After Ye Chuan opened his eyes again, he found himself standing on a black wasteland with no visible end.
The sky was gloomy.
A blood-red moon hung high overhead, while dense baleful energy filled the air. In the distance, mountain ranges lay quietly along the horizon like sleeping colossal beasts.
[Outskirts of the Primordial Wilderness Mountains.]
[Heaven-grade difficulty.]
[Survive the siege of the desolate beasts for three hours.]
[The desolate beasts are at the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.]
[For every desolate beast killed, you will receive 100,000 Myriad Dao Points.]
[Complete the survival mission to receive an additional 10 million Myriad Dao Points.]
Cold text appeared before Ye Chuan.
A thousand peak Grand Unity Golden Immortals?
After reading the information, Ye Chuan gave it some thought.
To an ordinary Grand Unity Golden Immortal, this number was practically tantamount to suicide. Even an Immortal Venerable would not dare claim that they could face a thousand peak Grand Unity Golden Immortals at once.
After all, a cultivator’s immortal power was limited. Even if they possessed the ability to fight above their cultivation level, facing a thousand enemies of the same realm in succession would easily exhaust their strength and leave them dead beneath the siege of the desolate beasts.
But the thing Ye Chuan lacked least was immortal power.
He had a cup—though he was of course not referring to Lan Xiaoke, but to the Holy Grail Lilith had given him. In addition, his Chaos Indestructible Body could continuously refine the energy around him.
As long as his enemies could not kill him in an instant, the so-called exhaustion was meaningless.
Just kidding. Even killing him was useless. He would simply revive on the spot at full strength.
Ye Chuan considered himself—
Invincible.
Of course, after the reversal of time, he no longer remembered anything about the Outer Gods.
The ground soon began to tremble faintly.
In just a few breaths, the entire wasteland started shaking violently!
Between the distant black mountains, pair after pair of scarlet eyes lit up.
One enormous desolate beast after another emerged, quickly sealing off every direction around Ye Chuan.
There were gigantic tigers covered in black scales, savage ape-like beasts with six arms, and colossal monsters resembling centipedes whose bodies stretched for tens of thousands of miles.
Every desolate beast radiated the aura of a peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
The black tiger at the front raised its head and let out a roar.
The sound waves transformed into visible ripples that instantly shattered the space along their path!
The other desolate beasts seemed to receive the order at the same time. Their massive bodies crushed the earth as they launched attacks at Ye Chuan from every direction!
Ye Chuan stood motionless. He merely tilted his head and said,
“Huh?”
Then Ye Chuan released his aura.
Boom!
The entire black wasteland collapsed!
An indescribably terrifying pressure spread across millions of miles. The black tiger charging at the front did not even have time to roar a second time before its enormous body exploded in midair!
Then came the second beast, followed by the third!
The aura infused with black-gold chaos power was like an invisible divine mountain plummeting from beyond the nine heavens.
All the desolate beasts that entered its range had their flesh, bones, and even souls crushed at the same time!
Increasing their numbers tenfold.
Doubling their strength.
Before absolute power, none of it had any meaning.
Explosions rang out one after another.
In just a few breaths, more than half of the thousand desolate beasts that had densely covered the wasteland had already vanished!
The remaining beasts finally sensed fear.
They stopped their charge and turned around, attempting to flee back into the depths of the mountains.
But Ye Chuan merely said,
“Since you’re already here…”
“Why run?”
Black-gold chaos power instantly condensed into a gigantic palm that blotted out the sky.
The palm slowly closed.
The space covering tens of thousands of miles contracted inward along with it!
The fleeing desolate beasts were pulled backward against their will, until they were all compressed into the same stretch of space.
As Ye Chuan’s five fingers clenched completely,
the final several hundred desolate beasts exploded simultaneously, transforming into a sky full of blood mist!
A thousand peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal desolate beasts.
Completely annihilated.
From the moment the first desolate beast charged out of the mountains to the death of the last, not even ten breaths had passed.
[Successfully killed 1,000 desolate beasts.]
[Base points: 100 million.]
[Heaven-grade difficulty multiplier activated.]
[Final points obtained: 2 billion.]
[First-stage survival mission completed ahead of schedule.]
[Completion time: nine breaths.]
[Broke the historical record of the Myriad Dao Ancient Realm.]
Ye Chuan looked at the constantly changing text before him, somewhat surprised.
“That’s it?”
He had originally thought that the Heaven-grade difficulty would be more troublesome.
As it turned out, aside from their numbers, these desolate beasts did not seem to possess anything special.
Ye Chuan raised his hand and beckoned.
The origins and immortal power of the desolate beasts that had yet to completely dissipate were drawn toward him by the power of chaos, converging into his body.
The vast energy entered his body and was quickly refined completely by the Chaos Indestructible Body.
Ye Chuan’s cultivation, which had only just reached the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, became even more stable as a result.
The bottleneck that had remained stagnant for a week was strengthened once again.
Outside the realm.
After the name at the very bottom of the Prodigy Stele suddenly lit up, the points behind Ye Chuan’s name began to change as well.
One point?
A hundred?
Ten thousand?
None of them.
A string of golden numbers directly covered most of the stone stele behind Ye Chuan’s name!
[Ye Chuan: 2 billion points.]
Gu Wufeng, who had originally held the top position securely, instantly moved downward.
Lin Fan and the other prodigies were pushed even farther back.
Ye Chuan took a single step from the very bottom of the rankings, surpassed every participant, and ascended directly to first place!
The entrance to the entire Myriad Dao Ancient Realm instantly fell into deathly silence.
Two billion?
Everyone wondered whether they had read it incorrectly.
After entering the ancient realm, Gu Wufeng had continuously slain several groups of sword beasts of the same realm, yet his current score was only thirty million.
Just a moment ago, Ye Chuan had still had zero points.
Why had his score suddenly become two billion in the blink of an eye?!
The Prodigy Stele did not give them much time to doubt it.
A series of new words soon appeared beneath Ye Chuan’s name.
[Completed the Heaven-grade difficulty desolate beast siege mission.]
[Killed 1,000 desolate beasts of the same realm.]
[Mission completion time: nine breaths.]
[Broke the record for the fastest clear time in the Myriad Dao Ancient Realm.]
[Received an additional record reward: 1 billion points.]
The already outrageously incomprehensible score of two billion changed once again.
[Ye Chuan: 3 billion points.]
Gu Wufeng’s thirty million points were not even a fraction of Ye Chuan’s total.
The cultivators who had just been analyzing why Ye Chuan had no points all fell silent.
An elder from an Immortal Sect raised his head toward the Prodigy Stele. His lips trembled faintly.
“Nine breaths…”
“A thousand desolate beasts of the same realm?”
“How did he manage that?”
The white-haired old man had presided over the Myriad Dao Ancient Realm several times, yet he had never witnessed anything so outrageous.
He immediately contacted the core of the ancient realm and repeatedly verified whether there had been an error with the points.
A moment later, the white-haired old man slowly opened his eyes. His expression had become exceedingly complicated.
“There’s no error with the points.”
“Ye Chuan truly killed a thousand peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal desolate beasts within nine breaths.”
After these words fell, the surroundings once again sank into silence.
A thousand peak Grand Unity Golden Immortals!
Even if those thousand savage beasts had stood there without putting up the slightest resistance and allowed ordinary Great Firmament Golden Immortals to kill them one by one, it would still have been impossible to finish them all within nine breaths!
Yet Ye Chuan had not only done it.
He had even found the time to devour the essences of all the savage beasts and complete the Ancient Realm’s hidden assessment!
The elder who had just claimed that Ye Chuan’s cultivation was unstable now wore an expression that shifted rapidly between green and white.
How could Ye Chuan’s cultivation possibly be considered unstable after a performance like that?
His control over his own power had probably reached a level that even an Immortal Venerable could not comprehend!
In the area occupied by the Nine Heavens Sword Sect,
Gu Changge gazed at the nearly hundredfold difference in points between Ye Chuan and Gu Wufeng. For a moment, he did not know what to say.
His own disciple was already outstanding enough.
After entering the Heaven-grade difficulty, Gu Wufeng could kill ten sword beasts of the same realm with a single strike.
But Ye Chuan had faced a thousand savage beasts.
And he had needed only nine breaths.
How could they possibly compare?
Within the Ancient Realm of Ten Thousand Daos,
Gu Wufeng had just slain the third wave of sword beasts when a new points notification appeared before him.
[Current Ranking: Second.]
[First Place: Ye Chuan.]
[Difference in Points: 2.97 billion.]
Gu Wufeng stared at that outrageous number and fell into a long silence for the first time.
This was no joke.
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
