Ye Chuan glanced at his status and was surprised to find that the time required to reach the late stage of Qi Refining had been reduced to just one day?
Free cultivation boost?
“Is this for real? Getting beaten up actually increases my strength?” Ye Chuan muttered in astonishment. It seemed the effects of the Indestructible Chaos Body were far more overpowering than he had imagined. Without hesitation, he chose to take another beating.
“Fellow cultivator, hit me again and help me break through!”
[You chose to spread your arms and continue taking hits. Endless fire-attribute spiritual energy was completely absorbed by your body. The cultivator witnessing this frowned tightly. “A mere Qi Refining practitioner of the unorthodox path has such an ability?” With that, he summoned his weapon—a blade-type magic treasure gleaming with cold light. The opponent’s Crystallization-stage strength effortlessly sliced your body in half.]
[You died.]
[Adventure concluded. Items retrievable: 2.]
“Couldn’t you have cast a few more spells?” Ye Chuan sighed regretfully as his phone screen turned gray.
Still, reaching the late stage of Qi Refining tomorrow was excellent news.
He checked his backpack, which contained a modest amount of spirit stones—just enough to feed the Money Tree.
But there was also… gold?
[Item: Gold Fragments
Gold, totaling 21.5 grams.]
Huh?
Holding it in his hand, Ye Chuan confirmed it was genuine gold before silently pulling out his phone to check today’s gold buyback price.
702 yuan per gram.
“Zero. 21.5 times 702 equals—”
“Fifteen thousand?!” Ye Chuan was slightly taken aback. He hadn’t expected this trip to net him 15,000 yuan—all from a handful of gold fragments.
Seemed like he should squeeze in more adventures whenever possible. Not only could he grow stronger, but he could also make money.
Though the randomness was a bit too high—landing straight into a death trap was always a possibility. At the end of the day, it all came down to luck.
He still had some time left. Should he go for another round?
But Ye Chuan also noticed that each adventure left him mentally exhausted, as if he had truly crossed over and experienced it firsthand.
“Eek!!!!!!!!” Just as Ye Chuan was considering washing up before deciding, a sudden scream from outside made him freeze.
Huh?
Opening the door, he immediately spotted a white-haired girl trembling in the corner, while opposite her stood Bai Qianshuang, dressed in an ultra-short nightgown and wielding an immortal sword like a goddess of slaughter.
“Ye Chuan, be careful. There’s some unknown ghost here,” Bai Qianshuang said coolly upon seeing him.
“I—I told you I’m a tenant!!!” Lan Xiaoke zipped behind Ye Chuan in a flash, her voice quivering. “S-so scary… I’m gonna die!”
Bai Qianshuang’s voice remained icy. “Yet you couldn’t even say Ye Chuan’s name. Wraiths excel at deception.”
“I only met him yesterday! How was I supposed to know his name?!” Lan Xiaoke retorted before frantically shaking Ye Chuan’s arm. “Say something, will you?!”
Meeting Bai Qianshuang’s gaze, Ye Chuan explained, “Uh, Qianshuang, put the sword away. She’s not lying.”
“We saw you were still cultivating when we got back yesterday, so we didn’t disturb you.”
Hearing this, Bai Qianshuang silently observed Lan Xiaoke cowering behind Ye Chuan. Realizing her mistake, she slowly sheathed her sword. “My apologies.”
Lan Xiaoke immediately snapped, “I don’t accept your apology!”
“Shh, that’s enough. If she really wanted to kill you, a single flick of her aura would make you explode,” Ye Chuan remarked, crossing his arms and giving Lan Xiaoke a sidelong glance. “Instant annihilation.”
After experiencing the text adventures of the Tianxuan Continent, Ye Chuan could understand Bai Qianshuang’s cautious nature—those who weren’t careful simply didn’t last long.
“?!” Hearing she could be obliterated in an instant, Lan Xiaoke froze before suddenly forcing a smile at Bai Qianshuang. “Ahaha, just a misunderstanding~ No big deal, no big deal.”
Bai Qianshuang, who seemed to dislike ghostly entities, wordlessly walked over to the dining table.
“Hmph, what’s with the attitude? I’ll definitely surpass you someday,” Lan Xiaoke grumbled, flailing her arms dramatically beside Ye Chuan.
Ye Chuan gave her a quiet look. He had clearly warned her last night not to wander out of her room—after all, he hadn’t even mentioned her to Bai Qianshuang yet.
“Alright, why did you leave your room?” Ye Chuan asked Lan Xiaoke.
She blinked, guiltily poking her fingers together.
“I found out my phone number got deactivated, so I couldn’t register for any game accounts. I was waiting for you to wake up and ask, but then I heard noises outside and thought it was you…”
Ye Chuan now understood how the earlier incident had unfolded.
“Phone number, huh?” he said.
Lan Xiaoke nodded vigorously, her chin practically bobbing toward her backpack.
“I can help, but you’ll have to do something for me,” Ye Chuan said with a smile.
Lan Xiaoke paused, then floated back a few steps with sudden realization. “So we’ve finally reached this point? But I’m a ghost, you know. Ice-cold.”
“I just want you to get along with Qianshuang,” Ye Chuan clarified.
Bai Qianshuang lacked common sense in many areas, and since Lan Xiaoke didn’t need to go outside, she could be the perfect tutor for her.
“Get along?!” Lan Xiaoke shook her head vehemently. “No no no no, I wanna live a little longer.”
“If you agree, I might occasionally top up your games,” Ye Chuan offered.
After all, it’s your own dropped gold anyway.
The proposal seemed to hit Lan Xiaoke like a critical strike. She floated in place, wrestling with herself, before finally gritting her teeth. “Leave it to me!!”
……
During breakfast, Ye Chuan prepared simple steamed buns for Bai Qianshuang.
She nibbled delicately on a fist-sized char siu bao, her gaze lingering on Lan Xiaoke nearby.
After a moment of hesitation, she turned to Ye Chuan and said,
“If she stays here long, she’ll absorb your spiritual energy.”
Ye Chuan chuckled. “It’s fine.”
His spiritual energy automatically replenished daily. Supporting a little ghost was no issue—especially since Lan Xiaoke could drop both gold and items. She was practically a hidden gem.
“Oh, right. This is for you.” Ye Chuan took out a few spirit stones.
Bai Qianshuang seemed surprised at the sight of the familiar stones. “This…”
How did Ye Chuan get more spirit stones?
“You need these, right?” Ye Chuan smiled.
Bai Qianshuang’s strength hadn’t fully recovered yet, and there was still the possibility of her regaining memories and transforming into that so-called Empress. Best to raise her favorability now.
“I do, but what can I do for you in return?” Bai Qianshuang asked.
“Marry him, of course.”
The suggestion came from Lan Xiaoke, who was hovering nearby.
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
【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.)
Heart] Chen Yi traversed the cultivation world for eight hundred years, charging his way to the Tribulation Transcendence stage. Just as he was outwitting his 81st Heavenly Tribulation to ascend to immortality, he was suddenly pulled into a chat group called the "Multiverse Transmigrators Support Group." To his surprise, the group was filled with nothing but fresh-faced newbies who had just transmigrated. [Help! I transmigrated into a disgraced concubine in the cold palace, and the tyrant emperor is about to execute me!] [I ended up as a cannon-fodder villain, and the protagonist is still chasing me—WTF!] [I woke up as the protagonist’s father, but I’m about to be sacrificed in a ritual! What do I do? Urgent!!!] Chen Yi stared at the chaotic flood of desperate pleas in the group and fell into deep thought. "Seriously? You drag me into a newbie transmigrator chat group… only after I’m one step away from becoming an immortal?"
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
