Falling Cloud Sect, Cold Moon Peak.
Piercingly cold astral winds howled outside the cliff, yet a suppressed undercurrent eerily permeated the grand hall.
Gu Yang stepped over the high threshold, his deep black eyes sweeping across the empty hall without a ripple of emotion.
On the cold jade bed.
Shen Qingyue was still wearing that magnificent palace dress with gold patterns on a white background.
After being cleansed by the Great Sun True Fire and nourished by the Extreme Yin Spirit Lake, her beautiful, originally paper-pale skin now revealed a breathtaking, lustrous glow.
Even just sitting there quietly, the cold aloofness and lofty majesty belonging to a Golden Core stage grand cultivator made one dare not look at her directly.
However.
When her gaze crossed Gu Yang and landed on the gray figure following closely behind him.
Shen Qingyue's clear, autumn-water eyes, usually as placid as an ancient well or a freezing pool, suddenly shrank.
Zhao Yuelian stopped half a step behind Gu Yang, bowing her head deeply.
The coarse gray outer sect servant robe she wore could not hide her ripe, voluptuous curves at all.
Instead, due to the tightness of the fabric, her slender waist and astonishing curves were fully accentuated.
What suffocated Shen Qingyue the most.
Was the faint spiritual power fluctuation emitting from this woman, which made even her heart pound with fear!
Late Core Formation stage, Great Circle of Perfection!
Shen Qingyue gripped her cuffs, her voice so cold it could almost drop ice shards.
A Core Formation Great Circle... sword attendant?
Gu Yang did not turn his head; the corner of his gray clothes fluttered slightly in the draft.
Zhao Yuelian, however, acutely caught the hint of jealousy in the depths of Shen Qingyue's eyes.
As a Supreme Elder of the Joyous Union Sect who had struggled for hundreds of years in a cannibalistic demonic lair, when it came to manipulating human hearts, an icy snow lotus like Shen Qingyue who had always cultivated in a greenhouse was absolutely no match for her.
Thud.
Zhao Yuelian's knees gave way, and she knelt extremely humbly on the freezing jade bricks.
This servant Zhao Yuelian greets Elder Shen.
Her cold, breathtakingly beautiful face carried a perfectly measured look of trepidation and docility.
Her voice was bone-meltingly charming, yet it revealed absolute submission.
This servant, with her frail willow-like appearance, was graced by the Young Master's favor to be kept by his side as a vicious watchdog. I would absolutely never dare to overstep my bounds in front of the Elder.
Shen Qingyue's breath suddenly hitched.
Veins throbbed violently on her smooth forehead.
The humbler the other party acted, and the more she kept saying servant and Young Master, the more it felt like poisoned needles fiercely piercing into Shen Qingyue's pride.
A peerless female cultivator with a cultivation base higher than her own was willingly kneeling at her disciple's feet, calling herself a servant!
How was this paying respects?
This was clearly an extremely subtle flaunting to her, showing off Gu Yang's absolute, bone-deep control over her!
What an obedient... watchdog.
Shen Qingyue's full chest heaved slightly.
Gu Yang watched this silent confrontation.
Knowing this woman's tsundere nature well, he leveled his hands and took out an ice-blue jade box wrapped in heavy restrictions from his storage ring.
Gu Yang took a step forward and extremely respectfully presented the jade box onto the cold jade desk in front of Shen Qingyue.
Please quell your anger, Master.
He lowered his head slightly, his deep voice carrying a perfect trace of reverence, giving this iceberg elder plenty of face and an easy way out.
This is a spoil of war that your disciple accidentally intercepted in a perilous secret realm near the Holy Heaven City some time ago. I specifically brought it back to honor you, Master.
Gu Yang's fingertips spat out a faint spiritual light. With a click, the array patterns on the surface of the jade box dissipated like water ripples, and the lid slowly popped open.
System Prompt: Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Yin Jade Pillow: Produced beneath ten thousand fathoms of ice in the Extreme North Ice Plains, taking ten thousand years to form.
System Prompt: Efficacy: Sleeping on it year-round can nourish the divine soul. Especially for female cultivators practicing Yin-cold attribute cultivation methods, it has the miraculous effects of preserving youth and purifying Yin essence.
An extremely pure, freezing aura that even carried a trace of cold, sweet fragrance instantly filled the entire hall.
Gu Yang looked directly into Shen Qingyue's slightly widened autumn-water eyes and spoke to her in a steady tone.
This item is called the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Yin Jade Pillow.
Your disciple has investigated it. Sleeping on it year-round can constantly nourish the divine soul. For someone like Master, who possesses the Nine Yin Physique, it has the miraculous effects of preserving youth and purifying Yin essence.
Hearing the words purifying Yin essence, Shen Qingyue felt that the newly stabilized Golden Core in her dantian let out a comfortable hum under the nourishment of this cold energy.
A treasure like this, specifically for Yin-cold physiques, could absolutely not be found even if one turned the entire Falling Cloud Sect's treasury upside down!
A highly complex and intense fluctuation instantly flashed through Shen Qingyue's cold eyes.
He... specifically snatched this for her in a perilous secret realm?
And even constantly kept her physique and needs in mind?
A touch of crimson quietly crept up Shen Qingyue's cold, white earlobes.
It is just a dead object.
Shen Qingyue abruptly turned her head away, not daring to look into Gu Yang's deep eyes. Her tone was still as stiff as a block of ice.
Do not think that this little favor can offset your frivolity of bringing a woman of dubious background back to the peak.
However, her jade-like hands, tightly gripping the edge of the jade box to the point where her slender nails were almost digging into the jade's texture, betrayed the joy in her heart at this moment.
...
He did not point out Shen Qingyue's awkwardness, but instead cast his gaze extremely stealthily upon Zhao Yuelian, who was kneeling on the ground.
On the system panel, the progress bar stuck at 32 percent looked particularly glaring.
He had to use stronger medicine.
The ancient illusion array, Lesser Formless Illusion Array, silently descended between the two of them!
In Shen Qingyue's line of sight.
The foxy sword attendant originally kneeling on the ground suddenly trembled all over, as if unable to withstand the pressure from her, the legitimate elder.
She kowtowed in trepidation.
Then, the woman humbly hunched her body and tactfully retreated to the dark corner at the outermost edge of the hall, turning her back to them like a dead stone statue.
Shen Qingyue's tense back finally relaxed a tiny, imperceptible bit.
At least this demonic woman knows her place.
An extremely secret delight of defeating a potential threat rose in her heart as her fingertips gently stroked the cold texture of the jade box.
However.
In the real space less than three feet away from Shen Qingyue!
Gu Yang had not retreated half a step at all. His body, scorching hot like a furnace, pressed directly closer.
His large hand, bearing thin, rough calluses, was like iron tongs as it extremely roughly grabbed Zhao Yuelian's burning wrist!
Mmph!
Zhao Yuelian's pupils contracted sharply. Her entire body was pulled directly toward that broad chest by an irresistible, massive force.
Gu Yang slipped one hand inside that coarse gray servant robe.
Young Master... do not...
Zhao Yuelian's clear autumn-water eyes instantly widened to their limits, and a fine layer of fragrant sweat suddenly beaded on the tip of her nose.
Shen Qingyue was sitting on the cold jade bed less than three feet away!
She could even clearly hear Shen Qingyue's extremely faint, soothing breathing as she admired the extreme cold jade pillow!
...
Ding! Detected that the target has generated feelings of extreme shame and immorality.
[ 'Nine Yin Creation Dao Seed' condensation progress: 33%... 38%... 42%! ]
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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."
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
