Even the Inner Demon Panicked

"System notification: sect establishment complete. Special reward obtained."

"Your disciples will each receive one free opportunity for enlightenment."

Li Shouyi: "..."

"Are you fucking insane?"

"Why do my disciples get a reward? Where's mine?"

"Insufficient host privileges. Please keep working hard!"

"System, fuck your uncle."

If he had the chance, what Li Shouyi wanted most right now was to find the lunatics who had developed this system. He guaranteed he wouldn't beat those idiots to death.

What the hell was the point of designing a system this braindead?

While he was thinking about this, the three disciples beside him suddenly entered a state of enlightenment.

At that moment, Li Shouyi seemed to hear the sound of the Great Dao ringing in his ears.

"The Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two..."

The voice made the corners of his mouth twitch as he thought to himself.

Good grief, the Dao De Jing has become another world's exclusive background music?

Looking at the three girls frozen in place, Li Shouyi casually waved his hand. They rose into the air and floated through the main entrance with him.

"Master, you're back."

Wu Suowei had just been about to head out to buy some more renovation supplies, but before he reached the entrance, he ran into Li Shouyi, who had just returned.

"Did you do all this?"

"No, this was the result of all my junior brothers and sisters working together."

"Well done. Once you get back, I'll teach you a new Daoist technique."

Wu Suowei was instantly overjoyed. "Thank you, Master!"

"Go take care of your work!"

With that, Li Shouyi continued floating forward with the three girls.

Wu Suowei could no longer contain the joy in his heart and shouted, "Haha, I knew I was right! As long as I do a good job..."

"One day, I'll earn Master's appreciation."

Wu Suowei gave the surrounding buildings another satisfied look.

Actually, he hadn't said it just now, but he really had led the others in doing all this. With his old personality, he might have claimed all the credit for himself.

But for some reason, when he saw Li Shouyi's stern face, the lie reached his lips and simply wouldn't come out.

Wu Suowei felt this was Li Shouyi's unique personal charisma. After all, someone who could teach a bunch of useless disciples faster than geniuses could train surely had a special charm of his own.

After taking each of the three girls back to her room, Li Shouyi made another circuit of the entire mountaintop.

He set up all the defensive formations he had bought in Phoenix City across the mountaintop.

Not many. Just ten full sets, that was all.

And every formation, once activated, could withstand attacks from Spirit Severing Realm cultivators.

Those ten formations had drained all his savings. Even the spirit stones he had swindled out of Tang Que and the others had all gone into them.

There was no helping it. His predecessor had offended someone he shouldn't have.

He had merely exchanged a few words with a woman, and her husband had held a grudge against him ever since.

A grudge that had lasted ten whole years!

Whenever he thought of this, Li Shouyi ground his teeth with hatred. He really wanted to crack open Wu Dalang's pig brain and see whether it was filled with nothing but water.

In two lifetimes, he had never seen an idiot who wanted to kill another man just because his wife had exchanged a few words with him.

Just then, he happened to finish setting up the final water-element defensive formation.

The shimmering ripples on the formation reflected his face.

Looking at that handsome face, Li Shouyi couldn't help sighing. "Sure enough, it's all because I'm too handsome. Ugly bastards jealous of me everywhere."

Boom...

The moment he finished speaking, a bolt of heavenly lightning struck him on the head.

Li Shouyi stood rooted to the spot, stunned.

Lin Shuishui felt as though she was in a state that defied description.

Like a dream, yet real; like mist, yet not.

She felt as though she stood on a frozen lake, with another Lin Shuishui beneath its surface staring intently up at her.

"Who are you?"

"Aren't I you?"

"Oh!"

"Don't you have anything else to ask?"

"No!"

"..."

The Heart Demon felt like a complete idiot. It didn't even know what it existed for anymore.

The Heart Demon was every cultivator's most terrifying nightmare, striking directly at the most primal desires buried in their hearts.

And what was Lin Shuishui's greatest desire again?

The Heart Demon began carefully searching its memory.

"Why aren't you talking anymore?" Lin Shuishui suddenly crouched on the lake's surface, staring intently at this person who looked exactly like her.

The Heart Demon racked its brains for ages before finally coming up with the perfect approach.

"Hey, what's your greatest wish?"

"To sleep."

"..."

Looking at the firm conviction on Lin Shuishui's face, the Heart Demon suddenly felt utterly exhausted.

But to invade this world, it still patiently continued asking, "Besides sleeping!"

Hearing this, Lin Shuishui knitted her delicate brows and thought carefully. A moment later, her big, adorable eyes suddenly lit up. "I hope Master never scolds me again."

"..."

Thump...

The Heart Demon kicked Lin Shuishui straight back into her original world.

It was now every bit as depressed as it had been excited upon sensing a wisp of Lin Shuishui's soul at the barrier between worlds.

After wandering here for hundreds of thousands of years, it had finally encountered a useless slacker who wanted to sleep all day. What good was that?

What it wanted was a lunatic who dreamed of conquering the whole world and trampling it underfoot!

While it was brooding, its eyes suddenly lit up.

Another soul's aura had appeared nearby.

Su Wan'er felt as though she had arrived somewhere strange. There seemed to be some special presence here, constantly drawing her toward it.

"Little girl, you've come!"

The sudden voice made Su Wan'er turn to look. She discovered a white-bearded old man smiling at her.

"Who are you, old man?"

Hearing this greeting, utterly devoid of respect for the old or affection for the young, the Heart Demon suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of foreboding.

"Hehe, I am the Envoy of Ten Thousand Worlds. I can grant anyone's wishes."

"Really?" The moment Su Wan'er heard this, her eyes lit up.

"That's right. Any wish can be granted."

Seeing the longing in Su Wan'er's eyes, the Heart Demon thought, Now that's more like it!

These were the eyes it wanted to see. Brimming with boundless desire—that meant this person's eyes would only grow wider.

To avoid letting a long night breed more trouble, it hurriedly continued, "Little girl, tell me your wish!"

After speaking, it released a strange aura that slowly drifted toward Su Wan'er.

But before the aura could reach her, Su Wan'er immediately said, "Come gamble a couple of rounds with me!"

"Of course. No problem."

Gambling was better than sleeping, at least. It wasn't as though it had never tempted a gambling addict before.

"Come on, come on! Bet big or small."

"Big."

"Here we go!"

"Haha, little girl, you're so lucky! You actually beat me. Now tell me your wish!"

The Heart Demon gleefully waited for Su Wan'er to state her wish so it could seize the opportunity to invade her body. But what happened instead?

"Are you insane?"

Su Wan'er's face suddenly filled with fury, and she viciously berated the Heart Demon.

The Heart Demon: ??

"Why did you bet big? Couldn't you have bet small?"

"Little girl, if I'd bet small, wouldn't you have lost?"

"I wanted to lose!"

"I've never won a single time gambling with anyone in my life! What gives you the right to make me win?"

"Who the hell are you? Did you come here specifically to piss me off?"

And so, Su Wan'er cursed the Heart Demon for an entire incense stick's worth of time, until it finally couldn't stand it anymore.

It kicked Su Wan'er back as well.

Its entire old face was now crimson. If it hadn't been unable to hurt Su Wan'er, it swore it would have torn that little brat's foul mouth apart.

Good grief, she cursed me for an entire incense stick without repeating a single line. Did you fucking graduate from Zaun?

Just then, the scent of another soul's aura drifted over from nearby.

At that moment, the Heart Demon panicked.