Green Profound Sect, Training Ground.
Li Qingran looked at the hand extended before her, hesitated for a moment, then reached out and placed her hand in his.
She knew full well he was saving her face.
If she couldn’t beat him now, would she ever be able to in the future?
The gap between them would only widen.
But what she couldn’t understand was why, after everything she had done, Ye Shu was still willing to give her an out. Were they not sworn enemies?
“Young Mistress!”
Seeing Li Qingran take Ye Shu’s hand, Xiaocui let out a startled cry and instinctively covered her mouth.
Th-this... wasn’t the young mistress admitting it?
Admitting she was this scoundrel’s fiancée!
And that meant—as the young mistress’s personal maid—she’d have to marry into his household too. According to the old folks, when the new bride got too tired on the wedding night, she might even call upon her maid to... fill in.
Xiaocui’s face flushed crimson all the way to the tips of her ears, and she averted her gaze, afraid to look at Ye Shu.
On the other side, Ye Shu looked at her with a puzzled expression.
Seriously, why are you blushing like a damn teakettle?
What does this have to do with you?
The atmosphere on the square grew stiff. Aside from Xiaocui’s occasional blushing and racing heart, there wasn’t much to say between Ye Shu and Li Qingran—after all, aside from the day of the broken engagement, this was practically their only real encounter.
“Um... let me help you regulate your qi,” Ye Shu said, breaking the silence first.
Li Qingran froze for a moment.
“All right.”
The next moment, Ye Shu took her hand and sent a trickle of spiritual energy into her body, instantly calming the chaotic surges within her.
“Young Mistress, you look so much better now!” Xiaocui exclaimed happily, seeing Li Qingran restored. Her opinion of Ye Shu softened a little too.
Maybe that bastard wasn’t so bad after all.
As for Li Qingran, her cheeks were faintly flushed. She didn’t know why she had nodded—she had simply done so instinctively.
Once the qi regulation was complete, Ye Shu rose and clapped his hands. “If there’s nothing else, I’ll be going. I’ve still got things to take care of.”
But before he could take a step, an icy voice rang out across the entire arena.
“And who said you could leave?”
Everyone instinctively looked up toward a certain spot in the air. There stood Feng Mengli, robes of pure white billowing, stepping upon the void. Her gaze was frigid as she stared down at Ye Shu.
Anyone could hear the deadly intent in her voice.
The entire training ground was steeped in a killing atmosphere.
“This master didn’t go looking for you, yet you dared to come to my sect yourself,” Feng Mengli said, her tone like ice, each step she took across the void rippling the air like water. “Not only that, but you also injured my disciple.”
“Since you’re here, you might as well leave your life behind.”
With that, a silver-white longsword materialized in her right hand, its tip gleaming coldly, aimed straight at Ye Shu.
“Feng Mengli?”
Ye Shu narrowed his eyes, a cold smirk curling at the corner of his lips.
Just as the tension reached its peak, a figure in blue suddenly stepped in front of Ye Shu.
“Master, no!”
Li Qingran spread her arms wide, shielding Ye Shu like a mother hen protecting her chick.
“Qingran, step aside!” Feng Mengli thundered.
“I won’t.” Li Qingran shook her head, her gaze steady. “He came today to keep his appointment, and I lost fair and square. If you kill him now, what will the world think of Cloud Soaring Sect?”
“That we kill to silence the defeated.”
“They’ll say we can’t accept loss—that we’re petty little people, hypocrites!”
Looking at her stubborn disciple, Feng Mengli let out a long, slow sigh. “Qingran, you’re still young. Many things are not as simple as you imagine.”
“Today, I will kill him.”
“No matter who tries to stop me!”
With that, she swept her sleeve with a fierce motion, unleashing the overwhelming pressure of her Nascent Soul cultivation across the field.
“Master…”
Seeing that words were useless, Li Qingran suddenly raised her hand and pressed a sword against her own neck. “Master, I may not understand much, but I can still tell right from wrong. If you insist on winning through dishonesty…”
“Then Qingran will have no choice but to die to prove my integrity.”
“You—!”
Feng Mengli’s pupils contracted. She had never imagined her foolish disciple would be so stubborn. But seeing the blood trickling down her neck, she knew the girl was serious about killing herself. Reluctantly, she lowered her sword.
She could always intercept him on the road outside Cloud Soaring Sect.
“Fine. I’ll spare your life today.”
“Get out of here, now!”
Feng Mengli flicked her sleeve and was about to turn away when Ye Shu, who had remained silent until now, suddenly spoke.
“Sect Leader Feng,” he said, “did I say you could leave?”
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…
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
【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.)
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.”
