Chen Yi was well aware that Black Earth (Hu Fangyuan) wouldn’t be so easy to defeat!
After all, he was once one of the supreme Yuanzuns of the Divine Realm. Though now greatly diminished, a starved camel was still bigger than a horse—there was no way he’d be taken down in just two moves, right?
So, this bastard’s deliberate opening had to be a trap!
Sure enough, the sly old fox had something up his sleeve!
The moment Chen Yi closed in, Hu Fangyuan unleashed a divine killing technique he’d been brewing all along!
"Wait—you actually know the Five-Finger Fist-Heart Sword?!"
Chen Yi was stunned, shocked by this divine killing move!
Using the five fingers as "Soul-Locking Stakes," the fist’s center as a "Soul-Refining Furnace," and condensing one’s own "Primordial Spirit Will" into a sword, it struck directly at the enemy’s origin consciousness sea!
Such a technique had no physical form, was nearly impossible to guard against, and specialized in shattering primordial spirit wills!
If Chen Yi’s true self were here, this feeble attack would’ve been like a playful tickle, unable to even breach the will barrier around his origin consciousness sea—utterly futile!
But this was just a five-star avatar!
Within its origin consciousness sea, there was no primordial spirit, only a wisp of lingering will!
And Hu Fangyuan, once a supreme Yuanzun, possessed a primordial spirit of extraordinary refinement. Even now, weakened as he was, his will could still suppress Chen Yi’s!
Defense was impossible—he could only endure!
The next moment—
Buzz!
The five-star avatar visibly staggered, its eyes briefly glazing over before snapping back to focus.
Chen Yi swiftly retreated to a safe distance, his lips twitching as he spat, "Black Earth, you old schemer, again!"
But Hu Fangyuan simply shrugged. "No more. I concede."
Others might not understand, but he knew full well—that Five-Finger Fist-Heart Sword had severed the will lingering in Chen Yi’s avatar!
Yet it was pointless. Chen Yi, ever the rule-breaker, not only refused to admit defeat but seamlessly reconnected another wisp of will like it was nothing!
How was that fair?
After finally taking out one of his avatar’s "lives," the guy could instantly revive!
What kind of game was this?!
If death wasn’t acknowledged, was it even a defeat?
Victory was impossible!
Better to just surrender.
No shame in that—Chen Yi knew who’d truly won.
"You concede? I don’t accept! Again!" Chen Yi pressed, relentless.
True, he’d lost once, but it was a valuable loss—Black Earth had exposed a fatal flaw in his avatar’s design!
That was priceless!
Before, sparring with Ling Xiao or Wuji, they’d used imprints or will projections, playing around without ever uncovering such weaknesses.
But this time, Black Earth had come in person. As a former supreme Yuanzun—akin to a Dao Ancestor, equal to a Celestial Emperor in realm (just lacking the invincibility of a Dao Fruit)—he’d instantly seen through the avatar’s limits. A single probing strike, and boom—flaw exposed!
This was... perfect!
Losing wasn’t scary; not knowing why you lost was. Only by refining his avatar through brutal trial could Chen Yi achieve true invincibility!
But now, after winning once, this old fox wanted to quit?
Concede?
That was a slap in the face!
Chen Yi had to reclaim his pride!
He had to milk this opportunity dry!
He had to crush Black Earth completely!
With these three imperatives burning in his mind, Chen Yi made an offer.
"Relax, I won’t make you fight for free. Win against me once, and I’ll purify a Great Luo from your Divine Realm who’s fallen to corruption. Deal?"
Hu Fangyuan’s eyes gleamed, though he feigned hesitation. "Chen Yi, while I’m tempted... even if I exhaust all my trump cards, beating you seems impossible. Like just now—I gave my all and still couldn’t win. What then?"
"Just say you want a higher stake!" Chen Yi cut through the act.
"Heh..." Hu Fangyuan chuckled awkwardly. "Great Luos are fine, but they’re too bound by the Celestial Realm’s restrictions. How about a hundred Golden Immortals instead? That’d speed up reassembling the Heavenly Dao Key!"
"Not that your help in searching for the key isn’t appreciated—allies should aid each other, and I’m grateful. But you know how it is—even the closest allies are still outsiders to the Heavenly Dao Key. It naturally resists them."
"Perhaps only our native beings can earn its recognition, speeding up the reassembly. No need to trouble you further..."
"Besides, isn’t Ye Wuchen collaborating with Xie Buruo? He’ll be too busy to hunt for the key now, right?"
"So... what do you say?"
As Hu Fangyuan rambled, Chen Yi read between the lines—was this guy trying to cut him out?
Unacceptable!
Weren’t they the closest of allies?!
And now he wanted to hog all the merit of reassembling the Heavenly Dao and saving countless Divine Realm lives?
How selfish!
"Fine, I agree. But I have a condition too," Chen Yi said calmly.
"Which is?" Hu Fangyuan’s heart skipped—this felt ominous.
"Thirty per win. A hundred’s too much," Chen Yi stated.
"So you accept?" Hu Fangyuan narrowed his eyes.
Chen Yi nodded. "One more thing: Under the Celestial Realm’s heavy hand, your people might struggle to move freely. So, as allies, our Ziwei Realm will kindly send a special ops team to help search the ruins for Heavenly Dao Keys. Separate from your efforts. Any objections?"
Still clinging on, greedy little Chen Yi?
Outsiders getting close to our Heavenly Dao Keys?
Dream on!
Hu Fangyuan smirked. "No objections. Having an ally like you is my fortune!"
"One last thing." Chen Yi raised a finger. "Dai Yuanshan and Liu Bi—Ye Wuchen’s nominal disciples—join my team. Any objections?"
Hu Fangyuan didn’t hesitate. "Take them. Want Murong Dugu too?"
What were "Chosen Saviors" before the Heavenly Dao Key?
Tools!
They were replaceable, interchangeable—Hu Fangyuan could appoint anyone, as the former Great Love Yuanzun of the Divine Realm!
"Dai Yuanshan and Liu Bi suffice. Keep Murong Dugu."
Chen Yi knew this too, rejecting the disguised burden.
The brothers mattered far more than Murong Dugu ever could.
The Nine Heavenly Dao Keys of the Divine Realms are scattered across the world, each independent and unconnected. The mysterious Heavenly Dao Key that chose Murong Dugu as the Chosen Savior of Destiny can be influenced by the Black Earth—it reserves the right to replace its chosen one at any moment!
But the Tianxuan·Key of Balance, which selected Dai Yuanshan as the Chosen Savior, is different. After Dai Yuanshan embarked on his journey, it went into hiding. Unless Dai Yuanshan actively summons it, the Key will never reveal itself—let alone consider replacing its chosen one.
Thus, unless Dai Yuanshan perishes, he remains the sole representative of the Tianxuan·Key of Balance. Only by bringing him along can one more easily gain the trust of the other Heavenly Dao Keys!
As things stand now, the Black Earth holds an unknown Heavenly Dao Key behind it, while Chen Yi possesses the Tianxuan·Key of Balance.
One to one—a tie!
Even if the Black Earth eventually finds all eight remaining Heavenly Dao Keys and Chen Yi ends up empty-handed, so long as he holds onto Dai Yuanshan, he retains the right to claim a share of this monumental merit!
"Very well. Since we’ve reached an agreement, dear ally, shall we proceed? A fair warning—this time, I will stop at nothing. I intend to win!"
Hu Fangyuan’s gaze burned with fervor as he stared at Chen Yi.
"Winning once means thirty more—guess I’ll have to get serious too!" Chen Yi cracked his neck and tightened his grip on the halberd.
Fighting without stakes was a waste of effort, and the Black Earth had been half-hearted in its efforts.
But now, with a prize on the line, the Black Earth was fired up—and so was he!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
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.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
shall grant"] ["Inscribing the glory of our race upon tombstones"] ["All that is threatened, I shall protect"] How his younger sister sees her brother: A brother who only makes eye contact once a day, mostly fading into the background as he tinkers with who-knows-what in his room all day. Their life paths should have remained largely separate. Until one day. Su Qi created an equipment card for his never-met "online girlfriend." His sister fell into silent contemplation upon receiving the "white stockings." [Card can be upgraded] [Upgrade by fulfilling any of the following conditions] [Condition ①: Consume one hundred higher-tier cards] [Condition ②: Complete one 'Heart-Pounding Adventure'] What constitutes a Heart-Pounding Adventure? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Beginner Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to admire it.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Easy Level): Equip the card, invite 'Su Qi' to touch it, and analyze the equipment's texture.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Entry Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to...] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Challenge Level): Freely combine the words 'Brother' 'Out' 'Brother' 'Me' 'Please' into a complete sentence...] "Please help me analyze both teams' mistakes in this match, brother..." His sister exhaled in relief—surely... surely there couldn't be anything more difficult? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Suicide Mission Level): Sneak a peek at the names of the galgames in 'Su Qi's' hidden E-drive folder]
