Su Bai was born into a well-off family in Shengyang City.
His father, Su Nanfeng, is the squad leader of the demon-hunting team in Shengyang City. Because he is busy with work, he usually doesn't go home for lunch.
His mother, Bai Lan, used to work at a well-known alchemy sect in the area. After getting married, she quit her job and now stays at home, making anti-aging pills and beauty pills and doing business with acquaintances.
His grandparents and maternal grandparents are all still alive. They grow crops and flowers in the countryside. As long as they stay healthy and free from illness, they can live for at least another one or two hundred years.
The family wasn't extremely wealthy, but they were certainly well-off.
Because of his overly happy family, Su Bai, after transmigrating, once felt that he wasn't a transmigrator at all.
Shouldn't time travelers typically have a younger sister, a house, and both parents deceased?
As it turns out, he had everything except a younger sister.
Fortunately, the golden finger arrived, albeit late.
The True Mysterious Realm is a great civilization where the path of immortality flourishes, gradually transitioning from classical cultivation to modern cultivation, and ultimately achieving the goal of immortality for all.
But this world is not safe.
The Blood Demon Realm, which is almost a twin of the True Profound Realm, is gradually merging with it on a spatial level.
Almost every moment, spacetime rifts randomly appear around the world. Although they disappear quickly, a large number of demons still invade the True Mysterious Realm and harm the people.
A great war between the two worlds is inevitable.
With a powerful cheat, Su Bai is more confident in dealing with the increasingly chaotic situation in the future.
What Su Bai didn't expect was that he would gain both the talents of the Crouching Dragon and the Phoenix Chick on the same day.
At the dinner table, staring at the shameless woman who had sneaked into his home and stolen his chicken leg and wing, Su Bai was heartbroken.
Dear Mother, when are you going to change your habit of judging people by their looks?
Don't bring someone home just because they're good-looking.
And Shen Hanlu, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, you came running just because my mom called you?
Can't you even refuse?
As for the other chicken wing and chicken leg—
Haha, his mother has always believed in raising sons frugally while treating herself well. It was already generous of her to give her son a chicken leg and a chicken wing.
So after Shen Hanlu arrived, Su Bai had nothing left.
Sensing the intense resentment emanating from Su Bai, Shen Hanlu silently lowered her head and stuffed the chicken leg into her mouth.
She devoured the Supreme Demon Lord's lunch, leaving him malnourished—this was her clever plan to weaken her enemy and strengthen herself.
"Look how hungry the child is, eat more."
Mother Su looked at Shen Hanlu with doting eyes, constantly piling food into the girl's bowl as she asked,
"Hanlu, do you live alone?"
Shen Hanlu nodded slightly and said in a serious tone,
"Auntie, I greatly admire the teaching standards of Shengyang No. 1 Middle School, so I transferred here on my own despite my family's objections."
"My family all live elsewhere, and I live alone next door."
Su Bai's mother said, "What a good child. It must be very inconvenient to live alone. If you don't mind, come here for meals more often."
Shen Hanlu smiled sweetly. "Thank you, Auntie."
After speaking, she turned to look at Su Bai, a smile playing on her lips.
Infiltrating the enemy's ranks was quite easy; the mission to kill the Demon Lord wasn't nearly as difficult as the resistance strategist had made it out to be.
When facing the final boss, she needed to minimize changes to the timeline.
Before the Supreme Demon Lord completely turned evil, he had done many things that resembled those of a human.
For example, he single-handedly killed seven of the ten demon lords of the Blood Demon Realm, turning ten demon lords into three.
A demon isn't made in a day. Su Bai must have suffered some injustice to eventually turn to the dark side.
His demonic nature was probably not very strong during his high school years.
If she could find the cause and resolve it, she might be able to complete her initial mission of turning the Demon Lord toward good during this period.
Furthermore, having retraced the path of cultivation and become even stronger than in her previous life, she could easily suppress the Blood Demon Realm with one hand.
Su Bai's mother then looked at him and instructed,
"Xiaobai, take good care of Hanlu at school. When you're away from home, you should help each other."
Su Bai nodded speechlessly and was about to give a perfunctory reply when he suddenly remembered the newbie quest given by the system, so he asked Shen Hanlu,
"Shen, would you be interested in joining the club I'm starting? We're one short."
Clubs or organizations?
Shen Hanlu was slightly taken aback, as if she vaguely remembered something.
Su Bai explained,
"Our club's mission is to do good deeds. It's full of positive energy. If it continues to develop, it may even become a real sect in the future, with a very bright future."
"Moreover, every member is talented and speaks well. You definitely won't be disappointed."
Shen Hanlu: "…"
Dead memories began to surface.
She remembered now—the Supreme Demon Lord's sect had originally been a small club he established during his high school years.
"The Moral Cult…?"
Shen Hanlu subconsciously spoke the name of that demonic sect.
Su Bai immediately looked surprised.
"As expected of the woman who followed me to my doorstep—you even know the name of my organization."
"However, you flatter me. The Moral Cult is something for the future. Right now, it's just the Moral Society."
It really is the precursor to the Moral Cult!
Overwhelmed with shock, Shen Hanlu almost ignored Su Bai's slander.
According to historical records, the four Dharma Kings of the sect were all high school classmates of the Supreme Demon Lord.
Each of them possessed extraordinary abilities, ruthless methods, and monstrous personalities.
Over the next hundred years, countless ordinary people would suffer under their oppression. The evils committed by the four together amounted to nearly one-tenth of the Supreme Demon Lord's total.
"The Moral Society already has three members. Could these be three of the Four Heavenly Kings?"
Shen Hanlu felt a chill in her heart.
As expected, the Supreme Demon Lord harbored wolfish ambitions. From the moment he entered high school, he began recruiting followers, gathering potential demons to his side.
If this continued, Shengyang No. 1 Middle School would become his demonic domain.
To eradicate evil, it must be eliminated completely. To truly destroy the Moral Cult, all its members must be reformed.
It was her duty to restore the glory of the righteous path.
A resolute look appeared in Shen Hanlu's eyes. With the saintly resolve of "If I don't go to hell, who will?", she nodded.
"I'm in!"
The moment she finished speaking, a "ding-dong" sound rang in Su Bai's mind.
[Mission Progress: Recruiting Members (4/4)]
[New Player Quest: Train of Love (Completed)]
[Quest Reward: 100 Reputation Points (Newbie quest rewards can be multiplied by 10) (Available to claim)]
Oh? He managed to recruit the last member just like that? That was easy.
Su Bai smiled slightly, no longer annoyed that someone had eaten his chicken legs and wings.
Consider it an employee benefit.
With a thought, he claimed the reward.
The next second, his reputation surged from 30 to 1030.
However, quests that grant a thousand reputation points at once are probably rare; normal quests likely only give one or two hundred.
Next, it was time to test how effective the reputation system was.
Su Bai opened his panel and selected Fireball, the skill with the highest proficiency among his three.
Fireball (Minor Mastery: 496/500)
System—add points.
He spent four reputation points, and the skill changed.
Fireball (Mastery: 0/1000)
At the same time, a flood of insight entered his mind, giving him a completely new understanding of the fireball technique.
Although only four points were added, there was clearly a bottleneck between minor and major mastery.
For ordinary cultivators, reaching 499 proficiency might mean being stuck for a long time, but for Su Bai, it was just a matter of adding a point.
Cheating really does let you do whatever you want.
He then looked at the Fireball skill, hesitated briefly, and poured all 1,000 remaining reputation points into it.
According to the system, once a skill reached perfection, it could evolve into a "Righteous Leader Skill."
With limited reputation, only Fireball could be upgraded in one go. Even though it seemed like a basic skill, he still chose to evolve it first.
Only by seeing the effect of a leader skill could he stay motivated to earn more reputation.
A flash of light appeared on the panel.
Fireball (Perfect: Upgradeable)
[Upgrade?]
[Note: After upgrading to a Righteous Leader Skill, the host can still use the original skill at the Perfect level.]
Something with only benefits and no drawbacks needed no hesitation.
After digesting the insights, Su Bai chose to upgrade.
[Through the host's diligent learning, "Fireball" has been upgraded to "Holy Fire."]
"I clearly got it by adding points, yet it says I studied hard… this system is mocking me," Su Bai muttered.
But… Holy Fire? It sounded righteous enough.
With anticipation, he checked the description.
[Sacred Fire Technique (Blue Leader Skill): Uses the flesh and blood of beings at the Body Tempering Stage or above as fuel to ignite a fireball. The minimum fuel requirement is a finger, and the maximum is a complete skull.]
[The power of the flame is divided into nine levels based on the fuel.]
[Note: A level 1 Sacred Fire is 1.5 times stronger than a level 1 Perfect Fireball.]
Su Bai: "…"
Using flesh and blood as fuel…
Is this really righteous magic?