Jiang Chunye scrunched her brows together. She was currently cultivating quietly inside underground ground inscribed with formations to increase the density of spiritual qi. She released a sigh as frustration welled up within her chest, but with nowhere to vent. After the defeat by her sister's hand, Chunye reflected that she was too arrogant.

When she had opened her eyes after the original owner of the body perished after falling into the pond, she had thought that she had time traveled into ancient times. Despite the archaic society that resembled ancient China, this world was not ancient China and was filled with fantasy and magic.

Jiang Chunye was an assassin from modern Earth and had subconsciously looked down on her sisters. Swords, spears, bows and arrows, needles, whips, she had disdained all of these weapons. Instead, she recreated a primitive gun as an assassination tool.

Calling her creation an assassination tool was laughable. The barrel was forged from material at the Core Formation Realm, and so were the bullets. Upon activation, it would unleash a loud explosion. An assassin who exposed herself during an attack was third-rate.

The only assassin-like feature of the gun was that it did not require the usage of spiritual qi. In one aspect, it could be considered a perfect assassination weapon against cultivators.

Chunye's creation even allowed her to kill a Core Formation Master before when his guard was down. Perhaps that's how she grew arrogant. She thought that her tools and abilities were more than enough to make up for the difference in cultivation levels.

She had thought only those above her could defeat her. Fighting Daoyi had awakened her from her complacency.

Certainly, Chunye's unique methods from her time as an assassin in the modern world were unique within the Huang Realm, but she had also suffered losses at the hands of cultivators using methods that she thought illogical. Sometimes, she didn't even know how Daoyi managed to cause her to become nauseous.

Chunye glanced at her second spatial pouch that Yi Dongli had returned to her after her defeat. Everything was there, except the most valuable egg she had prepared weeks to steal. All the efforts she placed into the heist and the aftermath were negated, and she came out of the whole situation even worse.

She wrapped her right hand around the bracelet on her left wrist. The only reason Chunye even snuck into the Zeng Family Estate was because something in her bracelet was calling out to the egg hidden in their treasury.

Everything had proceeded as planned until the last moment. Chunye didn't expect someone to notice once she exited the treasury. Had she not been seen, everything that happened earlier would not have occurred, and she would not be in such a weak and passive state.

Chunye had thought that her diversion was perfect. Young Master Zeng certainly did not foresee her having Yi Dongli carry her second spatial pouch. It wasn't that Chunye unconditionally trusted Yi Dongli, but she always had a habit of preparing for the worst.

Yet she never thought that even with the egg on Yi Dongli, it would mysteriously disappear. Not even Yi Dongli detected anything wrong, and he was the one carrying the spatial pouch!

Chunye's gut instinct pointed to Xi Tianyi.

When Chunye first laid eyes on Tianyi years ago, she thought, 'What a beautiful child, like a porcelain doll.' They never interacted much, so Chunye didn't think much of it. Rather her attention was placed on Daoyi, who Tianyi's mother had suddenly accepted as a disciple.

She was there when the imperial edict summoned Daoyi to the palace. Chunye wasn't dumb, and she read between the words. She had inwardly sneered, feeling no pity towards Daoyi but apathy.

From her original body's memories, Daoyi had been like a transparent person. Unless you focused on her, you would forget that she existed. But there was a feeling of animosity whenever she laid eyes on her third sister.

It was like the two were irreconcilable, at least from her point of view. Chunye suspected that Daoyi was her lifelong nemesis. If Daoyi lived well, she wouldn't. Only by erasing Daoyi could she succeed in life.

In addition, Chunye felt that something was off in the Northern Regions. There was no noticeable shift during her journey from the Central Heaven Regions to the Northern Regions, but Chunye's sixth sense told her that it would become dangerous.

Chunye's sixth sense has saved her life multiple times, but just as she was prepared to leave the Northern Regions, numerous cultivators attacked her. It would not be a lie to say that was it not for Yi Dongli's timely appearance, she would have died.

Somehow word got out that she possessed the egg of a beast of the immortal realm. Chunye snorted, even she didn't know what rank the egg was. It seemed that many cultivators lusted after the illusionary immortal ranked egg.

If Chunye had to guess, the perpetrator was most likely Xi Tianyi. No matter how much Chunye wanted to shout at the world that Tianyi had the egg, she knew that she could not expose Tianyi. First, she had no proof; second, Tianyi was far more powerful than her.

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She already thought Yi Dongli powerful and even suspected that he hid his actual cultivation, but the feeling Tianyi gave her was that of a force of nature. Chunye had never felt such a sensation before. Rather than draw Tianyi's ire, it was better to lay low, for now.

A cold smile formed on her face. Perhaps Tianyi had acted out against her in revenge for nearly killing Daoyi or some other reason, but since it had already reached this step, there was no point reconciling. Sooner or later, she would get revenge.

Besides, the brief instance of killing intent she felt could not be chalked up to an illusion. Although Tianyi hid it quickly, it could not escape Chunye's senses which had been honed through countless life and death situations.

As for whether the Zeng Family released the information? Forget about it. The group of people who attacked her included two nascent soul grandmasters. For a small place like the Pan Kingdom, where the only core formation master was the king, the Zeng Family wouldn't dare to release such information.

In fact, the current Zeng Family was being paid a visit by a nascent soul grandmaster, according to Yi Dongli. Chunye snickered as she imagined the turmoil that Zeng Family had gone through. But the main threat wasn't the irrelevant Zeng Family anymore, but someone far more dangerous.

Her biggest problem now was how to escape the Northern Regions.

"Miss Jiang, are your injuries healed?" Yi Dongli asked as he opened the door to the room.

"Thank you, Mister Yi. Were it not for you, I would have been just a lump of flesh now." Chunye released a genuine smile toward Yi Dongli. This lad had saved her life, so giving a sincere smile was the least she could do. "In the future, when there's a chance, I will definitely repay you."

Yi Dongli had been momentarily stunned by Jiang Chunye's smile. Before, he had always seen her smile, but it was a fake smile created to deceive the world. Yi Dongli, who had lived a lie in the Northern Region, found himself attracted to this woman who had a smile much like himself. This genuine one, filled with no lies, caused warmth to flow from the center of his chest.

"Miss Jiang, what are you saying? We are friends. Think nothing of it." Yi Dongli said.

"How can I? Friendship is friendship, and a debt is a debt. And I am a woman who always repays her debts." Chunye said.

"How about this then? Stop calling me Mister Yi, call me Dongli instead," Yi Dongli said.

"This, " Chunye thought about it for a moment before she agreed. "Only if you call me Chunye from now on. If I called you Dongli and you still called me Miss Jiang, it would be awkward."

"Naturally, naturally," Yi Dongli said as his smile widened even more.

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Pan Lanyue stood still as she tried to process what was happening before her eyes.

In front of her, Tianyi was sitting and moving his arms. And beside Tianyi, Daoyi was sitting and playing a calming tune that Lanyue had never heard of before.

The problem was that Tianyi's arms disappeared at their elbows. No, they didn't disappear but were inserted into black holes that materialized in the air. She could see Tianyi pull his arm out and insert them back.

Lanyue felt someone tapped her should and turned around to look. What she saw caused her heart to nearly leap out of her chest.

"YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKKKKKKKKK!!!"

The disembodied, milky-white arm stiffened for a moment before it started to disappear into a hole in space. Embarrassment colored Lanyue's face, but it soon turned to rage as she directed her ire at Tianyi was chuckling at her reaction.

"Senior Brother, stop being naughty. You're like a child who has gotten a new toy." Daoyi said, reprimanding Tianyi for his prank. Though, there was a slight tug on the edge of her mouth.

Lanyue huffed as she inelegantly sat down on the chair. "Brother Tianyi, just what was that?" Lanyue had a clue, but she didn't dare believe it.

"You can consider it a technique based on the concept of space," Tianyi said.

"The legendary spatial technique?" Although Lanyue had already guessed it, she still couldn't believe it.

"Mhm," Tianyi grunted as he continued to experiment.

"Is that what you used to take the egg from Second Sister's spatial bag?" Daoyi asked. The egg was resting on her lap, below the table.

"Yes," Tianyi said.

Lanyue sighed, no longer able to feel anything Tianyi did that was out of her expectations. Her worldview changed when she discovered Tianyi became a nascent soul grandmaster. Her shock of Tianyi utilizing a spatial technique to create a hole in the air, something usually only powerful cultivators above the Nascent Soul Realm could accomplish.

"How long did it take you to learn such a technique?" Lanyue asked. Surely Tianyi spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours and effort into it.

"Too long," Tianyi said with a sigh. "I tried learning it after I reached the Nascent Soul Realm, but I only got it down around yesterday.

"Since you entered the Nascent Soul Realm?" Lanyue ask. She wanted to ask when he entered the Nascent Soul Realm, but she didn't dare, fearing the answer would impact her even more.

"Hmm? Yeah," Tianyi said as he continued to mess around with the wormholes. "I sensed that Yi guy having a spatial pouch. He was guarding it pretty well. He would have sensed if I had used my spiritual sense to enter it. So I decided to make a teeny hole in it and look around."

'Jiang Chunye should be a reincarnator like me. Although her talent isn't enough to get into the Buzhou Immortal Sect, she still rose to the Foundation Establishment Realm. Was I hasty in causing trouble for her? No, since she dared try to kill Daoyi, then she should expect me to retaliate.'

'I sound like those father of the young master stepping stones. "How dare you win against my son!" Or rather a junior sister in this case.'

Tianyi suppressed a chuckle, drawing inquiring looks from the two girls.

'This situation is different from the scenarios in the stories I've read. Daoyi wasn't trying to kill her, or was she? If someone really had been possessing Chunye's body, Daoyi would've likely killed her. But in the end, Chunye tried to kill Daoyi.'

'Getting grudges sure is easy. Jiang Chunye, even though you are a reincarnator like me, I'm going to have you die. Compared to a person I've never met on Earth, I'd prioritize my junior sister. '

'Geez, I'm meeting all these people with main character settings, but they're all becoming my enemies.' Although Tianyi was lamenting, his face revealed an excited smile.