Far below lay an unfathomably deep expanse of dark-blue seawater. If they fell into it, the already-frenzied star sharks would tear the three of them to pieces in an instant.
Wang Ping, however, remained calm.
As a dignified Golden Core cultivator, how could he possibly die from a fall?
It would be downright humiliating if word got out…
And yet…
He tried to circulate his spiritual energy…
But for some unknown reason, it collapsed almost the instant he summoned it.
The sensation of weightlessness struck without warning.
“We’re done for! We’re done for!”
Wang Ping’s face turned deathly pale, and he let out a despairing howl. “I haven’t even found my fellow cultivator yet—!”
Su Ji shot him a glance. With his right hand, he casually grabbed Wang Ping by the back of his collar, lifting him like a chick, while his left arm naturally wrapped around Su Jiu’s slender waist.
Spiritual energy surged. Dark-red bursts of power exploded beneath each of their feet.
Instead of plummeting, the three of them came to a steady halt in midair.
“Stop howling,” Su Ji said indifferently. “We’re not dead yet.”
Wang Ping was still shaken. He had just opened his mouth to speak when his pupils suddenly contracted to pinpoints.
Within the thick fog, killing intent erupted!
“Careful! It’s an ambush!”
The moment Wang Ping’s warning left his lips, a wave of heat hot enough to suffocate came crashing toward them from straight ahead like a landslide.
Unlike the astral-sea spiritual energy from before, this heat was saturated with the stench of blood.
The high temperature forcibly tore open a gap in the dense fog.
Two figures—one red and one black—appeared out of nowhere like ghosts.
Without a word, without even exchanging a glance, they attacked from both sides!
The red figure was a burly man. Dark-red flames coiled around his body, and the fire in his palm rapidly compressed into a sinister flaming hand the size of a boulder. It slammed toward the crown of Su Ji’s head!
“Die!”
The burly man’s eyes were filled with cruelty, as though he could already see the pretty boy’s head exploding like a watermelon.
At the same time, the black figure’s body twisted strangely. Dense gray runes surfaced around him. With a flicker, he bypassed Su Ji from the front, and the pitch-black dagger in his hand shot forward like a venomous snake, stabbing straight toward Su Jiu’s heart!
Their coordination was flawless, their roles clearly defined.
They were obviously seasoned veterans of murder and plunder.
Su Ji watched as the flaming palm rapidly enlarged within his pupils.
It was almost comical.
A flash of dark-red light flickered across his eyes.
“Disperse.”
He spoke the single word lightly.
In the next instant, the flaming palm, which had seemed powerful enough to incinerate all things, reached less than three inches from Su Ji’s forehead.
Then—
Whoosh!
It went out.
Even the flames protecting the burly man’s body seemed to come under some terrifying pressure. They instantly shrank back into him, causing his spiritual meridians to ache from the backlash.
“What?!”
The burly man’s eyes widened in disbelief.
This was Corroding-Bone Flame, which he had cultivated by gathering poisonous fire from deep beneath the earth. An ordinary Golden Core cultivator would suffer flesh-searing injuries from merely touching the slightest spark of it. How could the other man extinguish it with nothing more than a glance?
Before he could react, Su Ji had already raised his hand.
Smack!
The crisp sound of a slap rang out especially loudly in the dead silence of the fog.
The burly man spun through the air like a top, sent whirling three full rotations by the blow. Several bloody teeth flew out together with a spray of saliva.
Su Ji withdrew his hand and casually wiped it on Wang Ping’s clothes in disgust.
Wang Ping: “…”
He looked at the burly man, who had been slapped senseless, then at his own clothes, which had been treated like a rag. For a moment, he had no idea whether he should be more shocked or more heartbroken over his outfit.
On the other side, the black figure’s attack had failed as well.
Su Jiu appeared not to move, but a phantom flickered and vanished.
The black figure’s killing blow struck nothing but air!
A mere afterimage?
The black figure’s heart tightened, and he changed his movement technique again.
Gray runes flashed around him. His entire body vanished on the spot, only to reappear above Su Jiu’s head without warning. His dagger, wrapped in a sinister chill, stabbed straight toward her crown.
If an ordinary cultivator had faced such an unpredictable spatial technique, they would likely have been thrown into disarray.
“Too slow.”
The girl gave a soft hum. Lightly tapping the air with her toes, she drifted backward like a butterfly weaving through flowers.
The black figure’s strike missed, and his body vanished again.
This time, he appeared to Su Jiu’s left.
Another flash—he appeared on her right.
Another—behind her.
In the span of a few breaths, the black figure seemed to have transformed into dozens of people, launching a violent storm of attacks at Su Jiu from every direction.
This was his signature technique: Shadow-Escape Slaughter.
By using fluctuations in spiritual energy to briefly conceal his form, he created the illusion of teleportation. He would use it to wear down his opponent’s concentration until they revealed an opening, then deliver a fatal strike!
And yet—
What drove him to despair was that no matter how he changed position or how many times he flashed around, the delicate-looking girl always managed to evade him first with effortless grace.
Attack, evade.
Attack again, evade again.
Su Ji glanced at the battle on that side and shook his head. “Too flashy.”
He turned to look at the burly man, who was clutching his face with terror in his eyes.
“The target’s tougher than expected! Old Six, stop playing around! Get serious!”
The burly man roared. He brought his hands together and spat out a mouthful of vital blood.
“Bloodburn—Demonic Flame Form!”
Boom!
The muscles across the burly man’s body instantly swelled, while magma-like cracks appeared across the surface of his skin. His aura forcibly surged from the late Nascent Soul stage to the threshold of Divine Transformation!
The temperature around them soared once more, and even the air warped from the heat.
“Die!”
The burly man roared as his entire body transformed into a massive flaming meteor, hurtling toward Su Ji!
This strike was a desperate technique that burned away his lifespan!
Even a Divine Transformation cultivator in the early stage would not dare to receive it head-on!
Wang Ping was so frightened that his legs went weak. “Fellow cultivator! Dodge—”
“Dodge?”
Su Ji stood where he was, utterly unmoving.
He looked at the incoming flaming meteor with a tranquil expression.
“Lend me your sword.”
In the next instant, he pulled the sword from Wang Ping’s waist.
He made a light slash toward the enormous flaming meteor, then tossed the sword back.
Pfft.
It was like a hot knife slicing through butter.
The seemingly invincible flaming meteor was cleaved cleanly in two!
The burly man remained frozen in midair, still locked in his charging posture.
He lowered his head and looked at the hair-thin black line across his chest.
No blood flowed from it.
The flesh around the wound had already been instantly carbonized by the terrifying heat.
“What… what kind of flame is this…?”
The burly man opened and closed his mouth, his eyes filled with bewilderment.
Then—
His body split apart down the middle and turned into two clouds of ash.
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!
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.
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
+ 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!
