Chapter 21:  【Side Story】Lu Yan’s Past and Present

The Xuanxu World.

The main world, located at the heart of countless worlds, constantly nurtures new life.

Over one hundred thousand years ago, the wife of the Deer Clan leader in the Demon Realm gave birth to a unique white deer.

A celestial phenomenon occurred, with countless rays of light illuminating the sky.

His father, Lu Ming, was overjoyed and named him Lu Yan, designating him as the heir to the Deer Clan.

Lu Yan was born with delicate features, even more beautiful and exquisite than his sister.

He was naturally beautiful, with a radiant and elegant appearance.

Not only was he exceptionally handsome, but he was also loved and protected by his clan members and parents.  It’s safe to say that his childhood was filled with the utmost care.

Lu Yan was raised to be innocent and bright, always smiling and gentle with those around him.

The young master was the Deer Clan’s beloved cub.

He grew up in the Demon Realm and never experienced hardship.  The only hardship he had ever known was the hardship of cultivation, but he didn’t even find cultivation difficult.

Although Lu Yan was spoiled by his clan, he was always serious about cultivation.

His idol was his sister, the Deer Clan princess who ascended to become a celestial being at the age of ten thousand years, Zhang Yue Lu, one of the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions in the Heavenly Realm.

Lu Yan, who was raised in luxury, knew from a young age that he had a sister who had ascended to become a celestial being, and he longed to become a celestial being one day.

However, his parents didn’t share this desire.  They only wished that their son would stay by their side.

The couple had originally planned for their daughter, Lu Xi, to inherit the family business.  But their eldest daughter was too successful.  She ascended after only ten thousand years of cultivation, a speed that left her parents dumbfounded.

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While they were still young, the couple had another child, their son, Lu Yan.

They poured all their resources into nurturing and teaching him, hoping that their son would inherit the family in the future.

But they didn’t expect that Lu Yan, at the age of three thousand, would return from attending his elder sister Lu Xi’s wedding in the Heavenly Realm and become ambitious.  He diligently cultivated day and night, finally ascending to become a celestial being on his ten thousandth birthday!

Lu Ming and his wife:  Are you kidding us?

The first time was a surprise, the second time was a shock!

The couple, with only one son and one daughter, looked at each other with tears in their eyes, speechless.

Their daughter had become a celestial being, and their son had become a celestial being.  They were alone again!

They could only choose a suitable heir among the young deer demons in the clan.  They had no intention of having more children.

They couldn’t handle a third blow.

Some things, once or twice is enough.  Three times is too much.

At that time, Lu Yan, who had ascended to become a celestial being, entered the Heavenly Palace and became the Lord of Destiny, one of the Six Stars of the Southern Dipper, responsible for the destinies of mortals in the mortal realm.

The reason for his ambition to ascend was simple: he was inspired by his sister.

His sister, Lu Xi, was Zhang Yue Lu, the fifth of the Seven Lunar Mansions of the Southern Vermillion Bird, representing the moon and the deer.

Zhang Mansion is auspicious and governs harmony in human families.  It also governs official fortune to some extent.

Lu Xi’s true form was a red deer.  She became a celestial couple with the Vermillion Bird’s Lingguang Divine Lord at the age of twenty thousand years.  Her younger brother, Lu Yan, was one of the witnesses.

She was happy to see her younger brother ascend to become a celestial being and helped guide and support him after he ascended, allowing him to gain a foothold in the Heavenly Realm.

She just didn’t expect her younger brother to be so obsessed with cultivation that he had no interest in love.

To be honest, her younger brother was as beautiful as a flower, and he never lacked suitors from a young age.

But the king had his heart set, and the goddess didn’t reciprocate.

Imagine having a workaholic brother who’s also a career addict.

Time flew by, like a shuttle.

The once-spoiled Deer Clan heir gradually matured under various trials, transforming from a carefree youth into a meticulous Lord of Destiny.

He held this position for fifty thousand years, finally transferring to the Fast Transmigration Bureau, which was short-staffed, at the age of sixty thousand.  He chose the most unpopular No-CP Department and worked there for tens of thousands of years.

Lu Yan quickly became the ace of the No-CP Department, with the highest mission completion rate.

He created countless myths and left behind countless legends in various No-CP mission worlds.  Then, when he was about to continue to expand his business, he was poached by the eloquent head of the Romance Department.

Who would have thought!!!

He hit a snag in his first world, completely defeated by the domineering CEO male lead and the innocent female lead, a pair of love-struck fools.

Lu Yan:  I have no more attachment to this world.

AAAAAH!  Where is my forty-meter-long blade?  Today, I will kill that pair of love-brained fools!

He persevered for six years, enduring the mental torture of the male and female leads of romance novels.

Lu Yan (eyes glazed over, expression vacant):  I’m starting to understand the meaning of being utterly disillusioned with life.  I’ve lost my desire to work.

He had never found doing missions so painful.  It made him want to kill someone every minute.

As the saying goes, “If you bear it for a while, you’ll get angrier.  If you take a step back, they’ll push you further.”

Enough is enough!

Lu Yan decisively abandoned the mission and ordered System 729 to change the mission back at the Fast Transmigration Bureau—from the original role-playing mission to a counterattack mission.

From the next mission onwards, he would officially start taking on counterattack missions from the Romance Department’s Counterattack Team.

Cherish life, stay away from the protagonists.

There’s an exception to every rule.

Lu Yan, this workaholic, also met someone he loved in the Romance Department’s newbie missions, but some things are ultimately fated to be fleeting.

He accompanied his lover, Shen Du, for a lifetime, never once breaking up.

They were married and loved each other deeply.

After Shen Du passed away, Lu Yan left and returned to the Fast Transmigration Bureau to continue doing missions.  He completely cut off contact with Shen Du.

However, some people, some things, some loves are destined to be bound together for life from the moment they meet, destined to grow in your heart like a tree, forever inseparable.

Lu Yan thought he would never see this person again, but they would follow him for life after life.

Karma intertwined, love threads intertwined.

In the grand scheme of things, everything is predetermined.

Everyone in the Six Realms knew that Lu Yan, the former Lord of Destiny and current Fast Transmigration Boss, was an unparalleled beauty.  His face was like a delicate flower brushing against water, his beauty like peach blossoms.

His features were like condensed snow, his lips like ruby dots.

His skin was like frost, his figure graceful like a celestial being.

His face was like rouge, his brows like crescent moons, his waist like a slender willow, his teeth like pearls.

Lu Yan’s appearance was striking, but his brows and eyes were pure, his black and white peach blossom eyes were pure and unblemished, like dust never settled in them, giving people a sense of both purity and allure.

From afar, he looked elegant and carefree, with features so pure they seemed to drip with water.

Up close, he looked amorous, his eyes sparkling with an indescribable charm, making people involuntarily captivated by him.

He was no less beautiful than the Six Realms’ most beautiful woman, the Moon Goddess, but she had no thoughts of romance.  All she talked about was serious business.

The beauty was excellent, but she was a workaholic, with her mind filled with cultivation and work.

Before becoming a celestial being, she focused on cultivation.  After becoming a celestial being, she worked hard on both her career and cultivation.

The reason he gave up his position as the Lord of Destiny and joined the Fast Transmigration Bureau was that doing missions allowed him to do both, without favoring one over the other.

Doing missions was work, and completing missions earned him abundant merit rewards to aid his cultivation, a win-win situation.

At Lu Yan’s current level, the only way to advance further was to find another path.

Some people closed themselves off and cultivated diligently, some focused on the Dao, some used merit to ascend…

The methods varied, but there was no doubt that “merit” was the simplest, most effective, and side-effect-free path.  Therefore, many celestial beings sought merit, but it was very rare.

Joining the Fast Transmigration Bureau and taking on missions to protect small worlds was one way to gain merit.

This was the main reason why Lu Yan had been doing missions for tens of thousands of years.

He wanted to advance in cultivation, and he needed merit.  The Fast Transmigration Bureau was his merit-earning department, and the Fast Transmigration Bureau’s missions also allowed him to immerse himself in work, fulfilling his dual needs for cultivation and work.

Therefore, Lu Yan stayed for tens of thousands of years, almost half his life.

Lu Yan was only one hundred and twenty thousand years old.  Compared to the old-timers, he was still young.  After all, his age was just a fraction of theirs.  He was a shining example of young talent.

He loves his work, and work makes him happy.