bookbashuk Chapter 1 Li Qingyi
Chapter 1 Li Qingyi
Am I about to be refined into a human pill?
Li Qingyi's thoughts were wandering, her mind was in a daze, and only this thought remained in her mind.
The sound of rain pattering outside grew louder as it approached. Inside, a faint scent of incense lingered in the air.
Sleep paralysis?
Li Qingyi tried to get up, but felt her whole body stiff and unable to move.
Boom!!!
A thunderclap boomed, and lightning tore through the night sky, illuminating his pale, handsome face through the wooden window.
Li Qingyi jolted awake and stood up abruptly from his chair. The talismans on the wooden table in front of him trembled slightly in the breeze caused by his movement.
"Did you have a nightmare?"
The sudden sound startled Li Qingyi.
He looked up and saw a girl in a blue dress sitting opposite him, playing with the talisman he had ruined.
She was extremely beautiful, with skin as white as snow, eyebrows and eyes like paintings, especially her eyes which were clear as water.
Li Qingyi looked around, somewhat stunned.
The room had a blue brick floor and was dimly lit by candlelight. The furnishings were simple: a table and a small table, with a few withered plum branches stuck in two plain ceramic vases.
Hanging on the wall is a landscape ink painting with slightly yellowed paper, depicting vast expanses of misty waters and ethereal, fairy-tale mountains.
"Have I...time-traveled?"
Li Qingyi only remembered that he was sleeping in his university dormitory a second ago.
"Are you ready?"
The girl's question brought Li Qingyi back to her senses.
Xuan Kingdom, Yishan City, Qin Family, a family of cultivators...
As memories slowly surfaced in his mind, he finally understood his current predicament.
Six years ago, he displayed exceptional talent and innate abilities in the path of immortality. He was noticed by Zhou Chuan, a respected elder of the Qin family who was traveling, and was taken in as a disciple and brought back to the Qin family.
Qin Baisheng, the patriarch of the Qin family, was a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Now that my time is almost up, I need a cultivator with excellent aptitude and profound magical power to refine a longevity pill.
Li Qingyi entered the Qin family at the age of ten and is now sixteen.
After six years of arduous cultivation, passing through the three stages of the initial spiritual realm, tempering the body, awakening the mind, and opening the acupoints, he officially embarked on the path of immortality yesterday, becoming a Qi Refining cultivator.
The solid foundation laid in the past has become a highly sought-after consumable in the eyes of others.
The rain pattered softly as Li Qingyi slowly leaned back in her chair, her expression desolate.
He also remembered the girl's identity.
Qin Xiyue, from a collateral branch of the Qin family, possesses the Moon Essence Spirit Body and is Li Qingyi's only friend.
Li Qingyi's fingertips unconsciously curled up slightly.
He understood immediately why she had come tonight—
The wisp of innate moonlight contained within her body was the final touch that brought this main ingredient to perfection.
The candlelight flickered suddenly, only to be swallowed up by the pattering rain outside the window.
Li Qingyi suddenly looked up at the window. The blurry figures in the rain blocked his hope of escape.
Four cultivators in the mid-stage of Qi Refining...
His knuckles tapped lightly on the table, making a "tap tap tap" sound.
After a long silence, Li Qingyi spoke in a hoarse voice, "Is it really necessary to do this?"
Qin Xiyue seemed somewhat dazed. She subconsciously folded the talisman in her hand into a paper crane, then looked up and asked:
"Do we even have a choice?"
Upon hearing this, Li Qingyi merely chuckled. Faced with the formidable power of a Foundation Establishment family, neither of them had any other choice.
but……
How could Li Qingyi be the kind of person who gives up so easily? Having transmigrated here, how could he willingly become someone else's prey?
Upon realizing this, Li Qingyi immediately integrated the memories in her mind and began to plan how to escape.
However, Qin Xiyue's next words made him freeze.
Qin Xiyue raised an eyebrow slightly. "How far along is your escape plan?"
Li Qingyi was shocked: You opened it? I just... no... according to the original owner's memories, she should have accepted her fate.
Li Qingyi quickly calmed down and played her current role well.
He learned from his memories that Qin Xiyue was cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and had her own pride and persistence.
If she wanted to harm me, she wouldn't have gone to such lengths. This explanation is clearly an attempt to help me.
With this in mind, Li Qingyi slowly spoke:
"During my six years in the Qin family, apart from the 'Two Elements Harmony Ode' which I learned a few days ago to harmonize Yin and Yang, they never let me learn any magic techniques."
Li Qingyi picked up a talisman from the wooden table, her expression shifting: "I could only learn the art of talismans by claiming that I possessed pure magical power."
Qin Xiyue listened quietly, but her hands did not stop moving, folding one talisman after another into paper cranes.
She pondered for a moment, then slowly asked, "You want the 'Concealing Breath Technique' and the 'Disguise Technique'?"
Li Qingyi: "???"
You opened it?
Li Qingyi was filled with doubt and apprehension. He did indeed intend to learn these two techniques first, in preparation for his escape.
But before he could even ask for it, the other party pointed it out directly.
Qin Xiyue stared at the youthful boy before her, her expression unfocused. The blue-clad figure who had lifted her up before her death slowly overlapped with the person before her.
Qin Xiyue stopped what she was doing, extended her fair and jade-like right hand, and slowly clenched it, trying to feel the reality of it.
The soft sound of rain pattering against the windowpane filled her ears. She slowly closed her eyes, a sigh escaping her lips.
"All that happened in my past life was truly like a dream."
Seeing Qin Xiyue in a daze, Li Qingyi frowned slightly.
This hastily pieced-together memory left him somewhat bewildered by Qin Xiyue's unusual words and actions tonight. This feeling of being out of control made him wary.
"And you? What are your plans now?" he asked tentatively.
Qin Xiyue was pulled back to reality by Li Qingyi's voice. She slowly opened her eyes, her gaze bright and clear, no longer showing any sign of confusion. "Naturally, I'll help you leave first."
Li Qingyi was secretly delighted. "So, what's your plan?"
"Shouldn't you ask yourself that?" she asked softly.
Li Qingyi was speechless; he had thought the other party might have some brilliant insights.
I thought she had opened it, what a disappointment...
"I'll go prepare the spell for you first, then I'll come back tomorrow morning."
Qin Xiyue dropped the paper crane in her hand and slowly stood up. She turned her back to Li Qingyi and smiled slightly.
Her memories contain many divine encounters, which no one has yet unlocked.
This will be the greatest treasure for her to quickly break free from the shackles of the Qin family and seek immortality in this lifetime.
Helping Li Qingyi escape her predicament was the first step.
The door opened and closed gently, shutting out Qin Xiyue's figure along with the damp chill of the rainy night.
Li Qingyi stared at the paper crane on the wooden table, lost in thought.
"Fortunately, there is an array inside the house that isolates detection."
"Moreover... these two spells alone are not enough. We must create enough chaos to divert all attention in order to have a chance of survival..."
Li Qingyi gazed at the flickering candlelight and sighed deeply.
His mind was filled with images of his imprisonment over the past few days, and a sense of powerlessness gradually welled up inside him.
"I never imagined that after transmigrating, I would end up in such a state."
Are you willing to accept this?
Of course he was unwilling to accept it.
Li Qingyi looked out the window; the rain was pouring down and lightning was flashing.
He closed his eyes and pondered, and an idea began to grow wildly in his mind.
He...doesn't want to be turned into a human pill.
He wants to escape the Qin family; he wants to become stronger!
He wants...immortality!
Just then, a pale blue light screen gradually appeared before his eyes.
Li Qingyi was stunned at first, then burst into tears of joy.
"System, you should have come sooner!"
[Congratulations, fellow cultivator, your destiny has arrived. The Deep Blue Simulator has opened the path to immortality for you.]
[Deep Blue Simulator: Allows you to simulate future events by consuming spirit stones.]
[Current cost: 10 spirit stones per use; cost increases with cultivation level.]
[The treasures, cultivation levels, techniques, supernatural abilities, and even oneself obtained in the simulation can be extracted and transferred to reality.]
Name: Li Qingyi
Age: 16
[Cultivation Level: Qi Refining Level 1]
[Technique: "The Harmony of Yin and Yang"]
[Supernatural Powers: None]
[Treasure: None]
"Ten spirit stones? That's so expensive?" Li Qingyi frowned.
He cultivated in the Qin family for six years, receiving only one spirit stone per month. The original owner of this body saved every penny, and now only has seven spirit stones left.
Thinking of this, Li Qingyi suddenly felt a sense of unease.
Even a skilled cook can't cook without rice; the cheat program may be great, but there's no start-up capital.
"Three more are needed. The cheat arrived a step too late. Otherwise, I could have gotten some more spirit stones from Xi Yue."
It was a bit pricey, but Li Qingyi couldn't help but laugh out loud when she saw the simulator's features.
Simulate the future and extract treasures.
Doesn't that mean that simulating is fun for a while, and simulating all the time is always fun?
If you simulate enough and collect enough information and rewards, escaping doesn't seem like a pipe dream.
Just then, the door was pushed open, and rainwater mixed with the stench of mud rushed into the room, causing the candlelight to flicker violently in the cold wind.
Li Qingyi was startled and turned around to look.
A tall figure stood at the doorway. By the dim candlelight, Li Qingyi could make out the person's face.
It was his own master—Zhou Chuan.