Queen: Impossible! Yun Yun Changes Her Mind at Light Speed

[After I died in my previous life, I reincarnated into this world with my memories and lived anew. My memories had only just awakened.]

[Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly, and the butterfly dreamed of Zhuang Zhou. How long was the great dream? Only today did I awaken. All that had come before was but flowers in a mirror and the moon in water—a grand dream of reincarnation.]

[I met the Flame Emperor in Wutan City, and only today did I learn that I was still myself. Though time and space shifted and identities changed, that strand of indestructible true self had never altered. The me of my previous life was me, and the me of this life was also me.]

[The me of my previous life was me, and the me of this life was also me. From this day onward, I would not be trapped by the past or confused by appearances. I would only guard my true heart and directly seek the Great Dao.]

[Just like my cousin.]

Seeing the first four lines, Xun'er let out a quiet sigh of relief.

So this was what it meant to regain memories from a previous life. Xiao Ting was still Xiao Ting; he had merely recalled some memories from his past life.

Seeing the fifth line, she instinctively furrowed her lovely brows. "Xiao Yan is also a reincarnator from another world?"

Thinking of Xiao Yan's many strange words and actions from childhood to adulthood, she nodded slightly.

That explained everything.

But how did Xiao Ting know so much so clearly?

[In my previous life, there was a novel. On the Dou Qi Continent, it would be called a storybook. Its name was Strange Fire Firmament.]

[The protagonist of the storybook was my cousin, Xiao Yan. He trained his Dou Qi at the age of four, reached nine stages of Dou Qi at ten, condensed a Dou Qi Cyclone at eleven, and became the youngest Dou Zhe in the clan's century-long history in a single leap. Yet for three consecutive years, his strength regressed and remained at the third stage of Dou Qi. At fifteen, Nalan Yanran, to whom he had been betrothed since childhood, publicly broke off the engagement, leading to the Three Year Agreement.]

[Under the guidance of Yao Chen, a soul body that had been absorbing his Dou Qi, he ventured across the Dou Qi Continent and endured countless hardships until he became a Dou Di.]

[A legendary life, magnificent and tumultuous!]

The women who possessed Notebook Copies: !!!

"A storybook?!"

"Strange Fire Firmament?"

Within the Magma World, Queen Medusa lost her composure.

Could someone as proud as her truly be nothing more than a fictional character in a storybook world?

It was even possible that she had not been mentioned in this storybook at all.

After all, the storybook recorded the rise of a Dou Di.

Medusa instinctively reached out to touch the Green Lotus Core Flame.

The Earth Core Flame erupted with searing heat, making her feel pain.

"No. I am absolutely not a fictional character. I truly exist."

"This world, everything I see, think, and hear—it is all real."

Medusa's aura surged, and a sharp glint flashed through her narrow eyes.

If she was false, then was Xiao Ting, who had come to this world, false as well?

Everything had to be real!

At the same time, within the Mo Tie Mercenary Group's headquarters in Shimo City.

Qing Lin hugged her legs and curled up in the corner of the room. A faint light flickered in her clear jade-green eyes. "A storybook world?"

"If that is true, were my miserable origins and past created by a heartless stroke of the author's pen, or did they truly exist?"

"No, someone like me would never appear in a storybook, would I? How could I possibly deserve to?"

In the mountains near Qingshan Town.

Sitting beneath the shade of a large tree, Xiao Yi Xian wore a gloomy expression.

At present, she was Xiao Yi Xian, a physician beloved by the mercenaries of Qingshan Town.

But no one knew that when she was three, her mother had taken her to live in a small village that made its living gathering herbs. Later, for reasons unknown, her mother and all the villagers had died from poison, leaving only her alive.

Though she had been young at the time, she knew that the deaths of her mother and the villagers had something to do with her.

Not wanting anyone else to die because of her, she desperately studied medicine, hoping to fill the void in her heart.

Yet during that process, she occasionally displayed an innate talent for poisons. As a result, people ignored all the good she did and avoided her.

She felt that this life of hers was a joke, accompanied by misfortune from birth.

And now, someone was telling her that such a ridiculous life was merely fictional in a storybook?

"How absurd." Xiao Yi Xian's lips trembled.

"Ridiculous."

"Truly ridiculous!"

Within the main hall of the Misty Cloud Sect on Misty Cloud Mountain, Yun Yun abruptly rose to her feet in a loss of composure. Her expression shifted uncertainly.

From the fragments Xiao Ting had revealed so far, she had learned quite a few things.

If this world truly was a fictional storybook world—

Xiao Yan was the protagonist who would grow all the way to become a Dou Di. Then Nalan Yanran, who had broken off the engagement, and the Misty Cloud Sect behind her would, by convention, be the villains.

In any storybook, villains who opposed the protagonist never met a good end.

In fact, Xiao Ting had written at the very beginning, [Three ascents to Misty Cloud, avenging a mortal feud.]

As the name implied, Xiao Yan would ascend the Misty Cloud Sect three times and avenge a mortal feud.

The matter of Yanran breaking off the engagement had temporarily ended with the Three Year Agreement. It did not count as a mortal feud.

By storybook convention, the Three Year Agreement would certainly end with Xiao Yan defeating Nalan Yanran.

This matter should have ended there, yet "three ascents" and "avenging a mortal feud" had somehow emerged.

"If all this is the real future, then the Misty Cloud Sect must have had other conflicts with Xiao Yan, turning them into mortal enemies."

"The Misty Cloud Sect's fate will likely be miserable."

At that thought, killing intent burst from Yun Yun's eyes.

Now, she was Yun Yun, the sect leader of the Misty Cloud Sect and a Dou Huang.

She had been adopted and raised by Yun Shan, the previous sect leader, since childhood. The power, status, and strength she possessed today had all come from the Misty Cloud Sect.

Now that she knew the Misty Cloud Sect might meet a miserable end because of Xiao Yan, she had to show the decisiveness of a sect leader and nip the problem in the bud.

"And Xiao Ting!"

Yun Yun felt it was necessary to eliminate this owner of the Notes, who knew Xiao Yan's future and was also Xiao Yan's cousin.

Only then could the Misty Cloud Sect be completely safe.

As for the blessings brought by the Notes, she felt they were unimportant before the life-or-death survival of the Misty Cloud Sect.

But the instant the thought of eliminating Xiao Ting arose, Yun Yun felt supreme power descend upon her. It was as if a hand had gripped her heart and her soul had been exiled into a dark world of eternal solitude.

In that instant, she understood that she could not actively tell outsiders of the Notebook Copy's existence or the contents recorded in the Notes in any form.

Nor was she permitted to actively harm Xiao Ting in any way.

Otherwise, a great terror would descend!

"Haah... haah... haah!"

Yun Yun was drenched in fragrant sweat as she gasped for breath.

She frantically extinguished the thought of going to assassinate Xiao Ting, and she no longer dared to kill Xiao Yan either.

If she went to kill Xiao Yan now, it would be the same as telling Xiao Ting that something was wrong with her—that she could see the contents of the Notes. She would die all the same.

Even if that did not count as actively revealing the Notebook Copy's existence or the Notes' contents, killing Xiao Yan would mean becoming Xiao Ting's mortal enemy.

Xiao Ting had read Strange Fire Firmament, so he undoubtedly knew many opportunities in this world.

Even if he could not become a Dou Di like Xiao Yan, as long as he broke through to Dou Zong or even Dou Zun, destroying the Misty Cloud Sect would be effortless.

"Xiao Ting can only be befriended."

"Xiao Yan can only be allowed to develop naturally."

"Under those two premises, I must resolve the Misty Cloud Sect's dead end."

"First, I need to find out what caused that dead end."

Yun Yun turned her attention back to the Notes.

She could only hope that Xiao Ting would mention in the Notes why Xiao Yan and the Misty Cloud Sect became mortal enemies. Then, she could resolve it in advance.

Besides that, she had to find a reasonable way to befriend Xiao Ting and make him mention her often in the Notes. That way, she could receive blessings from the plane or even the world and increase her strength.

As long as her strength rose, the crisis of the Misty Cloud Sect's destruction could likewise be resolved.

"A storybook character?"

"The protagonist is Cousin Xiao Yan?"

In the Xiao Clan of Wutan City, a subtle change came over Xun'er's expression.

She thought of how her father had persuaded the clan leader and elders to send her to the Xiao Clan for her childhood: to obtain the Tou She Ancient God Jade in the Xiao Clan's possession.

"Will I appear in the storybook?"

"If I do, what role will I have?"

"A villain who steals the Xiao Clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade?"

"Is Xiao Ting in the storybook?"

"What kind of fate do Xiao Ting and I have?"

Xun'er became uneasy, but when she saw the later content in the Notes, she suddenly let out a huge sigh of relief.

"Thank goodness, thank goodness!"