It was as if she had grown up in a fleeting moment.
The girl's youthful innocence had suddenly diminished, no longer carefree and naive, replaced by a slightly heavy sense of loneliness.
She was about to leave.
Carrying only her spear and a bundle, she set off alone on her journey back.
"..."
Tonight, the moonlight was bright, and the stars twinkled, forming a dazzling pattern in the sky, as if a grand spectacle was watching over the girl's growth.
Wu Yingxue looked up at the night sky, her eyes glistening, and asked Xu Xi one last question.
"Sir, how many stars are there in the Milky Way?"
"Probably several billion, or maybe even more."
So many?
The girl was clearly startled by this number.
"If I had the time, I’d love to count them all one by one…" she said, her words tinged with a naive charm, as she tightened her spear and bundle to prevent them from falling.
With a light leap, her spirited figure jumped onto the rooftop.
Her cloth shoes made the tiles clatter.
Under Xu Xi's gaze.
The girl suddenly turned back, giving him a radiant smile, so bright and beautiful that it seemed to light up the night sky, dispelling the earlier heaviness.
Her eyes were as clear as crescent moons, and her voice as pure as flowing water.
Her hands were clasped behind her back.
She stood on tiptoe.
"Mr. Xu, please live well in this world where good and evil are indistinguishable."
The girl's farewell was peculiar, and after saying this, she immediately used her qinggong (lightness skill) and swiftly disappeared into the thick night.
Such a farewell was something Xu Xi had never seen before—so vibrant and lively.
Had the girl suddenly changed her nature?
No.
Xu Xi thought it was more accurate to say that the 16-year-old girl had finally shed her disguise, revealing her true self.
"She’s gone, and it’s time to return to the thrilling script of battling heaven and earth."
Xu Xi gazed at the night sky for a long time.
Suddenly, he chuckled softly and turned back into the house.
Wu Yingxue's arrival had been an accident, and he believed that after this, the two of them would hardly cross paths again.
Xu Xi prepared to return to his previous life, gradually venturing deeper into the region of the Hundred Thousand Mountains, relying on life-and-death battles and real combat to continuously refine his martial arts and techniques.
In addition.
The annual spring and winter demon tides in Qingniu Town were also a target he needed to take seriously, as they were beneficial for honing his skills in group combat.
...
[Time passed, and after her injuries healed, Wu Yingxue, who had been staying at your place, left.]
[The young princess carried a strange accusation on her shoulders, which weighed heavily on her heart, and she was determined to uncover the truth.]
[You watched her disappear into the night, silently offering her a few words of blessing.]
[Your life returned to its peaceful rhythm, back to the solitary martial arts routine you had before the girl appeared.]
[Training, combat, more training, more combat.]
[Your life was a two-point line, and though the process was painful and torturous, your persistence paid off. Your strength improved every day, greatly boosting your confidence and forming a positive cycle.]
Gathering strength, charging forward, throwing a punch, and decisively crushing the enemy!
In the region near the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
Xu Xi's figure flashed, his feet stomping heavily on the ground as he dashed forward at an almost imperceptible speed, closing in on a tiger demon.
His five fingers spread open, moving from top to bottom.
"Boom!" His palm pressed against the tiger demon's head, slamming it into the ground with such force that a crater formed, sending dust and sand flying and shaking the leaves off hundreds of trees.
"Roar!!!"
The tiger demon, suffering from the heavy blow, roared in anger, struggling to rise. But the figure suppressing it erupted with even more intense energy, wielding a blade that unleashed a thunderous roar, cleanly severing the tiger demon's head.
The battle was over.
Xu Xi had emerged victorious.
He stood still, his eyes slightly closed, replaying the previous battle in his mind:
"Whether it’s fist techniques or blade techniques, under the dual influence of persistence and martial practice, they’ve all evolved from their original forms."
"《Qi and Blood Long Fist》has become《Qi and Blood Tyrant Fist》."
"《Five Thunder Blade》has become《Nine Thunder Blade》."
"But—"
Xu Xi shook his head: "It’s too low. The martial arts techniques I obtained from the real world have a starting point that’s far too low."
"There aren’t many martial arts experts in the real world, and powerful manuals are even rarer."
"Even with the help of martial practice, the evolution of these techniques is extremely inefficient in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"If I could find some decent martial arts techniques and then use martial practice to evolve them, that would be true invincibility."
The question was:
Where could he find sufficiently excellent and high-level martial arts techniques?
The only lead Xu Xi could think of.
Was Wu Yingxue, who had already left.
But he had already asked, and the martial arts techniques the girl practiced were all special types restricted to the royal bloodline, and they were all incomplete.
For royal descendants like Wu Yingxue, only after breaking through to a new realm could they obtain the subsequent parts of their techniques.
This was one of the measures the Great Qian Dynasty used to prevent the leakage of their techniques.
"Never mind, it’s not a big deal."
"Martial arts techniques are just external methods; qi, blood, and the body are the core principles."
"Time will bring me the answers I seek. Even if I can’t obtain high-level martial arts techniques, through persistence and martial practice, I can still achieve greater martial prowess."
"In the future, when my own realm improves, creating my own martial arts won’t be impossible."
Xu Xi shook the tiger blood off his palm and took a few steps back.
With one hand, he grabbed the tiger demon’s thick tail.
He slung it over his shoulder and, step by step, dragged the heavy corpse back to Qingniu Town, leaving a long, dark trail behind him.
Most demon flesh was inedible, but this tiger demon happened to fall into the edible category.
"Ah, it’s Brother Xi coming back!"
"This lad is such a good person. Niu, go help your Brother Xu."
"Alright, Mom, I’m on it!"
The autumn and winter seasons had arrived.
The weather had turned cold, and food was scarce.
Xu Xi ventured into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and while honing his martial skills, he would engage in battles to obtain large amounts of demon flesh.
These demons, for some reason, were all massive in size, many as large as houses.
Xu Xi killed demons every day.
Every day, he obtained new demon flesh.
Naturally, he couldn’t eat all of it alone, so he often shared the demon meat with the people of Qingniu Town.
After all, when he first arrived in Qingniu Town, many had helped him.
"The situation in Qingniu Town is getting worse every year."
"This year’s winter demon tide hasn’t even truly begun, and it’s already reached last year’s scale. If this continues, it’s hard to imagine what will happen."
Xu Xi sighed as he handed the tiger demon’s corpse to Niu for butchering.
He gazed toward the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where even in the desolate and bleak autumn and winter, the deep, oppressive blackness of the endless mountain ranges remained undiminished, exuding a terrifying sense of dread.
It pressed down on the Great Qian Dynasty.
It pressed down on countless towns like Qingniu.
It pressed down on everyone living on the border.
Xu Xi had a premonition that, perhaps, it wouldn’t be long before a great storm would come crashing down.
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
iving with nine beautiful women. [Ding! Welcome back to the Joyous Sect, Host…] Lin Yu: ??? I’m clearly in a shared rental, but you’re saying I’m in the Joyous Sect? Watering plants is now [Tending to Spiritual Flora]? Cooking becomes [Researching Elixirs]? Making the bed turns into [Setting Up Formations]? A gentle and innocent auntie, twin classmates, a mysterious hacker girl on leave, a severely socially anxious artist, an elementary school Chinese teacher, a community hospital nurse, a pet shop owner, an antique clock restorer… This system… is kinda interesting.
