Would the Original Plot Go Completely Off the Rails?

Tang Yan watched Xiao Jixue and Si Yu play chess for a while longer.

Seeing that it was nearly one in the afternoon, he said goodbye to the three of them and headed back to his room for a nap.

Back in the modern world, he had taken a nap every noon. Without one, he would get drowsy in the afternoon.

Tang Yan gave a listless yawn.

I'm dying of sleepiness. I'm practically a sleepy dog.

Back in his room, Tang Yan was just about to lie down when he suddenly remembered he had not eaten lunch.

So he got up again, dug out a Fasting Pill, tossed it into his mouth, and gulped it down.

These Fasting Pills taste awful. They're nowhere near as good as a proper meal.

My mouth's so bland I can barely stand it. Too bad I can't cook, and spirit fruit alone won't fill me up. Sigh, my life is so miserable. Nine missed meals in three days...

Outside, Xiao Jixue's hand paused in midair as he was about to place a piece.

Then he said casually, "Make sure you remember what I asked of you earlier."

A meaningful smile tugged at Si Yu's lips.

He had been wondering why a certain someone had asked them to search far and wide for a cultivation method that would allow someone to start over.

Once he saw Tang Yan, who had lost both his Golden Core and his cultivation, Si Yu understood everything.

"Don't worry. We'll get it all sorted out for you."

He had never seen such a tender side to his tough friend before. Hehe~~

Lin Yichen, standing beside them, also said with a smile, "I'll send word back in a bit and have the Lin Family help look."

Xiao Jixue nodded and gave them both a grateful look. "Thank you."

He had already searched the Ten Thousand Swords Sect's library.

The methods there were either low-level ones that could only take someone as far as Deity Transformation at most,

or incompatible with Tang Yan's spirit root attributes and therefore unsuitable for him.

That was why he had thought to ask the three of them to make inquiries.

The Si Family, the Huo Family, and the Lin Family had long been renowned on the Immortal Spirit Continent. Perhaps they might have other leads.

After Si Yu and Lin Yichen left, Xiao Jixue summoned Purple Dawn Peak's three chore disciples and gave them a few instructions.

Then he left Purple Dawn Peak to pay his master a visit.

"Have you heard? Medicine Peak's Peak Master, Xu You, has a biological daughter, and it isn't Xu Zhenzhen. It's a female Foundation Building cultivator named Wei Lianyi."

"Huh? What's going on? Xu Zhenzhen has been doted on by Peak Master Xu since she was little. She's actually a fake?"

"I heard Peak Master Xu learned that Xu Zhenzhen was in the Divine Seclusion Mountains. Worried that something might happen to her, he went there to look for her.

Then he found Xu Zhenzhen chasing Wei Lianyi down to kill her. When he took a look, he realized Wei Lianyi looked incredibly like his late wife, so he brought her back.

He checked using a bloodline tracing technique, and would you believe it? Wei Lianyi was his biological daughter! Xu Zhenzhen really was an impostor who'd occupied someone else's place for years."

"Serves her right. Now that his real daughter's back, Xu Zhenzhen will have to step aside."

Everyone in the Ten Thousand Swords Sect knew how deeply Peak Master Xu had loved his late wife.

That love had extended to Xu Zhenzhen, the daughter his late wife had supposedly borne him. Over the years,

he had treated her like something so precious that he feared even the slightest harm might come to her.

He had spoiled her rotten.

Now that he knew Xu Zhenzhen was not his late wife's daughter, would he still dote on her as he had before?

"Still, Wei Lianyi really is lucky."

"Overnight, she got a Dao Venerable for a father and a Heavenly Venerable for a grandfather. Anyone would be green with envy."

"Man, why can't I be some mighty cultivator's long-lost son? When will that kind of outrageous fortune come my way?

"You'd be better off going to bed right now."

"..."

Having just woken up, Tang Yan found that Xiao Jixue was not home, so he went out to ask Purple Dawn Peak's chore disciples where he was.

As soon as he stepped outside, he saw the three of them carrying spirit rice, spirit vegetables, and spirit fruit into the kitchen while chattering quietly.

Tang Yan stopped in his tracks when he heard what they were discussing.

His handsome brows drew together, and deep confusion filled his eyes.

Peak Master Xu found the female lead and brought her back?!

What kind of bizarre development is this?

In the original plot, Wei Lianyi should have jumped off a cliff at this point to escape Xu Zhenzhen's pursuit.

Then, at the bottom of the cliff, she would stumble upon a great opportunity meant for her and advance from the peak of Foundation Building straight to early Golden Core.

After leaving the bottom of the cliff, she would run into Xu Zhenzhen yet again and go on the run once more.

Only three years later, after joining the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, would she reunite with her family, face people making trouble for her, and put all sorts of cannon fodder in their place... embarking on her ridiculously badass cultivation journey.

Why has this plot point happened three years early?!

Could my transmigration into the novel have caused a butterfly effect?

Just then, the system's mechanical voice sounded in Tang Yan's mind.

[Host, from the moment you transmigrated into the novel, this book ceased to be a book and became a real world.]

[Everyone in this world is no longer merely an NPC. They are flesh and blood.]

[The original plot has also changed because of the dimensional shift and the intervention of certain mysterious forces, such as this system. Some plot points will happen early, some will disappear, and new ones may emerge.]

[You don't need to dwell on it. Those derailed plot points have nothing to do with you.]

The system made up nonsense with a perfectly straight face.

Come on.

The host had no idea other people could hear his thoughts. How interesting! How fun!

Hehe~~ No way was it going to let its host catch on.

The Purple Star Sea wiggled its little body.

That's right! It just loved having fun!

What else was binding itself to a host for, if not to have fun?

Besides, it was a second-generation system. Its mom was the Lord God. Who would dare complain? Hmph! (●'◡'●)ﾉ♥

The tension between Tang Yan's brows eased slightly.

So you're saying the plot might go completely off the rails from here?

[Yep.]

That would depend on how much gossip he dug up and how much information he let slip.

[But even if the plot changes, the world's fundamental main storyline won't.]

[For example, Wei Lianyi and Nangong Lin are still this world's protagonists, and they still bear the responsibility of saving it.]

Tang Yan's heart sank.

What about Xiao Jixue, then?

Would he still become the main villain in the end?

The system, which could read his mind, spoke in a quiet, lingering tone.

[Host, isn't your mission to win Xiao Jixue over and stop him from turning evil? If you succeed, he won't be a villain.]

Phew! That's good, that's good. Tang Yan's expression relaxed.