Everyone was stunned except for Lin Mo.
Even Jiang Yunlu couldn't help but look up at Xie Yuling.
Why did she think Xie Yuling was so handsome?
Xie Yuling turned her head and glanced at Jiang Yunlu.
It was a heartbeat, oh no, that look was impossible to avoid!
Then Xie Yuling slowly turned her head back to Lin Mo, raising an eyebrow slightly.
She knew Lin Mo could see it.
Lin Mo opened the car door and stepped out.
"To be honest, I didn't expect this outcome either, but you were quite decisive."
Lin Mo felt that Xie Yuling's resolute and decisive nature was very impressive; if it had been someone else, they might have hesitated.
Many times, hesitation leads to defeat.
On the other hand, Shouzhen let out a sigh of relief, his body slightly weak as he sat down heavily on the ground.
Liu Zheng and the others slowly walked over.
"Seriously, what exactly is going on? Lin Mo, you should give us a few more Five Thunder Talismans—those things are way too useful."
Liu Zheng had no shame in asking.
Meanwhile, Shouzhen looked at Xie Yuling. He had no divine sense, but he knew the Grandmaster had it—divine sense could be called the natural enemy of souls.
At that moment, he also realized that Xie Yuling possessed divine sense.
The Grandmaster had cultivated for so long just to develop divine sense.
In this instant, his Dao heart truly wavered. He had been cultivating for so long, even expending his essence blood just to drive back that fierce soul.
Yet Lin Mo's Five Thunder Talisman could blast it into nothingness.
He didn't know what to do anymore.
Old Bai noticed that Shouzhen seemed off, so he walked over and patted his shoulder lightly.
Ning Qingcheng, on the other hand, stared at Xie Yuling with curiosity.
"Sister Yuling, you're really amazing. That thing tried to bite you back, and you just took it down with one move. If it were me, I wouldn't know what to do."
Although Ning Qingcheng had space-based abilities, she truly had no idea how to deal with these non-physical monsters.
Liu Zheng stepped forward as well.
"So the fierce soul is dealt with, right? No one else will die because of it?"
Xia Zhi also nodded, "Yeah, and we broke up a human trafficking ring on the side."
"No, half of one. There's still another one up north."
This case could indeed be considered closed.
But...
That night.
In the Fanshan area, the night air was mixed with the smoky haze of charcoal fires. The sweet scent of honey and the aroma of meat slowly drifted into their noses, accompanied by the scraping sound of plastic stools against the floor and the sharp clinks of beer bottles.
Everyone sat together in a roadside food stall.
"Seriously, Lin Mo, you mean it?"
Old Bai downed a large gulp of ice-cold beer, exhaling a white breath, looking utterly incredulous. "Driving an hour just for a few skewers of honey chicken wings? Aren't the ones in the city good enough? Why come all the way from the north of Yangcheng to the south?"
"Old Bai, shut up and drink your beer—you're not the one driving." Liu Zheng retorted angrily, a glass of iced cola bubbling cheerfully in front of him.
Lin Mo poked at the coconut milk in his cup with a skewer, the ice cubes clinking. He leisurely began to speak, "Just came to see another perspective of the Rashomon effect."
"Rashomon effect? What do you mean?" Everyone looked at him curiously.
Lin Mo didn't rush to explain. Instead, he raised his chin slightly toward the distance.
"Look, the show's starting."
Following his gaze, a woman with curly hair and a rather voluptuous figure was holding a menu, walking up to the barbecue master's grill. Her voice was neither too loud nor too soft, just enough to drift over to their table.
"The police just called me to come identify Xiao Wei's remains."
The barbecue master paused flipping the meat skewers for half a second; the bamboo stick scraped lightly against the grill.
He didn't lift his head, his voice muffled from behind the mask. "Are you going?"
The woman curled her lips and tossed the menu aside, "Why would I go? Bad luck."
The barbecue master paused again, then grumbled, "After all, his dad and grandma are dead. I told you back then to take him away, but you said no. Raising one more here wouldn't have been a problem for me. Now, identifying the body is only right."
"Just seeing that kid reminds me of his damn father!" The woman's voice turned shrill. "He never obeyed at home. When I wanted to discipline him, his dead grandmother would protect him like a baby. If I had wanted to take him, would she have let me?"
The barbecue master didn't argue with her. He just let out a heavy sigh and continued flipping the skewers.
"He's gone now. What's the point of saying all this? He was still your flesh and blood."
"I'm not going." The woman was firm. "I never planned to see him again anyway. I'll just pretend I never gave birth to that son."
The flames licked at the meat, sizzling.
The barbecue master didn't stop his hands. He was silent for a long while before speaking again, "Back then... I shouldn't have gotten involved with you before you were even divorced. If you hadn't met me, maybe you wouldn't have had to put up with so much."
"Put up with it? In this lifetime, I've never known what 'putting up with it' means!" The woman bristled like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. "Living with a useless sack like that was what put me through hell! Divorce was the best thing! We hadn't had feelings for ages, and I had to earn money to support his whole family—do I owe them?"
As her voice trailed off, the surroundings seemed to grow quiet for a moment.
Old Bai forgot to drink the beer in his hand; Liu Zheng stared blankly at his iced cola.
A more complete, and crueler, piece of the story puzzle had been dropped in front of them unexpectedly.
It wasn't about who was right or wrong, but it left a heavy feeling in their chests.
Hard to judge. Too hard.
The old woman's fixation had been Xiao Wei, thinking of him until her dying breath.
As for Xiao Wei, his greatest wish before he died was probably to see his mother one last time—a mother who didn't want to see him at all.
But in Xie Yuling's divine sense vision, she had seen the woman's reddened eyes.
Just angry words.
They really couldn't say this woman was wrong.
She hadn't said anything false, nor could they say the grandmother was right.
Everything was too difficult to sort into right and wrong.
This late-night meal, though it gave them the complete truth and conclusion, still made everyone feel as uneasy as sitting on pins and needles.
Even Uncle Zhao, as he drove, could feel the low pressure emanating from the back seats.
To him, the day's events, though dramatic, were utterly normal.
As for the ladies' later discomfort, it only showed their lack of deep understanding of society.
Once you step out into the world, you'll find countless messy people and things entangling you.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
