Chapter 1 The White Moonlight Kills the Male and Female Protagonists (1)
Within the realm of nothingness lies the place where the most wicked and evil spirits of the world are imprisoned.
Cages hang from the jagged rocks, and inside them, cries of agony and wailing fill the air.
Inside one of the cages forged from meteorite iron, a woman lay motionless, seemingly lifeless.
"I never imagined that the daughter of the mighty General Haohuang would be imprisoned with us demons and heretics!"
"Jin Shu, Jin Shu, you've finally met your match. Where is your beloved Master Canglan? How could he bear to lock you up here?"
"Hahaha, Jin Shu, you crippled my cultivation back then, causing me to fall to this state. Now you're locked up here like a pig or a dog, just like me. Jin Shu, the days ahead are long, and I'll make sure you suffer a terrible death!!"
The woman in the cage was on the verge of death, lying on the blood-stained stone slab, looking up at the endless darkness before her.
Master, why do you treat me like this?
In a daze, the humiliating sounds in her ears seemed to disappear, and the tightly closed void slowly opened, revealing a peerless figure emerging from the bright white light.
He wore a silver robe, a purple flute at his waist, and had a handsome face, just as stunning as when we first met.
"Master..."
She looked at him, a glimmer of hope rising in her heart.
Putting her hatred aside, she still wondered if her master had softened and come to take her away from here.
Backlit, the man's voice seemed to come from the clouds, lacking any sense of reality.
"Jin Shu, do you know your mistake?"
"What wrong has my disciple done?"
That medicinal herb was the one I found, so why should Meng Ling's mistake be made up for with a medicinal herb that I painstakingly searched for?
Jin Shu's voice was already very weak, but even so she still stubbornly raised her head and looked at the man in front of her.
"Meng Ling is your junior sister. As fellow disciples, we share the same fate. However, you only cared about your own selfish desires and angered the Queen Mother of the West, causing your junior sister to be on the verge of death with her soul and spirit damaged. This has also made the Queen Mother of the West resent all the disciples of our sect from now on."
Faced with a greater cause, you only cared about yourself, and even now you show no remorse!
"Hehehehe..."
Jin Shu couldn't help but laugh.
The indescribable despair and chill in her heart made her feel that her whole life had been utterly ridiculous, and that the man before her was the one she had loved for a thousand years.
Her voice drifted, as if it would dissipate at any moment, yet her tone remained persistent and firm.
“The spiritual herb was obtained with great effort and sacrifice; it is my only hope for restoring my spiritual root… and you, you clearly promised to use it to help me restore my spiritual root.”
As your master, you are the one who broke your promise and betrayed your principles, yet now you are the one harboring selfish motives while spouting absurd and grandiose rhetoric!
"Unrepentant and disregarding camaraderie for personal gain, he continues to act willfully and will inevitably suffer the consequences!"
"I will no longer need my master's instruction; I am about to die."
Jin Shu struggled to turn over, clearly feeling her consciousness fading.
Just then, a man's voice came from above.
"You cannot die yet. Ling'er is severely injured and possessed by evil spirits. She needs your blood to purify her spiritual veins. If you cooperate obediently, I will consider reducing your punishment."
Just then, several other voices came from all directions.
Her closest fellow disciples, upon first stepping through this door, the first thing they said to her was...
“Junior sister, you and Ling’er are from the same sect. Now that the world is in chaos, only Ling’er can quell everything. Even for the sake of the greater good, you should not refuse her.”
"My senior sister is always very understanding and righteous; she would never refuse to help with this."
"Senior Sister Jin Shu, if you hadn't seized the spiritual herbs back then, how could Junior Sister Ling'er have been injured by the evil spirits? Today, you have to save her whether you want to or not!"
The evil spirit in the cage nearby mocked them sinisterly.
"Hahahaha, everyone's hoping you die! Jin Shu, just die already!"
"Once you've been used up, you're just trash that can be discarded at any time! You're not even as good as us!"
"The Golden Fairy was so high and mighty back then, but now her life is as worthless as grass, and she can only be someone else's scapegoat, hahahahaha."
Amidst the piercing laughter, Jin Shu felt as if all the strength had been drained from her body.
She sneered, looking at the four men in front of her.
One was her respected master, the man she had secretly loved in her heart for thousands of years.
The other three were her fellow students who grew up together, and their friendship was as deep as that of siblings from the same mother.
Now, these four people only want her blood to save another woman.
What if I say I don't want to?
The cold voice carried no pity or compassion, only boundless chill.
"If you refuse, then you will only face death."
"Hehehehe... A dead end?"
From the moment she was locked up, she had no intention of leaving alive.
What is there to fear in death? It is living that is most pathetic.
Through the cage, Jin Shu suddenly pulled out a sharp blade made of meteorite iron from her sleeve and resolutely and decisively slit her own throat.
At this moment, she finally saw the panic in her master's eyes.
Unfortunately, this moment of panic wasn't for her, but for his precious little apprentice whom he cherished dearly.
"Jin Shu!! You're insane!!"
Several men rushed forward, but Jin Shu didn't give them any chance, gritting her teeth and shouting.
"I will die rather than let you have your way!"
Jin Shu had imagined countless ways to die: going mad from internal energy, dying on the battlefield... but she never thought that one day she would take her own life.
Her consciousness faded, her soul departed, and her world plunged into endless darkness.
Name: Jin Shu.
Gender: Female.
Age: 4,583 years old.
Race: Immortal
Spiritual compatibility: 100%.
Connection confirmed.
Connecting... 1, 2, 3 connected successfully.
The system was successfully bound within 48 hours.
The time flow ratio between the human realm and the immortal realm is 7:1, and the system is automatically upgrading in 48 hours.
Upgrade successful, completed in 294 hours.
"Given that your life points have reached zero and the system has detected a strong will to survive, the system has automatically bound you."
Hello, host Jin Shu. I am your time agent, Arno.
I hope we can have a pleasant collaboration in the future.
The emotionless, mechanical voice jolted Jin Shu awake from her nightmare.
She suddenly opened her eyes, struggled to sit up, and looked around at everything with rapid breathing.
The room was bright and clean, with pure white everywhere you looked. Inside, there was a pear wood desk and a bamboo table and chairs. A breeze blew in from outside the window, and the sound of silver bells hanging outside the window drifted into the room with the gentle wind.
The familiar scent of irises wafts through the air.
Jin Shu stared blankly to her left and right, her mind a complete blank.
She stiffened her hand and slowly wiped it on her face.
The dampness on my fingertips is from tears.
It was as if she had a very long nightmare, in which everything seemed to have actually happened, so terrifying that even now, thinking back on it still makes her heart tremble. That real and unforgettable despair and grief surges up like a tide.
(End of this chapter)
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