"Song Nianchu, do you really think a fool like you is worthy of entering the Nine Stars Sect?"
"Did you seriously think I enjoyed playing sisters with a fool like you?"
"If it weren't for the fact that you're favored by the Song Family, and getting close to you brought me certain benefits, do you think I would have bothered to interact with you?"
"Everyone in your Song Family has something wrong with their brains. You have several brilliant brothers they could dote on, yet they dote solely on you, an idiot—how utterly repulsive."
"An idiot like you is simply wasting air by staying alive."
Every single word from Liu Rushuang struck like a sharp blade into Song Nianchu's heart.
Panicking, Song Nianchu looked at the woman in white before her: "Sister Liu, did I do something to make you angry? Please don't be mad, okay? Tell me whatever you want, and I'll ask my parents and brothers to get it for you."
Liu Rushuang sneered. "Do you think your Song Family has anything good left? Just look at what pathetic states your parents and brothers are in right now."
"No, there is still something." Remembering the brocade pouch her mother had given her last night, Song Nianchu quickly pulled it out and handed it to Liu Rushuang.
Seeing the tattered brocade pouch, Liu Rushuang's expression turned even uglier. "You dare bring such a trashy pouch to me? Do you take me for a beggar you're trying to dismiss?"
"My mother said this is a treasure..." Song Nianchu tried to defend herself, but Liu Rushuang had no patience left to listen.
With a wave of her hand, a surge of Spiritual Power struck Song Nianchu directly in the chest.
Bang!
Like a kite with a broken string, Song Nianchu flew backward through the air.
Below lay a Forbidden Land where no one dared to venture.
No one who had ever fallen down there had managed to come out alive.
"The spot to enter the sect is mine! You have no idea how much I loathe you—go to hell." Liu Rushuang's expression twisted into a savage, ferocious grin.
Watching with her own eyes as Song Nianchu plummeted into the Forbidden Land, a look of smug triumph spread across her face.
Song Nianchu, you're dead.
The spot in the Nine Stars Sect is mine now.
An idiotic piece of trash like you didn't deserve it.
Plummeting rapidly, Song Nianchu seemed unable to comprehend it.
The Sister Liu she had always relied on hated her this much.
Hated her enough to want her dead.
Her body crashed down into the thorn-filled Formation of the Forbidden Land.
Her eyes stared wide, overflowing with monstrous resentment! She died with her eyes unclosed!
In another world, the medical saint Song Nianchu—who had just finished a high-difficulty surgery—was suddenly yanked away by a powerful force.
Struggling desperately against the pull, she managed to step back into her office.
The very next instant, she lost consciousness.
***
A strange phenomenon appeared, and her soul returned!
The colorful radiance surrounding her began to expand, dazzling and brilliant.
The moment her memories and soul fused completely, Song Nianchu let out an angry curse: "Holy crap."
Back in the modern world, she had actually been nothing more than a stray fragment of a soul.
To be precise, her Wisdom Soul.
That was why the original body had been a fool.
After all, when the Wisdom Soul went off to another world, the body left behind naturally became an idiot.
Now that everything was back in place, Song Nianchu understood her current situation.
The original body had been murdered by the "good sister" she had trusted and depended on since childhood.
Liu Rushuang!
Very well, the debt of killing the original body—she had memorized it.
With her soul reunited, the surrounding halo instantly enveloped her.
She could distinctly feel an unusual sensation originating from her Dantian.
The brocade pouch given to her by her mother last night also began to emit a glow, merging with the surrounding five-colored radiance.
The Dantian damage caused by her fall into the Forbidden Land, along with all the injuries on her body, healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The surrounding halo continued to expand...
Just a few dozen miles away, a figure happened to appear.
The man was severely injured and covered in blood, every single step he took an immense struggle.
Before he could react, the expanding halo enveloped him.
Instinctively, the man wanted to disperse the light.
The next instant, a flash of astonishment crossed his deep, dark eyes.
The halo possessed an intensely powerful healing property.
He had sustained numerous injuries of all sizes.
The first to heal were the minor wounds on his body.
Then came the more severe ones.
In less than half an hour, his Dantian and meridians had completely recovered.
What truly shocked him was that even his Divine Soul—which had been pronounced beyond recovery—was partially mended.
Only the appearance of the Divine Formula Healing Technique could heal a Divine Soul.
He never expected that the Divine Formula Healing Technique, which had vanished for ten thousand years, would actually appear.
Thinking of the legends claiming that the Divine Formula Healing Technique could heal the Divine Soul, Si Jiuli's gaze deepened.
Once recovered, Si Jiuli's spiritual consciousness swept outward in the direction of the expanding halo.
A pale blue figure appeared within his Consciousness Sea.
At that moment, Song Nianchu was still utilizing the surrounding light to repair her Dantian and expand her meridians.
Although the Song Nianchu of the Cultivation World had been capable of cultivation, her intelligence had been flawed.
Her excessive dullness had made her cultivation path anything but smooth.
Moreover, ever since childhood, all the resources given to her by the Song Family had been sweet-talked away by Liu Rushuang due to her idiocy.
Now, enveloped by the halo, Song Nianchu experienced a rare breakthrough in her strength.
Her previous strength had been at Level 2 Qi Refining Stage.
She would have needed a recommendation quota just to apply to the Nine Stars Sect.
Now she was at Level 4 Qi Refining Stage, just one level short of meeting the sect's standard.
So what if she was?
She would definitely find a way to enter the Nine Stars Sect and exact revenge on Liu Rushuang.
"Liu Rushuang, did you really think entering the Nine Stars Sect would keep you safe and sound?" Song Nianchu opened her eyes, her icy gaze devoid of any warmth. "A life for a life—that will be your ending."
Hearing Song Nianchu's words, a trace of surprise flashed in Si Jiuli's eyes.
"Who's there?" Sensing another presence nearby, Song Nianchu scanned her surroundings with sharp vigilance.
Heh!
Si Jiuli let out a soft chuckle. She was quite vigilant, at least.
Song Nianchu watched as a figure walked toward her.
The man wore a black robe, his features cold and refined, his posture tall and slender. Three thousand strands of ink-black hair drifted gently in the wind, and his temperament was as elegant as a jade tree, his deep eyes carrying an indifference that looked down upon everything.
"You want to enter the Nine Stars Sect?" Si Jiuli looked at Song Nianchu with a cool gaze. "I can help you."
Although Song Nianchu's primary focus in her past life had been medicine, her capabilities in other areas were also formidable.
At the very least, her judgment of character was quite good.
One single glance was enough for her to tell that this man was no ordinary person.
"Why would you help me?" Song Nianchu didn't believe in unprovoked kindness.
"I need your Divine Formula Healing Technique to help me heal my injuries. In return, I can help you enter the Nine Stars Sect." Si Jiuli's words made Song Nianchu pause.
The Divine Formula Healing Technique?
"You mean the colorful halo from just now?" Song Nianchu asked.
Si Jiuli gave her a surprised look. "It's your own healing technique—you don't know what it is?"
Song Nianchu: "..."
She really didn't know.
She had only just transmigrated over.
Though different from the transmigration novels she had read before, her transmigration belonged to the category of a soul returning to its rightful place.
The original body was her, and she was the original body.
However, this Divine Formula Healing Technique was tied to the return of her own soul and the brocade pouch her mother had given her last night.
Seeing Song Nianchu's blank expression, Si Jiuli looked at her with even greater confusion.
He didn't press further, though.
"The energy of your Divine Formula Healing Technique has been exhausted and cannot be used for the time being. I can recommend you to the Nine Stars Sect and have you enter under the tutelage of Tantai Xu." With that, Si Jiuli produced a black jade talisman and handed it to her. "When you reach the Nine Stars Sect, crush this talisman, and he will appear."
Song Nianchu glanced at the jade talisman Si Jiuli handed over. Although it was a disposable signal talisman, the spiritual aura inside it could be maintained for about a month.
This meant that as long as she crushed this single-use talisman within a month, the other party could track her down through the aura within it.
...
Nine Stars Sect.
Seeing the disheveled and battered Song Nianchu, everyone instinctively stepped aside to avoid her.
"Where did this beggar come from? Stay away from us."
"Right, she stinks to high heaven." Covering their noses with expressions of disgust, several people shuffled sideways.
"How did a beggar like this even get into our sect? Do they really think just any stray cat or dog can come into our sect?"
Song Nianchu: "..."
Could these people possibly be any more absurd?
So what if her clothes were a bit dirty and ragged?Given her level of strength, managing to survive the journey from Soul-Taking Mountain all the way here was already quite impressive, wasn't it?
Was there any need to avoid her with such utter disdain?
Besides, on her way here, she had successfully broken through to the Level 5 Qi Refining Stage, meeting the standards to enter the Nine Stars Sect without even needing a recommendation quota.
Why on earth couldn't she enter the Nine Stars Sect?
Glancing coldly at the crowd, she silently crushed the jade talisman the man had given her earlier.
As Song Nianchu waited, she overheard another discussion among the people around her.
As luck would have it, it was related to her enemy, Liu Rushuang.
"If we're talking about people qualified to join our sect, it should be someone like Miss Liu."
"Are you talking about that woman named Liu Rushuang who just showed up?"
"Who else could it be? Not only is she gorgeous, but her strength has also advanced to the Level 5 Qi Refining Stage."
"I heard Senior Brother Huo Wen say that Miss Liu has exceptional talent and is even an alchemist. He's going to find a way to make Liu Rushuang a direct disciple."
Hearing this, Song Nianchu narrowed her eyes.
Liu Rushuang had advanced to the Level 5 Qi Refining Stage?
And she had hooked up with a disciple of the Nine Stars Sect, getting him to help her become a direct disciple?
It seemed Liu Rushuang must have encountered some sort of fortuitous encounter after arriving at the Nine Stars Sect.
After all, a mere month ago, Liu Rushuang had only just advanced to the Level 4 Qi Refining Stage.
She shouldn't have been able to reach the Level 5 Qi Refining Stage in such a short span of time.
A direct disciple?
Song Nianchu let out a cold laugh. So what if she became a direct disciple?
She would still make Liu Rushuang regret what it cost to cross her.
Song Nianchu continued forward, and the surrounding crowd tacitly cleared a path for her.
"So stinking, dirty beggar, get away from here." The people in front saw Song Nianchu and immediately scrambled to step out of the way.
"Hey, beggar, this is where our sect is recruiting Inner Disciples today, not some place for you to linger. Get lost right now."
Someone stepped forward to chase Song Nianchu away, but she swept an icy gaze over them.
Meeting that freezing glare, the person instinctively took a step back in fright.
The commotion here quickly drew the attention of some people further ahead.
Liu Rushuang had just finished paying her respects to her new master when she heard the disturbance and casually glanced backward.
Upon seeing that it was Song Nianchu, a flash of shock and panic crossed her eyes.
Song Nianchu happened to catch Liu Rushuang's panicked expression.
With a bloodthirsty curl of her lips, she silently mouthed the words to Liu Rushuang: "Liu Rushuang, I've come back alive to claim your life."
Understanding the message, Liu Rushuang instinctively took a step backward.
"Junior Sister Liu, what's wrong?" Seeing Liu Rushuang's face turn pale, Huo Wen, who stood beside her, asked with immediate concern.
Hearing the title "Junior Sister Liu," she snapped back to reality instantly.
That's right, she was already a direct disciple of the Nine Stars Sect. With the Nine Stars Sect backing her, she had nothing to fear from anyone.
"Senior Brother Huo, there's a beggar over there." Regaining her composure, Liu Rushuang pointed toward Song Nianchu.