Just a few minutes later, Lady White Bone stared at her own body in delight. "This... this is real? If you had something this good, why didn't you bring it out sooner?"
A strange, flickering light shimmered across the system. "All missions have been merged. The sole main quest: locate and eliminate the soul of the hunter."
But Lady White Bone suddenly smiled, and that smile was bewitchingly beautiful.
"Tell me, what exactly does this pill do?"
"Once consumed, it will make you immortal and indestructible, Lady. Even Sun Wukong himself could not harm you in the slightest."
"In that case, why should I keep you around?"
The system froze. Wait—were the demons in this world really this pragmatic?
"Just joking. Stay by my side, and when I attain enlightenment, you'll get your share of the rewards too." Lady White Bone was in high spirits. She had killed so many people, all for the sake of cultivation. Now that she had reached the top in one leap, why would she bother taking any more risks?
"Stop issuing me quests. I don't care who's pulling the strings behind you—I'm the boss here!"
"Look, Lady, the mission..."
Lady White Bone waved a hand dismissively. "Your mission is none of my business. Shut it." She reached for the bronze mirror on the table, gazed at her own reflection, and was filled with joy. Finally, she no longer had to rely on magic to maintain a human appearance.
The system's voice turned cold. "Lady, if you refuse to listen, the system has the authority to revoke..."
"You dare." Lady White Bone's gaze shifted to the system.
The system was growing increasingly frantic. Its core had deployed over a dozen systems into this world, and during this time, it could already sense that one after another, its fellow systems were perishing. At first, it had suspected the hunter was responsible, but now it seemed more likely that these natives of the world were destroying the systems themselves!
Still, this demon before it didn't seem that powerful. If worse came to worst, it could simply forcibly sever the connection.
Just as it was pondering this, a deafening crash echoed from the entrance of Lady White Bone's cave.
Startled, Lady White Bone turned to look. Through the dust, she saw a monk, a monkey, and a red-haired giant standing at the doorway.
"Hey, you! Come out here!" Fang Zhiyi shouted.
Lady White Bone's anger flared. This was too much—had they followed her all the way here?
Fang Zhiyi swaggered in, followed by a lazy Sun Wukong, while Sha Wujing stood guard outside. He knew these two were enough; his job was just to watch the luggage.
"Monk, you really don't know what's good for you! I've already gained an immortal, indestructible body—what can you do to me now?"
Her answer came in the form of a club swinging straight at her face.
"Urgh." Lady White Bone didn't even finish her threat before she was sent flying backward, embedded deep into the stone wall.
"Indestructible? What's that supposed to mean?" Fang Zhiyi glanced back at Sun Wukong, confused.
Sun Wukong shrugged. "It means 'tough to kill.'"
The ever-present Tripitaka suddenly stared at an empty corner. Fang Zhiyi noticed his look and quickly turned his gaze there, but saw nothing.
Sun Wukong squinted in that direction. "Interesting."
Fang Zhiyi was still puzzled. "What is it?"
"Freeze!" Sun Wukong pointed two fingers together, then suddenly clenched his fist with great effort. As his hand tightened, he let out a sigh. "Nothing special."
Tripitaka's gaze withdrew, still fixed intently on Fang Zhiyi.
Fang Zhiyi was thoroughly confused, but soon Lady White Bone's furious screams grabbed his attention.
"You... you're going too far! Breaking into my home and slaughtering my servants!"
"Don't slander us—we didn't see a single living thing on our way in!" Fang Zhiyi quickly retorted.
Lady White Bone wanted to argue back, but in the next moment, she realized that her restored flesh was rapidly decaying. In the blink of an eye, her bare white bones were exposed once more.
Sha Wujing, standing guard at the entrance, heard the Lady White Bone's screams from inside and simply shook his head.
Deprived of the system, Lady White Bone naturally lost her indestructibility. Her head was twisted off by Fang Zhiyi, who tossed it to Sha Wujing as he left.
"Here, hang this on your necklace."
Sha Wujing obediently took down his necklace of skulls, carefully added Lady White Bone's head to it, and then followed Fang Zhiyi's orders to start looting.
The bad news was that there was no food here.
The good news was that he found some scattered coins. Sha Wujing carefully collected the bits of silver and returned to the horse.
Fang Zhiyi frowned at the map for a while, then pointed uncertainly in one direction.
No one raised any objections. The trio and the ghost set off in that direction.
"If we have to gather eighty-one trials, we'll just have to go looking for them ourselves."
Inside another cave, an Eight-tailed Fox was deep in cultivation. In a few more decades, it would grow its ninth tail and become a true great demon.
But at that moment, one of its fox subordinates rushed in frantically.
"Ancestor, something terrible has happened!"
"Didn't I tell you not to disturb my meditation? What's so terrible?" the old fox opened its eyes irritably.
"A monk just passed by our entrance."
"So what if he passed by?" The old fox was annoyed, but then it suddenly recalled—its cave was built on a cliff! How could a monk pass by there?
"How did he get here?"
"Well... Ancestor, maybe you should come see for yourself?"
The old fox stepped outside and saw a bare-chested monk pacing back and forth right outside its home.
"Oh dear, this poor monk is lost! What a predicament!"
"I'm a holy monk on my way to the West to retrieve the scriptures, and now I'm lost here."
"Imagine if someone knew that eating this monk's flesh would grant immortality—what would happen then?"
The old fox's face was full of black lines. Was this guy insane?
Eat a monk to become immortal? What nonsense! If eating monks really made you immortal, all the temples would have been gutted by demons long ago—this was pure rumor.
"Hey, monk! Get lost! Count yourself lucky that this old fox is on a vegetarian diet!" it shouted.
The monk looked over in confusion, studied the fox for a few seconds, and then seemed to make a decision.
"Oh no! A demon! Run! The demon wants to eat me!"
Despite his shouting, his face showed no fear at all.
His shout startled the old fox.
"Are you crazy? Minions, drive him down the mountain!" the old fox ordered.
"Ancestor, how about we just..." A little fox licked its lips.
"I'm at a critical stage right now, I absolutely cannot eat meat!" the old fox said. "Drive this crazy monk away!"
Having no other choice, the little demons reluctantly approached Fang Zhiyi to shove him off.
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
