After the time travel, my cheat program disappeared.

Shi Yan could already smell the slightly sweet fragrance.

"Yes!" Faced with Shi Yan's unintentional question, the girl was about to bow in response when Shi Yan helped her up by the shoulder.

She nervously sniffed the fragrance emanating from the girl so close to her, then glanced sideways and replied, "I'm... preparing breakfast for Master Shiyan, Senior Sister, and my older sister."

Although many cultivators have already abstained from grains, Sheng Nu, who only has the cultivation level of the ninth stage of the Body Tempering Realm, obviously cannot do so.

While preparing her own meals, she would always make sure to prepare one for Qin Suhuai as well.

The girl was busy in the kitchen, and Shi Yan could only watch her busy back.

How should I put it...?

As expected of a game's world view.

The sight of a girl's slender legs in stockings from behind, even while she's busy in the kitchen, is stunning.

Knowing that Master Shiyan was watching from behind, Sheng Nu hurriedly prepared breakfast.

Even without divine sense, the girl could feel Master Shiyan's gaze upon her.

Even breathing seemed to become difficult, and Sheng Nu felt her heart beating faster and faster.

why...

Even though...it didn't happen when my senior sister helped me before...

Just as Sheng Nu was so nervous and anxious that her hand holding the spoon was trembling, and the porcelain and spoon were making a series of soft clinking sounds, a woman's candid laughter came from outside the kitchen.

"What delicious food is Anu preparing now?"

Shi Yan turned to look and saw a girl wearing a familiar robe from the Qinglian Sword Sect female cultivators had already pushed open the kitchen door.

Hearing the familiar voice, Sheng Nu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

As I relaxed... I also felt a little annoyed.

It was clearly a hard-won opportunity.

Shi Yan sized up the girl.

Clearly, she wasn't from Little Sword Peak.

She was quite pretty, with fair and soft skin, a little bit of baby fat, and a cheerful, unpretentious smile on her face.

If you get to know her well, you might have the urge to pinch her cheeks and rub them hard.

"Elder Long!" Sheng Nu tried to bow to the woman, but was stopped by a gust of sword wind from her.

Feigning displeasure, the woman looked at Sheng Nu and asked, "What did we agree on before?"

"Sister Long... Sister Long." Sheng Nu nervously clutched the hem of her skirt.

Shi Yan had already realized her identity as a woman.

Long Taojia.

She is the woman in the Azure Lotus Sword Sect who is said to be unable to break through her cultivation level and will face her death in less than a hundred years. She is preparing to transfer all her cultivation to Sheng Nu through the Spirit Sword Technique.

It's astonishing that someone facing imminent death can be so cheerful.

She really has a positive outlook.

However... she seems to have a pretty good relationship with Sheng Nu.

I just really like taking advantage of Sheng Nu's 'cheap' deals.

She's several hundred years old, yet Sheng Nu still calls her "sister."

Long Taojia also saw Shi Yan in the kitchen. "Perfect timing~ Miss Shi Yan is here too."

"Elder Long—" Shi Yan nodded respectfully to the woman.

The woman simply smiled and nodded in return.

She didn't stand on ceremony and started helping Sheng Nu get busy, making Shi Yan realize that she was completely an outsider.

However, with someone helping out, Sheng Nu's preparation of breakfast progressed much faster.

Most importantly... the girl wasn't as nervous anymore.

I still feel a little regretful.

Sheng Nu turned to look at Shi Yan, but found the girl smiling at him, so he quickly turned his head back.

Long Taojia saw through it but didn't say anything. She just casually asked, "By the way, where's Su Huai?"

"Why don't I see her?"

Qin Suhuai's diligence was known to almost everyone in the Qinglian Sword Sect.

In the past, whenever Long Taojia came to freeload a meal, he would see Qin Suhuai practicing her sword there.

It's quite rare to not see Qin Suhuai today.

“Sister Suhuai…” Almost shyly, Sheng Nu glanced at Shi Yan and stammered, “Sister Suhuai is still resting… um… regulating her sword heart.”

"Regulate the sword heart?" Long Taojia frowned.

"Did that thing even affect Su Huai?"

Shi Yan captured the unspoken meaning in the story of Long Tao.

That thing?

Did it all have an impact on Qin Suhuai?

What's the meaning.

"Elder Long?" Shi Yan didn't mince words and asked directly if he had any questions.

Long Taojia only glanced at Sheng Nu.

Sheng Nu understood what Long Taojia meant, "Elder Long... Elder Long..."

Before the girl could finish speaking, she saw the woman's raised eyebrows and hurriedly corrected herself, "Sister Long..."

Seeing the woman's satisfied expression, she continued, "I'll go deliver breakfast to my sister."

"My sister should be up by now."

She took a breakfast and left the kitchen, glancing at Shi Yan one last time before leaving.

Only Shi Yan and Long Taojia remained in the kitchen.

Long Taojia stuffed a small steamed bun shaped like a rabbit by Sheng Nu into his mouth and calmly explained to Shi Yan.

"Actually... that's why I came to Little Sword Peak."

"Miss Shiyan and Senior Brother Headmaster talked about it yesterday, right... about that dream you had about sending a message."

The teacher nodded.

"That place is called the Taixu Secret Realm," Long Taojia said, exactly as Qin Suhuai had described. "Besides being a place where our sect's disciples hone their swordsmanship by sparring with themselves—"

"It's still the place my sect used to seal away demons and evil spirits."

"Sister Suhuai has told me all of this." Shi Yan nodded to indicate that she understood.

Long Taojia gave Shi Yan a meaningful look, and then said, "Then... Su Huai must not have told you something else."

"The Taixu Secret Realm has been experiencing some problems since eighteen years ago."

dong dong——

Shi Yan's heart skipped a beat.

Eighteen years ago?

That's too much of a coincidence.

That was the year this world was born.

He swallowed unconsciously, then continued, "Does Elder Long know exactly when the problem occurred?"

"In the month of Gui Chou, on the day of Geng Wu, the ruling star is an inauspicious deity of the year—"

dong dong——

Shi Yan's pupils contracted slightly.

This...this is just too much of a coincidence.

Because... that's my birthday.

When I created my character, I filled in my own birth date, so both Shi Yan in the two worlds were born on the day of Gengwu in the month of Gui Chou.

"What's wrong?" Long Taojia also sensed something was amiss.

That's...my birthday.

Long Taojia was also stunned. The rabbit-shaped steamed bun with one of its heads bitten off fell to the ground in her hand. "What the hell?!"

"Elder Long?" Shi Yan looked at the woman in front of him.

"You freaking... such a tiny bit of a Great Spirit Realm!???" To Shi Yan's surprise, Long Taojia's focus completely shifted to the heavens.

"Ahem... Elder Long, let's get down to business."

Long Taojia just looked at Shi Yan with a resentful and aggrieved expression, "I'm so jealous!!!"

Are you a monster?

"Did they start cultivating from the womb?"

"Even if it's a demonic practice of sexual cultivation, it wouldn't be like this."

"Back then, the Dao Embryo Demoness of the Upper Moon Sect, who was born with a Dao Embryo, was almost thirty years old before she broke through to the Spirit Realm."

"You're a monster! You're a monster!"

The Demonic Woman of the Dao Embryo? The image of Wen Ruya's faintly alluring smile flashed through Shi Yan's mind again. She quickly reassured the woman before her, "Elder Long, calm down... calm down..."

"Let's get down to business."

Long Taojia just looked at Shi Yan with a sour expression.

Because his cultivation level had not progressed any further and he had been stuck at the Nascent Soul stage for nearly a hundred years, he was about to face his death and was preparing to die peacefully.