"Alright, you can play now."
As soon as the words fell, Lan Xiaoke, whose face had just been completely numb, instantly perked up.
"Wooo!!!!" Lan Xiaoke felt like she was back in action.
They were merely Nascent Soul stage monsters. Easy pickings!
With Ye Chuan's Human Emperor Flag suppressing the monsters' cultivation bases and her buffs maxed out, she didn't have a shred of fear left. Clutching her pink rabbit gloves, she charged out, the force of her punches showing absolutely no hesitation.
A sand worm lunged at her head-on with its bloody maw wide open. Lan Xiaoke didn't dodge or evade; she leaped into the air and viciously smashed a punch right into the sand worm's forehead.
With a crisp crack, the sand worm's hard carapace was smashed to pieces. Its massive body crashed heavily back into the quicksand, the tremendous impact kicking up a huge wave of sand. The monster twitched twice and then stopped moving.
"Hah! Is that all?!" Lan Xiaoke shouted triumphantly. She turned and pounced on the other monsters nearby. Her legs moved in a blur, and every punch landed with a meaty thud, beating the once-ferocious monsters until they howled in pain. Yellow sand splattered all over her, but she didn't care in the slightest.
Lan Xiaoke was having the time of her life now.
On the other side, Luo Xi held her spirit sword, her ice-attribute cultivation method running at full capacity.
"Swords, rise." With a light lift of her hand, a sky full of ice swords instantly took shape, shooting toward the swarming sand scorpions like a rain of arrows.
Those sand scorpions, their cultivation suppressed by the Human Emperor Flag, couldn't dodge at all. They were instantly frozen into ice sculptures. With another casual wave of Luo Xi's hand, the ice sculptures and the scorpions inside shattered into icy slag, scattering onto the boiling yellow sand and instantly vaporizing into steam.
Although Luo Xi's cultivation wasn't considered high, for some reason, her combat prowess had skyrocketed recently. She was especially adept at using her own cultivation techniques.
"I'll help."
Tian Xiaotian also summoned her spirit sword. The Azure Cloud Sword Art unfolded in her hands, its clear and cold sword ki carving silver-white arcs through the sky full of yellow sand.
The combat instincts honed in endless eerie dungeons were carved into her very bones.
Her sword moves lacked any superfluous flashiness; every strike accurately cleaved into the monsters' cores!
Clean and efficient.
Tian Xiaotian's figure twisted and leaped amidst the siege of sand worms, as light as a swift. Yet wherever her blade passed, the sand monsters fell one after another, even their souls shredded by her sword ki.
A sand scorpion secretly circled behind her, its highly toxic tail stinger thrusting toward her!
Tian Xiaotian didn't even turn her head. With a backhand slice, she cut off the stinger along with the scorpion's head. Her movements were crisp and decisive; she was no longer the little coward who used to tremble in fear when seeing Ye Chuan summon werewolves in the dungeon.
"What about you?"
Ye Chuan watched this scene silently, only to find that Ye Yue was still clinging to his arm, a cat-like expression on her face.
She clearly had no intention of making a move.
"Brother, my strength isn't good enough. I'll just stay right here," Ye Yue said, hugging Ye Chuan's arm tighter and acting coquettishly.
"Uh..." Although they weren't exactly short on manpower with Ye Chuan holding down the fort, Ye Yue was completely slacking off.
"Why don't you practice a bit?"
"Brother, I'm scared."
However, a few sand monsters decided she looked like the easiest target and stealthily burrowed out of the quicksand.
We could tell at a glance that you were the weakest!
After all, they saw that Ye Yue and Ye Chuan hadn't made a move and were just standing there.
But the moment they got within three meters of Ye Yue, the monsters' bodies suddenly emitted a sizzling sound. It was as if they had been splashed with strong acid; their hard shells melted rapidly, turning into puddles of writhing sludge.
The densely packed eyes on Ye Yue's calf slightly opened, then silently closed again.
Ye Yue acted as if she were startled.
"Brother, why did they melt on their own? So gross."
Ye Chuan: "..."
Right, why did they melt?
It must be because the weather is too hot.
As for Wang Yanran, she knew very well that her ghost-taming skills weren't high enough. Even with the monsters' cultivation suppressed, fighting them head-on would still be strenuous.
Without any hesitation, she immediately pulled out the transformation device Ye Chuan had custom-made for her. The moment her fingertip pressed the button, a dazzling white light instantly enveloped her.
"Armor, assemble."
As the white light faded, Wang Yanran was clad in a suit of armor, her aura instantly surging up several levels.
Gripping an alloy lightsaber, Wang Yanran charged out as well. The armor's strength was quite high, and in just a few strokes, she chopped those monsters into mincemeat.
In just over ten minutes, hundreds of monsters were wiped clean, leaving not a single trace behind.
The moment the battle ended, everyone instantly lost their steam.
Lan Xiaoke collapsed straight onto the sand, tossing her pink gloves to the side. Sweating profusely and panting, her little face flushed red, she cried out weakly:
"I'm dying of heat... I'm roasting to death... Why is this stupid place so sunny..."
It wasn't that Lan Xiaoke was being dramatic; even Luo Xi and the others had flushed faces and were already sweating.
The temperature in this desert floor's setting was simply too high.
Coupled with the fact that those monsters weren't weak, it was a wonder how ordinary super martial artists could ever clear this stage.
Seeing everyone looking wilted from the heat, Ye Chuan pondered for a moment, then snapped his fingers, mobilizing the Source Magic within his body.
With a thought, his words became law.
"Dark clouds obscure the sun."
The instant his words fell, the originally cloudless sky with its blazing sun suddenly churned with thick, dark clouds. In the blink of an eye, the harsh sun was completely covered!
The scorching air gradually cooled down. A cool breeze swept across the desert, brushing past everyone's cheeks. Even the boiling sand beneath their feet dropped in temperature at a visible rate, becoming pleasantly cool.
"Wow! That feels so much better." Lan Xiaoke instantly stood up from the sand.
"You can even do that!"
"Ye Chuan, conjure up some ice cream while you're at it."
Ye Chuan: "..."
Why don't you just ask for the moon?
Luo Xi also let out a breath.
"Chuan Chuan, you should have used that earlier. Look at how we've been sweltering for so long."
"Well, I saw you were all having such a good time fighting, I didn't want to interrupt," Ye Chuan said. He then released his divine sense to search for the whereabouts of the floor boss.
Ye Chuan's goal was to figure out exactly how many floors this tower had, so he didn't plan on staying in this desert map for long.
Letting Luo Xi and the others have some fun was just a matter of spending a little extra time.
"Huh?" After releasing his divine sense, besides finding some monsters with ordinary auras, Ye Chuan didn't detect a single strong individual.
"That's strange."
"What's wrong?"
"I can't find the location of the entrance to the next floor, nor can I find the aura of the guardian monster," Ye Chuan said.
"Could this be the end of it?" Lan Xiaoke asked.
"Judging from the outside, this tower has more than just a few floors, right?" A tower that stretched into the sky shouldn't just have a mere four floors.
Unless—
Ye Chuan's gaze fell on the hot sand beneath his feet.
Could it be inside?
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!
shall grant"] ["Inscribing the glory of our race upon tombstones"] ["All that is threatened, I shall protect"] How his younger sister sees her brother: A brother who only makes eye contact once a day, mostly fading into the background as he tinkers with who-knows-what in his room all day. Their life paths should have remained largely separate. Until one day. Su Qi created an equipment card for his never-met "online girlfriend." His sister fell into silent contemplation upon receiving the "white stockings." [Card can be upgraded] [Upgrade by fulfilling any of the following conditions] [Condition ①: Consume one hundred higher-tier cards] [Condition ②: Complete one 'Heart-Pounding Adventure'] What constitutes a Heart-Pounding Adventure? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Beginner Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to admire it.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Easy Level): Equip the card, invite 'Su Qi' to touch it, and analyze the equipment's texture.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Entry Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to...] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Challenge Level): Freely combine the words 'Brother' 'Out' 'Brother' 'Me' 'Please' into a complete sentence...] "Please help me analyze both teams' mistakes in this match, brother..." His sister exhaled in relief—surely... surely there couldn't be anything more difficult? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Suicide Mission Level): Sneak a peek at the names of the galgames in 'Su Qi's' hidden E-drive folder]
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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.
