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Arc 5: Chapter 1

   【Host, congrats on completing the task. The task level was A. Completion score was A. Rewarded 5000 points.】

   【After completing the task, the host stayed in the world for 73 years. 1460 points deducted. Currently, 8260 points total.】

   【Matching to a mission world.】

   【Matching successful, entering the new world……】

   【The world is loading… Loading successful… Transmitting memory…】

At the base of the Ancient Grove Peak, within its grand hall, hundreds of disciples awaited the arrival of the peak’s master—the sect leader of Pure Jade Palace, the esteemed Immortal Sovereign, Xie Hanzhou.

Lin Yuan just arrived to this world and found himself sitting in the last row. After he silently finished reading the plot, his head was full of question marks. Suddenly, the people around him started whispering.

“Senior brother is coming!”

“Senior Sui’an is here!”

“Wow, it’s senior brother!”

When Lin Yuan heard the name ‘Sui’an’, he blinked and looked over curiously. A slender figure walked through the main door, his purple embroidered Taoist robe created a beautiful contrast against the white walls of Yuqing Palace.

The man’s face was charming but not aggressive, lazily smiling as he looked around. His eyes were a hazel brown, like amber that sucked people in. 

   【Di! Dangerous risk alert! Dangerous risk alert!! Host, please pay attention! The blackening value of the villain, Yu Sui’an, is 99.9999%. Please eliminate the blackening value and resolve the crisis!】

The alarm of the system flashed repeatedly. Lin Yuan looked at the beautiful jade-like Sui’an and sighed silently. 

Yu Sui’an walked to the front and sat down, supporting his head in a lazy posture yet not losing any elegance. His long silky, inky hair was loosely tied half-up, giving him the appearance of a carefree noble instead of a cultivator.

All of the eyes in the hall were on Yu Sui’an, some admiring, some in awe, and some even in infatuation.

“Senior Brother Yu Sui'an truly possesses unparalleled grace and elegance!”

“Indeed, I didn’t believe it when senior sister said so, but seeing the real person today, I realize how foolish I was back then.”

Lin Yuan heard the discussion and hummed proudly, of course his husband was the most good-looking~.

Then the sound of a loud bell interrupted everyone’s discussion.

Dong.

Dong.

Dong.

The echo of the bell reverberated throughout the hall, and a figure walked out from the back. 

This person was dressed in all-white clothes, and his Taoist robe was embroidered with silver thread. He was like the wind passing over a calm lake, like the frost of a winter morning, and like the moonlight on a clear night. 

A golden feathered bell hung at his waist, its azure tassels swaying gracefully with each step, resembling delicately fluttering butterfly wings. 

Everyone hushed, and none of the hundreds of disciples was willing to ruin this picturesque scene. 

Not even a thousand poems or a hundred paintings was worthy to describe his looks. It seemed inadequate to describe him as handsome when he had features like Nuwa’s most favorite sculpture. t/n in chinese mythology, nuwa is the goddess who created humans by sculpting them from mud/soil

If Yu Sui’an was an eye-catching flower, then this person was like an ephemeral breeze from the snow-capped mountains. He was Xie Hanzhou, the aloof and noble patriarch of Pure Jade Palace, revered across the world.

   【Di! The blackening value of the villain, Xie Hanzhou, is 0.0001%.】

With the sound of the system prompt, Lin Yuan jolted as if he had just woken up from a dream. He looked around him and everyone seemed to be in a daze, their eyes glued onto Xie Hanzhou.

Lin Yuan looked at Xie Hanzhou above and then at Yu Sui’an, and blushed a little. He never expected that in this world he would have two husbands, and he was a little shy imagining the future. But truthfully, he was more worried about the present than anything.

The plot of this world was quite ridiculous. The protagonist was named Chu Yao, a modern man who found himself in a cultivation realm after his boyfriend cheated on him, moreover, he was bound to a mysterious strategy system.

His mission was to win over different high-quality men of this world, and after successfully completing each conquest, he would receive various rewards.

As a long time member of the Space-Time Management Bureau, Lin Yuan had felt familiar energy fluctuations as soon as he arrived in this world. 

This strategy system was considered a “wild system”. Unlike officially employed systems by the Space-Time Management Bureau, like Lin Yuan and 521, wild systems relied on absorbing the emotions of both the host and the mission target(s) to replenish their energy.

When Chu Yao came to this world, he was very excited. He felt that he was the chosen son of heaven, the protagonist. Looking down the list of targets, he chose to start in Pure Jade Palace, simply because there were many mission targets there, including Immortal Sovereign Xie Hanzhou, the Demon Lord who was disguised as the sect’s senior disciple Yu Sui’an, Plum Peak’s master Daoist Ziyuan, the gentle and refined second senior disciple, and the sunny and cheerful youngest junior disciple. 

Xie Hanzhou and Yu Sui’an were evaluated to be the most difficult targets, but their missions also gave the richest rewards. 

Chu Yao’s identity was set to Xie Hanzhou’s direct disciple. But no matter what he did, Xie Hanzhou was like the moon in the sky, and his favorability meter never moved.

At the same time, Chu Yao tried to seduce Yu Sui’an, only to be thoroughly toyed with like a clown. 

Chu Yao had no choice but to redirect his focus to other targets. He successfully won over the remaining people in Pure Jade Palace, in addition to targets outside: the arrogant human emperor, the son of the previous Demon Lord, the head of the Heaven-Abyss Sword Sect, the Vermillion Bird, etc. Each of them fell madly in love with him, to the point where because of Chu Yao’s tears, they were willing to share their love with one another. 

Lin Yuan: Subway Grandpa.jpg

This group of people must be sick. Whoever dares to touch his husband’s pinky, he would chop that person’s hand off! t/n ...polygamy IS real

The only two targets that Chu Yao couldn’t win over were Xie Hanzhou and Yu Sui’an. After days of close observation, he accidentally learned a big secret. These two were actually the same person! Or more accurately, they were halves of the same soul. 

Everyone only knew about peerless immortal, strongest cultivator Xie Hanzhou, but his life was not always smooth sailing. When he was young, the plot suggested that he lived a very difficult life. The details about his childhood experiences were not clearly written out, the plot only mentioned that when he was 14 years old, cultivators from Pure Jade Palace came to the Northern Frost Region to exterminate demons. When they arrived, Frost City was littered with corpses, and the young Xie Hanzhou was the sole survivor. The cultivators brought him with them back to Pure Jade Palace, and he became an inner disciple. 

Xie Hanzhou’s cultivation of the Supreme Dao was very uncompromising, there was only good or evil and no in between. In order to rid his heart of existing malicious and negative thoughts, he used a forbidden technique to directly separate his inner demon from himself, which became Yu Sui’an.

Chu Yao exploited this information to blackmail Xie Hanzhou into sacrificing himself, because only this way could Yu Sui’an die, and there would be no chance for his inner demon to hurt others. He alone couldn’t force Xie Hanzhou to do anything, but when the rest of the immortal sects learned that the master of Pure Jade Palace was a time-ticking bomb, they all gathered together to force Xie Hanzhou to death. 

The disciples of Pure Jade Palace were loyal, and vowed that they would accompany Xie Hanzhou to die, resulting in the tragic death of the entire sect. Only the newest joined disciple survived. 

Because of this, Xie Hanzhou completely succumbed to his inner demon and merged with Yu Sui’an. He took his sword to the doors of each sect and stirred up chaos across the world. 

Even if the immortal and demon realms united their forces, they were not able to kill Xie Hanzhou. In the end, Heaven collapsed and the world was destroyed. 

Lin Yuan sent a knife-like glare to Chu Yao who was sitting a row away. This protagonist was the source of all evil. 

You already have so many husbands and still covet mine, how greedy, Lin Yuan thought unhappily. 

This didn’t stop him from admiring Chu Yao’s body though. He only had one husband and couldn’t stand rolling around in the sheets. Chu Yao had one, two three, four… twelve, thirteen, fourteen! So many husbands! His behind must be some kind of heaven-defying artifact!!

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Every 20 years, Pure Jade Palace opened its doors and accepted 100 new disciples. Xie Hanzhou decided on ten of them, and the other 90 were decided by the other peak masters of the remaining eleven peaks. Just like Chu Yao, Lin Yuan was also a newly accepted disciple. 

Today was the first day of the sixth month, and per tradition, Xie Hanzhou gave a lecture on Daoist principles in the Ancient Grove Hall. All disciples who were not away on missions gathered in the hall to listen. 

Lin Yuan was determined to concentrate on cultivating for now. As for finding his husbands, they were too lofty and out of his reach. He couldn’t go looking for Xie Hanzhou as the lowest level disciple, but this didn't make him too worried, since Xie Hanzhou’s blackening value was very low. The troublesome one was Yu Siu’an, whose blackening value has reached a dangerous level, but he had no idea on how to get close to him.

Lin Yuan let out a small sigh. Above, Xie Hanzhou’s narrow eyes turned to his direction and paused on his face, and then moved away.

Lin Yuan didn’t notice this glance, and neither did the other disciples. Instead, Yu Siu’an, who didn't seem to be paying attention, was the only one who caught this detail.

Yu Siu’an looked over his shoulder carelessly and saw the new junior brother, who was in a daze as Xie Hanzhou lectured. 

In comparison to the diligent and serious gazes of the disciples around him, Lin Yuan stuck out like a sore thumb. 

In fact, Lin Yuan did try to listen carefully, but then…

He, who successfully passed the modern college exam, actually couldn’t understand anything at all?!

Lin Yuan couldn’t believe it. He sat up straight and looked left and right, wanting to find a companion who was equally as confused as he was. But even the source of all evil was focused and seemed to understand.

“??”

There were so many classmates but he was the only one who couldn’t keep up, so shameful!

Yu Siu’an: ......Why is this junior brother blushing?

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