"Junior Sister, the rules of Purple Bamboo Peak were personally established by our Master. There are three in total, and you must keep them in mind."
Fang Hanyu's voice was deliberately lowered, mimicking Gu Changge's usual tone, but the youth's clear voice still revealed a trace of nervousness and solemnity.
"First!"
He held up a finger.
"Do not actively cause trouble, but absolutely do not fear it either. If someone comes bullying at our door, you must strike back with thunderous means. Ensure you pull up the roots and scatter their ashes. Leave absolutely no future troubles behind to cause trouble for Master."
As he spoke, he subconsciously touched the hilt of the sword on his back, his eyes turning sharp for a moment.
"Second!"
A second finger went up. His expression became slightly strange, as if even he found this rule a bit hard to understand.
"Stay away from anyone surnamed Ye, Xiao, or Chu. Especially those who look completely ordinary but always seem to step into dog-shit luck."
As he spoke, his gaze inadvertently glanced at the Eldest Senior Brother standing nearby, whose surname also happened to be Xiao, Xiao Ruobai.
Xiao Ruobai's honest face showed a helpless smile. Don't look at me, I'm a very honest person.
"Third, and the most crucial rule!"
Fang Hanyu withdrew his fingers, his expression incomparably stern, standing up perfectly straight.
"Hide your edge and conceal your sharpness, and stubbornly cling to your life! No matter what your cultivation level is, reveal at most thirty percent of your strength in front of others. Keep more trump cards, prepare more escape routes. Master often teaches us: only by staying alive do you have everything."
After finishing the three rules, he let out a slight breath, then puffed out his chest again, looking at Ling Xi with an expectant expression of "I have imparted the essence of our sect to you," waiting for his new Junior Sister's reaction.
Ling Xi was speechless.
Her exquisite, jade-like earlobe twitched slightly, and the corner of her forehead seemed to tense for a moment, as if an invisible black line had quietly slid down her face.
Not causing trouble but not fearing it... that was barely acceptable.
But avoiding those surnamed Ye, Xiao, and Chu?
Hiding one's edge to stubbornly survive?
What... what kind of ridiculous rules were these?!
A feeling of extreme absurdity, like a monstrous wave, instantly drowned Ling Xi's imperial heart.
In her previous life, as the Great Emperor Ling Xi, she suppressed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, and swept across the Eight Desolates and Six Directions. Her words were law, and none dared to disobey!
Among billions of races, when had she ever needed to actively avoid anyone?
Who cares about those surnamed Ye, Xiao, or Chu!
No matter what Children of Destiny or favored ones of fortune they were, as long as they dared to block this Empress's path, they would all be suppressed without exception!
A supreme arrogance originating from the deepest depths of her soul explosively erupted, making her subconsciously tilt her chin up slightly. A trace of cold, world-disdaining amusement flashed deep in her eyes.
That was an absolute confidence and dominance engraved into her imperial soul.
Her thoughts could not help but drift far away...
Well, speaking of which, her previous life was not entirely without worthy opponents.
There were indeed a few surnamed Ye or Chu... who had indeed brought her some... insignificant amusement.
That sword-crazy maniac surnamed Ye, who polished an iron sword until it shone and claimed to be unmatched in offense, once severed three strands of her hair with a single strike.
That battlefield God of Slaughter surnamed Chu, who sanctified his flesh and roared down the stars, engaged in close combat with her only to be smashed into the turbulent flow of time and space by her single punch.
There was also a sinister fellow surnamed Han, who was best at laying out schemes, treacherous and unpredictable, and once drove the three great Demon Venerables under her command into a desperate situation...
These people, indeed... deserved her slight, just very slight, attention.
But only a little bit!
A trace of reminiscence and absolute conceit flashed through Ling Xi's eyes. What was the final outcome?
Defeated opponents, all of them were defeated opponents!
This Empress swept all the way through, ascending to the absolute pinnacle. When had she ever needed to avoid anyone?
However, when her thoughts that looked down upon eternity withdrew and her gaze refocused on the present, she felt her own cultivation, which was only at the Core Condensation Realm...
Ling Xi's soaring, boundless ambition belonging to a supreme Empress deflated without a trace, popping like a balloon gently pricked by an invisible needle.
She took a slight breath. The absurdly dense spiritual energy of Purple Bamboo Peak surged into her lungs, but it made her feel a bit... choked up.
A dragon swimming in shallow water... a tiger descending to the plains...
An Empress falling to the mortal realm... if one must survive, then survive...
Fine...
For now... I will endure it!
Ling Xi slightly lowered her eyelids. Her long, thick eyelashes trembled lightly like butterfly wings, perfectly concealing the turbulent, complex emotions in her eyes.
She nodded gently, her lips even trying hard to pull up into an extremely subtle, slightly stiff curve. Her ethereal voice betrayed not a single ripple: "Junior Sister... understands. Thank you both, Senior Brothers, for your teachings."
However, her hands hidden beneath her wide sleeves had already quietly clenched tight. Her nails dug slightly into her tender palms, leaving a few shallow crescent moon indentations.
Wait until this Empress returns to the peak... I will definitely... definitely...
As she thought this in her heart, her gaze unconsciously swept over her two Senior Brothers again. This single look, however, made her heart violently skip a beat.
Earlier, she had only been focused on digesting those absurd rules and had not observed them closely.
Now, sensing them with concentration, Xiao Ruobai stood there, and although his aura was restrained, his physical body faintly exuded a majestic vitality, as profound as an abyss, with battle intent hidden within.
This was clearly the sign of the initial awakening of some extremely powerful battle physique, absolutely not something an ordinary Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator could possess!
And Fang Hanyu beside him seemed to only have the spiritual energy fluctuations of the Foundation Establishment stage, yet a peerlessly sharp sword intent faintly flowed around his entire body. That sword intent was condensed without dispersing, pure to the extreme, as if it could sever all things in the world. How could this be a sword intent nurtured by a Foundation Establishment cultivator?
No!
Ling Xi's pupils suddenly shrank, and her imperial soul's divine sense subconsciously probed carefully.
Probing seriously at this moment, that seemingly weak layer of disguise instantly became clear under her powerful divine sense perception. It was an extremely brilliant breath-concealing technique, simulating the illusion of a low realm, but the power surging at its core...
Cave Heaven Realm?!
These two... actually both have Cave Heaven Realm cultivation?!
How is this possible?!
For the first time, clear astonishment appeared on Ling Xi's breathtakingly beautiful face. Those ancient, well-like eyes widened slightly, filled with disbelief.
Who was she?
She was the Great Emperor Ling Xi!
Even though her imperial soul was damaged now, the essence of her divine sense was far beyond what ordinary cultivators could compare to. Seeing through the reality of cultivators within two major realms higher than her should have been as easy as flipping her hand!
Yet earlier, she had actually been completely deceived by these two Senior Brothers!
If it weren't for the fact that they slightly relaxed their minds while relaying the rules, revealing the slightest wisp of aura for her to catch the anomaly, she would probably still be kept in the dark!
The cultivation of these two people actually seemed... to be about the same as Master's?
What is going on with this Purple Bamboo Peak?
The disciples are almost catching up to the Master?
Or could it be... Master's cultivation is not merely at the Cave Heaven Realm?
This thought flashed past, but was quickly suppressed by her. She had probed Gu Changge earlier, and sensed his cultivation was also at the Cave Heaven Realm.
Perhaps her Senior Brothers had extraordinary talents or special serendipities.
Her voice carried a trace of a slight tremble she herself did not notice: "So, Senior Brothers, your... your cultivation levels...?"
Xiao Ruobai gave an honest smile, speaking as if it were nothing: "Oh, this. Junior Brother Hanyu and I are now at the Cave Heaven Realm."
Ling Xi was speechless.
It was actually true!
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.
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!
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!
