“Will you give me back my sword...?”
Red Scale hugged Yuna's thighs tightly, begging her ceaselessly with tears swirling in her eyes.
Yuna was also very helpless. Now was not the time to return or not return it to her, but that she couldn't even throw away this sword if she wanted to.
As soon as she returned the sword to Red Scale, it flew back to her. She couldn't even throw it away.
“Then... Then make it stop following you!” Red Scale grabbed the Magic Sword, trying to keep it by her side.
But with her lack of strength, the Magic Sword easily broke free of her restraints.
It even taunted her, circling around Red Scale and swiftly dodging when she tried to grab it.
“This sword is bullying people! How can it be like this...”
Red Scale couldn't hold it in anymore. Her nose soured and she cried out.
Yuna grabbed her little purse and squatted down next to Red Scale, gently stroking her hair. “How about... I'll just buy this sword from you, and I'll pay you back after I earn money?”
“How much will you give me?”
“Let me think.” Yuna tilted her head, swiftly calculating in her mind.
The redemption fee, forging equipment, tuition for her sister to become a mage, equipment for her sister...
Just thinking about all the debt weighing down on her, Yuna felt she could hardly breathe.
Although Lin Feng had told her she didn't need to pay him back, she was still stubborn about earning money to repay him.
“Fifty gold coins, is that okay? I don't have much money either, life is quite difficult, and I have a sister to raise, but I will pay you back slowly.”
“Deal!” Red Scale suddenly jumped up, all traces of tears long gone from her face, “This sword is yours now.”
The two shook hands after reaching an agreement.
Lin Feng beside them softly sighed.
This girl didn't earn much money yet she took on more debt again.
“Now that you two have agreed, let's think of a way to get out of here.” Lin Feng rubbed both their heads, but Red Scale was clearly still upset, pouting at him.
“We’re leaving?”
“Yes, you’ve leveled up, and found the treasure in the labyrinth, so there’s no point in staying here anymore.” Lin Feng gently patted Yuna's wolf ears, getting some dust on his hand, “But haven't you noticed anything strange?”
“Huh? What’s strange?” Yuna was completely confused.
Her attention had been completely on the Magic Sword just now, she didn't notice anything else.
Lin Feng glanced at Emily, but she had a look of wisdom on her face, completely unhelpful.
Rosa Linda yawned and pointed at the demon corpse not far away, “From just now until now, we haven’t encountered any demons at all.”
“That’s right. Based on the spawn rate of demons in this labyrinth, it’s impossible to not have a single one come find us for so long.” Lin Feng examined and saw that the “Time Stasis” buff on everyone had not disappeared.
It was likely the cause behind the demons not coming.
“We have to find a way to...”
Before Lin Feng could finish speaking, Yuna lightly pulled on his clothes, “Master.”
“What is it?”
“Emily disappeared.”
Lin Feng looked back and saw that she was indeed gone without a trace, even her presence had vanished.
Yuna pointed at the ground, “She was in front of me, then suddenly in an instant she...”
In a flash, before Yuna could finish speaking, she disappeared without a trace, as if she had evaporated into thin air.
“What is going on here?” Rosa Linda vigilantly surveyed her surroundings, tightly gripping her longbow.
Seeing this, Lin Feng quickly grabbed Rosa Linda, then shouted at Red Scale, “Come over quickly, grab my hand!”
He didn’t know what was happening either.
But it seemed a bit like when the labyrinth collapsed, teleporting adventurers out.
“Coming!”
Red Scale jogged over to the two, but just as she was half a meter away, she also mysteriously vanished in an instant.
Immediately after, everything went dark in front of Lin Feng’s eyes...
When he awoke again, Lin Feng found himself in a snowy land.
Other than Red Scale curled up alone by the fire, the beast girls were all huddled together around the fire pit, leaning on each other for warmth.
“Master, you’re awake?” Yuna softly said. There were snowflakes clinging to her eyelashes.
The other beast girls also turned to look at Lin Feng.
“Are you all okay?”
“We’re fine, none of us are injured, but it’s too cold here.” Rosa Linda let out a puff of hot air, hugging Lin Feng even tighter, “The labyrinth must have collapsed and spat us out. Yuna got here first, we arrived last.”
“Then why is it snowing?” Lin Feng looked up at the fine snow drifting down from the sky, deep in thought.
It was probably below freezing now.
Shouldn’t it be summer now? How could it be snowing?
It was still a long time until winter.
“We don’t know.” Rosa Linda pointed at the trees not far away, continuing, “Our campsite is gone. The clothes and tents we brought are all gone.”
“The spirit cores I saved up for a long time in the tent are gone too. This is terrible.” Yuna sneezed, and the snowflakes on her eyelashes fell off.
“As long as you’re all alright, we can earn money again.”
Lin Feng examined their condition.
The buff called “Time Stasis” was gone.
Taking the current situation into account, that spell had likely frozen the time within the labyrinth, while time outside continued flowing.
They didn’t feel much time had passed inside the labyrinth, but months had already gone by in the real world.
No wonder the campsite was gone. Some passing traveler had likely taken their stuff...
But now was not the time to worry about that. They had to figure out how to stay warm.
The beast girls were shivering from the cold. Their summer clothes were far too thin for the middle of winter.
Continuing to burn branches for warmth was not a long term solution.
A cold wind blew by and Yuna sneezed softly, murmuring, “I hate winter the most, it’s so hard to bear the cold.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the Magic Sword beside her stirred and floated mysteriously into the air.
The orange gem embedded in the sword let out a dazzling glow, enveloping them in an invisible barrier.
Lin Feng immediately felt much warmer.
“The Magic Sword has this function too?” Yuna looked up at the sword, energetically stretching.
Then she tiptoed and pulled the sword back down.
“Let’s go home first. Who knows how long the Magic Sword can last.”
Lin Feng squatted down next to Red Scale and gently shook her, “Wake up, stinky dragon, stop pretending to be asleep.”
Red Scale whimpered twice without even opening her eyes.
“She’s been like this for a while now. No matter how we call her, she won’t wake up.”
???
Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly and noticed two words under Red Scale’s status bar.
Hibernation.
A stinky dragon needs to hibernate too?
“If you want to sleep, do it after we get home. Sleeping here in the snow, aren’t you afraid you’ll freeze to death?”
“But I’m so sleepy... I don’t want to move at all.”
Since that was the case, Lin Feng picked Red Scale up from the ground and cradled her like soothing a child, “There there, don’t curl up into a ball. I’ll carry you.”
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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.
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
shall grant"] ["Inscribing the glory of our race upon tombstones"] ["All that is threatened, I shall protect"] How his younger sister sees her brother: A brother who only makes eye contact once a day, mostly fading into the background as he tinkers with who-knows-what in his room all day. Their life paths should have remained largely separate. Until one day. Su Qi created an equipment card for his never-met "online girlfriend." His sister fell into silent contemplation upon receiving the "white stockings." [Card can be upgraded] [Upgrade by fulfilling any of the following conditions] [Condition ①: Consume one hundred higher-tier cards] [Condition ②: Complete one 'Heart-Pounding Adventure'] What constitutes a Heart-Pounding Adventure? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Beginner Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to admire it.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Easy Level): Equip the card, invite 'Su Qi' to touch it, and analyze the equipment's texture.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Entry Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to...] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Challenge Level): Freely combine the words 'Brother' 'Out' 'Brother' 'Me' 'Please' into a complete sentence...] "Please help me analyze both teams' mistakes in this match, brother..." His sister exhaled in relief—surely... surely there couldn't be anything more difficult? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Suicide Mission Level): Sneak a peek at the names of the galgames in 'Su Qi's' hidden E-drive folder]
