Lin Ranyue instinctively wanted to warn Su Ji.
The Kuitian Holy Land was a colossal entity on par with the Five Immortals Holy Land, truly standing at the pinnacle of the Great Xia cultivation world.
The dozen or so people before them all had restrained auras and vigorous spiritual power.
The cold and stern young man leading them, in particular, gave her an unfathomable sense of oppression.
He was definitely not someone an ordinary Golden Core cultivator could compare to.
But before the words could leave her mouth, she saw the deeply interested expression on Su Ji's face.
That look didn't seem like he had encountered a strong enemy, but rather... like he had seen something amusing.
As soon as this thought popped up, Lin Ranyue herself was startled.
"You two, did you not hear me?"
Seeing the two remain silent, Tang Silang assumed they were scared silly by the Holy Land's name, and the curve of his mouth grew increasingly contemptuous.
"Alright, alright, Third Elder Tang, there are no outsiders here, stop speaking so self-righteously. Who are you putting on a show for?"
The alluring woman beside him covered her lips and chuckled, her voice soft and bone-melting: "Hand over this vile beast, and offer up the spear in your hand, and I can make the call to spare your lives."
"Although our Third Elder Tang is ruthless and hypocritical, I keep my word. My willingness to let you off is already a massive blessing, so don't be unappreciative."
The two of them echoed each other, using both the carrot and the stick, clearly believing they had Su Ji and Lin Ranyue completely in their grasp.
How should one put it.
Taking down this Thunderfire Wyrm would have been absolutely no problem for them.
Even if it was tainted with dragon aura, it was ultimately only at the late Golden Core stage.
They were merely wary of its dying counterattack, which would cause them to expend more spiritual energy and affect their major task of searching for the true dragon.
Therefore, they heavily injured it and left it there without further care.
But that didn't mean others could casually swoop in and steal their loot.
After all, the true dragon might not necessarily be found.
But the Thunderfire Wyrm was a tangible harvest.
Lin Ranyue's heart sank to the bottom.
She had already quietly clutched a teleportation talisman, preparing to burn her essence blood to run away.
As for Su Ji... she could only hope he'd be lucky.
After all, they had only met by chance.
Who knew, Su Ji finally reacted.
He looked as if he had just snapped back to reality. First, he made a great show of picking his ear, and then he slowly spoke.
"Which Holy Land? Kuitian Holy Land? Oh... I have some impression of it."
Tang Silang frowned.
What kind of attitude was this kid showing?
Su Ji ignored him, instead acting as if he had remembered something.
"Ah, speaking of the Kuitian Holy Land, I happen to have something to ask."
He took two steps forward, a warm smile on his face, looking as if he had run into an old townsman he hadn't seen for years.
"Does your Holy Land have someone named... what was it again? Oh, I don't think I know his name either. Anyway, there's an elder, right? Did he recently go out, get beaten up, and end up owing money?"
As soon as these words came out, the expressions of Tang Silang and the woman changed simultaneously.
The fact that the First Elder returned in a sorry state, heavily injured, and owing a massive debt was no longer a secret among the higher-ups of the Holy Land.
However, because this matter concerned the Holy Land's face, it was strictly sealed off. Ordinary disciples had no way of knowing.
How did this Foundation Establishment realm kid in front of them know?
Tang Silang's eyes instantly darkened, and a faint murderous intent firmly locked onto Su Ji.
"Where did you hear this rumor?"
Su Ji, however, acted as if he didn't feel that killing intent, still smiling mischievously.
"Don't be nervous, I'm just asking casually."
"It seems you guys do know."
"Then things are easy to handle."
"Since you are from the Kuitian Holy Land, paying off debts is perfectly justified, right?"
"Your First Elder owes me one million top-grade spirit stones."
"Are you here to pay off his debt for him?"
"..."
The entire lava cave fell into a dead silence.
Only the bubbling sound of churning magma in the distance could be heard.
Lin Ranyue's eyes widened completely, her small mouth slightly open, almost wide enough to fit an egg inside.
One million... top-grade spirit stones?
Did he have some misunderstanding about top-grade spirit stones?
After a brief dead silence.
"Pfft..."
That charming woman was the first to lose control, laughing so hard she trembled all over, the curves of her chest heaving.
"Giggle... Third Elder Tang, this kid... is he an idiot?"
"This incident has been over for more than four months, and the actual people from the Xiangsi Sect haven't even dared to come knocking to ask for it."
"Who knows if this kid heard it from the Xiangsi Sect, and now he wants to use their name to bluff us?"
Third Elder Tang burst into laughter, looking at Su Ji as if he were looking at a grandstanding clown.
It was true that the Kuitian Holy Land owed one million.
But it was also true that no one from the Xiangsi Sect dared to come and collect it.
The Five Great Holy Lands had stood for ten thousand years without falling; their foundations were not something ordinary sects could comprehend.
Many elders even suspected that the First Elder had colluded with the Xiangsi Sect to line his own pockets.
After all, how could the Holy Land's spirit stones be as sweet as one's own?
Third Elder Tang completely lost his patience.
"Take him down!"
"Kill the man, as for the woman..."
He glanced at Lin Ranyue's breathtakingly beautiful face, a flash of lechery passing through his eyes. "Keep her. I just happened to pick up a Soft Bone Technique, and I'm exactly missing someone to help me test it."
"Yes!"
Two men at the mid-Golden Core stage responded and stepped out, transforming into two streaks of light, flanking Su Ji from the left and right.
Lin Ranyue's heart tightened, and she was just about to activate her talisman.
Su Ji, however, unhurriedly raised his hand.
"Wait!"
Those two disciples instinctively halted their movements, looking at him with some confusion.
Su Ji sighed and fished out a jade slip from his storage ring, looking as if he were very distressed.
"Why don't you believe me?"
"I told you that you owe me money, and you still attack. Is there no cultivation law anymore?"
He casually tossed the jade slip toward Tang Silang.
"See for yourselves."
Tang Silang instinctively reached out and caught it, sending his divine sense into it.
The next moment.
The mockery and impatience on his face instantly froze.
Replaced by extreme shock and... disbelief.
Imprinted on the jade slip was a visual recording.
In the recording, a middle-aged man dressed in the elder's attire of the Kuitian Holy Land, looking extremely battered, was kneeling on the ground with a face full of humiliation, reading out the contents of an IOU word by word.
"Due to improper conduct, the Kuitian Holy Land has caused the Xiangsi Sect to suffer massive losses. The sect's main hall was destroyed, the Sect Master unfortunately passed away, and the mental anguish is immeasurable..."
"...After friendly negotiations between both parties, the Kuitian Holy Land voluntarily compensates the Xiangsi Sect with one million top-grade spirit stones to make amends. To be paid in ten monthly installments of one hundred thousand. If there is any delay..."
And at the end of the recording, the middle-aged man even used his own essence blood to brand the jade slip with the unique emblem of the Kuitian Holy Land, which was composed of cloud patterns and gears.
On the emblem, the unique divine soul aura of the First Elder still lingered.
It couldn't be faked.
It was real!
Tang Silang only felt a buzz in his brain as it went completely blank.
"How is it?" Su Ji's leisurely voice drifted over, breaking him out of his daze.
"Did you see it clearly?"
"Do you want me to read it to you again?"
Tang Silang jerked his head up, his eyes revealing a look of horror for the first time.
He stared dead at Su Ji, his voice even changing pitch.
"You... you are the new Sect Master of the Xiangsi Sect?!"
The mysterious man who had slain the former sect master and forced the Great Elder to flee in disgrace?!
The smile on the charming woman beside him had long since vanished, replaced by a look of grave solemnity.
The two of them exchanged a glance.
"Why is he only at the peak of Foundation Establishment? Could his cultivation base be higher than mine, making it impossible for me to see through him?"
"He looks like he is at the peak of Foundation Establishment to me, too."
"What should we do? Do we fight?"
"No fighting. We can test him a bit, but we must not delay our main task of finding the True Dragon."
The two had spent years working together, engaging in shady dealings and double-crossing their own people.
They read each other's intentions almost instantly.
"Hmph, a mere jade slip! Who knows if you used some trick to forge it!"
Tang Silang shouted.
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!
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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."
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
