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  It was quite clear that the old man’s iions weren’t good, if not pletely malicious and evil. Katherine had already realized, before this, how lucky she was that no man had ever attempted to force their way into her. Many had offered her the ce to bee their wife; they were quite infatuated by her exotic beauty, as her Western appearance was sidered more beautiful than most of the girls around here by the men, who often praised her as a “Snow-Skinned Beauty”.

  However, because they were uhe watch of a Righteous sect, the crimes here had to be done very, very carefully. And therefore, she lived in a retively secure part of this harsh world, although she had already been scammed many times and attacked by a thief too, which took away all her savings once.

  But this was definitely different. The old man had e to see her in pin daylight, bringing two paid bodyguards, both of whom were still mortals but clearly physically gifted and strong. Against a single woman ihirties, they were going to easily overpower her.

  Katherine was still undergoing her Awakening, and the Meridians of her body were burning, fring with a colorless wave of Ki that slowly became a bright gold color. However, the pain and exhaustion she felt made her incredibly easy to handle.

  “W-What the fuck are you talking about?! I won’t give you my body, disgusting piece of shit!” Katherine screamed, grabbing a wooden chair and throwing it at the man.

  However, the bodyguards caught it as the man hid behind them, slowly making their way toward her and subduing her, pushio the ground by grabbing her arms and legs.

  “T-This is illegal! The sect will kill you after they learn of your crime!” Katherine screamed, tears flowing from her eyes. “Let me go! Stop!”

  She felt so powerless!

  Throughout these een years, she has never felt so powerless.

  This sensation of utter despair, of anger, of fury!

  Why?

  Why is this world like this?

  Why ’t a woman like her do anything to ge her fate?!

  “That might be the case usually.” The old man smiled, caressing his long, whisker-like mustache. “However, you are a fner, Katherine. Someone who hasn’t beeered as a citizen. You came here ten years ago, thinking you could simply bee part of our unity. But you are not protected by the ws! I’ve already researched enough. A poor aiful girl like you shouldn’t even dare think she cultivate! You should be kneeling in front of a man and begging to bee their wife instead! You should be beggio give you a child!”

  The man’s legs desded towards Katherine, kig her stomach with as much strength as he could.

  BAAM!

  “AGH!”

  Katheri her innards twisting. The man then kicked her face as she felt one of her teeth fly away. Her body was still burning, and now she was beien once more.

  “You should be an obedient woman!”

  The ma beating her as she tinued bleeding and g. Yet the pain she felt was minimal; her Awakening’s burniion overpowered any other sensation she felt.

  “This is how this world is! Do you think you make a difference?!”

  As the horrid ma screaming like a pig, Katherine’s mind was slowly fading away, darkness ing her ey.

  “Why…”

  “Why is this happening to me?”

  “Mom…”

  “Ruby…”

  “I hate…”

  “I hate this world so much…”

  As she almost gave in to the darkness enpassing her mind, a bright golden light surged from within her own sciousness.

  Something was fring up within her.

  “Huh?”

  The light extehrough the darkness, f endless roots of light, which then spread through the rest of her body. The burniion of her body slowly receded as all five Meridians fully awakened.

  “And you should simply beg, BEG TO ME RIGHT NOW TO-”

  FLASH!

  Shen Xi was temporarily blinded by the bright light ing from Katherine’s body, sht and warm that it made even the men pulling her down step ba pain, their eyes burning.

  “Aaagh! My eyes!”

  The old man fell over his own butt, and the other two bodyguards ended up hitting the walls right behind them.

  Their burning eyes were barely able to dis what was happening.

  However, Shen Xi saw something.

  Within the endless light is the silhouette of a woman.

  “S-She awakened successfully?!”

  A cold sensation filled his entire body; it felt as if his spine had frozen solid!

  Paralysis!

  Fear!

  A Rank 1 Cultivator had appeared.

  The pressure of those who wielded Ki greatly overpowered any mortal, even in their lowest rank.

  It was like the differeween a wolf and a small rat!

  The rat had no other alternative than running and hiding.

  It would never, ever win against the big wolf!

  And this was the same between Rank 1 Cultivators and Mortals.

  Katherine’s pain faded away as she felt her own wounds heal. The power of Light mas itself. It was a often sidered a “supp element” that only healed wounds and could temporarily blind others.

  But that was more than enough for Katherine.

  In fact, it erfect.

  “I awakened…” Katherine looked at her own hands.

  Yet there was something weird about this.

  Old man Shen Xi could tell!

  “T-This is nht! I’ve been uhe pressure and might of a Rank 1 Cultivator before! Yet none of them have this much power; this is equal to Rank 2 instead?! Almost!” He thought, stepping back. “But how… How is her Ki Levels so high when she absolutely had none before?!”

  Even mortals are born with small, sealed quantities of ki inside of them; depending on the level of sealed ki within their bodies and meridians, they awaken more easily than others.

  People with no sealed ki at all, however, are “useless and talentless,” usually sickly at birth, die at a young age, and are uo cultivate, evehan these mortals.

  Katherine was like that, yet she was always full of vitality and unmoved by her defect.

  What old man Shen Xi didn’t know was that she was like this because Katherine came from another world.

  In this world, humans did not rely on any supernatural ability; they walked owo feet from birth and grew into adults by resisting the pressures of their p’s gravity.

  Naturally, powerful muscles grow to tain our skeletons and bodies. Katherine had developed a strong body since birth; she might have been rather small in size, but she ied her deceased father’s stamina and strong vitality.

  And right now, what would happen when a giay vessel was suddenly able to finally absorb Ki, not only from the elixir but from the enviro itself?

  A tremendous quantity of Ki would fill her pletely, more than any cultivator at her Rank could ever hold!

  “I feel so ght now.” Katheri like she was in the clouds.

  Yet her eyes quickly desded toward the men in front of her.

  “This world… Just as you said, it’s unfair; look how the tables have turned.”

  “P-Please! Spare me! I was wrong! Please don’t kill me!”

  The man in front of her kneeled before Katheri was such a bizarre sensation to be praised and respected just because she was strong now. It was something she had never experienced.

  “I kneel and respect the great cultivator!”

  Shen Xi khat there was nothing he could do now! He felt utter horror and fear and did the only thing a rat before a wolf could do, kneel and ask for fiveness.

  To act as small and harmless as possible!

  And hope for the big bad wolf to walk away.

  “…”

  Katherine sighed aended a hand towards him to help the old man stand back up.

  “You’re fiven, Shen Xi.”

  For a moment, the old man’s rotte was filled with hope. He immediately thought about something malicious, however.

  She was stupid! Why would she five him?!

  He wao ugh right now; everything seemed to go well in the end.

  “I’ll simply hire some cultivator ter and then make him break her meridians…” He thought maliciously.

  “A-Ah, s-such benevolence!”

  However, he preteo be happy and nice, quickly standing back up.

  “I… Please take this, and- Eh?”

  CRACK!

  However, he quickly realized something: his hand was bent the other ain quickly erupted through his entire body as he screamed out loud.

  “GYYAAAAH!”

  He fell to his knees again, as Katherine had yet to let go of his disgusting hand.

  “Yes, I five you.” She smiled. “I five you. This is my fiveness for you. My gratefulness. My pure-hearted benevolence!”

  Crack, crack…!

  CRASH!

  Mercilessly, and as if a murderous demon had possessed her, Katheriore apart the man’s hand, blood spttering everywhere, and the endless screams of old man Shen Xi reverberated through the entire vilge.

  “Gyyaaaah! M-MY HAND!”

  People gathered around the , but Katherine wasn’t dohe bodyguards had already run away; she didn’t care about them; they were hired to do this and probably were desperate for money.

  She let them go.

  But not the rat in front of her, no.

  This rat was going to receive all her fiveness!

  “N-No! Please five me! Please five me, great immortal!” The old man, Shen Xi, started running away, crawling out of her house.

  It reminded her of the time she had to crawl to the house of someone else for help. Nobody had empathy for him.

  “If I have to adapt to this world…”

  She kicked the man’s spine and pummeled him into the ground.

  BAAAM!

  Crack!

  His spine broke.

  “Gyyaaaggh!”

  His screams reverberated across the small hut and the rest of the vilge as he looked at Katherih his once malicious eyes, now full of tears and horror.

  “Please five me! Katherine! I am so sorry! I will give you anything, but please, please don’t kill me!”

  “When I begged you to stop, what did you do? You kept beating me.”

  Katherine followed by crushing the man’s left arm and breaking the bone.

  CRACK!

  “Uuuaaggh!”

  “When I told you to go away, what did you do? You barged into MY HOUSE!”

  Katherine kicked the man’s crotch, crushing it. Blood spttered everywhere, c the floor of the small she bought with money she had gathered for ten years.

  “Hyeeeegghh!”

  As the ma screaming like a pig, Katheriill possessed by her adrenaline, anger, and power, looked down on him.

  Her right hand fred with Light Ki, resembling the tip of a sword made of light.

  She did this instinctively. With a mere thought, Ki obeyed her will!

  “N-No… Please stop…! PLEASE I BEG OF YOU! PLEASEEEE!”

  As the man screamed and asked for fiveness, what did Katherine give him?

  “You’re fiven, Shen Xi.” She smiled. “Please, take my fiveness with you to the afterlife.”

  Tired of this world.

  Furious at the man in front of her.

  Wrathful about her own powerlessness!

  All these ive emotions swirled within her own mind as Katherine did something she hought she would do.

  “Please…! No!”

  CLASH!

  She killed someone.

  Her hand pierced Shen Xi’s head, splitting it open into two halves. The people outside watched in utter horror as brains spilled over the wooden floor, screaming and running away, scattering like rats.

  “Hahhh… Ugh…”

  Katherine grabbed the s that the old man’s purse had and the things she had, pced them inside a bag, and ran. She already knew she couldn’t stay here anymore.

  She ran and ran and raween blood and tears, she thought about what she had done.

  Even if it was an asshole, she killed someone.

  She felt shame, she felt guilt, and she felt terrible.

  And below the rain falling ohe night arrived, she fell to the mud, pletely exhausted after having spent all her Ki.

  While being uo move, she heard someone approag—the figure of a woman. Her vision was all muddy, but she thought she might be dreaming.

  Because the woman held her in her arms and carried her away.

  For a moment, she thought it was her mother.

  “Mom…”

  “I am not your mirl. Look at you, all muddy. Despite being a cultivator, you’re on the border of dying too! Your body is a mess! Your Meridians are about to explode! Just what sort of Physique is this?!”

  “Ugh…”

  Before she could hear any other word, Katherine fell asleep.

  She dreamed of finally meeting her family again—her mother, her sister, and her friends—at the office.

  A dream that has beeing itself for the st ten years.

  And slowly, she woke up the m.

  Her eyes slowly opened, now glowing with golden light.

  “Huh… Ugh… Ah!”

  Finding herself inside a again, she quickly stood back up, getting ready to fight.

  But the only thing she found was an old dy, a granny with gray hair and a small, old body.

  “You’re awake… Calm down, child. I am not your enemy. If it wasn’t for me, you would have died mauled to death by a bear outside.”

  “E-Eh? You're the person that…”

  “Sit down first, you i little brat!”

  “Y-Yes!”

  Katherine instinctively sat down in front of the granny.

  “Much better! My name is Zhi Hui! You call me Granny Zhi Hui from now on.”

  “Eh? I see… My name is Katherine.”

  “Pick a new hat one sucks and only brings unwatention.”

  “What?”

  “From now on, you’ll have to repay me for saving your life. Do you know how expehe materials I used to heal your almost broken Meridians?! You’ll be w on my rice field and herb farm for the five years!”

  “WHAT?!”

  And that’s how Katheri her first master.

  Granny Zhi Hui.

  An old dy with a bad temperament but a heart of gold.

  A rare sight in this world full of despair and bloodshed.

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