widened, she took a deep breath, and then-
“Ahhh——!!!”
Ye Anping raised his hand and said, “Don’t worry, there are still thirty-five bones to pull.”
“Wuuuuaaahhhh!!!”
Pei Lianxue wanted to escape, but her legs were frozen and immobile. She could only watch as the boy with a runny nose dislocated her bones one by one and then helped her put them back in place. The accompanying maid was immediately frightened and ran to inform the sect leader of the Hundred Lotus Sect.
Later, as expected, Ye Anping returned home and had his buttocks swollen from a spanking by his father. However, he showed no remorse and became even more relentless to her in the following days. He shattered her kneecaps fifty times. He threw her into an ice lake, soaking her for three days and nights. He tossed her off a hundred-meter-high cliff. He left her in the den of monsters for seven days…
The maple leaves at the Hundred Lotus Sect turned red and green, green and red. Winter passed, spring came, spring passed, and autumn came again. Ten years swiftly passed by.
Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue transformed from youngsters into a young lady and a young master with tied hair. In Ye Anping’s bedroom, the bronze mirror on the dressing table reflected a handsome face with starry eyebrows, dark and deep eyes with a charming brilliance, and smooth white skin exuding a cold and stern aura.
Looking at himself in the bronze mirror, Ye Anping couldn’t help but exclaim, “Is there any other man with such a handsome appearance in the world?”
The maid, combing his hair, sighed, “Young Master, you are already fifteen years old this year. I think you should maintain a bit of dignity.”
Ye Anping smiled and said, “Haven’t you heard? If you keep saying you are handsome to a person, that person will become handsome.”
Xiao Die, the maid, tilted her head in confusion and asked, “Is there such a theory?”
“Look at my junior sister. Isn’t she beautiful now? It’s all because I compliment her daily on her beauty,” He replied.
“???”
Xiao Die sighed as three question marks floated above her head.
“Young Master, don’t you think it’s because Sister Pei is naturally beautiful?” She asked.
“Impossible! Absolutely impossible!” Ye Anping waved his hand and immediately denied it. “She was not even in a supporting role. If it weren’t for me saying it daily, how could she be more beautiful than the protagonist now?”
The maid sighed, “Young Master, you have started again. What about the protagonist and supporting characters? You have read too many novels. The sect master will have to spank you again if he hears your nonsense.”
“You don’t understand. In a month or two, Pei Lianxue will kill the Grand Master of the Gu Poison Sect and save our Hundred Lotus Sect from danger.”
“You have been telling this story for ten years.” Xiao Die tied up his hair and said, “The Gu Poison Sect is in the Eastern Region, thousands of miles away from us.”
Ye Anping shook his head, stopped explaining, and then stood up, saying, “Bring me some more healing medicine pills. I will have a real battle with my junior sister today.”
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Cultivation Realm
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筑基 Foundation Building Realm
金丹 Core Formation Realm
元婴 Nascent Soul Realm
化神 Divine Transformation Realm
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