AMSSO-Chapter 1: Reborn as a Master

Boom!

Bang!

Several bolts of lightning crashed down from the sky, giving no chance for the person caught in the middle to even catch a breath.

An indescribable pain surged through her. Covered in wounds and barely holding on, Mu Shiyue could no longer endure and closed her eyes.

Boom!

Mu Shiyue unwillingly opened her eyes wide, her gaze sharp to the extreme.

In the next second, she locked eyes with a pair of enormous golden pupils.

“Roar~”

The creature swiped a paw.

“Ah!”

Caught off guard, Mu Shiyue tumbled several times across the ground, ending up face down and covered in dust.

Mu Shiyue was stunned.

Wasn’t she undergoing her lightning tribulation, preparing to ascend?

How did she get bullied by a small spirit beast in just a blink of an eye?!

A fire instantly ignited in Mu Shiyue’s heart.

She flipped up from the ground, face fierce, and threw a punch. “You dare hit me?!”

Her fist glowed with multicolored light and struck hard on the spirit beast’s head.

“Roar!”

The spirit beast saw stars from the blow and collapsed to the ground, clutching its head and whimpering pitifully.

But after that outburst, Mu Shiyue’s body swayed, and her strength sharply declined.

Mu Shiyue was shocked.

She was a dignified cultivator at the Great Ascension Stage, and not only did her punch fail to deal with this little spirit beast, she almost exhausted her strength?!

“Master!”

A panicked voice rang out.

Mu Shiyue turned her head and saw a handsome young face.

The young man was very youthful, with delicate features that made it hard to tell his gender at first glance. He had a tall and slender figure.

At this moment, he was shouting at her in panic and anxiety.

—Master?!

Mu Shiyue’s eyes widened, and a flood of information surged into her mind.

“Roar…”

“Shut up!”

The chaotic and massive influx of information made Mu Shiyue’s head feel a splitting headache. That spirit beast was still making noise, infuriating her enough to land another punch!

“Whimper!”

The spirit beast let out a cry of pain.

Though not as painful as before, it still didn’t dare to make another sound.

The young man, Chu Jingzhuo, stared wide-eyed at the scene.

“Master?!”

That was a spirit beast with strength equal to Spirit Severing Stage!

Wasn’t her cultivation only at Golden Core?

That’s two whole Stages apart!

Mu Shiyue had no time to care about Chu Jingzhuo’s shock. She was busy processing the flood of insane information.

—She was actually reborn again!

Yes, again.

In Mu Shiyue’s first life, she was an orphan. To support herself, she worked multiple jobs.

In her twenties, she got into a car accident while saving a child.

After that, she was reborn into a cultivation world.

In that life, she had family and a talent everyone envied.

In a world where single spiritual roots were considered supreme, she had the worst five spiritual roots. Yet her cultivation speed soared, astonishing everyone!

In a short hundred years, she broke through rapidly and reached Great Ascension Stage.

She became a legend like no one before her!

Everyone anticipated for her to successfully ascend.

She even heard a mysterious voice in her mind urging her to ascend, assuring her she would succeed.

But!

The overwhelming lightning tribulation gave her no chance to ascend or retreat. In the end, it directly struck her down and sent her a thousand years into the future!

This time, she was reborn in the body of a young woman who shared her name.

The original owner also had five spiritual roots, but they were far inferior to Mu Shiyue’s, and her talent was not worth mentioning.

Her parents were Nascent Soul cultivators who dearly loved their only daughter. They poured all their resources into pushing their talentless child to Golden Core Stage.

Because all their resources went to her, the sect they founded, Wanxuan Sect, could only be built at the edge of the Myriad Beasts Forest.

The Myriad Beasts Forest is vast and boundless, full of spirit beasts and demonic beasts. Occasionally, beast tides would erupt.

Living nearby meant risking being devoured completely.

But there was no choice. Wanxuan Sect was too poor.

A few days ago, the original owner risked entering the forest. After enduring many dangers, she obtained an egg.

She didn’t know what kind of spirit beast it belonged to, but figured it could be sold for a good amount of spirit stones.

She never expected it to be the egg of a Soul-Devouring Tiger!

Even worse, when she returned, she saw her parents’ soul lamps extinguished!

—They perished while exploring a secret realm!

The original owner was devastated, and when she discovered that the Soul-Devouring Tiger that came after her had higher cultivation than her parents, she was scared out of her mind!

If her parents were still alive, she would still have the strength to fight.

But her parents perished!

Although she was arrogant, she wasn’t brainless.

Without her parents, she was nothing!

And so, before the spirit beast even made a move, she, utterly demoralized, died just like that.

Then, Mu Shiyue arrived.

After figuring everything out, Mu Shiyue’s face twitched. She looked like she was on the verge of both laughing and crying, her expression indescribable.

“Master, are you alright?” Chu Jingzhuo looked at her worriedly.

“I-I’m fine, just a bit tired,” Mu Shiyue said, taking deep breaths and forcing a smile.

She even had disciples?!

And not just one, six of them!

The original host had poor talent, being a five spiritual root cultivator. Her parents spoiled her and even helped her take on a few disciples.

After all, having disciples meant she could show off the prestige of being a master!

The original host loved being flattered, since people tend to crave what they lack.

—It didn’t matter what quality the disciples were or how weak she herself was; she was still a respected master!

Mu Shiyue looked at the fourth disciple in front of her, her expression stiff.

In her previous life, even though she was very powerful, she never accepted a single disciple. Now suddenly, she gained six?

This was far beyond her comprehension.

“Master, why don’t you rest for a while?” 

Chu Jingzhuo thought her gaze was a little strange, but didn’t dwell on it too much. After all, he himself was heartbroken earlier when he saw the soul lamps of their grandmasters extinguished.

All six of them knew that Mu Shiyue was only a master in name. Their true teachers were the two grandmasters.

But unexpectedly, the grandmasters died!

What shocked him most, however, was that their usually unremarkable master was able to beat a Spirit Severing Stage spirit beast into submission!

Master unexpectedly had that kind of ability!

She hid it way too well!

Thinking of this, the gaze Chu Jingzhuo used to look at Mu Shiyue changed.

Being stared at by her fourth disciple gave Mu Shiyue a headache. Her mind was in chaos.

However, she wasn’t just anyone. Even though she now inhabited a new body and her strength had drastically regressed, she quickly sorted everything out.

At the same time, she formed her new plan.

—That is, no plan at all.

She is going to lie down and do nothing!

In her previous life, she had almost no entertainment; everything she did was for her clan and to ascend.

The reason she ascended within only a hundred years wasn’t just her monstrous talent, it was because she outworked everyone else.

She even outworked those thousand-year-old ancient cultivators into submission.

And what was the result?

She was still struck down by lightning!

What’s the point of working so hard then?

Work hard again, only to be struck down again?

She made up her mind. In this life, she won’t be cultivating anymore!

Whoever wants to slave away can do it themselves!

Thinking about this, Mu Shiyue looked at Chu Jingzhuo and asked kindly, “Old four, do you want to leave Wanxuan Sect?”

Chu Jingzhuo was startled by being called “Old four,” and then shocked by her words. His face changed dramatically.

“Did I do something wrong?! Master, why are you trying to chase me away?!”