The Heart Demon Lord sneered coldly, and in the next moment, a surge of demonic light erupted from his body, as if he were activating some secret technique.
Gu Qingfeng grew slightly more serious. After all, the guy sounded convincing—could there really be some unknown weakness in this emperor’s body?
"Die!"
The Heart Demon Lord suddenly roared, and the overwhelming demonic light spread outward like tidal waves.
Then, in an instant, he turned into a blurry afterimage, charging straight at Gu Qingfeng.
Gu Qingfeng remained vigilant, ready to counter the attack.
But at that very moment, the Heart Demon Lord abruptly changed direction mid-air, abandoning Gu Qingfeng and instead rushing toward Old Ghost.
At this time, Old Ghost was locked in fierce combat with the Heavenly Dao. Without the Heart Demon Lord’s support, he was struggling, barely holding on.
BOOM—!
A flash of demonic light erupted behind Old Ghost.
His expression instantly twisted in shock—he never expected the Heart Demon Lord to ambush him at such a critical moment.
Caught off guard, evasion was already difficult, let alone while engaged in battle with the Heavenly Dao. There was simply no way to dodge.
The boundless demonic light swallowed Old Ghost’s figure whole.
"ARGH—!"
Old Ghost let out a blood-curdling scream as his body plummeted from the void like a meteor, blood gushing from his wounds. Half his body had been blown apart.
CRASH!
The ground caved in beneath him, forming a bottomless crater.
Lying at the bottom of the pit, his mangled body barely intact, Old Ghost stared up at the Heart Demon Lord with a mix of fury and disbelief.
"You treacherous bastard! Cough—!"
He vomited mouthfuls of blood—had it not been for his innate resilience and monstrous vitality, that single strike would have killed him outright.
"Treacherous? Hahaha..." The Heart Demon Lord burst into maniacal laughter. "A member of the Devouring Heaven Xuan Turtle race dares to call others treacherous? You, who were born into this world, leeching off its essence to grow, only to turn around and devour it—such an ungrateful wretch! Who’s really the treacherous one here?"
"You—! Cough—!" Old Ghost tried to retort, but another torrent of blood choked his words.
Gu Qingfeng, watching from the side, was stunned. What the hell was going on?
A free-for-all?
What was this Heart Demon Lord scheming?
First, he got the Longevity Demon Lord and Oath Demon Lord killed, and now he’s ambushing Old Ghost.
Wasn’t his purpose in coming to the Cangming Realm to deal with this emperor?
So why was he attacking everyone except this emperor?
"Die!" The Heart Demon Lord suddenly snorted coldly, condensing boundless demonic light in his palm into a terrifying black sphere before hurling it straight at Old Ghost.
"NO—!!"
Old Ghost’s eyes nearly burst from their sockets—he could feel the annihilating power contained within that attack. There was no surviving it.
He wanted to resist, but his grievously wounded body could no longer keep up.
Is this the end?
My schemes spanning hundreds of millions of years… my ambitions… I refuse to accept this!!
The terrifying energy sphere loomed closer, expanding in Old Ghost’s vision.
Then, a familiar figure appeared before him once more—towering, fearless, and heroic.
It was Gu Qingfeng!
Gu Qingfeng stood with his back to Old Ghost, facing the black sphere head-on. He casually raised a hand, and when the sphere struck his palm, it was as if it had collided with an immovable divine mountain.
The sphere spun violently against his hand, white smoke billowing from the friction. Gradually, it began to shrink, compressing until it vanished without a trace.
Old Ghost stared blankly at his back, the sunlight casting a long shadow over him.
Cradled within that shadow, Old Ghost’s heart—sealed away for countless eons—quivered for the very first time.
"Why?"
Old Ghost asked the same question again, but this time, his emotions were entirely different.
This was the second time Gu Qingfeng had saved him from certain doom—first against the Heavenly Dao, now against the Heart Demon Lord.
To say he wasn’t moved would be a lie. Especially when Old Ghost recalled how, after the first rescue, he had immediately betrayed Gu Qingfeng. A pang of shame surged in his heart.
And yet, despite that, Gu Qingfeng had saved him a second time.
So Old Ghost truly wanted to know—why?
Was it really as Gu Qingfeng had said before? "Perhaps because… a world without you would be rather dull."
Was that truly the reason? Did someone like him really add color to this world?
Suddenly, Gu Qingfeng turned around.
Old Ghost waited expectantly for his answer—though even he didn’t know what he was hoping for.
Maybe… just a shred of acknowledgment.
SLAP!
A resounding smack landed on Old Ghost’s face, sending two yellowed teeth flying.
Old Ghost was dumbstruck.
Gu Qingfeng’s furious roar echoed in his ears.
"Why my ass! You dare ask this emperor why, you old bastard?!"
SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!—
A dozen more strikes, front and back, left Old Ghost’s face so swollen even his own mother wouldn’t recognize him.
"Of course it’s for your power! What else would this emperor save you for? Your age? Your lack of hygiene?!"
THUD.
Old Ghost collapsed to the ground, lying motionless on the cold earth, his eyes vacant.
So… this cold, merciless world held no warmth after all.
I’m tired. Let it all end.
BOOM!
Old Ghost self-destructed—suddenly, decisively.
He knew he had lost. Utterly. Not just his ambitions, but worse—he had opened his heart to someone for the first time, only to be repaid with a dozen slaps.
What struck him wasn’t just Gu Qingfeng’s hand—it was the cruel, unfeeling reality.
And so, Old Ghost departed, leaving behind a world that had shown him only despair. His passing was… peaceful.
Only Gu Qingfeng remained, standing alone as the explosion swallowed him whole.
Ding!
Host has been attacked by Old Ghost’s final strike.
Congratulations, host has obtained the Devouring Heaven Xuan Turtle race’s innate divine ability: [Devour the Heavens].
At the same time, with Old Ghost’s self-destruction, all the Emperor’s Daos he had previously devoured scattered into the void, returning to the embrace of the Heavenly Dao.
The weakened Heavenly Dao, as if injected with a stimulant, instantly regained its vigor.
The shattered projections of the Three Thousand Emperors and Kings throughout history reassembled from the endless void.
Under the Heavenly Dao’s control, these projections began merging, forming a towering giant ten thousand feet tall—a colossus that stood between heaven and earth, majestic beyond measure.
The Heavenly Dao’s eye fused into the giant’s head.
In the next moment, the giant’s face split open, revealing a single massive silver eye—no other features, just that single pupil occupying two-thirds of its visage.
Devour the Heavens?
As the inherited knowledge flowed into him, Gu Qingfeng’s eyes lit up with excitement.
This was an incredibly domineering divine ability—just as the name implied, it allowed one to devour the Heavenly Dao itself. And not just the Heavenly Dao; in essence, as long as one could stomach it (without exploding), anything could be devoured.
"Hahaha—!"
A burst of wild laughter interrupted Gu Qingfeng’s thoughts.
It was the Heart Demon Lord.
He studied the silver-eyed giant with satisfaction, as if admiring a masterpiece.
"So this was why you killed Old Ghost?" Gu Qingfeng asked.
"You wanted to strengthen the Heavenly Dao?"
"Precisely." The Heart Demon Lord smiled, brimming with confidence.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
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.”
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
【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.)
