“Master, you’re here?” Liu Xiaoji followed Li Shiyin's bad example and spoke with an odd tone after spending just half a day together.
Qin Ran glared at them and asked, “Where is Chasing the Wind?”
Li Shiyin pointed behind her and laughed. “That big, dark lump over there. Can't you see it?”
“I’m blind!” Qin Ran rolled his eyes and asked again, “What’s wrong with him?”
“Based on my analysis...” Li Shiyin imitated Qin Ran’s mannerisms when analyzing problems, speaking in a deep voice. “He probably exhausted his spiritual power. He might just...alright, he’s tired and needs to sleep for a while.”
“Is this his mischief?” Qin Ran said as he walked over to Chasing the Wind's side and quickly checked his condition, discovering that he really was asleep.
“Yes, it's a new divine ability Chasing the Wind learned,” Li Shiyin said.
“What divine ability?”
“I don’t know,” Li Shiyin shook her head. “Chasing the Wind didn't say.”
“I told you guys not to make trouble, I told you guys not to make trouble, but you just have to make trouble!” Qin Ran said angrily. “You can't go a single day without causing some kind of incident!”
“No way. We were cultivating...” Li Shiyin “corrected” him. “We were practicing our divine abilities.”
Qin Ran was too lazy to spar words with her. He glared at her from the side and held out his left hand, separating his little finger, and asked, “Can you still use your sword qi? Give me a sword qi."
"Why?" Li Shiyin summoned a shadow sword qi, not understanding what Qin Ran intended to do.
"This is my clone..." Qin Ran said. "Let's see what happens if my finger gets cut off?"
"It won't cut through," Li Shiyin shook her head. Her sword qi sliced through Qin Ran's little finger without leaving a mark. Qin Ran's little finger was completely undamaged. "See? I didn't lie to you!"
Qin Ran looked at his little finger and then towards the outside world. The real Qin Ran had a grave expression on his face, also looking at his own little finger.
"You didn't mess around with your sword qi, did you?" The clone Qin Ran hurriedly asked Li Shiyin.
"No! I just made one cut towards the ground. The ground here is dark like everything else. My sword qi didn't even make contact," Li Shiyin replied. As she spoke, she saw the expression on the real Qin Ran's face outside and suddenly understood what his clone meant. "But I did kick Chasing the Wind. My foot passed right through his body."
As soon as she said this, the real Qin Ran's expression drastically changed.
The clone Qin Ran hurriedly turned back to Chasing the Wind's side and examined his condition closely.
"Master...what's wrong?" Li Shiyin asked fearfully.
"Just now when you cut my little finger, I couldn't feel any injury in this dark state," the clone Qin Ran replied. "But...the original body outside felt the pain. In other words, any attacks suffered in the World of Darkness do cause injury even if we can't feel them."
Li Shiyin recalled her foot kicking through Chasing the Wind's waist. She couldn't help but be greatly shocked. "I didn't kick Chasing the Wind to death, did I?!"
"I don't know..." The clone Qin Ran shook his head. "I can't detect anything now."
A chill went down Li Shiyin's back. Her kick had split Chasing the Wind cleanly in half. While they felt nothing in the World of Darkness, what about outside? Would Chasing the Wind suddenly snap into two pieces when he left this space?!
The more she thought about it, the more fearful she became until she collapsed next to Chasing the Wind in tears. "Chasing the Wind...I'm sorry, I didn't mean to kill you. I...I...I didn't know..."
Just as she cried, Chasing the Wind suddenly yawned having been woken up by her noise. His eyes opened revealing a pair of glowing black-gold irises. Although nearly the same color as the darkness, it was the only hint of light and color in this dark world. As soon as his eyes opened, he saw Li Shiyin crying while talking to herself. Extremely confused, he said, "Why are you crying? I'm not dead yet!"
But seeing him like this only made Li Shiyin cry harder. "Chasing the Wind...don't die!"
"Eh? What are you doing?" Chasing the Wind sat up from lying down. "Why would I randomly die when I'm perfectly fine?"
"You'll die as soon as you leave!" Li Shiyin cried. "You'll break into two pieces with blood flying everywhere. How terrible, Chasing the Wind! You'll die so tragically!"
"Why would I die after I leave?" Chasing the Wind looked at Li Shiyin. "Don't curse me, alright?"
"How do you feel right now?" Qin Ran suddenly asked.
While Li Shiyin's laments about his gruesome death didn't faze Chasing the Wind, Qin Ran's voice scared him badly. After all, he knew he had done something wrong. Looking towards Qin Ran, he stammered, "D-Dad?"
"I asked how you feel," Qin Ran frowned and repeated.
"How I feel? Not bad. I slept pretty comfortably," Chasing the Wind answered honestly. "It's just, it feels like someone kicked my waist. It hurts a bit."
"Ah!" Hearing this made Li Shiyin even more certain that Chasing the Wind would die. "Chasing the Wind..."
However, Qin Ran realized something from this. He clearly had no sensation of pain in this dark space, yet Chasing the Wind could sense being kicked. Of course, as the master of this World of Darkness, he would be an exception.
Pondering this, he asked, "Chasing the Wind, can you retract this World of Darkness without affecting..."
But Chasing the Wind was a child who had done something wrong and kept trying to make amends. Hearing only the first half of his words, he eagerly nodded, "I can, I can!"
Not waiting for Qin Ran to react, he opened his mouth wide and forcefully sucked all the darkness back in.
"No, that's not...!" Qin Ran tried to stop him mid-sentence before realizing he had reverted to normal. Looking down, his little finger had indeed disappeared. He hurriedly looked towards Chasing the Wind and saw him standing there perfectly fine with eyes and mouth agape. "Dad, what did you say?"
"Oh..." Qin Ran let out another sigh before dissipating into a puddle of water. Qin Ran to the side said, "It's fine now."
Seeing that Chasing the Wind was alright, Li Shiyin quickly stopped crying and wiped her tears. She ran over to look Chasing the Wind up and down, confused. "How are you totally fine?"
Glancing to the side, she saw a person-sized hole in the ground, pitch-black and leading to some unknown place. There were also scattered traces of sword qi cuts that she had tested out earlier. The hole was from when she had burrowed underground while the lingering sword qi were the marks she had sliced.
"Why wouldn't I be alright?" Chasing the Wind was also very perplexed.
Did he not remember the specifics of this divine ability? It was Ao Yi who had taught it to Chasing the Wind to protect his life, allowing him to shadowize his body to avoid attacks and burrow into shadows. For such an ability of which he was the wielder, how could anything happen to him?
"Ahhh!" Seeing that Chasing the Wind was unharmed, Li Shiyin jumped up and punched him in the nose. "Give me back my tears!"
Chasing the Wind's nose was assaulted so he retaliated with kitty punches and yelled, "What's that got to do with me?!"
Watching the two start fighting again, Qin Ran looked up at the sky speechlessly.
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.
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?
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)
shall grant"] ["Inscribing the glory of our race upon tombstones"] ["All that is threatened, I shall protect"] How his younger sister sees her brother: A brother who only makes eye contact once a day, mostly fading into the background as he tinkers with who-knows-what in his room all day. Their life paths should have remained largely separate. Until one day. Su Qi created an equipment card for his never-met "online girlfriend." His sister fell into silent contemplation upon receiving the "white stockings." [Card can be upgraded] [Upgrade by fulfilling any of the following conditions] [Condition ①: Consume one hundred higher-tier cards] [Condition ②: Complete one 'Heart-Pounding Adventure'] What constitutes a Heart-Pounding Adventure? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Beginner Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to admire it.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Easy Level): Equip the card, invite 'Su Qi' to touch it, and analyze the equipment's texture.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Entry Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to...] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Challenge Level): Freely combine the words 'Brother' 'Out' 'Brother' 'Me' 'Please' into a complete sentence...] "Please help me analyze both teams' mistakes in this match, brother..." His sister exhaled in relief—surely... surely there couldn't be anything more difficult? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Suicide Mission Level): Sneak a peek at the names of the galgames in 'Su Qi's' hidden E-drive folder]
