"What's going on? I heard the game is going down for maintenance for an hour tonight?"
"Seems like some nasty bug popped up that needs fixing."
"No way." Soon, every player in the game received the announcement about the one-hour maintenance. But even just an hour felt unbearable—like having ants crawling all over them.
Over in Nolan Village, the Sky Eagle Guild got the news too.
"Maintenance? At this crucial moment? I was just about to go hunt some skeleton monsters!" Su Qiao had already geared up and gathered a team of over a thousand players—
Not to deal with Ye Chuan, but to take on the Skeleton Guards.
Skeleton Guards had predictable attack patterns and guaranteed a legendary equipment drop every time.
Might as well treat them like raid bosses—they respawned quickly anyway.
"Yeah, one hour. Something about fixing a bug."
"Fine, fine. It's just an hour."
Though unhappy, Su Qiao logged off after hearing it’d only be a short downtime.
When maintenance began, all remaining players were forcibly kicked out, leaving only the game’s native inhabitants behind.
And right at the entrance of Nasker’s Catacombs—
A towering pillar of light erupted.
From within it, a figure slowly emerged.
"Ha! I refuse to believe this boss is as tough as they say!" The figure was a heavyset man, every piece of his gear gleaming with golden light—each one a top-tier epic item!
Not only were their stats absurd, but they were also enhanced to +31!
This was the admin equipping himself!
"Come on, let’s see just how strong this bugged monster really is." The man raised his shield and sword, striding into Nasker’s Catacombs.
Just then, a rustling came from a nearby grave mound—a skeletal creature lunged at him.
The man instantly blocked with his shield, and the moment they clashed, golden light flared, obliterating the skeleton instantly.
"Tch, scared the hell outta me—suddenly popping up like that." The man chuckled, then confidently pressed forward.
Nothing could stop him now. Even when monsters touched him, they were instantly shredded by his counter-damage.
Finally, he reached the Skeleton Guard.
"How the hell does a measly level 15 mob get this big?" Shaking his head at the towering undead, he stepped closer—triggering its aggression.
"ROOOAR!!!" The Skeleton Guard opened with a deafening roar.
Terrifying shockwaves rippled outward, but the words "IMMUNE" floated above the man’s head.
"This gear negates most debuffs. You won’t knock me back." Grinning, he leaped high and smashed his shield down onto the Skeleton Guard’s skull!
CRACK! The sound of shattering bone echoed as the Skeleton Guard’s head was crushed under the impact.
The massive corpse collapsed, dissolving into dark energy.
"Won’t even take an hour—I’ll clear this whole place in thirty minutes!" The man pushed deeper. His target wasn’t this Skeleton Guard, nor did he care about its legendary drops.
The real boss waiting inside was what he wanted.
After cutting through corridors and swatting aside more mobs, he finally reached the central hall.
A figure sat atop a throne.
The moment their eyes met, the man barked, "Hey! How the hell did you turn into a level 60+ boss?!"
The skeletal king rested its chin on one hand—though it lacked a face, its posture radiated amusement.
Because Ye Chuan was busy studying the man’s dazzling golden gear.
"Interesting. How’d you get your hands on that gear?" Ye Chuan rose slowly as he spoke.
"Oh?" The man tapped his sword against his shield, surprised the boss responded. "You’ll find out soon enough!"
"Shield Charge!"
Golden light erupted around him as he shot forward like a freight train, shield aimed straight at Ye Chuan!
Shield Charge forced a 10-meter dash, ignored crowd control, and stunned anything it hit for seconds.
But the admin’s gear amplified it—1000% more range, plus a 30-second stun duration.
Yet his plan failed instantly. Ye Chuan blinked away, reappearing far in a distant corner.
The man crashed into the throne, smashing it to splinters.
"You’re not a normal player, are you?" Ye Chuan’s question froze the man in place.
Monsters didn’t use the term "player." To natives, players were either "Outlanders" or, more derogatorily, "Undying" or "Calamities."
Hearing Ye Chuan say "player," the man’s eyes widened. "You’re a player?!"
Or a virus?
"Just a skeleton, really." Ye Chuan didn’t hesitate—he opened with Cognitive Corruption.
Instantly, dozens of "IMMUNE" markers flooded the man’s status bar.
"Huh?" Ye Chuan blinked in surprise.
Both were stunned. Each "IMMUNE" represented a blocked debuff—meaning Ye Chuan had just tried to inflict dozens at once.
What kind of nonsense was this?
"You—you—" Before the man could finish, Ye Chuan snapped out of it. Cognitive Corruption was supposed to be unblockable.
Had he encountered another conceptual-tier ability?
"No, maybe my skill level’s too low." Ye Chuan raised his hand again. "Cognitive Corruption."
Another wave of "IMMUNE" markers.
"Cognitive Corruption."
More immunity spam.
"HAHAHAHA! Useless! My necklace grants absolute debuff immunity—unless you outlevel me!" The man laughed wildly as the text continued to flood his screen.
And his sword could one-shot Ye Chuan anyway.
"Cognitive Corruption."
"Cognitive Corruption."
The immunity markers multiplied until they engulfed the man entirely, blocking his vision.
"Enough!" Annoyed, the man decided to end this farce and delete Ye Chuan’s bugged existence.
But the moment he took a step—his body locked up.
"What’s… this?"
Crack. A fissure split his immunity necklace. Then—snap—it shattered.
"Cognitive Corruption." Ye Chuan grinned. "My concept overrules yours."
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
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.”
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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."
