"Die, you demon!"
With a hole in his chest, Yu Jinmei fell to the ground.
"In the end, I can't escape the fate of being a villain…?" he coughed.
Planting his boot on Yu Jinmei's face, Ye Huo arrogantly declared, "Today, you shall die and I will become the successor of the White Star Holy Land!"
Yu Jinmei's eyelids grew heavy as Ye Huo drew his treasured sword, the White Crane.
The sword that Yu Jinmei had gifted to his junior sister.
He could feel his life slipping away as his blood poured out. He had been ambushed by Ye Huo and his spirit energy was sealed.
His junior sister and fiancée watched from afar as Yu Jinmei bled out.
Yu Jinmei looked at the grinning face of Ye Huo one last time, burning the sight of the yellow toothed smile into his eyes.
With his dying breath, he simply uttered one final word: "Die."
Ye Huo leapt back, cautious. He knew that even a cornered rat would bite the cat, and a strong cultivator like Yu Jinmei was no exception.
However, Yu Jinmei's eyes closed simply, without causing any commotion.
"Phew… Tsk, I was scared for nothing." Ye Huo swung the White Crane and beheaded Yu Jinmei on the spot.
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Lying in a small room located in the White Star Sect, a youthful Yu Jinmei woke up.
"I'm… alive?"
He looked around the room and found it to be eerily familiar.
"No way— This, this is my room from when I first came to this world?"
He recalled that this place had been destroyed 2 years before he died at the hands of Ye Huo. He had only seen this room twice before entering the Holy Land.
"Ye Huo…!" Yu Jinmei's eyes turned red as he remembered what Ye Huo had done.
He had been ambushed and killed by Ye Huo, thanks to the help from Yu Jinmei's junior sister and fiancée, who both betrayed him.
However, it was only natural that this was the case.
After all, this was the world of a manhua, in which Ye Huo was the protagonist.
Yu Jinmei was nothing more than an antagonist who served as a stepping stone for Ye Huo's rise to power in the White Star Holy Land.
"But to think I was able to be reborn…"
5 years ago, Yu Jinmei had been transported into his world, possessing this body.
He used his knowledge of the story and quickly became the Sect Master's disciple and successor to the Holy Land.
Being reborn again this time was technically his third chance at life already.
"What should I do…" he sighed.
In the previous life, Yu Jinmei had befriended his junior sister, the primary heroine of the story: Qiu Xueli.
However, she betrayed him without hesitation just to be part of Ye Huo's harem.
In fact, once Ye Huo entered the sect, all of his efforts had seemingly gone down the drain.
Ye Huo was overwhelmingly lucky throughout the story, and despite his lack of talent, managed to reach the peak with his fortuitous encounters.
Readers would often joke in the comments that he should have cultivated that Dao of Gambling instead.
At the time, Yu Jinmei was also entertained by Ye Huo's absurd luck, but now that he was the antagonist, he felt hopeless.
"Should I take a different path? No, what if I simply gave up on the successor position…" he contemplated.
He didn't want to give up the opportunity right from the start; there were many resources that would be beneficial to him.
However, if it came down to it, he would leave and sect and run away.
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"Yu Jinmei, are you going to join the trial this time?"
Yu Jinmei glanced up and saw an ugly fat face covered in warts.
"Oh, I'm not sure," he responded vaguely.
The person in front of him was Fu Jiaobao, a scheming, untrustworthy lackey of Dong Wangtian, the First Elder's only son.
Known in the East Wing as the 'Toad Brother,' no one dared to antagonize him.
He didn't have the talent or strength to join the Holy Land, but in the outer sect, and especially the East Wing, he was feared by all.
Yu Jinmei didn't want to provoke their faction or get involved with the sect's politics yet. He wanted to stay low key until the right time.
He watched as Fu Jiaobao made his rounds, extorting the newly joined disciples and checking who was taking the Holy Land trial.
'If I take the trial… how far will I make it this time?' Yu Jinmei pondered silently.
In order to join the true White Star Holy Land, the disciples of the outer sect would have to partake in the annual trial. But among the thousands of participants, only a few hundred at most could pass.
In his previous life, he had barely passed, even with his knowledge of the story, only becoming a candidate to join the Holy Land.
In the end, it took almost 4 months to join, which caused him to fall behind in his cultivation.
This time, he was determined to get a high placement and directly become a Holy Land disciple.
Everything to ensure his survival in this story.