Su Ji had never felt death so close to him before.
The water in the bathtub still retained a bit of warmth.
But his whole body was ice - cold.
His blood was almost frozen by the substantial killing intent.
Su Jiu under the water hadn't gotten up yet.
But Su Ji could clearly sense that a terrifying aura was brewing.
Just waiting for a moment, it could incinerate him and this wooden cabin to ashes.
This time, it was really over.
Even the blood oath could only save his brother, not his own life.
However, as you've seen before, in a life - and - death crisis, Su Ji's on - the - spot reaction and survival skills were top - notch.
Begging for mercy?
It was useless.
Making an explanation?
Even more useless. Could he say that it was just human nature and he couldn't control it?
That would only lead to a quicker death.
The only way out...
Su Ji suddenly remembered the colorful destiny he had just upgraded not long ago.
"Beauty is like jade, and the divine spear pierces the path!"
[Effect 2: A two - way binding can be added. Your improvement in cultivation and comprehension of the Dao heart will also feed back to the other party. There is a probability that the other party will achieve a breakthrough at the most urgent bottleneck (it needs to be triggered actively and can only be triggered once every seven days).]
There was no time to hesitate.
This might be the only chance he could create before he opened his mouth to beg for mercy!
Su Ji immediately activated the characteristic of his destiny.
An inexplicable and mysterious power flowed towards Su Jiu along the connection between them.
This was Su Ji's last straw to clutch at. Whether he could grasp it or not all depended on fate!
...
Under the bathtub, Su Jiu's mind was consumed by anger.
There was only one thought left in her mind.
She must beat Su Ji, that bastard, until he was on the verge of death to vent her anger!
However, just as she was about to mobilize her demonic power and break through the water, a gentle force suddenly emerged from the deepest part of her body without warning.
Immediately afterwards, the burning sensation in her dantian and qi sea, which was caused by the medicinal bath, suddenly increased a hundred or a thousand times!
Something was wrong!
This hot current was definitely not something those medicinal herbs could provide!
It was more like a lit sun exploding in her body, and the scorching energy was frantically flushing through her limbs and bones!
Su Jiu's killing intent was forcefully suppressed by this sudden change.
She stared in shock at her own internal state.
Then, something that was beyond her comprehension and even subverted the cognition of the Nine - Tailed Sky Fox clan happened.
The seemingly unchanging Nine - Tailed Sky Fox bloodline in her body...
Was actually...
Evolving...
It wasn't the previous kind of bloodline awakening degree.
It was the origin of the bloodline.
The level of life and the future upper limit.
They actually began to slowly improve!
Bloodline purity was the brand engraved on a living being at birth.
It was the fundamental factor that determined whether one was a "fox", a "sky fox", or "how many tails" one had.
Not to mention her, even the brilliant ancestor in the fox clan's history books had exhausted his entire life but still failed to improve his own bloodline purity!
The "Nine - Glow Nine - Revolving Moon - Devouring Record" that she had been dreaming of could only increase the awakening speed of the bloodline, not the essence of the bloodline purity.
For example, the bloodline awakening degree was just like making a young flood dragon grow into an adult one, and the combat power increased from one to a hundred.
The reason why she pursued it so much was that although she was an adult according to human age, she was still a young fox in the growth cycle of the Nine - Tailed Sky Fox.
She needed to race against time.
To accelerate the awakening speed of her bloodline.
However, bloodline purity was like making a flood dragon transform into a dragon!
The two couldn't be confused at all.
If her bloodline purity was high enough, she could even surpass her ancestors and reach an unprecedented realm!
In the face of such a heaven - defying opportunity.
What did personal emotions matter?
Su Jiu's boiling killing intent subsided within just one breath.
She could clearly feel that the source of the power that improved her bloodline purity was the mouthful of... strangely - flavored medicinal bath that she had been forced to swallow just now!
Her bloodline in her body was leaping with excitement and crazily craving for more!
Following this instinct from the deepest part of her true spirit.
Su Jiu's anger quietly faded away, and what replaced it was a kind of greed that made Su Ji's scalp tingle.
Now, all she wanted was...
"Gulp."
Su Ji was holding his breath and waiting for the judgment of fate.
His heart skipped a beat.
He had already prepared himself to be beaten half - paralyzed by Su Jiu with a single palm.
However, the expected thunderous rage didn't come.
Instead...
"Ah... Stop! It's... "
...
Half an hour later, a fair and jade - like hand slowly reached out from under the water and rested on the edge of the bathtub.
Then, Su Jiu's head emerged from the water.
The misty water vapor blurred her face.
Her long hair was wet and stuck to her cheeks, and a pair of moist eyes were staring directly at Su Ji.
There was no killing intent, nor the usual coldness.
That look... was very complicated.
"Su Ji... Are you really someone sent by an imperial clan for trials?"
Su Ji was a bit confused by the sudden jump in the topic: "What?"
Su Jiu wiped the corner of her mouth: "About what happened today."
"You must keep it a secret."
Su Ji was overjoyed: "Junior sister, aren't you angry?"
Su Jiu still looked complicated: "If you mention it again, I'll get angry."
"Get out of here. I'm going to practice."
[Having a conversation with Su Jiu, meeting the aesthetic standard, triggers a love option.]
[Option 1: Curiously ask, Junior sister, was the medicinal bath delicious? (Reward: Su Jiu goes berserk and beats you half - paralyzed)]
[Option 2: Curiously ask, Junior sister, why did you drink the second mouthful of the medicinal bath? (Reward: Su Jiu goes berserk and beats you half - paralyzed)]
[Option 3: Curiosity kills the cat. Just get out quickly (Reward: Su Jiu's favorability +1 (Current Su Jiu's favorability: 52))]
[Permanent option: (Can't sacrifice the sword when the favorability is greater than 50) (Current number of kills: 0)]
Huh?
When did the favorability reach 52?
It rose so fast!
No wonder he managed to save his life.
After thinking it over, Su Ji also understood.
After all, this wasn't a game.
The change in favorability didn't have to wait until the next option appeared.
All his actions during this period could cause changes in favorability.
But there was no direct prompt.
Presumably, it had increased a lot during the Heavenly Dao Secret Realm.
Otherwise, it would be hard to explain the scene in "Peering into Destiny" where Su Jiu took him out at the cost of serious injury.
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.
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
【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.”
