She had thought that after losing the origin of her Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart, the life force in her broken body would have long been extinguished. Even if she didn't die, she would be completely crippled.
However.
When she despairingly sank her divine sense into her dried-up dantian, her hollow eyes suddenly shrank to the extreme!
There was no exhaustion, nor were her meridians shattered.
In the abyss where her Exquisite Heart had originally grown, a miraculous spiritual seed radiating brilliant cyan and gold light had firmly taken root!
"Thump... thump..."
That Good Fortune Twin Seed beat steadily in her dantian like a powerful, newborn heart.
With every pulsation, an overwhelming, suffocating surge of botanical life force, mixed with the utmost masculine and rigid True Sun Fire, swept through her limbs and bones like floodwaters bursting from a dam.
"Ugh—"
Ye Shutong bit her lower lip hard, letting out a deeply suppressed groan.
A miracle was violently unfolding upon her physical body.
The ribs shattered when Ye Chen threw her, the internal organs torn by the icy sword qi, and even the skin over her heart pierced by the Spirit-Severing Spike...
Under that domineering, peerless vitality of good fortune, granulations sprouted, healed, and scabbed over at a visible rate, leaving not a single scar behind.
And that trace of True Sun Fire flowed upstream along her meridians.
It tyrannically incinerated the residual cold yin energy and stagnant blood in her body in an instant, turning into a scalding warm current that nourished her dried-up sea of qi.
"Boom!"
A spiritual energy fluctuation several times stronger than when she was at her peak erupted without warning from this delicate shell.
Mid-Foundation Establishment realm!
The terrifying elevating power of the Good Fortune Twin Seed had actually allowed her to forcefully cross the barrier of realms, temporarily boosting her combat prowess by a minor realm!
Ye Shutong was completely stunned.
The melted ice water clinging to her long eyelashes trembled madly along with her violently heaving chest.
It was not just her cultivation.
Her sea of consciousness, which should have fallen into qi deviation due to the collapse of her beliefs and extreme despair, was now firmly suppressed by the miniature secondary dantian formed by that spiritual seed.
An extremely cool, domineering soul-soothing power forcefully smoothed out all her hostile energy that was on the verge of collapse.
Her despair was snuffed out, replaced by an extremely calm, purely distilled killing intent.
Ye Shutong lifted her beautiful, cold, pale face, stained with mud and water, and stared fixedly at the tall, demon-god-like figure in a gray robe with his back facing her.
Shock, like a nine-heaven thunderbolt, completely cleaved open her riddled heart.
He had taken away her innate Dao foundation, yet backhandedly bestowed upon her a great fortune!
Ye Chen had used more than ten years of hypocritical warmth just to squeeze out her last drop of blood and turn her into a cold corpse.
But this ruthless man before her, whose name she didn't even know...
Had violently stripped her of everything, yet planted an active volcano in her dantian capable of tearing her enemies to shreds!
What was this? Absolute control? Or high-and-mighty charity?
Ye Shutong did not know.
But that domineering aura belonging to Gu Yang, spreading from the depths of the Twin Seed, had been completely branded into the deepest part of her soul.
A sense of submission mixed with extreme awe and trembling instantly wrapped around every single one of her nerves like a poisonous vine.
She suddenly flipped over and prostrated herself in the freezing mud.
"Thank you, Senior... for bestowing the Dao."
...
At the end of the Thousand Wall Stone Forest, the teeth-aching sound of clashing metal abruptly ceased.
In its place was a massive lake tightly locked in the center by several treacherous snowy mountains.
The Sunken Water Cold Pool.
The water surface was as calm as a giant, dark blue bronze mirror. Large clusters of bone-chilling white frost mist crawled slowly across the water.
There was no wind in the air, but the extreme cold that could instantly freeze a cultivator's blood was like countless invisible steel needles, stubbornly drilling into the crevices of their bones through their pores.
On the shallow shoals by the lake, hundreds of disheveled cultivators had already gathered.
The lucky chances lay in the inner region on the opposite shore, but this seemingly beautiful cold pool was a veritable gate of hell.
"Mere cold qi wants to block my True Sun Sect's Dao?!"
A true disciple of the True Sun Sect wearing a crimson dharma robe sneered. Relying on the protective true fire within his body, he stepped onto a flying sword blazing with flames and arrogantly soared into the air, attempting to force his way across.
However.
He had barely flown three zhang from the shore.
"Buzz—"
The no-fly grand formation above the cold pool activated without warning. A terrifying gravity, almost tangible and mixed with an extreme cold capable of freezing the divine soul, instantly grabbed him like an invisible giant hand.
"Crack!"
That blazing supreme-grade flying sword couldn't even last half a breath before shattering into ice dregs.
Before the true disciple could even let out a scream, his entire body was frozen into a crystal-clear ice sculpture in midair.
With a plop, he smashed into the dark blue lake water and sank without a trace, not even a single bubble rising to the surface.
The shore instantly fell dead silent.
Several rogue cultivators who refused to believe in the danger exchanged glances. Gritting their teeth, they brought out a fire-attribute spirit boat bought with the majority of their life savings.
The hull was engraved with water-repelling and cold-resisting array patterns. As soon as it entered the water, it pushed aside the thick ice and sped forward.
But they had miscalculated the killing intent at the bottom of the Sunken Water Cold Pool.
"Swoosh—!"
Beneath the lake's surface, dozens of invisible sword qi condensed from the extremely cold pool water shot up from below like venomous snakes, silently piercing through the bottom of the spirit boat!
"My legs! My legs have no feeling!"
A rogue cultivator screamed miserably. The moment the cold water piercing the deck touched his legs, it directly froze his flesh and blood to the deck.
The spirit boat leaked and rapidly sank.
The three rogue cultivators could only watch helplessly as the dark blue, bone-chilling pool water rose over their chests and throats.
Their miserable screams echoed over the lake for just a few breaths before turning into a scalp-numbing dead silence.
It got even worse.
A body cultivator, relying on his dragon-like vitality, attempted to jump across the giant floating ice floes on the lake.
Just as he leaped into midair, a dark blue water column lurking beneath the broken ice whipped out like a tentacle, violently wrapping around his waist and abdomen.
"Ah—!"
With just a single tug, the protective astral qi the body cultivator was so proud of shattered like paper.
The scalding blood was frozen into red ice beads the moment it sprayed out. Large chunks of flesh and blood were directly shaved off his skeleton by the water current. With a splash, a complete white skeleton smashed through the ice surface and was buried in the bellies of the fish.
The hundreds of cultivators were deterred by this tragic scene, and for a time, no one dared to take another step forward.
Gu Yang, wearing coarse gray hemp garments, blended into the shadow of a giant weathered rock on the shore like a breathless stone.
His deep black eyes held not a shred of pity for those who died so tragically.
His gaze pierced through the churning white frost mist and landed precisely on a few familiar faces at the edge of the crowd.
Mo Bufan.
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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...
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
【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.)
