Young Girl Liuli

On Kongming Peak's private training platform stood a Young Girl of about fifteen. Her light pink hair was fresh and ethereal, her jade-like skin smooth and soft. Dressed in green, with a red sash tied around her waist, her slender waist seemed small enough to be held in one hand. Her long, delicate legs traced perfect curves, while her already breathtaking face was a feast for the eyes. Most striking of all were her gemlike blue-violet eyes, faintly brimming with emotion, as though they could speak.

Twenty zhang before the Young Girl stood an Alchemy Puppet, three zhang and five chi tall. The Dou Qi fluctuations it emitted had actually reached the level of a Five-star Dou Emperor!

The Young Girl parted her lips slightly and drew a soft breath. A pair of wings formed from Dou Qi unfurled behind her.

Dou Qi wings were the mark of a Dou Wang. Before their Dou Qi ran dry, those who possessed them could soar freely through the sky.

Yet this Young Girl, at merely fifteen years old, possessed strength at least on the level of a Dou Wang!

"Han Guang, Heart Rain, Fleeting Time." The Young Girl softly uttered the six words, and in an instant, three longswords appeared before her.

She gripped one of them. The other two swords seemed to come alive, slowly flying over to press against the sword in her hand before gradually merging into it.

The Alchemy Puppet activated and instantly charged toward her. Its massive hands clasped into a fist as it launched a crushing blow.

"Three Swords, Flowing Years!" Like a dancing butterfly, the Young Girl lightly rose into the air and evaded the rapidly descending fist. Then, her longsword gently swept across the front of the Alchemy Puppet.

The Alchemy Puppet retreated explosively, seemingly having evaded that utterly harmless strike.

The Young Girl slowly landed. Her foot lightly tapped the ground as she stored the sword in her Storage Ring. Her Dou Qi wings dissipated, as if she no longer wished to fight.

The Alchemy Puppet remained frozen in its previous fist-raising posture, utterly motionless.

The next moment, the purple fur on its body suddenly collapsed, splitting into four sections.

"So weak. This isn't even as interesting as Pill Refining." The Young Girl curled her lips and walked off the training platform in boredom.

"Five more months until I come of age. Before I knew it, I'd already been here for nearly sixteen years." The Young Girl slowly walked along the stone path, one hand stroking her chin as she pondered.

In her previous life, she had been a twenty-two-year-old shut-in named Zhang Yu. After staying up too many nights, her body gave out and she died suddenly. She had never expected to transmigrate into the novel world of Battle Through the Heavens, a world she knew extremely well.

Although most of the worldbuilding was the same, some other things had inexplicably appeared.

For instance, the clan she belonged to—the Sword Clan. Its strength was terrifying, and it was now one of the Nine Ancient Clans, comparable to the Ancient Clan. Yet in the Original Work, there had barely been any sword-wielding experts at all.

Those changes were secondary. The most important thing was that she had damn well become a girl! And the kind of girl who was an unparalleled beauty at that...

"Ah..." Zhao Yu helplessly sighed as she rubbed her soft cheeks before the clear water by the lakeside.

In this life, she had a beautiful name—Gongsun Liuli. She was the daughter of the Sword Clan's clan leader and had been personally designated as the next heir. Her talent for cultivation was also outstanding. Although she found meditative cultivation unbearably boring and had always been half-forced into training by the instructors arranged by her clan, her strength had still reached the level of a Five-star Dou Emperor.

Within the Nine Ancient Clans, a fifteen-year-old Dou Emperor was something truly terrifying. In more remote regions, Dou Emperors were the trump-card forces of major factions, all old men who had cultivated for eighty or ninety years.

"A Five-star Dou Emperor, a Fifth-grade Alchemist, and eight swords mastered in the Thirteen Absolutes... I should be able to run rampant in the Jia Ma Empire, right?" Gongsun Liuli took a map from her Storage Ring. It depicted most regions of the Dou Qi Continent, and she had lightly circled a small area in the northwest with a pen.

As a veteran fan of the Original Work, she understood the time she was in and knew about the changing tides and upheavals that would later sweep across the continent. So, she had a brilliant idea.

That was—to build a good relationship with the protagonist and cling tightly to his thigh!

It was an enormous plan. The first step was to accurately determine the time and place where the protagonist's story took place.

The location was easy to find. The Jia Ma Empire could be found just by looking through a detailed map. Confirming the time, however, was difficult, because the Original Work had never provided a precise chronology.

However, when she was three, she had accompanied her nominal father to the first birthday celebration of the Ancient Clan's Young Miss. That Young Miss was the Original Work's female lead—Gu Xun Er. Gu Xun Er was one year younger than Xiao Yan, so Xiao Yan had to be one year younger than her. Xiao Yan's story began when he was fifteen.

Therefore, her plan was to head to that region at sixteen. She would help Xiao Yan at the right moment and build a good relationship with him. When the great war came later, she would persuade her father to help Xiao Yan. Then, once Xiao Yan became an emperor, she could cling to that thick golden thigh!

It was a long-term investment, but she did not think she would lose out at all.

Besides, she truly wanted to go outside and see the world.

It had been her childhood dream in her previous life...

"Liuli, what are you looking at?" Just as she was staring blankly at the map and imagining her plan, an aged voice sounded behind her.

She knew that voice all too well. Her whole body trembled, and she hurriedly turned around, hiding the map behind her before storing it in her Storage Ring.

An old man in White Robe slowly approached, his face stern and imposing without the need for anger.

"Master... I-I was looking at the fish." Liuli gave a foolish little laugh and said in a lowered, trembling voice.

The old man grew angry. His eyes widened as he scolded, "Nonsense! You only absorbed a Heavenly Flame not long ago. This is the perfect time to cultivate and hone your Pill Refining skills. How can you still have the leisure to watch fish and admire flowers here? If you have that kind of leisure, you might as well refine a few more pills. Ever since you were little, you..."

Liuli's head began to ache. The thing she feared most had finally happened.

The old man before her was named Gongsun Sanbu. He was the Sword Clan's greatest Alchemist, as well as a Four-star Dou Saint. He had begun teaching her Pill Refining when she was six. He was a good Master, but he loved nagging people and wore a perpetually stern expression, which made her both annoyed and afraid.

"Didn't I just break through to Fifth-grade Alchemist three months ago..." Liuli muttered softly.

Naturally, those words could not escape the ears of a mighty Dou Saint. The old man grew even angrier and pointed at himself. "When I was a Dou Emperor, I could already refine Seventh-grade pills! Your talent is better than mine, and you even have the aid of a Heavenly Flame. What is there to be proud of after reaching Fifth-grade Alchemist?"

"But I'm only fifteen. When you were fifteen..." Liuli asked quietly.

Gongsun Sanbu choked on those words. When he had been fifteen, he seemed to have only been a Da Dou Shi. The little girl before him was far more terrifying than he had been back then.

"Ahem. Even so, you cannot become arrogant and complacent. There are countless people in this world with greater talent than yours. You still need to focus on cultivation and cannot rest on your laurels!" the old man continued nagging.

"Yes, yes, Grandpa Sanbu is right." Liuli raised her little face and revealed a gentle, dazzling smile.

"You..."

Liuli said nothing more and turned to slip away.

The old man watched the Young Girl trot away and sighed helplessly. "This little girl..."

He did not notice at all that his old face had already turned red.