Chapter 116: Host Idiot

Lu Ye glanced at the dazed and shattered Bai Qiulan, then turned to look at Shen Xitong, whose face was filled with respectful sincerity.

"Go play by yourself. I’m going to kill."

His figure vanished without another word.

"No, husband leads and wife follows—I’m coming with you."

In the next instant, Shen Xitong transformed into a streak of flowing light and shot directly into Lu Ye’s body.

Only Bai Qiulan was left standing there, alone.

Right. Of course.

She was Lu Ye’s master. All she needed to do was fulfill the responsibilities of a teacher, to hold the position of an elder. Beyond that, she had no right to interfere.

This Shen Xitong, who’d appeared from who-knows-where, treated her with the courtesy due a master. She had done absolutely nothing wrong.

In fact, she was respectful and properly behaved.

Bai Qiulan should be relieved—relieved that Lu Ye had found a Dao partner like Shen Xitong.

Not someone like that traitorous disciple Yue Hongling, who always tried to drag her down into the muck.

So then, why did it hurt so much?

Hadn’t everything returned to the proper order?

......

Bai Qiulan walked away, absent-minded and broken.

Perhaps even she didn’t want to admit it.

She had wanted to crush Lu Ye beneath the mountain of moral order and ritual ethics.

She wanted him to feel guilty.

Because, as the saying goes, the essence of love is constant guilt.

But true love—true love is when both people try everything they can to ensure the other doesn’t feel guilty.

And now, Shen Xitong had taken that same crushing mountain of moral obligation—and slammed it down on her head.

Weren’t you the one who didn’t want Lu Ye to have improper thoughts about you?

What a joke. From the moment all of you betrayed him, if Lu Ye still had improper thoughts about you, wouldn’t that make him just some pathetic cuck?

Lu Ye could accept a woman’s selfishness, her obsession, her temper... because he lacked love. He didn’t know, he didn’t understand—that love was something that made both people feel unimaginably happy.

Love wasn’t just about tolerating each other.

Right now, Lu Ye had not a single improper thought toward his master.

And he hoped that his master would stop having improper thoughts about him.

Moral order stands above all.

Heaven and Earth’s Great Dao stands above all!

Suddenly, Bai Qiulan coughed up a mouthful of blood, which instantly turned to frost upon hitting the air.

The Chaotic Yin ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) Poison had erupted once again.

......

Lu Ye arrived at Daodao Peak.

Inside weren’t just cultivators of the Daodao Sect—there were also people from the Supreme Sword Sect, the Central Continent Imperial Dynasty, and even the Tribulation Sect.

The Yin-Yang Dharma Sect, however, had ultimately not sent anyone.

Their enmity with the Daodao Sect ran deep. Without the Myriad Ages Sect taking the lead, it would have been humiliating for them to just show up.

But if the Myriad Ages Sect had taken the lead?

Then there’d be nothing left to say. All the great sects of the human race joining forces to resist the alien coalition army—that would become a legend passed down for thousands upon thousands of years.

But without the Myriad Ages Sect’s initiative?

Hmph.

The Daodao Sect’s strength is nothing special—what gives you the right to lead?

Lu Ye appeared.

“Lu Ye! Quickly—do you know the Vermilion Bird Divine Beast?” asked Liu Changfeng.

The Vermilion Bird?

There it was. Everyone knew the Vermilion Bird was a divine beast. Everyone except the Vermilion Bird herself—who insisted she was a member of the demon race and even gave herself the title ‘Vermilion Bird Demon Emperor.’

“She’s here?”

Lu Ye didn’t answer whether he knew her or not. He first wanted to see what the Vermilion Bird had come for.

“Well, not exactly. She hasn’t entered the Daodao Sect—she’s lingering around its perimeter. She told us she knows you, and brought news: the alien coalition army has already set out from the Supreme Empire and is rapidly approaching the Daodao Sect.”

“That information is likely seventy percent accurate. Prepare for battle!”

"I'll go out and take a look at that Vermilion Bird first."

"I’ll send two Patriarchs to accompany you!"

"No need. A weak little Vermilion Bird poses no threat to me."

Why was Lu Ye going to see the Vermilion Bird?

On one hand, he remembered that during the last encounter at the Ancient Battlefield of Heaven’s Chosen, he had sensed a trace of the Myriad Spirit Demon Emperor’s aura on the Vermilion Bird.

Although it had been faint, in his previous life Lu Ye had killed far too many beings parasitized by the Myriad Spirit Demon Emperor. Even when his body was driven purely by slaughter, he had still noticed it.

Could the Vermilion Bird have been parasitized by the Myriad Spirit Demon Emperor?

On the other hand—

"Ding ding ding! Take me to see the Vermilion Bird! Hurry, take me to her!"

"Ding! I want to fight her!"

"Ding! Host, host, host—good host, handsome host..."

Yeah. That’s what the situation was now.

This damn system had just taken on human form and was currently at her most absurdly overpowered state.

She wanted to unleash her ultimate attack on the Vermilion Bird!

Truth be told, the system was the only being who had truly witnessed everything from Lu Ye’s past life.

Everything Lu Ye had done, every thought he’d ever had—she knew it all. It was just that back then, she was still a dumb system. Later, after merging with the Heavenly Dao, she lost all emotion and couldn’t offer him any advice.

In the system’s eyes, her host was a total idiot—caring for people with all his heart, unable to bear watching others suffer even the slightest pain?

Take that Chu Ling situation. Her Sword Manor was destroyed by Master Li Jian. Sure, Lu Ye wasn’t strong enough to beat Li Jian, but he could have stood at a distance, pointed at the remains of the Chu Sword Manor, and told her plainly: that guy Chu Cangsheng wants to use you to forge a sword, that young master Chu Shifei who was being refined into a sword wanted to possess you, and even your adoptive parents wanted you to take their son’s place as sword fodder.

Your real parents were killed by that whole twisted family.

Just say it!

Who cares whether Chu Ling’s love was real or fake?

Seriously!

And then there was that Yue Hongling. She liked Feng Wuxie? Fine—let her go to Silent Forest. Then, right when she was about to die, you show up and play the hero.

She finds out the truth, you get the beauty in your arms. What’s the problem?

So what if Yue Hongling dies? She brought it on herself. You tried to persuade her, you tried to stop her—if she still dies, that’s her fault.

Chances are, she’d even thank you with her last breath.

What the host sucked at most... was respecting others’ fate! Let go of that savior complex already!

But still—that’s what made him the real host.

Throwing his whole heart into a love that had already gone wrong. Foolish, but admirable.

Of course, Lu Ye had no idea the system was thinking all that. He genuinely just wanted to go see whether the Vermilion Bird had been parasitized.

Crap. Maybe he had been influenced by the damn system.

What business of his was it if the Vermilion Bird had been parasitized or not?

Whether she had or hadn’t—what did it matter?

“Ding! Super ultra best host of all time!”

Lu Ye: ...

“Be careful. If there’s any danger, return to the sect immediately.”

"Understood."

Lu Ye’s figure disappeared.

The sect’s protective formation opened a crack, and he slipped through.

His divine sense surged outward, blanketing the land in all directions.

Soon, he locked onto the Vermilion Bird’s presence.

“Ding! Let me handle this!”

Lu Ye had been cultivating earlier and hadn’t paid attention to how the system had been ‘dealing with’ these women.

Now, upon sensing the Vermilion Bird, he was certain—she had indeed been parasitized.

While not fully overtaken, the aura of parasitism was already present.

Brilliant five-colored light bloomed. The system had transformed into Shen Xitong and flew straight toward the Vermilion Bird.

Her clothing quickly turned ragged, blood appeared on her face, her expression grew haggard and sorrowful—yet even then, her devastating beauty could not be hidden.

She murmured under her breath, "Brother Lu Ye... Brother Lu Ye..."

And shot straight toward the Vermilion Bird.