VAP - Chapter 47
Chapter 47: The Supreme Sage Hopelessly Obsessed with Beauty (6)
Because of the nature of this world, the process of explaining System-related matters to Nai Yin was a little more complicated than it had been with Qi Jiu.
But only a little. Lord Galor’s comprehension was extraordinary, and she quickly grasped the full reality of Yue Du’s existence.
“Alright, let’s bind now,” she said decisively.
Yue Du: “…”
Her unbelievable thought had indeed come true.
She hadn’t asked a single question or even thought it over, yet she had agreed just like that—all because of love at first sight?
This number one Dharma Saint was truly unconcerned.
However, having reached such a height, the things that could threaten her were few and far between, so she truly had no need to worry.
Yue Du made one final confirmation. “Have you decided?”
Nai Yin smiled faintly, her tone sweet. “Of course, my Nilperanna. If this is what you desire, what reason would I have to refuse?”
Nilperanna was the name of the goddess of love and desire in the legends of the Ayers Continent.
Yue Du had never been addressed so intimately and cloyingly. She couldn’t help but shiver and said with a deadpan expression, “Thank you.”
Thanks to you, she thought, I’m starting to have second thoughts about this binding.
Of course, she was joking. The decision to bind wasn’t up to her… Yue Du gently set down her teacup, extended her right hand toward Nai Yin, and lowered her arm.
This was a standard gesture of etiquette in the empire, an invitation to a handshake.
Nai Yin unhesitatingly placed both of her hands over Yue’s. Her pale fingers were long, slender, and delicate, and only upon contact could one feel how cold they were.
She let out a sigh of satisfaction.
“What should I do next?”
“Please trust me. Bring me into your spiritual domain, and then simply agree to the binding.”
Spiritual domain—that was just the term used on the Ayers Continent. In reality, it was the mental space where the System would take root.
Unlike ordinary people, who could not enter their spiritual domains at will, any mage or summoner who had advanced to a certain level could delve into and expand their own spiritual domain, making it more resilient and secure.
The significance of a spiritual domain was extraordinary. Besides the owner, only the most intimate of individuals might possibly be granted entry—and even that was just a possibility.
In fact, for most people, they would be the only ones to ever visit their spiritual domain in their entire lifetime.
Nai Yin was clearly not among them. Hearing Yue Du’s request, she smiled even more brightly. “Is this your response to me, my little bird-of-paradise?”
Oh, another new, sickeningly sweet pet name.
Yue Du had reason to suspect this was punishment for secretly giving her host nicknames in the previous world.
“It’s a work requirement, a necessity of life. Please don’t read too much into it, thank you,” Yue Du said in a business-like tone.
Nai Yin pouted. “Ehh… so cold. I’m not going to let you in anymore.”
Despite her words, her mind was quite honest. The sound of her voice hadn’t even faded when Yue Du’s vision blurred. Her data detached from her body and sank into Nai Yin’s domain.
The unconscious body, merely an empty shell from the System Store, slumped forward limply.
Nai Yin caught the body with ease, humming the tune of a love serenade between her crimson lips as she carried it behind a dark curtain.
Inside the spiritual domain.
A silvery-white beach shimmered under the moonlight. White waves broke where the sand met the sea, stretching out to a distant, endless horizon—or perhaps a sky that was the very same color.
On the other side of the beach stood a cluster of temples. Yue Du was already quite familiar with them; even with a slightly different layout, she could still be certain this place was intimately connected to Qi Jiu’s mental space.
This was something she had long suspected, so she wasn’t surprised. What was more important was—
Where was Nai Yin?
Yue Du stood blankly in this world, looking around to find no one. The Dharma Saint who had pulled her in was clearly still outside.
“What is she doing?”
she muttered to herself in disbelief.
Her body was still in the outside world. When she recalled Lord Nai Yin’s undisguised adoration for that beautiful shell, the implications were terrifying.
Yue Du… Yue Du suddenly felt a little flustered.
A moment later, the silver-haired woman’s figure suddenly appeared behind her, her gorgeous face filled with contentment.
The moment this figure appeared, a silver-blue panel materialized before her, asking: Bind with System 0996?
Without a second thought, Nai Yin selected yes.
The System’s solo mission was complete, and the points were credited to her account.
As Yue Du relaxed, she suddenly felt the urge to ask her new host what she had been doing outside just now. But on second thought, she swallowed the question.
Nai Yin, however, seemed to see right through her. A teasing glint appeared in her eyes as she said, “Don’t look at me like that, baby. I didn’t do anything. I just placed your body on the bed.”
Yue Du cleared her throat and explained, “I wasn’t thinking anything.”
“Of course you weren’t,” Nai Yin said indulgently, with an air that clearly meant, Whatever you say.
“…” Yue Du decided not to discuss the topic any further.
What should a System and a host talk about? The mission, of course. Although that goddamn, bizarre Main System hadn’t yet issued its annoying mechanical tone to announce the mission, they could at least speculate on what it might be, right?
First, they needed to understand the plot.
Yue Du showed the host the script.
This world’s protagonist was named Rand Abio. This “bright-smiled, black-haired, blue-eyed” youth had been abandoned at birth and grew up in an orphanage.
He once possessed powerful potential as a mage, and after undergoing a test for special constitutions, he was adopted by a noble family in the human empire. From then on, he lived a life of privilege.
Until his fifteenth birthday, when his adoptive parents’ enemies came calling. These gutter rats didn’t dare to openly confront the adults of the family, so they struck from the shadows, destroying Abio’s magic core and turning the favored son of heaven into a piece of trash—
His adoptive parents abandoned him without a second thought, and his fiancée decisively broke off their engagement. Reduced to a commoner, Abio experienced the full spectrum of human fickleness. Even the orphanage was no longer willing to take him in.
And so, one cold night, Abio looked up at the sky and declared with grief and indignation, “Sooner or later, I will make every single person who looked down on me pay the price!”
As she recounted this part, Yue Du’s expression became hard to describe, and she paused for a moment.
It was a standard trope: the trash-to-treasure plot, combined with the broken engagement plot. It was obvious he was about to recover through a series of fortuitous encounters, and his talent would certainly surpass what it was before.
Nai Yin listened with great interest. “And then?”
So Yue Du told her what happened next.
Sure enough, Abio found an ancient magic necklace, which housed the resentful soul of a certain Dharma Saint who had died an unnatural death.
—The “old master in a magic item” trope.
The Dharma Saint’s soul offered to help Abio reclaim his status as a prodigy, on the condition that Abio help him create a new body.
And who could help a Dharma Saint reconstruct a body?
Only a Magic God.
The old master declared with passionate fervor, “I shall name this plan: the God Creation Project!”
The future Magic God, Abio, was naturally delighted. Under the old master’s guidance, he recovered his talent as a mage and even used potions the old man had preserved from his lifetime to forcibly grant himself the special constitution of a warrior.
—And there it was, the magic-and-martial-arts dual cultivation trope.
As a dual cultivator of magic and martial arts, Abio was now a genius among geniuses. He was admired by his mentor, the academy’s headmaster, and the imperial princess—a perfect and powerful upstart.
He put his adoptive parents in their place, put his former fiancée in hers, and proceeded to crush all sorts of cannon fodder, striding down the path of an invincible protagonist, never looking back.
Nai Yin Galor, on the other hand, was the biggest villain in this inspirational story. She was responsible for declaring “this child will become a great menace in the future” when Abio was just a lowly mage apprentice, for serving as a background fixture at various plot points, for constantly dispatching assassins and subordinates to help him level up as he grew, for attempting to break up Abio and the world’s heroine… and, of course, for the final, climactic showdown.
The script provided by the Main System this time was still quite vague, so Yue Du also recounted the plot points she remembered to her host.
Nai Yin found it rather amusing. “So, I get killed by that boy, and my flesh and blood are used to reconstruct a body for his old master? Is that old geezer even worthy?”
“Yes. The script specifically states that the protagonist also rescues the countless beautiful people trapped in your castle.”
“Trapped?”
“Meaning the maids and male servants here.”
Nai Yin looked aggrieved, as if she’d been wrongly accused. “But I didn’t! They wanted to stay here of their own free will.”
Yue Du was completely baffled. “So why do you keep so many servants? For charity?”
“They’re pleasant to look at. They aren’t an eyesore,” Nai Yin said without a hint of hesitation.
Yue Du fell silent. After a long moment, she said, “Mm, is there anything else?”
This time, Lord Nai Yin didn’t answer immediately. She tilted her head slightly to look at Yue Du’s data form and asked seriously, “You should know that I’m half-vampire, right?”
“Yes, I’m aware of that,” Yue Du said.
“Then the answer is obvious, isn’t it? For the sake of my meals. I absolutely cannot tolerate my food coming from prey that’s an eyesore.” Nai Yin spread her hands. “Since you already knew, why did you ask? Could it be that you’re jealous—huh, jealous?”
At that, she stopped abruptly.
Yue Du: “…” I’m not.
But before Yue Du could speak, Nai Yin’s voice rose with delight. “You’re unhappy, aren’t you, my little rose? Are you displeased because of all the ornamental species scattered throughout the castle?”
“No. Frankly, I don’t care how many girls or boys you keep. I am just a System,” Yue Du said coldly.
Coldly. A very fitting adjective.
Nai Yin could only reply sorrowfully, “Oh.”
Then she added, “It seems my ode to love has not reached you. But please believe me, you are more important than all the aesthetically pleasing blood bags combined.”
Were they—Nai Yin and Qi Jiu—really the same person? Or rather, the same thing?
Yue Du confirmed this once again.
The reason was simple: their talent for infuriating people was equally matched!
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