Bound to Mary Sue, I am against involution in the world of immortal cultivation

It was almost a matter of course to move back into the old place.

Ling You's identity was clear, and in order to avoid being accused of obstructing the peace between the two worlds, the cultivators who disliked him had to accept it reluctantly.

Although the comments about him behind his back were not very good at all.

[To actually be inferior to a woman... Even if the other person is Fan Ning, it's really a bit shameless.]

[What good can come of the evil from the demonic realm entering the sect... I think Fan Ning is simply blinded by greed!]

[Neither of these two is a good person. Ling You is able to reach his current status... Humph! It's because he hasn't mastered that skill. Even if we were taught this "skill", we wouldn't learn it!]

"stop looking."

Ling You snatched the letter from Fan Ning's hand.

Thanks to Qin Mingzheng, they were not cut off from the news of the immortal world even when they arrived in the demon world. The things that were usually inconvenient to send were all well kept by Qin Mingzheng, including the "rumors" this time, which were delivered to the two of them.

She certainly didn't mean any harm, but Ling You couldn't bear to see Fan Ning frowning so sullenly, so he advised her helplessly, "It's only natural that this kind of news would get out... Don't bother with them."

“How many people who have fallen to the point of gossiping behind others’ backs are truly capable?”

"I'm not fussing about that," Fan Ning pinched his brows, showing no intention of snatching the thing back. He simply flipped through another stack of letter papers beside him and said, "The former Demon Lord seems to have been a bit too idle, and got involved in quite a bit of muddy water."

It would be better to find him something to do.

Fan Ning pondered and said, "People shouldn't be too idle...why not let him save the world?"

Ling You: “…”

"How did this even get to this point? And—the world doesn't need saving right now, does it?"

"That's not necessarily true," Fan Ning hooked his chin and smiled, "It's always good to rehearse early. After all, saving the world is something you only get used to after a second try."

"..."

Ling You had a complicated expression: "I always feel like there's something wrong with the way you said that..."

[Host, are you saying the villain's line?] The system, which hadn't been online for a long time, suddenly made its presence felt, hesitant to speak but wanting to, yet hesitant to speak.

It said: [The issues here have been reported to the main system, but the review process of the main system will take several months...]

"So I still have to be self-reliant," Fan Ning ruthlessly punctured the falsehood, sarcastically saying, "The only system that even remotely exists keeps disconnecting... I don't think your main system department is very capable of leadership."

System: [That's not the case.]

After saying this, it choked on its own frequency of disconnections, feeling a little unsure. "I've checked all the issues this time. I won't disconnect next time. I promise."

Fan Ning didn't say anything, and started looking through the information on the desk again, smiling without saying a word.

Then... at three o'clock in the morning, in the woods outside Mingyue Peak, the system went offline again.

"What are you laughing at?" Jiang Biehe, who was in a hurry to meet someone, frowned and looked carefully at Fan Ning's lazy appearance. His expression looked very tense.

"I'm just laughing at a trivial missed appointment," Fan Ning smiled, and then said, "But Senior Sister Jiang... leaving Ling You to ask me out in the dark... doesn't seem very innocent."

"I'm different now. After all, I'm the one who's going to have a Demon Queen. I need to carefully discern invitations with ulterior motives. Otherwise, Ling You will cry, make a fuss, and even hang himself... It will be very difficult to appease him."

Jiang Biehe's expression was calm: "Then you should find someone else. This won't be a long-lasting relationship."

Fan Ning said "eh".

She had already realized the identity of the person opposite her, but she didn't show any strange expression when she heard this. Instead, she pretended to think for a moment and gave a negative answer: "I don't think it's possible."

"If I could just change it, I'd become some terrible person... That's not good, it would just ruin my reputation."

Fan Ning asserted, "I am a wholeheartedly good person."

"But you'll have to leave him sooner or later." Jiang Biehe didn't get dragged into the humorous atmosphere. She looked at Fan Ning, who didn't care about her words at all, and repeated the fact she had said before, "Love...is not something you should be obsessed with."

"You've already come into contact with the abyss," she said. "You should be able to feel the power that is close to the origin."

"You shouldn't absorb this power without limit. Even for the sake of the stability of this world... you can't continue like this."

Although the abyss is a negative collection of the orthodox power of heaven, it is also contaminated by many things related to the rules and is still the core of the world.

Something like this...it's not a good thing for a person to have to deal with it for a long time.

"If that's what you came for, then I have nothing more to say."

Fan Ning looked at the moon hanging in the sky, standing in the open space surrounded by trees. The moonlight made her eyes and eyebrows look even colder.

"Because I will definitely refuse."

"What does the stability of the world have to do with me?"

Jiang Biehe's eyes grew serious, as if he was looking at his own disobedient and rebellious sister. "You possess the power of Heaven, and are destined to sacrifice yourself for the world."

"Filling in the rules and becoming part of Heaven's way—this is a responsibility none of us can escape."

Fan Ning directly retorted, "You casually say 'responsibility' can be fatal... But then again, since the Heavenly Dao is now falling apart and unstable, why can't we just destroy it and then rebuild it, and start a new Heavenly Dao?"

"Patching it up and making some modifications...it's better to just trade it in for a new one."

Jiang Biehe: "...The Way of Heaven follows the will of Heaven. It's not something that can be easily replaced."

She kept her face calm and explained to Fan Ning the existence of "Heaven's Way" itself, and these words flowed smoothly past Fan Ning's ears, disappeared in one ear and out the other.

"Facts aside, is there anything wrong with what I said?"

Jiang Biehe: "..."

She can't let go.

"When the Heavenly Dao falls, it starts with cultivators being unable to ascend. Then it evolves into a shortage of cultivation resources, and then natural disasters continue to occur... and humans, having lost their abilities, can no longer withstand the repeated life and death."

"That sounds terrible," Fan Ning clicked his tongue and said, "But these are just hypotheticals, right? What would happen if the Heavenly Dao fell... You talk about it as if there really is a precedent."

Jiang Biehe: "...This is the most likely scenario."

"So it still hasn't happened?" Fan Ning narrowed his eyes and asked abruptly, "Where does your unfounded speculation put those who have already ascended?"

"You didn't even come back to visit your hometown when it was about to be destroyed... This so-called ascension can't be a one-way ticket, right?"