Entangled by Ye Yue's tentacles, Ye Chuan could only resign himself to being held like this. After all, Luo Xi, Little Ke, and Qian Shuang hugged him plenty; one more didn't make a difference.
Although he didn't quite understand what was so attractive about his current appearance, it seemed to trigger an overflow of maternal instincts in everyone, making them eager to hold him tight.
Ye Yue was no exception. Although her arms had split into tree-root-like tentacles wrapping around him, in Lan Little Ke's eyes, they were still just a pair of hands.
This was the power of cognitive alteration.
It could only be said that everyone in this house had their own special talents; otherwise, how could they have been approved by the System to live here and pay rent?
"Hehehe~" Ye Yue's coquettish laughter rang in his ears. In Ye Chuan's eyes, Ye Yue had completely transformed into a monster. Her hair danced wildly in the air as she stared at him with crimson eyes.
"Call me Big Sister~"
"Big Sister," Ye Chuan said expressionlessly.
"Ah!!!!!" Ye Yue suddenly screamed, as if something had pierced through her psychological defenses. She hugged Ye Chuan's body even tighter. "So cute!"
Ye Chuan: "..."
My bones are going to break, you know.
*Crack, crack.* Ye Chuan could actually hear the sound of his bones being crushed. However, he simply cast a healing spell on himself and let Ye Yue do as she pleased.
About half an hour later, Ye Yue finally reverted to her original appearance. She knelt on the ground shyly, her head lowered. "Brother, I didn't mean to~"
"It's just that sometimes... I feel like I can't quite control my actions." Ye Yue wasn't sure what was wrong with her either. Seeing her brother turn into such a cute creature made her want to hold him in her arms and spoil him rotten.
"It's fine, as long as you're in a better mood." Ye Chuan didn't mind these things. As he spoke, he didn't forget to snap his dislocated arm back into place with a click.
*Yeah, this girl's strength is a bit too much.*
At that moment, a sound came from the entryway. Ye Chuan glanced over and saw that Wang Yanran had returned. Upon seeing the shrunken version of Ye Chuan, Wang Yanran froze for a few seconds, even though she had been prepared beforehand.
"Ye Chuan, you've become so small." Wang Yanran looked down at the little Ye Chuan before her and couldn't help but say, "It's kind of cute."
Ye Chuan was already immune to the word "cute."
Glancing at the spot next to him, Ye Chuan sat directly on the sofa and patted the seat. "Come sit here."
After sitting down, Wang Yanran couldn't resist cupping Ye Chuan's face in her hands. "Wow~"
Realizing her behavior was a bit inappropriate, she hurriedly pulled her hands back. "Sorry, Ye Chuan, I didn't mean to."
"..." Ye Chuan crossed his arms but asked anyway, "How were the Spirit Stone sales today?"
Wang Yanran smiled and said, "The Spirit Stones are selling extremely well. No matter how many I put out, the people in the Super Martial World can absorb them all. Not only that, but foreign Super Martial Artists have also received the news and plan to buy them at high prices."
After speaking, Wang Yanran took out her phone and opened several messages to read out to Ye Chuan.
"Yanran, are you there? Do you still have that stuff? Let me have a hit, just one hit! I'll pay any price!"
"Miss Wang, can I still buy that potent stuff? Hiss~ I really want to take a puff."
"Miss Wang, I beg you. I've already sold quite a few houses. When will you sell to me again? I just need one more hit!"
"..."
Listening to these messages, Ye Chuan was suddenly rendered speechless.
Beside them, Lan Little Ke poked her head out. "Woah? What the heck? Ye Chuan, are you dealing illicit goods?"
"They make it sound like they're on drugs. These are Spirit Stones; they improve cultivation bases." Ye Chuan rolled his eyes. It wasn't like that fellow Lan Little Ke hadn't used Spirit Stones before.
However, this reaction was indeed a bit exaggerated, though normal. After all, no one could resist the temptation of becoming stronger. With the aid of Spirit Stones, absorption was countless times faster than cultivating in this real world, which lacked spiritual energy.
It is hard to go from luxury to frugality.
"In that case, go ahead and sell them freely. You can sell to foreign factions too; it doesn't matter," Ye Chuan said.
"Is that okay?" Wang Yanran asked.
"No problem at all. Getting money in hand is what matters most," Ye Chuan said with a smile. "Besides, there are rifts all over the world now. Who wouldn't want to have some strength in their hands?"
Furthermore, these Super Martial Artists who relied solely on Spirit Stones would never catch up to his level in their entire lives.
Just raising one's cultivation to the Golden Core realm would require an astronomical number of Spirit Stones. Relying entirely on 'pay-to-win' wasn't very realistic.
"Alright." Wang Yanran nodded. Since Ye Chuan had said so, she would naturally sell the Spirit Stones boldly.
"Of course, if the local market can absorb all these Spirit Stones, that's fine too." As Ye Chuan spoke, he took out another bag of Spirit Stones and gave it to Wang Yanran.
The rest was up to Yanran to sell for a good profit.
"By the way, Ye Chuan, Qiao Xin asked me to ask you: the raw medicine is being used up very quickly. When can you restock?" Wang Yanran hadn't forgotten about the pharmaceutical company, as Qiao Xin was managing that side of things.
"Restock, huh?" Ye Chuan glanced at the inventory in his backpack. He hadn't been refining many pills lately, so he said, "I'll prepare a batch. You can take it to President Qiao when it's ready."
"Okay."
After briefly discussing work matters, Wang Yanran continued to stare intently at Ye Chuan, as if sizing something up.
"What's wrong?" Ye Chuan asked.
"Ye Chuan, you've become smaller. Have your bodily functions changed too?" Wang Yanran asked curiously.
"Probably, but the size hasn't changed," Ye Chuan said.
"Size?"
"Never mind."
"If we could master this technology, would it mean we could reverse aging?" Wang Yanran asked.
"..."
If one were a cultivator, there wouldn't be much need to worry about lifespan. After all, even the most ordinary Golden Core cultivator had a lifespan of over a thousand years.
"Are you suggesting we make a business out of this?" Ye Chuan asked.
"Yes."
"I haven't mastered this power yet. We can consider it in the future," Ye Chuan said. Besides, he didn't have any pills for that; otherwise, he could have sold those too.
But now that he was essentially a kingpin selling Spirit Stones, steady progress with the pharmaceutical company was enough.
"Okay."
"I'll go back to my room then." Wang Yanran stood up with a smile and subconsciously patted Ye Chuan's head.
"Ah, sorry, I didn't mean to."
"Forget it, it's fine."
After Wang Yanran went back to her room to rest, Lan Little Ke suddenly leaned in and wrapped her arms around Ye Chuan's neck. "Ye Chuan, you're making so much money, can I have a raise in my allowance?"
After speaking, she rubbed her cute, baby-fat cheeks against Ye Chuan's face. "Little Ye Chuan~"
"Break through to the Nascent Soul realm."
"Eh? That'll take forever."
"So, whenever you break through is when you get your allowance." Ye Chuan pushed Lan Little Ke's face away.
"Wuwu~"
Seeing this, Ye Yue, who was not far away, also came over, wanting a hug.
Being pulled back and forth in their embraces, Ye Chuan: "..."
*When will I be able to change back?*
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!
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.
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
