I woke up slowly, the familiar hustle and bustle of the sect's servants ringing out from outside my little house.
After more than a week, I have already gotten used to this kind of noise, even if I did not want to get used to it.
With a sigh, I got up from my bed and headed towards my rather substantial wardrobe, filled with different robes that were made from rather high-quality materials and would cost a fortune for most people to acquire.
But given my new identity, it was child's play to get them.
Taking one of the robes closest to me, I walked out towards the back of my house, where a small pond sat.
While it looked like a regular pond, it was in fact filled with spiritual energy that would help me cultivate faster.
To use this kind of treasure for simply bathing was a luxury that very few in the world can hope to understand.
Of course, it was of no use to me aside from bathing since my days of cultivating were over.
Sinking into the pond and releasing a sigh of bliss, I called up the damned thing that was responsible for my current situation.
[Name: Long Lan]
[Cultivation: Core Formation 4th stage]
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[InCreAse !@##$$%?]
[YeS/nO?]
Back home, I always enjoyed reading novels that had systems and other similar things, where the protagonist goes on a rampage and basically acts more like a viallin than the villain himself. But now that I am in the very same situation, I cannot help but feel like cursing this damned system.
Granted, I did not have much going on back home, given that the entire world was on the verge of war, the living conditions for civilians going down the drain by the day and expenses mounting to unreasonable levels every day, but still, it was far better than this damned death world that I was thrown into a week ago.
Not to mention that this damned system that came with me is bugged beyond repair and can only display my name and cultivation level, and only two interactive buttons, which were clearly a yes and no question for something.
The only silver lining to this entire situation is that I am in a somewhat better position than most people out there, thanks to the background I inherited from this body.
As I have gotten used to, I continued lying in the pond, letting myself get lost in useless meditation until one of the only usable things in the system, a progress bar, finally filled up.
Once it did, I pressed on the 'yes' button, watching the progress bar drain to nothing while I felt a momentary rush before going back to normal.
With the daily ritual done, I put on the new robes and walked back into my room, and straight away going back to sleep.
However, just as I lay down, the door to my room was pushed open with force, revealing a young woman with a realm of Foundation Establishment 2nd stage.
Her beautiful black eyes narrowed at me while her ink black hair fell behind her like a curtain. Coupled with her figure and elegance, she is even more beautiful than a top model from Earth.
But to me, she is nothing more than a menace to my lazy life and a potential death sentence in the future.
"Senior Brother? Why are you going back to bed again?"
"....How do you know I am going back to bed? Maybe I just woke up?"
She snorted at my words and gave me a glare full of disdain.
"Given the dip in spiritual energy I can feel from the pond, you definitely used it recently. Which means that you already woke up before and used it before going back to bed. Now, get up and help me with arranging the new disciple-"
"Don't want it. You go do it."
My words instantly silenced her, but the next moment, I felt the air shift as her palm struck out with her signature martial arts.
However, no matter her skill, she was still someone who was a whole major realm below me, so it was child's play for me to wave my hand and disperse her spiritual energy, reducing her palm strike into a mere physical attack that had no weight behind it.
Given the way she was gritting her teeth, it was clear that she was unhappy with another failure.
With that routine out of the way, I lay back on my bed, determined to laze around today as well, just like I did for the past week.
But something felt wrong, making me look towards the girl, only to feel a chill go down my spine.
Her black hair was now floating in the air without any wind as Qi surged around her. Her black eyes now glaring at me with pure anger, with a hint of red appearing within her pupils.
Shit! She is getting serious.
With no other choice, I gave a sigh and got up from my bed and stood up.
"Alright, alright. Enough of that, Yao Xin."
The woman who was in her twenties looked at me with anger as I quickly disappeared from the house and appeared behind her, making her waste her Qi by charging up such a powerful attack and then vanishing just when she was preparing to strike.
"...When will you stop being so annoying?'
"When you stop harassing me every day."
This woman, who has been harassing me for the past week every day, is none other than Yao Xin, my junior sister in the sect, my fellow Core Disciple, and a potential Heroin of this world.
Yes, a Heroin. As in, a character from a book. Because I remember that the world I am in was once a book back on Earth.
While I never got to the end of the book and don't know the end game, not to mention that my memory of that book is vague at best, it was a classic Xianxia book with the classing setup where an abused protagonist gains a sudden powerup and starts a rampage across the world without any care about the lives he destroyes.
In the book, I remember that Yao Xin was a heroin who the author hinted was going to be a member of the main character's harem in the future.
As for me? I was what you would call a villain with the classic setup of powerful family backing, weak personal power, and the classic face-slapping and stepping-stone setup. And given that I was hyped to be the end-game Villain in the book, it is clear that my ending was supposed to be equally tragic.
That being said, I don't know why this girl's personality is quite different from what I remember.
In terms of timeline, this should be the time when she hates me the most and would rather jump off a cliff than spend any alone time with me, literally.
No, seriously, there was a time in the novel when my character was stuck with her on a cliff and she chose to jump off, not knowing whether she lived or died, rather than stay by my side.
Then again, given the personality of my old self, it was not an unreasonable thing to do.
Frankly, I have never seen a more open scumbag than my previous self.
I mean, yeah, the protagonist has him beat in the scumbag department, but the way my previous self expressed his ways would always attract the wrong kind of attention, which made him look even more villainous than he already was.
Shaking my head to get rid of these irrelevant thoughts, I turned back to Yao Xin, who was now staring at me. But the disgust and disdain that I expected in her gaze, both from my past memories and the memories of this body, were absent.
See this? This is what I am talking about.
Something is seriously wrong with this girl, and it is driving my survival instincts crazy. Especially given how she is taking the initiative to try and drag me out of my house every day in the past week.
Part of it could be pity for what happened recently, but given her personality, I refuse to believe it.
Thankfully, unlike the future empress who will poison me to death in the next thousand years, this version of her is still nowhere near strong enough to force me into anything.
So, with another use of my movement technique, I disappeared again, this time going straight into the distance, away from this anomaly and the peak as a whole.
No matter what the circumstances may have been behind my current situation, one thing is clear.
I will not be the villain in this story.
Instead, I will use this second chance to enjoy myself thoroughly.
With that thought in my mind, I hummed a tune to myself and disappeared into the Sect, heading straight for the outer sect market.
Hmm~ I feel like having some steamed buns right now.