After eating and drinking their fill, it was already 9 PM by the time they returned.
Bai Qianshuang followed behind Ye Chuan, holding a cup of duck poop fragrance lemon tea in one hand and a small bag of snacks in the other.
The young girl was gradually beginning to integrate into society.
At least, when it came to food.
The roads of the urban village were unlit, dim and shadowy. But as Bai Qianshuang watched Ye Chuan’s back walking ahead of her, she inexplicably felt an indescribable sense of security.
"After we get home, take a shower and rest early," Ye Chuan said.
Bai Qianshuang nodded.
The word "home" from Ye Chuan’s lips stirred something deep within her.
Soon, the two arrived back at the apartment.
After seeing the girl off, Ye Chuan took a shower and returned to his room. Despite airing out the place all day, the faint smell of something burnt still lingered in the air. The only solution for now was to keep the window open—there wasn’t much else he could do.
Sitting in his chair, Ye Chuan absentmindedly played with his phone when he unexpectedly discovered that the "Landlord of Ten Thousand Realms" app had unlocked a new feature.
[Tenants]
[Cultivation]
[Adventure]
The "Tenants" section allowed him to view basic information and accept tasks. "Cultivation" was for idle leveling, with options to spend money on spiritual roots or special physiques. "Adventure," however, was a completely new option that hadn’t appeared before.
Seeing this addition, Ye Chuan was surprised. Checking the logs, he realized this feature was unlocked as a reward for increasing Bai Qianshuang’s favorability—meaning it was a brand-new function.
It seemed this app still had many undiscovered features, especially regarding those mysterious points—Ye Chuan still had no idea what they were for.
"Let’s try the adventure mode."
Without hesitation, Ye Chuan tapped on it.
[This app supports text-based adventures. Items obtained can be transferred to your backpack daily.]
[Current available worlds—]
[1. Tianxuan Continent]
[2. ???]
[3. ???]
Ye Chuan glanced at the options and immediately understood—this meant he could enter the world his tenant originally came from.
Since his only tenant was Bai Qianshuang, the only accessible world was Tianxuan Continent.
Realizing this, and especially seeing that adventure rewards could be transferred to his backpack, Ye Chuan didn’t hesitate to press "Start."
[Landing location: Tianxuan Continent]
[You appear at the entrance of a village in the Donghua Divine Continent. From the village, you hear chaotic noises and catch the faint scent of blood in the air. Do you enter?]
Ye Chuan thought for a moment and chose "Enter."
[You step into the village and discover a Foundation Establishment-stage wolf demon slaughtering the villagers. Upon noticing your approach, it casually swipes at you with its claws.]
[You died.]
[Adventure concluded. Items obtained: 0.]
Ye Chuan stared blankly at the red "DEAD" flashing on his screen.
Huh?
That’s it?
Did he really just die like that?
"Though, I guess it makes sense—a Foundation Establishment monster would easily kill a Qi Condensation nobody," Ye Chuan mused, realizing the protagonist’s stats in the adventure mirrored his own.
He tapped "Adventure" again.
[Daily adventure attempts exhausted. Spend 1000 yuan for an extra attempt?]
What?
Ye Chuan finally saw the pattern—the system seemed determined to take back all the money it gave him. Every feature required spending cash to enjoy fully.
"Forget it, I’ll wait for tomorrow’s refresh. I’m broke," Ye Chuan muttered. But just then, another pop-up appeared—
[Congratulations! You’ve received a 90% off coupon! Limited-time offer: 100 yuan for one extra attempt!
Countdown: 23 hours 59 minutes.]
Seeing the discount pop up, Ye Chuan’s lips twitched. But his curiosity about potential rewards got the better of him. He pressed "Purchase."
Buy!
[Purchase successful. Begin adventure?]
"Yes."
[Landing location: Tianxuan Continent]
[You appear in a bustling city in the North Hua Divine Continent. The streets are lively with countless travelers. Your choices—]
[1. Leave the city]
[2. Visit the renowned Tianxiang Pavilion]
Tianxiang Pavilion?
What kind of place was that?
After a few seconds of thought, Ye Chuan chose option 2.
[You enter Tianxiang Pavilion. The establishment is filled with beautiful women, and the air is thick with an intoxicating fragrance. But before anyone can greet you, a voice booms from outside—]
["Fellow cultivators, enter my Human Emperor Banner and converse with me!"]
[Your vision goes dark.]
[You died.]
[Adventure concluded. Items obtained: 0.]
Ye Chuan: "..."
Damn it.
Ye Chuan was speechless. He finally understood—Tianxuan Continent was a death trap where people dropped like flies. With his current strength, surviving was nearly impossible, let alone acquiring treasures.
"Whatever. I’ll just level up through idle cultivation. No rush," Ye Chuan reassured himself. Though he winced at the wasted 100 yuan, he quickly brushed it off.
Tomorrow, another 3000 yuan would roll in.
Just as Ye Chuan was about to call it a night, his phone buzzed. It was Luo Xi, calling via video.
He answered, and Luo Xi appeared on the screen. She was sitting on a chair, seemingly fresh out of the shower, with one foot propped up as she clipped her nails. The crisp snip snip sounds filled the air.
Dressed in sleep shorts, her fair thighs were on full display. Seeing the call connect, she grinned.
"Thanks for the shoes, son~"
"I’ll bring you breakfast tomorrow. What do you want?"
Ye Chuan replied, "Just let me sleep in. If you really want to do something, come over and cook me a couple of dishes before you leave."
"Sure thing," Luo Xi said, then suddenly remembered something.
"Oh, right. That Huang Haotian posted on the school forum. He’s challenging you to a rematch, saying your last win was a cheap shot and doesn’t count."
"A rematch?"
That guy had the audacity? Last time, he and his lackeys ganged up on Ye Chuan, and now he wanted a fair fight?
Ye Chuan almost laughed. But then he recalled his recent cultivation progress and the detachable Fire Spirit Root he’d acquired. A smirk tugged at his lips.
"Sure."
Last time, he’d just offered the guy’s little brother a smoke.
Now? Things were about to get heated.
The phoenix’s cry of rebirth.
"Chuan, you’re seriously agreeing?" Luo Xi’s voice turned worried. "Don’t be reckless. You’re not in good health."
"Relax," Ye Chuan said.
Though Luo Xi knew Ye Chuan wasn’t one to take losses lying down, the thought of him getting hurt made her uneasy. "There’s nothing to gain from this, Chuan. Even if you win, so what?"
"Who says there’s no gain?" Ye Chuan stroked his chin.
"If he’s so desperate for revenge, why not raise the stakes?"
He wasn’t in a hurry—Huang Haotian was the desperate one.
After all, an entire group of them had failed to take down a single sickly guy. At this rate, the Taekwondo Club’s reputation would be in the gutter.
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."
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?"
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.
