I woke up to find myself as the villain's older sister.

Northern Spirit Continent, Arctic Region.

The Arctic region is divided into four major sections: the eastern part is the wilderness, the southern part is Laizhou, and the northern part is the Arctic Plain where the Xuanbing flower blooms.

To the west lies the Western Sea, which borders the vast ocean.

At this moment, the boy, with the sea breeze blowing, leaned against his heavy sword, crossed his arms, took the foxtail grass out of his mouth, and asked Ling Xuzi, who was floating beside him, "Master, is it really in the sea?"

"Is that even possible?" Ling Xuzi, who was being questioned, glared at Xie Xiyan.

"This is a clue that your teacher went through great lengths to find back then."

"Really?" Xie Xiyan still looked doubtful.

"Of course it's true!" Ling Xuzi, who had been questioned repeatedly, smacked Xie Xiyan on the head.

"Ouch! Master, that hurts!"

Ling Xuzi rolled his eyes at him a few times, annoyed: "You'll behave if I hit you a couple of times."

Xie Xiyan rubbed his head and muttered in dissatisfaction, "Then how are we going to get down?"

Upon hearing this, Ling Xuzi chuckled and said proudly, "You still have to look at your master for that. Your master didn't drown in vain back then."

The place where you drowned was also perfectly chosen; it happened to be a location of rare and precious treasures. Your master absorbed some of its spiritual energy, which is perfect for allowing you to breathe underwater.”

Xie Xiyan's eyes lit up: "Master, is that rare and precious herb still there? We can take it back together."

“It’s gone.” Ling Xuzi’s voice was tinged with regret: “It was taken away by several powerful figures back then. I was hiding in a piece of jade, and it just so happened that it took me with it.”

"But it's all thanks to that rare and precious treasure, otherwise I'd still be stuck at the bottom of the sea," Ling Xuzi said with emotion.

“That’s true.” Xie Xiyan nodded in agreement: “After all, I don’t think you can find another powerful being who drowned and whose soul was trapped at the bottom of the sea.”

"Hey! You little brat, you're asking for a beating every day, aren't you?!" Ling Xuzi angrily smacked Xie Xiyan a few more times.

But Xie Xiyan was prepared, nimbly dodging several attacks. A smug smile played on his lips: "Hehe, Master..."

Before he could finish speaking, he felt unable to move.

He then received several sharp blows to the head.

"Hehe, disciple, hide!"

Xie Xiyan: "..."

"Master, you cheated."

Upon hearing this, Ling Xuzi made a face at Xie Xiyan: "You're not as strong as me, yet you accuse me of cheating? Shameless, so embarrassing~"

……

Northern Spirit Continent, Godless Realm, Star Moon Capital.

At night, the sounds of people muttering in their sleep could be heard from the houses in the capital.

The bright moon hung high in the sky, and on the desolate street, a tall figure walked slowly in the cool moonlight.

Suddenly, as if it had spotted prey, it turned to the side, its flat body carrying a strange smile as it walked into the alley deep in the street.

It floated lightly, its target locked on a house, its thin body pressed tightly against the paper window.

Its empty eyes glowed with a ghostly green light, staring intently at the baby on the bed who was muttering in his sleep.

It grinned and slowly approached the baby on the bed along the gap.

……

"what!"

At dawn, a mournful cry echoed from the depths of a narrow alley in Xingyue Capital.

The woman stared in horror at the object beside her.

"Children, our children." The voice trembled with extreme fear.

The man beside her comforted the woman, looking at the bloody mess on the bed where only organs and bones remained, his heart filled with fear and a deep sadness.

"What's going on here?!"

What's wrong with our child?!

The woman gripped her husband's arm frantically, her face still contorted with terror, crying out repeatedly.

The putrid smell emanating from the blood on the bed terrified the two of them, making them want to vomit.

The man pulled the woman aside, his hands and feet flailing, and said, "Come on, let's go report to the city lord."

Within a single day, the neighbors all vaguely learned that something had eaten Old Zhang's baby, who was only a few months old, in the alley!

"Hey, Second Aunt, do you know about the Zhang family?"

The young woman, her eyes darting around, spoke to the auntie next to her who was also washing clothes in the river.

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged woman, who was being addressed as "Second Aunt," hurriedly looked around and, finding that Old Zhang's wife was not there, then looked at the young woman beside her.

He whispered, "I heard about this. In just one night, the child turned into a pool of blood. Isn't it strange that the couple was right next to the child and didn't notice anything?"

"This is really strange. I heard it even alarmed the city lord!" the young woman said.

"That's right, but this kind of thing really needs to be reported to the city lord. This is no small matter! Your child is about the same age, so be careful at night. Don't end up like that old Zhang's wife, who can't even manage her child."

As she spoke, the second aunt waved the club in her hand, her tone full of disdain.

Upon hearing this, the young woman chuckled and said, "I heard that she begged for a long time before she finally had a child. That's why they say she was destined to be childless. The child she finally gave birth to was eaten by a monster."

"That's right, she was probably just unlucky," the middle-aged woman sighed.

Neither of them took the sudden tragedy seriously.

They also failed to notice that a woman with a strange smile and sinister eyes was staring at them.

Hehehe...hehehe...

Northern Spirit Continent, Xuanmiao Sect.

Five years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Yun Qingyi opened her eyes, exhaled a long breath, and felt a sense of joy as she experienced the purer and more powerful energy within her body.

She is now at the Nascent Soul stage.

For a moment, she couldn't help but feel narcissistic. At the age of nineteen, she had reached the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm. Who else could it be but her?

Raising his hand, the power generated by the Thunderclap Technique flowed through his palm, the purple lightning beautiful and dreamlike.

Yun Qingyi smiled slightly. Her biggest gain from this seclusion was still the Thunderclap Technique.

She originally only intended to go into seclusion for a year, since upgrading the Thunderclap Technique requires practical experience. If she hadn't reached the ninth rank before the age of sixteen, then the technique would truly be useless.

But when she broke through to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, the Thunderclap Technique automatically advanced by one level, which surprised and delighted her.

So it turns out that not only can you upgrade in actual combat, but you can also upgrade during breakthroughs. The reason you didn't upgrade when you broke through before was probably because your cultivation level was too low and the energy you generated was insufficient to upgrade the Thunderclap Technique.

The Thunderclap Technique has now reached the ninth level, but it cannot be used to cultivate advanced techniques.

Yun Qingyi looked into her inner sea of ​​consciousness, directly bypassing the spell that flashed with the advancement requirement: [Late Nascent Soul Stage], and arrived directly in front of a blurry golden spell.

The words "spell" were vaguely visible on it. After looking at it countless times, Yun Qingyi decided to give up.

She comforted herself quietly, thinking that although her cultivation level was not high enough to learn it, she still knew what kind of technique it was, right?

Thinking of this, she stood up, broke the barrier around the cave entrance, and came outside.

Feeling the gentle breeze, Yun Qingyi estimated that it should be late spring or early summer.

"I should go and report to my master that I've come out of seclusion," Yun Qingyi said, casting a cleansing spell on herself to remove the dust and grime that had accumulated on her body over the years. Then she touched the jade pendant around her neck.

A flash of white light, and in a blink of an eye, I arrived in the small world.

The little world is still the same as I remember it: green bamboo, bamboo garden, stream, herbs... and so on.

At first glance, I didn't notice anything wrong, but after looking at it more closely for a while, I suddenly realized, why are there so many medicinal herb fields here?

Looking at the endless medicinal herb fields, Yun Qingyi's lips twitched.

There seemed to be people still busy in the medicinal herb field.

Oh no, to be precise, it's one person and one rabbit.

After watching for a long time, Yun Qingyi was speechless, because she recognized who that person was.

She walked over slowly and called out softly, "Cao Chang Le."

The person who was hoeing the ground paused, and slowly raised his head with an incredulous look of surprise on his face.

"Qingyi?"

As soon as Cao Changle spoke, the rabbit beside him leaped and pounced into Yun Qingyi's arms.

The little paws, still covered in mud, stomped on the clean white clothes.

Yun Qingyi: "..."

He smiled helplessly, hugged Yao Yao tightly, rubbed her fluffy ears, and said softly, "Did Yao Yao miss me?"

Upon hearing this, Yao Yao rubbed her cheek against Yun Qingyi's, as if to say, "I really want to."

Yun Qingyi's heart softened. It seemed that her master had taken very good care of Yao Yao. Although Yao Yao was still in the form of a rabbit, her spirituality was already similar to that of a three or four-year-old child.

Thinking of this, she looked at Cao Changle in front of her: "Cao Changle, do you know where my master went? I haven't seen him since I came in."

besides……"

Yun Qingyi looked at Cao Changle, who had just finished weeding with his trousers rolled up and a hoe in hand: "What are you doing...?"