Provoking Long Aotian

Seeing Bai Lan gradually leaning towards giving up, the system panicked: "Besides, this mission isn't impossible to complete. You have the cheat of saving and loading. Wanting to convert them with love is just a matter of time!"

As the system spoke, it obsequiously went forward to pat Bai Lan's shoulders: "You can use your cheat to conquer the hearts of the two Children of Destiny step by step. If you accidentally step on a mine or encounter danger during the mission, you can also load the save and start over. How convenient is that~"

"Moreover, with a handsome and invincible system like me assisting you, why worry about the mission failing!" The system floated around Bai Lan, trying to persuade her.

"Hmph, convert them with love? You might as well try to convert me first." Bai Lan closed her eyes. "What kind of lousy mission is this? I'm not doing it. They can do whatever they want. Anyone who can cultivate immortality won't care about these things. You know, I'm purely here to cultivate immortality."

"...You really love cultivating immortality." The system fell silent.

Normally, mission takers who transmigrated to other worlds would have their primary goal as returning to their original world. For this, they would complete missions at all costs to earn rewards and opportunities to return home.

Especially in cultivation worlds, which were extremely dangerous, with an 80% chance of getting a lunchbox at the start, most people were unwilling to stay there for too long.

But the host in front of them clearly didn't play by the rules.

She didn't even intend to complete the mission! She just wanted to use the power of world-hopping to cultivate in the cultivation world.

"Does anyone really dislike cultivating immortality!" Bai Lan said excitedly, "Don't you want to try the feeling of flying with a sword? Don't you want to see the world of the strong!"

The system silently shook its head and turned around, wiping away a tear of sorrow.

If the host didn't do the missions, he wouldn't get performance points, without performance points, he wouldn't get bonuses, without bonuses, his beautiful yearning for the world, his belief in goodwill between people, his entire passion for work! All would vanish into thin air.

Wuwu, so tragic.

Just as the crowd exclaimed in amazement at the appearance of two Heavenly Spiritual Roots, Bai Lan directly ignored the two gazes filled with hostility towards her, put the jade token in her hand into her embrace, and planned to slip away from the scene through the gaps in the crowd.

Based on her understanding of this type of plot.

Next, Long Aotian, whom she had broken off her engagement with three years ago, would publicly confront her.

She imagined that three years ago, when the engagement was broken off, Long Aotian must have said that famous line to everyone: "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, do not bully the poor young man."

As soon as this sentence flashed through Bai Lan's mind, the young man's voice came from behind her.

"Bai Lan! Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, three years ago you looked down on my family's decline and called me trash, then came to my house to break off the engagement and humiliate me. Today, I will wash away this shame!" Long Aotian said angrily.

Bai Lan, who was about to make a run for it: "..."

"With my Heavenly Spiritual Root aptitude, after entering the sect, I will definitely become a personal disciple of a Core Formation Elder. As for you, a mere Five Spiritual Root, after entering the sect, you will only be a handyman," Long Aotian sneered. "If you don't want to die, then apologize to me in public and come to my side in the future as a personal maid. I might not spare your life."

"...Hiss." Bai Lan gasped.

How awkward. As expected of Long Aotian. Even reading such overbearing cool-text lines in private felt embarrassing, yet he could deliver them so expressively.

But... she couldn't lose face!

If all else fails, she could reload the save.

Bai Lan calmly saved the game and then said leisurely, "A mere Long Aotian is nothing but a dried skeleton in a tomb. If you have the guts, do you dare to fight me?"

Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked.

Regardless of aptitude, Long Aotian now had the cultivation of Qi Refining level one, making him a true cultivator.

As for Bai Lan... she was still a mortal who had just tested her cultivation aptitude.

A mortal fighting a cultivator, the outcome was self-evident.

Long Aotian was also stunned, then he looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle and laughed maniacally three times: "I have already undergone Qi Induction, and I am now a Qi Refining level one cultivator, while you are just a mortal. You dare to challenge me? Truly overestimating yourself!"

"...Indeed." Bai Lan nodded slightly. "So, how about we fight again in three months? With your trash-like talent, you will definitely not be my opponent by then!"

After such provocative words, Long Aotian on the opposite side was already furious.

"What, perhaps you're afraid? Heh, such little courage?" Bai Lan raised an eyebrow, her tone contemptuous.

Three years ago, Long Aotian had already suffered a setback from Bai Lan once. Naturally, he wouldn't suffer another setback now.

Long Aotian gritted his teeth: "You! How could I be afraid! You're just a mere Five Spiritual Root, and I'll give you three months. How strong can you possibly become! I promise you! In three months, the victor will be decided!"

After speaking, Long Aotian snorted coldly and turned around, leaving with his hands behind his back.

"Host is so fierce! She actually dared to confront a Child of Destiny head-on!" The system floated over, its eyes full of stars.

Bai Lan coughed lightly.

Because she had just saved the game, she could be a bit arrogant. If Long Aotian was angered and refused to fight, insisting on killing her, then she would have to reload and change her approach to stall for time.

Moreover, there was a Core Formation Elder stationed on the flying ship in the distance. No matter how arrogant Long Aotian was, he wouldn't act rashly at this time; at most, he would just engage in verbal sparring.

"So, host, can you really defeat Long Aotian in three months?" the system asked curiously.

Bai Lan shook her head. "I don't know if I can win in three months, but if I fight Long Aotian now, the loser will definitely be me, a mortal."

Therefore, among the thirty-six stratagems, delaying is the best.

What's more, she already had a plan to deal with Long Aotian.

According to the plot's direction, on the day of the spiritual root test, she, the supporting female character, would be publicly humiliated and suppressed by the two prodigies who tested Heavenly Spiritual Roots. For the next few years, she would be ridiculed by the sect members.

Now that the Child of Destiny was temporarily dealt with, the next one would undoubtedly be the Child of Destiny.

Glancing at the woman in white slowly walking towards her in the distance, Bai Lan decisively turned and left.

This was a joke. She had already been forcibly dragged into the engagement-breaking plot by Long Aotian just now because she was a step too slow. How could she walk the same path as a minute ago?

As long as she ran fast enough, the plot wouldn't catch up to her.

The system was still in place, head bowed, looking at the information on the Child of Destiny. Just as it was about to analyze the Child of Destiny's current state of mind, it looked up and saw that its host had already disappeared.

It hurriedly caught up with Bai Lan's steps and said anxiously, "Host, don't run off! That's important plot ahead, you..."

"What plot? What normal person follows their plot? Let's go, find a safe place to do Qi Induction first." Bai Lan moved with incredible speed. In less than half an hour, she had left the crowded area and returned to the residence of her original body.

The Minister's Estate.

Bai Lan's current identity was the eldest daughter of the Minister's Estate.

This was a country in the southern part of the mortal realm, named the Southern Kingdom.

The mortal realm had thin spiritual energy and was a place where mortals gathered. Mortals respected the Son of Heaven and lived according to feudal rites.

But this was a world of cultivation. The mortal realm was merely a desolate land with thin spiritual energy that cultivators had designated as a residential area for mortals.

Here, there were cultivators who surpassed mortals, able to command wind and thunder, control water and fire, ride clouds and mist, and live for thousands of years.

And in the mouths of those cultivators, the land beneath their feet was called the Mist Cloud Continent. The cultivators who had come to the Southern Kingdom were all from the Azure Origin Sect.

Every ten years, the Azure Origin Sect would come to mortal kingdoms to screen for people with spiritual roots and the talent to cultivate, so they could join the sect and expand its fresh bloodline.