(Mount Xilean- Holy Sword Sect)
(Fifth Peak- Private Residence)
The beautiful female cultivator strode out of the room and the doors swung shut behind her as if they had closed by magic.
Xu Lu remained in place for a few seconds before her body automatically walked towards the small closet in the corner of the room.
She needed to get ready.
Master would punish her severely if she was late to the morning training session. Xu Lu opened the closet and saw only a few robes.
Each robe was identical with a white background and tiny blue clouds sewn into the edges of the fabric.
The robes were long enough to cover down to her ankles.
Xu Lu reached for the nearest robe and slowly began to take off the clothes on her body. This world... this new body... it was all too much at once.
Honestly... she didn't understand what was going on.
She still had her old memories of her time spent with Camilla, but Xu Lu was pretty sure that she had not met the so-called 'system' after her death.
And besides didn't the 'system' promise that she would get back all her memories from her previous mission worlds?
Why did she only have one set?
Xu Lu glanced down at her naked body and saw a white flawless complexion. She was truly beautiful... her physique could have been carved by angels in heaven.
Small perky breasts, a slender waist and traces of muscles on her arms and legs.
She carefully put on the new robe and tied the cloth string that wrapped around her waist to hold it in place.
Absentmindedly her fingers wandered further upwards until they touched the cold metal sheet that covered her face.
A surging tide of self-hatred and sorrow rose up in Xu Lu's heart that was so overwhelming that for a brief moment she forgot to breathe.
These emotions came from the original body.
Xu Lu grabbed her chest and panted desperately in order to get some oxygen to her lungs.
Just thinking about the horrific sight that lay beneath the mask on her face was enough to cause her to get a panic attack.
"Fuck... I..." Xu Lu coughed violently as she knelt on the ground.
Blurry memories of faceless people turning away from her with expressions of disgust on their faces flooded her mind.
(Never take off that mask)
(Never)
(NEVER!)
A voice echoed through Xu Lu's mind, and she could hear a desperate plead hidden inside the loud shouts.
Suddenly... there was silence.
Then the voice said a single sentence before vanishing completely.
(Please fulfil my request... stand on top as the most promising young talent on the continent and then...)
(Join the Demonic Cult)
The young woman got up from the ground and staggered over to the mattress where she plopped down on the bed.
Xu Lu placed her head in her hands and let out a small groan. What the hell had she gotten herself into?
A request to join the Demonic Cult? The same faction that the man who had tortured her belonged to?
That didn't make any sense.
And was there a villainess in this plane?
Xu Lu had no idea where to even begin looking or who she was even searching for.
The original Xu Lu had spent basically all of her life confined to this mountain and was forbidden to take even a single step outside.
The only time she could recall leaving the mountain was when that demonic cultivator broke through the barriers and kidnapped her to an unknown location.
And she had spent most of the journey unconscious so truthfully it was not like Xu Lu could say that she experienced a different environment.
"What is taking you so long?" a cold voice snapped Xu Lu out of her train of thought.
Lei Ying was standing at the entrance to the shack with a furious expression on her face. Her figure blurred and then vanished from the spot.
She reappeared next to the mattress that Xu Lu was lying down on and roughly pulled her up from the bed.
"Do you think my words are a joke? You already got two days of vacation," Lei Ying hissed angrily as her hand shot forward faster than Xu Lu could react.
Slap!
Xu Lu groaned in pain as her master slapped her across her face with so much force that she could feel it in her bones.
"Useless trash... finally you look as ugly on the outside as you do on the inside," Lei Ying's vicious words entered Xu Lu's ears like the whispers of a poisonous snake.
Xu Lu gritted her teeth and silently buried the rising anger in her heart.
Maybe it was the wisdom of having previously been an old woman in her eighties, but she refused to give her master the satisfaction of seeing her break.
She couldn't fight back... at least not yet.
According to the memories of the original Xu Lu, her master was one of the most powerful cultivators in the entire Holy Sword Sect.
Despite her youthful appearance, Lei Ying was over one thousand years old and on the cusp of reaching the void stage.
She was not an opponent that Xu Lu could fight against.
"Yes master... I'm sorry," Xu Lu politely spoke with trembling fingers. She wanted nothing more than to tear this vicious woman apart.
"Good... now let's go," Lei Ying said with a smirk on her face.
She loosened her arm and Xu Lu stumbled slightly. Lei Ying strode out of the room without glancing back to see if her apprentice was following her.
She knew that Xu Lu had no other choice.
Xu Lu walked behind the retreating back of her master and silently organised the memories inside her head.
The original Xu Lu had an Ice Yin Root and was training using a qi gathering cultivation technique know as the Frozen Hell Art.
It involved absorbing ice qi from cores taken from monsters in the northern region of the continent.
Technically it was not exactly a righteous technique, but Lei Ying still forced her apprentice to practise it.
This method was extremely painful since it would feel like one's entire body was being frozen and burned at the same time.
Xu Lu's body involuntarily shivered as she walked through a large clearing of grassland and towards a river located at the back of the mountain.
The journey was a familiar one and it only took around fifteen minutes before the master and her apprentice arrived at a roaring river.
"Jump in," Lei Ying ordered coldly as she stood to the side and waited for Xu Lu to follow her command.
Xu Lu hesitantly walked forward and waded into the shallow part of the river.
The water was incredibly clear, and she could see tiny white fishes swimming around the bottom.
Lei Ying frowned slightly and then reached into the storage bag attached to her hip. She took out five large stones with strange blue runes carved onto their surface.
She flung the stones into the river and ice began to spread out from where the stones landed. Xu Lu shivered violently as the cold crept up her body starting from her legs.
She took in deep breaths and focused on the qi circulating in her dantian just like in the memories from the original Xu Lu.
Pain.
Xu Lu bit her tongue and forced herself not to scream as her body felt as though thousands of ice needles were stabbing into her flesh.
When the needles entered her body, they ignited, and the feeling of her organs slowly being cooked was driving Xu Lu insane.
The entire time she was suffering from the cold... Xu Lu could see her master watching her from the edge of the river.
There was a sadistic smile on Lei Ying's face.
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