By then, he would either be dead and his Dao extinguished, reduced to a handful of yellow earth in the Soul-Severing Valley.
Or, he would have seized the Primal Chaos Five-Element Lotus, forged a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, and returned as a king.
If it were the latter...
When that time came, he would casually congratulate his master.
...
[Green Intelligence: "Ice Soul Sword Immortal" Ji Shuanghua, a true disciple prodigy of the Supreme Sword Sect, has a severe "masochistic" tendency.
Having been placed on a pedestal since childhood, she subconsciously feels that only someone who dares to trample on her is a true king.
The rougher one is with her, the higher her favorability.
The more polite one is to her, the more she thinks of them as hypocritical and cowardly.
She possesses a special physique, the Shattered Jade Sword Bone.
Only by enduring strikes beyond her limits, even the agonizing pain of her bones shattering, can she break and then stand tall, comprehending deeper sword intent.]
...
[Purple Intelligence: Shattered Jade Sword Bone]
[Time: One hour after the secret realm opens]
[Coordinates: The outer perimeter of the Blue Heaven Secret Realm, the edge of the Rotting Bone Swamp [Click to view coordinates]]
[The protective escorts of the Supreme Sword Sect have all been reduced to severed limbs. Mo Bufan, bathed in blood, is laughing maniacally as he crushes the head of the last guard under his foot.
The Supreme Sword Sect's prodigy, "Ice Soul Sword Immortal" Ji Shuanghua, stands alone at the edge of the swamp. Her white dress is stained with dust, and her natal flying sword shows cracks.
Facing her tragically deceased sect members, there is no pity in her eyes; instead, she reveals a barely perceptible trace of disgust toward these "trash" who only knew how to flatter her.
Mo Bufan shatters Ji Shuanghua's protective sword qi with his tyrannical physical strength.
He grabs Ji Shuanghua by the hair and viciously slams her against a rock, his large foot mercilessly trampling on her breathtakingly beautiful face.
Under the extreme pain and the trampling of her dignity, the special physique within Ji Shuanghua resonates violently. A trace of morbid excitement ripples in her originally cold eyes.
Ji Shuanghua completely succumbs to this brutal power. After the secret realm, she constantly thinks about Mo Bufan, willingly restraining her sword qi to become a plaything in his palm and a sharp blade for killing, henceforth falling into the demonic path.]
Gu Yang merely glanced at these two pieces of intelligence before losing interest.
"Shattered Jade Sword Bone?"
"Can only grow stronger by being trampled on?"
Gu Yang shook his head, as if he had touched upon a realm he could not comprehend.
Among the people in this world, some sought immortality, some sought power, and some sought brutality.
That Ji Shuanghua, as a prodigy of the Supreme Sword Sect, was usually unattainable and aloof, yet deep in her bones, she was a masochistic wretch.
Mo Bufan's methods happened to perfectly suit her tastes.
"If it's convenient, I might as well intercept this opportunity."
Gu Yang stood up and brushed off non-existent dust from his robes.
The Primal Chaos Five-Element Lotus was the foundation of the Great Dao.
Everything else had to make way for it.
It would not be worth it to pick up a sesame seed only to lose a watermelon.
He closed the interface.
The deep blue light screen instantly shattered, turning into specks of starlight that dissipated into the darkness.
It was time to set off.
...
...
One day later.
Eastern Region, Soul-Severing Valley.
This was a famous perilous land in the Azure Cloud Continent, shrouded all year round in a layer of pale white miasma.
On both sides of the valley entrance stood two mountain peaks that pierced the clouds like sharp swords, leaving only a narrow line of sky between them. It looked like a giant demon's eye, coldly watching the myriad living beings below.
The Soul-Severing Valley stretched for thousands of miles, and spatial rifts were densely packed like a spider's web.
"It seems I have arrived at a remote node."
"That's fine too."
Gu Yang circulated the Dead Wood Breath Concealment Art, turning his disguised sallow face deathly pale. His aura became chaotic, making him look exactly like an itinerant cultivator who had just advanced and had an unstable foundation.
He found a rock sheltered from the wind, sat cross-legged, and waited quietly.
At three quarters past noon.
The Yang energy between heaven and earth climbed to its absolute peak, perfectly suppressing the Yin Sha energy that lingered year-round in the Soul-Severing Valley.
Buzz—!
The Blue Heaven Token in Gu Yang's chest pocket suddenly became scalding hot, like a red-hot branding iron.
He snapped his eyes open. He saw the pale white miasma ahead being forcefully torn apart, as if by an invisible giant hand.
A pitch-black, profound spatial rift, with eerie purple lightning flashing along its edges, silently emerged.
Behind that rift was not a blessed immortal land, but a dim, chaotic obscurity.
"The secret realm is open."
Gu Yang did not hesitate at all.
He stood up, tightly clutching the Blue Heaven Token in his hand. His figure transformed into a streak of gray light, instantly dashing into the pitch-black rift.
There was no obstruction.
There was only an intense bout of dizziness, as if his internal organs were about to be flung out.
...
...
The light screen tore apart, and Gu Yang landed on the ground.
Five-colored mist surged all around him, and a sweet, cloying fragrance concealed hidden killing intent.
[Ding! Directional Intelligence triggered.]
[Do you wish to spend Destiny Points to trigger the Directional Intelligence?]
[Current Destiny Points: 160]
Was this the system reminding him to use intelligence?
He was determined to get the Five-Element Lotus this time, so Gu Yang did not dare to be careless and chose yes.
[Generating Directional Intelligence...]
[Destiny Points deducted: 10]
[Remaining Destiny Points: 150]
[Current Environment: Lesser Five-Element Illusory Extinction Array (Chaotic State)]
[Intelligence Analysis: The five elements here are in chaos; what you see may not be real.
The current layout is the "Yin Wood Soul Lock" phase. Spirit-devouring root systems are hidden beneath all the "empty ground."
After a countdown of thirty breaths, the array will transform into the "Gold and Fire Cross-Kill" phase.
Gate of Life: Only the patch of black mud on the left, pressed down by half a rotting beast bone. It appears filthy and highly toxic, but it is actually the blind spot of the array core.]
So that was it.
He should currently be in the Lesser Five-Element Illusory Extinction Array at the outer perimeter of the secret realm.
If he hadn't used the intelligence, not only might he have been injured, but he would have also wasted a lot of time.
...
Gu Yang's eyes flickered slightly as he was about to move toward that muddy patch.
Suddenly, his mind stirred.
There was no sound of the air being pierced, nor any fluctuation of spiritual energy.
It was as if a cold, sinister sensation of being targeted by a venomous snake pierced straight into the back of his head.
Without any hesitation, Gu Yang followed the momentum and threw himself forward, as if he had lost his footing due to weak legs.
"Swish!"
Almost the instant he fell to the ground, two extremely thin blood-colored threads sliced right past his scalp, silently severing a drifting strand of his hair. If his reaction had been half a beat slower just now, it would have been his neck that was severed.
"Huh?"
A very soft gasp of surprise came from within the mist.
Two figures emerged like ghosts from the left and right sides.
The person on the left was tall and thin, his face as pale as paper. His fingers were excessively long, and eerie blood threads coiled around his fingertips.
The person on the right was short and stout, carrying a massive blood-colored bone saber on his back, his eyes steady and ferocious.
Neither of these two wore any sect attire, but that bloody stench of having crawled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood could not be hidden at all.
Demonic cultivators. And they were the kind of seasoned veterans who cooperated tacitly and killed without blinking an eye.
Judging from their techniques, they seemed to be disciples of the Blood Demon Sect, a demonic sect in the Eastern Region.
"Second Brother, he isn't dead."
Yin Sha retracted the blood threads. His voice was hoarse, and his gaze stared at Gu Yang as if looking at a dead object.
"A Qi Condensation itinerant cultivator with a superficial aura actually managed to dodge my 'Entangling Blood Threads'? A coincidence?"
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...
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
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?"
