"Perfect, Senior! You are very wise—you've understood everything perfectly!"
Su Xiaobai was genuinely surprised at how quickly the old man seed to grasp things. Or so he thought.
The old man, gritting his teeth, asked, "So what do we do now, Junior!?" His voice had a hint of panic, though Su Xiaobai couldn't tell if he was truly worried or just pretending.
It seed like the old man still didn't take his words seriously.
Su Xiaobai sighed.
Once again, he realized the old bastard didn't believe him.
A wave of sadness and depression washed over him, but he quickly brushed it off.
Standing up, he donned his robe with a dismissive grin.
"Heh… Don't say 'we', Senior. I've already got help. You can rot here alone."
Crackle… crackle…
He smirked, his eyes drifting to the iron rods of the cell, crackling with heavenly thunder. These rods kept them imprisoned, supposedly inescapable—supposedly.
When Su Xiaobai had first reincarnated into White Cloud Star, he'd landed himself a decent family.
Not a perfect life, far from it—this world was a 'dog-eat-dog' battlefield where people cultivated spiritual energy, 'Qi', to survive.
Hardships were endless.
But still, he had a loving mother, an older sister, and a younger sister.
For a brief while, he even had a father—until his dad mysteriously passed away, leaving them behind.
Despite the struggles, they lived a good life. That is, until an 'accident' landed him here in this cursed prison.
"Xiaobai…"
A soft, sweet fragrance floated into the cell, accompanied by a calm, soothing voice. The mont he heard it, Su Xiaobai's mind instantly relaxed. Since the day he had entered this world, that voice had been his anchor—the only thing that stopped him from giving a damn about anything else.
Standing just outside the cell was a tall woman, nearly 180 centiters in height, her long white hair cascading down her back.
Her eyes brimd with maternal concern, and her face, untouched by ti, radiated a serene beauty.
It didn't matter how many tis he saw her—Su Xiaobai swore his mother was one of the most beautiful won he had ever laid eyes on.
Though, of course, he might have been a little biased.
Regardless, as he blankly walked toward the heavenly thunder-infused iron rods, she panicked.
"Xiaobai, be careful…" she called out softly, Matriarch Su's voice laced with worry, her eyes pleading as she watched her son approach the deadly barrier.
"Oops..." Su Xiaobai barely stopped himself in ti, rubbing his head in relief.
He glanced over at Matriarch Su, who was visibly distressed by his reckless behavior.
In White Cloud Star, powerful warriors must undergo the Star Guardian Test to earn the rank of Star Guardian.
These ranks start from D-rank and go all the way to S-rank, the pinnacle of power.
The Star Guardians are the shields of civilization, tasked with defending against the endless threats of both the 'hunters' and the 'beasts.'
Hunters, apparently, were once warriors themselves, twisted into monsters by so kind of outbreak.
Those killed by hunters rise as one of them, spreading the infection like a curse.
The defensive walls around civilization hold for now, but small outbreaks are frequent, always threatening to overwhelm the people.
To combat this, the Star Guardians were ford.
And Su Xiaobai's mother, Matriarch Su, was no ordinary guardian—she was an A-rank Star Guardian, a very powerful one to begin with.
Normally, she was cold and less-spoken, feared by many. But when it ca to her children, she had a soft side she couldn't hide.
Matriarch Su took a deep breath, calming herself after seeing her son act so carelessly.
"Xiaobai... Be careful and wait inside. In a few days, I'll send soone to get you out of here. Until then, just—don't do anything reckless, please."
Her voice was firm, but the worry in her eyes betrayed her cold exterior. She hurriedly turned and walked away, risking her life just to visit him in this forsaken place.
"Hm?" Su Xiaobai watched her leave, a little taken aback and sad.
For a mont, he thought she might just break him out of the prison right then and there.
But in a blink, she was gone, leaving him alone with his thoughts and the crackling thunder-infused iron bars.
He couldn't help but chuckle. "Guess I'll be staying a little longer..."
"Junior, how the hell did you end up in this dump?" Ning Gufan, now dressed in his robes but still looking like a half-baked sage with that bald head and shiny white beard, leaned forward with curiosity. "You couldn't have possibly wiped out an entire country like , could you?"
Ning Gufan—Old Man Ning, as Su Xiaobai called him—had been thrown into this prison after casually wiping out a small country while wandering around.
"Accidentally," he said.
But Su Xiaobai?
The old man could tell this kid didn't have that kind of strength.
Su Xiaobai snorted. "It's because of a —bitch."
"Oh?" Ning's eyebrows shot up, suddenly much more interested.
Su Xiaobai let out a long, frustrated sigh. The whole story was a pain to rember.
When he first reincarnated into this world and started growing up, he realized one brutal truth: his talent was non-existent.
While his sisters had managed to raise all seven pillars during their bloodline awakening ceremony—marking them for greatness—Su Xiaobai could barely scrape together one lousy pillar.
Seven pillars ant a future of imnse power, potentially rising to the rank of S-rank Guardian.
One pillar?
That was the kind of trash that couldn't even make it as cannon fodder.
And in a world where strength was everything and a flick of a finger could end your life, Su Xiaobai was 'defenseless'.
To make it worse, he didn't even get a cool ability during his awakening.
No impressive bloodline, no hidden potential, nothing.
Instead, he was saddled with the most broken-sounding ability ever: 'Invincible Body.'
Sounds like a cheat, right?
Wrong.
It only lasted a short ti, and since he couldn't cultivate worth a damn, even toddlers could overpower him.
It was useless—a joke.
So naturally, he beca the laughingstock of the clan.
And it wasn't just any clan.
Su Xiaobai ca from a long line of famous warriors.
His father, Guardian Hua Sheng, had been an S-rank powerhouse, one of the top ten strongest in the entire White Cloud Star.
Then, ten years after Su Xiaobai's birth, his father mysteriously died in an "accident."
The rumors that followed were 'brutal'.
So said his father died from the shock that his only son was such a pathetic waste.
Others claid that Hua Sheng had been planning to kill Su Xiaobai out of sha, and Matriarch Su—Su Xiaobai's mother—killed him to protect her son.
Su Xiaobai knew both stories were complete bullshit, but it didn't matter.
The damage was done, and the family was disgraced. Unable to prove her innocence, Matriarch Su took her children and fled from their ho in Wuxia Province, settling in the wilderness to escape the ridicule.
Then, just yesterday, on Su Xiaobai's twenty-seventh birthday, Matriarch Su dropped a bombshell: they were going to try his bloodline awakening 'again'.
He was stunned.
That sort of thing was only supposed to happen once, and the 'Immortal Tianlong Spirit', the divine stone used to awaken bloodlines, was kept under lock and key in the heavily guarded Institute of Science.
But Su Xiaobai had already lived a life where he was feared as a villain, taking what he wanted and dominating others.
The joke that was his current life disgusted him.
He didn't know why he ended up in this world, but now he was determined to take control of his fate.
So, with his mother's help, they infiltrated the Institute of Science.
Well, 'he' did the sneaking, while Matriarch Su worked from the shadows.
Su Xiaobai managed to get inside and perform the awakening ritual.
The result?
Eight pillars.
'Eight fucking pillars' rose to the heavens!
He thought his life was finally turning around, that he'd be able to hold his head high again.
But before he could even celebrate, the dean of the institute caught him.
The bastard launched a devastating attack, and Su Xiaobai, panicking, activated his Invincible Body.
It worked… sort of.
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