Chapter 27: A Kiss from the Master

【Simulation Forty-Six Years, You Died.】

“What?”

Su Bai was greatly shocked, her memory still stuck on the moment when “Su Xiaohei” revealed his true form. She touched her lower abdomen; the intense pain of the Black Blade piercing through her Jindan seemed to linger.

“I… died?”

“First time dying in the simulation so carelessly?”

Su Bai looked at the line on the Simulator screen that read “Simulation Forty-Six Years, You Died,” complaining repeatedly, her heart involuntarily filled with some disappointment and frustration.

She had just become Sect Leader, and the Sect’s operations were finally back on track. The collection of the Yin-Yang Reversal Technique was proceeding steadily, yet she was suddenly and unexpectedly assassinated.

She hadn’t even found a way to revert her gender, hadn’t become the sun for all the cultivators in the Three Mountains Sect, nor had she arranged a partner to urge her little pet into marriage…

And just like that, she died lightly.

Truly, live like summer flowers, die like autumn leaves.

“Dinner time, son.” Outside the room, the voice of Mom suddenly called.

Only then did Su Bai come back to her senses, realizing it was almost time for dinner. The life experience of forty-six years from the Simulator had overwhelmed her brain for a moment.

“Coming, Mom.” Su Bai flipped off the bed and was about to step out the door when, just as one foot crossed the threshold, she seemed to remember something and snapped her fingers.

A spell enveloped her entire body.

The tall, aloof fairy standing over 1.8 meters instantly vanished, replaced by a 1.75-meter-tall, dignified-looking yet unremarkable young man with a somewhat handsome face.

“I’ll disguise myself for a few days, then play some games, watch some shows, read some novels, relax a bit, and then start the second simulation. While training my little pet, I’ll continue searching for the gender reversal technique.”

Muttering to herself, she felt relieved and stepped out, unaware that everything was no longer as it once was.

“Eight Great Terrors, Nine Nether Hometown.”

“White Bone Core Formation Secret Technique.”

“Fang Xiu, Li An, and a baffling assassination…”

Wanqing City, riverside embankment.

At this moment, the Yangtze River was in its ebb tide. Su Bai sat quietly by the riverbank, chewing on some dried meat. Her slender, fair legs were soaked in the river water, gently swaying. Behind her, a long mane of hair cascaded down to her waist.

Looking down from the embankment, it was a beautiful scene.

However, due to the disguise spell, to onlookers, she was just an ordinary college student sketching by the river.

“Next simulation, I want to…”

Chewing on the dried meat, Su Bai planned out the next simulation—what opportunities she could seize ahead of time, what information she could profit from, and which dangerous places she should avoid…

“Meow~~”

Looking down, she saw a scruffy black cat staring at the dried meat in her lap with hopeful eyes. Su Bai laughed and tossed a few pieces down.

The black cat pounced like a starving tiger, quickly devouring them. After finishing, it lifted its head, its jade-like vertical pupils gazing at Su Bai, full of longing.

Su Bai chuckled again and threw down a few more pieces.

Back in her hometown, black cats were also called Xuancat and regarded as auspicious creatures that could protect the home, ward off evil, and attract wealth—similar to the role of a Household Immortal.

She reached out to poke the cat’s head. The black cat seemed a bit displeased by the touch, shaking its head gently but unwilling to leave this delicious source of dried meat.

After finishing the meat on the ground, it lifted its head again, the jade-like pupils staring intently at Su Bai’s hand, as if judging where the next piece would come from.

Su Bai couldn’t help but laugh and tossed some more dried meat. The black cat jumped left and right to catch it quickly, like an animal in a circus.

After playing like this for a while.

As the sky darkened, Su Bai decided she didn’t want to continue playing. She dried her legs, put on her sneakers, and left the whole pack of dried meat where it was, preparing to leave.

This time, the black cat ignored the dried meat on the ground and instead cheerfully followed her. Upon reaching Su Bai’s side, it gently rubbed its head against her pant leg.

“Meow~ Meow~”

“Little guy, stop rubbing. I don’t have any more dried meat.”

“Meow~~”

“Tch, feels like you’re trying to mooch off me.”

“Meow~”

“Alright, since fate has us meet today, you’ll also be called Xiaohei, just to commemorate the little pet I never raised properly in the first simulation.”

Su Bai picked up the black cat biting her pant leg and stroked its head. “When we get home, I’ll give you a bath. You’re so dirty; my mom would definitely scold me to death.”

The black cat’s tail swayed twice. Its paws rested on Su Bai’s shoulder, then it gave her a gentle and obedient expression.

“You brat, you really intend to do this? It’s all harm and no benefit!!”

“Not just harm—you’re not even at Foundation Establishment, and you’re trying to nourish a Jindan with Yang Vitality? Do you really think you have a Pure Yang Physique?”

“Ha ha ha! Kid, do as I say. Train that girl into your Protector Puppet, then sweep all the Sect’s resources and betray the Sect to become a carefree Demonic Cultivator.”

“Tsk~ Haven’t you noticed? This brat’s heart is all on his mother, tsk tsk~ what pure love seed.”

“Indeed, if it were any of the previous Chief Wardens, killing and arson would be as casual as eating and drinking. Robbery would be a habit; betrayal, framing teachers and ancestors—it’d be nothing.”

In the Soul Prison, the Old Ghosts argued endlessly.

Su Xiaohei ignored their words. Following the method given by an Elder in the Soul Prison, he cut his palm and mixed the blood with spiritual power, painting extremely sinister and strange characters onto Su Bai’s corpse.

The method given by the Elder was not righteous at all but nakedly evil!

Using blood sacrifice as the source, Yang Vitality as the guide, connecting to the slumbering world of all beings, drawing on the power of the Nine Nether, reversing life and death. But this was blatantly stealing the power of Heaven and Earth, bringing endless future trouble!

But for Su Xiaohei at this moment, none of that mattered. Whether righteous, demonic, or evil, if it could save his mother, it was a good method!

“Spirit of the Nether, Yellow of the Earth, Gods undying…” The strange, eerie chant suddenly echoed as Su Xiaohei circled Su Bai’s corpse in reverse, softly reciting the words. The voice blended like a symphony, reverberating in the empty room.

Outside the window, the previously calm night sky was suddenly torn apart by streaks of thunder. The deafening rumbles made ears ache; every flash of lightning briefly illuminated the room as if it were daylight.

The strange chant grew even more uncanny, no longer sounding human. “Valley spirit undying, Heaven’s dark multitudes…” The voice wove through the thunder’s intervals, intertwining into a more terrifying composition.

As he recited, the atmosphere in the room grew increasingly bizarre, as if the air thickened, oppressively suffocating.

On Su Bai’s corpse, the sinister characters painted with blood and spiritual power began to glow with a strange light.

The light seemed alive, flowing slowly within the blood patterns, gradually intensifying. Then, as if drawn by some force, the blood patterns sank into the corpse, which trembled lightly, as if a mysterious power was awakening, making the entire scene even more eerie and terrifying.

“Heaven and Earth’s Yin and Yang, cycle endlessly, using Yang to guide Yin, from extreme adversity comes great fortune…”

Having reached this point, the next step was to use Yang Vitality as the guide. Among the two present, one was a corpse, while the other…

Gazing at that familiar yet intimate delicate face, Su Xiaohei’s heart throbbed. Ignoring the Old Ghosts’ words in the Soul Prison, he firmly reminded himself once again, “My feelings for Master are purely admiration.” Then, he leaned in and kissed her.