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.
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?!
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)
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.
