The instant the battle halberd took shape, a pure, icy killing intent of the highest order emerged—so sharp that even one’s divine soul felt pierced by it.
As the halberd’s edge suddenly awakened, it shot into the sky before swiftly retracting, all of it sinking into the mysterious dark patterns on the halberd shaft. A series of deep, joyous hums rang out.
It was no longer that remnant weapon filled with deathly silence and resentment. Instead, it had been reborn as a divine weapon of slaughter, forged upon the origin of a vicious weapon and refined anew through supreme methods!
Gu Changge sensed it for a moment and nodded slightly. “Its weapon spirit has been annihilated, and its materials are incomplete, but its foundation is decent. I merely reforged and polished it for you. For now, it can be considered a Quasi-Emperor weapon.”
As he spoke, he casually handed the completely transformed battle halberd back to the dumbfounded Xuanyangzi.
Xuanyangzi accepted it instinctively.
A Quasi-Emperor weapon!
I, Xuanyangzi, have a Quasi-Emperor weapon too?!
The enormous surprise instantly overwhelmed his reason. Clutching the black battle weapon, Xuanyangzi’s hands trembled slightly. His eyes were wide open, and the corners of his mouth stretched uncontrollably into a grin. He nearly laughed aloud on the spot.
Images had already begun surfacing uncontrollably in his mind.
Perhaps one day, he would go to the Azure Cloud Secret Realm and casually reveal his Quasi-Emperor weapon and Imperial Scripture in front of several ancestors. Just imagining the shock and astonishment on their faces was exhilarating.
“Th-Thank you, Junior Brother Changge!”
Xuanyangzi hugged the Quasi-Emperor weapon tightly and bowed deeply to Gu Changge. His smile could no longer be restrained, shining as brightly as that of a child who had just received a new toy.
The summit of Violet Bamboo Peak returned to tranquility.
“System, sign in.”
Gu Changge silently recited the words in his heart and began his daily compulsory routine: signing in.
“Ding! Sign-in successful!
Congratulations, host. You have received a cultivation reward of ten thousand years!
Congratulations, host. You have received ten units of World Origin!
Congratulations, host. You have received ten Invincibility Experience Cards!”
The system notifications rang out one after another. Gu Changge’s gaze swept past the cultivation reward before settling on the final two items.
“World Origin, and Invincibility Experience Cards? What are those?”
With a thought, he looked at the reward descriptions.
World Origin was the most central and fundamental aggregation of laws and energy within a world. It contained the mysteries of creation and annihilation.
It could be used to repair a great world on the verge of collapse or suffering damage to its origin, allowing it to regain its vitality and stabilize the heavens and earth.
It could also be used to nourish and enhance a world’s concentration of spiritual energy, the strength of its laws, and the upper limits of its inhabitants’ potential.
“Repair a world, elevate a world.”
Gu Changge nodded slightly, already forming a plan in his mind.
Although the origin of the Great Xuanhuang World was no longer leaking away, the deficiencies and hidden injuries accumulated over countless ages still remained.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth showed signs of recovery, and the laws had become more active and apparent, but the world’s foundation was still far from its former peak.
This World Origin had arrived at precisely the right time.
“I’ll find an appropriate opportunity to use one and see how effective it is. I’d also like to see just how much benefit it can bring to this world.”
He pondered silently before turning his gaze toward the Invincibility Experience Cards.
“Invincibility Experience Card: After activation, each card grants invincible combat prowess at any location, lasting for one day.”
After reading this description, Gu Changge was stunned at first. Then, the corners of his mouth rose uncontrollably, ultimately forming a carefree and unrestrained smile.
“Excellent. Truly excellent!”
He murmured aloud, his delight completely undisguised.
No matter how high one’s cultivation became, accidents were always possible.
On the path of cultivation, who could guarantee that they would never encounter forces beyond their control?
But with these Invincibility Experience Cards, everything would be different.
For an entire day, he would be invincible anywhere!
This meant having an absolute trump card. It meant that whenever he faced a danger beyond his expectations and exceeding the limits of what he could handle, he would possess the ultimate means to flip the table and ignore all reason.
A sense of security—this was exactly where it came from.
“The system is being rather generous this time.”
In a pleasant mood, Gu Changge carefully stored away the newly acquired World Origin and Invincibility Experience Cards.
He gently exhaled and settled his mind.
However, the confidence brought by the Invincibility Experience Cards made his entire state of mind seem even more composed and unfathomable.
Beside him, Xuanyangzi was still immersed in the delirious joy of obtaining a Quasi-Emperor weapon. He hugged the black battle halberd as though he could not bear to part with it, occasionally letting out a foolish chuckle.
Deep within the Burning Heaven Palace, in the sect master’s secluded retreat.
The scorching aura that had filled the stone chamber for several months now resembled a volcanic crater on the verge of eruption.
Sitting cross-legged at the center of the Spirit-Gathering Formation, Lie Tianxiong’s crimson spiritual power surged around him like furious waves. Then, it suddenly contracted and poured entirely into his body.
“Buzz—!”
A deep roar sounded from within him, causing the floor of the stone chamber to tremble slightly.
His tightly shut eyes snapped open. Two beams of tangible light shot out, scorching two shallow pits into the solid stone wall.
A violent, blazing pressure belonging to the King Realm erupted without restraint, instantly filling the entire chamber. Even the air seemed to burn and wail.
“Hahahaha! The King Realm! I’ve done it! I’ve finally done it!”
“It was worth expending so many resources to activate the sect’s ultimate inheritance. So this is the King Realm? It truly is powerful.”
Lie Tianxiong rose to his full height and burst into thunderous laughter.
His laughter reverberated repeatedly through the enclosed stone chamber, shaking loose gravel from the walls.
He clenched his fists and felt the vast power surging endlessly within him—power far beyond anything he had possessed before. A lofty pride that looked down upon the world and a blazing desire for revenge burned fiercely in his chest.
“You scum from the Myriad Laws Pavilion! And you rats who attacked from the shadows and hide your heads like cowards! Just wait for me! The humiliation of the past will be repaid a hundredfold!”
He was brimming with confidence as he strode toward the tightly sealed stone door.
The pent-up frustration, fury, and restraint he had felt before entering seclusion had been completely swept away by his newfound strength. In their place was boundless self-assurance and a battle intent that could hardly wait to be unleashed.
With a rumble, the heavy stone door slowly opened.
Outside, the Second Elder, who had sensed the commotion and had been waiting respectfully, immediately bowed. His voice was steady, carrying just the right amount of excitement and awe.
“Congratulations, Palace Master! Your divine art has reached perfection, and you have emerged from seclusion! The revival of our Burning Heaven Palace is imminent. Under the Palace Master’s might, our name will surely shake Xuanzhou once more!”
Lie Tianxiong strode out with the bearing of a dragon and tiger. His gaze was as sharp as lightning as he swept it over the respectfully waiting Li Qingfeng, seemingly piercing through the palace walls to survey the entirety of the Burning Heaven Palace.
His keen divine sense spread out slightly, and he noticed that the atmosphere within the palace seemed far more orderly than before he entered seclusion.
“Second Elder, how has the palace fared during my retreat?” Lie Tianxiong asked in a deep voice.
The Second Elder raised his head, his face displaying genuine relief and satisfaction.
“Reporting to the Palace Master, thanks to your blessings, everyone in the sect is united and working toward the same goal! Following the arrangements you made before entering seclusion, we have maintained a low profile at all times.
“All the elders have performed their duties diligently, and the disciples have been cultivating industriously. Every matter has proceeded in perfect order. Everyone has been waiting for the Palace Master to emerge from seclusion and lead us in restoring our former prestige!”
“Oh?”
Lie Tianxiong raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised by this answer.
“Have the First Elder, Third Elder, and Fourth Elder also been behaving themselves?”
The Second Elder’s smile remained unchanged, and his tone was sincere.
“My Lord, please rest assured. Since you entered seclusion and entrusted me with the temporary management of palace affairs, all the elders have come to understand the weight of your trust and their responsibility to the sect. They have set aside their past grievances and joined forces as one.
The First Elder, in particular, has repeatedly stated in public that everything must be placed beneath the Palace Lord’s commands and the sect’s greater interests, and that he will give his full support to your decisions.
The Burning Heaven Palace is now united as one. We await only your command!”
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
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.
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!
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
