"What...?"
"What did you say?!"
Ao Budong was so shocked he couldn't speak for a long moment. When he finally did, his voice trembled with urgency.
"Emperor Sturgeon Dragon, why would he help humans? As a dragon general of our clan, how dare you slander and defame a senior of the sea tribe?!"
Never had the Dragon Emperor been so visibly shaken.
The fury in his urgent tone alone made the surroundings tense beyond measure. Tens of thousands of Celestial Dragon Merfolk silently descended onto the sea's surface, not daring to move without permission.
The three dragon generals trembled and lowered themselves further, stammering out their defense.
"Your Majesty, please see the truth!"
"This matter is absolutely true! Ao Bei was sent flying by Emperor Sturgeon Dragon with a single strike and still hasn't returned. We all witnessed the might of the Imprisoned Dragon Overturning Claw!"
"It really was Emperor Sturgeon Dragon!"
Whoosh!
Ao Budong's face turned deathly pale.
He seemed to lose all strength in his body, unable to stand steadily any longer. Slumping onto his war chariot, his pupils trembled as he muttered their words repeatedly.
"Imprisoned Dragon Overturning Claw... Imprisoned Dragon Overturning Claw..."
"So it really was Emperor Sturgeon Dragon!"
"Why would he help humans? Why?!"
Before he could finish his bewildered muttering, the disheveled dragon generals spoke again, their voices shaking.
"Your Majesty..."
"We don’t know the reason either, but besides Emperor Sturgeon Dragon, the North Sea Emperor is also aiding the humans!"
Swoosh!
Ao Budong jolted as if struck by lightning, a cold chill running down his spine.
His eyes snapped open, the shock in them growing even more pronounced.
"The North Sea Emperor?"
"He’s involved too?!"
Ao Budong was now so agitated he couldn’t sit still, his throat dry with dread.
He had never imagined.
That things would escalate so absurdly, completely beyond his expectations.
He had thought.
That if the humans had somehow managed to defeat the four dragon generals, it must have been with the help of ancient clans from the mainland. He had even planned to personally intervene, both to crush the ignorant humans and to assert his dominance over the world.
Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined...
That the ones aiding the humans would be those two!
What the hell?!
Facing those two, he was nothing!
Ao Budong felt trapped, his fighting spirit utterly extinguished. He was now consumed by shock and confusion, his face flickering between emotions.
"Why...?"
"Why would our own sea tribe elders help humans? Such betrayal is beyond my power to oppose. I might have to swallow my pride and ask Lord Crab Emperor to intervene!"
Just as his muttering faded, another dragon general’s report echoed through the air.
"Y-Your Majesty."
"Lord Crab Emperor... also aided the humans today!"
Thud!
Ao Budong’s heart clenched violently at these words, his face draining of all color.
"What?!"
"Even Lord Crab Emperor is helping the humans?!"
"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!!!"
Despair and disbelief unlike anything he had ever felt overwhelmed him.
Ao Budong let out a hoarse roar, completely losing his composure in front of tens of thousands of his clansmen.
He refused to believe that the revered elders of the sea tribe would one after another side with humans—his enemies! Even the most ancient and respected Lord Crab Emperor was aiding outsiders!
Such a thing, even if reported by his own generals, was unacceptable.
For anyone.
Who could believe that their own clan’s legendary figures would help their sworn enemies? What a heart-wrenching truth!
Yet.
No matter how much the Dragon Emperor raged and roared, the bowing generals never wavered in their account. The tens of thousands of merfolk around them only stared in shock and terror, as if still reeling from the earlier horrors.
Seeing the sea of defeated figures before him, the Dragon Emperor suddenly deflated like a punctured balloon, his spirit utterly crushed.
He seemed to age millennia in an instant, sitting dazed and hollow-eyed on his throne.
When he spoke again, his voice was weak and lifeless.
"Is... is this all true?"
The dragon generals raised their heads with great difficulty, practically gritting their teeth as they answered.
"Absolutely true..."
"Your Majesty, what should we do now? How do we proceed with conquering the Seventy-Two Islands...?"
Ao Budong fell silent at the question, his face a mix of humiliation and terror. He had no answers left. Frantically, he waved his hand and ordered his chariot to retreat into the depths.
"Conquer what?!"
"Back to the palace! Back to the palace!"
"All warriors, return to our territory immediately! Without my direct order, no one is to step foot outside! Violators will be executed without mercy!"
As the chariot hastily vanished into the abyss, the tens of thousands of Celestial Dragon Merfolk scrambled after it in disarray, their earlier majesty gone, fleeing like frightened birds into the sea.
The entire Celestial Dragon Merfolk clan had been utterly terrified.
A long while later.
Ao Budong, now back in his palace, slumped onto his throne, his face haggard and defeated.
His hair hung over his brows like an old man’s, his eyes vacant with lingering horror.
No matter how much he replayed the events in his mind, he couldn’t calm the terror in his heart.
"How is this possible...?"
"Those three are the great powers of our sea tribe! Even I couldn’t guarantee summoning them at will. How could they suddenly side with the humans of the Seventy-Two Islands? What could those humans possibly have offered them?!"
Images of three colossal figures loomed in his mind, making the situation even more unfathomable.
The North Sea Emperor had always been indifferent to worldly affairs.
He was the kind of man who could abandon an imperial throne without hesitation.
Ao Budong couldn’t fathom what could possibly move such a being.
Emperor Sturgeon Dragon was even harder to persuade.
As the emperor of the Sturgeon Dragon Fish Clan, there was no treasure he hadn’t seen. What could the humans possibly possess to make him intervene personally?
And Lord Crab Emperor...
Hah.
Ao Budong let out a deranged, bitter laugh, his face twisting into something almost manic.
No matter how hard he racked his brain, he couldn’t comprehend why these three terrifying figures would stoop so low as to act as mere enforcers for humans!
What kind of fight was this?!
Even if it was the truth, thinking about it felt like a bad joke!
Ao Budong’s entire worldview had shattered!
He had thought some fool had dared to challenge the Celestial Dragon Merfolk, overestimating themselves, and he had been ready to teach them a lesson.
Now, it turned out the fool was him all along!
The more he thought, the more shocked and bewildered he became.
Unconsciously.
His mind became a tangled mess, and strange memories from the past resurfaced.
Back then, the three elders had rejected his audiences one after another. In hindsight, their behavior had been suspicious, almost as if they feared something. Yet now, they had turned around and served humans, their attitudes completely reversed.
This whole situation was getting more and more bizarre!
After a long time lost in thought, Ao Budong pieced together the clues, his expression growing increasingly grim.
"First, they coldly watched as I was humiliated, then they turned around and became human lackeys. Such two-faced behavior is despicable! Have they no shame?!"
"Given their status and power, what could possibly make them act so recklessly? If this is true, then the situation is far more complicated than it seems!"
"Such influence can’t be matched by any treasure, nor could mere humans possess it!"
"There must be an unimaginably terrifying presence within the Seventy-Two Islands..."
"Gasp..."
Ao Budong suddenly jolted as if struck by lightning, his entire body freezing in place.
A premonition of impending doom seized him. Trembling, he pulled out a jade slip to send urgent messages, his hands shaking uncontrollably. After sending several humble pleas, he finally received a single indifferent reply after what felt like an eternity.
Yet Ao Budong didn’t mind in the slightest. Instead, his eyes brimmed with grateful tears as he hastily departed the depths alone.
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."
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?"
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
saw a female celebrity tied up and stuffed in the trunk! Little did he know, countless cameras were aimed at him at this moment - this was a new type of reality show. The first randomly selected passerby was caught in less than an hour. But when Xu Moru was selected, things started to take an unexpected turn. "Damn, this isn't how the script goes. This Xu Moru is too bold, he's not following the rules at all." "Crap, is this guy taking it seriously?" "The female celebrity has been scared to tears!"
