Chapter 2
Song Jixing was an orphan who grew up in an orphanage.
During the college entrance exam that year, Song Jixing as the first person to step out of the exam room, received an interview with reporters.
Song Jixing's delicate and beautiful look made her attract the attention of netizens all at once, and they said she is the most beautiful female college entrance examinee.
Whether she is beautiful or not is not known, but many people said that since she was the first to come out of the exam room, she definitely is not a study room master.
When Song Jixing's results came out, it slapped many people in the face. Not only does she look beautiful, she was admitted to a first-class national institution.
This made Song Jixing popular again!
Who doesn't like a beautiful study room master?
At that time, Song Jixing was eighteen years old. According to the regulations, she could no longer receive funding from the orphanage. Although there were student loans, she still spent money on food and clothing.
She had just worried about her future when all kinds of reporters and entertainment companies came knocking.
So Song Jixing took the opportunity to sign up with a medium-sized film and television company.
Not only did she earn tuition fees and living expenses, there was still a lot left over.
It's just that Song Jixing was too low-key. Her original intention to enter this circle was to earn tuition fees and she didn't want to be a big star. Plus she still had to go to class at the university, so she took on relatively few jobs.
The company signed Song Jixing because they saw value in her, not to come back and mix around.
The agent advised Song Jixing to create some gossip news to increase her own popularity, but she rejected it all.
The reason is that she is a student and her studies should be her focus, so she doesn’t have that much time to shoot commercials or appear on variety shows. Marketing herself was useless, according to her.
There is no shortage of beauties in the entertainment industry, and even the beauties who are hyping themselves with gimmicks every day will not get popular, let alone Song Jixing.
Just like that, Song Jixing became more and more unknown. She still had some popularity the first year but faded into obscurity on the Internet afterwards.
Song Jixing had made preparations to find a job after graduation ever since the first day she signed the five-year contract.
Unexpectedly, when she was in her fourth year of university, she suddenly crossed over into the Cultivation World.
In the Cultivation World, Song Jixing was also an orphan. She looked exactly the same as Song Jixing. Her village was ravaged by Demon Beasts. When she passed through, her life was hanging by a thread until a passing Cultivator saved her.
After saving Song Jixing, the Cultivator found that she had Spiritual Roots, and they were even Double Spiritual Roots. So he took pity on poor little Song Jixing and kept her in the Sect as a disciple to cultivate immortality.
Song Jixing had one lifetime more experience than others, and was more tenacious.
After arduous cultivation for hundreds of years, she formed her Golden Core and became a glorious Golden Core Master.
She gained the power to open her own cave dwelling in the Sect and accept disciples.
In Song Jixing’s Sect, there was a Divine Cauldron left by their ancestors tens of thousands of years ago. Every Golden Core Master had the right to worship it and gain insights about the Great Dao from it.
Song Jixing gained this right to worship it and went to the Immortal Sect’s Treasure House.
Unfortunately, she encountered the Divine Cauldron exploding and she exploded back to the mortal realm.
The wound on Song Jixing’s hand was from being cut by the splinters when the Divine Cauldron split open. Those splinters exploded into her palm and were fused into her blood and bones. She had just reacted when a second later, more and more cracks appeared in the Divine Cauldron and it became unsalvageable.
Then her whole body exploded and she was gone.
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The power of the explosion not only destroyed Song Jixing's physical body but also tore her soul.
One moment she still felt the pain of her soul tearing apart and upon opening her eyes again, she found that she had gone back to the modern world.
After such a crossing experience, Song Jixing thought about continuing cultivation but found that there was not a shred of spiritual energy in this world she was in.
That meant she could only live as an ordinary person this lifetime.
Song Jixing calmly accepted this reality and began thinking how to spend the second half of her life like an ordinary person. But this world brought her one surprise after another.
Or more accurately, it was all shocks!
It was unknown whether the wind moved first or the window moved first.
With a swoosh, two young male and female wearing Cultivator robes suddenly appeared out of thin air in her house...
They were her senior brother and sister.
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The three stood in Song Jixing’s little house staring at each other with wide eyes.
Of all the things Song Jixing had imagined could happen to her in the future, this situation never occurred to her.
Her senior brother and sister could have come even half a day earlier...
She had returned quite early so a few days prior, she had made plans for the rest of her life.
That very morning, she had used her savings over the years to buy a second-hand house in the city. She was as poor as a church mouse, then that afternoon her senior siblings showed up.
Her senior brother and sister had no ID and could not go out randomly to work. Plus there were huge differences between both worlds, so they needed some time to get familiar.
The second-hand house could not be sold in a short while. Even if sold, Song Jixing had to lose quite a bit of money. Even if she sold it and rented another place, if the landlord chased her out, what would she do with these two unemployed people?
Just as Song Jixing was worrying about money, her agent called to say the company found a job for her with a higher pay than previously.
Song Jixing accepted without a second thought!
Only upon arrival then she realized it was to take up someone else’s unwanted schedule and the standby fee was increased by 300.
Acting as Female No.4, not bad.
“Why isn’t Shen Wei here yet? Hurry and call her!” The assistant director complained while standing outside the resting room.
Hearing this, Song Jixing came back to her senses. Shen Wei was the female protagonist of this show.
The walls of the filming location were built very thickly and theoretically sounds from the other side were inaudible.
Ever since she crossed back, Song Jixing discovered her hearing was exceptionally sharp.
She could even hear the sound of her upstairs neighbor chopping vegetables. For the first few nights after her return, she even suffered from insomnia.
Her senior brother and sister also told her the neighborhood was very lively but before crossing over, the neighborhood was so quiet not even dogs could be heard barking.
Song Jixing thought that although there was no spiritual energy in this world, as Cultivators, their five senses were far superior to mortals so it was inevitable they would hear some sounds ordinary people could not.
“Did the call get through?” “Yes director, Ms Shen said she was stuck in traffic!”
“Stuck in what traffic, everyone else could make it. So many machines in the crew are switched on, if she’s an hour late that’s so much wasted money.” The director shouted angrily. His voice was quite loud so even those in the room could hear.
“Have the rest of the cast arrived?”
“They’ve all arrived, director.”
“Then start shooting their scenes first! Push Shen Wei’s scenes aside first. If she still doesn’t get here in an hour, tell her not to come!”
After Song Jixing got ready, everyone called her out to start rehearsing scenes and shooting.
None of those acting in this web series were big names and Song Jixing looked around but didn’t recognize anyone.
She could only roughly guess their roles from their costume.
The male lead had shiny clothes so that differentiated him from the male supporting role who had non-shiny clothes, very obvious.
Of course she was also unknown herself and wore non-shiny clothes.
Today’s scene talked about how a group of Cultivators passing by the mortal realm and the male and female lead meeting during the process of subduing Demons.
Song Jixing took a look at the actor in black gauze clothes from head to toe, with black eye shadow and black lipstick, playing the slanted-mouth looking Demon.
She was quite envious.
It was said this one specialized in antagonistic slanted-mouth roles and had high pay!
Thinking of this, Song Jixing’s palm felt scalding hot again.
She took a look around again and everyone had strangely dressed actors around, not one wearing proper Cultivator robes.
“Song Jixing! Your scene is next!” The crew member shouted.
Song Jixing nodded and ran over.
Song Jixing was supposed to set up the scene for the female lead to enter, it’s what they called casting a brick to attract jade. She was that brick.
The Demon was shown harming a young mortal girl in the mortal realm and silly, naive Female No.4 (Song Jixing) happened to catch his eye.
So the two fought.
Little He (Song Jixing) was no match for the Demon and was heavily injured until the male lead showed up to save her.
Because it was an immortal drama, fighting in mid-air appeared more fantasy-like.
Song Jixing hung quietly on the wires waiting for the director’s instructions.
“Action!”
Song Jixing’s eyes lit up. With a hint of childishness and innocence, she raised her sword and flew straight up into the sky.
The silvery light of the sword mixed with the thin white skirt floated through the lens.
Female No. 4 (Song Jixing) and the Demon had an intense battle in the air for several rounds until she was finally smacked down heavily by the Demon.
Song Jixing was following the martial arts director’s guidance to fight with the slanted-mouth Demon in mid-air.
With a swoosh, there was the sound of something coming loose.
Song Jixing’s body tilted and one of the steel wires hanging her up broke.
The scene instantly erupted into a commotion.
“Quickly let her down!” Someone shouted.