Meanwhile, inside the chat group.
Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Dugu Yan were eagerly waiting, hoping to get some juicy gossip about Tang Yuehua.
However, they had been @ing her for a long while and had waited even longer.
Yet, Tang Yuehua, whose nickname was "elegant lady," remained silent, refusing to reply with even a single word.
This made the gossip-hungry young girls feel quite bored, and they curled their lips in disappointment.
Since the person involved refused to come out and admit anything, there was no point in chatting amongst themselves, so they gradually dispersed and stopped questioning her.
...
The scene shifts to the Extreme North.
Inside a magnificent Snow Lady Palace, translucent and carved entirely from ten-thousand-year-old Mysterious Ice.
At this moment, the Ice Emperor, dressed in a long emerald-green dress, was gracefully staying at the residence of the Dominator of the Extreme North, the Snow Emperor.
The air in the palace was bone-chillingly cold, but for these two rulers of the Extreme North, it was the most comfortable environment.
The Ice Emperor's emerald eyes flickered with the light of contemplation as she looked at the stunning woman sitting on the Frozen Throne.
"Sister Snow Emperor," the Ice Emperor said with some distress, "Tell me, what exactly do we need to do to better obtain high-value rewards from the diary system?"
The Ice Emperor pouted, playing with a strand of hair hanging over her chest.
"If we just keep waiting like this every day, passively receiving those basic guaranteed rewards..."
"While those guaranteed rewards can indeed steadily increase our cultivation, I always feel that the speed is a bit too slow."
The Ice Emperor's concern was not without reason; the 400,000-year Heavenly Tribulation was like the Sword of Damocles hanging over her head, liable to fall at any moment.
She urgently needed more and more powerful rewards to increase her foundation.
After hearing the Ice Emperor's complaints, the Snow Emperor sitting on the throne nodded slightly.
Her peerless face, as flawless as white snow, always maintained a sense of coldness and calm.
The Snow Emperor's deep gaze seemed to penetrate the endless wind and snow. She pondered for a moment before slowly speaking: "Ice Emperor, I can understand your feelings."
"In fact, the pattern for obtaining those generous grand prizes from the diary is already quite obvious."
The Snow Emperor said, "The best way is actually to find a way to appear before that human named Lin Yuan."
"As long as we have an interaction with him in reality."
"Causing him to have a deep impression of us, such that he mentions our names and affairs more in the diary."
"Then the probability of us obtaining exclusive grand prizes will increase exponentially."
Hearing this method, the Ice Emperor's eyes first lit up, but then dimmed again as she looked troubled.
"But Sister... we are Spirit Beasts ourselves, and Vicious Beasts of the Extreme North at that."
"To enter the human World, our only way is to abandon our original forms and transform into human shapes to approach him."
Speaking of this, the Ice Emperor's brows furrowed tightly as she voiced the core problem.
"But if we really transform into humans rashly, travel all the way to the Heaven Dou Empire, and suddenly appear before Lin Yuan..."
"Such a deliberate coincidence would be far too obvious."
"Doing this would most likely directly expose the fact that we are also owners of a diary instance!"
The Ice Emperor's words caused the Snow Emperor to fall into silence as well.
Indeed, for two rulers of the Extreme North who had never set foot in the human World to suddenly transform and seek out a human youth they had no connection with...
As long as the other party wasn't a fool, he would instantly guess that they were there for the diary.
The Ice Emperor also let out a heavy sigh and said, "The risk of doing this is simply too great."
"If we accidentally expose the secret that we actually possess a diary instance..."
"I don't know if this diary system will hand down some terrifying punishment."
"If it directly strips us of our eligibility or even obliterates us, the loss would truly outweigh the gain."
The two overlords of the Extreme North were now speechless in this magnificent ice palace.
On one side was the massive temptation to change their fate and survive the Heavenly Tribulation.
On the other side was the unknown risk of exposing their secret and suffering a backlash from the System.
Even though they had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, facing this magical diary instance, they felt stuck in a dilemma for a moment, unsure of what to do.
...
The night was deep, and stars dotted the sky over Heaven Dou City.
With the arrival of midnight, the familiar mechanical prompt of the diary system arrived in Lin Yuan's mind as scheduled.
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for completing today's diary entry. Today's rewards are being settled...]
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining today's reward: Misfortune Card!]
With a thought from Lin Yuan, a card emitting a faint black, eerie light appeared out of thin air in his palm.
He looked closely, and the System panel immediately displayed a detailed introduction of the card.
[Misfortune Card: A special consumable Causality-type item.]
[Effect Description: The Host can designate a specific person to use it on.]
[After use, the target person will encounter various unavoidable bouts of bad luck and extremely negative events for a certain period of time.]
[Anything from choking on water or tripping on flat ground to Qi Deviation or sudden disasters falling from the sky is possible.]
Looking at the Misfortune Card in his hand flickering with an eerie black light, a cold arc curled at the corner of Lin Yuan's mouth.
He hardly thought about it; there was no need for any hesitation.
He directly and firmly locked onto the target for this card in his mind—Tang San!
Why Tang San?
Lin Yuan's logic was actually very simple and crude.
Since that old fogey Tang Hao, your father, dared to sneak into the Heaven Dou Royal Academy in the middle of the night, attempting to make a move on Xiao Wu.
Although Zhao Yun had already acted decisively and severed a right arm from Tang Hao...
And even confiscated a precious 80,000-year-old Clear Sky Sect Legacy Spirit Bone as interest for his foolishness.
This was still far from enough!
If a son is not taught, it is the father's fault.
Then if the father acts like a prick, the son naturally has to suffer along with him!
He, Lin Yuan, hadn't collected any interest from Tang San's side yet!
Tang San was Tang Hao's biological son; father and son shared the same heart.
Using this relationship of "collective responsibility" to deal with Tang San was, in Lin Yuan's view, simply perfectly reasonable.
"System, use the Misfortune Card on Tang San!" Lin Yuan sneered in his heart and muttered silently.
As soon as he finished speaking, the black card in his hand instantly turned into a wisp of invisible black gas.
This black gas directly escaped into the Void Realm, ignoring the distance of space, and headed straight for Nuoding City in Fasinuo Province!
And at this time, in the middle of the night.
Far away in Dormitory Seven of the Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, it was peaceful.
Tang San, who was sleeping soundly on his bed, rolled over and smacked his lips, sleeping very sweetly.
He would never have dreamed that because of his father's death-seeking behavior, a disaster from the heavens had already firmly locked onto him.
He was still completely unaware of what was to come in the days ahead.
He had no idea what kind of miserable, unavoidable bad things were waiting for him up ahead.
...