Two stories unfolded at once.
On one side, Ao Xue was undergoing the baptism of an ancient and mysterious beastfolk inheritance, willingly absorbing knowledge that could be called forbidden. On the other, in a small valley not far outside Beast City, Little Beast, Jiang Xin, Xia Hanmo, and the others were running around in a panic.
“What do you think they captured the Heartless Man for?”
Jiang Xin sat on a large rock with a blade of foxtail grass between her teeth, frowning as she asked the question.
“They’re definitely taking revenge,” Xia Hanmo replied. “The Heartless Man taught Little Beast, and although the Dragon Girl won the election, she still lost face. She must have been furious, so she sent people to abduct the Heartless Man and find an opportunity to take revenge!”
“That’s probably it.”
Little Beast also sat on a large rock, nodding as she gazed anxiously at the distant city.
“Teacher must be suffering unimaginable torture right now.”
“It’s all my fault...”
She lowered her head guiltily. “Teacher only appeared at the gathering in his true form to encourage me. I never thought the Dragon Girl would hold such a grudge...”
“This isn’t your fault. No one could have expected something like this to happen.”
Xia Hanmo gently comforted her.
The several women, who should have been enemies, had now joined forces against a common foe because of Ao Xue’s appearance.
“Xia Hanmo is right.”
Jiang Xin rose to her feet and looked toward Beast City in the distance. “This isn’t the time to dwell on our troubles. The most urgent thing is to get the Heartless Man out of there.”
“I have a bad feeling about this.”
“If we arrive too late, someone could end up dead!”
“I feel the same way.”
Xia Hanmo and Little Beast nodded in unison.
“But the problem is, how are we supposed to get through the heavily guarded Beast City and rescue the Heartless Man?” The women crouched beside the stream, each lost in thought as they tried to come up with a plan.
Just then, a sharp voice rang out.
“Me! Me! I can do it!”
The women looked up and saw the Little Fancy Rat, who had only just joined them, bouncing up and down while waving her tiny paws at them.
“I have a plan!”
The moment they saw the Little Fancy Rat, the women immediately lost heart.
What could a rat possibly do?
Even so, Little Beast stood up and crouched down in front of the Little Fancy Rat, asking with a smile, “What’s your plan?”
The Little Fancy Rat puffed out her chest, her face full of pride.
“I’m the best at digging tunnels! I can secretly dig a passage inside without anyone noticing me!”
Little Beast nodded slightly at that.
Digging a tunnel?
That might actually work.
After all, no one would pay much attention to a rat by the roadside. Even if they saw it, they probably wouldn’t care and would simply let it go about its business.
But there was still a problem. A rat was still a rat.
If they entered alongside the Little Fancy Rat, the powerful beastfolk inside would certainly sense their presence.
“If only there were some way to keep the beastfolk inside from sensing us,” Little Beast muttered. “Then we could use the tunnel to bring Teacher out.”
“Keep them from sensing us?”
Hearing her mutter, Xia Hanmo stared at the stream flowing all the way toward Beast City. Suddenly, her eyes lit up.
“I have an idea!”
“An idea?”
Jiang Xin and Little Beast both looked up at her.
“That’s right.” Xia Hanmo nodded and pointed at the stream before them. “I can put something in the water to make the beastfolk in the city temporarily unable to pay attention to us.”
Little Beast shook her head.
“No.”
“What cultivation level are you at? If you use poison, the important figures inside will notice it easily. Besides, high-level beastfolk generally have a strong resistance to toxins. Not only will you fail to bring them down, you may even alert them to our presence.”
“They might even tighten their defenses.”
Instead of becoming discouraged by Little Beast’s objections, Xia Hanmo’s lips curled slightly upward.
“Who said it has to be poison?”
“We only need to make sure they’re too busy to sense what we’re doing, right?”
“Y-Yes.”
Little Beast nodded, but as she looked at Xia Hanmo’s wicked smile, she couldn’t help feeling that something ominous was about to happen.
“In that case...”
The smile on Xia Hanmo’s lips slowly grew gentler.
“What if what I put in the water isn’t poison at all... but a ‘tonic’ that invigorates the blood and replenishes the vital essence?”
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…
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.”
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
