Aether Continent, log out.
Back in his own room, Ye Chuan looked around and then lay down flat.
He was tired and needed a break.
He rolled over.
"Hmm, feels like something's missing." Ye Chuan looked left and right before finally calling out,
"Xiao Ke—"
The door opened, and a white-haired girl poked her head in. "Ye Chuan, you lookin' for me?"
"Come here and stay with me for a bit."
"Me?"
Pulling the soft and squishy Lan Xiao Ke into his arms, Ye Chuan buried his face into the warm "pillow" before closing his eyes for a nap.
Lan Xiao Ke scratched her head, confused.
Was Ye Chuan going to sleep this early today?
She let him bury his face in her lap to sleep while she pulled out her phone and started scrolling.
Ye Chuan slept for a short while. When he woke up, he found red marks on his face from the pressure, and Lan Xiao Ke was also snoring away, drooling with her eyes shut.
Seeing her chubby thigh pressing down on him, Ye Chuan couldn't help but think her sleeping posture was beyond unsightly.
"Wake up." Ye Chuan pinched Lan Xiao Ke's baby-fat cheeks.
"Mmm, huh?!" Lan Xiao Ke responded dazed at first, then immediately sat up.
"Ye Chuan, you're awake?! I wasn't sleeping just now, okay? I was staying with you the whole time, being your bear pillow!"
"I was so good, can I get a raise in my allowance?"
"Are you sure you weren't sleeping?" Ye Chuan glanced at Lan Xiao Ke's drool, then pointed at the red marks on her own face from her nap.
He didn't even know where to begin roasting her.
"If only you were half as enthusiastic about cultivation as you are about allowance," Ye Chuan said.
"Ye Chuan, you talk like a nagging old lady."
"Just stating facts." After getting out of bed, Ye Chuan heard Lan Xiao Ke say,
"By the way, Ye Chuan, Qianshuang has been acting weird lately. Have you noticed?"
"Weird how?" Ye Chuan looked back at Lan Xiao Ke, seemingly not understanding what she meant.
"Like, Qianshuang has been staring at the mirror in a daze lately. Do you think she has a secret?" Lan Xiao Ke gestured.
Staring at the mirror in a daze?
What's there to daze about?
"I didn't know about that." Ye Chuan thought for a few seconds and then asked, "Where is Qianshuang?"
"I don't know. She should be outside."
Ye Chuan led Lan Xiao Ke out of the room. The living room was empty; even Lan Xiao Ke had been cooped up in her room playing games earlier.
"Hmm—" Ye Chuan looked around and released his divine sense, discovering that Bai Qianshuang wasn't home either.
She was either out or had gone to the Heavenly Profound Continent.
After all, since the destruction of the Qingyun Sect, Bai Qianshuang could freely travel back and forth to the Heavenly Profound Continent. He occasionally heard her mention things about the Jade Void Sect.
"Maybe you should go to the Heavenly Profound Continent to help out too," Ye Chuan said to Lan Xiao Ke.
"Me?"
"Yeah."
"I can't even go there." Lan Xiao Ke knew that not just anyone could travel to another world, so she grinned, not at all afraid of being thrown in by Ye Chuan.
"There is a way." Ye Chuan held up a finger.
"First, I'll turn you into a soul body, then find a magical treasure to store you in. After I enter the Heavenly Profound Continent, I'll let you out and resurrect you."
Lan Xiao Ke: "Soul body... store... resurrect..."
A few seconds later, she reacted. "Ye Chuan, you actually want to slaughter me!!!"
"Evil cultivator!"
"How can you be like this? I don't want to!! No, no, no!!!"
"Mean Ye Chuan, turning your back on me the moment you got what you wanted!"
Lan Xiao Ke started rolling around on the floor like a child. She looked both ridiculous and cute, but of course, Ye Chuan wouldn't actually do such a thing; he was just seeing how she would react.
As Lan Xiao Ke was rolling around, a nearby door opened.
A familiar black-haired girl stepped out slowly and immediately saw Lan Xiao Ke squirming on the floor.
"Xiao Ke...?"
Seeing Lan Xiao Ke rolling all over the place, Bai Qianshuang seemed confused about what she was doing. A metaphorical question mark appeared on her face.
"What happened?"
Lan Xiao Ke immediately lunged forward and hugged Bai Qianshuang's leg. "Ye Chuan is bullying me!"
"Bullying?"
Lan Xiao Ke quickly repeated what had just been said. After hearing it, Bai Qianshuang said to Ye Chuan very seriously,
"Ye Chuan, that's not good."
Seeing Bai Qianshuang scolding him so solemnly, Ye Chuan couldn't help but laugh. "I was just joking."
"Humph," Lan Xiao Ke huffed.
"However, that is indeed a method, though there are gentler ways to extract a soul," Bai Qianshuang said to Lan Xiao Ke. "Want to try?"
Lan Xiao Ke trembled all over and took two steps back. "You two... you're both crazy... I'm not doing it!"
As Lan Xiao Ke ran backward, she bumped into something soft and fell onto her butt.
Looking up, she found a girl in a white robe standing behind her—no, this face was very familiar!
Bai Qianshuang.
It was also Bai Qianshuang.
Lan Xiao Ke looked at the Bai Qianshuang in front of her, then at the one beside her.
"Qianshuang has split into two!!!"
The white-robed "Bai Qianshuang" glanced at Lan Xiao Ke, then looked up at Bai Qianshuang. "Is she the disciple you took into the Jade Void Sect?"
"Yes, my junior sister," Bai Qianshuang replied.
"Mediocre talent, no spiritual foundation," the "Bai Qianshuang" said flatly.
Lan Xiao Ke: "?"
"Sword Spirit." Ye Chuan recognized this person who looked exactly like Bai Qianshuang. He had heard her mention a few days ago that she wanted to bring the Sword Spirit to this world to take a look.
"Senior Ye." The Sword Spirit gave a bow. Since Ye Chuan was a benefactor of the Jade Void Sect, the Sword Spirit naturally respected him immensely.
"Sword Spirit?" Only then did Lan Xiao Ke understand the other's origin.
"But you two..." Ye Chuan looked at Bai Qianshuang and the Sword Spirit.
Standing together, they looked like twins.
"Can't you tell us apart?" the Sword Spirit asked.
"I can," Ye Chuan said. Their auras were different, making them easy to distinguish, but in terms of appearance, they were identical.
"But after all this time, why do you still use Qianshuang's appearance?"
"I am a Sword Spirit and was originally formless. Having been nurtured by my master's spiritual energy for so long, this is the result," the Sword Spirit explained.
"Eh—" Lan Xiao Ke, however, couldn't tell. "I can't tell the difference!"
"You'll know once you improve your strength," Ye Chuan said, glancing at her.
"Ugh..." Lan Xiao Ke stared intently at Bai Qianshuang and the Sword Spirit, finally coming to a conclusion.
"Then let's play cards together! We'll get to know each other fast that way!"
Bai Qianshuang: "..."
Sword Spirit: "?"
Ye Chuan: "..."
Ye Chuan flicked Lan Xiao Ke's forehead, then put an arm around her and led her out. "Alright, ignore this girl. Qianshuang, why don't you take the Sword Spirit for a walk around this world first?"
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...
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
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.
