What did Unadorned Sword Lord hate hearing others mention most? Naturally, the matter of him being stuck at Peak Spirit Transformation for three hundred years without advancing an inch. Sword Venerable Mingxiao's words were a one-hit kill.
Of course, only because the two were on good terms would Sword Venerable Mingxiao tease him with this. Unadorned Sword Lord felt stifled in his chest and pointed outside. "Get lost."
Sword Venerable Mingxiao took two steps toward the exit, then seemed to remember something and returned. "Oh, right. I recall you keep several Silver Sand Fish in the lotus pond outside your sleeping hall."
Unadorned Sword Lord immediately eyed him warily. "What are you planning? I worked my fingers to the bone fishing up those Silver Sand Fish from a Secret Realm. It took me over a hundred years of breeding them to fill that pond."
"Silver Sand Fish have tender, boneless flesh, and their meat nourishes the blood. They're perfect for fish soup. Give me a few."
Unadorned Sword Lord gritted his teeth. "Those are fish I raised for a hundred years, and you want to turn them into fish soup!?"
Sword Venerable Mingxiao said thoughtfully, "I recently acquired a sword dao notebook from Sword Venerable Yushan..."
Sword Venerable Yushan had been a Sword Cultivator in the Cultivation World who practiced the Heartless Sword Dao. He later perished after failing his ascension, though that had been a thousand years ago, before Unadorned Sword Lord had even been born. Since there were exceedingly few cultivators in the Cultivation World who practiced the Heartless Sword Dao, this notebook recording Sword Venerable Yushan's cultivation insights was immensely precious to someone like Unadorned Sword Lord.
Unadorned Sword Lord's expression immediately underwent a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree change. "We're fellow disciples with centuries of friendship between us. What are a few fish? Take as many as you want! If they aren't enough, just ask me for more!"
"But haven't you already stopped eating?" Unadorned Sword Lord's gaze was like a searchlight as it fixed on Sword Venerable Mingxiao. "So who are you making this fish soup for?"
Sword Venerable Mingxiao said nothing. He stuffed the notebook into Unadorned Sword Lord's hands, turned, and vanished from the hall.
Watching the direction in which he had disappeared, Unadorned Sword Lord called out, "Don't fish them all out! Leave a few for me to keep breeding!"
While Sword Venerable Mingxiao was catching fish, Song Zhizhi, over on Clear Snow Peak, had just changed clothes when she suddenly felt something strange in the spiritual energy within her body.
At first, her meridians felt swollen and her Dantian tightened. Then the surrounding spiritual energy poured into her meridians at a terrifying speed, only to rapidly drain away. Song Zhizhi hurriedly sat down to regulate her breathing, but discovered that most of the spiritual energy she lost was flowing into her lower abdomen, absorbed by the child in her womb.
A mother and child were connected at heart. Song Zhizhi sensed the child's emotions; the child seemed to be suffering.
"Mother... hungry..." Song Zhizhi seemed to hear the child's voice.
Song Zhizhi's breath caught. Panic rose in her heart, and she felt that something might have happened to the child. But she was not a Healing Cultivator and had no idea what to do.
Xie Xiuji's figure flashed through her mind, but she remembered that he was not a Healing Cultivator either. Contacting him would be useless.
She instead took out her Communication Stone to contact Liu Changfei, her voice trembling. "Feifei, where are you? I think something's wrong with my body!"
Author's note:
This is a sweet story, not an angst story. Both the female lead and the child will be fine.
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Yuan Chu transmigrated into a wildly popular immortal heroic novel from years ago, becoming the original wife who was a stumbling block on the male lead's path to pursuing true love.
In the original novel, the male lead fell in love with a mortal woman while descending to the mortal realm to undergo tribulation. When his tribulation ended, he brought that mortal woman back to the Heavenly Court and elevated her to the rank of concubine.
Because the original owner could not tolerate even a grain of sand in her eyes, she relentlessly targeted and persecuted the female lead. In the end, the male lead stripped her of her immortal bones and cast her down from the Immortal Execution Platform, where her soul scattered and she was forever denied rebirth.
Knowing the plot, Yuan Chu wanted nothing to do with this kind of two-women-fighting-over-one-man storyline. She only wanted to quietly become someone who ate, drank, and waited for death.
A salted fish.
A second-generation immortal, but unexpectedly, a strategy guide had been bound to her.
System.
The target of the strategy guide was—the fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged older sister whom that scumbag had brought back from the mortal realm.
Yuan Chu had been unwilling at first, but the system offered far too much. Thus, Yuan Chu diligently began raising the female lead's favorability—when the female lead was sick, she brewed medicine; when the female lead was hungry, she brought food; when the female lead could not sleep, she coaxed her to sleep. At last, she raised the favorability to ninety-nine.
On the night she dumped the scumbag, Yuan Chu went to celebrate with the "female lead," only to run into the fair-skinned beauty walking out of the bathhouse. Beneath his loose sleeping robes was a flat chest and eight firm abdominal muscles.
Yuan Chu: ...
Can someone tell me why the fair-skinned, beautiful, kind, and delicate "female lead" from the original novel had turned into a man!?
System: Ahem, there was an error in the information. This person is not the female lead, but the second male lead from the original novel with a tragic background. The good news is that his favorability has already maxed out.
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For certain reasons, Wen Xi infiltrated his mortal enemy's residence and assumed the identity of his concubine. To his surprise, his enemy's wife seemed to have had a screw loose and constantly fussed over him, showering him with attention.
When he was sick, she brewed medicine—though it was medicine to warm the womb and nourish the complexion.
When he was hungry, she brought him food—though it was pastries she had already eaten.
When he could not sleep, she coaxed him to sleep—though not a single note of the song she sang was in tune.
Wen Xi: She's being so considerate toward me. She must be harboring improper intentions toward me!
Still, in light of how virtuous she was, he reluctantly allowed Yuan Chu's disrespectful behavior toward him.
[Reading Guide]
1. 1V1, both leads are virgins, no BL, BG romance.
2. Not a traditional female-lead immortal heroic novel, nor a power fantasy. The female lead is a salted fish, the system is useless, and there is no cheat ability.
3. The male lead is white on the outside and black on the inside. He does not have an upright personality, but he is not a great villain bent on destroying heaven and earth either.
Confessing the Pregnancy
The moment Liu Changfei received Song Zhizhi's voice transmission, she rushed to Clear Snow Peak at top speed. She found Song Zhizhi pale-faced, sitting cross-legged on the ground and absorbing spiritual energy, yet the spiritual energy in her body was still continuously declining.
Liu Changfei was startled and hurried forward to examine Song Zhizhi.
The instant she felt Song Zhizhi's pulse, Liu Changfei frowned in confusion.
Seeing Liu Changfei's expression, Song Zhizhi's heart skipped a beat. She grabbed Liu Changfei's hand, her fingertips turning faintly white from the force of her grip.
Her lips trembled as she said in helpless panic, "The child..."
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