Chapter 30

Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil

Back in the system space, the system remarks, “amazing, host. You’re getting more and more natural facing the antagonists, and you know more and more how to speak.”

What the host said at Meng Yanbai’s deathbed, felt touching even for the system… something like “no matter what, you would have still come to know me.”

Bai Lianhua sighs, “but it’s the truth.” When he was doing the white lotus missions, Meng Yanbai was his mission objective. Then whether it’s coincidental or intentional, he would have met with Meng Yanbai. In some sense, it is an unsolvable connection.

Then he objects to the system again, “I told you not to seal my emotions, and you had to do it. Then your seal ended up being incomplete, so the moment I recall the antagonist I still feel uncomfortable. Why do you even bother?”

The system sounds confident, however, “that only proves how important sealing it is. Look, host, even after sealing your mood is still affected, then how terrible would it be if it weren’t?”

“I believe the antagonists wouldn’t wish for you to feel sad for them themselves.”

Bai Lianhua “???” Does not know where that suddenly came from.

“How do you know? Perhaps the antagonists wished that I would never forget them and remember them my whole life?”

The system wants to retort but doesn’t know how to, then after getting stuck for a while it abandons reason and answers, “I just know .”

Then it one-sidedly declares that it will ignore Bai Lianhua for an hour.

Bai Lianhua “…” Hey, you’re getting arrogant here. The dumb system has got a temper now, hmm?

How about ignoring me forever if you’re so disappointed with me? Why in the world are you approaching me to show off your cute-dumb self again right after an hour passes?

…

When entering the next world, Bai Lianhua appears inside the woods in a mountain.

Good, his entrance into the world is sufficiently concealed. Nobody will be surprised he suddenly appeared… because there’s nobody around.

Bai Lianhua looks at the clothes he has when his mental projection materialised, and determines he’s been transmigrated to another world of ancient background.

Though he has no cultivation power in his body, so he will be unable to cultivate in this world.

Bai Lianhua has become conditioned to the system’s antics, and is worried he might have been thrown into the deep wilderness by the system where nobody will even hear his loudest screams. So he hurriedly looks around, and then sighs in relief.

Thank God, there’s a small mountain village nearby the woods.

Bai Lianhua pretends to be a lost traveller, and with the price of a decoration he had on him that seems to have gold or silver embedded in it, he is able to temporarily reside in one of the villagers’ homes.

——It is also thanks to him looking harmless and gentle, completely unlike a bad guy, or the household wouldn’t have allowed him to stay so easily.

After settling down, Bai Lianhua feels his situation is secure enough to ask the system, “so what is the situation? No hints?”

The system says, “hint, hmm… this is not too far from the straight distance to the antagonist, is that a hint?”

Emm… straight distance? Bai Lianhua thinks about the mountains surrounding the village, and gets a bit irked.

So he decides to ask for information on where the village is and what areas surround it.

Fortunately, there is an elder in the household he is allowed to stay in, who looks like he’s literate. The people around all call him Elder Xiucai , and is respectful towards him. He should be a good person to ask.

Bai Lianhua finds an opportunity and tries to strike a conversation with the elder, “these sure are difficult times in the village.”

——As for why this topic is chosen, is because he can see that the villagers are not particularly energetic. They all look like they have stuff on their minds.

“It can’t be helped. Now those with the rebellious heart are more and more arrogant and the imperial court is faltering. It looks like an era of chaos is approaching. We might be insignificant citizens but we can be said to be living in the vicinity of the capital, so naturally, this aura of the air before the storm has spread here.”

He has quite a lot to say on his identity as someone in the vicinity of the capital, “it sure would be a good thing to live near the capital in times of prosperity, but times like these? We’ll only be living cowering for our lives.”

The elder was certainly helpful, pointing out the geography of their location basically by himself, but Bai Lianhua is not happy at all, instead, his heart skips a bit… Oh no, is this the protagonist? Since every protagonist is basically an unparalleled genius in their world, they are often easily capable of threatening the world.

Bai Lianhua prays that none of this is related to the antagonist——Plus he can’t really remember besides Meng Yanbai which antagonist there would be that feels like usurping as well?

The elder continues the conversation with a sigh, “I guess it can’t be helped. The moment the Sword of Inverse Springs appears, it signifies the times shifting to a restless status.”

Bai Lianhua pauses.

“Sword of Inverse Springs?” He can’t help but repeat.

“Yes, the Sword of Inverse Springs,” the elder appears indignant, “it’s that evil sword.”

The chaos and blood spread by it are tales that can be told for days and nights nonstop.

When the sword finally decides to disappear from history, and the people are about to forget it, suddenly 10-odd years ago the Sword of Inverse Springs that has been missing for years reappears in the world.

This has caused a series of fighting for it, and it ended up in the hands of the warlord Lei Kuiliang. He not only united the Jianghu , but is even trying to become the emperor himself, so the entire world is thrown into chaos.

Lei Kuiliang is proud of the Sword of Inverse Springs in his hand, and also uses it as a symbol for himself, so the name of the Sword has also spread fr and wide, including the legends surrounding it that have been buried before… Speaking of which, it’s weird that every master that has held the sword has never ended up well, but there’s forever people chasing after it.

Now even a little village like theirs has heard about the Sword of Inverse Springs.

The elder is still going on, nonstop, “if possible, who would choose an era of chaos? We’re just some earnest villagers, and don’t know what the rich and powerful find so endearing about power struggles. We only want to live our days in peace.”

But now Bai Lianhua is no longer focused on what he’s talking about, only nodding courteously.

Speaking of the Sword of Inverse Springs, Bai Lianhua understands finally the antagonist he has to face this time.

——Zhong Xiutang.

A thousand years ago, a general that is famous across the lands has been deceived. To become stronger, he listened to what someone from a supernatural sect said, and prepared to smith a sword above all swords. He gathered the best smiths and the best materials of the land for this purpose.

It took a few years for the sword to be smithed. It was given the name Inverse Springs. The general, with the sword in hand, murdered 10 people with ethereal eyes on the scene. He drenched the sword with blood and believed it would be able to dispel evil and misfortune, make him immune to poison and change his set fate and become the object that cements his fate of becoming an emperor.

Unfortunately, the person from the supernatural sects actually holds a grudge over the general for the genocide of his people. It’s just that he doesn’t have the power to complete his revenge, so he approached the general in a roundabout way, trying to take revenge. He had tricked the general in the materials and process that gave birth to the sword so that it becomes a good item to nurture demons.

And the ten people are also not chosen randomly, but purposefully. Besides their ethereal eyes, their birth and physical aspects are all especially special. It can be said they’re naturally adept at the ways of the soul…

As expected, the one with the strongest soul among the 10 people killed, Zhong Xiutang consumes all the others, and is enchanted on the Sword of Inverse Springs as an evil spirit, and then consumed his master, the general, from his hand.

And the original person from the supernatural sect also ended his own life using the Sword of Inverse Springs with a happy look at the end.

Zhong Xiutang, who is born from a demon-nurturing spell circle, is, therefore, in a sense, subservient to that person. So the sword which has doubly consumed its masters is now even bloodier in aura.

Especially the feeling that whether he lived or died, he had always been a tool used by the general and the person from the supernatural sect enraged Zhong Xiutang. He also becomes eviler at core and more powerful. He gains the ability to deceive anyone without attracting attention to itself, and make them lose their minds.

Zhong Xiutang and the Sword of Inverse Springs start to terrorise humanity from then on. Using his identity as a divine weapon, he tries to attract all sorts of warlord-like characters to take it, and then controls them all as he pleased. When their lives were consumed, he would move on to the next one. He caused an untold amount of chaos and destruction to the world.

This world can be said to be completely jeopardised by this one Sword, and what’s foreseeable is that the situation will continue without intervention.

So it’s time for this white lotus to appear again.

When he first transmigrated, with the ‘incident’ that the system arranged, Bai Lianhua picks up the Sword of Inverse Springs from the grave of its former master, but does not change his white lotus ways, that is, he is not deceived by Zhong Xiutang.

At first, Zhong Xiutang tried to covertly affect Bai Lianhua’s emotions by trying to make him easy to anger and irritable. It wasn’t effective.

So Zhong Xiutang intensified his measures. He becomes a voice and tries to convince him and awaken his inner evil. It wasn’t effective either.

Even when Zhong Xiutang cannot stand it anymore and makes himself visible, Bai Lianhua is only ‘shocked’ that there really is such supernatural things in the world, but Zhong Xiutang still fails to take over his mind.

Zhong Xiutang, who has only succeeded until now, is helpless in dealing with Bai Lianhua. His mind is too pure, and his soul warm and powerful. He’s tried both soft and hard measures, but he cannot even create a single crack in his being.

In Bai Lianhua’s hands, the Sword of Inverse Springs is really just a sword that is slightly sharper than usual. Nothing else about it is special.

Over the years, Zhong Xiutang is instead inversely infected by the peacefulness of Bai Lianhua and starts to retract his own demonic aura. He also accepts in his heart the identity of Bai Lianhua as his master, and stopped trying to lure Bai Lianhua onto the path of evil. He even lowers his guard around him.

As Zhong Xiutang becomes more and more peaceful, until he finally devolved into a normal tool spirit, Bai Lianhua also receives the notification of him completing his white lotus mission from the system.

[Congratulations host, you have completed the white lotus mission to 100%, becoming a pure, flawless white lotus, successfully emanating your brilliance to soothe the antagonist. Now the mission is complete and you can detach from the world.]

So Bai Lianhua really does exit the world with a happy expression.

——”To finally see the demonic energy dispelled from you is such a happy thing.”

These are the last words left from him, in a tone full of relief.

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