That eye exploded with a thunderous bang.
But in the next moment, bulges of flesh swelled up all over his cheeks, neck, arms, and chest.
The bulges split open.
Hundreds of pitch-black eyes opened at once.
Every single eye repeated the same sentence.
“You’re already dead.”
“You’re already dead.”
“You’re already dead!”
Xuanming threw back his head and roared.
Terrifying immortal might swept across the shattered immortal domain.
One galaxy after another hanging upside down in the void snapped apart.
Countless fragments of immortal palaces were reduced to dust.
The enormous shadow behind him roared as well.
But there was no pain in that roar.
Only excitement.
Wang Hao gripped the New Emperor Sword.
“Senior Dragon-Slaying Wanderer.”
The Dragon-Slayer looked at him.
“What are you planning?”
Wang Hao licked the blood from the corner of his mouth.
“Strike while he’s down.”
“Make him pay his debt.”
The Dragon-Slayer fell silent.
“I thought you were going to say you wanted his life.”
Wang Hao shook his head.
“What’s a life worth compared to money?”
The New Emperor Sword immediately chimed in.
“Exactly.”
“If we kill him, the debt might turn into a bad debt.”
The Dragon-Slayer had lived for seventeen thousand years.
This was the first time he had felt unable to keep up with the younger generation’s way of thinking.
He looked up at Xuanming.
The rusty woodcutter’s blade, stripped of its dragon-vein power, was once again clenched in his hand.
“How do we fight him?”
Wang Hao looked at the hundreds of eyes covering Xuanming’s body.
“Immortal Dao power can’t hurt those eyes.”
“But the anomalous artifact can.”
The New Emperor Sword trembled faintly.
“Master.”
“You’re not thinking of making a handsome, dashing, promising, and loyal sword like me bite that thing, are you?”
Wang Hao said, “Don’t you love fighting?”
“I love fighting.”
“But I don’t love delivering meals.”
“The way that thing looks at me is exactly like the way you look at the imperial treasury.”
Wang Hao’s face darkened.
“What’s wrong with the way I look at the imperial treasury?”
The New Emperor Sword muttered, “Like you’re looking at your own father.”
Wang Hao raised his hand and slapped the sword.
The blade hummed.
The aggrieved voice of the silver-haired youth rang out.
“Fine, hit me if you want.”
“But why does Master have to expose my secrets too?”
The Thunder Abyss Suppressing-Demon Pagoda appeared above Wang Hao’s head.
The doors of all nine levels trembled at once.
Thunder rumbled within the pagoda.
Especially on the ninth level.
Two purple thunder dragons opened their eyes.
Violent thunderous might spilled through the pagoda doors.
The Myriad Contracts Originating from One Seal appeared on Wang Hao’s left hand.
Three anomalous artifacts manifested simultaneously.
The hundreds of eyes on Xuanming’s body turned in unison.
Greed.
Fear.
Desire.
Three emotions appeared at once.
Wang Hao keenly caught the change.
“As expected.”
“Those eyes aren’t afraid of the Immortal Dao.”
“They’re afraid of their own kind.”
“And they want to devour their own kind.”
Wang Hao raised his hand.
The ninth level of the Thunder Abyss Suppressing-Demon Pagoda opened with a thunderous boom.
“Release!”
Roar!
A thousand-zhang purple thunder dragon shot out of the pagoda.
The thunder dragon did not attack Xuanming’s main body.
Instead, it charged straight at the dozens of eyes on his right arm.
Those eyes opened their rows of sharp teeth at the same time.
Tens of thousands of black threads shot out.
The purple thunder dragon was ensnared by the threads.
Its enormous body rapidly shrank.
They were actually devouring the thunder!
However, the instant all the black threads left Xuanming’s arm—
the Dragon-Slayer moved.
He crossed ten thousand miles in a single step.
The rusty woodcutter’s blade slashed toward Xuanming’s wrist.
There was no dragon’s roar.
No blade light.
Not even a spectacular phenomenon.
Only a dull sound of cutting.
The woodcutter’s blade sank three inches into Xuanming’s wrist.
True Immortal Xuanming looked over coldly.
“Without the power of the dragon veins…”
“You can’t even cut through this immortal’s skin.”
The Dragon-Slayer gripped the blade with both hands.
“It’s true that this old man has no power left.”
“But he does.”
Behind Xuanming—
Wang Hao had already appeared.
He was not moving quickly.
But the dim radiance released by the Myriad Contracts Originating from One Seal temporarily blocked the perception of the eyes covering Xuanming’s body.
Only now did Xuanming notice him.
Wang Hao raised his left palm.
The Transcendent Dao within his body roared into motion.
The national fortune of Great Xia surged in from every corner of the Nine Provinces.
Golden fortune condensed into an endless firmament.
“Heaven-Prisoning Earth-Covering Palm!”
The first palm descended.
Xuanming’s wrist sank slightly.
The second palm descended.
The space spanning ten thousand miles around the cracks in the immortal light collapsed at once.
The third palm!
The fourth palm!
The fifth palm!
The power of each palm continued to stack upon the one before it.
The five layers of palm force converged at a single point.
Then they slammed into the back of the Dragon-Slayer’s woodcutter’s blade.
Clang!
All the rust on the blade’s surface fell away.
A sharp edge that had slumbered for seventeen thousand years suddenly gleamed.
Slash!
Xuanming’s wrist was severed more than halfway through.
Silver-black immortal blood sprayed into the sky.
Dozens of anomalous eyes let out ear-piercing shrieks.
The New Emperor Sword in Wang Hao’s hand instantly transformed into a silver-haired youth.
His face was full of resistance.
Yet his body was remarkably honest as he lunged forward.
“I’m only going to take one bite!”
“I won’t eat another bite!”
The silver-haired youth wrapped his arms around one of the flying anomalous eyes.
Then he opened his mouth and bit down.
The fine teeth covering the eye bit toward his face at the same time.
One man and one eye began frantically biting each other in midair.
The silver-haired youth cried out in pain.
“Master!”
“It’s not playing fair!”
“It bit my face!”
Wang Hao remained expressionless.
“You’re biting it too.”
“That’s called fair exchange.”
A massive amount of black power surged into the New Emperor Sword from within the anomalous eye.
The silver patterns on the silver-haired youth’s body rapidly turned black.
His aura surged.
But signs of losing control began to appear as well.
The Myriad Contracts Originating from One Seal immediately lit up.
A contract seal landed on the silver-haired youth’s brow.
“Spit half of it out for me.”
The silver-haired youth clung tightly to the anomalous eye.
“I’ve already eaten it.”
“How can I spit it out?”
“I’ll burst!”
“Better to burst than starve!”
“Does the imperial treasury not provide you with food?”
“Can those scraps of metal and broken bronze be called food?”
The veins on Wang Hao’s forehead throbbed.
For a moment, he genuinely wanted to beat his own sword to death first.
But at that moment, Xuanming tore himself free from the Dragon-Slayer.
His immortal palm swept across the area.
Wang Hao and the Dragon-Slayer were blasted away at the same time.
Boom!
Wang Hao smashed through dozens of ruined peaks.
His already-collapsed chest cracked once more.
The bones inside him broke with a fresh snap.
His blood and qi churned violently.
The Dragon-Slayer’s condition was even worse.
His entire right arm had nearly been reduced to a mist of blood.
The woodcutter’s blade also flew from his grasp.
But Xuanming did not pursue them.
He lowered his head and looked at his wrist.
At the severed stump, the pitch-black tendrils of flesh that should have immediately regenerated were now tearing into one another.
Immortal Dao power tried to repair the wound.
The anomalous power, however, devoured the newly grown flesh.
The two forces lost their balance.
Xuanming’s entire arm began to mutate.
Some of the flesh turned into immortal metal.
Some grew tentacles.
Another portion transformed directly into tiny black figures that slaughtered one another within the wound.
[Target corruption progress: sixty-five percent!]
[Sixty-six percent!]
[Sixty-seven percent!]
Wang Hao lifted his head from the rubble.
“It works.”
The Dragon-Slayer clutched his severed arm.
“And then?”
Wang Hao was silent for a moment.
“Then it seems we’ve thoroughly enraged him.”
The Dragon-Slayer looked at Wang Hao.
Wang Hao said seriously, “Senior.”
“We should always look on the bright side.”
“At the very least, we’ve proven that this path works.”
The Dragon-Slayer asked, “Can we kill him?”
“Not for now.”
“Then where’s the bright side?”
“At least we’ll know exactly how we died.”
The Dragon-Slayer suddenly felt that perhaps he should never have agreed to Cangxu’s request to look after the descendants of humanity.
There were always some people among this race whose skin was tougher than an immortal body.
True Immortal Xuanming slowly rose to his feet.
Since descending, this was the first time he had stood up from within the shattered immortal domain.
As he moved,
the enormous shadow behind him rose to its full height as well.
It was larger than all the broken stars in the immortal domain put together.
Countless tentacles pierced into Xuanming’s back,
connecting him completely to the shadow.
Xuanming did not resist.
The shock and anger on his face gradually faded.
“This Immortal originally intended to preserve more of the immortal path.”
“To enter the Nine Provinces in a pure immortal body.”
“But since you’re all so eager to die…”
“This Immortal shall grant your wish.”
Within the shadow,
countless immortal corpses smiled at the same time.
Xuanming spread his arms,
allowing one black tentacle after another to burrow into his body.
His immortal body rapidly swelled.
Twelve pairs of pitch-black wings sprouted from his back.
A massive fissure split open across his chest.
There were no organs inside.
Instead, there was a shattered starry sky, slowly spinning.
Xuanming’s voice overlapped with that of the shadow,
resounding across both worlds.
“You thought…”
“That becoming aberrant was this Immortal’s weakness?”
“Wrong.”
“Pure immortals have long since perished.”
“Only by accepting the aberrant…”
“Can one cross the end of the immortal path.”
“This Immortal was not devoured by it.”
“This Immortal intends to…”
“Ascend to the ultimate realm together with it!”
The shadow suddenly contracted with a thunderous boom.
The entire shattered immortal domain fell into darkness.
The warning in Wang Hao’s mind shrieked at its highest pitch.
[Warning!]
[The target’s life form is undergoing a transition!]
[The immortal path and the aberrant are beginning to fuse deeply!]
[The current target is about to transform into—]
[Half-Immortal, Half-Aberration!]
Darkness engulfed the immortal domain.
All sound vanished at once.
There was no immortal might.
No aberrant whispering.
Not even the aura of True Immortal Xuanming remained.
Beyond the cracks in the immortal light,
only absolute silence was left.
Wang Hao felt not the slightest bit of relief.
The quieter it was,
the more dangerous it became.
The Thunder Abyss Suppression Tower hovered above his head.
The last remaining purple thunder dragon swam back and forth within the ninth level.
It seemed to have sensed some terrifying presence.
The thunder dragon, which had once been fierce and savage, actually curled itself into a ball.
It buried its head beneath its tail
and began pretending to be dead.
Wang Hao’s face darkened.
“Come out.”
The purple thunder dragon remained motionless.
“I saw you open your eyes.”
The purple thunder dragon secretly lifted one eyelid.
When it saw Wang Hao staring at it,
it immediately squeezed its eyes shut even tighter.
Wang Hao fell silent.
Putting aside the tower’s other abilities,
it had certainly inherited his talent for playing dead.
The silver-haired boy had already swallowed that aberrant eye.
At this moment, he was clutching his stomach and rolling around on the ground.
His left eye had turned silver,
while his right eye was pitch-black.
A row of tiny teeth occasionally pushed their way out from the right eye.
The silver-haired boy reached up and pressed down on his eyelid.
“Master.”
“I think I ate something that disagreed with me.”
Wang Hao stared at his eye.
“Your stomach grew on your face?”
The silver-haired boy froze.
“That actually makes sense.”
The next moment,
a mouth split open across his chest.
“Master.”
“This time, it really did grow on my stomach.”
Wang Hao kicked him back into sword form.
The Myriad Contracts Sharing One Source Seal transformed into chains that coiled around the surface of the New Emperor Sword.
“Digest it properly.”
“If you grow anything else, I’ll stuff you into the Thunder Abyss Suppression Tower.”
The purple thunder dragon inside the tower immediately raised its head.
Clearly, it did not welcome a new neighbor.
The New Emperor Sword also began vibrating violently.
“Master!”
“You can’t lock me up with that cowardly dragon!”
The thunder dragon was enraged.
So what if you had overeaten?
Why slander a dragon?
Thunderlight surged through the ninth level.
Silver-black sword qi also surfaced across the New Emperor Sword.
The two aberrant artifacts had not even faced an enemy yet,
but they were already preparing to fight each other.
Wang Hao raised his hand.
He smacked the tower once.
Then he smacked the sword once.
At last, the world fell silent.
The Dragon-Slayer dragged his battered body down beside Wang Hao.
His right arm had already vanished,
yet there was little pain on his face.
“Your weapons…”
“Are they always like this?”
Wang Hao shook his head.
“They’re even more embarrassing normally.”
For the first time, the Dragon-Slayer felt sympathy for the emperor.
Managing such utterly ridiculous weapons
was indeed no easy task.
Just then,
within the cracks in the immortal light,
an eye slowly opened.
The eye was enormous.
A single pupil alone occupied half the fissure.
The left half of the eye was a resplendent silver,
with countless immortal-path runes flowing through it.
The right half was pitch-black and unfathomably deep.
Within the pupil grew ring after ring of sharp teeth.
Silver and black.
Order and chaos.
The immortal path and the aberrant.
Two utterly opposing forces had reached a terrifying balance within that eye.
Boom!
The heavens and earth of the Nine Provinces suddenly trembled.
Countless living beings felt as though their hearts had been seized by an enormous hand.
Those with weaker cultivation collapsed to their knees.
It was not that they wanted to kneel.
It was the instinctive terror of life itself.
The dharma forms within Martial God Realm experts contracted on their own.
Even the remaining radiance of the Transcendent Great Dao rapidly dimmed at that moment.
The Transcendent Great Dao within Wang Hao’s body shook violently.
The national fortune of Great Xia transformed into a golden dragon and coiled behind him.
Only then was he barely able to withstand that suppression of the very level of life.
Xuanming emerged from the darkness.
His appearance remained that of a middle-aged man.
His figure even seemed more normal than before.
The eye on the back of his hand had vanished.
The tentacles behind him had disappeared as well.
But the left half of his body was a silvery immortal hue,
while the right half resembled a living shadow.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
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?"
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."
ts me of treason?" "Correct. The host must return to the capital and gradually build up influence." "Wait—I have half a million soldiers, and you want me to go back to the capital to 'build influence'?" "Host, you are currently the Northern Garrison General, loyal to the Great Xia Dynasty." "Of course I am loyal to Great Xia! Absolutely loyal!" "But you keep referring to yourself as 'We'..." "Never mind the details! Summon all the regional commanders and military officers! We suspect treacherous officials are manipulating the court! They shall march with Us to the capital and purge the corrupt!" "......"
