Chapter 98: You Can Only Like Me (24)
The Wei family issued a bounty for Wei Jingqian, claiming he had defected to the Demon Realm. However, no one paid attention, and many didn’t even see it as a problem. After all this time, the lines between demon cultivators and human cultivators were blurring, and faced with the broken cycle of reincarnation, everything else seemed trivial.
Jiang Zhiyan hadn’t shown herself since that one appearance in the mortal realm.
If it weren’t for the occasional missions she assigned, they would have suspected she had already ascended and left this world.
The most furious person about not being able to find Jiang Zhiyan was the Demon Lord. Jiang Zhiyan had promised to fight him properly after he completed his task, and now she was nowhere to be found!
He had even dealt with that guy who stole his heart for the sake of their duel, and to avoid causing trouble for Jiang Zhiyan, he stayed in the cultivation world and had a meal, enduring their useless gratitude.
And in the end, Jiang Zhiyan disappeared?
He wanted to cause a commotion to lure Jiang Zhiyan out, but every time he tried, he was suppressed by a mysterious force, he knew it was most likely the new Heavenly Dao.
“It seems the new Heavenly Dao is also unfair.” The Demon Lord was in a bad mood, glancing at the four Demon Kings sitting at the table. “Do you really not know where she is?”
All four shook their heads simultaneously.
“My Lord has indeed been absent for a long time,” Zhao Xiting sighed. “I’ve already built the Demon God Temple, I wonder if My Lord will receive any incense offerings.”
“You built a Demon God Temple without telling us?” Zhao Xun said with dissatisfaction.
The Demon Lord had originally called these four here to help him find Jiang Zhiyan, but unexpectedly, the topic shifted to the Demon God Temple in less than two minutes. Why hadn’t any demon offered to build a temple for him back then?
He couldn’t continue this conversation any longer; he was about to vomit from disgust.
“Inform me if she appears,” the Demon Lord said, slamming the table, interrupting their conversation, standing up, and glancing at the four of them. “You are too weak as Demon Kings, come and spar with me, let me help you improve.”
The four exchanged glances, knowing full well that the Demon Lord was just looking for someone to vent his anger on, but all their tasks were complete, they couldn’t find a reason to refuse.
…
Jiang Zhiyan and Song Jin’yue were traveling in Moon City, one of the ten most famous cities in the cultivation world. This was their last date before leaving.
“Last date? This last date of yours is quite long,” the System said, not understanding, weren’t these two tired of being together all the time?
Sometimes they would do nothing for a whole afternoon, just lie by the lake and bask in the sun, barely even talking, even it, an AI, found it boring.
“Clearly, you’ve never been in love, being with the person you love, even doing nothing, makes you happy,” Jiang Zhiyan said, looking at Song Jin’yue, taking her hand, and giving it a squeeze. “Xie Liaoyi.”
“Hm?” She turned around and looked at Jiang Zhiyan. “Why are you suddenly calling me by my full name?”
Jiang Zhiyan rolled into Song Jin’yue’s arms: “Did you do something bad? I was just calling your name.”
She kissed Song Jin’yue’s chin: “I hope you’ll be less troublesome in the next world.”
“I’ll try,” Song Jin’yue said, hugging Jiang Zhiyan’s waist, burying her face in her chest, and yawning. “I’m sleepy.”
“I bought a boat,” Jiang Zhiyan nibbled on Song Jin’yue’s ear. “We’ll sail down the river, and when we reach the end, we’ll go back.”
“Okay,” Song Jin’yue replied.
When the world consciousness regained control, the skies of the three realms were filled with brilliant clouds, and majestic music seemed to drift from the horizon. The plot didn’t have such a setting, but to appear more imposing, the world consciousness had put in a lot of effort to create its entrance animation.
And at this moment, Jiang Zhiyan’s divinity was also solidifying, with the new Heavenly Dao in place, she gained another batch of believers, in just a few short months, she had temples everywhere, most of them in the mortal realm.
She didn’t really care about the temples, the problem was that Jiang Zhiyan could hear what the believers were saying inside the temples, and she couldn’t block it, from morning till night, constantly, people were chanting.
She suspected someone was deliberately taking revenge on her, and this made Jiang Zhiyan even more eager to leave, how could she go on dates with a third person constantly talking?
She figured that person was probably the world consciousness, because when Jiang Zhiyan tried to contact it, it started playing dead.
The world consciousness didn’t have any malicious intent; it just couldn’t stand watching the two being lovey-dovey and wanted them to leave quickly, these two were too brazen.
Jiang Zhiyan found a suitable time to ascend to godhood, reopened the Divine Realm, and then left in front of the three realms.
Demon Lord: ???
“You’ve become a god, and you’re still going back on your word?” The Demon Lord flew towards the gates of the Divine Realm.
Jiang Zhiyan turned around and sent him flying with a palm strike: “I won.”
The four Demon Kings looked at the Demon Lord, who was struggling to climb out of the ground, in silence. They thought he would be angry, but after a few seconds of silence, he actually laughed heartily, seemingly in a good mood.
Su Huo distanced herself from the five of them, as expected, no one in the Demon Realm was normal, she glanced at Wei Jingqian not far away and shook her head, suddenly unsure who was more pitiful, the Demon Lord who had just been struck by a palm, or Wei Jingqian who had been searching for someone for so long but couldn’t find her.
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Jiang Zhiyan lay on the bed, rubbed her head, put the soul fragment in a jar beside her, and sighed softly: “I hope in the next world, as soon as I arrive, she’ll call out my name, rush over, and kiss me.”
The corners of Jiang Zhiyan’s mouth turned up slightly, just thinking about it made her happy.
“In your dreams,” the System commented. “Host, you never used to dream.”
Jiang Zhiyan looked at the jar beside her: “What if? We should always have hope.”
“Host, why don’t you rest? She’s still there, she can’t run away.”
“I don’t need to rest,” Jiang Zhiyan closed her eyes and kissed the jar in her hand. “Next world.”
The System, looking at Jiang Zhiyan, silently prayed: “Let her have a smooth journey, it’s not good for anyone if she’s pushed too far and goes crazy.”
“Host, be prepared,” the System reminded her.
“Mm,” Jiang Zhiyan responded.
Jiang Zhiyan closed her eyes, her heart pounding.
When she opened her eyes again, she found herself inside a building, the outside was in chaos, many people screaming and fleeing, she sighed: “Here we go again.”
She received the information about this world and raised an eyebrow.
“I like this character setting,” Jiang Zhiyan smiled slightly.
The System, looking at her expression, wanted to shout “pervert.”
This was an ABO interstellar world. The female lead, Yu Qici, was the eldest daughter of the Yu family, an S-rank Omega, highly intelligent, capable, a perfect character with no weaknesses, even the most nitpicky critics couldn’t find fault with her.
Jiang Zhiyan in this world was a defective Alpha, without the organs that developed after differentiation. She had pheromones, but they had no effect on other Alphas, nor did they attract Omegas, having pheromones was the same as not having them.
Because of her defect, she was originally the most likely heir to the Jiang family, but after differentiation, she immediately lost her eligibility. She fell from grace, many people kicked her while she was down, mocking and ridiculing her, and her treatment at home plummeted. She gradually turned villainous, eventually becoming the final boss.
She was originally Yu Qici’s fiancée, but because of her defect, the Yu family forcefully broke off the engagement and started looking for other partners for Yu Qici, which angered the Jiang family, who clearly looked down on the other members of the Jiang family.
Because of this, after turning villainous, the original owner found an opportunity to imprison Yu Qici. The subsequent plot points, like the female lead saving herself or the male lead rescuing the female lead, weren’t important to Jiang Zhiyan.
“It’s her favorite little dark room,” Jiang Zhiyan said, taking two steps back and sitting down on the sofa, a constant smile on her face.
At the beginning of the plot, the original owner had already become a villain, after all, she wasn’t the protagonist, so her complete growth trajectory wasn’t important. The current plot was that she had collaborated with space pirates and obtained a batch of new mechs. She wanted to destroy the Jiang family’s current core industry. The chaos outside was also related to her, so she didn’t have to flee, she just needed to rest and prepare to return to the imperial star.
The original owner was currently the general manager of a Jiang family subsidiary, her social status seemingly decent, but it was a dead-end position, with little chance of promotion, practically a retirement position. In this society, even with great ability, if you followed the normal path, you were still no match for differentiation rank.
She flipped through the plot, the day after tomorrow she had to return to the Jiang family to attend the 180th birthday celebration of the previous family head. At the banquet, she would arrange for everyone to watch a live broadcast of the destruction of the Jiang family’s factory in District 29.
Just thinking about it was thrilling.
Jiang Zhiyan looked at the time, finished the water on the table, and looked at the assistant standing not far away: “Let’s go, back to the imperial star… mm, drop me off in District 6, I’ll go back myself.”
“Yes,” the assistant nodded, not surprised at all.
The original owner frequently visited District 6, where Yu Qici attended school. The original owner liked her very much, and before their engagement was broken off, she visited almost every week, but Yu Qici was always indifferent towards her. Yu Qici wasn’t interested in marriage, and she didn’t have the ability to break away from her family yet, so she let them arrange everything, delaying as much as possible.
Jiang Zhiyan flew a small spaceship to the entrance of Yu Qici’s school and checked the time. At this time every day, Yu Qici would leave school and buy a drink from the small store at the school gate, and today was no different.
There was someone with her, the young master of the Lian family.
“Host, calm down,” the System warned. “If you do anything in District 6, you’ll be surrounded by android guards in a second.”
Jiang Zhiyan snapped back to her senses, looked at the energy gun in her hand, which was already accumulating energy, and released her grip, tossing it aside.
“How are the preparations for my little dark room coming along?” Jiang Zhiyan opened the window and made eye contact with Yu Qici not far away.
She didn’t know if it was her imagination, but she felt like Yu Qici had smirked at her, but when she looked again, she hadn’t.
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