When leaving the Moral Education Building, Zhu Yan took a picture for Yang Zhanbai of the building hidden behind dark green tree canopies, pretending he had just found the teaching building.
"Got it, you guys take a rest."
"I am going in to fill out a form and pick up some things. I will be right there."
After doing all this, he opened his phone map and quickly walked towards the library.
Xishan University was not large; Zhu Yan only walked for about ten minutes.
The library was a square, modern building, about six stories high, with a glass facade reflecting the gray mist.
Zhu Yan gripped his student card tightly and slowly approached.
He observed that the glass on the right half of the building had been corroded very thin, faintly revealing a blood-red color with a muddy texture.
At this moment, the main doors of the library were wide open, and a familiar stench wafted out from inside.
Zhu Yan had a bad feeling about this.
He swiped open the access control and stepped onto the red floor tiles of the library. The sticky and bouncy sensation under his feet almost made him lose his balance.
The interior of the library had been completely eroded.
Zhu Yan looked around curiously.
The walls were covered with a thick layer of mycelium, and a faint, shimmering glow illuminated the massive space.
There were no bookcases here; a large number of books floated haphazardly in mid-air, becoming denser the higher they went.
The few books within his reach were all titled Coexisting with Taboo Objects, but when he actually reached out, the books dodged away lightly and gracefully.
Zhu Yan did not see a single table or chair. This library did not seem to have a study function.
Ten meters ahead grew a peach-pink spotted mushroom with a diameter of a full two meters.
Could this freaking thing be the front desk?
Zhu Yan waded forward, and the sticky, jelly-like ground immediately began to make squelching sounds, sending ripples out in all directions.
He steadied his center of gravity and finally made it to the front of the pink mushroom, only to hear a familiar voice coming from the mushroom cap.
"Welcome, my dear Hunter!"
Holy crap.
Zhu Yan looked up in a daze.
The giant slime that had received him for enrollment was actually resting comfortably on the mushroom cap.
"You..."
Zhu Yan was sure it had not been there a second ago.
"How did you get here?"
The slime extended a bone spur and waved it at him.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I am the librarian. How can I help you?"
Zhu Yan fell silent.
In other words, when this guy was in the teaching building earlier, it had deliberately hidden the fact that it was the librarian.
Very well.
He would remember this grudge!
"I want to look up three people in the Archive Department," he said. "Qi Yinming and Yang Zhanbai."
The slime waved its bone spur and muttered something in a weird tone.
Accompanied by a rustling sound, a brand new thick book flew down from the very top of the room and landed steadily on two of the slime's bone spurs.
"And the third person?" it asked, dragging out its words.
Zhu Yan stated his aunt's name: "Feng Yuan, born in 1982..."
After Zhu Yan finished reciting all the detailed information he knew about his aunt, the slime nodded and spat out a slime-covered card reader from its body.
"Pay up. That will be 25 bone coins in total. Do you have anything else to check?"
Asking when it already knew the answer.
Zhu Yan remained expressionless but sneered in his heart.
"I want to plunder other people's abilities. Please use my Hunter authority to check the instances I can enter."
"Also, if Feng Yuan is not dead yet, then look up the instances related to the people helping her. See what abilities her helpers have and whether there is any way for me to plunder those abilities."
Whoever was helping his aunt, he might as well deal with them too!
The slime nodded and changed the price.
"That will be 525 bone coins in total."
Zhu Yan could not help but feel a pang of heartache at the cost.
He reluctantly swiped his campus card and watched as the slime rapidly waved a few bone spurs, flipping through pages as large as banana leaves with a loud rustle.
"I have the results."
The slime said in a drawn-out tone.
It used a bone spur to cut a small piece off the page and handed it to Zhu Yan: "This is the instance information for your aunt and the people helping her."
"Please take a picture so you do not forget, you foolish player."
"As for Yang Zhanbai and Qi Yinming, please wait a moment."
The slime continued to wave its long bone spurs.
Zhu Yan lowered his head and carefully read the strange text on the paper.
"[Feng Yuan's Information]
Name of Inquired Person: Feng Yuan
Relationship to Inquirer: Inquirer's aunt
Abilities of Inquired Person: None
Special Identity: None
Living Relatives: Zhu Zeyu (??? Real name unknown), Feng Yaozu, Li Mei, Feng Qiang, Wang Lanhua
Benefactors: Feng Yaozu, Feng Qiang, Wang Lanhua
Total Assets After Deducting Debts: 100,000 yuan"
Zhu Yan had occasionally heard his aunt mention these people, but he had never met them.
Feng Yaozu was his aunt's younger brother, Li Mei was Feng Yaozu's wife, and Feng Qiang and Wang Lanhua were his aunt's parents.
These people were indeed all in Bailu City, but as far as Zhu Yan knew, his aunt had not interacted with them for a long time.
He wondered if these people had awakened abilities or participated in instances.
Zhu Yan focused his mind and continued reading.
"[Related Instance Information]
Enterable Instances: [Smash and Grab], [Family Banquet], [Messed Up Relationships].
Note: You can only participate in one instance at a time.
After surviving the first instance, you can freely choose to participate in other instances without any additional charges.
Instance Hints: Go to the neighbor's house to plunder supplies; you are the neighbor.
Eat at home; you are the dish.
Stumble upon a dark secret; you will be silenced.
Number of Participants: 6, 6, 3.
Plunderable Abilities: Feng Qiang [Telekinesis] Lv.5, Feng Yaozu [Infidelity] Lv.5, [Bring Honor to Ancestors] Lv.5, Wang Lanhua [I Must Take This Advantage] Lv.5, Li Mei [To Each Their Own Fate] Lv.3."
Zhu Yan stared at the four Level 5 abilities and froze.
What the hell.
He understood the logic, but wasn't this a bit too overpowered?
Assuming these people were exceptionally gifted and started with Level 3 abilities.
Then they must have cleared at least two instances!
The survival rate for two instances was not high at all.
What was the deal with this family?
"Are you surprised?" the slime mocked with a grin. "Kid, you haven't stayed in Bailu City. That place is like a Gu-poison breeding ground."
"I've seen plenty of weird abilities like these."
Zhu Yan said, "I want to look up the specific abilities of these four people. How much in total?"
Knowing oneself and knowing the enemy guarantees victory in every battle.
Zhu Yan believed he had not fought against many players.
These abilities were far too bizarre. Even with his [Roleplay] ability, he dared not act rashly!
"70 bone coins," the slime cracked a wide smile. "Li Mei is weaker, so I'll charge you 10 for her. The others are 20 each."
Zhu Yan paid decisively.
This time it took exceptionally long; only after ten minutes was a densely packed new slip of paper handed to Zhu Yan.
Zhu Yan looked it over repeatedly, his brows tightly furrowed as he struggled with a decision for quite a while.
He finally made up his mind and let out a breath of pent-up frustration.
"I will participate in the instance [Messed Up Relationships] first."
"When do I depart?"
The slime smiled: "The morning after tomorrow. There is still a long time to go. Go take a shower and get some sleep."
It tossed a plastic bracelet to Zhu Yan. "Put this on. Remember to get dressed and bring your weapons!"
"When the time comes, it will pull you directly into the instance."
"Good luck, player."
"These three instances are consecutive. Survive the first one, and you will immediately face the second and third."
That was perfect.
Zhu Yan slipped the bracelet onto his wrist, a plan already forming in his mind.
During the short rest period before the instance began, he would be able to claim his rewards from Carnival Paradise, and he could also head to Mount Fangcun to receive the Heart of Constancy!
Oh, right.
He also had to take care of his tuxedo cat, which he hadn't seen for two days. He just hoped it hadn't starved to death.
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?"
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
【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.)
