"Esteemed visitor from another world, may I inquire about the purpose of your visit to our realm?"
The Heavenly Dao of Shenzhou was almost pitifully compliant.
It didn't even attempt to resist. The moment it sensed the aura emanating from the fifteen Chaos-Colored Pearls, it immediately backed down.
While a single pearl only possessed the strength of a True Immortal—something it could easily suppress given its rank—fifteen together created a qualitative transformation. Even if it could win, the victory would be pyrrhic!
So, negotiation was the only option. After all, the other party didn’t seem particularly hostile. At worst, it would just mean ceding some resources or paying reparations. What did it matter? It could afford it!
"Hmm—"
One of the Chaos-Colored Pearls shattered, and Chen Yi's avatar materialized.
He calmly gazed at the heavens and declared, "What I want can wait. First, explain why you’ve allowed the incense deities below to grow corrupt, exploiting the masses. Can you not control them, or do you simply not care?"
The Heavenly Dao of Shenzhou froze.
Wait, how is this any of your business?
You’re overstepping.
What right does an outsider, a demon from beyond, have to lecture me?
Just because you’re strong, you think everyone should obey you?
Hmph! If I don’t like what someone says, I won’t give them face!
"Esteemed visitor, first, allow me to express my gratitude for your concern and feedback regarding the Shenzhou World. We have always strictly adhered to regulations and procedures in our operations, maintaining an open and prudent attitude toward all opinions and suggestions. We have a mature and comprehensive system in place..."
The Heavenly Dao of Shenzhou had a slight duality—privately cursing up a storm, yet outwardly exuding utmost respect, delivering an excessively formal, bureaucratic, and utterly meaningless response...
Chen Yi was left utterly baffled, his lips twitching in irritation. Without hesitation, he summoned a massive obsidian halberd and leveled it forward, growling, "Get to the point!"
Swiftly—
The Heavenly Dao immediately clarified: "Water that’s too clear has no fish. If governance is too strict, they won’t work diligently. So, I let them operate freely—I only care about results."
"If you’re too lazy to manage them, just say so. There’s no shame in admitting it!" Chen Yi cut straight to the heart of the matter. "The Shenzhou World has hit a bottleneck, hasn’t it? The incense deity system has grown bloated and unwieldy, and you’ve given up trying to fix it."
The Heavenly Dao fell silent for a moment before sighing faintly. "You’re right. The incense system developed too rapidly, and at the time, we lacked the foresight to anticipate today’s predicament."
Chen Yi waved a hand dismissively. "Enough excuses. Tell me—how long has it been since you last paid attention to the lowest strata of life? They are the foundation of this towering edifice. No matter how dazzling the spires may be, if the base crumbles, everything collapses!"
Yet the Heavenly Dao refused to answer directly, even countering: "Esteemed guest, your insight is remarkable. If I may guess, you seek the operational principles of the incense system for reference, yes? I would be delighted to provide them!"
Chen Yi shook his head slightly. "Touched a nerve, didn’t I? Can’t keep up the act anymore?"
The Heavenly Dao remained silent, eager only to be rid of this nuisance. It hastily replicated the foundational laws of the incense system and prepared to hand them over.
For an entity as deeply rooted as itself, this was a trivial task—even somewhat relieving.
After stagnating at this bottleneck for so long, its accumulated Heavenly Dao essence had overflowed. Shedding a fraction actually lightened the burden.
In a lesser world, however, partitioning Heavenly Dao laws would trigger catastrophic upheaval, bringing ruin to all living things!
"In such a hurry to see me leave?" Chen Yi understood the Heavenly Dao’s reluctance to air its dirty laundry, but having come this far, he wasn’t about to leave empty-handed.
"You—come with me and observe. Then, based on the inspectors’ findings, revise these foundational laws. Whether you implement them is your choice, but the copy I take must be corrected. Oh, and throw in a few First-Rank Heavenly Deities as well."
With that, Chen Yi descended through the clouds, streaking toward the earth below.
What else could the Heavenly Dao do?
This guy was extorting it shamelessly! Not only did he demand revisions to the flawed incense system (while refusing to do the work himself), but he also had the audacity to ask for multiple First-Rank Heavenly Deities?
The Shenzhou World had only nurtured thirteen First-Rank deities in all its millennia of existence—and he casually demanded "a few"?
Just how many is "a few"?
Hmph. A beggar collecting debts, a bandit plundering loot. Fine! If it takes wealth to avert disaster, so be it!
Truly, the Shenzhou World’s reserves were staggeringly abundant. Though it couldn’t ascend to a higher rank, among True Immortal-level realms, it had no equal!
Even the once-glorious Heavenly Dao of Qingyun paled in comparison!
This gave the Heavenly Dao of Shenzhou immense confidence—if it didn’t want a fight, it could simply pay its way out.
It had resources to spare!
Jiangbei Prefecture, Bureau of Investigation.
The Judgment Hall was packed with figures—emissaries from the main temples of every prefecture, even envoys from the Celestial Palace, had gathered for this trial.
Outside, in the plaza, countless lowborn souls knelt with tear-filled eyes, their gazes fixed on the live projection above the hall.
The chief speaker, Gu Yuan—clad in the robes of a Sixth-Rank Investigation Officer—cleared his throat and began.
"Dear citizens of Jiangbei, and all you useless emissaries from other regions—greetings!"
"I’m delighted you could attend this trial despite your busy schedules. However, the condescending attitudes of certain divine envoys displease me. So, later, you’ll all be treated to a taste of steel. None of you are leaving."
Gu Yuan maintained a perfectly bureaucratic tone while delivering outrageously provocative words.
The emissaries from other regions immediately bristled—
But the moment they bared their teeth, Ye Wuchen, leader of the Jiangbei Inspection Team (currently lounging in the victim’s seat with his legs crossed), let out a cold snort.
Instantly—
A crushing pressure engulfed the hall. The emissaries’ defiance evaporated, their expressions shifting to awkward smiles, their eyes suddenly clear.
Oh! So it’s a First-Rank Heavenly Deity playing games?
Carry on, then!
"Glad we’re all in agreement. After this adjourns, nobody leaves!"
Gu Yuan delivered this spine-chilling statement with bureaucratic poise before adopting a plastic official smile.
"Now, I declare the trial of the Hanxi Mountain Deity, Third-Rank Celestial Official Taiji Immortal Elder, officially open. I am Gu Yuan, Sixth-Rank Officer of the Jiangbei Bureau of Investigation, serving as spokesperson for this proceeding."
"Our Jiangbei Inspection Team Leader, Ye Wuchen, was abducted by the Black Bear Spirit, deity of Lingyuan River, who attempted to murder him to intimidate our investigation!"
"So I must ask—how did a mere mountain deity of its rank dare to kidnap our leader?"
"Who gave it the courage?"
"This warrants deeper investigation!"
"And what did we find? That Taiji Immortal Elder, behind the scenes, provided extensive support!"
"Installing a non-aquatic Black Bear Spirit as a river deity, embezzling incense offerings, oppressing the masses—blatant violations of celestial law! Such audacity!"
"Now, let us hear from the former Hanxi Mountain Deity, Third-Rank Celestial Official, founder of the Hanxi Gang in Jiangbei Prefecture—Taiji Immortal Elder—as he shares his... motivations."
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?"
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!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
transmigrates into the role of a villainous rich second-generation kid in an urban fantasy novel, and gets bound to a god-tier choice system. Right at the start, he catches the female lead stealing exam papers! This triggers the villain's choice options! [Choice 1: Pretend you didn't see anything] [Choice 2: Loudly call her out, drawing everyone's attention] [Choice 3: ...] And thus, a twisted villain is born. To avoid getting killed by the protagonist, he has no choice but to take down all the protagonists first. Jiang Che: Nobody understands being twisted better than me!
