Xuanyangzi's eyes were red as he handed over the jade box, watching the Fifth Patriarch "struggle" to open the lid. His heart ached intensely.
The Patriarchs were so weak that they couldn't even open a box!
The moment the box was opened, the rich aura emanating from the Innate Spirit Marrow caused the spiritual energy in the entire forbidden area to tremble.
The Fifth Patriarch's hand shook. That kid Gu Changge was actually willing to give this away?
"This... this is too precious..."
The Fifth Patriarch was truly trembling this time.
Xuanyangzi, however, misunderstood and quickly supported his shaking hand.
"Patriarch, don't be agitated! Take it easy!"
Turning around, he said to the other Patriarchs, "This spiritual tea is also a treasure of Junior Brother Gu. He said it can calm the mind and nourish the qi, and there is a chance of entering a state of epiphany..."
The Fourth Patriarch's beard twitched imperceptibly. Could it really be the Dao Enlightenment Tea?
Seeing that the act was about to be exposed, the First Patriarch quickly "weakly" changed the subject: "Little Yangzi... how... how is the sect doing lately?"
"Thanks to the Patriarchs' blessings, everything is fine."
Xuanyangzi answered respectfully, thinking to himself that the Patriarchs were still worried about the sect even in this state, truly... he felt like shedding tears again.
The Second Patriarch suddenly coughed "violently": "It's... getting late... you... you go back to your work..."
Xuanyangzi understood; the Patriarchs were running out of strength!
He quickly stood up: "This disciple takes his leave. Patriarchs, please rest well."
Before leaving, he didn't forget to gently place the tea canister by the stone platform.
When Xuanyangzi's figure completely disappeared and the forbidden area's barrier had just closed, the five "dying" old men instantly jumped up, full of vigor.
"Quick! Reinforce the barrier with three layers!"
The First Patriarch dropped his weak act, his voice booming like a bell.
The Fifth Patriarch was already circling the spiritual tea on the stone platform: "Is this really the Dao Enlightenment Tea? I've only seen descriptions of it in ancient texts!"
The Third Patriarch hugged the tea canister and sniffed vigorously: "I feel like I'm about to have an epiphany just from smelling the aroma!"
The Fourth Patriarch impatiently snatched the tea canister, his fingers trembling: "Quick, quick, quick, brew a pot to taste first!"
The Second Patriarch, however, suddenly pressed down on the tea canister, his expression grave: "Wait! If this tea is truly the Dao Enlightenment Tea, we must first adjust our state."
The First Patriarch stroked his beard and nodded: "Number Two is right. Let's adjust our own state first..."
Before he finished speaking, the Fifth Patriarch had secretly broken off a small piece of tea leaf and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Number Five! You!" The Third Patriarch's eyes widened.
They saw the Fifth Patriarch shudder, and three phantom golden lotuses suddenly appeared above his head, with Dao rhythm flowing around him.
With his eyes tightly closed, he had directly entered a state of epiphany!
"You prodigal!"
The First Patriarch stomped his feet in anger.
"Swallowing a tea leaf just like that! What a waste of a heavenly treasure!"
The Fourth Patriarch was quick-witted and quickly shielded the remaining tea leaves in his arms.
"Not a single piece of the remaining leaves can be missing! We have to find that kid Gu Changge and ask him exactly where this tea came from!"
Just then, Xuanyangzi's voice suddenly came from outside the barrier: "Patriarchs, this disciple forgot to mention, the sect competition is in four months..."
The five old men instantly froze and, with lightning speed, reverted to their dying appearances.
The First Patriarch even flopped down on the ground with a "thud," not forgetting to drag the enlightened Fifth Patriarch down with him.
The barrier opened, and Xuanyangzi looked at the Patriarchs "fainted" all over the place, immediately panicking: "Patriarchs! What happened to you!"
The Third Patriarch "weakly" raised his hand: "It's... it's nothing... Number Five's... old injury relapsed..."
The Fifth Patriarch cooperatively "twitched" twice, with uncleaned tea dregs still hanging from the corner of his mouth.
Xuanyangzi frantically pulled out a communication jade slip: "I'll call Junior Brother Gu right now!"
"Don't!" The four Patriarchs simultaneously "sat up in shock from their dying sickness," startling Xuanyangzi.
The First Patriarch quickly explained: "This small matter... no need to trouble Changge... you... you go back first..."
Xuanyangzi looked suspiciously at the mess on the ground, then at the suddenly energetic Patriarchs, feeling that something was wrong...
Meanwhile, the Fifth Patriarch was cursing loudly through divine sense transmission.
"You old bastards! I was in the middle of an epiphany! You forcibly interrupted me!"
Xuanyangzi backed out of the forbidden area with heavy steps, the barrier slowly closing behind him.
The Patriarchs' momentary "energy" just now was too abnormal, especially the bit of green tea dregs at the corner of the Fifth Patriarch's mouth, which stuck in his heart like a thorn.
But on second thought, the Patriarchs might have been temporarily stimulated by the aura of the spiritual tea, but their bodies were ultimately exhausted.
He suppressed the urge to turn back and headed toward Qingyun Peak.
Inside the barrier, the "dead wood" on the five stone platforms instantly came alive.
"Quick! Reinforce the barrier!"
The First Patriarch suddenly sprang up from the stone platform, his originally hunched back straightening up, his voice booming like a bell, shaking the stone dust loose.
His fingers formed seals, and three golden lights shot into the edge of the forbidden area. The originally translucent barrier instantly became solid like colored glaze, and even the air seemed to freeze.
The Fifth Patriarch was already squatting on the ground holding the box of Innate Spirit Marrow, his fingers trembling like autumn leaves as he carefully extracted a drop of the Innate Spirit Marrow.
As soon as the spiritual liquid touched the air, it turned into wisps of mist, emitting a warm aura that could make moss grow on gold and stone.
"Tsk tsk, this is Innate Spirit Marrow..."
He popped the spiritual liquid into his mouth, immediately shivering all over, the cloudiness in his eyes completely swept away.
"Just how many treasures did Daoist Zizhu leave for that kid Gu Changge?"
"Don't just enjoy it by yourself!"
The Third Patriarch snatched the tea canister and roughly tore off the lid. The rich tea aroma instantly exploded, actually condensing into tiny golden light particles on the stone platform.
He pinched a tea leaf and brought it to his nose, inhaling deeply, his beard trembling into waves.
"It's Dao Enlightenment Tea! It really is Dao Enlightenment Tea! Ancient texts say that a single leaf can cause a saint to have an epiphany!"
"Cut the crap, brew it!"
The Second Patriarch had already brought over a stone basin and pulled out a chipped coarse porcelain bowl from nowhere.
"Use the spiritual spring to brew it!"
The Fourth Patriarch was quick with his hands. With a flick of his finger, a clear spring gushed out from the cracks in the stone, making a tinkling sound as it fell into the bowl, and a faint spiritual light floated on the water's surface.
The Third Patriarch's hand holding the tea leaves trembled again and again, but he finally threw in five leaves with a hardened heart—any more, and he was afraid he wouldn't be able to control himself and would go mad on the spot.
"You prodigal!"
The First Patriarch was about to curse, but his mind was severely shaken by the tea aroma in the bowl.
The fragrance drilled into his sea of consciousness through his nasal cavity, instantly turning into countless tiny points of light, crashing against the bottleneck that had kept him stuck at the peak of the King Realm until it buzzed.
He could no longer care about teaching the Fifth Patriarch a lesson and picked up the coarse porcelain bowl, draining it in one gulp.
He then sat cross-legged, his eyes tightly closed, the spiritual energy around him surging like a tsunami, and the cracks on the stone platform actually slowly healed under the nourishment of the spiritual energy.
The Second Patriarch and the Fourth Patriarch also scrambled to share the tea soup. After downing it in a few gulps, they each found a clean stone platform to sit on.
On the stone platforms, the five elders were either sitting or lying down, all surrounded by a faint rosy glow. The originally lifeless forbidden area was now even more vibrant than the spiritual fields of Zizhu Peak.
Only the Fifth Patriarch's resentment over his interrupted epiphany was still intermittently drifting in the divine sense: "When I get out... I have to beat up that kid Xuanyangzi..."
Before his words could fade, he was completely engulfed by a surging tide of enlightenment.
The profound roar of the Great Dao echoed within his sea of consciousness, and the golden light radiating from his body blazed ever brighter. Even the moss on the stone platform absorbed the overflowing spiritual energy, growing wildly into vines of vibrant emerald.
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?"
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.
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
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!
