Just as the four people were sighing and lamenting, the sharp-eyed Tai Yi Valley Sect Leader suddenly rubbed her eyes, staring fixedly at the gorge.
It seemed as if she had discovered something unbelievable.
When her eyeballs were almost rubbed out, she finally cried out in disbelief while pointing at the gorge: "Look, someone's there!"
"Are you crazy? How could anyone possibly be there at this point?"
The Heng Tian Sword House Sect Leader transmitted an impatient voice.
Although he knew that the Tai Yi Valley Sect Leader had likely seen everyone's mood going south and wanted to liven things up with a joke, he felt it was very inappropriate and not at all funny.
"Yeah, stop joking around. Only a fool would believe you," the Sect Master of Tianlong Valley also couldn't help but say. But just after speaking, his peripheral vision also caught a glimpse of something in the gorge. His whole body froze in shock.
"I guess I really am a fool!"
He transmitted a dumbfounded voice.
He seemed somewhat unwilling to believe the scene unfolding before his eyes. His body flashed as he landed in a spot with better visibility.
The Tai Yi Valley Sect Leader also followed along in sync.
The remaining Heng Tian Sword House Sect Leader and Cang Hai Mountain Sect Leader couldn't help but exchange a glance.
"Could it really be someone there?"
The two transmitted the same voice in unison. Then their bodies flashed as they hurried to follow along as well.
When the two looked down the canyon from the top, they also froze in place.
Sure enough.
At the bottom of the valley, there was a figure slowly walking along.
"Who is that person?"
The Heng Tian Sword House Sect Leader couldn't help but cry out: "Doesn't he know what's inside this gorge?"
The other three people could not respond.
Because that was also their doubt.
"Could it be he's some expert?"
The Heng Tian Sword House Sect Leader asked again.
"It's still too early to say whether he's an expert or someone who wandered in by mistake, but we'll have the answer soon enough," said the Tai Yi Valley Sect Leader.
The others also nodded in agreement.
Because this person had just entered the gorge and hadn't even reached the truly dangerous area yet.
"It should be about a hundred yards ahead, right?" asked the Cang Hai Mountain Sect Leader.
"That's right. That's where the poisonous fog begins spreading. The last time the four of us tried over ten times but had to retreat each time upon reaching that point," replied the Heng Tian Sword House Sect Leader with a nod.
"Whether it's a donkey or a horse, we'll soon know," said the Sect Master of Tianlong Valley.
Everyone nodded, focusing their eyes on the figure.
He was getting closer.
Even closer.
Thirty yards.
Ten yards.
Five yards.
Three yards...
At this moment, the four people's hearts jumped as they stared fixedly.
Suddenly!
The four widened their eyes and cried out at the same time:
"He's gone!"
"How could he have just disappeared?"
That's right.
At this moment right before their eyes, an extremely bizarre scene had occurred. That person had suddenly vanished into thin air!
However, very quickly, the sharpest-eyed Tai Yi Valley Sect Leader noticed something amiss and shouted: "No, he's entered the poison fog!"
Hearing this, the other three also focused their vital essence and peered into the thick poison fog.
Sure enough, they discovered traces of the figure within the dense, poisonous haze.
He continued walking slowly and steadily as always.
"Hiss!"
The four couldn't help but gasp sharply!
How could this be?
How was this possible?
How could he dare enter such deadly poison fog?
The four glared wide-eyed in utter disbelief.
They knew that the last time when they first made contact with the fog, they had been forced to retreat immediately.
Because even a little of this poison fog clinging to the skin had to be removed using a tremendous amount of cultivation base, otherwise, even their bronze-clad and iron-skinned bodies would rot and fester before their very eyes.
Let alone someone now daring to walk right in with his whole body, without even a hint of vital essence shielding!
This was simply unheard of!
"It looks like...the poison fog is dissipating wherever he walks," Tai Yi Valley Sect Leader discovered something else at this time.
The others looked and sucked in a cold gasp of air.
Sure enough, just as Tai Yi Valley Sect Leader said, the poison fog receded wherever the figure passed through.
For example, visibility around him was less than ten yards at the moment.
Fifty yards behind him, visibility had already recovered to several dozen yards.
And one hundred yards behind, space had been completely restored to clarity without the slightest obstruction from the poison fog.
And at this time, even more inconceivable events unfolded before the four witnesses.
The valley's arrays and formations had activated.
This included all kinds of illusion arrays, maze arrays, killing arrays - now all fully operational.
However, beyond their expectations...these mechanisms had completely lost effect on this figure, who tread through them like walking on flat ground!
"This is..."
"What kind of person could this be?"
"That's right! For him, this valley filled with killing intent is like an ordinary valley! Just what level of cultivation is needed to accomplish this?"
Their hearts churned with great waves of shock!
"Cheh, so this valley is just an ordinary valley after all. Thought there was supposed to be some danger here," Yi Feng, strolling through, couldn't help but grumble disdainfully.
After walking for a full day, aside from some mist, he really hadn't encountered any danger whatsoever.
As for the mist, it was perfectly normal for gorges like this to be foggy.
Of course, it wasn't that there was zero danger to speak of.
Strangely enough, given the icy and snowy weather, a little snake had actually attacked Yi Feng.
But with one kick from him, it was flattened dead on the spot. Yi Feng had then picked some white mushrooms growing on the nearby cliffside as seasoning and made himself a nice steaming pot of snake soup.
After resting awhile and finishing the snake soup, Yi Feng continued on his way...
Not long after Yi Feng departed, four figures followed along behind him...

【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.)

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.”

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?!

] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"