This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder

"This... isn't this it a bit too weird?" Tianyi said to himself as he looked at the face of the cultivator who attempted to kill him back in the Pan Kingdom. Although the attempt ultimately failed, it left a deep impression on Tianyi, especially after learning the truth about the Dragon Emperor.

"Thank you very much, Elder Shan." Although the youth was speaking courteous words, no sincerity could be heard. He even wasn't looking at Elder Shan but inspecting the bottle of pills.

"Hmpf." Elder Shan didn't have a good look on his face. "Even if you are the son of Grand Elder Xi, she can save you once or twice, but can she save you forever?'

"Many thanks for Elder Shan's concern. But I know what I'm doing." 

Elder Shan snorted before leaving with a flick of his sleeves. Tianyi felt as if an atomic bomb had gone off in his mind. 

This was him?

How did he become such an...an...asshole? He knew he wasn't exactly the textbook goody two shoes, but every action the other him took was like saying, "look at me, I'm a giant douche! Please kill me before I take another breath." 

Also, the other him was extremely liberal with where he was placing his hands on the four beauties. Right now, one of the beauties sat on his legs and rested her head on his chest while he placed his hand on her lower back.

'This was too...open and daring. It was also in a public place! At least wait until you're in your room,' Tianyi shouted in his mind. And no, he wasn't envious of how forward his other self was with women. 

"Lord Xi, that old fellow is too disrespectful." One of the beauties serving him said, aggrieved for the other Tianyi. 

"Don't worry about him. He's just an old fellow whose immortal path is severed at the Nascent Soul Realm no matter his attainments are in the Alchemy Law." The other Tianyi said without a care as he began to indulge in the four beauties, the bottle of pills forgotten on the table.

Tianyi felt his lips twitch as he went outside. The scene inside became too spicy for his eyes. 

Tianyi released his spiritual senses to observe the estate. He had already noticed from the moment he first entered that this was already different from his own version of the estate. He naturally avoided the main hall where the xxx-rated event was happening.

He couldn't help but cover his face when he discovered more maids in the estate. Although the tens of maids here weren't as beautiful as the four beauties in the main hall, they were still all first-class beauties. 

"That can't be me. There's no way." Tianyi said to himself. Rather than cultivating, the other him just indulged in pleasure for the whole day. 

Tianyi sighed as he left the estate. Perhaps he would be able to search for some clues as to where he was or a method to escape. He soon discovered that after a certain distance, no matter what he tried, he could never go past that point. Tianyi tried the opposite direction, but the results were the same. 

Based on the distance and the center, Tianyi discovered that it was the distance of a Core Formation Realm cultivator's spiritual sense and that the center of the range was his other self.

"So this world has something to do with the other me?" Tianyi really didn't want to follow the asshole that was his other self, but he had no choice. He decided to shadow his other self. Only leaving when he began to get frisky with the servants again.

After several days of observation, Tianyi discovered that his other self was a silkpants among silkpants, a wastrel among wastrels! Hell, calling him a wastrel was insulting the word. The only comfort was that his other self had a slightly different name, Xi Longyi.

Like with his unnamed assassin, Tianyi had had the same face as his other half, except for the pairs of eyes inherited from Mengfei. Those eyes that he inherited were too outstanding and completely overshadowed his other features, which were actually very handsome. Not that he was complaining at the moment. 

“Longyi, Longyi,” Tianyi tested the name of his lips.” Is it Dragon's Will?" 

Tianyi immediately thought of the time when his mother informed him of the unique situation concerning his birth. 

His original soul should have been the Dragon Emperor's soul piece that developed into an infant's soul with him becoming a Dragon Emperor's clone. If he hadn't transmigrated from Earth into this body, would the original child of Xi Mengfei have been like Xi Longyi?

As expected of the Dragon Emperor's clone, the legend of his insatiable lust is not without reason. Just as quickly as guilt came to Tianyi for him to take an innocent child's place and soul, it disappeared once he saw how Xi Longyi turned out to be.

Truth be told, if Tianyi were able to interact with the world around him right now, he would have long beaten up Xi Longyi. His actions were just too terrible and lacked tact. He took what he wanted without concern for the consequences and used his status as Grand Elder Xi's son for everything. 

His relationships with his fellow disciples and the elders were also terrible. Although he wasn't exactly Mr. Popular on Jade Peak, the elders would at least occasionally speak to him and converse with him. But with Xi Longyi, the elders directly ignored him or took a different route once they saw him. The only contact Xi Longyi had with an elder was with him initiating contact. And then it was just him bullying the elders for benefits without reimbursing them at all.

Can he be any more shameless?

Once again, it must be mentioned that Tianyi wanted to punch Xi Longyi to hell and back. And he did punch him, just that there were never any results. He even spat blood several times from being agitated by the ridiculous actions that Xi Longyi had done. 

Openly kidnapping Outer Sect disciples and making them his maids. Xi Longyi's maids were also frequently swapped. Not even the four beauties Tianyi saw at the beginning were safe.

In spite of all this, the women who were abandoned by Xi Longyi all schemed to return to his side because of Xi Longyi's generous bestowments. It was said that men were best at forgetting the good of a woman while a woman was good at remembering the good of a man.

When Xi Longyi pampered a woman, he devoted all his energy towards them. But when he got bored of the old and sought the new, he heartlessly cast aside the old. Many women fell under Xi Longyi's honeyed words.

Despite Xi Longyi's brutish characters, he was very skilled in cultivating. He advanced in leaps and bounds. He had the heavenly lightning spiritual root, but his talent in martial cultivation was better, and he was always a step ahead in his martial cultivation. Before he was thirty, Xi Longyi had already reached the Core Formation Realm. 

Although more than a decade had passed, it felt like mere moments to Tianyi even though he had experienced everything in full detail. Rather than watching a movie, it was more akin to a dream where everything occurred in an instant.

In addition, along with Xi Longyi's rising cultivation, Tianyi felt his understanding of the martial and spiritual cultivation method deepen thanks to experiencing it alongside his alternate self. At least, he got some benefits.

But what made Tianyi confused was that Tianyi had yet to see his mother, Xi Mengfei, even once in all these years. In other words, Xi Longyi also hasn't seen Mengfei even once in all these years. Xi Longyi still used his status as a Grand Elder's son with no worries in spite of this. 

When Xi Longyi reached the Core Formation realm, he had already left the sect to temper himself several times. Although Tianyi didn't want to admit it, Xi Longyi's adventures deepened his understanding of the cultivation world. Especially towards the ruthlessness of other cultivators.

After entering the Nascent Soul Realm, Xi Longyi left the sect again. Tianyi thought this adventure would be no different. He would offend someone, they would get into a fight, and Xi Longyi would slaughter those that he offended, or in his eyes, offended him. Maybe he would stumble upon an immortal's inheritance, go inside and slaughter all the participants inside if possible, and then leave with the inheritance. 

Tianyi had already long stopped letting his emotions be affected by Xi Longyi's action and just treated this as a dream of a possible branching future. Otherwise, he would have long puked all of his blood out and then some.

But he did memorize some of the more outstanding inheritances and their locations. Should he remember this dream, he would be able to go and take them for himself if this dream was actually a vision of a possible future. 

One day, Xi Longyi met a person with the exact same face as himself, but he wasn't surprised in any way. Much to Tianyi's own surprise. Unlike Xi Longyi's previous bold and flashy style, he quietly assassinated the person with the same face as his.

"This...he didn't show any surprise and directly killed another Dragon Emperor clone," Tianyi muttered. "Is this the normal process that all Dragon Emperor clones act once they see one another? I thought there would be more confusion."

From then on, every once in a while, Xi Longyi would meet other Dragon Emperor clones, and without fail, he would kill them. It was as if he had internal radar for other Dragon Emperor clones. When another Dragon Emperor clone saw Xi Longyi, they would react with great surprise, but before they could settle their abnormal emotions from meeting another person with the same face, Xi Longyi would kill them.

This allowed Tianyi to realize that Xi Longyi was different from the other Dragon Emperor clones. Perhaps because Xi Longyi was created from the soul fragment that had somehow clung onto Xi Mengfei when the Dragon Emperor self detonated, he retained awareness of his situation. Tianyi didn't know the extent of Xi Longyi's awareness, but Tianyi was clear that Xi Longyi had at least some memories of the Dragon Emperor. 

There was no other explanation for how quickly Xi Longyi cultivated, as if he had no bottlenecks or how he explicitly knew some secrets. It was like he had done all this before.

With the more and more frequent appearance of Dragon Emperor clones, Tianyi began to pay less attention to each one. It was not like he had any interest in assembling the Dragon Emperor's clone fragments. Who knows whether he would be able to take the Dragon Emperor's power for himself or he would be possessed by the Dragon Emperor. 

Besides, Tianyi had already decided that he would abandon the Dragon Emperor Fist. But one particular Dragon Emperor clone had escaped from Xi Longyi's grasp, something that had not happened before.

Xi Longyi had snuck into the Dragon Emperor clone's, The Lei Clan's, clan compound. It was a rather affluent clan for its surrounding, with several Nascent Soul Realm experts located in the Southern Region. For Xi Longyi, normal nascent soul grandmasters like them were simply fish on the chopping board.

Perhaps it was just bad luck that he missed the Dragon Emperor clone and an elder of the Lei Clan discovered him instead. Xi Longyi, seeing that his presence was discovered, no longer cared about hiding and unleashed his full strength after sealing the whole compound inside a formation to protect his action from prying eyes.

The nascent soul grandmasters of the clan were no match for Xi Longyi, and they fell one by one under Xi Longyi's hands. After getting rid of the nascent soul grandmasters, Xi Longyi didn't bother sneaking around anymore and started slaughtering everyone in the clan compound, but the Dragon Emperor's clone was nowhere to be found. 

Xi Longyi leveled the clan compound into the ground before leaving in his rage. There was nothing left but rubble. Tianyi's heart couldn't help tremble upon witnessing this scene. He had seen Xi Longyi kill people but never so many at once. Tianyi understood the concept of cutting the grass at the roots to prevent future trouble, but Tianyi didn't feel that he would be able to take such a cruel action. 

Not long after, another shocking event occurred, one more personal than witnessing Xi Longyi massacre a whole clan, including the children. Xi Longyi met his junior sister, Jiang Daoyi.

She was a loose cultivator, Tianyi could probably guess that she had run away from the Duke Qi estate with the hope of escaping from there

Although her personality differed from the Daoyi in Tianyi's memories, she possessed the same face. 

The Daoyi of this world had an aura of demurity and, coupled with her exquisite features, made one want to protect her and hide her from all harm. It was extremely alluring to a man's protective instinct.

Xi Longyi, on the other hand, this rough and savage person, didn't take notice of her because of Daoyi's looks, but because he discovered her heavenly water spiritual root. Tianyi tightened his grips until his nails pierced his palm and his knuckle whitened. Tianyi could already guess why Xi Longyi kidnapped her.

Yes, kidnapped. 

Xi Longyi attempted to manipulate her to leave with him with words of love and even riches, but Daoyi refused. He treated women like clothes, changing them every day or when they got dirty. So how could he accept being rejected?

Tianyi thought he would have to witness Xi Longyi ruin his junior sister's alternate counterpart, but then a hero appeared. The sole survivor of the Lei Clan, Lei Jingye, made his entrance, shocking Tianyi.

"XI LONGYI, YOU SCOUNDREL!!!" Lei Jingye, as a Dragon Emperor clone, had the exact same face as Xi Longyi but gave off a completely different impression. If Tianyi had to put a word to it, it would be righteous. 

Still, Tianyi didn't have a good feeling for Lei Jingye. By now, Tianyi had seen several Dragon Emperor clones, but he had a personal connection with this new one. 

Lei Jingye had the exact same hatred-filled eyes as the assassin he met in the Pan Kingdom. 

Tianyi didn't know what was worse. The fact that Lei Jingye had a close relationship with his junior sister or the fact that he was actually rooting for a person who wanted to kill him. Because he would never root for Xi Longyi. 

"Xi Longyi, if you return Dao'er to me, I won't quibble about you murdering my clan. I can even spare your life!"  

At those words, Xi Longyi laughed like it was the funniest joke.

"Originally, I was going to let you live a bit longer, but since you showed yourself to me, then I'll reap your life!"

With those words, a golden saber with a dragon carved onto its hilt appeared in Xi Longyi's hand as he slashed out towards Lei Jingye.