The evening breeze brushed past, the dark blue sky dotted with stars.
Back in the real world, Ye Chuan lay on his bed, silent and still. He leaned against the headboard, letting the night wind from outside the window wash over him.
"Haa…"
He exhaled slowly, savoring the crisp air filling his nostrils as he relaxed his mind.
After sitting there for over an hour, Ye Chuan finally recovered his composure. He then picked up the jade pendant hanging on his chest and called out, "Lilith."
"What dost thou seek of me?"
Lilith responded quickly—perhaps because she was afraid of being licked by Ye Chuan again. After all, the pendant served as her temporary vessel, and a single lick from him made her feel like her entire being had been slurped up.
"Come out for a bit."
The pendant shimmered with a violet glow as Lilith's figure gradually materialized. She silently observed Ye Chuan before sitting cross-legged on an invisible chair, twirling her hair and sighing.
"I cannot manifest too often, lest my soul energy wanes."
No sooner had she spoken than a brilliant violet light erupted before her.
"Huh?" Lilith's petite face froze in surprise as she noticed the piles of spirit essence surrounding Ye Chuan. The dense soul energy radiating from them made her eyes gleam instantly.
"Where… did you get these?" Lilith asked, astonished.
"Pretty amazing, right?" Ye Chuan grinned before pulling out even more spirit essence from his backpack, nearly filling the entire room.
Lilith looked up, her initial shock giving way to calm. "So much… all for me?"
"Yep."
Without hesitation, Lilith waved her hand, absorbing all the soul energy from the essence in one go.
"There's more." Seeing that she had finished, Ye Chuan waved again, and another mountain of spirit essence materialized, covering the room once more.
Lilith: "…"
She continued absorbing.
This cycle repeated until Ye Chuan had emptied his entire stock. Only then did the violet glow around Lilith begin to fade.
Now, Lilith no longer appeared translucent. If not for Ye Chuan sensing she was still a spirit, he might have thought she had fully regained her physical form.
"…"
"Kutana!" Lilith reveled in the surge of power within her. In the next moment, seven or eight magic circles enveloped her!
As the circles shattered, Lilith emerged before Ye Chuan in a mature, curvaceous form—long legs, flowing hair, and star-like pupils locking onto him.
A smirk curled her lips.
"Good. I shan't forget thy kindness…"
But in the next instant, a strange expression crossed her face. Violet light engulfed her once more, and after a brief struggle, she deflated like a punctured balloon, reverting to her petite, childlike appearance.
"Huh?!" Lilith's round eyes widened in outrage. "Damn it! That bastard, what did he do to me?!"
Watching her stomp her feet in frustration, Ye Chuan crossed his arms. "Uh… no idea who you're talking about, but you look kinda cute like this."
Under Lilith's withering glare, he raised his hands in surrender.
"Never mind."
Lilith exhaled deeply, as if resigning herself to reality. "I know not where thou obtained these spirit essences, but clearly, thou hast ventured into another dimension."
The faint ripples of spatial energy hadn't escaped her sharp senses.
"Here, this is for thee." A violet orb materialized in Lilith's palm, pulsing with boundless magical energy.
"What is this?"
"A mythical artifact—the Holy Grail of Noir," Lilith explained. "Absorb it into thy mana core, and thou shalt wield near-limitless magic."
"Meaning… infinite MP?"
Ye Chuan's brows shot up.
A treasure like this?
Did that mean he could spam skills without restraint?
"Not infinite, but given thy current strength… it should last thee a hundred million years or so." Lilith waved dismissively.
"I slew—ahem, found it in some ruins. Consider it payment for restoring my soul energy."
Ye Chuan took the orb and examined it—
[Item: Holy Grail of Noir (Mythic)
Eternal Mana Core.
Equip effect: Mana cost -99%, Mana regeneration +99%
Equippable]
Seeing the crimson text, Ye Chuan hadn't expected Lilith to gift him a mythic-grade artifact. He immediately scooped her up under her arms and lifted her. "This is why I love you! My S-tier money tree!"
"Release me!" Lilith glared, squirming in protest.
"Oops, sorry."
Setting her down, Ye Chuan ignored her puffed-up cheeks and equipped the orb without delay.
Instantly, he felt an unending torrent of power surging within him.
"Does this mean I can maintain my avatar indefinitely?"
Mana and spiritual energy were fundamentally the same to him. If so, none of his techniques would be constrained by MP anymore.
What a treasure.
"You’re giving me something this valuable?" Ye Chuan found it hard to believe an archmage like Lilith wouldn’t need it herself.
"I have long transcended the need for such trifles. To me, every word and gesture is magic." Lilith replied serenely.
That sounded ridiculously impressive.
"Do you still need more spirit essence?" Ye Chuan asked.
"Indeed. This barely restored a fraction of my soul energy." Lilith floated back onto her invisible chair. "Continue gathering it for me, and thou shalt be rewarded."
"Deal." Ye Chuan nodded, then recalled the events beyond the mysterious stone gate.
"Lilith, I have a question."
"What is it?"
"Does the 'Rider of the End' ring any bells?"
The moment Ye Chuan uttered those words, Lilith’s expression darkened. "Where didst thou hear that name?"
"It’s a long story." Seeing her reaction, Ye Chuan continued,
"Thou already knowest I possess the ability to traverse dimensions…"
He omitted mention of the "Multiverse App," simply stating he had crossed into another realm and encountered the colossal knight behind the stone gate.
Lilith didn’t seem surprised by his dimensional travels. After hearing his account, she fell silent for a long moment before speaking in a subdued tone.
"Thy current strength is insufficient for such knowledge…"
With that, she dissolved into a violet streak and vanished back into the pendant.
"Oi, not even a hint? Gonna be a cryptic jerk?"
"…"
When the pendant remained silent, Ye Chuan considered pressing further but ultimately let it go.
Whatever. The treasure Lilith had given him was already a massive windfall.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
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.”
