Suzhou City, Dongming District, Qingteng High School.

"No good deed goes unpunished!"

Ye Dong, with his backpack on, walks rather gloomily along the road.

"During gym class today, there was a 400-meter run. Yang Jie, the class and school belle, tripped over a tree branch. All I did was help her up. I didn't do anything else!"

Yang Jie, one of the four most beautiful girls at Qingteng High School, happens to be in the same class as Ye Dong, Senior Three Class Five.

"What happened next was worse. This incident somehow reached the ears of Yang Jie's suitor, Wang Qiang. This guy immediately cornered me at the school gate. Luckily, I saw him coming and was able to escape quickly. Otherwise, I might have ended up getting beaten up today."

Wang Qiang, the campus bully, is notorious for regularly extorting and bullying other students.

"Wang Qiang has karate training, and his family is worth millions. I really can't afford to offend him. Sigh, I wonder if Yang Jie tattled on me. Women, they mistake kindness for donkey's liver and lungs!"

Ye Dong walks home, feeling full of bitterness.

Ye Dong, now eighteen years old, is a senior at Qingteng High School.

He grew up in a single-parent household with his mother, which made him somewhat introverted. But he is a good student. He did so well in middle school that he was the top student in the county, and was accepted into Qingteng High School, the best private high school in Suzhou City, and all of his tuition and miscellaneous fees were waived.

When he got to Qingteng High School, however, his family could no longer afford the high cost of living in Suzhou, a high-consumer city, and he had to take up part-time work at a bar to support himself while studying.

These experiences have made Ye Dong more mature than his peers.

"I just hope this incident with Yang Jie doesn't reach Xiao Mei's ears. I wouldn't know how to explain it to her." Xiao Mei is Ye Dong's girlfriend. They have been dating since freshman year and their relationship is very strong.

Upon returning home, Ye Dong fried a couple of sunny-side-up eggs as a simple dinner.

Ye Dong was munching on his eggs.

Boom!

An thunderous sound abruptly roared, causing his room to seemingly tremble.

Then, whoosh!

The sound of a heavy shower immediately set in.

"That doesn't make sense. Didn't the weather forecast predict a clear sky today? Plus, Gu Su is located in southern China, even if it rains, it's rare to have such a heavy downpour!"

Touching his nose, Ye Dong, with the eggs still in his mouth, quickly rushed to the window to close it.

"What a heavy rain!"

Cold wind whistled into Ye Dong's mouth, and droplets of rain pelting his face felt like searing pain.

Outside the window, the entire city of Gu Su seemed cast into darkness, the city skyline was pitch black, as if shrouded by a gigantic misty creature.

"I better close the window and go to sleep!"

Feeling a sense of inexplicable suffocation, Ye Dong reached out to close the window.

Boom!

At that moment, another flame-like thunder resonated, causing the entire building to shake.

Ye Dong's eardrums were painfully vibrated, causing him to roll his eyes and faint on the spot.

From the distant horizon, a white orb was spotted, rapidly flying towards Ye Dong. In a blink of an eye, it pierced through the window and heavily crashed right next to him on the floor.

Boom!

The entire building shuddered once more.

The white orb turned into specks of light and slowly faded, revealing a breathtakingly beautiful woman dressed scantily.

Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth, her face pale as if injured.

"Where am I?"

Su Yuechan's beautiful eyes swept the room, her eyebrows slightly furrowed. The arrangement of this room was entirely different from the one in Xuezhai Sword Pavilion where she stayed.

Then, her eyes landed on Ye Dong, laying on the floor. Looking at her torn clothes, a large portion of her snow-white skin was exposed, barely covering the vital parts of her body, a faint blush spread across her fair cheeks.

"I have reached the Supreme Forgetful State through my cultivation of the 'Supreme Forgetfulness Technique'. I can't believe that I would have emotions after losing all my power due to a failed catastrophe-crossing." Su Yuechan's blush instantly faded and her gaze turned icy cold.

"Fortunately, this man is unconscious. Otherwise, if he saw my body, I would have to kill him!"

Su Yuechan, the once-in-ten-thousand-years prodigy of the Xuezhai Sword Pavilion of the Star of Destiny, cultivated the ancient practice of 'Supreme Forgetfulness Technique'. In less than a thousand years, she advanced to become a Mahayana practitioner. She was just one tribulation away from ascending to the immortal realm!

"But during the tribulation, I encountered the Nine Heavens Infernal Thunder. If it were just this thunder, I wouldn't be afraid, the 'Supreme Forgetfulness Technique' should be enough to counter it. But later, the Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires appeared, which is the nemesis of the 'Supreme Forgetfulness Technique', capable of arousing the seven emotions and six desires of the cultivator."

"Once the seven emotions and six desires are provoked, my state of mind gets confused. Coupled with my short cultivation period and unstable foundation, I could no longer resist. The thunder entered my body." Su Yuechan sighed in her heart, "Thankfully, I was quick to react and detonated my magic artifact, tearing the void and narrowly escaping death!"

"Although my tribulation was a failure, it has its pros and cons. If I can cultivate again, it might strengthen my foundation, and increase my chances of crossing the thunder tribulation by 20%."

Su Yuechan's gaze moved, looking at Ye Dong who was unconscious on the ground. A bold idea suddenly appeared in her mind.

“My ‘Supreme Oblivion Skill’ has great power, but its biggest weakness is that during the tribulation, it's likely to attract Emotion and Desire Demons. If I accept this boy as my disciple, and let him practice the Immortal Sect’s evil technique ‘Unrestrained Divine Skill’, it can aid me during the tribulation.”

“Even though the ‘Unrestrained Divine Skill’ is just a fragmentary manuscript, it’s already comparable to my own ‘Supreme Oblivion Skill’. My method walks the path of ruthlessness, while ‘Unrestrained Divine Skill’ treads the path of compassion.”

A hesitation appeared in Su Yuechan's eyes.

“To practice this skill is to seek the realms of absolute freedom. However, this method also has a drawback. Every time you reach a breakthrough, the overbearing Yang energy must find the tempering Yin energy to counterbalance it, otherwise, it will lead to complete corporeal destruction.”

“Never mind, he’s just an ordinary person, his death would not matter. If he can successfully practice, it can be beneficial to me.”

Su Yuechan looked at Ye Dong, there was no trace of emotion in her eyes. Then, her jade-like delicate hand lifted, using the last bit of her spiritual power, she pressed it right on Ye Dong's forehead.

A vast amount of information flooded into his mind.

Even though he had fainted, Ye Dong convulsed, his eyes rolled back in his head, foaming at the mouth, and the fried egg in his mouth fell to the ground.

Five seconds later, Su Yuechan withdrew her finger and took out a green pill, stuffing it into Ye Dong's mouth.

“The last top-grade marrow-washing pill that can wash his marrow and change his body constitution to give him incredible fist strength of a thousand catties, he would benefit greatly from this.”

“From now on, I will be his master...”

Su Yuechan pondered, with the last trace of her spiritual power depleted, she could no longer hold and fell unconscious to the ground.

...

The heavy rain has stopped and the moon came out, Ye Dong slowly opened his eyes, looking somewhat confused.

He looked to his side, eyes wide with shock. A tremor ran through his body as he saw an incredibly beautiful girl lying next to him.

Ye Dong touched his nose, "What... what the hell?"