In a location in the Zhou Star Region, in the year 2095 of the Immortal Calendar.
At the Hundred Lotus Sect's martial arena, amidst the heavy snowfall and bone-chilling winter, a four-year-old boy was teaching a three-year-old girl martial techniques in the snow.
"Spread your legs, straighten your arms! Listen to my commands, throw a hook with your right hand!"
The boy's face was flushed with enthusiasm, while the girl's lips were turning blue from the cold.
This was because the boy was bundled up like a bear, while the girl was only wearing a thin linen coat.
"Senior Brother, I'm co-co-cold..."
The boy maintained a serious expression, resembling a young adult, and crossed his arms, saying, "Hold in the cold. It won't freeze you to death. The frigid air of this cold day is beneficial to you."
At this moment, a maid who was accompanying them couldn't bear it any longer. She approached the boy and quietly spoke up in defense of the girl, "Young Master, please don't bully Junior Sister Pei. She's so pitiful, her nose is frozen from this heavy snow."
The boy turned his head and cast a disdainful glance at the maid.
With an air of righteousness, he said, "Who's bullying her? This is cultivation."
"Is cultivation supposed to involve freezing in the heavy snow?"
"You wouldn't understand!"
"..."
The maid sympathetically looked at the shivering girl in the wind and snow. Although she wanted to plead further, the boy was stubborn, listening to no one except the Sect Master and his wife.
So, she could only step aside, planning to report to the Sect Master later, hoping he would scold him and maybe provide some warm charcoal for the girl.
The boy's name was Ye Anping, the only son of the Sect Master of the Hundred Lotus Sect.
Within the region of Zhou Star region, the Hundred Lotus Sect was but a small sect.
But as the Young Master of the Hundred Lotus Sect, Ye Anping could be considered someone born with a silver spoon.
At least within the sect, he was like a domineering little emperor.
However...
In the maid's memory, the Young Master was quite adorable before he turned three.
He used to act cute, throw tantrums, and loved eating candied hawthorns. He would often have a runny nose, looking endearingly cute.
But for some reason, ever since this girl named Pei Lengxue was brought back by the Sect Master, the Young Master changed completely.
He stopped eating candied hawthorns, and no longer acted cute.
Regardless of day or night, rain or shine, he kept on bullying Junior Sister Pei.
When Junior Sister Pei tried to escape, he would even tug at her dress, pulling her back.
When asked why he acted this way, the Young Master would always say, "It's for Junior Sister Pei's own good."
The Sect Master was usually busy and didn't have time to intervene, and the maids were unable to convince him.
"Ah..." The maid let out a sigh of sympathy.
Upon hearing her sigh, Ye Anping shook his head. He inexplicably felt a sense of frustration, realizing that he had become a pampered young master who bullied others in the eyes of the maids.
He didn't blame them for thinking that way.
After all, only he knew.
These seemingly abusive methods were actually perfectly tailored to accommodate Pei Lengxue's physique and spiritual roots.
In ten years' time, Pei Lengxue and the Hundred Lotus Sect would face a catastrophe.
A cultivator named "Wu You," severely injured, would arrive seeking the blood of a living person for his healing. He would come to the Hundred Lotus Sect.
Under his blade, over a thousand disciples of the Hundred Lotus Sect would perish, and blood would flow from the mountain peaks to its base.
Pei Lengxue would become the sole survivor.
However, she would later be shackled by Wu You, refined into a human cauldron, and ultimately, in despair, transform into blood water, flowing in the demonic sect's blood pool, enduring eternal agony. (Tn: human cauldron, Xianxia version for sex slave)
How does he know this?
Because this world is exactly the same as the fantasy game he used to play.
In other words, this world is the game world of "Heavenly Sword Chronicles."
Ye Anping has transmigrated into this world as a transmigrator.
However, he didn't transmigrate as the protagonist or the antagonist, nor did he become the "Memory-Lost Immortal" played by the players.
He transmigrated as a cannon fodder who would die shortly after the game's beginning.
In the original game, there was only a brief description.
[…On that day, blood flowed like rivers within the Hundred Lotus Sect, and under Wu You's blood-stained blade, the Sect Master's head fell. His fifteen-year-old son became the delicacy of mountain beasts…]
He was that "fifteen-year-old son."
He transmigrated into a young sect master. His aptitude should be quite decent, right?
Indeed, his aptitude was considered good in the cultivation world.
Dual Wood-Spirit Root.
But even the protagonist barely survived under Wu You's threat thanks to his protagonist halo.
For someone like him, without a protagonist halo, there was an insurmountable gap between him and Wu You.
Thus, Ye Anping placed all his hopes on Pei Lengxue, who was now three years old.
In the early stages of the game, Pei Lengxue was an ordinary disciple of the Hundred Lotus Sect, possessing a mediocre Trinary Spiritual Root.
However, in reality, she had an extremely rare Singular Water-Spirit Root, which only appeared once in a millennium.
Because the Singular Water-Spirit Root was so rare, she was mistakenly categorized as an ordinary girl with Trinary Spiritual Roots.
When "Wu You" attacked the sect, he recognized her talent and turned her into his cauldron.
In other words, Pei Lengxue was actually a hidden peerless genius.
Therefore, Ye Anping decided.
Before that bastard "Wu You" arrived, he would train Pei Lengxue to become that bastard's downfall.
Looking at Pei Lengxue with her lips turning blue, Ye Anping furrowed his brows. He walked over and gently held her wrist.
"Junior Sister."
Thinking that today's martial arts practice was coming to an end, Pei Lengxue's eyes lit up. She looked at him with a mix of joy and anxiety, her teeth chattering as she asked, "S-s-senior Brother, c-c-can we g-g-go back n-n-now?"
Ah, this poor child is so cold that she's stuttering... A maid on the side let out a long sigh.
However, in the next moment, Ye Anping uttered a sentence that left the maid dumbfounded.
"Um! Let's start bone forging from now on."
Not understanding what "bone forging" meant, Pei Lengxue tilted her head.
"Huh?"
The next moment, she saw Ye Anping take a deep breath and forcefully pull her right hand with all his strength.
Crack—
A crisp sound.
Her right elbow joint dislocated directly.
"..."
Since her body was nearly frozen stiff, Pei Lengxue didn't feel any pain. But seeing her right hand twist in an odd direction, her pupils involuntarily contracted into small circles. Her mouth slowly opened, she took a deep breath, and then—
"Ah-ahhhh!!!"
Ye Anping raised his hand, saying, "Don't panic, we still need to dislocate thirty-five more bones."
"Wuwuwaahhhh!!!"
Pei Lengxue wanted to escape, but her legs were already frozen stiff, and she couldn't move at all. She could only watch as the boy with a runny nose dislocated her bones one by one and then reconnected them.
The accompanying maid was frightened and immediately went to inform the Sect Master of the Hundred Lotus Sect.
Later, as expected, Ye Anping was soundly spanked by his father when he returned home.
However, he showed no signs of remorse and instead intensified his efforts.
He shattered her knees fifty times.
He threw her into an ice lake to soak for three days and nights.
He tossed her off a cliff from a height of a hundred meters.
He made her stay in a den of demonic beasts for seven days...
...
The maple leaves at the Hundred Lotus Sect turned from red to green, then green to red again.
Winter turned into spring, spring turned into autumn.
Ten years passed in the blink of an eye.
Ye Anping and Pei Lengxue transformed from youthful children into a young lady and a young master in their prime.
In Ye Anping's bedroom, the copper mirror on the dressing table reflected a handsome and refined face with star-like eyebrows and bright eyes.
His dark, deep eyes gleamed with a captivating radiance.
His fair and smooth skin exuded a cold and stern charm.
Looking at his reflection in the mirror, Ye Anping couldn't help but exclaim, "Could there really be a man with such a good appearance in this world?"
The maid who was combing his hair beside him glanced over and couldn't help but sigh, "Young Master, you're already fifteen this year. This servant believes you should preserve some dignity."
"But don't you think the person in the mirror looks handsome, Xiao Die?"
"The Young Master might be handsome, but I have to listen to it every morning. It's been ten years, and my ears are calloused from it," the maid replied.
Ye Anping chuckled and said, "Haven't you heard? If you keep telling someone they're handsome, they'll actually become handsome."
"Is there such a saying?" Xiao Die tilted her head in confusion.
"Look at Junior Sister. Isn't she so beautiful now? That's all because I compliment her on her beauty every day."
"..."
A thought bubble with six dots floated above Xiao Die's head as she sighed.
"Young Master, do you think it's possible that Junior Sister was beautiful from the beginning?"
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Ye Anping waved his hand and immediately denied, "She wasn't even a supporting character originally. If it weren't for me complimenting her every day, how could she be more beautiful than the protagonist now?"
"Young Master, you're at it again. Talking about protagonists and supporting characters. You've read too many storybooks. The Sect Master will have to spank you again."
"You don't understand. In another month or two, Pei Lengxue will defeat the Grand Elder of the Poison Gu Sect and save our Hundred Lotus Sect from danger."
"You've been telling this story for ten years, Young Master." Xiao Die pouted, finishing his hair, "The Poison Gu Sect is in the Eastern region, thousands of miles away from us."
Ye Anping shook his head and didn't explain further. He stood up from his seat.
"Get me some more healing elixirs. I'm going to have a real fight with Junior Sister today."