On the open deck of the pleasure boat.
Tong Xiaoxiao had already been driven into a corner.
The greed in Shu Yufeng’s eyes was no longer concealed.
“Miss Tong, a wise bird chooses the tree it perches in.”
“You should understand that this Skywater City belongs to the Shu family.”
Just as Tong Xiaoxiao was hesitating over whether to call for her guards…
“Um… sorry to interrupt.”
A voice suddenly cut in.
“This Skywater City belongs to the Shu family?”
“I seem to remember that this territory falls under Imperial Court Mountain. Could it be that the Shu family intends to rebel and establish its own kingdom?”
Shu Yufeng’s movements abruptly froze.
He spun around and glared toward the source of the voice with a dark, vicious look.
A young man was sitting on the railing of the deck. No one knew when he had appeared there.
He wore a cheap mask bought from some roadside stall. In his hand was a bare bamboo skewer, and he was idly picking his teeth with it.
“Who are you?”
Shu Yufeng narrowed his eyes and sized up Su Ji.
Mid-stage Golden Core?
Where had this reckless rogue cultivator come from?
“Me?”
Su Ji pointed at himself and flashed a grin. “I’m just a kindhearted citizen passing by.”
“A kindhearted citizen?”
Shu Yufeng laughed in exasperation.
He had thrown his weight around in Skywater City for so many years, yet this was the first time he had encountered someone who dared meddle in his affairs.
“Kid, if you want to play the hero and save the beauty, you’d better first consider how much you weigh.”
With a wave of Shu Yufeng’s hand, several guards who had been hiding nearby appeared at once, surrounding Su Ji.
“Throw him overboard and feed him to the fish.”
Shu Yufeng turned around, not even bothering to look at Su Ji again.
In his eyes, reckless fools like this died by the dozens every year. They were completely beneath his notice.
However…
The expected splash never came.
Instead, several muffled groans rang out, followed by the sound of heavy bodies hitting the ground.
Shu Yufeng frowned and looked back again.
The guards were now lying in a neat pile on the floor, stacked one atop another like a human pagoda.
And that young man was still sitting on the railing, without even changing his posture.
“That’s it?”
Su Ji shook his head, looking disappointed. “I thought house-trained dogs would at least bite a little harder.”
Shu Yufeng’s expression finally changed.
He might have been a spoiled heir, but he was no fool.
To defeat several guards in an instant—this was absolutely beyond what a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator could do.
“Who are you, really?”
Shu Yufeng asked in a low voice as he secretly crushed a communication jade slip in his hand.
“Who I am isn’t important.”
Su Ji jumped down from the railing and leisurely walked over to Tong Xiaoxiao.
Seeing Su Ji’s complete disregard for him, Shu Yufeng thrust out his sword.
Sword light flashed like a rainbow, shooting straight toward Su Ji’s throat.
The attack had been unleashed in fury, and its power was astonishing.
Yet faced with this deadly strike, Su Ji did not even bother to dodge.
He merely sighed.
“You want to teach me a lesson?”
Su Ji raised two fingers.
Under Shu Yufeng’s incredulous gaze, he lightly caught the tip of the spiritual sword between them.
Clang!
The sword’s momentum came to an abrupt halt.
No matter how desperately Shu Yufeng urged his spiritual power, the sword seemed to have taken root between Su Ji’s fingers. It did not move an inch.
“Too weak.”
Su Ji shook his head. “Is this the kind of upbringing the Shu family provides?”
“Since your father failed to teach you properly, I suppose I’ll have to do it for him.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Ji applied the slightest pressure with his fingers.
Crack!
That priceless spiritual sword was snapped in two by nothing more than his fingers.
“Pfft—!”
With his life-bound magic treasure damaged, Shu Yufeng spat out a mouthful of blood. His entire body flew backward and slammed heavily into a banquet table, drenching him in soup and wine and leaving him in a truly miserable state.
The entire deck fell silent.
Everyone stared blankly at what had just happened.
Young Master Shu… had lost?
And he had been defeated instantly by two fingers?
Su Ji casually tossed aside the broken sword and looked at Tong Xiaoxiao, who had been completely stunned.
“All right, stop staring blankly.”
Su Ji spread open his hand. “Give me the item, and I’ll keep the Tong family safe.”
Tong Xiaoxiao looked at the unfathomable man before her.
After hesitating for a moment, she still made no move.
“Do I need to repeat myself?”
Su Ji held his palm upward, making his meaning perfectly clear:
Hand it over.
Tong Xiaoxiao leaned against the railing as the night wind tousled the hair at her temples.
She gazed at the man in the ridiculous mask, her chest rising and falling rapidly.
Just moments ago, this man had descended from the heavens, saving her like a divine soldier sent to her aid.
According to the plot of those romantic tales, she should have been overwhelmed with gratitude, perhaps even offered herself to him. Then she would present the family heirloom with both hands and become a delicate little bird dependent on a powerful man from that day onward.
But…
She was the daughter of Tong Qiannian, and the successor her father—the wealthiest man in Skywater City—had raised.
A merchant’s blood ran with calculation and profit. Impulse was the one thing it did not contain.
Tong Xiaoxiao forcibly suppressed her fear of the Shu family, as well as her awe of the mysterious expert before her.
She raised her head. In those beautiful almond-shaped eyes, there was an unmistakable stubbornness.
“I can’t give it to you.”
Su Ji’s hand froze in midair.
Within the sea of consciousness, the Old Emperor burst into completely unrestrained laughter.
“Hahahaha! Kid, was your entrance not dramatic enough? Or was that mask so ugly that you scared the girl?”
The corner of Su Ji’s mouth twitched. He replied within his sea of consciousness, “Shut up, old geezer.”
He withdrew his hand. Rather than losing his temper, he merely tilted his head and asked with amusement, “Why not?”
“I don’t trust you.”
Tong Xiaoxiao’s voice was still trembling, but her reasoning was exceptionally clear.
“The Shu family holds tremendous power in Skywater City. Although you injured Shu Yufeng today, what happens to my Tong family if you take the item and leave?”
“The Shu family’s fury will reduce the Tong family to ashes.”
“That sword is the Tong family’s last protective charm, and our final bargaining chip.”
Su Ji raised an eyebrow. “So you think I can’t protect you?”
“It’s not that you can’t protect us. It’s that we aren’t worth protecting.”
Tong Xiaoxiao looked at Su Ji with a precocious understanding of the world’s harshness.
“We’re strangers who happened to cross paths. What you want is the sword, not me. Once you have the sword, what reason would you have to risk a death match with an Immortal King for an unrelated merchant family?”
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.
+ 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!
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!
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?!
