Chapter One: The Boss of Society, Silent but Ruthless

On a mountain peak of the Myriad Talisman Sect, within a small courtyard.

A three-and-a-half-year-old little girl with her hair in two buns was being poked on the forehead.

“Jiang Wan, you little brat, I raised you for over three years. Now you’ve returned as the Sect Leader’s real daughter—resources for cultivation will never be lacking for you from now on. Hand over the Soul-nourishing Jade. Yao Yao cried herself to sleep last night and barely got any rest. She needs this Soul-nourishing Jade more than you do.”

Madam Li, at the sixth stage of Qi Refinement, was plump and dressed in a dark red gown. Her face was black with anger as she glared fiercely at Jiang Wan. She was the birth mother of the fake heiress, Jiang Wan’s adoptive mother.

Coming from a minor, insignificant cultivator family, Madam Li was strong and forcefully yanked the Soul-nourishing Jade from Jiang Wan’s neck, ready to leave with it. The pain made the little girl shrink her neck and, eyes brimming with tears, she chased after her.

“No, please don’t take my Soul-nourishing Jade, that’s from my daddy. Stepmother, please give my jade pendant back, please?”

She was just over three, not even as tall as Madam Li’s legs. She tried to catch up and grab Madam Li, but was kicked to the ground instead. The tiny child’s head hit a stone. When she closed and opened her eyes again, her soul had changed.

She was also called Jiang Wan, a college student who’d blacked out in anger after losing ten games in a row. When she woke, she found herself here.

The memories of a three-year-old were brief but enough for her to grasp that this was the Myriad Talisman Sect. She was the real daughter who had been found just a month ago, three and a half years old, with a mixed Five Elements spiritual root.

The fake heiress, originally raised by mistake, had dual Water and Wood spiritual roots—considered excellent talent—and was kept in the sect as well, along with her birth mother, who was this body’s adoptive mother.

Over the past month, her adoptive mother, Madam Li, often came to take her things for Jiang Yao. Whenever someone asked why Jiang Yao had her belongings, Madam Li would say she’d given them willingly, claiming that the two were of similar age and should be good sisters in the future.

Having raised Jiang Wan since infancy, Madam Li only needed to glare for little Jiang Wan to nod in fear, confirming the story. No one questioned it; instead, they praised her generosity.

No one ever asked the little girl, “Are you really willing?”

Her biological father, the Sect Leader, was always busy with sect affairs and cultivation. Her mother had only looked at her once after her return before shutting herself away to cultivate. The two servants in the courtyard were often away training, or chatting with Jiang Yao.

The only one who ever came was Madam Li, and it was always to take her things. Jiang Wan rolled her eyes. What kind of people were these?

As she lay there, a sudden chime sounded in her mind.

[Ding! Sensing the host’s powerful will to survive, the Villain Redemption System is now activated!]

Jiang Wan certainly wanted to live, but villain?

Who?

[Jiang Wan, the real daughter of the Sect Leader of Myriad Talisman Sect, a soul from another world. After being found at age three and a half, the fake heiress feared you would steal affection, resources, and your senior brother, so she targeted and framed you at every turn. She pushed you into the Demon Abyss, infecting you with demonic energy and forcing you to cultivate demonic arts. You slaughtered demons, massacred immortals, became the enemy of all realms, destroyed myriad worlds, and achieved the rank of Supreme Heavenly Demon. Now, at five hundred years old, Heaven’s mandates seek your annihilation. At the moment of death, your indomitable will activated the system. I will help you evade Heaven’s destruction, accumulate merit, and change your fate.]

Jiang Wan climbed out of the muddy pit and looked at her tiny hands.

“System, what do you mean five hundred years old? I’m only three and a half. Did you make a mistake?”

[The current cultivator calendar is year 100,886. The time is correct. Host: Jiang Wan, real daughter of the Myriad Talisman Sect Leader. Villain Redemption System now bound.]

The information about her identity was correct, but it was clearly year 100,386 right now, wasn’t it?

[First redemption mission:
After becoming Demon Sovereign, you slaughtered the Three Realms and, unrequited in love, kidnapped the male lead—your Senior Brother, the Immortal Lord Liu Huo. You dug out his immortal bones, destroyed his dantian, and shattered his immortal body.]

Jiang Wan: “…System, you really know I’m transmigrated, but was I really that ruthless?”

[Redemption mission: Revive the Immortal Lord Liu Huo from the river of time and be accepted by him once more.]

[Mission difficulty: Infinite.]

[Mission reward: Chaotic Thunder Spirit Root.]

Jiang Wan: …System, do you even listen to yourself?

In the distance, a five-year-old boy dressed in traditional training clothes with cuffed sleeves, his hair in a topknot, and his chubby baby face jiggling as he ran, approached holding a string of candied hawthorn.

“Junior Sister, why are you lying on the ground?”

Little Liu Huo thought, Master told me to look after my junior sister, but she’s rolling in the dirt… She’s a bit dirty! Still, it’s okay; just needs a wash.

Jiang Wan sat up and looked at the senior brother with the candied hawthorn, her voice still soft and childlike.

“Senior Brother, what’s your name?”

Liu Huo blinked his large eyes.

“Junior Sister, I’m your Senior Brother Liu Huo!”

Jiang Wan: “Oh, Senior Brother!”

The little Liu Huo handed her the candied hawthorn.

“Junior Sister, here, for you!”

[Amidst the river of time, you will face countless hardships collecting the soul fragments of the Immortal Lord Liu Huo, aiding his reincarnation and rebuilding his body. It will be fraught with dangers.]

[To have him accept you again as the Heavenly Demon is truly difficult.]

[Mission complete!]

[Reward: Chaotic Thunder Spirit Root.]

A jolt of electricity surged through Jiang Wan’s body. Looking inward, she found she really had another mutated Thunder Spirit Root!

Wait a minute, she thought, this system is reliable—it actually gives out rewards!

But could it be that everything has shifted five hundred years early and the system doesn’t realize it?

If the rewards are real, isn’t it like having a spoiler cheat?

Jiang Wan’s eyes curved into delighted crescents as she looked at her little senior brother across from her. She was thrilled.

The little boy cast a cleaning spell, and the once grubby Jiang Wan was instantly spotless.

How miraculous! She wanted to cultivate immortality too, to soar the skies and learn magic. As for Madam Li—just wait and see.

Excited, she took a bite of the candied hawthorn.

“Senior Brother, you’re amazing! Will you teach me spells?”

Seeing his newly found junior sister so happy, little Liu Huo’s own eyes curved in joy as he patted his chubby cheeks.

“Don’t worry, Junior Sister! I’ll teach you!”

Wonderful! Jiang Wan grabbed her five-year-old senior brother’s hand, eager to go inside. She couldn’t wait a moment longer.

At the courtyard gate, a girl about her own age walked in.

“Senior Brother, Junior Sister, what are you doing?
Junior Sister, is that candied hawthorn in your hand? We cultivators shouldn’t eat too many mortal treats.”

Jiang Yao, delicate and adorable like a snowball, ran over and snatched the candied hawthorn.

What a brat. How could she act as if the candied hawthorn was hers, even bossing her around?

Jiang Wan grabbed the candied hawthorn back—so this was the one who drove the original host to become a great villain?

Just then, the little girl threw herself on the ground.

“Ow, waah, you hit me! I’m doing this for your own good—how could you push me? Waah…”

Little Liu Huo stood there, stunned, looking from one to the other, then went to help Jiang Yao up.

“Yao Yao, are you alright? You shouldn’t have taken Wan Wan’s candied hawthorn—it was a gift from me. Eating it once in a while is fine.”

Jiang Wan nodded. Exactly—she’s only three; if she doesn’t eat, is she supposed to grow up on fresh air?

But why was Jiang Yao looking at her like that?

Jiang Yao glared resentfully at the candied hawthorn in her hand—it was only unacceptable because it came from Senior Brother Liu Huo.

Having lived a second life, Jiang Yao was determined to get rid of this future demon overlord early, or she’d eventually be killed by her, and Senior Brother Liu Huo would be cruelly murdered as well. She absolutely couldn’t let that happen.

“Senior Brother, I’m only thinking of Junior Sister’s health. She just returned and still has impurities in her body. She shouldn’t burden herself with such things.”

Jiang Wan ignored her, taking another bite of the sweet and sour treat. This taste was so real—she had truly transmigrated.

It was delicious. Who cared? She was only three and a half—eating was all that mattered.

Seeing her eat the candied hawthorn given by Senior Brother Liu Huo, Jiang Yao grew angry and tried to snatch it again.

But as soon as she approached, Jiang Wan spotted the Soul-nourishing Jade on her neck and reached to grab it—after all, it was hers.

“My Soul-nourishing Jade.”

If the system truly came back from five hundred years in the future, then let it be; in her past life, Jiang Yao forced the original host onto the path of villainy and still tried to take her things—no way.

Watching the two junior sisters fight, little Liu Huo sighed like a miniature adult and rushed over to break them up.

“Stop fighting, you two!”