In the backyard of the Chen family, Chen Changsheng's expression shifted. Looking up at the sky, he saw an incredibly familiar spiritual energy vortex.
He had experienced this himself; it was the sign of breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm, signifying that a cultivator could now draw upon the power of heaven and earth.
Only, when he made his breakthrough, he had found a secluded place to do it quietly.
The person breaking through today obviously had no need for such secrecy.
As for who was breaking through? Naturally, it was Mu Qingling, who had already gone extremely far in the Golden Core realm.
After being transformed by the Godslayer ritual and brought back to the Chen family by Chen Changsheng, Mu Qingling had only accompanied him for a few days before feeling that she had touched the bottleneck of the Nascent Soul realm. After nearly two months of secluded cultivation, she had finally broken through.
At this moment, it wasn't just Chen Changsheng; almost everyone in the Chen family and even Tianyun City was looking up in shock at the phenomenon in the sky.
Especially the local families of Tianyun City. The moment they saw the anomaly in the sky, their first thought was that the Chen family's ancestor had done something monumental again.
Perhaps he had forged another powerful spiritual weapon, or maybe he had achieved a massive breakthrough in his cultivation.
However, as the phenomenon in the sky slowly subsided, a figure shot up into the sky from the Chen family's backyard.
Seeing this, everyone understood.
Yet, when some of the stronger cultivators looked closely, they realized that the person in the sky was neither Chen Changsheng nor Luo Hao, but a rather unfamiliar woman.
But soon enough, a knowledgeable bystander recognized her.
"That's! The Palace Master of Mingyu Palace!"
As this exclaiming bystander called out Mu Qingling's identity, Mu Qingling in the sky parted her red lips.
"I am the former Palace Master of Mingyu Palace, Mu Qingling! Today, I break through to the Nascent Soul realm!"
"Congratulations to the Ancestor on breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm!"
"Congratulations to the Ancestor on breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm!!"
"Congratulations..."
"..."
Continuous voices of praise and congratulations echoed from all over Tianyun City. This was the status of a Nascent Soul Ancestor.
Especially knowing that this Ancestor was one of Chen Changsheng's wives, the Chen family cultivators were so excited they wished they could shout until the heavens shattered.
Seeing this, Mu Qingling felt incredibly cheerful and waved her hand. She recalled the rumors about Chen Changsheng she had heard in the city before.
So, she similarly gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from a thousand miles around and brought down a rain of spiritual energy.
As the continuous spiritual rain fell, the voices of congratulation across the city grew even louder.
Meanwhile, Mu Qingling had gracefully floated down to stand before Chen Changsheng.
"Husband, I have finally caught up to your footsteps."
"Haha, congratulations on breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm, Qingling."
Chen Changsheng had no intention of bursting her bubble. He simply smiled, nodded, and then said,
"Since we have the momentum of your breakthrough, how about we officially establish your status?"
"I will leave everything to my husband!"
...
Another month passed in the blink of an eye, and almost the entire Tianyun City spent it in a festive mood.
Because the one marrying Chen Changsheng this time was the former Palace Master of Mingyu Palace, the entire wedding was several times grander than the one with Luo Hao. Furthermore, most of the preparations were taken over by the elders and disciples of Mingyu Palace who had caught wind of the event.
After all, they were marrying off their old Palace Master. Now that she had broken through to the Nascent Soul realm and could be called an Ancestor, they couldn't afford to let her lose face.
Even if it cost a massive amount of resources, it had to be grand.
Thus, the whole city celebrated wildly for more than half a month.
The members of the Chen family couldn't stop grinning every day, asking everyone they met, "How did you know our Chen family now has three Nascent Soul Ancestors?"
However, this time, Chen Changsheng did not invite his chat group members. He had originally asked Luo Hao to return for a visit, but she declined, saying she was currently busy unifying Earth.
Meanwhile, after witnessing Chen Changsheng and Mu Qingling's wedding, Yan Qing quietly made up her mind that she must also break through to the Nascent Soul realm before marrying Chen Changsheng.
Clearly, she did not want to be inferior to Mu Qingling.
Chen Changsheng had no objections to this. After all, it would only take a few years at most for Yan Qing to fully digest her gains and break through to the Nascent Soul realm.
After the wedding ended, apart from spending time with his women at home and occasionally visiting Luo Hao, Chen Changsheng's days were spent solely on digesting his previous massive gains.
...
Half a year later, in the cultivation room, Chen Changsheng, who was sitting cross-legged, opened his eyes. Feeling his cultivation base that had already broken through to the second level of the Void Refinement realm, he sighed in his heart.
"Thanks to the gifts from the Greek gods."
After saying this, he suddenly remembered that more than half a year had passed, and it seemed his leeks were ready to be harvested again.
Previously, to break through to the second level of the Void Refinement realm, he had gone into a short secluded cultivation for three months. Now, it seemed the time had exceeded that by quite a bit.
Thinking of this, Chen Changsheng sent his divine sense into his inner Grotto-Heaven, only to be momentarily surprised by the changes within.
Soon after, Athena noticed Chen Changsheng's gaze and hurriedly came to his side.
"My Lord, you have arrived."
"Mm, Athena, it seems you have managed the Grotto-Heaven very well."
"This is all that Athena ought to do."
After Athena finished speaking, she raised her hand and brought out the Ring of Usurpation.
"My Lord, the Authority Crystals you ordered previously are all here."
Hearing this, Chen Changsheng reached out to take it and voiced his surprise.
"This many?"
At this moment, there were nearly a thousand Authority Crystals within the Ring of Usurpation. Based on the chat group's purchase price of 500,000 points per crystal, this amounted to nearly 500 million points.
Added to the points he had accumulated over the past half a year.
His total points were already approaching 600 million.
He was less than forty million points away from upgrading his Yin-Yang Holy Body to the fifth tier.
At this rate, the next time he harvested his leeks, he would be able to directly upgrade his Yin-Yang Holy Body.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement in his heart.
He wondered just how powerful a fifth-tier Yin-Yang Holy Body would be.
According to the chat group's grading system, this was highly likely to correspond to a level two major realms above the Dao Integration realm.
Would reaching the grand completion stage directly make him an immortal?
"My Lord, this is only half a year's amount. You are still far too kind to the Greek gods. In truth, there is no need to keep them in their peak states at all times; you merely need to keep them alive."
"Ah... when it comes to being ruthless, you really take the crown."
Chen Changsheng looked at Athena, who had uttered such terrifying words with a completely placid expression, and his mouth twitched. His divine sense swept over the Greek gods, only to find that every single one of them had a sluggish aura, seemingly maintained at an extremely precarious baseline.
"Isn't squeezing them like this a bit like draining the pond to catch the fish?"
"My Lord, there will be no issues in the short term. Even without the power of faith to heal them, these gods can recover naturally. It is just many times slower compared to absorbing the power of faith. As for the long term..."
Athena paused and looked up at Chen Changsheng.
"My Lord, would your subordinate be permitted to create life within your world? If they have a new source for the power of faith by then, their recovery speed should become much faster."
"Oh? Will that be alright?"
"Naturally, it will be fine. When the time comes, your subordinate will weave the mythology very well."
As Athena spoke, a wicked smile appeared on the corner of her lips, though it did nothing to conceal her perfect, divine beauty.
However, Chen Changsheng had grown somewhat desensitized to this, as there were truly quite a lot of beautiful women around him.
"I'll leave it in your hands then, Athena. Do whatever you wish."
After Chen Changsheng said this, he departed under Athena's respectful gaze, taking nearly a thousand Authority Crystals with him.
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
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?!
iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.
