"Please... please..."
The proud man struggled to plead.
Gu Qingfeng's grip remained steady, his hand firmly around the man's neck. The man's face had turned from red to a deep purple.
"The weak should hide in the corners of the world and train, not come to places like this to strut around. If you don't have the self-awareness of being weak, then dying is just the natural consequence. Didn't you say that? How is it that now that roles have reversed, you're trying to deny it?" Gu Qingfeng said calmly.
But by now, the proud man's eyes were rolling back, and he couldn't utter a single word.
Gu Qingfeng suddenly released his grip, and the proud man fell to the ground with a thud. Oxygen rushed back into his lungs, causing him to gasp and cough violently.
"Don't worry, I won't kill you. If I did, wouldn't that make me no better than you? Your twisted worldview won't change just because you're dead. I need you alive so you can spend your entire life correcting your mistakes."
"Cough... cough... What do you want to do! I am..." The proud man looked at Gu Qingfeng with terror, trying to invoke his background to intimidate him.
But Gu Qingfeng didn't give him the chance. Instead, he interrupted him, placing a hand lightly on his dantian and said, "I'll destroy your dantian, sever your meridians, and make you a weakling for the rest of your life. You'll live in endless pain and regret. Every night when you sleep, you'll remember today, the mistakes you made. This memory will become your lifelong nightmare. At first, you might hate and be angry, but years later, as you lie on your deathbed, reflecting on your life, you'll be filled with regret. Regret for having such twisted thoughts when you were young, regret for provoking me.
So, try hard to repent."
Gu Qingfeng suddenly exerted force, but at that moment, a female voice rang out from a distance: "Stop!"
The personal maid of Miss Hongli, who had been leading the way earlier, came running toward them, apparently trying to stop the tragedy.
Gu Qingfeng ignored her, his right hand suddenly exerting force, slamming fiercely into the proud man's dantian.
"No!!!"
The proud man screamed like a madman...
Bang!
With a single strike, the dantian shattered, and the meridians were severed. The man's scream was cut off instantly.
His eyes bulged, blood mixed with fragments of his ruptured internal organs spewed out, and his head slumped to the side as he lost consciousness.
By then, the maid had also arrived. Seeing the proud man's condition, she glared at Gu Qingfeng with fury: "Why did you use such heavy-handed force!"
Gu Qingfeng glanced at the maid calmly and said, "He attacked me first, so he had to pay the price."
"But you weren't injured! Why did you have to cripple him?"
"Oh?"
Gu Qingfeng showed a slight surprise. This familiar feeling... could it be the inter-dimensional version of a saintly hypocrite?
I wasn't injured; that's my skill. He was severely injured; that's his lack of skill. Does that mean I can't fight back just because I wasn't injured?
"Then, according to you, what should I have done?"
"Of course, it should be about harmony. Since he had acknowledged your strength and didn't intend to take the room number one, you had no reason to attack. If everyone took a step back, wouldn't that be a win-win situation?"
Gu Qingfeng narrowed his eyes slightly, calmly looking at the maid: "Do you know he attacked me without any warning? If I weren't skilled, I would have been dead."
The maid rolled her eyes impatiently: "You're twisting the facts. The reality is that you came out unscathed, while this gentleman is now a cripple."
Gu Qingfeng looked at the maid's self-righteous demeanor and suddenly laughed.
He understood a truth: some arguments are simply impossible to win.
Saintly hypocrites are so annoying because they stand on the moral high ground, pitying others without any principles, siding with the weak without understanding empathy or perspective-taking. They blindly advocate for magnanimity, believing that whoever is weaker is always in the right.
They fail to understand that one should not advise others to be magnanimous without experiencing their suffering.
"Oh, so I was slapped, and I should just let it go and seek harmony. If that's the case..."
Slap!
A crisp sound echoed, and a blood-red handprint appeared on the maid's delicate face.
The maid was stunned. She looked at Gu Qingfeng, who was smiling, in disbelief. It took her several seconds to react.
"You hit me?!" The maid suddenly shouted, her voice twisted with anger.
"How dare you hit me?! As a man, you actually hit a woman. Do you know I'm the favorite maid of our Miss Hongli? She knows all the dignitaries in Wutong Prefecture, you..."
"Shh!" Gu Qingfeng interrupted with a smile: "Please seek harmony."
The maid was instantly infuriated by Gu Qingfeng's attitude: "You hit me, and now you want me to seek harmony? You're waiting! I'm going to tell Miss Hongli right now. You're dead... uh..."
The maid's angry voice cut off abruptly as a strong hand gripped her delicate, fair neck and lifted her into the air.
"Uh... uh..."
The maid's expression suddenly turned fearful. She struggled desperately, trying to call for help, but could only emit muffled sounds.
Gu Qingfeng smiled at her, speaking calmly: "Do you have some misunderstanding about me? I was speaking nicely to you, but you thought I was easy to talk to? Did I give you too much face?"
He patted the maid's cheek, his smile growing: "Didn't you say to seek harmony? Why are you so upset when the victim is you?"
The maid looked at Gu Qingfeng's smiling face with utter terror, as if seeing a demon in human form. She struggled with all her might, but the hand around her neck was like a vice, gripping her tightly as if to crush her throat.
"Don't worry, I won't kill you. You're just like that guy, with twisted worldviews. That's a sickness, and it needs to be cured! Luckily, I'm quite good at treating this kind of illness. Today, I'm in a good mood, so I won't charge you for the treatment."
With that, Gu Qingfeng's eyes flashed with crimson light, and his Eye Technique, Illusory Vision, instantly activated.
After the maid locked eyes with him, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.
Gu Qingfeng released his grip, and the maid collapsed to the ground like a dead dog.
"Enjoy the illusion I've prepared for you."
Gu Qingfeng had personally crafted an illusion for the maid, one designed to cure her.
In the illusion, the maid would be tormented repeatedly. Every time she had enough and tried to fight back, someone would step in to advise her to be magnanimous, to seek harmony. If she didn't listen, she would provoke the crowd and be punished.
This cycle of being bullied, resisting, and then being punished would repeat endlessly.
This illusion wasn't a one-time spell but was imprinted on the maid's being. Every time she fell asleep, she would enter the illusion.
Only when her worldview was completely reformed would the illusion dissipate.
Previously, the illusion couldn't achieve this level, but with Gu Qingfeng's increased spiritual power, arranging such an illusion for an ordinary person was effortless.
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.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
agon king storylines. At the start, I obtained the "Ultimate Lackey System" - the more I act as a lackey, the stronger I become. What else could I do? I chose to become the personal henchman of the ultimate villain, Su Muwan. I provoke all sorts of chosen ones, snatch away their opportunities, and commit every evil deed imaginable. You ask who's behind me? Hmph! You're not worthy of knowing my lady's name! ...... ....... I am Su Muwan, the eldest daughter of the Su family. Since childhood, I've possessed extraordinary talent in martial arts, which led to my arrogant and domineering personality in my past life. I was even foolish enough to repeatedly challenge those favored by heaven, ultimately resulting in a tragic death. In this life, I must behave and absolutely cannot walk the same path again!! However... SLAP!! "So you're the Dragon King, huh?!" When I saw my little lackey swagger over and viciously slap the Dragon King who was hiding his identity, I felt my heart sink. Su Muwan's suspended heart finally died as she watched Qin Luo, her utterly loyal lackey, standing before her. She fainted on the spot from shock. Heaven is determined to destroy me!! (Pure love 1v1, light-hearted, no angst, single female lead, villain, reincarnation, lackey)
