But before Su Ji even had time to catch his breath.
He felt the majestic power inside his body, which had supported him in fighting until this moment, rapidly dissipating like an ebbing tide.
The effect of "The Wind Ceases, the Will Remains" had ended.
A boundless sense of weakness instantly swept through his entire body.
His vision began to darken.
The thrill of wandering on the edge of destruction left him at this moment.
Taking its place was a piercing agony through his left shoulder, the dizziness of severe blood loss, and the emptiness of having his strength drained dry.
Clang...
Unable to maintain his grip any longer, the Fallen Dragon Spear and the Wind Chanting Sword slipped from his hands and crashed to the ground, letting out two crisp wails.
Su Ji's body swayed along with them, eventually collapsing forward powerlessly.
He lay on the ground, his consciousness beginning to blur.
He struggled to reach out, wanting to grasp the two weapons that had accompanied him through the slaughter.
Yet, that distance of a mere half-palm felt as if it spanned an entire world.
He was utterly powerless.
Before his consciousness completely sank into darkness, a thought quietly surfaced in his mind.
Speaking of which...
Did the original owner of this Destiny harbor the same feelings as he did right now when they fell?
The wind ceases, but the will remains...
The pale gray world shattered with a boom.
...
Inside the hall with the collapsed doors.
Su Ji suddenly snapped his eyes open.
He looked down at his hands.
He lost.
Even with the blessing of "The Wind Ceases, the Will Remains," he still lost.
Su Ji's expression turned incredibly ugly.
Did the malice have to be this deep...
Two Soul Formation cultivators...
Were actually just elite mobs?
Su Ji suddenly somewhat understood what it meant when people said a cultivator's Dao heart shattered and they fell into despair.
It wasn't that they were too fragile.
It was that reality was too despairing.
How was he supposed to play this?
An unprecedented sense of powerlessness welled up in Su Ji's heart.
He had always thought that his greatest enemies were those two old Soul Formation monsters in charge of registration.
After all that, they were only elite mobs?
And there was a fucking Boss behind them?
From that brief final exchange, it was easy to see that even if he constantly maintained the Destiny's amplification, he was no match for the opponent.
Thinking carefully, it made sense.
How could two guys in charge of registration be crucial big shots?
Right at this moment.
"First time breaking through to the Golden Core stage. You have obtained one Destiny draw opportunity."
Su Ji froze for a moment.
...
Destiny 1: Anchor of the Heart - Return
Destiny Grade: Red
Effect: When you fight to return "home," the more desperate the predicament, the harder it is to stop you.
Description: With a heart, you will not be lonely, and with a heart, you cannot bear a sorrowful ending. Whether plunging into the ocean or stepping into the abyss, nothing can stop me from returning home!
...
Destiny 2: Immortal Severance
Destiny Grade: Red
Effect: The closer you are to death, the sharper your sword arts will become.
Description: I still... cannot fall... here...
...
Destiny 3: Little Deer Reminder Assistant
Destiny Grade: White
Effect: You will receive a little deer alarm clock. It will remind you "it is time" at the time you set.
...
Shattered Destiny 4: A Selfless and Flawless Journey (2/10)
Destiny Grade: Red
Description: This Destiny is a shattered fragment of the Chromatic Destiny "Perfect Victory, All Things As I Wish."
Passive Effect 1: Makes you appear more selfless.
Passive Effect 2: Makes it easier for you to draw shattered Destinies from "Perfect Victory, All Things As I Wish."
Special Effect: When you are embroiled in a battle for the "greater good," you will receive a massive boost to your Karmic Luck.
...
The first Destiny, Anchor of the Heart - Return, probably meant shouting about family and bonds before instantly one-shotting someone?
But the word "home" was a bit blurry for Su Ji.
The second, Immortal Severance, had a simple and brutal effect: the closer to death, the stronger the sword arts.
This was quite good and fit his current predicament perfectly.
The third, Little Deer Reminder Assistant...
Su Ji ignored it completely.
With his status, why would he need a little deer alarm clock?
Su Ji's gaze eventually returned to the fourth option.
A Selfless and Flawless Journey.
Passive Effect 1: Makes you appear more selfless.
The moment Su Ji saw this line, his eyes lit up.
Make him appear... more selfless?
This fucking thing... was practically a divine skill tailor-made for him!
His mind instantly conjured up countless devious maneuvers.
In the future, when he went out to extort and blackmail, couldn't he put on the saintly face of "I'm doing this for your own good"?
When he sold people out, wouldn't they have to turn around and help him count the money with tears of gratitude?
It was just...
The arrangement of these Destinies...
Was already dropping obvious hints, right...
But Su Ji felt...
Even if he chose it, the hope was slim...
That man who appeared at the very end was at least two and a half major cultivation realms higher than him...
Whoever wanted to go deal with that could be his guest.
...
In a flash, three days passed.
Su Jiu felt that something was very wrong with Su Ji.
Over these three days, aside from unfailingly sneaking into her courtyard at night under the beautiful pretext of "consolidating the treatment's effects"—where he would place her on the ground, a stone table, or a windowsill for a bout of healing—she practically couldn't catch a single glimpse of his shadow during the rest of the day.
That heartless, punchable smile on his face had also vanished.
His whole person exuded an aura of being completely unenthusiastic about everything.
Of course, this wasn't the most crucial point.
The most crucial point was that Su Jiu felt Su Ji had been somewhat absent-minded during their last two healing sessions.
It felt more like he was just going through the motions to get it over with quickly.
Not that she cared about that.
This was an act Su Ji had forced upon her to begin with.
But seeing the big picture through these small details, she couldn't shake the feeling that Su Ji was hiding something weighing on his mind.
Thus, Su Jiu decided to go find him and ask him clearly.
She first went to that luxurious sect master's hall, but it was completely empty, leaving only a floor full of mess and the collapsed doors.
She then went to the back mountain, checked where Li Fan stayed, and even searched the martial arena where sect disciples usually sparred.
Still, there was no sign of him.
This guy had seemingly vanished into thin air.
tions: attribute allocation, analysis, proficiency, and simulation. Specializing in mechanical alchemy, from crafting sorcerous battle armor to handcrafting mechanical maidens, his mechanical legion conquers endless realms... Relying on his wits, he begins with a student-teacher romance, wins over a female director, enslaves a female assassin and a underworld queen, becoming the husband of a Grand Duchess... He enslaves the Goddess of Magic from the divine realm, developing his power simultaneously in both the Wizard World and the Realm of Gods...
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.”
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
【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.)
