"What do you want with my master?" Gu Qingfeng asked warily, his expression guarded.
Young Master Yin's eyes flashed with impatience. "Ant, you have no right to know. This young master's patience is limited. Summon your master at once, or I will show you the meaning of cruelty."
Gu Qingfeng narrowed his eyes. "One last question. Answer this, and I'll call my master immediately."
"Oh? And what might that be?" Young Master Yin suddenly grew curious about what this insignificant ant could possibly ask.
"Tell me, are you... human?" Gu Qingfeng enunciated each word slowly, his gaze locked onto Young Master Yin as if the answer held life-or-death importance.
Young Master Yin froze for a moment before erupting in fury. "How dare you compare this young master to those lowly humans!"
At those words, Gu Qingfeng's face lit up with unrestrained glee, a wild grin threatening to break out.
But the next sentence from Young Master Yin froze that grin in place.
"This young master is of the Sacred Race! The greatest race in existence!"
Sacred Race?!
Gu Qingfeng stiffened.
What the hell kind of race is that? Where did they come from?
So, was this the "they" Jue Mingzi had warned about?
Refusing to give up, Gu Qingfeng silently questioned his system: "System, does this mean that as long as it's not a human attacking me, I can grow stronger?"
"This system is called the Become Stronger When Attacked by Demons System. Understood?" The system's icy voice echoed in his mind.
Damn it! Useless system!
"Then, System, does anything that isn’t human count as a demon?"
"No."
The system’s cold reply shattered Gu Qingfeng’s hopes.
Now that he thought about it, if everything non-human counted as a demon, wouldn’t getting bitten by a dog also make him stronger?
Damn it! Useless system!
Still, that didn’t stop him from cursing the system in his mind.
After his mental tirade, Gu Qingfeng’s brain kicked into overdrive, scrambling for a plan. The useless system was no help—his opponent was clearly at least a Divine Realm expert, possibly even stronger, given his arrogance.
Fighting was out of the question. Escape was the only option.
Once decided, Gu Qingfeng suddenly looked past Young Master Yin with exaggerated excitement.
"Master! You’ve finally arrived!"
But Young Master Yin didn’t turn around. Instead, he smirked coldly at Gu Qingfeng. "You think such a cheap trick would fool this young master? You planned to flee while I was distracted, didn’t you? Not a bad idea, but how could an ant comprehend the might of my Sacred Race? No one in this world can appear behind me without—"
Before he could finish, a ripple of spatial energy surged behind him.
Someone had teleported in.
Young Master Yin’s expression shifted as he whirled around—only to freeze in shock.
"Gu Qingfeng?! How is this possible...?"
He stared at the Gu Qingfeng standing a short distance behind him, his mind struggling to process the sight.
Wasn’t Gu Qingfeng right in front of him? How had he appeared behind in an instant?
Disbelieving, Young Master Yin glanced back at the original Gu Qingfeng—only to see him grinning and waving, his other hand clutching the activated Fox God’s Eye.
A faint black sphere enveloped his body.
"Later, dumbass."
In an instant, the black sphere shrank to nothingness.
"You wretched ant! You dare?!"
Young Master Yin’s fury erupted. He wasn’t stupid—he knew he’d been played.
Meanwhile, Gu Qingfeng’s mirror clone unleashed the Cross-Shaped Netherworld Flame Sword.
A colossal black-and-white flame slash engulfed Young Master Yin.
Enraged, Young Master Yin flicked his folding fan, summoning a tempest that seemed to draw every gust of wind in the world.
Whoosh!
A hurricane-force gale erupted, extinguishing the Cross-Shaped Netherworld Flame Sword and obliterating the mirror clone in an instant.
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A thousand miles away.
A black sphere materialized out of thin air.
The sphere vanished, revealing Gu Qingfeng—but he didn’t waste a single second before reactivating the Fox God’s Eye to teleport again.
Young Master Yin’s power was unfathomable. Even a thousand-mile jump didn’t feel safe. He had to keep running—straight to the Demon Kingdom. Only there might he find a sliver of hope.
His earlier escape had relied on the mirror clone as a distraction.
The clone had initially been sent to release the demons imprisoned in the Demon-Suppressing Tower, delaying its return.
So, Gu Qingfeng had ordered it to use Shadow Swap, slipping through the shadows of the capital’s buildings to appear behind Young Master Yin and buy time. The plan had worked perfectly.
Young Master Yin’s momentary confusion at seeing two identical Gu Qingfengs had allowed the real one to escape.
Now, Gu Qingfeng vanished once more.
But the instant he disappeared, a figure clad in pristine white robes materialized in his place.
Young Master Yin.
Tracking the spatial disturbance left by Gu Qingfeng’s teleportation, Young Master Yin sneered. "Run all you want. Where do you think you can hide?"
Then, he too vanished.
And so, Gu Qingfeng fled desperately, never pausing. He didn’t know how powerful the Sacred Race was, but if they had driven all deities into hiding, their strength spoke for itself.
Against such an enemy, he had to push his limits just to survive.
Then—
A violent spatial repulsion force erupted out of nowhere.
Gu Qingfeng’s heart lurched as his teleportation was forcibly interrupted, his body ejected from the spatial tunnel.
"Keep running, ant."
Young Master Yin’s mocking voice rang out from just a few miles ahead.
Gu Qingfeng’s expression darkened. There was no escaping now.
He never imagined Young Master Yin could interfere with spatial energy itself.
If not for the earlier distraction, he might not have even activated the Fox God’s Eye in time.
A life-or-death crisis.
This was truly it.
Gritting his teeth, Gu Qingfeng drew the Wood King Sword, steeling himself for a final stand.
With no way out, all he could do was fight—even if the odds were zero.
A cultivator fears no battle!
At least he still had Blood Rebirth as a last resort.
"Planning to fight?" Young Master Yin laughed. "How amusingly naive. Very well, this young master will show you the power of a god! Before divinity, mortals aren’t even fit to look upon us!"
Without so much as a gesture, an invisible force radiated from Young Master Yin, swiftly enveloping Gu Qingfeng.
Gu Qingfeng resisted with everything he had—but to no avail.
The force reached him.
"Ha! Tremble in des—Wait, why aren’t you affected?!" Young Master Yin’s triumphant roar cut off abruptly.
Gu Qingfeng blinked.
What just happened?
] [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!"
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.”
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
【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.)
