Ye Tian, Will My Good Disciple Really Betray Her Master and Annihilate Her Ancestors?

At this moment, Lin Heng's inner monologue made him seem like a chuunibyou chatterbox. It was a little too rich.

He stood silently to one side, unaware of the strange looks directed at him.

"Mm. Fine, then the three of you will come with me. As for you..." Meng Yutong swept her gaze over the four of them, a hint of slyness appearing in her eyes.

"Master, I can stay behind and watch the house. Once you leave, Fairy Cloud Peak will still need someone to look after it."

"No. I intend to bring you along as well, so you can broaden your horizons."

Th-This wasn't right, was it?!

She wanted him to come along?

"Master, I'm still just an ordinary person... What if I hold you back?"

"It's fine, Junior Brother." Yun Yao stepped forward and gave his shoulder a hearty pat, smiling with narrowed eyes. "Senior Sister will protect you!"

She placed great emphasis on the word "protect."

Lin Heng's heart skipped a beat. According to the normal course of the plot, he shouldn't have been qualified to enter the secret realm at all.

"It's getting late. Yao'er, arrange a place for him to stay first. Over the next two days, he can familiarize himself with the affairs of the peak on his own."

"Yes, Master."

"Master, most of the Disciple Palace has yet to be cleaned up. How about letting Junior Brother Lin stay with me for now?"

Ye Tian stepped forward and said.

Fuck, no! Senior Brother Ye, I can't bear this enthusiasm of yours. If I stay with you and something goes missing, won't you pin the blame squarely on my head?

Then Master will punish me, and Senior Sister will think I have sticky fingers.

I remember this part being a lot like that true-and-false heiress trope!

Lin Heng viciously spat in his heart. To be honest, he had rarely seen such lowly, brain-dead behavior in novels.

But the author of this novel was heaven-defying. They could stuff any kind of plot into it.

Meng Yutong and the other two women were immediately astonished. From what Lin Heng meant, Ye Tian would deliberately frame him for stealing?

How could that be possible?

Though they did not know why Lin Heng harbored such deep hostility toward Ye Tian, they knew Ye Tian's character better than anyone. The two had neither grievance nor enmity between them, so why would Ye Tian frame him?

Meng Yutong waved her hand. "It's fine. We can simply tell a few more disciples to clean it up."

"Alright."

Seeing this, Ye Tian could not say much else.

After the four left, Meng Yutong sat before the round table, lost in thought for a long while.

What had happened today was simply too unimaginable. Even for a Return to Void True Lord like her, the ability to hear another person's inner voice was something she had never heard of.

The human heart was treacherous and difficult to fathom.

In the Cultivation World, aside from Soul Search, there had never been any supreme art capable of directly peering into the secrets of another's heart, let alone hearing their inner thoughts.

After a long while, she slowly rose and said faintly toward the hidden compartment on the right side of the main hall, "Make a trip to the Star Calculation Pavilion. Investigate whether the Purple Void Sect and Clear Moon Long Song have been making any secret moves... Also, carefully investigate Lin Heng's past in that remote borderland."

The hidden compartment trembled slightly, as though a door had opened, leaving behind a faint, indistinct shadow.

"Lin Heng, who exactly are you? Why do you know so much about me?"

"Even the Heavenly Masters of the Heavenly Secret Sect and the Star Calculation Pavilion cannot fully predict the future, yet you seem to know the trajectory of my life."

"Heavenly Dao Divination? Even the Supreme powerhouses throughout the ages could not accomplish that. How could an ordinary person like you..."

"Ye Tian, will my good disciple really betray her master and annihilate her ancestors?"

Disciple Palace.

Lin Heng was led into a secluded little courtyard. It contained only a two-story pavilion and four ancient trees whose names he did not know.

The courtyard looked as though it had never been cleaned, with weeds growing everywhere.

"There! You'll live here. As for Senior Sister, I live next door to the next door to the next door over." Yun Yao stretched her arms lazily, completely unaware of the beautifully graceful curves formed by the two prominent things before her chest.

"Junior Brother Ye, let's go!?"

"Senior Sister, you go on ahead. I'll stay and help Junior Brother Lin tidy up the courtyard."

"Then... alright."

Yun Yao nodded and gave him a meaningful look.

Though she did not believe Ye Tian would truly frame a fellow disciple, his current behavior made it difficult not to plant a seed of suspicion.

Tch! Disaster couldn't be avoided after all. It seemed this disgusting routine was unavoidable?

Then don't blame your junior brother, Senior Brother.

"Haha, then many thanks, Senior Brother Ye."

For the next while, Lin Heng worked with Ye Tian and two Miscellaneous Servant Disciples who had hurried over to clean the courtyard. They were cultivators after all, and manipulating objects from afar to deal with clutter was incredibly fast.

After a while, most things had been settled. Only the bedding needed to be arranged.

"Thank you, Senior Brother. Thank you, everyone!"

"Get some rest early, Junior Brother. See you tomorrow!"

Lin Heng watched Ye Tian's departing back and revealed a villain-like smile.

As for what a villain-like smile looked like, it was simple: it was not a protagonist-like smile.

After returning to the room, he searched around and finally found a dark green jade pendant at the corner of a table in the side room.

Ye Tian had hidden it very carefully. It would have been hard to notice unless someone bent down to look, and even if it were found, it could be claimed that it had accidentally caught on the table corner and been pulled off.

Unfortunately, Meng Yutong was simple-minded. No matter what her beloved disciple Ye Tian said, she would believe him. Either way, Ye Tian could find an excuse to get himself out of it.

Either he would accuse him of stealing it, or claim that he had dropped it by accident.

"But... do you really think you can control me so easily?"

"Let's wait and see."

Night fell.

Lin Heng climbed a tree and casually picked a few fruits for dinner. Honestly, staying beneath the tree was cooler than being inside the house.

With the gentle breeze blowing, it was unbelievably pleasant.

System Space: Foundation Stabilizing Pill*5

"This is pretty good. Having a storage backpack built in saves me the trouble of getting a Storage Ring."

He took out a pill, then thought for a moment before also retrieving the Heavenly Chart Meng Yutong had given him. "With Heaven-Defying Comprehension, I'm in no hurry to cultivate. My top priority is to build a solid foundation."

Body Purification was only the first step. His current body was simply too frail.

For all he knew, Ye Tian could slap him to death with a casual palm strike.

"If I can enter the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm, the Heavenly Chart will surely help me find some opportunities."

The Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm was a kingdom that had nearly been forgotten.

From its ruler down to its ministers, every person in that kingdom had been a Golden Core or above cultivator. Yet such a boundlessly powerful kingdom had been erased from history overnight.

Some said its ruler had angered the Heavenly Dao. Others claimed that an incomparably powerful existence had wiped them out with a single hand.

From then on, the kingdom's ruins had gradually become the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm.

Having sorted through his thoughts, Lin Heng lay on the bed like a handsome reader and closed his eyes.

Honestly speaking, the plotline was indeed proceeding as it had in the book. First came returning to his ancestral roots, then came taking a master and learning the arts.

But the female leads' attitudes toward him were completely different. All those brainless mockery and suppression scenes from the original novel were gone.

This was not a good thing. How could Ye Tian tolerate his harem growing close to him?

"No. For the sake of my life, I have to stay farther away from those jinxes. Otherwise, won't Ye Tian's dog nose sniff me out and come looking for trouble?"

Ding, the Main Storyline has begun:

(Righteous) Main Storyline Mission: In three days, you will set out for the Kingdom-Destroying Secret Realm. Advance the story's development, cause Meng Yutong's cultivation to fall, and enable Ye Tian's act of betraying her master and annihilating her ancestors to succeed. Reward Rating: Supreme

(Villainous) Main Storyline Mission: Use every possible method to stop the protagonist from betraying her master and annihilating her ancestors. Reward Rating: Unknown

Note: Reward ratings are divided into Supreme, High, Mid, Ordinary, and Unknown. Unknown is a random and uncertain rating, and there may even be no reward.

Lin Heng was so startled by the system's voice that he sat upright at once.

"Has the key plot choice finally arrived?"

Unknown was equivalent to random, meaning any of the four grades could appear. Based on the melodramatic distribution of random probabilities, there was no need to think about it. The greatest chances were definitely Ordinary and Mid.

As long as he followed the righteous Main Storyline Mission, he would receive a Supreme reward with one hundred percent certainty.

Anyway, the ultimate Main Storyline Mission was to survive until the end. He was a villain who could barely protect himself right now, so compared to his life, women had to come later.

"My great Master, I only wish to say this: your sacrifice... will be part of my grand plan!!"

It wasn't that the female lead couldn't be saved; it was simply more cost-effective to cling to life.