"Hmm, today's earnings aren't bad either." Ye Chuan glanced at the spirit stones in his pocket; nearly a hundred million low-grade spirit stones had come in today. It wasn't thanks to talent or hard work, but purely from the compensation he had demanded from that old geezer Qing Xuan for his losses.
If only there were more suckers coming by.
Money is just too easy to make in the Tianxuan Continent. Even robbing people wouldn't be this fast.
Ye Chuan sighed with emotion, though the number of suckers showing up daily still wasn't enough. But since his reputation was already spreading, and this shopfront was given to him for free, there were hardly any costs involved.
Ye Chuan was currently sitting on his sofa, nibbling on a flatbread with his small hands. It was already closing time, but he wasn't in a hurry to log off just yet.
He wondered when his body would return to normal. Otherwise, every time he got off work and went back, he'd get run over by the big carriage. Although Ye Chuan didn't exactly dislike it, having no rest time at all was simply not feasible.
He needed to pace himself. Otherwise, how could he take on three heroes at once?
"Boss, the door is all locked up!" After closing the shop, Hu Li came trotting over, her face full of excitement. Seeing her like this, Ye Chuan propped his chin on his hand and said,
"You can clock off now. You're free to go wherever you want to play this afternoon."
With that, Ye Chuan took out a small pouch of spirit stones. "Here, there are a hundred spirit stones inside. Consider it your wages for this period."
Having made money, Ye Chuan didn't forget to share a bit with his employee. He could be nominated for one of Tianxuan's Top Ten Most Touching Figures.
"Hu Li has enough money to spend, Boss. I don't want money." Hu Li shook her head. "Hu Li... just wants to stay by the boss's side. That's enough."
Hearing this, Ye Chuan silently looked at the little fox girl before him, then suddenly smiled. "You have no cultivation. You won't be able to stay by my side for long."
Hu Li lowered her head, her small hands clutching the frilled edge of her apron. Perhaps her mood plummeted in that instant, as even her ears drooped, no longer perked up. "Hu Li was just a medicine slave... she has no talent for cultivation."
When she was used as a medicine slave, the foundation of Hu Li's body had long been damaged. Even though Ye Chuan healed her injuries, foundational things like that couldn't be restored by pills or healing arts alone.
Seeing Hu Li so dejected, Ye Chuan pondered. "If you want to cultivate, I can help you."
"Really?!" Hu Li looked up in pleasant surprise, her tail wagging back and forth like a dog's, clearly showing how happy she was.
"Cultivation ultimately comes down to spiritual roots and physique, that's all," Ye Chuan said. And he was lacking in neither of those things, nor in cultivation techniques.
His backpack was stuffed full; he used to have so many he'd sell them for money.
"Prepare yourself. Cultivation is not something to be rushed," Ye Chuan said. "The cultivation I have today is the result of sweat and hard work."
"I will!" Hu Li nodded repeatedly. "I will work hard and learn well from the boss!"
"Heh."
Tianxuan Continent, logging off.
...
After logging off, Ye Chuan returned to his room in the real world. He rolled over on his bed once, then took out his phone, planning to draw a spiritual root and physique for Hu Li.
After all, she was a subordinate following him. No matter what, her specs couldn't be too low.
Plus, he could see if his luck was good enough to draw a peerless physique for Luo Xi to use. She was still using the Supreme Ice Profound Body, which, although a gold-grade physique, had quite a gap compared to the red-grade physiques of Ye Chuan and Bai Qianshuang.
However, when he opened the physique drawing interface, a piece of information there caught Ye Chuan's attention—
[Physique Drawing Event Ended. Prices Have Returned to Normal]
[One Draw: 100,000]
Ye Chuan was stunned for a moment. "Seriously? Your inflation rate is faster than my cultivation progress?"
Previously, drawing a physique for himself only cost a thousand. Later, because he was drawing for others, the price directly jumped to fifty thousand. Now that Ye Chuan wanted to get some physiques for everyone, it shot up to a hundred thousand?
"The higher your cultivation, the higher the price."
But even at a hundred thousand per draw, it was nothing to the current Ye Chuan. At the very least, it was much cheaper than enhancing weapons or magical treasures.
Back when it cost a thousand per draw, it was quite painful. Now, a hundred thousand per draw, and Ye Chuan felt nothing.
"Is this what it feels like to become rich?" Ye Chuan sighed with emotion, then started directly with a hundred consecutive draws.
Ten million tossed in.
[Congratulations on obtaining Low-Grade Fire Profound Body. Placed in backpack.]
[Congratulations on obtaining Wood Spirit Body. Placed in backpack.]
[Congratulations on...]
Pop-up windows began appearing one after another, followed by several flashes of golden light. After a hundred draws, it would be a rip-off not to get at least gold-grade.
[Item: Peerless Saint Body Gold
A combat saint body. Activates combat bloodline. The angrier you become, the stronger your combat power. Can amplify all cultivation techniques... Side effect: hair turns golden.]
Ye Chuan scanned the few gold-grade physiques. Seeing the Peerless Saint Body, he found it unfamiliar.
This physique... gives off a bit of a Saiyan vibe?
"Luo Xi probably doesn't need it. For Hu Li... what about Little Ke?" Ye Chuan felt none of them seemed particularly suited.
Ye Chuan started looking at the second and third physiques.
[Item: Heavenly Demon Saint Body Gold
A physique for those who have fallen into the demonic path. Practicing any unorthodox demonic techniques will encounter no bottlenecks and suffer no side effects...]
Mediocre.
Ye Chuan withdrew his gaze. After a hundred draws, there was nothing really good.
Fortunately, these physiques could all be synthesized. Ye Chuan synthesized the low-grade ones in one go, but not a single gold-grade popped out.
Seeing no good items emerged, Ye Chuan synthesized the gold-grade physiques.
[Congratulations on obtaining Heaven-Sent Lone Star Physique. Placed in backpack.]
[Item: Heaven-Sent Lone Star Body Gold
A fate marked by baleful aura. It restricts close friends and relatives, destined for a life of solitude.
However, it possesses causal fortune that turns misfortune into blessing. Can also strengthen oneself by absorbing the misfortune of others.]
An old, familiar face.
"Get lost, get lost." Ye Chuan got a headache just seeing the Heaven-Sent Lone Star. He had drawn this kind of thing plenty of times when drawing physiques for himself.
"No good items. Another hundred draws, then." With a calm expression, Ye Chuan started drawing again.
"Bzzz—"
A string of drawing messages popped up, not a single golden flash among them.
"For real? Am I hitting the pity system?" Ye Chuan twitched the corner of his mouth. He had a lucky streak just now, and now it was time to pay it back, as expected.
But just as he was thinking that, the interface suddenly emitted an unfamiliar red glow!
"?!"
Wait a second?!
A peerless physique?!
Ye Chuan's eyes were glued to the messages. Finally, he opened his backpack, his gaze landing on one of the physiques enveloped in a red glow.
It actually dropped!
It really dropped?!
[Item: Samsara Immortal Body Red
The sacred body of ten thousand lifetimes of reincarnation. When the holder is near death, their soul will retain memories and cultivation base, falling into reincarnation. After revival, their realm will increase. After nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine reincarnations, the physique will evolve to the next stage.]
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
