Lu Yuan and Liu Yuan arrived at Xiling City around noon.
The entrance to the city was controlled by a squad of mercenaries wearing camouflage combat uniforms and armbands with lightning bolt symbols.
Liu Yuan drove up and a soldier carrying an assault rifle came up, saluted, and took out a QR code saying: "Entry fee, 2,500 for one car."
Lu Yuan in the back seat took out his phone and scanned the code. Just then the soldier took a look at Lu Yuan's car and hesitated before saying: "You two, although your car has been modified, I have to say the odds are against you going into the city at this time."
The sunglass-wearing Liu Yuan smiled and said: "No problem, our boss has money to burn, plus we're just going in to take a look around, nothing else in mind."
The mercenary nodded, and after the payment went through, he let Lu Yuan's car pass.
At the exit next to them, a long line of big trucks was queueing up to exit the city, loaded with food, medical supplies, bank safes and all kinds of valuables.
The convoys coming in from surrounding cities were looting the last valuables from this city of death.
Lu Yuan's off-road vehicle was the only small and medium sized car among the incoming and outgoing vehicles.
Seeing the long line of trucks queued up to exit the city ahead of them, Liu Yuan glanced at Lu Yuan in the rearview mirror and said: "Boss, it looks like you were right, this city did suffer a Spiritual Qi Storm."
Lu Yuan said nothing. He had a rough idea where Zhang Baobao's special ability came from.
The Spiritual Qi Storm was a unique phenomenon in this World of Spiritual Qi Resurgence. Whenever a Spiritual Qi Storm arose, the violent spiritual qi fluctuations would kill all fragile life forms in the surrounding area.
The Spiritual Qi Storm could also lead to many bizarre changes, such as the formation of Spiritual Qi Pollution Source Areas where the storm occurred, the resurrection of departed life forms, or the emergence of varying numbers of mutated life forms, among other things.
With his professional instincts as a doctor, Lu Yuan was able to determine at first glance that the girl was someone who had died once already.
Even if the dead returned to life, they would still carry the aura of death.
As for the old man who came to see him that morning pulling a cart, he had probably already left Xiling City before the Spiritual Qi Storm arose, thus escaping disaster.
The woman lying on the cart that the old man was pulling, on the other hand, had probably died on the way to see the doctor.
Lu Yuan pondered the sequence of events while Liu Yuan also wondered about it.
A complicated expression crossed her face. She said: "It seems that old man still had some conscience, at least he knew to take Baobao's mom around to see doctors..."
Lu Yuan looked troubled. Meaningfully he said: "Whether he has a conscience or not, we can ask Baobao when we have a chance."
Speaking of which, Liu Yuan grew worried thinking of Baobao's mother. She asked: "Boss, Baobao's mom is dead and gone. Can you really bring her back?"
Lu Yuan rubbed his temples and said: "It's not like I can manually generate a Spiritual Qi Storm. How could I have the power to resurrect the dead?"
"But I only need to resurrect Baobao's mother in her heart."
"Boss, you are so multi-talented!"
...
After driving around Xiling City for a bit, everywhere they saw people from finance consortiums and guilds from surrounding cities moving goods, as well as charity workers helping clear the bodies of the deceased.
This trip Lu Yuan simply wanted to verify his guesses and determine the source of Baobao's special abilities.
An hour later, the two drove their vehicle out of the city, following the long convoy of trucks like a dragon.
Back in 27 Region, Liu Yuan parked the car at the foot of a mountain.
Before their eyes, the high mountain was shrouded in mist and clouds. This was a Level 2 Spiritual Qi Pollution Source Area, also the team building location specified by Lu Yuan this time.
Level 2 meant that heterologous beasts with ability coefficients exceeding 1.0 but under 2.0 would appear.
By now, Lu Yuan had left footprints in practically every pollution source area in 27 Region.
Just as Liu Yuan was about to undo her seatbelt and get out of the car, Lu Yuan said: "Wait here, I'll be back in half an hour."
Liu Yuan was startled. She looked at Lu Yuan and asked: "Boss, would you please explain what you mean by 'team building'?"
Lu Yuan said lightly: "It's team building. Guarding team transportation is very important, you know?"
Liu Yuan: "..."
Seeing Liu Yuan's miffed expression, Lu Yuan reached out and rapped her head, consoling her: "Alright, come help me if I'm not back in an hour."
Liu Yuan rolled her eyes. "You said that last time too, but you were out in ten minutes. Boss, you're so fast!"
Lu Yuan's face darkened instantly. He scraped hard down the bridge of Liu Yuan's pert little nose and growled: "Such impertinence! Watch me dock your pay!"
Liu Yuan made a face at Lu Yuan: "Bleh!"
Seeing Liu Yuan's cute expression, Lu Yuan grinned. Waving his hand, he headed towards the Spiritual Qi Pollution Source Area up the mountain.
The Spiritual Qi Pollution Source Areas, also known as Spiritual Qi Pollution Zones, were areas humans could not survive due to the intense fluctuations in spiritual qi.
Each Spiritual Qi Pollution Source Area was home to large numbers of heterologous beasts. Over the years, Lu Yuan had left footprints in practically every pollution zone in 27 Region.
As Lu Yuan crossed the caution stone tablet at the foot of the mountain, he clearly sensed the surrounding air currents become violently turbulent. But even more violent than the air currents was the commotion coming from the dense mountain jungle.
No sooner had Lu Yuan set foot into the lush jungle than the entire tranquil mountain forest erupted!
Swish swish—
The first to react were the bizarre large birds with bat wings and sparrow bodies roosting on the branches. It was as if they had been frightened by something the instant Lu Yuan arrived. Flapping their wings frantically, they took off towards the mountaintop as if their lives depended on it!
"Caw—"
"Caw caw!!"
Piercing bird cries echoed over the jungle. The entire flock commenced a mass migration.
Next, Lu Yuan felt slight tremors through the ground beneath his feet.
"Roar—"
"Woof woof!"
"Awooo!"
All kinds of beastly roars arose one after another without cease!
Whether it was the mutated giant tigers or wolves, or the packs of heterologous dogs roaming the jungle, their originally ferocious, bloodthirsty cries now contained a hint of urgency and fear!
Boom!!
Not only did the birds in the sky commence migration, even the heterologous beasts in the jungle began fleeing helter-skelter.
The beasts all fled in different directions, but they shared one common trait—they were all sprinting away from Lu Yuan!
In the blink of an eye, within one minute, Lu Yuan stood dumbfounded as he sensed that within a three kilometer radius, the only breathing creature left was himself.
It was well known that beasts had very keen senses of danger.
The heterologous beasts mutated in the Spiritual Qi Pollution Source Areas even more so.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
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.
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
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.”
