Night, a bit late into the night.
Ye Chuan lay on his bed, staring at the ceiling, waiting for the midnight reset.
Staying up late had become a habit, much like playing mobile games—completing daily tasks before sleeping.
And since he would soon bring Bai Qianshuang back to the Tianxuan Continent, Ye Chuan had been particularly diligent in tackling the daily challenges in the adventure world.
The only downside was the slow leveling speed.
After all this time, he still hadn’t become an Immortal Emperor.
Sigh.
Finally, after the midnight reset, Ye Chuan collected the herbs from his medicinal garden and the trinkets from each tenant into his inventory before checking the points shop—this was where the real treasures might appear.
"Give me an adventure world that drops soul essences. I haven’t been able to satisfy Lilith lately." Though Ye Chuan wanted to fill Lilith’s demands, his pockets were nearly empty of soul essences.
Rich yet poor—plenty of money but lacking resources.
"Tch." Ye Chuan browsed through each option in the points shop, but when his gaze landed on Ke Ning’s store, he spotted a strangely familiar-looking key.
[Item: Key of Technology
Effect: Unlocks a one-time adventure world 《???》, granting large quantities of soul essences and special items. Returns upon death or completion.]
"Huh?"
Ye Chuan was surprised. Did Ke Ning’s shop also offer one-time adventure worlds?
And the main reward was soul essences?
Not only was the key purple in rarity, but it only cost a hundred points.
Sold!
Soon, a new option lit up in the adventure world menu.
No time to hesitate—straight in.
[Entering Full-Dive Adventure—]
[Adventure World: 《Game World》]
[Enemy Units: Players]
[Obtainable Items: Soul Essences, Mysterious Items]
[Note: Return upon achieving the objective.]
Enemies are… players?
Game world?
Whatever. Time to dive in and farm some soul essences so the old lady will give him a few more strands of hair to attack the Qingyun Sect.
……
Ye Chuan’s consciousness gradually faded.
When he opened his eyes again, he looked around in confusion, realizing he was inside what seemed like a castle—
The distant creak of a rotting wooden gate sent a wave of mildew and dust rushing toward him.
The crystal chandelier on the dome had long shattered, leaving only rusted chains dangling, cobwebs layered between the broken remnants like tattered curtains.
The pillars lining the hall were marred with cracks, their surfaces chipped and eroded. The dark red carpet had been worn down to its base, frayed and torn in many places, the stone slabs beneath littered with dead leaves and dust.
Ye Chuan found himself seated on a dilapidated throne. After calming down, he tried to stand, only for his body to emit a series of creaking sounds, like ancient gears grinding back to life.
Ye Chuan: "?"
He looked down and saw that his appearance had changed—no longer human, but a skeletal figure clad in tattered royal robes, every movement accompanied by the grating of bone against bone.
"B-bones?" Ye Chuan was a little stunned. This was the first time his species had changed, and he’d become… a skeleton?
He glanced lower.
Wait, even his little buddy was gone?
"Whatever, no point crying over lost meat." Ye Chuan remained unfazed. This was just a one-time adventure world, not permanent. Once he cleared it, life would go back to normal.
A new panel appeared before him, updated by the adventure world.
[Unit: The Ruined Lord · Roder
Race: Undead
Level: 67
HP: 213020930
MP: 9999999999……
Description: 《Game World: The Last Sword》—20th-level Newbie Village Boss of Nask Graveyard.]
"So this time, I’m the boss? And a newbie village boss at that?" Ye Chuan quickly grasped the situation from the information.
He settled back into the throne, the ghostly flames in his hollow eye sockets burning intensely.
Interesting.
"If the enemy units are players, then defeating them should earn me soul essences?" Ye Chuan felt a rare surge of excitement. According to the info, he was supposed to be a level 20 boss.
But his actual strength was over level 60—an infinite-MP mage, an infinitely regenerating, magic-immune warrior.
Dirty. So dirty.
He was basically a troll boss!
"But do I just sit here and wait for players to come?" Ye Chuan stood again. Since his power wasn’t restricted at all, he immediately spread his spiritual sense throughout the entire castle.
Rather than a castle, it felt more like a trap-filled dungeon. Ye Chuan could sense numerous monsters lurking within, their auras suggesting they were also undead.
Were these his minions?
With a teleport, Ye Chuan appeared in the castle’s corridor, facing a towering skeletal guard wielding a shield.
The moment he appeared, the shield-bearing skeleton knelt on one knee.
[Unit: Shielded Skeletal Guard
Level: 15
A highly defensive skeleton with extremely low magic resistance.]
"Pathetic." Ye Chuan rubbed his bony chin with skeletal fingers before raising a hand and unleashing his power.
The skeleton instantly crumbled into dust.
"Rise."
Ye Chuan summoned chaotic energy, dark power enveloping the skeletal remains. Soon, a pitch-black skeletal monstrosity reformed.
"ROAR—!!!" The once 1.5-meter-tall skeleton transformed into a six-meter behemoth, its shield now massive enough to crush anything in its path.
[Unit: Shielded Skeletal Guard (Chaos Avatar)
Level: 67
A highly defensive skeletal avatar with complete magic immunity.]
"Now that’s more like it." Ye Chuan nodded in satisfaction.
After casually upgrading one skeleton into his avatar, he continued inspecting the castle. However, he noticed his spiritual sense couldn’t extend beyond its walls—outside was pure void.
"Strange, can I not leave?"
Ye Chuan approached the castle gates, where thick fog shrouded the outside.
He reached out, only for his HP and status to plummet rapidly!
"Huh?" He pulled back his skeletal hand—now half-melted.
"Healing Light."
Green energy enveloped his body, and the melted bones regenerated.
"If I can’t leave, then I’ll have to wait for those so-called players to come to me." Ye Chuan felt a twinge of disappointment. He’d hoped to rampage outside freely.
"Ah well, no big deal." He resumed scanning the castle with his spiritual sense.
Unbeknownst to him, while he was busy experimenting, a raid party had already arrived outside the castle.
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.”
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.
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
