When the Side Character Gets a System and Travels through Difference Worlds

What’s the worst possible time to start? When the snake demoness’s life is already more than halfway over. This includes, but is not limited to, being backstabbed by her former Dao companion, who stole her inner core and gave it to his new lover.

And then, after losing her inner core, the snake demoness’s cultivation would regress drastically. She would be hunted down by the Great Demons of the Ten Directions Mountains until every last piece of her flesh was devoured, becoming nutrients for their own advancement.

This was the kind of disastrous start Tan You now faced. In fact, thinking back on it, she’d faced quite a few "hell mode" beginnings since she started doing missions.

Take her life as Adina, for example; Tan You really had to rack her brains just to survive. Or her life as Han Tingting—if Tan You hadn’t raised her grades, her only path would have been to drop out of school and work.

Pushing thoughts of her past clients to the back of her mind, Tan You knew she couldn’t just sit here and wait to die. The news that the snake demoness, Purple Ring, had been grievously wounded by her Dao companion hadn’t spread yet. Although she had enemies, they were still deterred by her former power and wouldn’t dare to attack rashly.

So, Tan You had to keep this news under wraps. It didn’t matter that she had a falling out with her former Dao companion, Qing Yuan. If word of her injuries got out, Tan You would truly be screwed.

At this thought, Tan You moved her head. The massive snake head moved with it, dragging a flat trail along the creek bank.

Tan You shook her head, unused to the new body. Before she could make herself dizzy, she finally gained control over the form, moving it as if it were her own. Following a cultivation method for Netherworld Snakes that she had read about, Tan You coiled the original owner Purple Ring’s body into a large spiral, like a mosquito coil. Her millstone-sized head came to rest perfectly on the tip of her tail.

Looking at the faded, ring-shaped pattern on the tip of the original owner’s tail, Tan You’s eye twitched, and she pretended not to see it. The original owner was a Purple Ring Snake, born with a single purple ring on her tail.

As their cultivation deepened, more purple rings would appear on their bodies, up to a maximum of three. This was the pinnacle for a Purple Ring Snake. However, after a Purple Ring Snake broke through to the Seventh Rank—the Nascent Soul Stage—they would undergo a Heavenly Tribulation and evolve into a Silver Ring Snake.

The patterns on their body would correspondingly increase by three more rings. As for what came after the Silver Ring Snake, no one knew, because too few Purple Ring Snakes had ever reached that realm.

The original owner, Purple Ring, had exceptional cultivation talent. She had already passed the Heavenly Tribulation for the Nascent Soul Stage and was just one step away from becoming a Silver Ring Snake. But unexpectedly, during her moment of greatest weakness, her Dao companion, Qing Yuan, took advantage of the situation and stole her inner core. ’What a tragic fate for a Great Demon.’

Thinking of this, Tan You raised her head, opened her mouth to the sky, and began to cultivate under the moonlight.

With each breath she took, the silver essence of the moon poured down like flowing water, nourishing the original owner’s ravaged body. But after a full night of absorbing moonlight, Tan You discovered that because her inner core had been stolen, more than half of the moonlight she had drawn down was completely wasted.

Only a small portion settled into the original owner’s body. The once-hideous, mottled form seemed to have healed ever so slightly.

The Beauty System floated in front of Tan You. "Host, without an inner core, what are we going to do?"

Tan You’s body stirred. "There are ways to live with one, and ways to live without one. There’s always a solution. If I can’t store Mana now, then I’ll just have to strengthen my physical body."

"If I can forge my body to be indestructible, I won’t have to fear Spell attacks."

In other words, Tan You intended to walk the path of Body Cultivation. ’Body Cultivation... It’s an agonizing path.’ But at this point, what choice did she have? For someone like the original owner, Purple Ring—a Mage-type cultivator—losing her inner core meant she could barely take a single step forward.

But Tan You had her own reasoning. Among Great Demons, how many were actually fragile? A powerful physical body was a necessity. The Magic Beasts she had seen in the Mist Deep Forest were almost all skilled in physical attacks.

Brute force overcomes all tricks. No matter how flashy your Spells were, with a powerful enough body, you would naturally be fearless. But to achieve that level of strength, immense hardship and sacrifice were inevitable.

Thinking of this, Tan You stopped hesitating. She lifted her head and used the original owner’s tattered Divine Sense to scan the area. Picking a direction, she quickly disappeared deep into the dense forest.

The creekside was nice, but it wasn’t a place she could stay for long. Given the original owner’s current state, even though she was a Seventh Rank Great Demon, she was injured and had no inner core.

A phoenix that has lost its feathers is no better than a chicken. With her current injuries, even a third or fourth-rank demon beast could kill her. It was no wonder that as soon as the news of her injury spread, countless Great Demons would come to hunt her.

Because to those Great Demons, the original owner was a huge, juicy piece of meat right under their noses. As long as they put in a little effort to find her, a grand feast was guaranteed.

Tan You had no desire to become someone’s meal. Since that was the case, the only option was to send those Great Demons who had conspired against the original owner to their deaths. As she sped through the forest, Tan You tried hard to figure out where she should settle down.

She definitely couldn’t go back to the original owner’s cultivation cave. Who knew if that bastard Qing Yuan would show up there? Besides, the original owner had just shed her skin, so her body was at its most vulnerable. Returning to her territory was out of the question.

Thinking about the neighbors around the original owner’s territory, Tan You’s tail tip paused. The next second, she chose a completely different direction...

Cultivating as she traveled, Tan You sped through the dense forest for three days before finally reaching the outer layer of the Ten Directions Mountains. Drawing on the original owner’s memories, Tan You knew she had now arrived at the outermost circle of the mountain range.

This area was mostly populated by demon beasts below the third rank. Moving from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain all at once, Tan You felt no sense of discomfort. ’This is a strategic retreat. One day, I will fight my way back up.’

The moon was the same moon, anyway. As for Spiritual Energy, since this body couldn’t store it right now, it made no difference to Tan You where she cultivated.

Since that was the case, she had to choose the safest place. The outermost ring was currently the safest option. At least high-rank demon beasts wouldn’t venture into the outer circle.

After finally managing to get settled, Tan You let out a sigh of relief.

The Beauty System fretted, "Host, are we just going to... lay low like this? How long will it take for your injuries to heal?"

"We’ve been on the move for the past two days. Your injuries have healed by one percent at most, right?"

Tan You coiled her body into a large circle. "Laying low is our only option right now. A head-on confrontation would be the wrong choice. Besides, with this fragile body, I’d just be serving myself up on a platter. I have no intention of dying."

As she spoke, Tan You’s form shifted. The massive snake on the ground vanished, replaced by a female cultivator with black hair and violet eyes. She had a melon-seed-shaped face with a pointed chin, her complexion deathly pale, and a natural, seductive charm in the corners of her eyes.

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