"Heartless jerk, philandering playboy, scoundrel, ugly beast, big bad wolf, wife-abandoning scumbag, irresponsible bastard..."
In the Magical Beast Mountain Range, a woman in a pink dress stood upon a flying sword, muttering and cursing incessantly.
"That hateful guy, how dare he bully me."
"He bullied me in my past life, and he's still bullying me in this one.
"Doesn't that mean my reincarnation was for nothing?!"
As she cursed, Lin Qingxue suddenly startled.
She abruptly stopped in mid-air, patted her cheeks with both hands, and murmured softly, "Lin Qingxue, what on earth are you thinking? Have you forgotten what you came to the Magical Beast Mountain Range for?"
"You are here to prevent the sect's annihilation!"
"That guy is the culprit who will kill the eldest senior brother and cause the destruction of the Qingxuan Sect in the future!"
"How can you, just because he treats you well..."
"When I get back, I'll have Grandpa teach him a good lesson..."
As she spoke, her voice grew softer and softer. Her mind suddenly recalled the bits and pieces of this recent period: Ye Shu's determination and perseverance during his crazy cultivation, his courage and ruthlessness when facing Feng Mengli, his patience and gentleness when teaching the Little Beast, and his openness and free-spiritedness when he finally let her leave...
And... that sentence—
"You are my coordinate system in this world."
Most importantly, when facing Feng Mengli, those three incredibly similar questions.
He was just a fool who knew nothing.
Yet he had to inexplicably endure her killing intent.
It seemed like she... was being far too unreasonable.
But the future of the sect... the scenes of her fellow disciples being killed by the demonic path, the tragedy of the sect's annihilation...
"Forget it, forget it!"
Lin Qingxue shook her head vigorously, steered her flying sword again, and muttered, "I'll just let Grandpa capture him, and then... hmm... tie him to my side to be a tea-serving boy. I'll keep an eye on him personally!"
"Hmph, hmph!"
Coming up with this seemingly perfect plan, Lin Qingxue couldn't help but hum proudly.
"With someone as smart as me watching him, could he possibly pull any tricks? Not only will it prevent future tragedies, but I can also get revenge on him for bullying me."
"Who told him to break my sword?"
The more Lin Qingxue thought about it, the more reasonable and correct it felt!
She made up her mind to do exactly this when she returned. She would have her grandfather make a move, tie Ye Shu by her side, and keep him under strict surveillance so he couldn't go out and harm other girls... uh, no, so he couldn't go out and commit evil deeds again!
As for the Male Mandarin Duck Sword...
Only when it's repaired will he be allowed to go out and get some fresh air!
Thinking like this, Lin Qingxue's mood improved significantly.
"Let's see what this big bastard left for me." She lowered her head, picked up the storage ring in her hand, and examined it closely. Suddenly, she noticed something shining in the sunlight inside the ring's band.
She looked closer and discovered that tucked inside the ring band was a round bead, its light flowing and shimmering.
The knowledgeable and experienced Lin Qingxue recognized it immediately.
This was a Shadow Recording Bead.
"Could it be that the guy had something he was too embarrassed to say to my face, so he secretly recorded it and hid it in the ring?"
Lin Qingxue's heartbeat inexplicably accelerated.
In the picture books she had read, this kind of situation was usually... a confession!
With an excited heart and trembling hands.
Blushing, Lin Qingxue activated the Shadow Recording Stone.
With a flash of light, a scene suddenly appeared in mid-air: a cute and pretty young girl in a pink dress was standing on a flying sword over a stream, while a naked teenage boy was in the river below.
The boy looked up and asked calmly, "I am bathing here, and you attacked me without a word. Isn't that a bit too overbearing?"
"May I ask your name, miss."
"Lin Qingxue."
"Have I ever offended you, miss?"
"No."
"Have I ever met you, miss?"
"No."
"Have I committed any evil deeds in the past that disgusted you so much you had to hunt me down here?"
"No."
"Alright."
"Since I have never met you, nor have I committed any evil deeds, why did you attack me for no reason?"
"I, Lin Qingxue, need no reason to kill."
"Just die!"
Lin Qingxue stared blankly at this scene, her eyes flashing with disbelief. Wasn't this the scene of their first encounter? He actually recorded it with a Shadow Recording Stone?
After the visual ended, there was an audio recording.
"Miss Lin, if I find out that you are causing trouble for me because of what happened in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, do not blame me for making this footage public."
"After all..."
Ye Shu's voice carried a faint trace of teasing.
"Miss Lin wouldn't want her unreasonable image to be known to the world, right?"
Crack... crackle...
The Shadow Recording Stone creaked as Lin Qingxue squeezed it. Her face went from initial expectation to shock, and finally, upon hearing Ye Shu's smile, her entire face flushed the color of pig liver.
This... this hateful guy!!!
They had already parted ways, yet he was still bullying her!!!
Now, the plan she had just thought of was completely ruined. There would be no tea-serving boy, and no Male Mandarin Duck Sword.
"Fortunately, there's still this."
Lin Qingxue tried hard to calm herself down and looked at the storage ring in her hand. "Regardless, these are the belongings of a Soul Formation cultivator. That guy isn't too stingy."
However, when she probed her divine sense into the storage ring.
A line of large, scarlet words instantly appeared before Lin Qingxue's eyes, lingering there—
You have been targeted by the Yunxiao Sect!!!
If you don't want to bring disaster to your family, come and accept your death voluntarily!
"This... this is..." Lin Qingxue stared blankly at the scarlet words before her eyes. How could she not understand? This was a special tracking method of the Yunxiao Sect.
That bastard Ye Shu didn't refuse to take it himself.
It was because he didn't dare to take it.
Realizing this, Lin Qingxue was overcome with furious anxiety, so angry she practically choked. Facing the setting sun, she roared in exasperation:
"Damn you, Ye Shu!!!!"
"I hate you to death!!!!!"
In the dense forest, Ye Shu smiled faintly, toying with the only remaining Shadow Recording Stone in his hand, and leisurely returned to the cave.
The cave was empty of any beasts.
Obviously, the Lion King had gone out to hunt.
"Here, eat a Smart Pill."
Returning to the cave, after his routine teaching of the Little Beast, Ye Shu took out a pitch-black pill from his clothes, its medicinal fragrance filling the air. This was something he refined in his spare time. He claimed it was effective for awakening the intelligence of demonic beasts, but in reality, it was just an ordinary health supplement. However, seeing that the Little Beast was fine after eating it, the Lion King let him be.
Gulp!
After the Little Beast happily swallowed the pill, it suddenly felt a wave of drowsiness and fell dizzily into Ye Shu's arms.
"Chirp, chirp...?"
It cried out groggily, but unable to resist the sleepiness, it fell into a deep slumber. However, its small paws tightly gripped the corner of Ye Shu's clothes, refusing to let go.
A lone moon hung high in the sky, casting sparse and lonely shadows.
Ye Shu sat cross-legged in front of the cave, allowing the silvery moonlight to wash over his entire body. His left hand stroked the furry head of the Little Beast, while his right hand guided its paw to trace idle patterns on the ground.
He did not stop until the roar of a beast echoed from afar.
"Aren't you going to say goodbye?"
"If I say goodbye, I won't be able to bring myself to leave."
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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.”
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.
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…
