The voice came abruptly, kept very low.
It sounded like a thief, carrying a nervous guilt characteristic of someone up to no good.
He looked toward the source of the sound and found a faint firelight peeking out from behind a massive stalactite in a corner of the lava cave.
Someone is here?
Su Ji raised an eyebrow and concealed his aura, simultaneously suppressing the scorching dragon might exuding from his new spear.
Like the Windsong Sword, the divine artifact obscured its own brilliance.
Alright, from now on, this spear will be called the Fallen Dragon Spear.
Su Ji was too lazy to think of a better name anyway.
He was just about to leave.
But then he noticed that the surrounding environment looked somewhat unfamiliar.
It looked like the underground of the Dragon Lock Abyss, yet somewhat different.
Hmm?
Could such a huge change happen in just over four months?
Subsequently, Su Ji silently circled behind that massive stalactite.
Since there was someone here, he might as well ask for directions.
As he drew closer.
The scene before him made Su Ji pause slightly.
A young girl, looking no older than seventeen or eighteen, was squatting with her back to him next to a small campfire.
Several wet garments were hung over the fire, including two inner armors, one black and one white, which were being licked by the flames and emitting wisps of steam.
The girl clearly had not noticed his arrival. She reached out a slender hand, carefully took down the dried white inner armor, and shook off the dust.
She slowly slipped the inner armor on, her slender arms reaching behind her neck, just about to tie the strings.
Her movements suddenly paused. She looked down at the faintly visible black lotus pattern on the skin of her chest, her eyes staring blankly.
Su Ji's appearance did not stir up even the slightest breeze.
Until he spoke.
"Who are they?"
The girl's body stiffened violently, and the half-tied string slipped from her fingertips.
Like a frightened deer, she spun around with lightning speed. A gleaming short dagger had somehow appeared in her hand, and she stared at Su Ji with a face full of vigilance.
When she clearly saw Su Ji's harmless face and his extremely ordinary outer sect disciple uniform, the wariness on her face faded slightly.
Replacing it was extreme shame and indignation.
"You?!"
An uncontrollable blush spread all the way from behind her fair ears to her cheeks.
"How did you get over here?"
"Didn't I set up a concealment array?"
Su Ji looked at the touching blush on the girl's face and was also taken aback.
The young girl before him had eyebrows like distant mountains, eyes like autumn water, a delicate nose, and cherry lips. Under the glow of the firelight, her skin was as lustrous as jade, beautiful beyond words.
Especially her current ashamed and angry demeanor, which added a bit of breathtaking charm.
A concealment array?
Only then did Su Ji belatedly spread out his divine sense.
Upon looking, he realized that there were indeed some extremely faint array fluctuations lingering around him. However, the array had long been shattered to pieces, looking like a spiderweb crushed by a giant beast, completely ruined.
As for his own cultivation base...
Su Ji looked inward. The glazed Dao foundation in his dantian was somewhat turbulent from having forcefully taken a spear strike from Hui Xing.
But the lake formed by the gathering of spiritual energy was more than ten times larger than before.
He had unknowingly reached the great circle of the Foundation Establishment realm.
He instantly understood.
In Hui Xing's space, he had borrowed the other party's power for a long time and fought a true immemorial fierce beast for over four months.
His horizons, his control over spiritual energy, and his comprehension of momentum had long been forcibly elevated to an unimaginable level.
So much so that when he walked out of the passage, he hadn't even noticed this concealment array, which seemed ridiculously crude to him.
Just like a person walking on the road wouldn't care if they stepped on an ant blocking their path.
Until someone told him.
Oh?
So I stepped on an ant?
Only by turning around and looking carefully could he realize that such a thing had happened.
"Ahem."
Su Ji coughed dryly, averted his gaze, and tried hard to make himself look a bit more upright.
Seeing that he didn't speak, the girl opposite him assumed he was silently admitting to peeping, and the blush on her face deepened.
She quickly threw on her outer robe to cover her exposed skin, then glared fiercely at Su Ji.
"Have you seen enough!"
Su Ji spread his hands, looking entirely innocent.
"You misunderstand, miss. I just came from over there and heard someone talking, so I came over to take a look."
As he spoke, he even made a show of looking around.
"How strange, I clearly heard a voice just now..."
The girl was momentarily stunned by his words, but then she reacted.
She was so angry that her chest heaved, and she gripped the short dagger in her hand even tighter.
"You!"
"Do you take me for a fool?!"
However, Su Ji acted as if he didn't see her murderous expression. He walked over on his own, squatted by the campfire, and reached out his hands to warm them.
"Sigh, I just went into secluded cultivation for half a year. How did this damn place change so much? How do I get out?"
He complained while sizing up the girl from the corner of his eye.
"Are you here alone, miss? You've got quite the nerve."
The girl was rendered speechless by his overly familiar, rogue-like behavior. She just couldn't understand how a Foundation Establishment cultivator with seemingly mediocre cultivation dared to act so brazenly in front of her.
She took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down.
This was the Phoenix Roost Gorge, fraught with danger. It was better to have one more friend than one more enemy.
Moreover, for the other party to be able to break her array without anyone noticing, his strength was definitely not as simple as it appeared on the surface.
"My name is Lin Ranyue. I am a disciple of the Five Immortals Holy Land."
The girl reported her name with a cold face, hoping the reputation of the Holy Land would deter the other party.
"Who might you be, fellow Daoist? Why have you appeared in this place?"
Su Ji spoke.
"Lovesick Sect, Su Ji."
He, Su Ji, had always been like this.
He never changed his name or hid his identity.
He mostly disdained doing things like giving a fake name out of fear of later retaliation.
Hearing the words Lovesick Sect, Lin Ranyue frowned slightly: "Are you really from the Lovesick Sect?"
Without a word, Su Ji pretended to reach into his robes, and then pulled out a handful of red beans from his storage ring.
"Want some?"
How should he put it regarding this stuff.
Su Jiu had placed three large vats of it inside the storage ring.
It did have the effect of assisting cultivation.
But the effect was extremely limited.
It was roughly similar to spiritual rice, generally eaten by Qi Condensation disciples, capable of increasing cultivation speed by twenty to thirty percent.
It could be considered a rather iconic item of the Lovesick Sect.
Lin Ranyue glanced at the red beans in Su Ji's hand.
Then, the displeasure in her eyes mostly vanished.
So it's a eunuch from the Lovesick Sect.
In that case, let him look.
Lin Ranyue asked tentatively, "Did Fellow Daoist Su come here for the Dragon Blood Stone too?"
"Dragon Blood Stone?"
Su Ji put on a surprised expression.
This wasn't an act.
Could it have been knocked out by him?
That wasn't the point. The point was that Su Ji directly stated his purpose: "I'm just lost. How do I get out of here now?"
Lin Ranyue: "..."
She felt like she was about to suffer internal injuries from being angered by this guy who didn't have a single word of truth in his mouth.
Just as she was preparing to expose Su Ji's clumsy lie.
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.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
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.”
