"Did he... just break through?"
"Golden Core?"
Watching Ye Chuan's cultivation realm continuously ascend as effortlessly as drinking water, the elders and Qin Tianya found it hard to believe.
"Impossible! Just days ago, he was only at the Foundation Establishment stage! How could he reach Crystallization and then achieve Golden Core in such a short time?!" Elder Ziyun, already severely injured by the heavenly lightning, could no longer hold himself together. After coughing up several mouthfuls of blood and shouting in fury, he collapsed amidst the rubble.
"Master!"
After breaking through to Golden Core, Ye Chuan sensed the spiritual energy within his body and silently surveyed the surrounding ruins—the heavenly lightning had been blocked by the Qingyun Sect's protective formation.
But the power had exceeded his expectations. After all, this was the Qingyun Sect's life-saving formation, yet even it had been shattered by the lightning. Ye Chuan could already imagine how terrifying the heavenly tribulations would be with each major breakthrough in the future.
And this was just the Golden Core tribulation.
Not far away, seeing Zi Ning'er weeping, Ye Chuan hesitated for a moment before turning away. "Time to leave."
"Where do you think you're going?!" A furious roar echoed as if from the heavens.
Ye Chuan was stunned to find his teleportation magic failing!
He realized the entire space had been sealed with restrictions!
Though Ye Chuan himself wasn't affected by the restrictions, his techniques weren't immune to magic suppression. As his spell failed, he barely had time to react before a flying sword shot toward him!
So fast...
His hand barely twitched.
The sword was impossibly quick—in the blink of an eye, it pierced straight through his chest!
"Ugh—" Ye Chuan spat out a mouthful of blood, crimson droplets splattering onto the sword embedded in his chest.
His consciousness began to blur instantly.
Lifting his gaze weakly, he saw an elderly man slowly emerging from the ruins, his golden eyes seeming to pierce through heaven and earth.
"Ancestor!" Qin Tianya immediately bowed in reverence, and the other elders followed suit.
"Hmph. How long have I been in seclusion?" The old man snorted coldly, his gaze settling on Ye Chuan. "And now the Qingyun Sect has been reduced to this wretched state!"
Qin Tianya didn't dare speak, silently lowering his head.
"Who are you?" The old man looked down at Ye Chuan, his voice filled with authority.
Ye Chuan's expression remained calm, though his eyes narrowed slightly. "Heh."
The old man suddenly spoke again, "I see no fear of death in your eyes. Do you have some means of cheating death?"
He continued indifferently, "If so, you're mistaken. I will imprison your soul."
"Death will not grant you release!"
Hearing this, Ye Chuan fell silent, staring at the old man with uncertainty. Those sharp eyes seemed to see right through him.
The next moment, Ye Chuan suddenly smiled, his aura surging violently as if compressing all his spiritual energy within.
"He's going to detonate his soul!" One sharp-eyed elder cried out in alarm.
"Hmph. No one dies without my permission." The old man unleashed his divine sense, but when it touched Ye Chuan, it dissipated like mud sinking into the sea.
What...?
The old man frowned, but before he could react, golden light erupted from Ye Chuan's body, followed by a violent explosion of energy!
"BOOM!"
With a deafening blast, Ye Chuan's body was utterly obliterated.
......
......
[Adventure concluded. Retrievable items: 477]
[Due to prolonged survival, all tenants have received realm advancements]
[...]
Ye Chuan felt as if his body had sunk into quicksand, his consciousness fading further.
He didn't know how much time had passed before he gradually regained awareness. Opening his eyes, he was met with a familiar ceiling—
"......"
Staring at the ceiling of his room, Ye Chuan instinctively touched his chest, where a phantom pain lingered.
"I thought I might make it out alive," he murmured, though deep down, he had never truly believed he could escape the Qingyun Sect unscathed. After all, a single physical attack was enough to finish him.
"Ugh..." Slowly sitting up, Ye Chuan's face was pale.
Compared to the deaths in text-based adventures, the full immersion of this experience made it feel as though he had genuinely died once.
"Next entry is in two weeks." He checked the revival timer for the Tianxuan Continent. Perhaps because he had reached the Golden Core realm, dying now required a two-week cooldown before resurrection.
"That old man... the Ancestor..."
Leaning back against the headboard, Ye Chuan felt dizzy and nauseous.
He sat there motionless for a full hour before finally recovering.
"Finally at late-stage Golden Core. Caught up to Qian Shuang's progress." He marveled at his rapid advancement before turning his attention to his spoils.
His inventory was packed with flying swords—likely part of the sect leader's collection.
"These are all high-quality." Ye Chuan examined them one by one. Most were at least mid-grade weapons, suggesting the sect leader had spent considerable time gathering them.
His gaze eventually settled on one particular sword—not the one Qin Tianya had wielded.
It must have been taken along when he stripped the man of his belongings.
[Item: Qingyun Sword (Gold)
Supreme-grade artifact
The ancestral sword of Qingyun Sect leaders. Doubles the effectiveness of Qingyun Sword techniques.]
A treasure indeed!
But what truly interested Ye Chuan wasn't the swords. Soon, he found an icon resembling a mirror.
[Item: Heavenly Water Divine Mirror (Red)
Peerless artifact
A divine relic capable of glimpsing past and future. Accidentally fell into Qingyun Sect's possession. Currently damaged.
Repairable.]
Peerless?!
"That stab was worth it—another peerless-grade item." Though unsure of its exact effects, anything involving time manipulation couldn’t be useless.
But repairing it...
"It’s unusable in this state. How do I fix it?"
After searching fruitlessly for repair methods, Ye Chuan stored it away and closed his eyes.
For now, sleep was the priority.
He was utterly exhausted.
The night passed without incident.
......
"Ye Chuan! I bwoke thwough!" A voice jolted him awake after what felt like an eternity. Something cold and soft pressed against him.
Opening his eyes, Ye Chuan was met with a pair of massive mounds nearly blocking his vision. Lan Xiaoke shook him vigorously. "Wake up, Ye Chuan! I think I’ve reached late-stage Foundation Establishment! I’m gonna break through!"
"Late-stage Foundation Establishment, huh?" Ye Chuan, still groggy, pulled Lan Xiaoke down and buried his face into her like a water pillow.
"Stop bothering me. Let me sleep."
Lan Xiaoke blinked, her cheeks flushing as he held her tightly. "I’m not a pillow, you know."
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
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?"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
