"Huh? A Son of Destiny out here in the middle of nowhere?"
"Could it be Ye Xing or Xiao Rui?"
Impossible, the Sons of Destiny who have already appeared are long since marked and located by this system. The two of them are sitting tight right now in Azure Cloud Palace.
"Oh? It actually is a new Son of Destiny! Then I simply must go farm some presence!"
"Little System, give me the coordinates."
Is the host planning to use her current identity to approach the Son of Destiny?
"Of course. The Xia Wantang identity has already flirted with two Sons of Destiny; what on earth would happen if a three-way Shura field popped up later?"
"Besides, I rarely use this Tang Wan identity. If I farm four or five points in the early stage, seeing each other again will be a terribly long time off, so I'll just treat it as free faith value."
"After all, most of the time I can only farm points using the 'Xia Wantang' identity."
The host speaks truly! System navigation will now wholeheartedly serve you.
Yet what Xia Wantang did not know was that this single tiny decision of hers laid the foundation for her overturning her cart in a spectacular fashion in the future.
The small town where the Son of Destiny was located was called Luoshui Town. Hearing the name of the town made Xia Wantang feel it was familiar.
Despite the town's beautiful environment, resembling a veritable paradise on earth, it harbored deep mysteries on the inside, concealing the headquarters of an evil cult.
This evil cult was called Heavenly Demon Cult, and they burned, killed, looted, and committed every imaginable crime.
The cult master Ye Shang even specialized in capturing massive numbers of ordinary cultivators, using their lives for blood sacrifices in order to gain higher cultivation, which could quite fairly be called deranged and frantic.
These were things Xia Wantang had learned from the novel's plot. When the author wrote down place names, they had only mentioned the name of Luoshui Town without stating its specific location, otherwise she absolutely would have wiped out this demonic cult back in the early stages.
However, all of this was late-stage plot from the novel, and things were still in the early phase. She had no idea what the current situation of Luoshui Town was like, whether the Heavenly Demon Cult had appeared, which Son of Destiny was here, or why he had appeared in this place.
Harboring all sorts of questions, Xia Wantang officially stepped into Luoshui Town.
Her graceful figure had no sooner landed than it drew the gazes of numerous cultivators.
On one hand, this body was born extraordinarily pretty, making it difficult not to attract attention.
On the other hand, although she looked young, she was able to fly through the air without the aid of any magical artifacts, indicating that her cultivation was above the Spirit Channeling Realm, and her strength was formidable—at least stronger than everyone present.
Four stunningly attractive, white fairy-robed young men and women naturally noticed Xia Wantang as well.
Among them was a handsome young man holding a folding fan, who shook his head and sighed:
"I never expected that I, Qu Shengwen, could witness such a transcendent and breathtaking beauty in this remote little town."
Sitting beside him was a pretty young girl, his own younger sister Qu Zhuowen, who had sweet features and blinked her large eyes as she said:
"But Brother, this fairy maiden big sister is actually able to fly through the air! Doesn't that mean her cultivation has already reached the Spirit Channeling Realm, making her even more impressive than Holy Son Yan Wen?"
The coldest-tempered man among the four was named Ling Xuan, and he chimed in:
"Although this fairy maiden has high cultivation, there is no guarantee she isn't quite old; she might just possess artful youth-preserving techniques."
"In the East Hill Domain, who does not know that Holy Son Yan Wen is the domain's number one prodigy?"
Yan Wen, who had been brought up by the two of them, was right there on the scene. He was the Holy Son of Asking Dao Valley, the number one sect of the East Hill Domain.
Naturally, unlike the two imposters Xia Wantang and Ye Xing, he was a genuine, legitimate Holy Son.
The other three people by his side were direct disciples of Asking Dao Valley's elders.
Asking Dao Valley was isolated from the world, with cultivation methods centered mainly around seeking the Dao. Throughout the Questioning Immortals Realm, they were a mysterious and formidable presence, and they had Holy Sons exclusively, with no Saintesses.
The garments of all disciples in the sect were identical, with only jade pendants distinguishing their identities, fitting Asking Dao Valley's low-key and frugal style.
Yan Wen was barely over twenty years old yet possessed Profound Heaven Realm Late-stage cultivation. Among his peers, this was enough to leave people tongue-tied, earning him the title of the "East Hill Domain's Number One Prodigy."
At this very moment, the other three all cast their gazes toward Yan Wen.
Yan Wen had striking features, was exceptionally handsome, with a face like polished jade, eyes like the stars in the dipper, a nose like a hanging gall bladder, and lips like they had been brushed with rouge.
A trace of divine gentleness permeated between his brows, and his deep eyes made it impossible for anyone to tear their gaze away.
Even more precious was his entire demeanor—cultured and refined, deserving of the description a jade-like gentleman on the road, a peerless young master in this world, fully worthy of his identity as a Holy Son.
Seeing all three looking at him, Yan Wen spoke calmly, his voice as smooth and soft as silk:
"Do not be arrogant and overrate yourselves. There are people beyond people, heavens beyond the heavens. My great reputation comes from within the valley, and there must be many outstanding hermits in this world cultivating in a low-key manner. Who is to say this young lady isn't one of them?"
As he spoke, he raised his gaze and earnestly looked toward Xia Wantang.
Tang Wan gains 5 favorability points with Yan Wen, current favorability 5, redeemable for 50 faith value.
Fearing that the favorability announcements for the two identities would create confusion, from now on the system announcements would use names to make distinctions.
Hearing the favorability broadcast, Xia Wantang had an epiphany—
So it was Yan Wen, one of the novel's male leads.
Yan Wen was the male lead with the most fulfilling family and the simplest, most transparent identity among all the ensemble male leads.
His name was taken from the poetic line: "Divine brilliance shatters the murky gloom, new sun enters the gentle warmth."
From the implication of the name, it was not hard to see that he was favored to the utmost by the Heavenly Dao and the author.
He came from a noble background, being the legitimate eldest son of the Yan Family, the largest clan in the East Hill Domain. Since childhood, his exceptional cultivation talent had been discovered; he possessed dual fire and light spiritual roots, and also possessed an extremely rare Dao-seeking sacred body—the Pure Dao Sacred Body, though very few people knew of it.
One could say his path of growth was completely smooth-sailing, while male leads like Xiao Rui appeared utterly tragic by comparison.
Right up until the novel's conclusion, Yan Wen was the male lead least entangled in love, hatred, and romantic grievances.
Furthermore, his looks could rival Ye Xing's.
You must know that Ye Xing was the absolute ceiling of attractiveness among all males in the novel.
It was just that the directions of their handsomeness were completely different.
Ye Xing possessed a striking, androgynous beauty that defied gender—exquisite, aloof, and fierce—whereas Yan Wen was like a warm piece of jade, soft and reserved.
Xia Wantang swept her peripheral vision in a stealthy glance around the surroundings, and quickly locked onto her target.
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