Chapter 1: 70% of the world collapsed, the system exploded
The spring dawn breaks and the winter chill gradually warms up.
Tens of thousands of boats and ships were bustling around the island, and the island was bustling with activity. It seemed like they hadn't seen such a lively scene in many a while. The fishermen living near the island all looked out to see the monks coming ashore in the midst of the hustle and bustle, and talked about them.
"Hey! Penglai has opened its gates! This is the first time I've seen so many monks!"
"Really? Doesn't the young master from the mountain often come to the village to buy fish?"
"How can they be the same? Haven't you heard that saying? The sect rules established by our Penglai Daozu when he ascended to heaven: Unless a great mission is bestowed upon us by Heaven, we cannot open a mountain here."
"Wow! Now that's serious. What are these outsiders doing here?"
The dark and strong man was about to answer when a young man suddenly came in from the side.
The young man asked gently, "Excuse me, is this the Penglai Fairy Island?"
He looked as if the moonlight was brushing his face, but his moon-white robe was stained with dust from the journey. A long sword wrapped in tattered cloth hung at his waist, making him look a little disheveled.
The dark and strong man had rarely seen such a handsome young man. His face suddenly turned red, and he just nodded, unable to say a word.
Ruan Xuanzhi smiled gently, his cheeks slightly sunken, and he seemed thin and unrecognizable. He bowed to the fishermen, and they only then saw that he was carrying a girl on his back.
The girl bore a striking resemblance to him, save for a red mole between her eyebrows. She looked considerably younger, evidently still relatively young. She lay on Ruan Ruanzhi's back, her eyes tightly closed, her face pale as a sheet of paper, as pale as the cold moon hanging in the night sky.
Ruan Ruanzhi carried her on his back, his steps were a little slow, but he still walked steadily to the foot of Penglai Mountain.
He turned around and whispered, "Weiwei, we're here."
Ruan Wei used all his strength but couldn't move his little finger.
No, cheap brother, please say a few more words. Where have we arrived?
She was almost cursing the entire way as the boat rocked on the sea, feeling only that her cheap brother never left her side. Ten days! She had been lying beside Ruan Ruanzhi for a full ten days, and this was the first sentence Ruan Ruanzhi had ever spoken to her.
The system in my brain is still lobbying.
"Seeing Ruan Ruanzhi suffer so much, don't you feel bad? Don't you want to smooth his brows? Don't you want to stay and save this crumbling cultivation world?"
Ruan Wei choked, "I really want to see it!"
Her current body was so weak that she couldn't even open her eyes. She could only lie limply on Ruan Ruanzhi like a puddle of water.
The system was also choked and hurried to explain.
[You've been poisoned by the Ruan family. As long as you follow the plot and ascend to Penglai, successfully become their disciple, and draw Qi into your body, you'll be able to receive the infusion of spiritual energy. After that, mere poisons won't scare you, and you'll naturally gain strength.]
Ruan Wei took a deep breath and rolled his eyes. "I mean, I really want to climb up!"
The system was silent, and the sound of flipping pages of a book rang in Ruan Wei's mind.
"That's not right. How could that be? It clearly says: Ruan Wei climbed up to Penglai and became the 58th generation direct disciple of the Penglai Immortal Sect."
The AI can even turn pages and provide its own voice-overs.
Ruan Wei suppressed his burning desire to complain and asked seriously, "Is it really true... that I can't go back?"
The sound of turning pages suddenly stopped, and the system's childish voice rang out.
[Well, you can't go back, and there's no need to go back.]
The electronic voice was so cold that it felt like an iron nail piercing her heart.
Ruan Wei is a college student.
During the school lockdown, Ruan Wei felt unwell and asked her counselor for leave to go to the hospital. The counselor flatly rejected Ruan Wei's request, saying that someone like Ruan Wei, who could throw the shot put 800 meters, shouldn't have to worry about poor health.
Ruan Wei was so angry that she got up in the middle of the night and posted an 800-word essay on her WeChat Moments to curse.
She got too angry and suddenly had heart palpitations, which triggered a heart attack that was hereditary in her family.
When he wanted to open his eyes after passing out, he had already returned to Ruan Wei's body in this world and couldn't open his eyes.
During the hours of her day when she was unaware of the darkness of the sky and earth and the time of morning and evening, she could only rely on Ruan Ruanzhi's breathing in her ears, the snoring of other people in the cabin and the rustling echo of the waves to determine where she was.
It was not until this morning when the boat docked and Ruan Ruanzhi carried her on his back and set foot on this land that the voice of the system suddenly rang in Ruan Wei's mind.
It was also the system that told Ruan Wei the script of this world.
The more Ruan Wei listened, the more familiar it sounded. Isn't this the same melodramatic and brainless love story that her junior high school cousin wrote in her documents every day for her own entertainment?
This is a fun novel that combines popular elements such as sadomasochism, revenge, redemption, and upgrade flow.
In short, the more melodramatic it is, the better.
After the original owner, Ruan Wei, joined the Penglai sect, his brother, Ruan Ruanzhi, returned to the Ruan family to seize power, and Penglai was subsequently closed off. Subsequently, the demons launched a massacre of the aristocratic families on the border of the cultivation world. The Penglai Immortal Sect then accepted the twins from the massacred families. Later, demonic unrest erupted in the border fiefdoms, and the Penglai sect leader brought back a child from the demonic realm.
Together with the eldest brother who was born on Penglai Island, the five most vengeful species of Penglai Immortal Sect have gathered together.
The demon world is ready to make a move, and all the major sects in the cultivation world have stepped up their training. Due to the special nature of the illusionary world surrounding Penglai, the leaders of the cultivation world have agreed to send their disciples to Penglai for training every time a centennial competition comes.
The light of righteousness, the hero appeared, and the original owner fell in love with him like a moth to a flame. She gave him elixirs, skills, money, and everything she had, willing to give it to the hero. She saved the hero when he was in trouble, and she also saved the hero's junior sister when she was in trouble. The main point is that love for the owner extends to the owner's family.
Then, while saving the poisoned hero, she even gave the holy object that could cure her own poison to the poisoned hero, and then the original owner died gloriously. The hero wept bitterly and regarded the original owner as the eternal white moonlight in his heart.
Later, the war between immortals and demons began. The eldest disciple of Penglai Immortal Sect saved a demon cultivator and was labeled a traitor, and turned evil; the third and fourth disciples were ruthless in their revenge, implicated innocent people and were labeled evil cultivators, and turned evil; the last junior disciple was talked about for having impure blood, and after many blows, he completely fell into the devil in his heart, turned into a demon cultivator, and became the final villain boss of the whole story.
In the end, the once prosperous Penglai Immortal Sect became a devil's den among the people in the cultivation world.
Ruan Wei remembered that the endings of her fellow apprentices were not good.
She recalled the system's cold AI voice.
The battle between good and evil finally came to an end. Fu Yi, a disciple of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, acted on behalf of Heaven and challenged the Demon Lord of Penglai. The two battled for days, their vast spiritual energy and demonic energy clashing, and the vast forest of ten thousand acres gave way to a ravine several feet deep. The Demon Lord was defeated and buried in Cangshan Mountain. The major sects led their armies to eliminate the remaining remnants of the Penglai forces. From then on, the seas and rivers were clear, and the world was at peace.
Ruan Wei listened in fascination.
Ruan Wei, there's no going back. You're the person I finally brought back after traveling through three thousand small worlds, the one most suitable to complete the mission of saving the world. I've spent all my energy turning back time to our earliest encounter, just to ensure I can save the world.
Ruan Wei felt an inexplicable hatred in his heart. The sea was calm and the river was clear, the world was at peace, "Why save the world?"
She pointed at the eight words and said, "Isn't it right that the world is like this?"
【That’s not right.】
Ruan Wei's voice was emotionless. "Okay, I don't think it's right either."
Since the self-proclaimed righteous salvation system also said that this ending was wrong, she was stubborn by nature. When Ruan Wei saw it for the first time, she felt that this ending should not be written like this.
Ruan Wei asked, "What is Haiyan? Why is it peaceful?"
Therefore, the livelihoods of all people in the world can be stable and peaceful, and all humans, ghosts, immortals, Buddhas and Taoists can be praised as peaceful.
So Ruan Wei agreed to this agreement in his mind.
When the system saw that she agreed, Ruan Wei actually heard a hint of happiness in his smooth AI voice.
[Concentrate your attention and look deep into your sea of consciousness. That's the world collapse index being detected right now. It's calculated using the methods of your world. Everything starts from scratch. Don't worry, this mission of saving the world is easy to accomplish—]
Ruan Wei followed his instructions and looked intently. She was shocked, silent, and then she spoke, "70%?"
The chattering system seemed to be suddenly strangled by someone, and after a moment:
[No——Impossible! This is impossible. The possibility of the world collapsing cannot be this high!]
Ruan Wei was given a headache by his shouting, "Alright, alright, whatever, I'll do it anyway."
For a moment, the system seemed to laugh softly, and something seemed to shatter in the mind, and a sudden burst of energy rushed towards Ruan Wei's sea of consciousness.
Ruan Wei was shocked, "What is this...?"
Her sea of consciousness suddenly went silent, and her spirit suddenly became dizzy.
At this time, Ruan Ruanzhi was taking out a piece of rope from the mustard bag and was about to tie Ruan Wei to himself. He wanted to climb up and bring Ruan Wei to the Penglai Immortal Sect and ask the sect to save Ruan Wei.
The monks passing by sneered, "Why are you dragging him up the mountain to become a disciple? What wishful thinking! Do you think the Penglai Cloud Ladder is a joke?"
"I'm just a casual cultivator, kid. I'd like to kindly remind you. Once you step onto the Penglai Cloud Ladder, spiritual energy and magical tools are forbidden. You can't turn back or pause. There's also an illusionary realm along the way. If you take a step back, you'll be ejected and thrown into the sea."
"Yes, yes. You have spiritual power so maybe you'll be fine. But the child on your back has no spiritual power at all, so he may not survive."
Upon hearing this, Ruan Ruanzhi's long eyelashes drooped slightly, and then she suddenly raised her eyes to look at the people around her.
Just now, he had his head down and no one could see him clearly. Now that he suddenly appeared, many people recognized Ruan Ruanzhi's identity, "Hiss—it's that Qilinzi of the Ruan family!"
"Oh my god, it seems the rumors are true. The head of the Ruan family suddenly passed away, and the young master of the Ruan family and his sister are nowhere to be found. The Ruan family even issued a missing person notice."
"These noble families are just like that, fighting for power all the time. Judging by the way these two are acting, the succession of the new head of the Ruan family a few days ago was not a simple matter."
After recognizing his identity, the sneers stopped, but the crowd continued to talk.
Ruan Ruanzhi seemed to have heard nothing and still carried Ruan Wei on his back. After bowing and thanking the monk who had just reminded him, he stepped onto the white jade stairs where he could see the scorching sun as if it had no end.
Anyway, it won't be worse than it is now.
The monk guarding the ladder glanced at the two of them and did not express any objection to their behavior.
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