Killing Xianxia Protagonists With An AI System In Another World!

"From now on, I will certainly be careful… But senior brother… can I ask you, why are you being so kind towards me?" Xiaoyi gazed at Shu Yidan as if to see through his indifferent profile.

Shu Yidan smiled. "Good girl, you are already being more cautious! And as for why I am helping you… Simply speaking, I hope to have you help me later in turn. You already have the might surpassing Golden Core and after a few months of cultivation, you'll be strong enough!"

"And don't worry, I am your senior brother, I wouldn't dig a pit for you to dive in!" Xiaoyi nodded at him, though she still seemed a bit wary.

"Well, you should get started with cultivating the new techniques you've gained. The Sect Master would be happy to help you cultivate those techniques as well." Shu Yidan discreetly told the brat to piss off.

"But senior brother, what about the Sword Bullet manual? You told me you would help me get started with it…" With the tone like a pleading little sister, Xiaoyi asked him.

"Well, if you don't want a half-step Void Refining's help casting it, be my guest." Shu Yidan said smirking.

"My feminine intuition tells me that having you forge the Sword Bullet would be better!" Tapping her forehead, Xiaoyi persisted.

"Well, to get started with things… go and cultivate the techniques you've got. I'll help you forge it later, I am rather busy now. Shoo shoo." Waving her away, Shu Yidan turned around and used his footwork to leave little Xiaoyi in the dust.

Flashing below the steps leading up the Azurewind Peak, Shu Yidan thought about what to do now that the System seemed to be off.

Precisely at that moment, he was pulled into the world where time froze before a blue screen.

[System reconfiguration took a while, here's hoping Host wasn't inconvenienced…]

The female voice had a hint of apology. Shu Yidan certainly thought it seemed less robotic. It seemed that his efforts at AI Setting Configuration weren't useless.

"Not at all." Shu Yidan shook his head, "Well, I hope the change of settings was successful."

[Phenomenally so] There was a slight pause. [Does Host wish to view Mission List?]

"Certainly!" At Shu Yidan's words, a mission list popped up.

[Rank A] [Timed Mission] [Save the Princess!]

[Rank B] [Social Mission] [Fuck Feng Shiyao!]

[Rank C] [Manufacturing Mission] [Forging Arrays!]

First things first, Shu Yidan immediately clicked on the Rank A Mission!

[Princess Xiahou Shangyue is locked in a castle, awaiting the horrifying fate of being violated by her eldest brother! Storm the castle, save the day!]

[Time Remaining: 9:59:99!]

Seeing the mission, Shu Yidan couldn't help but cry out, "…The fuck!?"

Shu Yidan couldn't help but fall into a reminiscence. "A pure virgin… certainly not. She was an infamous black widow who married a series of husbands who all suffered mysterious deaths. When I first met her, she was around 60 years of age, the Empress Dowager of the Azure Rain Kingdom and had installed her oldest son as the King."

[Host, your taste in women is too heavy.]

"Well, it isn't like I ever loved her in the first place. Our relationship was of mutual benefits: I provided her with resources to boost her beauty and longevity while she utilized her formidable wave of connections to track down Yang Yi across the world. She liked the feeling of youthfulness and took joy in sex… we could be considered collaborating fuck-buddies rather than lovers, I guess."

[But host clearly considered Xiahou Shangyue as a target of affection]

"Well yeah, she was smart, witty and a mortal who wasn't plotting against me. And she was like the only person I had a chance of developing affection towards. I mean, at that time the only other person I was fucking was the White Lotus Sect Leader and that was basically me whoring myself out for an alliance with her Sect." Shu Yidan couldn't help but sigh.

[The host had a rough life.]

"Yeah, yeah. Anyway, for all her desires of becoming immortal, her lack of talent and fate with the mortal kingdom was her ruin. It was impossible for her to even imbue a drop of qi within her body. I tried my best to help her: laid down an array on her physique, used my totem techniques to help her refine her Imperial Power into Dragon Qi and used the best of pills for her… but it was meaningless. She died at 120 years of age, so I knew her for 60 years… A short yet long length of time. I was in secluded cultivation so I only found out two years after that." Shu Yidan smiled in reminiscence.

[The host smiling after saying that is creepy.]

"I know. I still remember the feelings that rushed through me after seeing her grave. A hint of regret at not spending more time with her, a hint of loneliness at knowing that the one who truly understood me was no longer in this world… The feeling that truly filled me was heartbreak, even though I was never in love in the first place."

[…]

"She died a natural death, just like I knew she would… The unchanging fate of a mortal in this world. True thirst for immortality filled me at that moment. Having a great insight into the nature of the world and myself, I took advantage of the moment to cut off all affection and sever my seven emotions and six desires. At that moment, I began cultivating the path of Dream Cultivation in earnest and gained the power to stand against Yang Yi."

"If not for Xiahou Shangyue's death, I wouldn't stand a chance against Yang Yi. I naturally wouldn't be here either…" Saying this, Shu Yidan sighed.

[Does host want the events that shaped the Xiahou Shangyue of the past timeline to reoccur?]