"Do it."
Xiao Ruobai's tone held not a shred of hesitation, every word carrying a decisive resolution, as if to pour out all the endurance and hatred of the past three years.
Fang Hanyu nodded, the primal chaos sword qi humming softly in the Absolute Beginning scabbard, as if echoing this fighting spirit.
The auras of the two erupted suddenly. Golden battle qi and primal chaos sword light intertwined to form a sharp barrier in front of them. The patrolling imperial guards had just raised their long blades when they were blown away by the invisible shockwave, not even having the time to let out a scream.
"Who dares to trespass into the imperial palace!"
The gold-armored commander in front of the palace gates shouted sternly, thrusting his spear imbued with Purple Mansion Realm spiritual energy straight at Xiao Ruobai's face.
Having guarded the palace gates for many years, he had never seen anyone dare to force their way in so blatantly. His eyes were filled with killing intent.
Xiao Ruobai did not dodge or evade. The Nine Heavens Dragon Soul Halberd spun in his palm, its tip gleaming with golden light, and seemingly slowly, he flicked it upward.
With a crisp clang, the gold-armored commander's spear was forcefully knocked away. The halberd's tip smoothly slashed across his throat, and scalding blood sprayed onto the vermilion palace walls like a blooming blood-red flower.
"In the way."
Xiao Ruobai's tone was flat, as if he had merely brushed dust off his clothes. His footsteps did not stop as he charged straight into the depths of the imperial palace.
The gold-armored commander's corpse crashed to the ground, and the imperial guards in front of the palace gates instantly erupted in chaos.
"Assassins! Protect His Majesty!"
Mournful shouts rose one after another. Squads of heavily armored soldiers surged from the palace pathways on both sides. The long blades in their hands gleamed with cold light, and their spiritual energy fluctuations were at least at the Foundation Establishment Realm, with no shortage of Purple Mansion Realm captains among them.
"Kill!"
Fang Hanyu shouted in a low voice. The moment the Absolute Beginning sword was drawn, primal chaos sword qi surged out like a tide, severing three imperial guards at the waist with a single strike.
His sword technique was agile and swift. Wherever the sword light passed, the armor of the imperial guards shattered like paper. Blood and severed limbs scattered across the ground, and a layer of scarlet soon paved the palace pathways.
Xiao Ruobai's War God Physique completely erupted. Golden battle qi condensed into substantial armor around him. He did not even need to deliberately swing his halberd; just the residual waves of the battle qi around him were enough to shatter the bones and snap the tendons of the charging imperial guards.
A Cave Heaven Realm general attempted to form an array with spiritual energy to block them. The array's light barrier had just coalesced when Xiao Ruobai split it open with a single halberd strike. The tip of the halberd pierced through the general's chest along with it, leaving him dead with his eyes wide open.
"Cave Heaven Realm..."
On the palace walls, the soldiers responsible for keeping watch looked at the slaughter below, which was as easy as chopping melons and slicing vegetables, their voices trembling. "Are these two... monsters?"
More and more imperial guards converged from all over the imperial palace. Their black armor formed a continuous sheet on the palace pathways, densely packed like a swarm of ants.
But in front of Xiao Ruobai and Fang Hanyu, these meticulously trained soldiers had no power to fight back. Xiao Ruobai's battle qi was overbearing and unrivaled. Every strike carried crushing power, and wherever the Nine Heavens Dragon Soul Halberd swept, cries of agony followed.
Fang Hanyu's primal chaos sword qi was precise and ruthless, specifically targeting vital points. Amidst the flickering sword shadows, imperial guards fell to the ground.
The auras of the two were not concealed in the slightest. The golden battle qi and primal chaos sword qi shot straight into the sky. The cultivators within the imperial palace instantly sensed this terrifying pressure.
That was a power far exceeding the Purple Mansion Realm, capable of even shaking the Heaven and Man Realm!
The royal enshrinements cultivating in the side halls, and even the concubines in the rear palace, were all trembling in fear from this aura. They rushed out of their halls one after another, looking in the direction where the battle qi was coming from, their eyes full of terror.
"Who dares to commit murder in the imperial palace!"
In the imperial study, the Emperor of Great Yan slammed the table and stood up, his face ashen.
He had just finished listening to the Shadow Guard's report and was still lamenting his failure to curry favor with the mysterious powerhouse when the news of assassins breaking into the palace arrived. Flames of anger instantly ignited in his eyes.
"Where are the imperial guards? Where are the enshrinements? A bunch of useless fools! Can't they even stop two people?"
"Calm your anger, Your Majesty!"
A eunuch knelt on the ground, trembling. "News from outside... says the assassins are too strong. The brothers at the Purple Mansion Realm and Cave Heaven Realm... they can't stop them!"
"What?"
The Emperor's pupils shrank. He knew there were many experts hidden among the imperial guards, including three generals at the Cave Heaven Realm. They couldn't even stop them for a moment?
With a tone carrying the decisive resolution of a command, he spoke deeply to the empty air of the imperial study, "Qin Feng! Take all the secret guards immediately to intercept the assassins. You must defend the imperial study to the death! I want to see who dares to run wild in my imperial palace!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the very faint sound of clothing rustling came from behind the screen on the west side of the imperial study, and a figure dressed in black martial attire walked out quickly.
The newcomer had a cold and stern face, with a scar running diagonally from his left brow bone to his jaw. The handle of the short blade at his waist was engraved with the character "Qin." He was none other than Qin Feng, the commander of the secret guards of the imperial palace.
He knelt on one knee, his movements crisp without the slightest delay, his voice as low as iron. "I obey the decree! I will assemble the secret guards immediately. I absolutely will not let the assassins take half a step closer to the imperial study!"
After saying that, his footsteps left afterimages as he stood up, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared outside the door of the imperial study.
In just a moment, black figures quietly emerged from the shadows in various parts of the imperial palace. Twelve secret guards with condensed auras quickly assembled outside the hall.
They were at least at the middle stage of the Cave Heaven Realm, and three of them had even reached the late stage of the Cave Heaven Realm. Each of them was expressionless with sharp eyes.
The weapons in their hands gleamed with the cold light of deadly poison. They were exactly the hidden trump card of the Great Yan Dynasty, which was never easily deployed, but now had to be used to deal with two assassins of unknown origin.
And Qin Feng stood at the head of the team, his hand resting on the handle of his short blade. His gaze swept towards the direction of the battle qi coming from the end of the palace pathway, his eyes full of murderous intent.
Xiao Ruobai and Fang Hanyu had just slashed back a wave of imperial guards when those twelve black figures darted out from both sides like ghosts, instantly forming an encirclement.
Xiao Ruobai looked up at the leader, his eyes suddenly narrowing. The golden battle qi around him actually trembled slightly uncontrollably.
The scar running diagonally to the jaw on the leader's left brow bone stung the eyes in the morning light. If it wasn't Qin Feng, who was it?
Back then, it was precisely this poisoned short blade that had slashed open the back of his father, Xiao Zhan, making that smear of blood exceptionally glaring in the blizzard.
And the faces of the three secret guards beside Qin Feng were also firmly engraved in Xiao Ruobai's mind. They had all participated in the events of that year.
"Qin Feng! And the rest of you scum—"
Xiao Ruobai's voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth. The Nine Heavens Dragon Soul Halberd trembled violently in his palm, and the golden battle qi surged uncontrollably, even dyeing the surrounding air with golden light.
"The debts of the past should be settled today! Give me your lives!"
Qin Feng's pupils shrank. He didn't expect the assassin in front of him to actually recognize him, and even less did he expect the other party's battle qi to be so overbearing.
He didn't dare to be careless, waving his hand to signal the three secret guards to step forward and block him, while he gripped his short blade tightly, ready to look for an opportunity to counterattack.
Fang Hanyu's hand holding the Absolute Beginning sword tightened slightly, but he did not step forward.
He understood the madness in Xiao Ruobai's eyes. This was a hatred his senior brother had hidden for three years, a debt that had to be settled personally.
He only needed to guard the side, blocking any unexpected accidents that might appear, and not let anyone disturb this delayed revenge.
The primal chaos sword qi flowed quietly outside the scabbard, forming an invisible barrier that forced back all the imperial guards and secret guard remnants who attempted to approach.
"Attack! Take him down!"
Qin Feng gave a harsh, explosive shout, and the twelve Shadow Guards moved simultaneously like coiled vipers ready to strike.
Black iron chains tore through the air to entangle him, long blades gleaming with cold light slashed straight down, and wolf-fang arrows were nocked and fired in an instant. Twelve streams of Cave Heaven Realm spiritual energy surged densely toward Xiao Ruobai.
Murderous intent churned in Xiao Ruobai's eyes; the hatred born of three years of forbearance was entirely transformed into power in this moment.
He did not even retreat a half-step. The Nine Heavens Dragon Soul Halberd spun fiercely in his palm, and golden battle aura erupted with a boom. It condensed into a blade of light over ten feet long, sweeping outward with a piercing howl that tore through the air.
Slash! Slash!
Two miserable shrieks rang out almost simultaneously. The two Shadow Guards charging at the very front were cleaved in half at the waist by the blade of battle aura before they could even deploy their defenses. Blood and severed limbs splattered as they crashed heavily onto the bluestone slabs, instantly losing all signs of life.
The pupils of the remaining ten Shadow Guards shrank abruptly, their footsteps coming to a subconscious halt.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
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!
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
