She closed her eyes in despair, waiting for death to descend.
However.
The icy annihilation she expected never came.
Instead, an incredibly overbearing wave of heat, accompanied by a tyrannical, low roar, crashed ruthlessly into her embrace.
"Shut up!!"
A large hand roughly tore away the tattered cloth hindering its path over her lower abdomen. Radiating a scorching heat, it pressed down directly and without hesitation onto the cluster of pale, deadly light that was wildly spreading.
Great Sun Heaven-Scorching Scripture, running at full power!
The utterly unyielding and masculine Golden Crow Fire surged domineeringly through his palm and into Su Wanyin's body. Like a sovereign patrolling his domain, it launched the most frenzied siege against that pale cluster of Nine Nether Corpse Fire.
Sizzle!
The moment flesh made contact, the collision of ice and fire provoked a burst of teeth-aching white smoke.
Gu Yang furrowed his brows fiercely.
It hurt.
But this bone-piercing, sinister cold only further stimulated the ferocity of the Great Sun Heaven-Scorching Scripture within his body.
This trash fire actually dared to touch his private property?
"Trying to hog it all to yourself? Have you asked me first?!"
Gu Yang roared in his heart. Not only did he not withdraw his hand, but he also changed his palm into a claw. His five fingers sank deeply into the skin of Su Wanyin's flat, taut abdomen like iron hooks.
"Spit it out... for me!!"
Boom!
The five-colored lotus platform within his body rotated madly. The Great Sun True Fire, like golden magma, surged barbarically down his arm and crashed into Su Wanyin's dantian.
This time, it was not to heal.
It was to plunder!
It was the absolute crushing dominance of an apex predator over a lesser being!
...
Buzz—
At the exact moment the Great Sun True Fire and the Nine Nethers Soul-Locking Flame converged within Su Wanyin's body.
Both of their bodies trembled violently at the same time.
The reason the Nine Nethers Soul-Locking Flame ranked ninety-ninth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking was precisely because of its bizarre soul-locking characteristic.
At this moment, in order to resist Gu Yang's invasion, it instinctively and forcefully locked their divine souls together.
An invisible soul bridge was instantly erected.
Time seemed to stand still in this instant.
Su Wanyin's previously unfocused pupils suddenly contracted.
She saw it.
On a soul level, she clearly felt the truest, most violent emotions deep within that man's heart at this very moment.
It was a possessiveness capable of incinerating heaven and earth.
It was an extreme protectiveness over his food, going by the name of greed.
However, in the perception of the dying Su Wanyin, this greed directed at the heavenly flame was subjected to a beautiful, fatal misinterpretation by her consciousness that was hovering on the brink of collapse.
...
Gu Yang (furious): This fire is mine! Who allowed you to ruin my spoils of war! I won't let even a single trace of its spiritual essence slip away!
Su Wanyin (trembling): He is angry... because the grim reaper is trying to take me away? He is roaring at the Heavenly Dao, saying that I am his?
Gu Yang (anxious): Lock it down for me! Don't let it dissipate! If it dissipates, I won't be able to level up!
Su Wanyin (captivated): He is ordering me... not to let my soul scatter? Even if it means defying the heavens, he wants to lock my life to the mortal realm?
...
"Look at me!!"
In reality, Gu Yang's explosive shout forcefully pulled Su Wanyin's consciousness back.
That ordinary, unremarkable face was now covered in sweat and ferocity. Those eyes, which were originally as placid as an ancient well, were now burning with golden flames, frighteningly bright.
He stared fixedly at Su Wanyin, the force in his hand so great it felt as if he was going to crush her bones.
"You are not allowed to die!!"
"Did you hear me!!"
You are my quest NPC! You are not allowed to die before the rewards are issued!
This incredibly overbearing declaration, accompanied by the resonance deep within her soul, instantly shattered Su Wanyin's final reserves and defenses as the Demonic Sect's Saintess.
In this cultivation world full of deception, where everyone calculated for their own benefit.
Even Mo Yuan, whom she was as close to as a grandfather, only thought of refining her into a human pill.
Only this man.
This Li Feiyu whom she had met by chance.
To save her, he did not hesitate to risk his own life to touch the lethal Nine Nethers Netherfire.
To keep her here, he did not hesitate to burn his divine soul, playing tug-of-war with the King of Hell in this rainy night.
"Li... Feiyu..."
"How can you be so foolish..."
A clear tear slid from the corner of Su Wanyin's eye, mixing with the rainwater, so poignantly beautiful it broke the heart.
So, this was what it felt like to be needed so domineeringly by someone?
It was like a lone boat that had drifted for half a lifetime, finally crashing into a hard, scalding, yet incomparably safe harbor, despite its roughness.
"Alright..."
Her pale lips moved slightly, letting out a broken murmur.
"I won't die... I am... yours..."
She gave up all resistance, even taking the initiative to open her most vulnerable dantian qi sea, allowing that man's spiritual energy to drive straight in.
Rumble!
Having gained Su Wanyin's active cooperation, Gu Yang's Great Sun True Fire instantly gained the absolute upper hand.
The golden flames transformed into a giant net, firmly covering the cluster of pale heavenly flame that was wreaking havoc.
"Collect... for your granddaddy!!"
Gu Yang forcefully yanked backward.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle—
That cluster of Nine Nethers Soul-Locking Flame let out an unwilling shriek as it was forcibly uprooted from Su Wanyin's dantian!
The intertwining of pleasure and emptiness in that instant caused Su Wanyin to let out a trembling scream.
"Ugh— Ah..."
...
Rainwater washed over the mess on the ground.
Gu Yang sat cross-legged on a scorched black rock. In the center of his palm, that pale cluster of Nine Nethers Soul-Locking Flame was madly darting left and right, letting out shrieks like a vengeful ghost.
But under the absolute suppression of the Great Sun True Fire, it was like an ice cube dropped into boiling oil, helplessly being stripped away and melted layer by layer.
Gu Yang raised his eyelids slightly. The five-colored lotus platform in his dantian rotated with a rumble.
A domineering suction force erupted from his palm.
Whoosh—
That cluster of heavenly flame, enough to make late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators tremble in fear, was actually sucked alive into his body like a noodle!
There was none of the imagined pain.
The Great Sun Heaven-Scorching Scripture had long been dying of thirst and hunger.
The moment that surge of extremely yin and freezing energy entered his meridians, it was instantly enveloped, shredded, and devoured by the ravenous golden spiritual energy within his body.
Yin and yang transformed, water and fire complementing each other.
The originally tyrannical and scorching Great Sun True Fire, after devouring this extremely yin heavenly flame, unexpectedly gained a trace of bizarre profoundness.
In the center of the golden flames, a heart-palpitating pale white faintly emerged.
Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully devouring the Nine Nethers Soul-Locking Flame (Incomplete Version).
Proficiency of the Great Sun Heaven-Scorching Scripture has increased!
Great Sun True Fire has successfully evolved! Awakened new special effect: Soul Scorch.
Soul Scorch: The Great Sun True Fire will carry true soul damage. For those burned by the true fire, their divine soul will collapse before their physical body is destroyed. Deals extra damage to ghost cultivators, soul entities, and body snatchers.
Beside the scorched rock, Gu Yang lay flat on his back among the mud and gravel.
His eyes were half-closed, his chest heaving violently. Every breath he took brought out a pale golden, scorching white mist.
That was the pure energy overflowing after the Nine Nethers Soul-Locking Flame had been forcefully refined.
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.”
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
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?"
