After Dawn - Chapter 8

START OF NEW ARC

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Characters that appear in this chapter.

卿然 (Qing Ran): Protagonist. (Lin Qing Ran)

洛清寒 (Luo Qing Han): One of the male leads.

林若 (Lin Ruo): Shu sister of Qing Ran

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Extraction of emotions is a feature that the system provides free of charge to every host, capable of extracting the emotions generated by the host during the task to avoid any impact on the host’s psyche.

Generally speaking, this is an enforced function, when the taskmaster returns to Space the System will forcibly pull out the various emotions it generated in the previous task world. However, for taskmasters of Qing Ran’s level, sometimes the residue of emotions is instead a kind of training for themselves, enabling them to become even stronger.

Listening to the cold electronic voice of the system, Qing Ran finally came back to her senses, she turned her head to look at the System, the dark pupils inside the emotions seemed to be like dark clouds before the storm, thick and depressing, like sadness and like joy, even with the powerful analytical ability of the system, can not read her complex mood at this time.

Noticing that her emotions were showing, Qing Ran closed her eyes, and the aura around her body gathered up.

“It’s not necessary.”

Each time the emotions are withdrawn, although only the emotions of the last mission world are withdrawn, but for the majority of the tasks have more or less impact on the person themselves, many times after the build-up will lead to the lack of their own true emotions, Qing Ran does not want this kind of thing to fall on her body.

“What is the next assignment?”

The system’s hand drew in the void, and a book suddenly appeared in his hand.

” A mortal woman cultivating immortality.”

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Jiuzhou Continent is a world dominated by cultivation, a world where there is no country, no emperor, only cities, only the major families and clans in charge of the cities.

According to the story, the female lead, Lin Ruo, is a top assassin in the modern era who crosses over to Lin Ruo, a concubine daughter of the Lin family with the same name. The former is cold-blooded, ruthless and powerful in the modern era, while the latter is a natural wastrel and is bullied in a world where strength is paramount. After crossing over, Lin Ruo escaped in the night to avoid her family’s decision to send her to a marital union, and participated in the recruitment meeting of the Tian Yuan Sect, the number one sect in the cultivation world, and became an outer disciple, assigned to the male protagonist Luo Qing Han’s disciple.

Lin Ruo got a Space Ring when she crossed over, which contained countless cultivation resources, spiritual stones of gong methods, spiritual medicines and demonic beasts, everything. She relied on the pills inside to transform her spiritual roots into the well-balanced five spiritual roots, and cultivated an extremely powerful technique, the ” Hybrid Method”, from then on she embarked on the path of rebellion against the scum.

Luo Qing Han is said to be the male lead, in fact, it can only be said to be one of the male leads, but he is the one with the most powerful strength and status among all the male leads.

On the surface he is an elder of the Tian Yuan Sect, at a young age, he was already a cultivator of the Divine Division stage, and was considered to be one of the most likely to ascend in the cultivation world in a thousand years, while in fact, he was the reincarnation of the Divine King of the Divine Realm, and entered the earth in order to break the Love Tribulation, and after Lin Ruo entered the Immortal Realm, his power in the Immortal Realm, also provided him with a lot of help.

“…… Finally, Lin Ruo ascended with all the beauties, the strength of the human world declined significantly, the Demon World invaded, the Cultivation World lacked effective resistance, hundreds of millions of living souls were charred, and the people did not live. The Jiuzhou Continent was reduced to a demon colony, and the six paths of reincarnation were broken ……”

“Bad end.”

“Your task is not to let Luo Qing Han fall in love with Lin Ruo.”

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Qing Ran’s identity in this mission is Luo Qing Han’s youngest disciple, Lin Qing Ran.

Lin Qing Ran, in accordance with her generation, also calls Lin Ruo an older sister, although she is a di daughter, while Lin Ruo is only a shu daughter. However, Lin Qing Ran’s talent is outstanding and she was sent to the Tian Yuan Sect since she was young and became the disciple of Luo Qing Han. The two of them hardly had any encounter in the Lin family and Lin Ruo had never met with her before she entered the Tian Yuan Sect.

Lin Qing Ran has no memory of this shu sister, even if they share the same surname, Lin Qing Ran has never thought that she and Lin Ruo share the same father. But Lin Ruo knows this first sister, because Lin Qing Ran’s mother, Lin Ruo’s real mother, can maintain the status of her children, the suppression of the side house is very strong, and although Lin Ruo does not have any feelings for the Lin family, she believes that after occupying this body, she must take revenge for the original Lin Ruo, and all those who have bullied her should be punished.

Lin Ruo’s mother was most proud of her youngest daughter, Lin Qing Ran, who had entered the Tian Yuan Sect at a young age. Lin Ruo thought that the best way to truly punish her mother was to make her lose what she was most proud of, so she put her mind on Lin Qing Ran.

Lin Qing Ran has been raised in the Tian Yuan Sect since childhood, although her cultivation level is quite high, she does not understand the world and is pure of heart. After Lin Ruo entered the sect, relying on her perseverance in cultivation and sudden breakout of talent, she immediately suppressed her, as well as secretly provoked with no trace, so that Lin Qing Ran and Luo Qing Han and others drifted apart, and finally planted a devil seed in her body, in order to block the devil race from crossing directly to the Jiuzhou Continent through this devil seed, Luo Qing Han killed his youngest disciple himself In order to prevent the demon race from crossing over to the Jiuzhou Continent, Luo Qing Han killed his youngest disciple with his own hands as a last resort.

Qing Ran woke up just in time to see a slender back leaving in a flash. She squinted her eyes, her heart was faintly aching. Qing Ran knew that this was exactly the time when Lin Ruo secretly put the devil seed into Lin Qing Ran’s body.

Although Lin Ruo has always been a caring big sister in front of Lin Qing Ran, Lin Qing Ran was troubled by the fact that her Master had gradually distanced himself because of Lin Ruo, but she was kind-hearted and did not take offense at Lin Ruo, instead, she comforted her at every turn when Lin Ruo showed uneasiness, and generously shared her resources as a personal disciple to her, even because Lin Ruo had said that the aura in Lin Qing Ran’s cave was sufficient, she gave Lin Ruo the method of controlling the gate.

Her whole heart trust did not get Lin Ruo’s heart soft, but rather was considered a provocation to her, and gave Lin Ruo the opportunity to poison her. In order to succeed in planting the magic seed in Lin Qing Ran’s body, she began to prepare in advance a whole half year, while Lin Qing Ran is asleep or in deep cultivation to inflict the spell of the magic world, so that she mistakenly think that she is unstable state of mind into the body, and then in Lin Qing Ran’s fear and anxiety, and took the opportunity to find the Soul Fragrance to offer, this incense not only has the effect of stabilizing the soul, but also to shield the body when a person is asleep. The reason for this is that when the demon seed is planted, it is accompanied by pain like tearing, and Lin Qing Ran is totally unaware of it.

In recent years, the Continent has been in turmoil, with traces of demons found everywhere, and demonic beasts have become extremely frequent, so all the major sects have issued missions to eliminate demons.

According to the story, Lin Qing Ran, who was forced to receive this mission, followed a group of disciples down the mountain without much preparation. Because of the demon seed placed inside her body, her spiritual power would weaken every time she fought, and finally she was taken captive by the demons during a battle. After escaping back, she was afraid to make a declaration until she was discovered regarding the demon seed.

Qing Ran, however, was not ready to follow the original route.

Thinking back to her memory of the way Lin Qing Ran and her master, Luo Qing Han, had passed on their messages, she pulled out their exclusive communication jade pendant and sent out a message that she wanted to see Luo Qing Han.

In another hour, the paper crane that issued the mission would arrive in front of Lin Qing Ran’s cave. At this point, Qing Ran was only able to hope that Luo Qing Han would arrive before the paper crane came.

The room was filled with Soul Fragrance, and it was estimated that it could still burn for a quarter of an hour or so. If Lin Ruo’s calculations were followed, Lin Qing Ran would wake up an hour later and the Soul Fragrance in the room would have almost dissipated, and with Lin Qing Ran’s mind, she would not notice anything unusual at all.

Before Luo Qing Han came, Qing Ran took out a blank diary stone and imitated Lin Qing Ran’s tone of voice, and burned out one image after another.

“I …… I had a dream today. I dreamed that Master he ……” which was followed by a long sigh, Qing Ran frowned as if she was in a great dilemma, “How could I have such a shameless dream …… “

“I dreamed of Master again, in my dream he was wearing an ink coloured robe with a purple and gold jade crown, he looked so majestic that people were afraid of him ……” she said, and an extremely delicate smile appeared at the corner of her lips, ” But Master he smiled at me, and he said that he would definitely find me.”

“I’ve got a demon in my heart, I’ve actually fallen in love with my own master ……” Qing Ran hid her face and cried, lost and in pain, “If the master finds out, I’ll definitely be expelled from the mountain by him.”

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When Luo Qing Han came, what he saw was Qing Ran sitting on the bed, hugging her knees and silently weeping.

The indecision and sadness in her eyes were so obvious, yet with a paradoxical relief, and when she looked up at the sound of his footsteps, there was a glint of undisguised joy in her eyes.

“Master!”

Qing Ran threw herself into his arms like a baby swallow, hugging his waist tightly, her hot tears falling onto the skin at his collarbone.

Luo Qing Han’s body was very stiff, men and women have different positions at the age of seven, ever since Lin Qing Ran turned seven, the two of them had rarely acted this intimately. After a moment’s hesitation, Luo Qing Han slowly placed his hand on her back and patted it gently like coaxing a child.

“Don’t cry, what has happened?” He asked softly, “Did you get into trouble?”

Qing Ran shook her head, as though she had collected all her emotions at once, and Luo Qing Han felt her arms tighten around him, before quickly withdrawing them again.

Qing Ran used her sleeve to wipe her tears, but the more she wiped, the more she could not stop them. She was angry with herself for not being able to fight, so she wiped her pale face red as she pressed her hand harder than the next.

A handkerchief was handed in front of her eyes, followed by Luo Qing Han’s concerned voice: ” What is happening, why are you so sad?”

Her hand holding the handkerchief was so white and slender that one couldn’t help but want to hold it. In one corner of the plain handkerchief, a purple iris flower was embroidered. Qing Ran suddenly curved her lips as if she had thought of something.

She took the handkerchief, and instead of wiping her tears, she caressed the embroidered pattern on it, then her tears fell in big streams.

Her tears were like transparent crystals. In Luo Qing Han’s eyes, Lin Qing Ran had always been an overgrown little girl, but today he suddenly felt as if he was skipping two beats in his heartbeat.

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Jiuzhou 九州 (jiǔzhōu) : division of China during earliest dynasties / fig. ancient China

same name. 同名同姓 (tóngmíngtóngxìng): having same given name and family name

everything 应有尽有 (yīngyǒujìnyǒu): everything that should be here is here (idiom); all one can think of is on hand / to have all one needs

of living souls were charred 生灵涂炭 (shēnglíngtútàn): people are in a terrible situation (idiom)

people did not live 民不聊生 (mínbùliáoshēng): The people have no way to make a living (idiom, from Record of the Grand Historian)

di 嫡 (dí); legitimate daughter, born of the first wife

shu 庶 (shù) ; born of a concubine