Volume 1, Chapter 10 – Third Rebirth

At the same time, at the gate of Wanshan City.

A young girl in a red dress, covered in the dust of travel, was walking into the city.

Her features were exquisite, her figure alluring. The red dress made her skin look as fair as snow, drawing frequent sidelong glances from many passersby.

Yet at this moment, her clear, beautiful eyes carried a trace of exhaustion and a deeply hidden sharpness that did not match her age.

It was as if she had experienced far too many things ordinary people could never imagine.

Her name was Liu Ruyan. She came from a cultivation family in a border city of the Southern Borderlands called Qingyang City.

The family Liu Ruyan belonged to had once been one of the most prominent families in Qingyang City.

However, even so, the person with the highest cultivation in the clan was only at the Nascent Soul stage.

At this moment, no one knew that within this excessively young body resided a soul that had lived through three lifetimes.

In her first life, the Liu family had been weak. The Lin family, also one of the three great families, had used a marriage alliance as a pretext to propose an engagement.

Pressed by its difficult circumstances, her family could only agree.

At that time, she had already joined Flowing Cloud Sword Sect, a first-rate sect of the Southern Region. Relying on her status as an outer disciple, she eventually found a way to annul the marriage.

But who could have imagined that Lin Fan, the young man whose engagement she had broken off, would, not long after, somehow stumble into great fortune and become the disciple of a Mahayana cultivator?

Moreover, in just a few short decades, he became a Spirit Transformation cultivator. The Lin family rose with him and enjoyed boundless glory.

Because she had annulled the engagement back then, the Liu family suffered brutal suppression, declined rapidly, and she herself endured endless ridicule before dying in depression.

Only before her death did she learn that Lin Fan’s master came from a place called Yaochi Immortal Palace and was an outer elder there.

In her second life, she was reborn with her memories and became smarter.

She still joined Flowing Cloud Sword Sect, but she did not immediately choose to annul the engagement, nor did she make enemies of the Lin family.

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While looking after her family, she cultivated diligently. In just twenty years, she entered the Golden Core stage and became an inner disciple of Flowing Cloud Sword Sect.

At that time, Lin Fan was still the same Lin Fan, and his cultivation was only at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Just as she was almost beginning to doubt whether her memories were wrong, Lin Fan provoked a major disaster during an outside training journey, and his entire family was erased overnight.

As for Liu Ruyan herself, several decades later, when she attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, she perished!

Now, this was her third life.

She had not joined Flowing Cloud Sword Sect like she had in the previous two lives!

She wanted to find Yaochi Immortal Palace, the place that had changed Lin Fan’s fate in the memories of her first life.

According to some vague memories from her first life, Lin Fan seemed to have gained his master when he went to the Wanjue Mountain Range for training.

And Wanshan City was the final supply point before entering Mount Wanjue.

“Yaochi Immortal Palace… could it be here?”

Liu Ruyan looked at the rolling mountain range in the distance, her gaze both confused and resolute.

“If I get the chance, I must find Yaochi Immortal Palace and join it! Even becoming an outer disciple would be enough…”

She touched the few spirit stones in her storage pouch, took a deep breath, and walked into the city.

She needed information. Any abnormal information about this mountain range, and any trace related to the two words “Yaochi.”

First, she went to the busiest restaurant in the city, ordered a pot of tea, and sat by the window.

Several cultivators at the neighboring table were heatedly discussing something. She calmly tilted her ear and listened.

“Have you heard? That pillar of light that shot into the sky a few days ago supposedly alarmed many mighty experts!”

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A rough-looking man said.

A thin cultivator beside him chimed in:

“More than that. Even monks from the Western Region came! I personally saw a monk enter the city yesterday.”

Liu Ruyan’s heart stirred. She picked up the teapot and walked over to their table.

“Big brothers, this little woman has only just arrived here. I heard you mention some pillar of light just now. Has some secret realm appeared?”

When the rough-looking man saw that her appearance was extraordinary, his attitude became a little warmer.

“Miss, you’re from out of town? No wonder you don’t know.”

“A few days ago, about a hundred li outside the city, the sky suddenly split open, releasing boundless golden light. They say there was even immortal music drifting through the air.”

“The strangest thing is that after the golden light dispersed, a mountain peak that had originally been there vanished into thin air!”

“A mountain peak vanished?”

Liu Ruyan showed a timely look of surprise.

“How is that possible?”

“Absolutely true!”

The thin cultivator lowered his voice.

“Right now, every force is asking around about it.”

“Some say a rare treasure has appeared. Some say it is an ancient secret realm. Others say a mighty expert made a breakthrough. But…”

“But what?” Liu Ruyan pressed.

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“But matters like this have nothing to do with unaffiliated cultivators like us anymore.”

The rough-looking man sighed.

“That mountain region has already been sealed off by all the major forces. Not even a fly can get in.”

As Liu Ruyan listened, her fine brows furrowed tightly.

An abnormal phenomenon? A vanished mountain peak?

This seemed somewhat different from the information in her memories.

She remembered that in her first life, before and after Lin Fan’s rise, she had never heard of any world-shaking event taking place.

Could it be that in this life, because of her rebirth, some unknown variable had emerged?

Calmly, she paid the bill and then turned toward an intelligence-selling establishment in the city called Baixiao Pavilion.

The furnishings inside Baixiao Pavilion were simple. Only an old man sat behind the counter, dozing off.

Liu Ruyan gently knocked on the counter.

“Old sir, I would like to ask about a place.”

The old man lazily lifted his eyes. “What place?”

“Yaochi.”

Liu Ruyan stared closely at the old man’s expression.

The old man frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head.

“Never heard of it. Is it a newly discovered secret realm in the Southern Region?”

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Liu Ruyan refused to give up and continued asking:

“Then have you heard of any sect named after ‘Yaochi’? Or any place related to those two words?”

The old man shook his head again.

“Miss, this old man has run an intelligence business in Wanshan City for thirty years. I know every somewhat famous force in the Southern Region like the back of my hand.”

“This ‘Yaochi’ is truly something I have never heard of.”

She left Baixiao Pavilion and visited several teahouses and markets one after another, but she gained nothing at all.

The two words “Yaochi” seemed as if they had never appeared in this world.

“Could it be… that I remembered wrong? Or perhaps Yaochi Immortal Palace isn’t in the Southern Region at all?”

She rubbed her brow, feeling a deep sense of powerlessness.

The memories of two lifetimes seemed so unreliable at this moment.

“No. It can’t be wrong!”

She suddenly stood up, her gaze becoming firm once more.

“Back then, Lin Fan set out from Qingyang City and rose after training near Wanshan City!”

“The key must be in this mountain range!”

She decided that tomorrow, she would personally enter the outer region of the mountains to investigate.

Even if hope was slim, it was still better than waiting around doing nothing.