Chapter 18 – Take a 16-Year-Old Girl as My Master? What Kind of Joke Is This?

Has the system really advanced by five hundred years?

Thinking about the occasional crazy prompts from this damn system, Qin Yang gradually came to a realization.

Whether it was the undying cockroach or the Purple Soul Demon Spider…

These creatures might be weak today, easily crushed underfoot.

But five hundred years later would be a different story.

After centuries of evolution and empowered by the starlight energy of this world,

no matter how weak a creature might be, if it could survive for hundreds of years,

even a pig would likely evolve into a powerful Beast King or Beast Emperor!

“Holy crap, this is way too broken!”

The more he pondered, the more astonished Qin Yang became!

This damn system really doesn’t play by the rules at all!

“Maybe I’ve been wrong about the system before.”

Qin Yang shook his head with a bitter smile, suddenly understanding.

It seemed the system hadn’t actually been lying.

The cockroach and small spider he had crushed underfoot were indeed existences equivalent to Beast Kings and Beast Emperors.

Just that they would only achieve those forms five hundred years later.

These future overlords were merely weak ants in their current state five centuries ago.

Five hundred years east of the river, five hundred years west.

Don’t bully the…

Well, he had crushed them to death five hundred years early.

“Am I contributing to humanity then?”

Beast Kings and Beast Emperors would undoubtedly pose tremendous threats to humans.

He had eliminated these dangers while they were still in their infancy.

And that girl earlier was indeed an Empress-level powerhouse.

Similar to those future Beast Kings, she would only reach the level the system displayed after five hundred years.

“Am I somehow peeking into the future?”

Qin Yang remained expressionless as he glanced back at the girl.

At that moment.

The urgent prompting sound suddenly echoed in his mind again.

“Ding! Detected host moving away from the Empress! Please follow the advice and quickly return to kneel before the Empress and acknowledge her as your master!”

“This heavenly opportunity comes only once! Don’t let it slip away!”

“Otherwise, you’ll regret it for life!”

The system’s tone carried a sense of frustration, as if he were about to miss a monumental opportunity.

Hearing the system’s urging, Qin Yang fell silent.

According to the system’s prompt, this girl before him would become a generation’s Empress in five hundred years, possessing peerless strength.

But asking him to become her disciple now?

Come on…

He was currently an Innate Realm expert!

Asking him to take a sixteen-year-old girl as his master?

What kind of joke was that?

“Not going.”

Qin Yang waved his hand irritably, trying to dismiss the voice in his head.

Never mind the age difference between him and Li Zixuan.

They were complete strangers – suddenly asking to become the disciple of a sixteen-year-old girl, why would she possibly agree to take him as a student?!

She’d probably think he was crazy.

If he made a fool of himself and left a bad impression, it would make completing this master-disciple mission even more impossible.

And more importantly.

The moment Qin Yang approached Li Zixuan, he had already noticed her cultivation level.

She was only at the Acquired Realm’s eighth layer…

“Well, alright, just turned sixteen and already at Acquired Realm’s eighth layer is somewhat unbelievable…”

“Truly worthy of being a future Empress.”

Qin Yang thought with bemusement, having to admit her talent despite himself.Li Zixuan’s talent was truly remarkable.

At such a young age, she had already reached the eighth level of the Acquired Realm, and stepping into the Innate Realm was just around the corner.

Such aptitude placed her unrivaled throughout the entire Jianghai City.

But as for having him take her as a disciple, it was better to forget about that.

There was nothing he could learn from her.

…

After Qin Yang left, the onlookers around gradually dispersed.

The area around Li Zixuan returned to its usual tranquility.

“Finally gone.”

She glanced up at Qin Yang’s retreating figure but didn’t pay much mind to this minor incident.

After all, these librarians were ordinary people, merely common folk, not enough to disturb her state of mind.

She was the acknowledged top genius of Jianghai Martial Arts Academy!

There was no need for her to fuss over such a trivial matter with a librarian.

Li Zixuan tucked the strands of hair by her ear behind it, then took out her earphones and put them on, continuing to study the swordplay manual in her hands.

In her ears, gentle Taoist music played—”Dan Ge Jing Hong,” with majestic vocals chanting the supreme sword ballads, complemented by the illustrated explanations of sword techniques in the book.

This allowed her comprehension of the Sword Dao to progress rapidly.

These unique Sword Dao melodies were all resources her family had compiled and provided.

They collected insights from Sword Dao masters, weaving them into ballads in an attempt to forge Li Zixuan’s Sword Heart.

Since childhood, she had always received the best resources.

Even after entering Jianghai Martial Arts Academy, she studied under the dean, a Sword Dao expert, specializing in the Sword Dao.

But in reality,

Li Zixuan hadn’t always liked the Sword Dao.

Growing up under the heavy pressure of her family, she had almost no time to pursue her own interests.

Her family had been in decline for a hundred years, and it wasn’t until Li Zixuan’s generation that a Sword Dao prodigy like her emerged.

Thus,

the expectations of everyone were piled onto her.

There was no entertainment—only countless hopeful gazes and day-and-night sword-wielding enlightenment.

Sixteen years of such a life would make anyone resent it.

She was no exception.

Until that day…

Li Zixuan secretly glanced around, making sure no one was nearby, then carefully opened her phone and stared intently at a photograph.

It was a mountain peak cleanly sliced by a sharp weapon, the cut smooth and even.

The sword-wielder, with transcendent power, had severed the peak in a single strike, taking off the mountaintop.

This photo was the one Li Zixuan had secretly taken at close range.

Now, that mountain had long been sealed off by the Star Martial Police Department, and the photos online were all taken from miles away, barely capturing the scene.

Though awe-inspiring, they remained somewhat blurry.

The reason Li Zixuan’s photo could be taken so close and preserved

was entirely thanks to the dean’s intervention.

“A single sword strike severing a peak…”

Looking at the photo in her hand, Li Zixuan’s heart raced, imagining the elegance of that senior’s technique.

For a moment, her mind wandered with admiration.

Ever since witnessing the scene of the severed peak that day, she had been unable to forget it and finally developed an interest in the Sword Dao.

So, mastering the Sword Dao could wield such power!

As long as one cultivated to the extreme,

they could cleave through any obstacle in their path, cutting down everything!

Unconsciously, a seed of the Sword Dao began to sprout in Li Zixuan’s heart.She quietly put away her phone and continued to focus intently on the contents of the Sword Dao book.

“Someday, I too will become a peerless swordmaster like my senior… When the time comes, I’ll personally seek guidance from them!”

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