The earth below began to tremble violently without warning, as though the entire planet were groaning in agony.
Then, a laser beam nearly several hundred meters in diameter tore through the clouds. Wherever it passed, it plowed a bottomless trench into the surface, molten lava surging and boiling within it. The rising waves of heat twisted the air into bizarre ripples.
“Roar—!”
Another furious bellow rose from below—the Chaos Demon God. Accompanying that roar, a claw strike that tore through space shot into the sky. Five dark trails streaked across the heavens, hurtling toward the figures standing in the void.
Sinking Years and the others remained where they were, seemingly with no intention of taking action.
Xia Lun stepped forward at an unhurried pace and casually thrust out his right fist.
The punch appeared slow, but the instant it was thrown, layers of spatial ripples surged outward. The howling force of his fist collided with the claw strike, and the two powers eroded and melted into each other in the void, ultimately transforming into scattered streams of energy that ripped the distant clouds into tatters.
The others still showed no reaction. They remained suspended in the void, continuing to strike their poses.
Xia Lun supposed they were probably observing the battle.
“Good work.” Aina came over and took Xia Lun’s hand. “You’re not hurt, are you?”
“Nothing serious.” Xia Lun clasped her cool fingertips in return and gave her a reassuring smile. His wife was still the most considerate.
Several more beams of light that pierced heaven and earth erupted from below in succession. It seemed the Mechanical Prophet and the Chaos Demon God were locked in fierce combat.
Xia Lun and the others were still in space. At this distance, even with the naked eye, all they could see below was a red spot of moderate size. That was presumably the Chaos Demon God’s body.
What a gigantic creature. Xia Lun estimated that it was probably several dozen kilometers long.
Nothing in the world he came from could grow to such a terrifying size.
A hole suddenly opened in the distant clouds, and something seemed to be racing toward them at tremendous speed.
“My, my, that fellow’s regenerative ability is truly something else.” An oddly flippant electronic voice rang out.
The Mechanical Prophet’s silver-white body shot out from the opening. He was no longer maintaining his ordinary human form. Nanomachines flowed across his armor like liquid, while the lingering afterglow of energy still swirled around his body.
“I can’t do a thing to him… It’s your turn now.”
“You still haven’t used your maximum firepower, have you?” the Arcane Sage’s voice rang out.
“If I did, would this planet still be intact?” The Mechanical Prophet shrugged, producing a crisp click. “I’d blow the entire surface away. There are still plenty of living beings here… My specialty is unleashing overwhelming energy, but I can’t control it with that kind of precision.”
The Arcane Sage said no more. With a light tap of his staff against the void, his figure transformed into a brilliant blue meteor and plunged downward.
Almost at the same time, the thin figure of Sinking Years blurred into a gray trail. Wherever it passed, even the color seemed to be drained from space.
Aina gently took Xia Lun’s hand, and the two of them drifted downward as lightly as feathers. Xia Lun also noticed the faint gravity in her eyes.
“There may be a hidden threat… Don’t leave my side, Xia Lun.”
Xia Lun squeezed Aina’s small hand, rubbing the delicate skin on the back of it with his fingertip to reassure her.
“It seems like a bad idea to disturb them right now,” the Mechanical Prophet muttered. “Forget it. We’ll just follow behind them… Ah, perfect. This will give Mr. Xia Lun a chance to see my swarm of floating cannons…”
As they drew closer, Xia Lun gained a much more direct impression of the Chaos Demon God’s enormous size.
The Chaos Demon God was no longer humanoid. Instead, it was a strange creature resembling a salamander. Countless pairs of savage spikes rose from its back, which was covered in dark, dull scales. More than thirty pairs of gigantic legs supported its colossal body. Every step left a deep crater in the ground, while landslides and earthquakes followed in its wake.
From above, the creature appeared to move slowly. Only after drawing near did one realize how swift its movements truly were. After all, with a body of that size, every step carried it nearly a kilometer.
In Xia Lun’s world, even a high-ranking powerhouse running at full speed would never be able to catch up with this creature.
A massive magic circle suddenly unfolded above the Chaos Demon God. Complicated chains of runes nearly covered the entire sky, its scale even surpassing the demon god’s enormous body.
“Thunder Calamity.” A bright light flashed from the Arcane Sage’s casting device.
Endless, dazzling thunderbolts descended from the heavens. Blinding lightning illuminated the world in stark white as it poured onto the Chaos Demon God’s back like divine punishment.
Although its life form was completely different from that of humans, the world inhabited by the Arcane Sage was actually quite close to Xia Lun’s world on a cosmic scale. The systems of power in the two worlds were also both primarily based on magic, and the principles behind their spells were largely similar.
The thunderbolts struck the demon god’s back, instantly vaporizing vast swaths of flesh. Lightning spears tore through and destroyed its living tissues. The colossal body was charred black in an instant, while the exposed bones rapidly carbonized amid the winding electric snakes. The air filled with the foul stench of scorched protein.
The Chaos Demon God let out an enraged roar, and a terrifying shock wave swept outward, causing Xia Lun’s robes to snap violently in the wind. An ordinary person would have been sent flying hundreds of thousands of kilometers by that force.
Yet what astonished Xia Lun was that, despite suffering such devastating injuries, the Chaos Demon God seemed entirely unaffected. Even before the thunder punishment had ended, the wounds that exposed its bones were already writhing violently. Threads of flesh intertwined and regenerated at a speed visible to the naked eye, while shattered bones reassembled beneath the covering of new flesh.
What terrifying regenerative ability… At this rate, it would probably recover completely within fifteen minutes.
“Moment of Withering.”
Sinking Years extended a withered finger, and a gray-brown radiance sank into the Chaos Demon God’s body.
A horrifying transformation followed. The colossal body began to wither at a speed visible to the naked eye. The scales on its surface rapidly lost their luster, the bones exposed within its wounds gradually yellowed, and the newly grown flesh rotted and festered at an astonishing rate. Its movements slowed as well, as though it had experienced ten thousand years of decay in the blink of an eye.
“Frost Calamity.”
The Arcane Sage did not stop either. Vast sheets of frost descended from the sky, and a terrifying chill instantly enveloped the Chaos Demon God. Ice spread wildly across its body. In no more than a few breaths, it froze the enormous creature into a grotesque ice sculpture. The frozen skin continuously gave off the creaking sound of cracking ice.
“Whew… That should take care of it, right?” The Mechanical Prophet looked at the massive chunk of ice before him and seemed to let out a sigh of relief.
He raised his right arm. A searing white light gathered around his mechanical gauntlet, and then he slammed it heavily into the frozen body of the demon god.
With a deafening explosion, the icebound Chaos Demon God shattered, transforming into countless ice crystals that scattered across the ground.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
