“Is that him?”
“Is that him?!”
“It’s him!”
“It really is him.”
As the voices rang out across the desert, everyone stopped what they were doing in unison and turned toward the direction from which they had come. Once they saw who had arrived, different sounds escaped their throats, but the shock in their eyes was exactly the same.
Medusa stared at the indistinct figure emerging from the swirling sandstorm, her beautiful eyes trembling with disbelief.
But with that voice, that manner of arrival, and that foxtail grass—visible even from such a great distance—
Who else could it be?
“It really is him. He’s still alive.”
Medusa covered her mouth, her pupils trembling. She was nearly moved to tears. If Ye Xiaoxi hadn’t been there, she probably would have actually shed a few. She wiped at the corners of her eyes, forced down the turmoil in her heart, and pretended to disdainfully curl her lips.
“He’s not a young man anymore, yet he still spends all day trying to look cool.”
“It really is him.”
Danxia, who was possessing Ye Xiaoxi, was even more overwhelmed. She covered her mouth with one hand, her eyes reddening as she stared intently at the figure advancing through the storm.
“Daddy?”
Seeing the reactions of both her mothers, Ye Xiaoxi immediately understood. The mysterious man who had suddenly appeared was most likely her elusive father. She opened her eyes wide and curiously studied the approaching figure.
Beneath the boundless desert, yellow sand filled the sky.
Through the endless sandstorm, Ye Shu advanced step by step, treading upon the grains of sand as the gale whipped at his robes.
A single emerald-green strand of foxtail grass swayed in the wind, standing firm amid the chaotic currents—much like his youthful spirit, eternal and indestructible.
“So... so cool...”
Ye Xiaoxi’s small mouth fell open as she stood there in a daze.
She had imagined that her father would be handsome, but she had never expected his entrance to be this spectacular.
There were no dazzling special effects.
Yet the mere fact that his arrival had caused everyone to stop fighting was, in itself, a terrifying display of intimidation.
Ye Xiaoxi widened her eyes and watched carefully, muttering to herself, “I have to memorize this properly. Next time, I’m going to make my entrance just like Daddy!”
“I’ll definitely be able to use it the next time I show off!”
At the same time, Mo Yu and the others narrowed their eyes slightly.
“Is that really him?”
There was a hint of uncertainty in Mo Yu’s gaze.
“Probably,” Mo Shisan replied from behind him. “No one else would be coming at a time like this. It’s not as though he could have been standing right next to us the entire time.”
“True.”
Mo Yu nodded.
Everyone was shocked by Ye Shu’s arrival. His dazzling entrance and confident declaration were even more proof of the confidence he possessed.
However, when they extended their divine senses and sensed his cultivation...
Four words flashed through everyone’s minds.
Peak Void Refinement!
The moment this information became imprinted in their minds, the scene that had just seemed incredibly cool collapsed completely.
Ye Xiaoxi’s mouth fell open. In disbelief, she said, “This... this can’t be real, right?”
“Is this really my father? Peak Void Refinement? That’s only a little stronger than I was when I was born!”
“He isn’t even as strong as me. What use is he?”
“Oh no, oh no.”
“Could this so-called father of mine have come here just to get himself killed? Is the whole family going to die together?” The filter of paternal admiration shattered instantly, and Ye Xiaoxi began criticizing him without mercy.
“Void Refinement?”
Even Mo Yu nearly lost his composure.
But after thinking about it carefully, it was actually within reason.
No matter how powerful Ye Shu had been back then, he had only recently been resurrected. He no longer possessed the Azure Profound Sword or any of his fortune, and he had merely thrown his weight around in the Netherworld Ruins.
Ultimately, that had only been among the younger generation.
He had simply been bullying the weak.
Against old veterans, he was still far from sufficient.
“Heh heh...”
Mo Yu clenched his teeth, but he still couldn’t control the corners of his mouth as they slowly stretched into a wide grin.
“So, because he knows he can’t win in terms of cultivation, he chose to confront us head-on rather than watch helplessly as his wife and daughter were captured while he hid to the side, powerless to do anything?”
“Hachi-rat, you’re something else... I approve.”
Meanwhile, on the other side—
“Xiaoxi, Xiaoxi.”
Medusa quietly nudged the back of Ye Xiaoxi’s hand.
“What is it, Mother?” Ye Xiaoxi was still immersed in the sorrow of her shattered fantasy. She turned her head and looked at Medusa in confusion.
Medusa’s expression was solemn as she lowered her voice.
“Listen carefully, Xiaoxi.”
“Your father was forced to show himself because we were about to be captured, so...”
“So I can’t look down on Daddy!”
Ye Xiaoxi immediately understood what Medusa meant. She put away her disdainful expression and reflected on her actions.
“Daddy only came out for our sake, and I was still looking down on him...”
Before she could finish, Medusa interrupted her.
“That’s not what I meant.”
“Then what do you mean, Mother?” Ye Xiaoxi asked, puzzled. She couldn’t understand why Medusa was whispering to her at a time when the situation was so urgent.
Could there be another trump card they hadn’t used yet?
“What I mean is...”
Medusa pondered for a moment before slowly saying, “We should hurry up and kill ourselves.”
“???”
Ye Xiaoxi’s little head instantly filled with question marks. She stared at Medusa in shock, as though she hadn’t heard correctly. She even dug at her ear in disbelief.
“M-Mother, what did you just say?”
“I said...” Medusa’s expression was utterly serious. “We should kill ourselves while we still have the chance. That way, your father won’t have anything holding him back, and he’ll still have time to escape.”
This time, Ye Xiaoxi heard her clearly—but she couldn’t understand.
She looked at Medusa and asked again to make sure.
“Do I have to die too?”
“Yes.”
Medusa’s expression remained impassive.
“If only I die, your father might stay behind for you. So you have to die with me.”
Upon receiving confirmation, Ye Xiaoxi felt as though she had stopped breathing.
What in the world?
Wasn’t she her mother’s beloved daughter? Yet when her mother made this request, she seemed to have no concern whatsoever for her life—or any interest in asking whether she agreed.
Could it be that she wasn’t actually her mother’s biological daughter?
“Xiaoxi, your mother is right.”
Even Danxia, who was possessing her, spoke up.
“If we stay alive, your father will only be forced to hold back and won’t be able to use his full strength. We might as well take matters into our own hands rather than become a burden to him.”
“Even you too, Mother Danxia...”
Ye Xiaoxi suddenly felt a profound sense of suffocation.
Looking at the solemn expressions on Medusa’s and Danxia’s faces, Ye Xiaoxi seriously suspected that if she said she didn’t want to die right now, they would surely carry out a righteous execution on her.
It seemed that today...
She was doomed to die.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
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!
