Chapter 533: Hidden Scheme

That was how things had remained until the female protagonist who could read minds appeared.

Whenever Xiao Shou thought of the Heavenfall Immortal Sword and Heavenrise Immortal Sword, he couldn’t help remembering that novel. It was another story with a female protagonist, and this one... Sigh.

Before the apocalypse arrived in his own world, it had been a popular system based cultivation novel featuring quick transmigration. It told the story of a modern woman’s soul, whose origins were unknown, that possessed the body of an unattractive young woman from the Mystic Azure Realm after her death.

The girl she possessed was just as ugly and unlucky as she had been in her modern life. She seemed to be plagued by endless misfortune, and her aptitude for cultivation was poor. Her prospects of ever reaching the Great Dao were practically nonexistent. Despite being born into a prestigious family, she couldn’t even find a man willing to marry her and carry on her bloodline when she had no future in cultivation.

The novel’s opening was full of familiar, formulaic tropes.

Ahem! At the beginning of the novel, the female protagonist died in the modern world and transmigrated into the body of a plain looking young woman named Baili Ruoxi, who had died from an endless streak of misfortune.

As expected, her first major encounter was being rejected by the fiancé to whom she had been betrothed since childhood. After all, she had neither talent for cultivation nor an attractive appearance. Her fiancé failed to appreciate the beauty of her heart, and the female protagonist, who had not even had time to demonstrate her inner beauty after possessing the body, felt deeply wronged and depressed.

After experiencing a series of further misfortunes, she accidentally awakened the cultivation system that had been bound to her in the modern world, the very system that had indirectly caused her accidental death.

The system’s intelligence explained that the reason she had been ugly and untalented in both her modern life and her previous incarnation was that her innate fortune had been negative and her soul power insufficient.

If she wanted to regain her proper beauty and escape her endless streak of bad luck, she would have to make up for her negative fortune and deficient soul power. To achieve this, the system proposed that she accept commissions from souls in other worlds and transmigrate to fulfill their wishes. Upon completing each commission, she would obtain the client’s fortune and pure soul power.

At the same time, if anyone in that world truly loved her and was willing to die for her, that person’s fortune and a portion of their soul power would automatically transfer to her.

This was a hidden mission that the female protagonist initially knew nothing about. She only discovered it after the Chosen Children of Fate in those worlds fell in love with her.

Having suffered enough contempt and rejection from men because of her ugly appearance in the past, she no longer believed in romantic love and considered herself emotionally detached. Once she discovered this hidden mechanism, she changed her original strategy for completing missions.

Instead, under the guise of love, she began taking fortune from the Chosen Children of Fate to make up for her own deficiencies. Thus, the young woman began transmigrating from world to world. She started in numerous Small Thousand Realms, gradually progressed to Spirit Realms, and eventually ascended to the Immortal Realm and then the Divine Realm.

Over the course of ten thousand years, her appearance became increasingly perfect, her aptitude grew stronger, and her misfortune vanished completely. In its place, her luck gradually became better and better.

The Mystic Jade Realm was one of the many Spirit Realms she visited during her transmigrations.

On that particular journey, she accepted a commission from a soul named An Tae, who wanted her to save her ruined family and take revenge on the true culprit responsible for its destruction.

Following the information left behind by An Tae’s soul, the young woman named Baili Ruoxi, who came from the Mystic Azure Realm, transmigrated into the body of An Tae in the Mystic Jade Realm.

After investigating the matter, she initially failed to find any useful clues. It was only when the system accidentally scanned a person who had been reborn that she finally discovered the truth.

Using a mind reading ability she had obtained by exchanging the rewards from completed missions, she learned from the reborn person’s thoughts that An Tae’s family had been destroyed because the inheritor of the Heavenrise Immortal Sword from Heavenly Sword Peak of the Azure Frost Sanctuary had been unable to control the sword’s power accurately during a mission.

The resulting attack had exploded across a radius of ten thousand miles, causing countless casualties.

The Heavenrise Immortal Sword’s inheritor had subsequently been punished by the Azure Frost Sanctuary’s Sect Master and sentenced to one hundred years of confinement at the Mirrorheart Cliff.

Through mind reading, she also learned that, whether because the punishment had separated the inheritor from the Heavenfall Immortal Sword’s inheritor for too long, creating a gap between their circumstances, or for some other reason, the current pair of Azure Frost Immortal swords had been unable to achieve the spiritual connection necessary to combine the two swords and unleash their full power.

For the Azure Frost Sanctuary, which had established itself at the pinnacle of this world by relying on the might of the combined swords, this was a crisis capable of shaking the very foundations of its position.

The Azure Frost Sanctuary’s Sect Master and the others had tried every possible method to bring the two inheritors’ hearts into harmony, but nothing worked. They even attempted to have the two marry and use a Daoist Companion contract to connect their hearts. However, the inheritor of the Heavenfall Immortal Sword flatly refused.

To escape this arrangement, the Heavenfall Immortal Sword’s inheritor even created a sword technique that allowed a single person to wield both the Heavenfall and Heavenrise Immortal Swords.