"Cut out her golden core!"
"If I can't kill Lin Yun, then I can only kill her sister to vent my fury!"
Pain! It hurt so much!
Lin Qi felt as though her abdomen had been ground to pieces. The pain spread through her entire body; even breathing hurt.
She lowered her head and saw that her abdomen was a vivid red, blood winding downward and soaking into the ground.
Her golden core had been dug out!
When Daoist Jinwu saw the bloodstained golden core, his pupils contracted. In excitement, he snatched it from the daoist boy's hands.
"Nine-Revolutions Demonic Core... Hahaha! I've gathered the Phoenix Bone, Phoenix Tendon, and Phoenix Blood. Only this Nine-Revolutions Demonic Core remains!"
Lin Qi collapsed onto the ground, nearly numb from the pain. "Who exactly are you?"
"Who am I?" Daoist Jinwu's face twisted with madness, his eyes glowing red. "Your younger sister Lin Yun's enemy!"
"Lin Yun killed my entire family. I couldn't kill Lin Yun and could only watch helplessly as she attained the Dao. Then, on the very day she attains the Dao, I'll use the blood of her last relative to sacrifice to heaven!"
"Once I refine you into a Nine-Revolutions World-Breaking Pill, I'll be able to shatter the void and go to the Upper Realm to take revenge on Lin Yun!"
The moment he finished speaking, a heaven-shaking clap of thunder erupted overhead.
The rolling thunder resounded between heaven and earth, followed by a violent quake that shook mountains and ground alike.
Daoist Jinwu looked up at the ceiling of the cave and shouted furiously, "Damn it, she's about to attain the Dao!"
With a wave of his hand, everything happening on Enlightenment Peak was projected into the air.
Lin Qi's younger half-sister, Lin Yun, who had been missing for a hundred years, possessed an otherworldly bearing as she charged toward the descending lightning with a sword in hand.
The heavenly lightning that filled cultivators with terror was something she could crush with a casual wave.
After all eighty-one bolts of heavenly lightning had fallen, a whirlpool of dark clouds appeared in the void. A Realm Path stretching from heaven to earth descended upon the summit of Enlightenment Peak.
Lin Yun was about to shatter the void!
When Daoist Jinwu saw this, he was so furious that his eyeballs nearly burst from their sockets.
Helpless against Lin Yun, he could only vent his rage on the defenseless Lin Qi.
His large hand clamped around Lin Qi's throat, and a vicious smile curled across his lips. "After you die, remember to seek revenge on Lin Yun. She's the true culprit behind your death!"
Having said that, he grabbed Lin Qi and threw her straight into the Alchemy Furnace.
Daoist Jinwu swiftly formed several hand seals with his ten fingers, and the raging flames within the Alchemy Furnace lunged at Lin Qi.
Her flesh and soul were scorched by spiritual fire at once. Lin Qi's eyes turned bloodshot from the agony, leaving nothing but a sea of crimson in her gaze.
Her life force was being stripped away bit by bit.
Above her, Lin Yun lifted her foot, about to step into the Realm Path.
With just one step forward, she would become the first cultivator in the Cangwu Realm in over a million years to successfully attain the Dao and ascend to the Upper Realm.
Her brows furrowed as she suddenly stopped.
After calculating with her fingers, her cool, composed gaze casually fell upon a certain place.
Separated by countless mountains and rivers, Lin Qi felt herself being watched by a gaze.
Her consciousness blurred from the pain, and she vaguely heard a sigh by her ear.
"Fulfilling you can also be considered fulfilling myself..."
On Enlightenment Peak, Lin Yun removed a droplet-shaped necklace from her neck and crushed it. The Ice Phoenix Essence Blood hidden within instantly vanished.
Without looking back, she stepped into the Realm Path, her posture carefree and composed as she bid a final farewell to the Cangwu Realm.
A surge of icy energy suddenly poured into Lin Qi's body as she was roasted by the blazing fire.
Even her soul was frozen stiff.
Immediately afterward, an Ice Phoenix of overwhelming momentum and majestic might shrieked as it burst from her body.
Ice and snow instantly covered the entire cave.
In a haze, she heard a crisp yet imperious rebuke. "You dare touch her!"
"Die!"
Daoist Jinwu's body exploded and he died the instant those words fell.
At the same time, four bolts of ultimate violet heavenly lightning and four streams of ultimate frost energy roared out from Lin Qi's body.
With a rumble, the cave also exploded. Frost covered a thousand li in every direction, while gloomy thunderclouds blanketed the sky... Heaven and earth trembled.
Lin Qi could no longer endure the pain and sank into unconsciousness.
Lin Qi stared blankly at the beam overhead. The agony from before she fainted seemed to still linger in her body.
She had merely dozed off at the law firm, yet somehow transmigrated into a girl named Lin Qi.
She got the full package: her inner core dug out, then roasted by fire and frozen in ice, until the pain knocked her unconscious on the spot.
When she woke again, she had become four-year-old Lin Qi, with a batch of unfamiliar memories in her mind.
She had transmigrated into a cultivation novel.
The novel told the story of Lin Qi's genius younger half-sister—Lin Yun—and her struggle to cultivate.
Her biological father was useless, and her biological mother had been murdered. At only three years old, Lin Yun could survive only by relying on the Lin Family.
Her status as an illegitimate daughter of the Lin Family made all of Desolate City look down on her.
Her legitimate elder sister was foolish, domineering, and savage, often leading people to bully her. Even the Lin Family servants could freely oppress and abuse her.
Lin Yun's life before she turned five was so miserable that words could hardly describe it.
It was not until the Tianyi Sect held its disciple recruitment assembly that Lin Yun stunned everyone in a single brilliant display and was accepted as a disciple by a Nascent Soul True Lord.
After that, she soared all the way to the Late Mahayana Stage and became the first cultivator in the Cangwu Realm to shatter the void.
As the vicious supporting character in the novel, Lin Qi's fate naturally could not have been much better.
She was the sole legitimate descendant of the Lin Family, an aristocratic cultivation clan of Desolate City. She became the Lin Family head at four, with her grandaunt's protection and a Nascent Soul mother as her backing. Even if she had been a fool, barring unforeseen circumstances, she could have swaggered through Desolate City for the rest of her life.
But her younger half-sister Lin Yun was the greatest accident in Lin Qi's life.
The Lin Family treated Lin Yun harshly, and Lin Qi was goaded and misled by servants into bullying her younger half-sister, offending the Lin Family's most promising cultivator.
After Lin Yun made a stunning name for herself in the sect, she immediately severed her blood ties with the Lin Family, causing an uproar known throughout the Southern Continent.
Not only that, Lin Yun openly and covertly suppressed the development of the Lin Family's cultivators.
In the end, she even drew an Evil Cultivator Gang to massacre the Lin Family.
The Lin Family was exterminated, and its once incomparably noble young family head was forced onto a road of struggling for survival.
The loss of one soul and one spirit left her living worse than a beggar.
During her wanderings, she encountered Daoist Jinwu by chance.
When Daoist Jinwu learned that she was one of the Lin Family of Desolate City's only two remaining bloodlines and Lin Yun's biological elder sister, he kidnapped her without a word and imprisoned her in a cave dwelling that never saw daylight, torturing her.
Every time Lin Yun advanced another stage, Daoist Jinwu would bring people to the cave and torture Lin Qi for a time.
During this period, he accidentally discovered that Lin Qi possessed the bloodline of the Ancient Ice Phoenix and began entertaining the idea of refining her into a pill.
When news of Lin Yun's imminent attainment of the Dao spread across the Five Continents, Daoist Jinwu could endure no longer. He decided to cut out Lin Qi's golden core and finally vent this grievance.
Lin Yun shattered the void, while Lin Qi was sacrificed in a sea of fire. This was their final fate.
"Fate?!"
"Bullshit!" Lin Qi could not help gritting her teeth and cursing.
So heaven had sent her to the Cangwu Realm just to make her walk the road of a villainous supporting character all over again?
At the thought of the pain of having her golden core dug out while she was still alive, Lin Qi's soul could not stop trembling with chills.
No!
She absolutely could not embark on this road of no return!
Didn't cultivation place great importance on defying heaven and changing one's fate?
If this was her fate, then even if it killed her, she would change this damned destiny!
A new book is here. Friends passing by, please give it some support. This one is still a no-romance cultivation power-progression story, and I hope everyone likes it.
The Cangwu Realm in this book draws a little inspiration from the Immortal Path, but it will not be exactly the same. Some settings have been changed.
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