The Sect Leader Is So Brazen

After her master ascended, Wei Lianzhen made it her duty to bring glory to the Taiwei Sect.

But her senior sister Xie Guluan, the sect leader, proved utterly useless, showing her true colors in less than three years.

She loved wine and drank without restraint; she loved gambling and brought shame on the sect; she loved picking fights and was called a "cancer of the immortal path" by her contemporaries. She also loved beauty, judging people by their looks, and was frivolous and unrestrained.

Her senior sister was frivolous and lacking in virtue, but no matter how many faults she had, Wei Lianzhen could forgive her.

For a time, Wei Lianzhen believed her senior sister couldn't live without her, until the day a vast sea of Daoist fire consumed the wilderness.

Her senior sister, who had cultivated the Path of Absolute Emotion, turned to the Path of Emotionlessness and abandoned her.

Wei Lianzhen said she would never go back.

The one who once shared her bed had become a stranger.

Only Wei Lianzhen remembered Xie Guluan's love, Xie Guluan's lies, and the passion they had once shared... She remembered it all.

The once carefree and flirtatious sect leader was now as pure and cold as snow, gazing down at the multitude of living beings with an utterly still expression.

The Great Dao was emotionless, but Wei Lianzhen refused to accept it.

She would seize Xie Guluan by the wrist, imprison her in the Daoist palace, and force her to relive all the countless times they'd made love in the past.

"Senior Sister, didn't you say you loved me?"

◇ Coming soon: Back to the Days of My Youthful Rival

In the tenth year of the war between Kun and Ying, Li Quechen, young lord of Kunxu, died in battle.

When she opened her eyes again, she'd returned to the age of eighteen.

She had just made her way into the Pengying Academy, and her nemesis hadn't yet cultivated the Path of Emotionlessness, gone mad after her Daoist heart shattered, or turned her gloomy gaze toward Li Quechen's lovely head.

Given a second life, Li Quechen didn't want to be the young lord of Kunxu anymore, burdened with some stupid grand mission of restoration.

She would stop competing with her nemesis for first place and spend her time playing with cats and dogs. After graduation, she'd become an immortal official, govern a small territory, and live as an immortal in peace.

Who would have thought her nemesis would knock on her door in the middle of the night?

Li Quechen: "?"

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Xie Wenxian couldn't understand.

Why had Li Quechen stopped sparring with her?

She wasn't close to Li Quechen, but she knew her sword well. Li Quechen was the only one among their peers at the academy who could defeat her.

The first time Li Quechen turned her down, she said her hand had cramped.

The second time, she said she'd pawned her sword.

The third time, Li Quechen simply refused to see her.

So Xie Wenxian had no choice but to wait for her in the middle of the night.

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"Why?" the young Xie Wenxian asked.

"Because I despise the Path of Emotionlessness," Li Quechen replied with a laugh, no longer young.

She hadn't yet returned to Kunxu to become Pengying's greatest threat, and Xie Wenxian hadn't yet become Pengying's cold and heartless Holy Lord.

Li Quechen couldn't remember what had caused the war, so she could only blame everything on the mad Lord of Pengying.

In any case, she just had to stay away from Xie Wenxian.

Now that she'd gotten her answer, Xie Wenxian ought to leave, right?

But who could have guessed that Xie Wenxian would toss aside the Supreme Jade Slip and say, "Then I won't cultivate it anymore."

Li Quechen: "...I don't believe you. To break the Path of Emotionlessness, you have to fall in love first."

Xie Wenxian asked seriously, "With whom?"

Li Quechen babbled, "With me."

It wasn't until Xie Wenxian started coming to see her every day to talk about love (and practice swordsmanship) that Li Quechen realized what it meant to have a stone fall on your own foot.

Theme: Live positively, remember the past, and do right by the future.