The sun shone brightly, and the wind blew as before.
Lin Heming's figure stood in the void, his hands behind his back, facing away from the crowd, gazing at the distant setting sun.
"The Ancestral Martial Mother is already dead."
"That thing just now was nothing more than an evil spirit using the name of the Ancestral Martial Mother, understood?"
"Understood."
The crowd nodded.
Everyone knew that the deceased spirit was indeed the Ancestral Martial Mother. Having spent day and night together, how could the Peak Masters not recognize the person they were once closest to? Impossible.
It was just to preserve that final shred of dignity.
The dead are gone.
Denying her current senility did not mean erasing her past achievements.
Even if the deceased was the Dao companion of the founding patriarch.
The many disciples below looked at Lin Heming with nothing but reverence and admiration, without a trace of doubt or fear.
Only those with guilty consciences would be afraid.
With such an elder—who clearly distinguished right from wrong, loyalty from treachery—watching over them, the Azure Profound Sect would never decline.
However, just when everyone thought the matter was over.
Lin Heming slowly turned around and looked at the remaining Peak Masters. "You all have also disappointed me greatly."
As soon as these words came out, the hearts of the Peak Masters leaped into their throats.
"Senior Brother Lin, we did put in the effort during the beast tide just now..." someone tried to bluff their way out.
"I do not deny your contributions," Lin Heming's voice was very calm. "But I also cannot accept your silence."
"If you were mortals, it would be fine."
"If you were rogue cultivators, it would be fine."
"But you are of the righteous path. You are role models for so many disciples, yet in the face of injustice, you chose to swallow your anger."
"Are you trying to tell these young disciples,"
"That in the face of seniority and hierarchy, right and wrong do not matter? Cultivating fate but not character is the greatest sickness in cultivation."
"Do you not understand the principle that if the upper beam is not straight, the lower ones will be crooked?"
The Peak Masters were left speechless.
They bowed their heads, deeply ashamed.
Seeing Lin Heming scolding the Peak Masters like they were his grandchildren, Ye Shu couldn't help but nudge Lin Qingxue with his elbow and whispered, "Your grandfather is so amazing, how come I've never heard you mention it before?"
Lin Qingxue froze, her eyes darting away.
Could she tell this heartless man that she actually didn't know her grandfather was this incredible either?
If she had known earlier in the Demonic Beast Mountain Range, what would she have been afraid of?
Thinking this in her heart, Lin Qingxue gave a soft snort on the surface: "Do you think everyone is a show-off like you? You'd better behave, and you aren't allowed to do anything that lets me... You have to keep your promise to me. My grandfather hates people who break their promises the most."
Ye Shu's mouth twitched.
Wait, why is Haji-Xue acting so possessive?
Meanwhile, Qin Ke'er, who was standing behind them, watched them acting all sweet and flirting, and suddenly felt a bit empty inside.
It felt as if something had been stolen from her.
"Sister Ke'er, why are you crying?"
Suddenly, a small hand pulled at the corner of her clothes. Qin Ke'er looked down and saw that it was Xiao Qingli looking up at her, her big eyes full of curiosity.
Qin Ke'er picked up Xiao Qingli and suddenly burst into tears.
"Sister woke up too late."
"Too late."
Xiao Qingli didn't understand why Qin Ke'er was crying. She just stared blankly at Ye Shu and Lin Qingxue holding hands in front of her, hoping in her heart that she would grow up quickly.
That way, she could marry Big Brother.
She could have lots and lots of children! She would live happily with Big Brother forever, um... and Sister Qingxue, Sister Ke'er, and many, many other sisters!
Thinking like this, Xiao Qingli couldn't help but smile, her eyes curving into crescents as she giggled silly.
On the other side, Su Xiao breathed a sigh of relief.
There were still normal people in this world.
This life would just be like this.
What ten billion, whatever. After the Azure Profound Sect is destroyed, it would be quite nice to go to some small village and become a carefree rogue cultivator.
As for the system?
I'm done with it.
On another side, seeing his many junior brothers being scolded, Li Daoyuan couldn't help but take a step forward.
"Senior Brother Lin, they were also..."
"Also what?"
Lin Heming sharply turned his head back, staring intently at him.
"Afraid of death? Afraid of the old senior?"
"If cultivators don't even have this much courage, how can they break out of the shackles of the old ways? If I hadn't returned today, would you have really locked them all up?"
"And you, Junior Brother Li. In this Azure Profound Sect, are you the master, or am I the master?"
"Is there even a need to say?"
Li Daoyuan immediately raised his head, patted his chest, and said, "Naturally, Senior Brother is the master."
"..........."
Looking at the other party's sincere eyes, Lin Heming almost lost his breath and fainted on the spot. He was truly about to laugh out of anger at his own junior brother.
Li Daoyuan also had his own grievances to air.
He had never wanted to be the Sect Master in the first place. Back then, the candidate the patriarch favored for the position was Lin Heming. It was because Lin Heming himself refused that the patriarch had to force Li Daoyuan into the role.
"Senior Brother, if you want to be the Sect Master, I'm fine with it. Just give the word, and I'll pass the position to you on the spot."
"You!"
Lin Heming's mouth twitched. All the words he had wanted to say were completely choked back down by this.
"Never mind, never mind."
He waved his hand. "All Peak Masters are to walk the Dao Heart Trial left by the patriarch once again. Whenever you figure things out, that's when you can return to being Peak Masters."
Hearing this, the expressions of all the Peak Masters changed in unison, as traumatic memories surfaced in their minds.
But under the pressure, they still dared not speak.
Lin Heming withdrew his gaze, looked down at the many disciples waiting eagerly, and waved his large sleeve.
"Since the matter is over."
"I hope all disciples will take this as a warning and cultivate properly. This old man will not stay any longer."
A gust of wind blew past, and the old man's figure completely disappeared.
Li Daoyuan, who had just been acting submissive, immediately puffed out his chest, held his head high, and the expression on his face instantly became serious.
"What are you all looking at?"
"The All-Peak Grand Competition, continue!"
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.”
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
