Chapter 1

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Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Great Xia Nation, Autumn Maple town.

In the ancestral hall of the Ye family, there were all sorts of offerings placed on the table made from sandalwood. Right in the middle of the hall were several joss sticks placed in a simple and worn out black cauldron on the floor. Smoke also filled the hall.

1A small figure pushed the door open and entered the hall.

It was a girl of about thirteen years old. Her face was only the size of a palm while her facial features were extremely exquisite. It was a pity, however, that her messy hair and dazed eyes buried her beauty like a pearl covered in dust.

4The teenager had just approached the table when several people appeared from around her.

1“That’s great. We caught the thief.” Several evil slaves caught the teenager’s limbs and pressed her down on the floor.

“Hmm…” The teenager was clearly shocked and wanted to struggle out of the people’s hold on her. However, how could her strength compare to those evil slaves? They had been learning martial arts and were all on the first level of body tempering!

“Ye Lingyue. So it was you, foolish girl. Who gave you the courage to steal the table’s offerings and eat them?” asked the slave called Wang Gui. He was the Ye family’s Sixth Young Master, Ye Qing’s close aide.

The teenager they held against the floor was Ye Qing’s younger cousin, Ye Lingyue. Although she was a young miss of the Ye family, her status was inferior to that of the slaves in the Ye family.

It was all because Ye Lingyue was a fool and a humiliation of the Ye family.

“No… Sick… Clean.” Ye Lingyue’s face paled.

“How dare you quibble?” Wang Gui unreasonably asked as he slapped Ye Lingyue several times.

As a martial arts practitioner, Wang Gui’s slaps were enough to make Ye Lingyue’s face completely swollen. When he hadn’t yet appeased his anger, he kicked Ye Lingyue’s abdomen.

Ye Lingyue’s body flew like a kite whose string had snapped, and she collided against the big cauldron placed in the hall. A soft hum of pain left her lips.

“The fool isn’t moving anymore. She better not be dead.” Seeing that Ye Lingyue wasn’t moving, several of the Ye family’s slaves thought that she was dead.

“How will she die so easily? This fool has been living for at least a decade being hit and bullied by everyone, yet she’s still perfectly alive. Young Master said that she’s an example of a cheap person having a tough life.” Wang Gui’s mind was also vicious. His eyes then glanced over the joss stick cauldron beside Ye Lingyue.

Thirty years ago, the Ye family master bought the Ye family’s ancestral hall along with the joss stick cauldron, which remained there since.

Wang Gui went forward and pushed the cauldron cap open. He then scooped a handful of the joss stick ash.

“All of you, open the fool’s mouth. Since she wants to steal and eat the offerings, let’s have her eat all she wants today.”

The slaves giggled at Wang Gui’s words. To them, Ye Lingyue was inferior to that of a wild dog.

After they had pressed each of Ye Lingyue’s limbs down, they funneled all the ash that hadn’t been cleaned for god knows how long, into her mouth.

At that same moment, a round object slipped into Ye Lingyue’s throat.

When that thing entered her stomach, Ye Lingyue, the foolish girl, felt a fiery heat burning in her dantian.

The unending nibbling and uncomfortable heat made her feel like she would burn to death.

Uncomfortable… Ye Lingyue felt really uncomfortable. She grabbed her throat. It was as if something was drilling through it.

Even when bloody scratch marks covered her neck, the heat still burned greatly. Feeling terribly uncomfortable from the pain and heat, she hit her head against the joss stick cauldron and blood instantly oozed out from her forehead.

“Sh*t. Is the fool really dead?” Wang Gui approached the girl and realized that she wasn’t moving at all.

The slaves all looked at each other, and it was only then that they felt fear creep through their bodies. Although the fool’s status was low and nobody paid her attention, she was still a proper young miss in the Ye family.

“What are you spacing out for? Let’s go look for the Young Master,” Wang Gui said in distraught. After this, the group fled away.

In the ancestral hall, Ye Lingyue’s small figure curled up.

The burning feeling came wave after wave.

“Mother,” Ye Lingyue helplessly called out, but no one answered her.

The burning sensation slowly dissipated, but by then Ye Lingyue’s organs had already twisted on its axis.

Sometime later, a loud crack echoed in her mind. It sounded like something exploded in her dantian.

A red glow had flashed in Ye Lingyue’s body before it spread to the rest of her body. Her finger twitched.

Her eyes suddenly opened. Her previously dazed eyes were now sparkling like the stars.

Her surroundings became clearer as she sat up.

A sharp flash appeared in her eyes as well.

All she saw was an old but simple and humble house. There was a table right in the middle of the room, and on top of it were offerings and ancestral plates.

“I… was reborn,” Ye Lingyue muttered softly as she glanced at her hands.

They were small and thin, and it had all sorts of wounds on them. This was the body of a girl who had been terribly bullied.

She stood up and tried to recall the memories of the body she was in. However, because her head wasn’t straight before, she could only recall several snippets of memories.

It seemed like she still needed some time to get used to this body.

Just as she was about to leave the hall, a soft buzz rang in Ye Lingyue’s ear.

Not too far from her, something was happening: the blood stain Ye Lingyue left on the ancient joss stick cauldron… permeated into the cauldron at a visible speed.

A gust of cold air blew under Ye Lingyue’s feet. However, her strong curiosity told her to walk forward.

The moment her hand touched that cauldron, something weird happened.

Woosh…

The ancient cauldron, that was heavy enough that it needed several people at once to carry it, transformed into a black glow and then penetrated her palm.