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"You've worked hard today, Wantang. You may return and rest."
Xia Wantang snapped out of her daze and heard a strange male voice coming from above.
Opening her eyes, she saw a dazzling, antique golden chair carved with lifelike beast patterns sitting right in front of her.
A middle-aged man with the air of an immortal sat upon the chair.
That last sentence had come precisely from him.
The unfamiliar sight before her, combined with the memories rushing into her mind that did not belong to her, made Xia Wantang's heart violently shake:
Who could possibly understand this, fam? The sky collapsed the moment she woke up; she had actually transmigrated!
In the male-protagonist ensemble xianxia novel she had read last night, there was a character also named Xia Wantang, sharing her exact name.
At the time, she had cursed the author back and forth eight hundred times in her heart.
Because this character was a cannon fodder saintess who got offed right at the beginning—how utterly bamboo-shoots!
If she had truly transmigrated into this novel...
Then the place she was currently in should be within the Azure Cloud Palace, a sect in the East Hill Domain?
"Yes, Palace Lord."
Hearing this, the man on the golden chair gave a bland nod:
"Mm, you may withdraw."
As she turned and left, Xia Wantang was already breaking out in a cold sweat:
It was over, completely over. Did she really just transmigrate like this, so vividly?
These inexplicable memories in her mind matched the plot of the novel she had read completely.
If the heavens gave her another chance, she would definitely not stay up late reading last night!
Mainly, of all people she could have transmigrated into, why did it have to be Xia Wantang, this total fraud of a saintess!
The title of "Saintess" sounded intimidating enough, true, but the original owner's cultivation realm was not the late Mystic Martial Realm announced to the public at all; instead, she was at the absolute trash-tier early Human Martial Realm!
Even the odd-job disciples of the Azure Cloud Palace had higher cultivation than her.
If one asked how someone with the original owner's strength managed to become the Saintess of the Azure Cloud Palace,
one simply had to mention her main family—the Xia Family.
The Xia Family possessed a first-tier Immortal Grade heirlooms: the Nine Heavens Ice Glaze Hairpin, which was the very hairpin currently worn upon her head.
The Nine Heavens Ice Glaze Hairpin could conceal one's true cultivation and falsify it to appear at other realms.
Only cultivators above the Spirit Sovereign Realm could see through the profound mysteries of the Nine Heavens Ice Glaze Hairpin.
The cultivation of the Azure Cloud Palace Lord happened to be the peak of the Spirit Channeling Realm, yet to reach the Spirit Sovereign Realm.
The grandmaster supporting the Azure Cloud Palace had indeed broken through to the Spirit Sovereign Realm.
It was just that he had been in closed-door cultivation for a century and had yet to emerge.
Therefore, ever since Xia Wantang became the Saintess, no one had discovered that she was actually a fraud.
Deceiving the Azure Cloud Palace was certainly not the original owner's intention; this was all entirely the Xia Family's fault.
The Xia Family was a medium-to-large clan within the East Hill Domain.
Because no descendants with extraordinary talent had appeared for a long time, they were gradually declining.
As it happened, the previous generation's saintess of the Azure Cloud Palace had tragically perished half a year ago.
In order to scout for a new saintess, the Azure Cloud Palace had made a great fanfare recruiting the next generation's saintess within the East Hill Domain.
The Azure Cloud Palace was a top-tier major sect in the East Hill Domain. In the past, the Xia Family would never have dared to reach so high above their station or engage in deception.
Because the Azure Cloud Palace only recruited talented individuals under the age of twenty whose cultivation had reached the late Human Martial Realm or above.
Scouring the entire Xia Family would not turn up a single person who met the criteria.
This time, however, the method of recruiting the saintess provided the Xia Family with a breakthrough.
Unlike the process for recruiting ordinary disciples, the saintess did not need to test her cultivation on the trial stones.
As long as her age fit and the Azure Cloud Palace Lord and elders looked her over and deemed her suitable, that was enough.
In addition, the Azure Cloud Palace had one rigid requirement for the saintess: she must possess the Ice Spirit Root.
Well, wasn't this a coincidence? Xia Wantang possessed the Ice Spirit Root.
It was just that her cultivation talent was abysmal. Having cultivated for four years and just turned eighteen years old, she had barely entered the threshold, and her cultivation was at the absolute weakest early Human Martial Realm.
The Ice Spirit Root was a mutated spirit root, naturally rare to begin with, and coupled with the fact that the Xia Family happened to own the Nine Heavens Ice Glaze Hairpin, they naturally did not want to miss this opportunity.
Though this move was perilous, the odds of success were high.
Thus, Xia Wantang had been pushed onto the duck-riding position.
Xia Wantang: If my words sound harsh, I'll be leaving first.
When this big sister returns to the Xia Family, I'll definitely slap every single one of you old fogies to death. Just you wait.
Xia Wantang was merely a humble collateral descendant. Even if she and her parents were unwilling, they could not defy the will of the family head and other elders.
One could say the Xia Family had pushed her into the tiger's den, taking a gamble solely in exchange for wealth and glory and clinging to a high-ranking branch.
Even Xia Wantang herself had never imagined that she, a total fraud, would actually pull it off by sheer coincidence and become the Saintess.
It really was absurdity opening the door for absurdity—absurdity had arrived home!
Actually, if this matter could truly be kept under wraps forever, it could barely be considered a blessing.
Unfortunately, good times never lasted long. There were no impenetrable walls in this world, and no needle could fail to find a crack to slip through.
Xia Wantang had barely sat in the position of Saintess for less than half a year, her seat not even warmed yet, when rumors questioning her strength began to spread within the Azure Cloud Palace.
Rumors were never completely groundless, and jealous individuals had fueled the flames among them.
Right now, her biggest headache was how to deal with the harassment from a group of inner disciples tomorrow afternoon and the demand for her to display her strength.
If she failed to muddle her way through, she would be executed on the spot with a single sword stroke by the head teacher of the Azure Cloud Palace under the charge of deception, forced to become a bitter ghost.
Thinking of this, a little girl gently shattered.
Xia Wantang: Invitation accepted, how do I break the curse of being executed tomorrow?
Waiting online, super urgent!
Right at that moment, an unusual electronic voice suddenly rang out in her mind:
A loud crash shook the heavens, the system shines brightly upon the stage!
Beep! Soul from another realm found, binding in progress...
Gacha System bound successfully! Host has obtained the novice gift pack: Ou Huang's ten-consecutive draws!
Protagonist's world and region: Questioning Immortals Realm, East Hill Domain.
Questioning Immortals Realms divided into: East Hill Domain, West Desert Domain, South Plains Domain, North Border Domain, and Hills of Chaotic Stars.
Questioning Immortals Realm cultivation levels (from lowest to highest): Human Martial Realm, Mystic Martial Realm, Profound Heaven Realm, Spirit Channeling Realm, Spirit Sovereign Realm, Spirit Emperor Realm, Spirit Immortal Realm. Each realm is divided into early, middle, late, completion, and peak stages.
Treasure grades (from lowest to highest): Earth Grade, Tian Grade, Immortal Grade, Divine Grade. Each grade is divided into one to ten tiers.
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