Ye Luoli: The Charismatic Girl Leads the World to Darkness

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The instant the white light of his self-destruction illuminated, Mo Ran, wielding a long sword, charged into the crowd.

Her eyes were bloodshot, and the ferocity in them was impossible to suppress. Her blood-red longsword left countless afterimages in the air, reaping one life after another.

Blood splattered on her face, but she merely wiped it with her sleeve before continuing to slash, as if only in this way could she suppress the pain in her heart.

She sent herself away again.

Mo Ran knew that Yan Xi was doing this for her own good, but she didn't want to wait anxiously. She preferred to be with her, so that even if she died, she could remain in her heart forever.

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The moment Rejep saw the white light, he ended a man's life. Then the others followed and charged into the crowd, slaughtering them in a one-sided massacre.

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Space-Time Administration.

The instant the calamity ended, three figures appeared in the hall. They waved to the hundred or so people lined up in the hall and then rushed into Archie's secret base, beginning a massacre.

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Yin Yuan pursed his lips, watching the red figure disappear, and sighed softly.

"If she hadn't had so many troubles back then... she would probably be as gentle and compassionate as you..."

"Was life tough in the past...? It's better to be tough..."

"If she's like you... then I'll have to find somewhere to cry..."

"She...is now loved and cared for. If she weren't a little selfish, it would be our dereliction of duty..."

After muttering a few words, Yin Yuan stared at the direction where the figure disappeared for a long time, then raised his hand and drew a spatial passage in the air before stepping inside.

It was still that camellia tree. The food and wine were all gone, the cups and plates were in disarray, and only a purple figure sat leaning against the tree. Fallen petals were scattered everywhere, and she tilted her head back, smiling gently.

"It's rare to see you in purple." Yin Yuan beckoned to her. "Come on, I'll take you home."

Yan Xi smiled brightly at him, placed her palm on his palm, and instantly formed a small, pale red, semi-transparent sphere.

Yinyuan pinched the small round ball, looked at it for a couple of times, and then put it in his pocket.

Thinking about why this fragment of the soul had been broken off, Yin Yuan paused. He then recalled the smile on the face of the energy being before it disappeared, and his expression became complicated.

"Hmm? Could it be that this little idiot actually has a bit of a compassionate side?"

Scratching his head, Yin Yuan stopped thinking about it and tore open the spatial rift again, stepping outside the small world. He took a few steps as if shrinking the distance between two places, and arrived in front of the Dark Watch World.

The horrific self-destruction caused no damage to the surrounding area.

Five weapons of different shapes were arranged in a circle, and the energy shield was covered with cracks.

With a casual wave of his hand, three rhomboid crystals, each the size of a fingernail, emerged from the space beside him and hovered quietly above his palm.

Blue crystals, the laws of space.

Grayish-purple crystals, illusory laws.

A pale purple, semi-illusory crystal…hmm…hmm? The laws of time?

Yin Yuan wore an expression like an old man on the subway looking at his phone, "A half-formed time law? Why didn't this idiot tell me?"

"...Could it be that she didn't even realize it herself?!"

Yinyuan: ...6.

After fusing the three law crystals into the small sphere, Yin Yuan extended a finger and gently touched the energy shield of the five weapons.

A series of cracking sounds rang out, and three seconds later, the energy shield and the weapon collapsed into dust and were swept away by the spatial turbulence.

"Nine-Tailed Spirit-Breaking Fan, Nine-Tailed Mysterious Heavenly Demon Harp, Nine-Tailed Heaven-Severing Ribbon, Nine-Tailed Heart-Separating Sword, Nine-Tailed... what was it called again... I forgot..."

Yin Yuan repeated the name of the Honkai weapon, then confirmed that the dust had been swept away by the turbulence, and nodded in satisfaction.

Finally, those ridiculously useless and ridiculously named Heavenly Fox weapons disappeared from his system inventory!

With a happy smile, Yin Yuan tore open the spatial rift again and arrived at "Flower Festival".

A hundred-mile-long camellia forest, a mountain of fallen love.

Yan Xi loved camellias, so she chose a spot on Qingshan Mountain in Shuiyuntian, planted it with camellia trees, and renamed it "Huachao".

Yin Yuan stepped out of the spatial rift, constantly playing with the small ball in his hand.

"how's it going?"

As soon as he came out, he asked Lu Ze, who was standing next to him.

Lu Ze shook his head, frowning as he told him to see for himself.

Among the well-arranged palace complex, a huge golden pillar of light stands atop a rather tall main hall, occasionally turning red, flashing as brightly as a neon light.

It flashed for about two minutes, then stopped flashing and turned into a golden-red pillar of light.

Yinyuan: ...

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Inside the hall, in a pool of blood, Yan Xi opened her eyes, her face full of bitterness and helplessness.

She failed.

She schemed against everything she could, even killing two old geezers, but she never expected to get stuck at the very last step.

The Heavenly Fox bloodline had been fused with the Heavenly Fox for many years. When the Heavenly Fox's soul exploded, this bloodline, which could resurrect infinitely, was also destroyed, with a portion of it dissipating along with the Heavenly Fox's soul.

Therefore, her resurrection is also incomplete.

Yan Xi raised her arm, and beads of blood rolled down her smooth, delicate skin. After being exposed to the air for only a few seconds, her arm began to dry up and shrivel up, like a withered twig.

Yan Xi gave a bitter smile and slammed her arm weakly into the pool of blood.

With her eyes closed, Yan Xi's thoughts surged like a tide, as if she had returned to those dark and hopeless times of the past.

She was a virtuous person for ten lifetimes, and was chosen by Heaven to become the successor of the "Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox".

She was the female protagonist of that world, a fox princess who should have grown up pampered and spoiled, knowing that even if the road ahead was bumpy, she would know that there were people behind her who could be relied on.

But she didn't.

Because of that damn alliance of Archie, someone with a system invaded her world, knocking her down from the clouds and leaving her to struggle in the mud for the rest of her life.

The auspicious celestial phenomena that should have occurred at Yan Xi's birth were changed to ominous signs, and she was killed and thrown out of the palace when she was less than 100 days old.

The intruder made the move.

After being resurrected by the bloodline of the Celestial Fox, Yan Xi was taken in by a peasant woman and grew up happily for six years.

Most of the fox clans have the surname Yan, and the peasant woman also had the surname Yan. She was found amidst the chaos of the world, so she was named Yan Xi.

These six years were the most peaceful six years of Yan Xi's life.

Six years later, Yan Xi went up the mountain to play, but when she returned home, she found that the small village had become a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, with a raging fire and no one left alive.

The intruder stole Yan Xi's identity and inherited her fortune, only to discover that this person could not die, and that the fortune would continue to transfer to her.

As a result, the invaders not only sent troops to hunt down Yan Xi, but also spread rumors that Yan Xi possessed a supreme treasure, which attracted a large number of cultivators to hunt her down.

The saying "A common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime" is especially applicable in the world of cultivation. And when rumors are spread by many people, falsehoods become truth.

Especially as Yan Xi repeatedly came back from the dead, the rumors intensified.

Yan Xi's initial state of fleeing the world and waiting to die has transformed into one of fleeing while simultaneously assassinating.

Yan Xi's terrible sense of direction wasn't innate; it's because she knows there's no turning back, so she never memorizes routes, which is how she developed the habit.

She had no sense of direction because escaping for her life didn't require a direction; any possible escape route usually led to an even more gruesome death, so she just blindfolded herself and wandered around aimlessly.

A hundred years passed, and Yan Xi finally found a way to escape this world, but was suddenly suppressed by the celestial fox soul in her bloodline and imprisoned in the abyss of her spiritual world, with long chains around her ankles.

Despite her tragic fate, Yan Xi refused to accept it.

She wandered aimlessly through the abyss day and night, trying to find a way out.

Finally, he lost his strength and collapsed to the ground, but suddenly noticed a point of light in the distance.

She staggered toward that direction, but the darkness in the abyss suddenly began to drain her soul's power, and she could no longer go halfway.

So they crawled.

It climbed until the fingernails shattered, the flesh was mangled, and finally even the finger bones were exposed.

She climbed to the edge of the light; just a little further and she would reach it.

But she couldn't go any further.

The chains have come to an end.

A hair's breadth of difference.

Yan Xi closed her eyes, smiled bitterly, and let the black mist turn into blades, slashing bloody marks on her soul.

Suddenly, the pain disappeared, replaced by a warm and gentle force that seemed to be healing her wounds.

Yan Xi opened her eyes and saw a pair of red embroidered shoes.

She used all her strength to turn over, and in the shadows, a stunningly beautiful woman was bending down to look at her.

Seeing her looking at her, Hua Qingyan raised an eyebrow and held out her hand, "Will you come with me?"

Yan Xi struggled to sit up, looked at her bloodied and mangled hands, then at her fair and clean fingertips, and asked a question that she still wanted to slap herself for thinking about it.

Are you a fairy?

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"Hey, you're not dead, are you?"

"Holy crap, am I too late?!"

Yan Xi opened her eyes, pulling herself out of her memories, and looked at the hunched old man by the pool. "Old man, stop howling."

The Heavenly Dao incarnation saw her open her eyes and touched his nose. "Well, I'm sorry about this. If I had just turned that damned Heavenly Fox into ashes with a single lightning bolt, none of this would have happened."

The Heavenly Dao cursed, coughed, and winked at Yan Xi, "Ahem... Considering your contributions to the Three Thousand Worlds, I'll give you a chance, will you do it?"

Looking at the old man who could only be serious for three seconds, Yan Xi knew that there was hope for her resurrection.

She blinked too. "Quick, tell me more."

"As you know, I govern three thousand worlds, and I cannot arbitrarily interfere with people's lives and deaths..."

The Heavenly Dao slyly rolled its eyes, "You separate your soul from the Heavenly Fox bloodline, then scatter your soul into the Three Thousand Worlds, and then set up a death tribulation at the age of twenty, letting those few girls stop this death."

"How about it, do you do it?"

"If I survive this ordeal, will I live?" Yan Xi asked.

"It doesn't matter if there are only two or three fragments of the soul, it's just that the recovery time... needs to be increased a bit~" Tiandi rubbed his index, middle, and thumb together and grinned mischievously.

His and Yan Xi's voices had already spread, and those waiting outside were sure to hear them.

Yan Xi smiled, her eyes narrowed. "That's so nice."

She understood the unspoken meaning behind Tiandao's words: even if she only managed to retrieve half of the soul fragment, this old man could still cause her trouble.

Seeing Yan Xi's eyes darting around, the old man added, still not entirely at ease.

"But if you only bring back two or three pieces, that's bullying the old man!"

Without hesitation, Yan Xi nodded and said, "I agree."

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A day later, Yin Yuan delegated the management authority of the Time and Space Administration to Mo Xinglan and her system, Gou Dan, who had rushed back.

"That little idiot is a complete waste of life. He might kill himself before his time is up. I need to go check on him."

"Egg, it just so happens that you two are busy managing the [Death Game] and can't get out, so you can do more and clean up this mess while you're at it~"

"Goodbye~"

Before Mo Xinglan and the other could react, Yin Yuan waved his hand and decisively sliced ​​himself into pieces, following the aura of Yan Xi's soul fragments as they dispersed into the Three Thousand Worlds.

"Yinyuan, I'm so angry!"

"You fucking bastard, you just wait until you come back! I'll kill you!"

Pointing at the Three Thousand Worlds Star Chart in the Air Traffic Control Bureau lobby and cursing loudly, Gou Dan stroked his chin and turned to ask Mo Xinglan, "This idiot... he's gone to chase after his wife, right?"

Mo Xinglan stroked her chin, "Right..."

Suddenly, the two of them simultaneously turned on their electronic screens and tagged all members in the group chat.

Big news! Xiao Jiu/Yin Yuan is getting a girlfriend!

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

La la la~ Did anyone guess the official pairing correctly?

The following bonus chapters will all be biographical, so stay tuned!