"No—!" A startled cry echoed out.
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Luoye City.
The Qin Family.
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In a quiet room, a young girl suddenly sat up on her bed.
She was young in appearance, wearing a white nightgown and exceedingly beautiful.
At the moment, her chest was heaving, rising and falling rapidly, and a layer of cold sweat had formed on her smooth, jade-like forehead, as if she had just experienced something terrible in her dreams.
"The Immortal King Tribulation is indeed extraordinary, not something I can easily overcome," the girl muttered to herself.
Before the words even finished, her brows furrowed in confusion.
She looked down at her hands, then lifted her head and scanned the entire room.
"This...?"
The girl got out of bed, her pupils filled with shock.
"Isn't this my room from when I was young? Ten thousand years ago, I left Luoye City. How could I possibly be back here?"
"And where's my cultivation?"
"Why am I only at the late stage of the Qi Condensation Realm?"
She clearly remembered that she had already ascended to immortality and was undergoing the Immortal King Tribulation. Yet in the blink of an eye, she was back ten thousand years ago?
"Is this an illusion?"
The girl walked to the dressing table and ran her fingers over each of the items she once owned.
The real, tangible feel beneath her fingertips left no doubt: everything here was real!
"Have I been reborn?"
The girl murmured to herself, her eyes filled with disbelief.
No matter how hard it was to believe, when the facts were laid out in front of her, she had no choice but to accept them.
"Miss, are you alright?"
At that moment, the maid in the outer room, hearing the noise inside, asked with concern.
"I'm fine," the girl replied casually.
As if recalling something, she asked again, "What's the date today?"
"It's the fourteenth of July," the maid answered.
"And the year?"
The maid was momentarily confused by the strange question but still answered patiently: "It's the year 2020 of the Jingyuan era."
Jingyuan was the reign title of the current emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
At this time, the Great Zhou Empire was flourishing, its territory vast. Even the Profound Sun Sect did not dare to act recklessly under the rule of the Great Zhou.
"The year 2020 of the Jingyuan era," the girl repeated, looking out at the moonlit night. "To think I was reborn to this point in time. What a twist of fate."
Moonlight streamed in, casting a silver veil over her delicate figure, accentuating her flawless, jade-like beauty.
She stood at the window, gazing into the night sky, lost in thought.
"Miss, you should rest. The young master of the Li Family might arrive in a few days," the maid outside reminded softly.
"The young master of the Li Family?" The girl's expression shifted.
Those unfamiliar yet familiar words stirred memories that had long since been buried.
If she recalled correctly, she had once been betrothed to the eldest young master of the Li Family in her youth.
However, later on, she had gained a miraculous opportunity and her strength had advanced by leaps and bounds.
From being the top prodigy of Luoye City, she had become one of the most outstanding talents in the entire world.
Because of this, she had left the young master of the Li Family far behind.
He couldn't even keep up with her shadow.
By the time she had become an Immortal, the young master of the Li Family had only just managed to break through to the Life and Death Realm.
In the end, though they didn't formally dissolve their engagement, it was tacitly understood that their marriage would never happen.
Both of them understood that the gap between them had grown too wide, and there was no longer any chance of them being together.
"If I remember correctly, that young master of the Li Family was named Li Xun..." the girl muttered.
"Miss, you have a good memory. The Family Head only mentioned it once, and you remembered," the maid said from outside.
The girl chuckled softly and replied, "You may leave now."
"Yes, miss."
Hearing the maid's footsteps fade, the girl sat back down at her dressing table.
Gazing at her youthful reflection in the mirror, she gently stroked her face and whispered, "Since I was reborn, perhaps I can make up for some of the regrets of my past life."
She remembered that her fiancé had been a disciple of the Profound Sun Sect.
When he came to deliver the betrothal gift, he had just broken through to the early stage of the Qi Condensation Realm.
His talent wasn't bad, but compared to the top-tier geniuses, he wasn't particularly impressive.
"In about a thousand years, I remember that the Profound Sun Sect is destined to fall," she mused.
The next thousand years would be a golden age, a time when many great heroes would rise.
In her previous life, within the domain of the Profound Sun Sect, three peerless geniuses had emerged—herself, Jiang Taixuan, and Ye Han.
Anyone who heard of this would praise the land for producing such outstanding talents.
Logically, if three such talents emerged under its influence, the Profound Sun Sect should have been able to secure at least one of them and soar to new heights.
However, fate played a cruel joke.
The Profound Sun Sect not only failed to secure any of the three but even offended one of them.
That genius was Ye Han.
It seemed that Ye Han had suffered some form of injustice within the sect. After his rise to prominence, he harbored no goodwill towards the Profound Sun Sect and even held some resentment.
Because of this, many factions, hoping to curry favor with Ye Han, took action and completely annihilated the Profound Sun Sect.
When the sect was destroyed, the Sect Master at the time had been a woman named Shen Yuluan.
Though she was strong, she couldn't fend off so many enemies and eventually met her end.
As for Li Xun, by then he had become an elder of the Profound Sun Sect.
With the sect's destruction, a high-ranking elder like him naturally couldn't escape the same fate.
By the time news of this reached her, it was already too late.
She had wanted to save Li Xun, but the situation had already been sealed, and she couldn't act in time.
In the end, all she could do was take revenge for him by wiping out the factions that had destroyed the Profound Sun Sect.
"Now that I've been given another chance, perhaps I can offer some guidance to Li Xun so that he doesn't follow the same path as in his previous life," she thought to herself.
Time passed, and before long, dawn broke, signaling the start of a new day.
Outside her room, the maid from the previous night called out again, "Miss, the young master of the Chen Family has arrived. It seems he's here to propose marriage..."
"What?"
The girl snapped out of her reverie.
She recalled that her fiancé from the Li Family was still seven days away from arriving in Luoye City. But before that, the Qin Family had encountered a minor incident.
The young master of the Chen Family had come to propose, but her father had rejected him outright.
The young master of the Chen Family had borne a grudge because of this, which had led to some trouble later on. However, by then, her strength had grown, and she easily resolved the situation.
In her previous life, she had never met the young master of the Chen Family. But in this life, things were different. With ten thousand years of experience, she didn't mind eliminating future threats before they even began to sprout.
With that in mind, she rose, washed, and dressed before saying, "Xiao Huan, take me to the main hall."
"Ah? Miss, you haven't officially married yet. You shouldn't meet another man so casually."
"It's fine. We'll just watch from the shadows."
The girl had made up her mind.
If the young master of the Chen Family's strength was mediocre, she would find an opportunity to kill him and prevent future troubles altogether.
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