The Master of the Chengyun Immortal Hall’s respectful expression stiffened. His heart lurched, and he raised his voice, shouting even louder.
“Immortal Lord! This brute is nothing but an ignorant rogue cultivator who doesn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth. With your power, crushing him would be effortless!”
He was sweating anxiously, terrified that the Immortal Lord might change his mind at the last moment.
At the same time, deep within the Immortal Palace, inside a secret hall built from Netherworld Cold Jade that isolated it from all probing senses, an old man dressed in a deathly pale Daoist robe and with a gaunt face was desperately covering his own mouth, not even daring to breathe.
His aura had been restrained to the absolute limit. His entire body was curled up in the deepest corner of the shadows, trembling uncontrollably.
Had the Master of the Chengyun Immortal Hall been here, he would have been utterly horrified.
The Immortal Lord Profound Bone, who in his eyes hailed from a higher-level immortal domain and possessed boundless divine abilities, no longer displayed even a trace of his usual arrogance and gloom.
All that remained was boundless terror. His sunken eye sockets held pupils constricted to pinpoints by extreme fright.
“Don’t see me. Don’t see me…”
“Old Chengyun, you damned idiot! What kind of existence have you provoked?!”
“This aura… He’s at least an Immortal King! Even at my peak, I’d have gone out of my way to avoid him!”
“To hell with the reward! I don’t want it anymore! Just don’t discover me. Please, don’t…”
Immortal Lord Profound Bone screamed frantically in his heart, his Dao heart on the verge of collapse.
Time passed by little by little, yet the Immortal Lord the Master of the Chengyun Immortal Hall had been counting on remained completely silent.
The color drained from his face. The hope in his eyes rapidly gave way to incredulous despair.
The Immortal Lord he had invited only after offering three immortal artifacts and one hundred thousand immortal stones, after begging everyone from pillar to post…
Was actually a coward hiding in a secret chamber, too afraid to show his face?!
This was even more unbearable than death!
The three Earth Immortal elders’ delighted expressions instantly froze as well, as though a basin of ice water had been dumped over them.
Their gazes shifted from pity for Gu Changge to terror at their own impending doom. Their bodies began to tremble uncontrollably.
Amid this deathly silence, Gu Changge spoke again.
“Are you calling that rat hiding inside?”
Before his voice had even faded, Gu Changge casually raised his right hand and reached toward the secret hall of Netherworld Cold Jade deep within the Immortal Palace.
“Buzz!”
The laws of space throughout the entire world suddenly solidified.
In the next instant, under the horrified gazes of the Master of the Chengyun Immortal Hall and the three elders, a sharp cry filled with terror rang out from deep within the Immortal Palace.
“No! Senior, spare my life! I was only passing through! This has nothing to do with me!”
Accompanied by that shrill plea for mercy, a pale figure appeared to be seized by an invisible giant hand around the throat.
He was forcibly dragged out from the deepest shadows of the secret hall.
“Bang!”
The figure crashed heavily onto the open ground between Gu Changge and the Master of the Chengyun Immortal Hall.
It was none other than the Immortal Lord Profound Bone!
At this moment, he no longer possessed even the slightest trace of an Immortal Lord’s bearing.
His pale Daoist robe was covered in dust, his hair was disheveled, and his face was filled with utter terror.
His body shook like a sieve, and the chattering of his teeth could even be heard.
He did not even have the courage to look up at Gu Changge. He simply crawled on the ground, kowtowing frantically.
“Senior, please see the truth! This junior is Xuangu. I merely happened to stop here for a while and have absolutely nothing to do with the Chengyun Immortal Hall!
“They forced their offerings upon me. I never agreed to intervene! I have offended Senior’s heavenly might and deserve ten thousand deaths!
“Please spare this junior’s life! I am willing to offer up every treasure I possess, swear a Heavenly Dao oath, and serve you as a slave for all eternity!”
The scene froze the blood in the entire body of the Master of the Chengyun Immortal Hall like ten thousand years of profound ice.
His eyes widened until they were bloodshot, nearly bulging from their sockets.
His mouth hung open unconsciously, yet not a sound came out.
What had he just witnessed?
The Immortal Lord Profound Bone, whom he had regarded as an unattainable existence—an entity capable of sweeping through this entire fragment, and the lifeline he had clung to after exhausting ten thousand years of the Immortal Hall’s accumulated wealth and offering up priceless treasures…
Was now groveling at his enemy’s feet like a stray dog wagging its tail, begging for mercy through tears and snot, even willing to betray everything he possessed!
His last hope shattered completely, transforming into overwhelming humiliation and despair that chilled him to the bone.
“Profound Bone! You… you shameless coward!”
The Master of the Chengyun Immortal Hall pointed at the Immortal Lord Profound Bone, trembling with rage. A mouthful of blood suddenly burst from him.
Gu Changge lowered his eyes. His gaze fell upon the Immortal Lord Profound Bone, who was trembling beneath his feet like a sieve. His expression was indifferent, without the slightest ripple.
“So this is what you were relying on?”
Those words were like the sharpest of blades, viciously carving into the heart of the Master of the Chengyun Immortal Hall.
“Pfft—!”
He could no longer hold himself together. His Dao heart collapsed completely, and another mouthful of blazing origin blood sprayed from his lips.
His aura instantly withered to the extreme. His entire body went limp, as though his spine had been ripped out, and he collapsed onto the ground.
Gu Changge did not spare another glance for the pitiful Immortal Lord Profound Bone. He merely uttered two words in a flat tone.
“Boring.”
As his voice fell, the space around the Immortal Lord Profound Bone twisted slightly.
The expressions of terror, supplication, and ingratiation on his face froze instantly.
In the next moment, his entire immortal body, along with his soul, was silently wiped away by an invisible hand, transforming into the purest essence of spiritual energy and dissipating into the air.
An Immortal Lord who had been an unreachable existence in the eyes of the Master of the Chengyun Immortal Hall vanished from the world just like that, as though he had never existed.
Having casually dealt with this rat, Gu Changge’s gaze finally returned to the Master of the Chengyun Immortal Hall, who lay on the ground with a face ashen as death.
His gaze was calm, yet it carried the majesty of one who judged all living beings.
“Stealing the origin of the lower realm and severing the path of cultivation for all its inhabitants.”
Gu Changge spoke slowly. Every word was like a decree of the Heavenly Dao, hammering into the souls of the Master of the Chengyun Immortal Hall and the surviving disciples of the Immortal Hall.
“Your Chengyun Immortal Hall’s crimes are unforgivable.”
The Master of the Chengyun Immortal Hall struggled to raise his head. His face was smeared with blood, and a madness born of impending death twisted his features.
“Crimes? Hahaha! What crimes?!” he shrieked.
“The lower realm is a filthy wasteland, and its living beings are nothing but grass and weeds! Their origins can help pave the way for the immortal path of the Immortal Realm—that is their honor!
“The strong prey upon the weak. That is the greatest law under heaven! What right do you have to judge me? Who do you think you are?!”
Facing his hysterical roar, Gu Changge spoke softly, his voice calm and even.
“So this is what you people of the Immortal Realm truly believe, deep down?”
“People of the Immortal Realm?”
The Master of the Chengyun Immortal Hall shuddered. The madness on his face instantly froze, and his pupils contracted to pinpoints.
A bolt of lightning tore through his mind, completely shattering everything he had previously believed.
He cried out in shock, but his words were cut short by overwhelming terror.
“Could it be that you’re not… You’re from the low—”
Before he could say the word “realm,” Gu Changge brought two fingers together and lightly swept them across this land of sin.
An invisible sword intent, seemingly descending from the immemorial past and carrying the will to pass judgment upon all things, quietly arrived.
“No—!”
The hall master only had time to let out a brief and unwilling cry before he felt everything within him—his immortal essence, Dao foundation, and very soul—begin to disintegrate and disperse silently.
At the final moment before his consciousness was extinguished, the earth-shattering suspicion he had been unable to voice transformed into the ultimate terror and absurdity, forever branded into the depths of his crumbling thoughts.
The lower realm…
This man was actually from the lower realm?!
The Chengyun Immortal Hall had actually perished at the hands of the ants they regarded as mere grass?!
This bitter irony and seething resentment became his eternal funeral dirge.
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
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?”
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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."
