Back in the system space, Ming Li, after finishing Shen Xiuer's life through the system's display screen, hooked her lips and looked at the system beside her, saying, "Alright, next plane."
Upon hearing this, the system clearly froze for a moment before recovering.
"Okay... okay."
With a series of operations on the system display screen by the system's two small light hands, a familiar mechanical voice sounded in the system space, "Initiating plane teleportation—"
"Teleporting across planes—"
"Teleportation complete—"
After watching Ming Li's figure completely disappear from the system space, the system tilted its head in confusion, feeling like something was off, but it couldn't quite pinpoint what it was.
After a familiar wave of dizziness, Ming Li frowned and slowly opened her eyes, her vision met with darkness...
The sky was dim, the mountains and forests were dim, and the surrounding graves were also dim, appearing incredibly desolate and sorrowful.
"Caw—caw—caw—"
A cold wind blew, and on the branches of a withered tree not far away, several crows were startled into flight, cawing loudly.
Ming Li looked at everything before her, her expressionless.
"System, do you want to come out for a bit and explain what's going on?"
In the space, hearing Ming Li's icy voice, the system shivered, "Host... what's wrong?"
Ming Li's expression remained unchanged as she glanced at the graves and scattered bones around them, asking the system, "What do you think?"
"......"
The system swallowed its non-existent saliva, "Uh, Host, let's just receive the plot first..."
Ming Li: "......" (￣_￣|||)
Seeing Ming Li remain silent, the system breathed a sigh of relief and nimbly transmitted the plane's plot to Ming Li.
This time, Ming Li had transmigrated into a cultivation plane.
The original host's name was Tang Li, an outer disciple of the number one sect in the world, the幽凤宗 (You Feng Sect).
During a sect mission out in the world, while passing by a cave, she accidentally saw the highly respected Grand Elder of the sect absorbing the essence and soul of others for cultivation, clearly having practiced a forbidden sect technique.
The original host was frightened at the time, not understanding why the usually dignified Elder had become like this. She watched for a while and intended to leave, but unintentionally stepped on a withered branch, alerting the Grand Elder.
The Grand Elder, seeing the original host's You Feng Sect outer disciple robe and fearing that she might reveal what she had seen, poisoned her, tortured her until she was half-dead, and then threatened her not to speak of it.
Upon her return, at a celestial sword convention, the Grand Elder high-profilely accepted the original host as her disciple, making the original host the target of universal scorn.
Later, the original host endured constant bullying and cold stares from disciples within the sect. The Grand Elder witnessed all of this but merely smiled and did nothing.
Eventually, the Grand Elder instructed the original host to find a spiritual medicine for her.
The original host went, and never returned.
After the original host painstakingly collected the spiritual medicine, she was ambushed and stabbed to death by a group of masked individuals who suddenly appeared as she was preparing to return...
After her death, her body was discarded in a mass grave by those people.
In her dying moments, the original host struggled to open her eyes and saw the inner disciple robes of the You Feng Sect beneath the black cloaks of those who attacked her...
She couldn't understand why, when she hadn't done anything, she had ended up like this? Why was she treated this way?
Before completely expiring, a black corner of clothing entered her vision, and as her eyes blurred, she felt a pair of cold hands caress her eyes...
As her soul detached from her body, she didn't even have time to clearly see who was before her before she was instantly annihilated by a familiar spiritual energy...
That spiritual energy... was her master... the Grand Elder's.
After receiving the original host's plot, Ming Li frowned. As expected, those people were likely sent by that so-called Grand Elder.