In ordinary circumstances, Ying Bing would naturally be no match for the Rivers and Mountains Scroll.
But now, within the borders of the Celestial City formed from the fragmented Heavenly Phoenix Domain, she possessed the other half within her—making her half a master of this realm.
Thus, that True Spirit truly hovered in midair, refusing to be swallowed by the void's rift.
At the same time, Ying Bing's delicate brows suddenly furrowed.
"Someone is activating the Rivers and Mountains Scroll... and it's not Jingtai."
The sea of clouds was abruptly dyed into a flowing golden lake, layer upon layer, with purple qi surging from the east.
Ten thousand beams of sunlight pierced through the clouds, growing brighter with each layer they passed, until at last, they became a radiant sun illuminating heaven and earth.
The great sun resembled the gaze of some unfathomable existence, coldly observing Ying Bing and the True Spirit.
In an instant, the sun and moon shone together.
"Is that the spirit of the Rivers and Mountains Scroll?" someone in the imperial capital asked.
"It must be."
"Seems His Majesty finds the Frost Fairy unsuitable—does Li Mo not deserve a second chance?"
"But Li Mo was born from the Human City. It was unfair from the very beginning."
"Can the Frost Fairy contend against the spirit of the Rivers and Mountains Scroll?"
As all knew, the Rivers and Mountains Scroll was a Heaven’s Fortune Artifact. Even the power of the Seventh Realm seemed childlike before it, capable of widening the gap between Eighth Realm Transcendent experts.
Had it been anyone else, there would be no doubt.
But Ying Bing had already defied reason too many times...
"All who enter this domain must abide by its rules. Release the True Spirit."
A voice, vast and inhuman, echoed from the great sun, as though its every word embodied absolute law.
It actually spoke!
Many in the imperial capital who had witnessed the Celestial Trials numerous times had never heard the spirit of a Heaven’s Fortune Artifact speak.
"This is not your endless land of rivers and mountains."
Ying Bing remained unmoving.
Between her and Li Mo, many things no longer needed words.
Upon entering the Celestial City, she had already understood his intentions.
Becoming mortal had been Li Mo’s own choice—he too was seeking his own Inner Landscape.
Tension crackled between the two sides.
Moon and sun now stood in opposition. Within the Celestial City, mortals knelt, not daring to raise their heads; martial artists trembled in fear; even the Celestials fell deathly silent.
The True Spirit, encased in a cocoon of light, remained suspended in midair.
Though neither side had yet struck, neither would relent.
BOOM—
Then, an anomaly erupted.
"From the foreign lands..."
The thought had barely formed in Ying Bing’s mind when—
A surge of mist churned in the abyssal darkness, like a sinister sea of blood, endlessly roiling.
A black coffin emerged from its depths, its mere appearance enough to evoke visceral horror.
Splash—
The coffin slid open, revealing an arm—pale as death, yet covered in scars.
Though lifeless, its seething blood essence ignited a towering pillar of energy.
The Blood God!
The first wave of calamity had barely passed, yet He had already arrived in haste!
Clearly, He had not come for Ying Bing, nor for the spirit of the Rivers and Mountains Scroll.
He too was here for Li Mo.
"Why?"
Some were baffled.
The Frost Fairy and the scroll’s spirit could be understood.
But strictly speaking, the Blood God stood opposed to both—why meddle now?
The three factions each had their own motives.
The moment the coffin opened, an undisguised gaze fell upon the True Spirit. His intent was clear.
"Heh... Why fight over him?"
"If I take him, then make him vanish, wouldn’t that satisfy everyone?"
Before the words even left the churning sea of blood, the ashen hand was already reaching out.
At that moment—
Within the cocoon of light, Li Mo, eyes closed, twitched slightly.
Before him, scenes of his first cycle of life and death replayed. The Thousand Forms Art, cultivated by countless individuals, manifested within his True Spirit.
His comprehension was swift—he was on the verge of awakening.
Outside, the struggle intensified.
Seeing the Blood God’s hand approach, Ying Bing dissolved into moonlight. A frigid radiance erupted, freezing the limb and eroding it through the passage of time.
Seizing their clash—
Light and shadow crisscrossed within the great sun.
The Rivers and Mountains Scroll did not contain the Dao of Miniaturization.
Rather, it embodied the Dao of Light and Shadow—the Dao of Manifesting Illusion as Reality.
Mountains and rivers materialized, depicting landscapes from across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, descending upon the world.
No matter how terrifying the Blood God’s hand, it could not traverse the vastness of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
Time might shift the land from sea to mulberry fields, but it could not break the cycle of perpetual renewal.
...
"Has my trial... ended?"
"Yet my Inner Landscape remains incomplete..."
Li Mo stirred awake, peering out from the cocoon—only to find the scenery shifting rapidly before him.
He reached out, attempting to touch the light and shadows, but his hand passed through.
He understood. He was in a pocket realm of sorts, yet nothing here could affect him unless he willed it.
"I’m still in True Spirit form... I haven’t left the Celestial City?"
"What is that?"
His eyes widened as a black dot rapidly expanded in his vision.
A rift in the void, filled with phantasmagoric colors, as though leading to another world.
The distance between them shrank—neither moved, yet it seemed to chase him.
"If I’m swallowed by it, I’ll leave the Celestial City’s domain?"
"No, not yet. Only one calamity has passed. That ice block hasn’t reclaimed the other half of the Heavenly Phoenix Domain. My Inner Landscape isn’t finished..."
A cloud formed beneath Li Mo’s feet.
With a single somersault, he traversed one hundred and eight thousand miles, darting away at blinding speed.
Hmm?
A sound of surprise came from the great sun.
The spirit of the Heaven’s Fortune Artifact was astonished once more.
Its first shock came from the fact that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths it projected had no effect on Li Mo.
This was utterly abnormal. Even Seventh and Eighth Realm experts could only resist by wielding their own Daos to weaken the connection.
Could this brat have ascended to immortality, placing him beyond the artifact’s control?
Yet Li Mo bore no trace of any "Dao" upon him.
And yet—he fled so swiftly!
The artifact’s spirit could not suppress Li Mo with its authority, but it could alter itself.
Heaven and earth inverted. Mountains and rivers reversed.
!
Li Mo suddenly realized—why was he getting closer to the rift the more he ran?
He lost all sense of direction, flailing like a headless fly.
Then—
A beam of pure moonlight pierced through the projection, like a lighthouse guiding his path.
...
Everything unfolding was witnessed by those within and beyond the imperial capital.
"The Frost Fairy is clashing with the Blood God of the Summoning Demons Sect... and Li Mo is resisting the Heaven’s Fortune Artifact?"
"How can Li Mo traverse such distances with a single somersault?"
"How did he shake off the artifact’s influence?"
"He flees, it pursues—Li Mo has no chance of escape."
Questions swarmed in their minds.
But those mysteries would find no immediate answers.
The only question that might soon be resolved was...
Can Young Hero Li stay in the City of Celestials?
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
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?"
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."
villain is the number one simp for the book's leading female protagonist, Shen Wan'er. As expected, he later becomes a tool for the main character to show off and slap faces, ultimately meeting a tragic end with his family ruined and his life in shambles. Fortunately, he awakens the [Universal Pure Love System], which allows him to earn points by performing acts of pure love. To change his fate, Gu Yan makes a decisive choice to seek warmth and companionship with the book's biggest villain—Cold Qingqiu. ........... My name is Leng Qingqiu. To find the murderer who killed my parents years ago, I deliberately blinded myself so that everyone would lower their guard around me. Just as I was secretly accumulating power and capital according to my initial plan, a man walked into my world. "Lengleng, Qingqing, Qiuqiu, which nickname do you prefer?" I don't like any of them. You'd better leave quickly! "Why aren't you saying anything? How about I call you my baby wife?" Leng Qingqiu thinks to herself, this man is truly annoying! (Stubborn pure love warrior + single female lead + true pure love + 1v1)
