At this moment, Yi Feng had circled back to the Nine Realms once again.
The wind rustled through the branches, whispering softly. The afternoon sunlight filtered through the leaves, casting dappled shadows on the uneven ground, lazy and fragmented.
Such an afternoon should have been tranquil, with the wind and sunlight exuding a sense of idle silence.
However...
The wind and sunlight now carried laughter and joy.
Sweet nothings drifted on the breeze, and the playful banter of lovers was enough to make one cringe.
Yi Feng looked around in bewilderment.
How long had he been away from the Nine Realms? It felt like an entirely new world had taken its place.
Just then, a couple walked past him hand in hand.
One held a piece of pastry in their mouth, playfully offering it to the other.
"Ugh, I’ve already achieved fasting!" the woman cooed, feigning shyness as she lightly swatted the man.
"Fasting or not, this pastry is filled with my love for you," the man mumbled around the treat, grinning as he leaned in again.
Blushing, the woman parted her lips to accept it.
Yi Feng tucked his hands into his sleeves, watching the pair pass by mere inches away. He swallowed hard, then rolled his eyes and turned his gaze elsewhere.
No sooner had he looked away than he spotted another couple—two white-haired elders—hobbling after each other with canes, flirting and teasing like youngsters.
Yi Feng quickly sidestepped to avoid them.
They looked like they might collapse any second.
Better not get tangled up in that...
His scalp prickled with secondhand embarrassment.
Everywhere he looked, couples were lost in their own worlds—whispering sweet nothings upstairs, embracing downstairs, bantering in the streets...
Yi Feng shuddered and quickened his pace to escape.
Had the Nine Realms turned into some kind of pleasure district?
But right now, he had no time to dwell on that. His priority was finding the legendary sage, the White Emperor.
Yet after asking around, he couldn’t uncover any leads on the White Emperor’s whereabouts.
Of course.
A revered sage like her surely had countless opportunists seeking her favor. She wouldn’t just reveal her location so easily.
Conventional methods wouldn’t cut it.
He needed something... unconventional.
Something a bit more... unscrupulous.
For instance, could he locate the White Emperor’s ancestral grave and dig it up?
Or, like how he’d kidnapped Piaomiao Hong, could he track down the White Emperor’s family and take them hostage?
That way, he wouldn’t even need to seek her out—she’d come charging straight to him.
Sure, it was a bit underhanded, but once he achieved immortality, he could always make it up to her later.
Yi Feng mentally patted himself on the back for his brilliance.
...
Speaking of Piaomiao Hong...
According to her fate’s calculation, her death was due in just three days.
With only three days left to live, waiting for death in this burial ground of swords would fill any normal person with endless dread.
But Piaomiao Hong had watched countless clansmen walk this path since childhood. She had long since made peace with it.
Though she still felt reluctance and longing, this was simply the fate of the Piao family.
Since she couldn’t resist, she might as well face it with calm acceptance.
Time passed swiftly.
In the blink of an eye, the day of her predestined demise arrived.
Piaomiao Hong glanced around at the skeletal remains of her ancestors.
Her time had finally come.
Yet while fate decreed she would die on this day due to the curse, the exact hour remained unknown.
It could strike at any moment.
When the curse’s power erupted, she would become just another set of bones in this sword-filled grave.
Two hours passed.
Piaomiao Hong continued to wait.
Another two hours slipped by.
Still, the curse did not manifest.
Hour after hour, she waited.
Until at last...
The final hour of the day arrived.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
