Since Zhang Chao and Lan Xiaoke were about to spar, Wang Yanran led them to the hotel's presidential suite. The spacious room provided plenty of space after moving the table aside.
"Just a friendly match, understood?" Wang Yanran glanced at Zhang Chao and Lan Xiaoke. It hadn't been long since Lan Xiaoke was subdued, and Wang Yanran didn’t understand why Ye Chuan had brought along such a low-level ghost.
He even wanted her to spar with Zhang Chao. But Wang Yanran trusted that Ye Chuan must have his reasons.
However, Ye Chuan wasn’t overthinking it.
He simply didn’t want to bring Zhang Chao along—his lack of strength would only make him deadweight. As for Wang Yanran, well, she was the financial backer, so bringing her was unavoidable.
"I won’t bully you. How about this—I’ll let you hit me three times first," Zhang Chao said, trying to be chivalrous, considering his overwhelming advantage in strength.
"Oh? Three punches?" Lan Xiaoke, who had been a bit nervous earlier, perked up immediately. "Hehe, hehe."
At worst, she could just surrender after those three punches.
Lan Xiaoke floated up to Zhang Chao, examining her tiny fist before blinking with one eye peeking from under her bangs. "Ready? I’m… really gonna hit you, okay?"
Zhang Chao smirked dismissively. "The Zhang Family is renowned for its defensive techniques."
"Then how did Ye Chuan knock you out in one punch?"
Zhang Chao: "…"
He took a deep breath, steadying himself. "Are you hitting me or not? If not, I’ll go first!"
"Hit! I’ll hit now!" Lan Xiaoke eyed Zhang Chao before channeling spiritual energy into her fist. "I’m really gonna do it, okay?"
"Go ahead! Put some force into it!"
With a soft "hyah," Lan Xiaoke threw a punch—her movement sluggish, almost playful.
Zhang Chao scoffed, but the moment her fist connected, a heavy thud echoed, freezing his smirk in place.
"…"
In an instant, Zhang Chao’s life flashed before his eyes—
The time he wet the bed on his first day of elementary school.
His first college girlfriend.
Wait.
Something wasn’t right.
Clutching his stomach, Zhang Chao turned pale. Why was he seeing his life flash by just now?
"Holy—?!" Since when was she this strong?!
Weren’t all her talents supposed to be in speed?! Or did she have zero self-awareness about her own strength?!
His legs trembled like springs as he stammered, "D-did you even use your full strength?!"
"No effect, huh?" Lan Xiaoke scratched her head. "I didn’t do it right just now—only used half my strength."
Zhang Chao: ?
"Alright, second punch." Lan Xiaoke adjusted her stance, but Zhang Chao scrambled backward until his back hit the wall!
"Zhang Chao, what are you doing? Why are you backing up so much?" Wang Yanran frowned.
What was his deal?
Sweat beading on his forehead, Zhang Chao glanced at Lan Xiaoke’s raised fist. "Uh, I suddenly have a stomachache. Also, my pet turtle is giving birth—gotta go home."
"Next time, next time! I’m outta here!"
Without another word, he bolted, clutching his stomach.
"Huh?"
Wang Yanran stared blankly as Zhang Chao fled. This wasn’t how things were supposed to go.
Realizing he wasn’t joking—just slamming the door behind him—she turned to Ye Chuan. "Senior, what should we…?"
"It’s fine. Let’s go ourselves," Ye Chuan said.
He understood why Zhang Chao had run—that punch had nearly knocked him out cold.
Wang Yanran nodded. "Then let’s head out."
She drove for about three to four hours until dusk fell, finally pulling to a stop.
"Senior, we’re here."
Lan Xiaoke, curled up in the back seat, poked her head out with a yawn. "Mmm, we’re here?"
She floated out of the car, only to find herself surrounded by darkness, with only a dilapidated building barely visible in the distance.
[Lanshan Mental Hospital]
The faded, peeling sign. Rust-covered iron railings tangled with vines and moss. Tattered police tape fluttering in the wind. Every detail of the building oozed an eerie, unsettling aura.
"Wow, this place looks terrifying," Lan Xiaoke muttered, hugging herself as a chill ran down her spine.
"Aren’t you a ghost?" Ye Chuan stepped out of the car, unimpressed by her cowardice. He made a mental note to toughen her up—otherwise, the stronger she got, the more timid she’d become.
"Is this the place?" He eyed the pitch-black building in the distance. Not a single light in sight—it was like they’d driven straight into the wilderness.
As soon as he stepped out of the car, Ye Chuan felt the temperature around him drop noticeably.
“Yes, according to the intelligence we’ve gathered, a Ghost King resides here,” Wang Yanran said, pulling out a compass. Her expression turned grave as she studied its readings.
A Tier-4 Ghost King—far beyond her ability to handle.
After all, she was only a Tier-1 Super Warrior.
“Be careful, Senior,” Wang Yanran briefed him on the Ghost King’s situation.
“Based on our intel, the Ghost King has already killed dozens of people here, which is why this psychiatric hospital was abandoned.”
“No one’s dealing with it?” Ye Chuan was surprised.
“A Tier-4 Ghost King is extremely powerful. Our Wang Family once sent people to handle it, but they failed…” Wang Yanran explained. “Since the Ghost King only appears at night, refuses to leave this place, and the area is remote and mountainous, the Wang Family has been monitoring it temporarily, waiting for our stronger members to free up time and deal with it.”
Ye Chuan nodded.
Just then, headlights flashed in the distance. They turned to see a jeep approaching.
Soon, several people stepped out—apparently from the Wang Family—and immediately greeted Wang Yanran as “Young Mistress.”
“Any updates on the Ghost King?” Wang Yanran asked.
The two were responsible for monitoring the Ghost King’s movements and reporting any anomalies to the Wang Family.
“No unusual activity. It’s been staying inside all this time without leaving.”
Then they glanced at Ye Chuan. Was this the person the Young Mistress had brought? He looked so young—could he really handle it?
A Tier-4 Ghost King was a formidable opponent, one that even most Tier-4 Super Warriors couldn’t defeat.
“Well, Senior… shall we go in?” Wang Yanran asked Ye Chuan.
“Let’s go,” Ye Chuan replied with a faint smile.
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.
saw a female celebrity tied up and stuffed in the trunk! Little did he know, countless cameras were aimed at him at this moment - this was a new type of reality show. The first randomly selected passerby was caught in less than an hour. But when Xu Moru was selected, things started to take an unexpected turn. "Damn, this isn't how the script goes. This Xu Moru is too bold, he's not following the rules at all." "Crap, is this guy taking it seriously?" "The female celebrity has been scared to tears!"
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?!
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!
