Gu Qingfeng struck with a counterattack, grabbing Hei Baizi’s unconventional hair and immediately flipping him over with a shoulder throw.
Boom!
Hei Baizi felt himself enveloped by an overwhelming force. Despite his terrifying strength as a Celestial Immortal, he was as powerless as a child before this man. His body plummeted like a meteor, crashing violently into the ground and leaving behind a bottomless crater, surrounded by a spiderweb of cracks.
After undergoing the enhancements of the Eternal Night Lamp Technique and his recent devouring spree, a mere Celestial Immortal like Hei Baizi was nothing in Gu Qingfeng’s eyes—he usually kept such prey in his stomach.
"Your pitiful strength can’t even scratch this Emperor. Hurry up and use your Death Curse!" Gu Qingfeng hovered high in the sky, looking down disdainfully at the deep pit.
Bang!
Hei Baizi, shrouded in black and white energy, burst out of the crater in a disheveled state, his face twisted with fury.
Having witnessed Gu Qingfeng’s bizarre speed and power firsthand, he knew this was no ordinary mortal. Against such an opponent, only the Death Curse would suffice.
Yet, he hesitated. He had spent a million years refining this technique, intending to use it against a Profound Immortal to cement his reputation. But now, he was forced to waste it on a mere mortal—no matter how extraordinary, the story would still be humiliating.
People would surely mock him: "Hei Baizi spent a million years mastering the Death Curse, only to use it on a mortal."
As he wavered—
Crack!
The sound of shattered space erupted from his left. Gu Qingfeng’s figure tore through the void, his massive fist hurtling toward Hei Baizi’s face.
Seeing the terrifying punch, Hei Baizi’s pupils shrank to pinpricks. He sensed imminent death and could no longer afford hesitation—he had to retaliate.
But Gu Qingfeng was too fast. Before Hei Baizi could even open his mouth—
"This Emperor told you to speak! Are you deaf?!"
Bam!
The fist smashed into Hei Baizi’s face, distorting his features visibly before sending him flying.
He crashed into the ruins once more, but it wasn’t over.
Gu Qingfeng reappeared before him, delivering punch after punch with devastating force.
"Speak! This Emperor ordered you to speak!"
Bam! Bam! Bam!
"You think you’re tough? Today, this Emperor will smash that mouth of yours!"
Bam! Bam! Bam!
After the brutal beating, Hei Baizi was left barely breathing, his face unrecognizable. Gu Qingfeng, ever considerate, had even plucked out his half-white hair—after all, who could resist pulling out white strands? No white hair meant looking younger.
"Fine. You’d rather die than submit? Then this Emperor will—"
"AAAAHHH!!! Die! You die!"
Seizing his chance, Hei Baizi roared through his broken, gaping mouth, his expression twisted with madness.
Boom!
A million years’ worth of refined death energy surged toward Gu Qingfeng like a black beam fired from Hei Baizi’s mouth.
"Hmph, such foul breath!"
Gu Qingfeng raised a hand to block it—just as the system’s notification chimed in.
[Death Energy +1,000,000 +1,000,000 +1,000,000…]
As the death energy flooded in, he felt his Indestructible Demon Soul undergoing a terrifying mutation.
It had already transformed unimaginably after absorbing Supreme Sin and further mutated upon devouring the Heart Demon. Now, with this vast influx of death energy, the changes grew beyond measure.
His spiritual power turned overwhelmingly sinister—dark, silent, and cold, like the depths of the cosmos.
"How are you unharmed?!" Hei Baizi screamed in disbelief. His million-year Death Curse hadn’t even singed Gu Qingfeng.
Gu Qingfeng grinned. "You’re useless now."
With those words, the Gates of the Netherworld swung open behind him. Countless ghastly hands clawed at Hei Baizi, tearing him apart as they dragged him screaming into the abyss.
"Ahh…"
Feeling his power swell with another Celestial Immortal’s essence, Gu Qingfeng’s mood improved. As for reuniting with his family?
He wasn’t in a hurry. His logic was simple: once he revealed himself, wouldn’t his family’s subordinates become his? Their immortal dynasty, his? Their harem, his?
But then, wouldn’t it be awkward to keep devouring their forces?
Better to feast now while he could. If enemies stronger than him showed up, he’d just reveal the Starfire then. Surely his family wouldn’t mind losing a few underlings.
Power was power—every bit counted. After all, who knew what dangers awaited in the Starfire Immortal Dynasty?
Following the usual tropes, after killing a Celestial Immortal, the dynasty would surely rage and send stronger foes—Profound Immortals next, then Golden Immortals. He’d test himself against the former and reveal the Starfire for the latter.
Gu Qingfeng happily plotted it all out.
He hoped the next wave would bring multiple Celestial Immortals, then Profound Immortals, then multiple Profounds, then Golden Immortals… repeating until he finally met his family. That was the safest approach.
Of course, such conveniently stupid antagonists were rare.
Unfortunately, plans never survive contact with reality. Unbeknownst to Gu Qingfeng, Hei Baizi wasn’t like the low-ranking immortal officials he’d killed before.
Those officials, though weak, were formally registered members of the Starfire Immortal Dynasty. Hei Baizi, despite his strength, was merely a retainer of a mid-ranking official—unregistered.
His death wouldn’t trigger the dynasty’s immediate awareness like an official’s would.
The noble who’d issued the order never imagined it would pass through so many hands without a single official acting, ending up with a temp like Hei Baizi—who then failed spectacularly.
…
Gu Qingfeng waited at the border for three days. Not even a fart arrived. He’d had enough of the Starfire Immortal Dynasty’s inefficiency—but what could he expect? Absolute power bred absolute corruption.
The Starfire Dynasty had created the Stellar River. Here, their word was law. In a world where individual might crushed all opposition, even a global rebellion meant nothing to them.
Naturally, dysfunction thrived.
Finally, Gu Qingfeng gave up waiting. Since this was Starfire territory, they’d find him wherever he went. Better to focus on freeing his family from the Prison Demon Sword.
His next destination: Mount Wuyou.
First, to meet Ye Wuyou, the demonic cultivator. Second, to find artifacts capable of breaking the seal.
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.”
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
【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.)
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)
