A hazy ripple spread outward from the center of the exploding spray of water without warning.
Immediately afterward, thick white mist, dense enough to seem almost solid, swept in from all directions like a living creature and swallowed the three of them whole.
“Cough, cough! What’s going on?”
Wang Ping choked and coughed repeatedly. He waved his arms, trying to disperse the dense fog before him, but it was as viscous as paste and utterly impossible to wave away.
Within just a few breaths, visibility dropped to less than three feet.
The brilliant starlight was completely cut off. The platform beneath their feet became hazy and indistinct, and all around them was nothing but a vast expanse of white where they could barely see their own hands.
Even more bizarrely, the spiritual sense that cultivators relied on for survival seemed to sink into a quagmire within the mist. It could extend less than ten feet before being snuffed out by some invisible force.
“Fellow Daoists?” A trace of barely perceptible panic crept into Wang Ping’s voice. He didn’t dare move recklessly and could only call out tentatively, “Are you there?”
“Over here.”
Su Ji’s voice came from his left, as calm as ever.
Su Jiu quickly answered as well, though her voice held a hint of nervousness. Almost instinctively, she edged closer to Su Ji.
Hearing their replies, Wang Ping felt somewhat reassured.
But the solemn look on his face did not lessen in the slightest.
“This isn’t right. Something’s very wrong…” he muttered, as though speaking to Su Ji—or perhaps trying to convince himself.
“What is it?” Su Jiu couldn’t help asking.
“This mist… shouldn’t exist!” Wang Ping’s speech suddenly quickened, and his voice rose several pitches. “I’ve entered this place three times, and I’ve never seen mist like this! The spiritual energy in the outer waters is the most stable of all. How could something like this…”
He broke off halfway through.
The next second, he let out a scream.
“Impossible!”
“Absolutely impossible!”
His voice had warped under the weight of his shock.
“The platform beneath us is collapsing…”
“So what if it’s collapsing? Do you think shouting will make it collapse later?” Su Ji’s voice drifted over, as indifferent as ever.
Wang Ping was briefly struck speechless, but he had no time to quibble.
“Daoist Su, you don’t understand!” he cried anxiously, practically ready to jump. “This Star-Sea Wonder is, in essence, an independent space sustained by a core treasure! Only after the core treasure’s power is exhausted will the spiritual energy in this space begin to run amok, and then the entire space will collapse completely after two and a half days!”
“But what about now?” Wang Ping’s voice trembled. “From the moment the wonder opened until now, less than half an hour has passed!”
“What does that mean? It means something major has definitely changed!”
“But how is that possible?! Even if a Mahayana cultivator came here, the platform couldn’t collapse this quickly! The fastest record in the past was still two and a half days!”
Su Jiu’s heart tightened. “Then… what will happen to us?”
“We’ll die!” Wang Ping practically roared. “Once the space begins to collapse, all the vicious beasts in the sea will become unbelievably violent! When that happens, it won’t just be the outer waters—the entire Star Sea will turn into a living hell!”
After saying this, he seemed to realize that he had lost control of himself. He took several deep breaths and forcibly calmed down.
“No, I can’t panic…”
“It’s only mist. There has to be a way to deal with it!”
As if he needed to prove how experienced he was, Wang Ping stomped hard and rapidly formed hand seals before his chest.
“Wind, arise!”
At his low command, a whirlwind appeared from thin air. It swept up the stardust scattered across the ground and howled toward the dense mist.
He intended to use the wind to blow away the strange fog.
However, an astonishing scene unfolded.
The whirlwind was powerful enough to send boulders flying, yet the moment it plunged into the mist, it vanished without a trace, like a mud cow sinking into the sea.
The dense fog did not even ripple.
“…”
Wang Ping froze in place.
It was over.
Even the most basic Five Elements spell had failed.
This mist was not ordinary mist at all!
Watching this, Su Jiu instinctively tightened her grip on Su Ji’s sleeve.
Su Ji patted the back of her hand, signaling for her to stay calm.
He gazed at the dense mist before him and sighed.
He was used to this by now.
Wherever he went, trouble seemed to follow.
Su Ji casually raised his right hand and snapped his fingers.
“Snap.”
A soft sound rang out.
A cluster of dark-red flames silently ignited on his fingertip.
The flame was tiny, no larger than a bean.
Yet the instant it appeared, the viscous mist around them seemed to encounter its natural nemesis. Like snow before a blazing sun, it rapidly retreated, automatically clearing a space around them.
Just like that, a completely safe zone roughly ten feet in diameter formed with ease.
Wang Ping: “…”
He stared wide-eyed at the dancing flame on Su Ji’s fingertip, then at the mist that had been forced back around them…
What…
What the hell kind of technique was that?!
He had just formed hand seals and channeled his spiritual power for all he was worth, and the result had been completely useless.
But this man had solved the problem with a single snap of his fingers?
Just who was he?
Wang Ping suddenly felt that all the little schemes he had been entertaining earlier were laughable beyond belief.
Su Jiu, on the other hand, hadn’t thought that far. She only felt that her senior brother was incredibly impressive, and her almond-shaped eyes sparkled with adoration.
“All right, let’s go.”
Su Ji lowered his hand, but the flame did not go out. Instead, it transformed into a ball of light that hovered quietly above the three of them, illuminating the area within ten feet as brightly as day.
“Stay close. Don’t fall behind.”
With that, Su Ji took the lead.
Wang Ping jerked back to his senses and hurried after him, practically scampering like a lackey. His attitude was now a hundred times more respectful than before.
“Yes, yes! Senior, please slow down!”
By now, he had completely taken Su Ji for some peerless expert who had hidden his true strength.
However—
The three of them had taken only a few steps when—
“Crack—”
A sharp, teeth-grating sound suddenly rang out from beneath their feet!
In the next instant, the entire starlit platform abruptly sank downward!
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
+ Slow Paced + Main Character Thrives Together with His Disciples】 Transmigrated into a cultivation world, Chu Xingchen awakens a discipleship system that reveals the tags of his disciples! Starting from scratch, he builds the strongest sect. Disciple One: Li Yingling 【Gold Tag: Genius Cultivator】【Purple Tag: Extremely Lucky】【Blue Tag: Bewitchingly Beautiful】 Disciple Two: Li Hangtian 【Gold Tag: Reincarnated】【Purple Tag: Ruthless and Decisive】【Blue Tag: Loyal and Noble】 Disciple Three: ??? 【Orange Tag: Alluring Demoness】【???】【???】 Thus, in the cultivation world, an unremarkable little sect appears out of nowhere, but little do others know that each member of this sect is a powerhouse in their own right. The book is also known as: Cultivation? It's Exactly Like This!
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.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
