After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn,
The Crimson Thunder Leopard panted heavily as it stared at the unharmed man before it, an uncontrollable fear rising in its heart.
Its wounds had torn open again from its frenzied attacks, blood pooling on the ground, while the other man hadn’t lost so much as a hair.
"What kind of monster are you?!" the Crimson Thunder Leopard cried in terror.
Gu Qingfeng ignored it, instead picking up the pill it had swatted away earlier. With a sinister grin, he approached, "Come here, little darling. Take this medicine—it’ll make you even fiercer."
"Y-you... stay away from me!"
Gu Qingfeng grabbed the leopard’s jaw, forcing the pill down its throat.
The pill was called the Exploding Origin Pill, a drug that traded life force for immense power. He couldn’t remember which "fortunate donor" he had "liberated" it from—there were too many to keep track of.
But that didn’t matter. As long as the effects were good.
Besides, Gu Qingfeng had personally refined this Exploding Origin Pill. He found the original version too mild—taking one wouldn’t even guarantee death, just leave you half-dead. What kind of power could you even get from that?
So he had added several potent ingredients. Now, taking it meant certain death, but the power gained was more than doubled. A life for strength—naturally, the results were extraordinary!
As the Crimson Thunder Leopard swallowed the pill—
BOOM!
An unimaginable surge of demonic energy erupted from its body!
Its grievous wounds healed in an instant, and its aura skyrocketed!
It had been at the peak of the Earth Origin realm, but now it faintly reached the early stages of Heaven Origin!
The leopard’s body swelled, muscles bulging like inflated balloons, bones cracking and elongating as if mutating!
ROAR—!
A deafening howl tore through the mountains and forests!
"Damn you, human! You fed me a death pill! I’ll drag you down with me!"
Though the Crimson Thunder Leopard had gained tremendous power, it could feel its life force burning away. It would be dead within moments—so it raged with fury.
Gu Qingfeng ignored its roars, instead staring greedily at its now monstrous, muscle-bound form.
"Keh keh keh... My refined Exploding Origin Pill is truly magnificent! It actually pushed it to Heaven Origin! If I gave this to a Heaven Origin peak demon, could it reach the Celestial Realm?"
Gu Qingfeng was overcome with manic joy. He had made yet another breakthrough in exploiting demons.
"Die!"
The Crimson Thunder Leopard roared, lunging forward with explosive speed. In an instant, it appeared above Gu Qingfeng’s head, its massive claws gleaming as they slashed down. The sheer force of the strike cracked the ground before it even landed.
Gu Qingfeng spread his arms with a mad grin, as if welcoming the attack.
BOOM—!
The collision sent shockwaves ripping through the earth, splitting the ground and snapping ancient trees in half.
Leaves rained down like a storm, only to disintegrate into dust.
Ding!
Host has been attacked by the Crimson Thunder Leopard.
Constitution +1,000,000 +1,000,000 +1,000,000...
ROAR!
The leopard howled in agony—it felt like it had struck a needle. Its claw was pierced straight through, passing right through Gu Qingfeng’s body before slamming into the ground.
"Huh?"
Gu Qingfeng blinked in confusion. "System, why isn’t my cultivation increasing?"
System: "Your cultivation has reached the current realm’s maximum limit. Unless you choose to condense a Divine Core now, it cannot increase further."
"Oh. Then never mind."
Gu Qingfeng wasn’t about to condense his Divine Core now. Without the Ethereal Spirit Water and the Emperor’s Scripture, the best he could achieve was a Nine-Tier Flawless Divine Core.
"Damn human, what are you muttering about?!"
The Crimson Thunder Leopard roared again, its body surging with lightning as it unleashed a torrent of electricity at Gu Qingfeng.
WHACK!
A brutal slap sent several of its fangs flying.
"Stop with the damn lightning! Fight me properly!"
Lightning was useless against his Primordial Sacred Body.
But the leopard seemed to misunderstand—thinking Gu Qingfeng feared its lightning, it intensified the attack.
Enraged, Gu Qingfeng pinned it down and pummeled it mercilessly.
After another incense stick’s worth of time...
The Crimson Thunder Leopard—deceased!
Storing the corpse, Gu Qingfeng continued on his way.
......
Over the next few days, Gu Qingfeng ventured deeper, targeting areas teeming with demons. Wherever he went, demon nests were overturned, and countless Heaven Origin demons fell to his hands.
He burned through his stock of Exploding Origin Pills, forcing him to set up a cauldron and refine several new batches on the spot.
Though his cultivation hadn’t increased by a single iota, his Prison-Dragging Elephant Body grew stronger by the day, reaching a point where even Heaven Origin attacks couldn’t breach his defenses.
Now, he could truly say—within the Divine Core realm, he could do as he pleased!
Yet strangely, his Prison-Dragging Elephant Body still hadn’t advanced.
Gu Qingfeng could only assume its tier was too high—he needed even stronger demons to push it further.
Unfortunately, even after feeding multiple Heaven Origin peak demons his Exploding Origin Pills, none could breach the Celestial Realm. The gap was simply too vast.
"The strongest demons in the Hanging Heaven Secret Realm are only at Heaven Origin peak. They can’t help me improve anymore. Time to find some 'fortunate donors'—and maybe the Ethereal Spirit Water while I’m at it."
During these days, Gu Qingfeng had encountered very few human cultivators. His path was the opposite of theirs—while they sought treasures and avoided demons, he charged straight into their lairs.
He wasn’t in a hurry to hunt for treasures. The Hanging Heaven Secret Realm would remain open for a full month before anyone could leave.
Why bother searching when he could just wait for others to find them, then "liberate" the spoils?
Now, it was time to see how many treasures those kind souls had gathered for him.
] [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!"
【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.”
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
