This single strike silenced the entire hall.
Mo Shisan stared, dumbfounded, at Mo Yu lying on the ground, out cold, his face a mask of utter confusion.
Bro, what?
Didn’t we agree to play to her preferences?
Just a moment ago, he was going on about how the world is all about profit, and the next second, he gets launched into the air.
Can this get any more ridiculous?
Even as these thoughts raced through his mind, Mo Shisan quickly crouched down, frantically shaking the fallen Mo Yu, asking with concern, "Young Master Mo? Young Master Mo? You still alive down there?"
"Don’t... don’t move..."
Mo Yu gritted out from the ground, struggling to speak. "It’s broken... my back is broken..."
Damn, she really is the Dragon Girl, no question.
Her physical strength was terrifying beyond belief—one punch, and his battle-hardened body was wrecked like this. That legendary physique, said to rival immortals at full power, wasn’t just for show.
"Your back is broken?"
Mo Shisan blinked, then immediately pressed his hand against Mo Yu’s lower back, asking as he probed, "Is it broken right here?"
"AHH!"
The pain nearly made Mo Yu bite straight through his teeth.
His jaw clenched tight, cold sweat beading on his forehead, he snarled, "Stop messing around, you idiot! Just give me the pill!"
"Pill? Right, right, the pill."
Mo Shisan snapped back to his senses, fumbled a small porcelain bottle from his robes, popped the stopper, and shoved a brown medicinal pill into Mo Yu’s mouth.
The effect was immediate.
A warm current rose from Mo Yu’s abdomen, spreading through every limb and bone, leaving his whole body bathed in warmth.
That was the one good thing about cultivation.
No matter how severe the injury, one pill and you’re back on your feet.
Still hurt like hell, though.
He struggled to his feet, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and glared darkly at Ao Xue, his voice cold. "Miss Ao, I came to you in good faith to form an alliance, and this is how you treat your guest?"
Ao Xue was still holding her striking pose.
She raised her flawless pale chin, her right hand clutching the three milky-white pills she had just snatched from mid-air, and scoffed disdainfully: "I absolutely despise people trying to sweet-talk me with candy-like trinkets. Do you take me for a three-year-old child?"
With that, her five fingers clenched.
The pills crumbled into fine powder, sifting through her fingers and drifting to the floor.
Mo Yu’s pupils contracted at the sight.
What the hell?
The intel was bogus?
Wasn’t she supposed to love these little sugar pills? Why the complete opposite reaction?
He stood there, his mind racing.
Which left only one possibility—
"Screw you, System, you conned me again!" he cursed internally, though his face betrayed nothing.
As they say, the truly great aren’t bogged down by trivial details.
So the plan backfired a bit?
I can take it.
Mo Yu silently swore to himself: once he formed the alliance with Ao Xue, used the old Dragon King to kill the male lead, gathered all the fortune, and restored his little bird to its former glory, he would make this arrogant Dragon Girl pay for her attitude!
For now, patience.
After all, this was the Ten Thousand Beasts City—the domain of the beast clans.
With that thought, Mo Yu settled his mind.
He raised his head, a perfectly measured smile spreading across his face. "Ah, my apologies. I didn’t realize you weren’t the type to enjoy..."
Before he could finish, Mo Shisan suddenly moved.
He yanked his hand up, and then—
SMACK!
A crisp, ringing slap echoed through the entire room.
Mo Yu’s words died in his throat. He stared blankly at Mo Shisan’s hand hovering mid-air, his mind completely wiped clean.
Bro, what?
I’m in the middle of negotiating here, and you pull that?!
Are you trying to sabotage me?!
Ao Xue was just as stunned by the slap, her head turned to the side, a bright red palm print slowly blooming on her cheek.
She had never expected Mo Shisan to strike.
"You... you hit ME?"
She clutched her throbbing cheek, staring at Mo Shisan’s utterly expressionless face with eyes full of shock, bewilderment, and a flicker of confusion.
"You dare to hit ME?"
"Do you have any idea who you’re standing in front of? I’m the daughter of the Beast King! Even my own father has never dared to slap me..."
SMACK!
Before she could finish, Mo Shisan, still stone-faced, delivered another slap.
This one struck dead on her other cheek, snapping her head to the opposite side, her previously fair face now swelling grotesquely.
Ao Xue was completely stunned.
With both hands pressed to her cheeks, she stared blankly at Mo Shisan before her, her mind stuck in a loop of one question:
How dare he?
How dare he?!
Even Mo Yu was stunned, not just Ao Xue.
Watching Mo Shisan land one slap after another, leaving angry red marks across her face, he looked on with the kind of reverence usually reserved for witnessing something legendary.
Has he always been this fearless?
"Hmph!"
Having struck twice in a row, Mo Shisan let out a cold snort, clasped his hands behind his back, and stared frigidly at Ao Xue before him, his voice like ice: "I never wanted to raise a hand, but you forced my hand with your utter lack of decency."
"Our Young Master Mo offering you an alliance is doing you an honor!"
"Not only do you fail to appreciate it, but you attack the one who came in peace and waste his goodwill!"
"A little beast clan dares to act so arrogant! Who gave you the right?"
"Remember this: in the presence of my Mo family, under Young Master Mo himself, a dragon must coil, and a tiger must crouch!"
Mo Shisan punctuated each phrase, his tone sharp with rebuke.
For two full seconds, the room was silent.
Ao Xue stared at Mo Shisan, her pupils trembling. The familiar tone, the scolding phrasing, even the exact energy of it...
It moved her to speechlessness.
"I... I’m sorry... I won’t do it again..."
She lowered her head and answered, almost on instinct.
Beside her, Mo Yu stood frozen, his expression cycling through a dozen different emotions.
I don’t understand, but I am deeply impressed.
Ao Xue froze too, as if shocked she had actually said those words.
But the next moment, a deeper rage boiled up within her!
A proud Dragon Girl, bowing to some fleeting memory and spouting such gutless words in front of outsiders?!
She snapped her head up, her draconic pupils blazing like contained suns.
"You SEEK..."
But before the last syllable left her lips, her eyes locked with Mo Shisan’s utterly indifferent gaze.
All momentum abruptly died.
A soul-deep terror washed over her, instant and absolute.
Almost by pure reflex, Ao Xue whipped around and set her sights on Mo Yu, who was standing off to the side watching the drama unfold. Her tail flicked behind her, two coral-like horns began to sprout from her forehead, fangs bared in a grotesque snarl.
"YOU BASTARD! READY TO DIE?!"
Blinking blankly at the fury radiating from Ao Xue, Mo Yu had no idea what was happening.
What... what did I do?
He’s the one who hit you, not me! Why take it out on ME?!
Before he could even react—
BOOM!
A sound of concrete shattering filled the air. Ao Xue’s form vanished in an instant, reappearing directly in front of Mo Yu. Her right hand had transformed into a dragon claw, swinging with full force, carrying a gust of wind as she put every ounce of her strength behind a single punch.
THUD!
He barely had time to blink before he was once again sent flying across the room, tracing an elegant arc through the air.
With a look of deep grievance, he shot a glance back at Mo Shisan.
Why?
Why?
Why does it always have to be ME who suffers?
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?!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
