The boundless Taixuan Mountain Range sprawls across millions of miles of the Yueyang Continent, blanketed with towering rugged peaks brimming with dense spiritual energy. Nestled at the region’s most spiritually abundant heart stands Guiyuan Sect, a formidable cultivation power. The sect governs seven main summits, sixty-eight secondary peaks and one hundred and seventy-two lesser hills. Veiled in drifting mist, dotted with pine slopes and secluded bamboo trails, it exudes an ethereal immortal charm.

Beneath a star-dusted night sky on Jingyuan Peak, an antique stone dwelling lay quiet, wispy calming incense curling upward gently. Yu Caiwei, clad in crescent-white Taoist robes, sat cross-legged on a rush cushion with her hands sealed in cultivation gestures, deep in meditation.

After a long while, she exhaled stale vital qi and slowly finished her practice, the crease between her brows easing at last. Her wounds had fully healed; the long-awaited fateful opportunity was within reach. Eager to set off straight away, she forced herself to hold back her urge. She would wait a few more days. Her master would soon retreat into seclusion after a breakthrough, and her senior brother would depart on an expedition with Feng Changge. Only once they were gone could she slip away unnoticed.

She picked up a spirit fruit and bit into it. At the Qi Refining stage, she could not survive without mortal sustenance, and a full day of cultivation had left her starving. Warm spiritual power flooded her stomach after the fruit slid down her throat, soothing her hunger. She flopped back onto cool white jade stone flooring, gazing at glowing spirit stones embedded in the wall, and fell into old memories. Everything in her life traced back to an accident five days prior.

Back then, Senior Brother Sang Li planned a sect expedition with late-stage Qi Refining disciples. With her cultivation at the eighth layer of Qi Refining barely qualifying, Yu Caiwei pestered him relentlessly to tag along. Upon arriving at the gathering spot, she spotted Feng Changge, personally invited by Sang Li, and resentment welled up inside her. Ever since their revered master True Lord Huachen had taken Feng Changge as his newest disciple, he constantly compared the two girls, claiming Feng trained harder and possessed a firmer temperament. Even Sang Li grew fonder of Changge and favored her company, leaving Yu Caiwei filled with bitter unfairness.

Desperate to prove her worth on the trip, Yu Caiwei grew reckless mid-hunt. A demonic wolf slashed her back and grazed her head. She treated her wounds with healing pellets back then, yet after returning to her cave dwelling, dizziness washed over her. She popped a Soul Nourishing Pill into her mouth and blacked out instantly.

When she regained consciousness, she had transmigrated to Blue Planet, reborn as a helpless infant named Chen Nuo with all her past cultivation memories blurred with the passing years. Abandoned by her divorced parents at age three, she was raised by her loving grandparents. After graduating from university, she turned down lucrative city jobs to care for her elderly guardians until they passed away, then lived a modest but contented life with a small house, modest savings and a handful of dear friends.

One vacation day, a friend recommended a popular xianxia novel The Genuine Path to Immortality. The story’s protagonist was Feng Changge, a modern corporate manager killed in a car crash who reincarnated on Yueyang Continent. Blessed with dual Fire-Metal spirit roots exceeding ninety percent purity, she was taken as a personal disciple by Sword Immortal True Lord Huachen after the sect’s grand recruitment ceremony. From then on, Changge blazed an unparalleled trail across demons, beasts and immortal clans, beloved by masters, doted on by the male lead and admired by countless suitors, eventually ascending to the upper realm alongside her destined partner.

As Yu read through the pages, familiar names — Feng Changge, True Lord Huachen, Sang Li, Guiyuan Sect — crashed into her mind. Her vision twisted and the world around her dissolved, only for her to jolt awake back inside her cave, merely an hour after fainting. A whole mortal lifetime had unfolded in the blink of an eye for her, leaving her confused whether she was Chen Nuo or Yu Caiwei.

After sorting through her chaotic thoughts, she understood her bizarre experience: the wolf’s head injury had unlocked her past mortal life’s memories, vastly strengthening her divine soul. Merging two lifetimes of experience had completely transformed her personality. In the novel, she was written as the jealous vicious supporting villain who fixated on Changge, schemed against her repeatedly, and ended with her dantian crippled, cultivation stripped and exiled to the mortal realm to waste away.

Though she knew the novel only captured a tiny fragment of the real Yueyang Continent, she dared not underestimate Feng’s extraordinary heaven-bestowed luck. In the past, Master Huachen and Sang Li had doted on her before Changge’s arrival, only to shift all their focus to the gifted newcomer. Driven by jealousy and a craving for attention, she had alienated everyone in her previous timeline. Having learned hard lessons from her mortal family struggles, she swore never to repeat the same mistakes. No longer would she chase others’ affection or waste her cultivation envying rivals. Every person walked their unique karmic path.

Her mind purified and her state of mind elevated, Yu Caiwei resolved to devote all her energy to cultivation. Her first priority was claiming the once-in-a-lifetime hidden fortune described in the book: the Thousand-Year Spirit Cleansing Herb hidden deep within Taixuan Mountain, outside Guiyuan’s borders. The entire mountain served as the sect’s private training ground, patrolled regularly; transformed demonic beasts were either tamed as guardians or slain, leaving low-tier monsters for disciple hunts. The rare herb could refine mortal impurities and purify spirit roots to drastically boost cultivation talent, coveted even by Nascent Soul sovereigns. In the original plot, past Yu only discovered it four years later and broke through to Foundation Establishment shortly after. Now four years ahead of schedule, the herb’s effects would remain unchanged, yet she dared not rush out abruptly lest her sudden shift in demeanor spark suspicions of soul possession.

She would wait patiently for her master’s multi-year seclusion and Sang Li’s long-distance expedition with Feng Changge, then sneak out to harvest the priceless cleansing herb undisturbed.