"Damn, I really am destined to be a villain. How come all the people I abandoned are doing so well? I'm like this..."
Xie Zhou thought of Ling Fengque, Xiao Kuang, the little monk, and her ex-husband. Which one of them wasn't a figure who shocked the cultivation world? What was even more terrifying was that her ex-husband had actually managed to expand the original three major sects into four, making them the second most powerful figures in the cultivation world after Ling Fengque.
Xie Zhou couldn't help but sigh at the cruel twist of fate.
Similarly, the reason why the four major sects are distributed in four different places in the cultivation world is mainly to suppress those extremely yin and evil creatures. For example, the Ghost Forest of the Sword Sect suppresses the Devouring Beast. The other four cultivation sects each suppress a different otherworldly creature.
The four entrances that connect the other world and the cultivation world have been suppressed by the four major sects. However, a thousand years have passed and there has been no abnormality in these other world gates.
Things from other worlds are immortal and indestructible. Only by obtaining the supreme treasure, Phoenix Dance in the Nine Heavens, can they be completely destroyed. However, a thousand years have passed, and no one knows what Phoenix Dance in the Nine Heavens is.
It's not that no one has tried; it's that everyone who has tried has vanished without a trace, and no one knows whether they are alive or dead.
Under these circumstances, the major sects did not want their talented children to lose their lives because of this ethereal and unseen thing, so they reached an agreement to strengthen the seal that suppressed this otherworldly object once a year.
The book Xie Zhou transmigrated into was not finished. Xie Zhou only knew that fifteen years after she arrived in the book, the gate to another world would open.
"Daydreaming again!"
Xie Zhou was thinking about these things when he suddenly received another blow to the head with a fan.
"Is it so hard to ask you to memorize a book? You're hopeless..."
Lingfeng, however, left Xie Zhou with his back turned.
"Oh, you don't need to think so much. You're just cannon fodder to drive the plot forward. Thinking about it won't help."
The system sighed in Xie Zhou's mind, giving him a lecture.
"I won't bother if I can avoid it. Who would risk their own life? I don't want to die again."
Xie Zhou rolled his eyes.
"By the way, the things in Ghost Forest have changed. I wonder if Lingfeng has noticed it yet."
The strange changes that began to occur in the Ghost Forest might just be a warning to all the cultivation sects.
"Who knows!"
The system shrugged.
"I really am! I'm speechless!"
Xie Zhou rolled his eyes, wondering what the point of having this system was.
"Master, what are those black cocoons in the Ghost Forest?"
As he spoke, Xie Zhou widened his eyes and slammed the book shut.
"I read in a book that demons and monsters usually evolve through cocoons. Last time I went into the Ghost Forest, I saw black cocoons. Could it be that the creatures of the Ghost Forest have evolved?"
Xie Zhou looked at Ling Feng, but unexpectedly Ling Feng had a serious expression on his face.
"Black cocoons in the Ghost Forest? When did this happen?"
Lingfeng's brows were furrowed, and Xie Zhou could clearly see the tension in his eyes.
"When I rescued Senior Brother Luo Fantian last time, I was running wildly through the Ghost Forest. Apart from the Evil Ghost Soul, I didn't see any other demonic beasts along the way. All I saw were black cocoons, big and small."
Xie Zhou continued to recount the story, and the more he spoke, the worse Ling Feng's expression became.
"Oh no!"
The next second, Lingfeng vanished from the spot.
"Study hard, I'll check your notes when we get back, and no slacking off is allowed!"
Only a long, drawn-out note remained.
"Yes, Master!"
Xie Zhou waved his hand toward the door.
"How could Lingfeng not know about this? What did he do in the Ghost Forest after I came out? Was he blind?"
Xie Zhou felt something was strange. Just a second before she left the Ghost Forest, these things were still standing on the ground. It couldn't be that they disappeared as soon as Ling Feng went in.
"Oh no, I forgot to tell you, when monsters evolve, they instinctively sense danger. Your cultivation level is too low, so these monsters simply ignore your existence. But for someone like Lingfeng, those creatures wrapped in black cocoons either break out of the cocoon directly and devour it at an extremely fast speed."
"Ahem, some powerful ones will hide the cocoon first, making it difficult to be discovered. Unless you are specifically looking for these things, you generally won't find it."
The system gave an awkward laugh, and Xie Zhou immediately rolled his eyes.
"Why didn't you say this sooner? So many days have passed, these things inside might have already finished evolving, why wait until now?"
Xie Zhou felt even more worried.
"It's alright. With Luo Fantian here, when the gate to that other world opens in fifteen years, he will be enough."
Xie Zhou suspected that the system was trying to comfort her.
Even if Luo Fantian is incredibly powerful, he would need to reach the demigod realm to fight against these otherworldly beings. Fifteen years to become a demigod? How is that possible?
"Forget it, let's just take it one step at a time."
Xie Zhou sighed. If he had known things would turn out this way, he would have preferred to write it for thirty years, which would have given him at least half the time. Why did he have to write it for fifteen years?
"Oh, right, there's one more thing I need to remind you of. Because you've already traveled to this place, not everything will unfold as you wrote in your book. Now that you've prevented Luo Fantian from becoming Ling Fengque's disciple, there will be a butterfly effect in the future."
The system said something else.
"No way! In my original setting, the male protagonist trained hard for fifteen years, experiencing countless hardships and dangers, before he even had the ability to fight these otherworldly creatures. This...this..."
Xie Zhou thought about Luo Fantian now, and his head started to ache.
"For the sake of our future safety, I have decided to support Luo Fantian now so that he can smoothly ascend to power!"
Xie Zhou rubbed her forehead; she was incredibly conflicted.
"That's it! I've suddenly had a brilliant idea!"
Xie Zhou suddenly seemed to remember something, and his eyes lit up!
"In the old dramas, if a man fell in love with me, and I just stood by and did nothing to help him, then he would encounter a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! And then he would become an invincible being!"
Xie Zhou's little mind worked very fast, and she slapped her own forehead!
"Yes! That's exactly it! I'm going to make Luo Fantian fall in love with me now, and then I'll dump him!"
Suddenly, a mirror appeared in front of Xie Zhou.
"Ma'am, look at your disheveled appearance. Do you really think your plan will succeed?"
The system immediately poured cold water on Xie Zhou.
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