Ye Chuan raised his hand and fired a beam of light—
Carrying the might to destroy heaven and earth, the beam slammed into the flesh-colored monster. With a deafening boom, the monster's body was instantly blasted into smithereens!
Splattered flesh mixed with viscous fluids coated the surrounding walls and the ground. Severed black veins twisted on the floor like earthworms for a few moments before losing all signs of life.
The sharp friction sounds and the eerie cries mimicking Tian Xiaotian came to an abrupt halt, leaving only the dead silence of the flowing mist.
Hovering in mid-air, Ye Chuan swept his gaze around the area and lowered his hand.
"Weak."
Just as Ye Chuan was about to continue searching elsewhere, he noticed something out of the corner of his eye.
An even stranger phenomenon occurred.
The chunks of flesh scattered in the black mud and on the walls suddenly began to squirm. As if drawn by some invisible force, they started converging toward a single point.
At the same time, the surrounding gray mist was attracted like iron filings to a magnet, surging frantically toward the center of the gathering flesh. The particles within the mist merged into the mass, causing the coagulating ball of flesh to grow larger and larger.
The exploded fragments of meat, veins, and skin tissue rapidly reorganized under the shroud of the mist.
First, they formed a vague ball of flesh. The surface of the ball bulged and stretched continuously, and soon, limbs grew out once again.
Those sharp black fingernails emerged again, and flesh-colored skin covered the reconstructed body. The blood vessels beneath became full and engorged. The monster, identical to the one before, had completely recovered in a matter of seconds!
Ye Chuan narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Big Boss~"
"Big Boss~"
The familiar voice mimicking Tian Xiaotian rang out again. The monster, on all fours, slowly lifted its faceless head. Its black nails began scraping against the bluestone pavement once more, producing a piercing sound.
"So you can resurrect?" Ye Chuan said indifferently. "I'd like to see just how many times you can do that."
Ye Chuan raised his hand and fired another beam. The monster was blasted into smithereens once more, sending flesh and blood flying!
But this time, the surrounding mist surged even more violently, like boiling water. As if alive, the gray mist wrapped around the flesh fragments even faster, actively gathering from all directions to fill the gaps during the reconstruction.
In just a few seconds, the monster was reborn again. It still had that faceless, flesh-colored appearance and still spoke with Tian Xiaotian's voice, but this time, its body seemed to have grown a size larger, and its black nails had become sharper and longer.
You resurrect pretty fast, don't you?
"It seems your resurrection is tied to this mist," Ye Chuan remarked, withdrawing his gaze. He finally became a little serious.
This monster's rebirth wasn't a simple physical regeneration; it relied on the surrounding mist as an energy source. As long as the mist didn't dissipate, it seemed capable of infinite reconstruction.
"Ahhh!!!" The monster lunged at Ye Chuan!
Those sharp black nails looked ready to tear Ye Chuan's body to shreds!
But in the next moment, the monster's body was enveloped in countless rays of light. Its movements instantly stagnated, and it froze in place, twitching continuously as if electrocuted.
"It doesn't matter if you can't be killed. Can you escape my control?" Ye Chuan asked.
Cognitive pollution, kid!
The monster, burdened with dozens of negative status effects, twisted its body. Yet, its mouth continued to emit that chilling voice.
"Big Boss, Big Boss~"
"Chuan Chuan~~"
"Chuan Chuan~ It's me, Xi Xi~"
"You're dead meat." Ye Chuan narrowed his eyes. Hundreds of magic circles erupted around him, shooting out countless beams of light that bombarded the monster like a dense meteor shower!
This time, he didn't just attack the monster's body; he encompassed the surrounding surging mist within his attack range as well.
Multi-colored powers of various attributes bombarded the area indiscriminately, searing the large swaths of gray mist until they sizzled. The mist was vaporized, turning into wisps of white smoke that dissipated into nothingness.
The monster's flesh was blasted into smithereens once again. But this time, lacking sufficient mist for support, the speed of its reconstruction was noticeably slower.
The scattered flesh struggled to gather in place, but could only form a small, incomplete ball of meat, unable to grow complete limbs.
The surrounding mist continued to surge forward endlessly, but it was blocked by Ye Chuan's Chaos Power, unable to get close.
"Heh, so the mist really is the root cause."
Ye Chuan instantly understood the key. He raised his hand and pressed down violently against the surrounding gray mist.
"Think resurrecting makes you special? Keep calling my name, I dare you. Keep calling, calling, calling!"
Without the support of the mist, the scattered flesh lost the power to reorganize. After twitching a few times on the ground, it completely lost its vitality, gradually turning into a blackish-brown slime that melted into the silt beneath, moving no more.
The eerie voices mimicking Tian Xiaotian and Luo Xi finally vanished completely.
Ye Chuan retracted his energy and looked at the residual slime on the ground, his gaze calm.
"Go on, resurrect again."
Perhaps hearing Ye Chuan's voice, the slime seemed to react and began to reorganize—
Ye Chuan immediately raised his hand, and the slime instantly scattered in terror.
Due to the earlier consumption, the surrounding gray mist had thinned significantly, making the outlines of distant houses somewhat clearer.
Ye Chuan resumed his search of the dilapidated buildings.
After checking several houses in a row, Ye Chuan finally found a slip of paper that resembled a diary entry.
"..." Ye Chuan began to read it.
[Day 3: The sudden plague is completely incurable. Oh God, my wife's body is constantly rotting, and I can't save her.]
[Day 5: The hospital seems to have sent people over, but there are just too many people affected by the plague. Even the doctors haven't been spared. My poor wife, who can save her?]
[Day 8: What do I do? What do I do? My wife's skin has completely rotted away. I listen to her screams, helpless. I can't even get close to her.]
[Day 10: My wife died after all. Even her bones turned into black mud... The child and I miss her so much.]
[...]
[Day 13: My wife came back last night.]
...
Ye Chuan looked at the diary slip; the entries were recorded in chronological order.
After a moment of silence, Ye Chuan put the slip of paper away.
He looked up at the mist outside the window. It was hazy, but deep within the distant fog, a figure seemed to be swaying.
A monster?
Ye Chuan floated toward it.
"Big Boss?"
Hearing the familiar voice of Tian Xiaotian, Ye Chuan expressionlessly raised his hand, intending to fire a beam—but when he saw the figure in the mist clearly, his movement paused.
It really was Tian Xiaotian.
"Big Boss, why have you been zoning out this whole time?" Tian Xiaotian asked, clearly looking a bit confused.
"Zoning out?" Ye Chuan froze for a moment. When he looked around again, he realized he had somehow returned to the entrance of Plague Town.
What was going on? Was everything that just happened a hallucination?
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.
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...
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!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
