The Great Yu Dynasty's Eldest Princess, Qi Zhaoyue!

Smack, smack, smack!

Red candles flickered on the gilded stand, their wicks crackling with tiny sparks.

Warmth filled the hibiscus bed curtains.

Long hair flowed with every movement; cloudlike tresses, a flowerlike face, a swaying gold hairpin. Her fair body exuded a subtle fragrance, sweat gliding over skin as smooth as cream...

"Hah!"

"So what if you're the Great Yu Dynasty's eldest princess, the world's third-ranked female sword immortal? You're still just a..."

The woman did not stop. Looking down at him, she pressed both hands against his chest.

"Didn't you... leave out a couple of words?"

Her fair face was cold and noble, seemingly untouched by the slightest trace of mortal dust.

Yet now fragrant sweat covered her entire body, sliding over her snow-white skin, which was flushed an unusual shade of crimson.

"As long as you know..."

The man squeezed hard, and her delicate brows drew together slightly.

"Xu Changsheng, I know you hate me. You hate me for taking away your freedom..."

"So here in the Lotus Grotto-Heaven, I'll accept whatever you call me. Whatever you want me to do, whatever you want me to call you, anything is fine."

Qi Zhaoyue leaned down, her warm breath brushing Xu Changsheng's ear as she spoke each word distinctly.

"Master, Daddy, husband... whatever you want, I can satisfy you."

"This is what I, Qi Zhaoyue, owe you."

"But if you want to leave the Lotus Grotto-Heaven, that is absolutely impossible."

On that final sentence, Qi Zhaoyue's tone turned abruptly icy, leaving no room whatsoever for negotiation.

Xu Changsheng held her slender, fair waist, his voice softening with a hint of probing.

"Is there really... no room to negotiate at all?!"

"Qi Zhaoyue, you're the Great Yu Dynasty's eldest princess, an unparalleled, pure and immaculate female sword immortal, a peerless beauty on the Rouge Ranking. What kind of man couldn't you have?"

"Why must you keep clinging to me?"

Qi Zhaoyue's eyes were hazy and thick with moisture as she softly called, "Xu Changsheng..."

"It's different..."

"Although my master often praises my talent, calling me a sword immortal seed seen only once in a thousand years..."

"The Great Yu Dynasty alone has no fewer than ten billion registered households, yet even so, our territory spans only nine provinces."

"The entire White Jade World has three thousand provinces."

"How many people is that?"

"Not to mention the other three worlds beyond the White Jade World."

"Put them all together..."

"Yet!"

"Among all those countless trillions of people, not a single 'immortal' has appeared in a hundred thousand years."

"Do you think I'll be the next?"

Her dark hair flying, Qi Zhaoyue spoke quietly.

Though there was self-mockery in her words, her expression held not the slightest dejection or despair.

"Well..."

Xu Changsheng fell silent.

He knew Qi Zhaoyue spoke the truth.

This world was boundless, its geniuses as numerous as carp crossing a river, yet since that battle a hundred thousand years ago, there had been no more "immortals."

Even if Qi Zhaoyue was hailed as a sword genius seen only once in a thousand years in the Great Yu Dynasty...

To become one of those eternal immortal sovereigns people spoke of, whose lives endured as long as heaven and earth, whose thoughts reached everywhere and could reverse time and space...

Difficult!

Difficult!!

Difficult!!!

Seeing Xu Changsheng fall silent, Qi Zhaoyue offered him her red lips.

"Worldly troubles gather like cold frost; the plum defies the snow, its fragrance unchanged. Countless tribulations grind the bones and forge the heart into iron; ascend the summit once again and claim immortality!"

"No one can stand in the way of my eternal life..."

"Otherwise..."

"They will be my mortal enemy..."

"Until death!"

"No rest!"

"Hiss!"

Xu Changsheng felt the sharp pain on his lips as he looked at the resolute Qi Zhaoyue.

"You really are a lunatic!"

As he spoke, he pushed Qi Zhaoyue down onto the bed, opened his mouth, and bit hard into her jade-white shoulder.

His teeth left deep marks in her skin, and he only released her after tasting blood.

"Qi Zhaoyue! One day, you'll regret this!"

"Mmm!"

Qi Zhaoyue stretched her fair neck, its curves graceful as a swan's, her ten translucent toes curling slightly.

"I'll... be waiting..."

Attention: time began to speed up.

Two hours later.

A silver chain graced her slender waist as she stepped onto the fragrant stairs, bracing herself against the door with gold-embroidered shoes in hand.

At the doorway.

Qi Zhaoyue looked back at Xu Changsheng, whose face was pale and whose breathing was weak.

"Thank you, Xu Changsheng, for helping me break through to the eleventh realm..."

With that, she left barefoot.

"So what if you're the Great Yu Dynasty's eldest princess, cold and pure as a lotus, the world's third-ranked female sword immortal? You still had to lean on the door to walk!"

"..."

Qi Zhaoyue's steps paused slightly, but she did not look back.

She continued walking up into the sky, step by step. With every step, a pure white lotus bloomed beneath her feet.

This was a phenomenon that the Great Dao manifested on its own after her breakthrough to the Celestial Person Realm.

When she reached the heavenly gate of the Lotus Grotto-Heaven...

With a light wave of her delicate hand, a blood-red dress appeared out of thin air and covered her creamy, jade-white body.

Her long hair stirred without wind, and powerful Celestial Person pressure radiated from her. She seemed entirely different from the woman who had writhed in pleasure in bed moments earlier.

"Fuck!"

Looking at the Lotus Grotto-Heaven, where he was once again all alone, Xu Changsheng slammed his fist into the brocade quilt in grief and anger.

"Qi Zhaoyue really has gotten stronger again. Now she doesn't even need me to dress her..."

"If this goes on..."

"When will I ever get out of this damned Lotus Grotto-Heaven?"

A long while later.

Only when his lower back no longer ached so badly did Xu Changsheng get out of bed.

As he cleaned the room with its lingering air of debauchery and opened the windows to let in fresh air, he grumbled helplessly to himself.

Unbelievable!

Other transmigrators all get systems. They start out as trash and turn their fortunes around, or they're heaven's chosen from the beginning, with beauties in both arms as they reach the pinnacle of life.

But me...

I've been here for eleven years. Not only have I failed to live above others, I've become someone else's cultivation furnace, imprisoned in this godforsaken place for ten whole years.

Am I the most humiliating transmigrator in history?

That was right. Xu Changsheng was a transmigrator.

Eleven years earlier, he had been staying up late to finish a proposal in his rented apartment in the twenty-first century.

Then his vision went black. When he woke again, he had arrived in this unfamiliar world of immortal cultivation.

When he first transmigrated, Xu Changsheng had been penniless. Unable to understand this world's language either, he had nearly starved to death on the streets.

Later, he had luckily come across a recruitment drive for servants at the residence of the Great Yu Dynasty's eldest princess.

Thanks to a body that counted as robust even compared with first-realm Skin Refining cultivators, he successfully entered the eldest princess's residence and became a stablehand of the lowest rank.

Although he had a great deal of work to do every day, he at least had shelter from the wind and rain and no longer needed to fear starving on the streets.

During his days at the eldest princess's residence, Xu Changsheng slowly learned this world's language and gradually gained a rudimentary understanding of the world itself.

The world he lived in was called the White Jade World, one of four worlds.

The country he lived in was the Great Yu Dynasty, which had been founded thirty thousand years earlier.

The Great Yu Dynasty's emperor was named Qi Tianqi, a powerful cultivator whose cultivation was unfathomable.

His mistress was the Great Yu Dynasty's eldest princess, Qi Zhaoyue.

At first, Xu Changsheng had been sincerely grateful to Qi Zhaoyue. After all, only because her residence had taken him in had he been able to survive in this dangerous fantasy world.

Moreover, he had been taught a basic breathing method, the "Qi Guiding Instruction."

Although this was a basic cultivation method that every servant in the eldest princess's residence could learn, it had nevertheless given Xu Changsheng hope of embarking on the path of immortal cultivation and pursuing eternal life.

Xu Changsheng cultivated exceptionally hard.

While others cultivated for only two hours a day, he cultivated for six. While others found the "Qi Guiding Instruction" dull and tedious, he carefully pondered every word.

Hard work paid off.

In just half a month, Xu Changsheng successfully drew qi into his body and became a first-realm Skin Refining cultivator.

What delighted Xu Changsheng even more was...

A year later, his body underwent a strange transformation.

Xu Changsheng discovered that his physical body grew a little stronger on its own every day. Even without cultivating, his strength and speed steadily increased.

Only later did Xu Changsheng learn that this constitution was called the Divine Yang Sacred Physique, one of the legendary supreme physiques.

If someone with this physique followed the path of martial cultivation, they could one day hold the sun and moon in their hands, punch open the nine heavens, and reach the very pinnacle of the world.

But everything went wrong because...

Xu Changsheng had understood nothing at the time, and he reported the awakening of his physique.

Xu Changsheng hoped this would earn the eldest princess's attention.

Then he would be able to cultivate profound methods and become a powerful immortal cultivator.

Qi Zhaoyue had indeed taken it very seriously, summoning him straight to her private chambers.

To this day, Xu Changsheng still remembered how he had felt the first time he was summoned to the eldest princess's chambers.

Nervous and excited, he had imagined gaining the eldest princess's special favor and rising swiftly through the ranks.

But Xu Changsheng had never imagined.

That night...

This eldest princess of the Great Yu Dynasty, whose hand even her consort Jiang Tianqi was not allowed to touch, the seventh-ranked female sword immortal among the Great Yu realm's younger generation, the beauty ranked third on the Great Yu Rouge Ranking, Qi Zhaoyue, forced Xu Changsheng...

The next day.

Qi Zhaoyue publicly announced that Xu Changsheng had become her death sworn and that she would train him in secret.

Everyone thought Xu Changsheng had struck it lucky and risen to the heavens in a single step.

But in truth...

Qi Zhaoyue had locked Xu Changsheng directly inside her little world, the Lotus Grotto-Heaven.

Only then did Xu Changsheng learn the name of his physique.

And...

The Divine Yang Sacred Physique was not only immensely beneficial to its bearer. To female cultivators, it was also a top-tier cultivation furnace rarely found even in a million years.

Supposedly, only one had appeared in High Antiquity, and it had enabled the rise of the world's first female immortal sovereign.

After that, Qi Zhaoyue came to "cultivate" with Xu Changsheng almost every night.

In just ten years.

Starting from the seventh realm, the Golden Core Realm, Qi Zhaoyue had soared all the way to the peak of the tenth realm, the Dao Enlightenment Realm, at the astonishing pace of nearly one breakthrough every three years.

Just now...

Using the Divine Yang Sacred Physique essence Xu Changsheng had accumulated over half a month, she had stepped into the Celestial Person Realm, gaining a lifespan of a thousand years.

She had also become the youngest Celestial Person Realm expert in the Great Yu Dynasty.

Xu Changsheng, on the other hand, had the essence of his Divine Yang Sacred Physique squeezed dry by Qi Zhaoyue almost every day.

As a result, he was still in the first realm, the Skin Refining Realm.

The only thing worth being thankful for was...

Qi Zhaoyue had somehow acquired an unusual treasure from High Antiquity-the "Life and Death Sharing Pact."

She had signed this pact with Xu Changsheng. From then on, they shared life and death, as well as their lifespans.

In other words...

With Qi Zhaoyue's thousand-year lifespan, Xu Changsheng could also live for a thousand years.

But!

Whenever he thought of having to remain imprisoned for a thousand years, or even longer, in this Lotus Grotto-Heaven where he was always alone except at night.

Xu Changsheng could not accept it!

"Qi Zhaoyue!"

"One day, I'll make you regret what you've done!"

Just then, a cold, mechanical voice suddenly rang out in Xu Changsheng's mind.

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[Detected that the host never acted recklessly despite possessing a supreme physique, instead staying low in the same location for ten years, deeply grasping the essence of the Dao of Staying Low. Activation requirements for the Dao of Staying Low Sainthood System met. System officially activated.]

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