"We said we're going on a mission, but there's no mission," Little Hei said.
"What do you mean none? Didn't you just hear them? Spaceships, we're talking spaceships!" Fang Zhiyi was clearly excited.
"You mean, the world where Zhao Yichen is?" Little Hei tilted his head.
"Exactly!"
"Ahem, boss, I—"
"You're coming too! If Xiao Yao finds out you weren't with me, I'm done for!"
Money Rat pulled a long face. He'd barely made it back alive, and now he had to set off again?
But Little Hei said, "That breaks protocol. This won't do."
Fang Zhiyi wasn't used to seeing him look so serious.
Then, out of nowhere, a hand landed on his shoulder. Fang Zhiyi turned around and saw Liu Shishi.
"I heard everything~ But don't worry, I won't tell big sister. Wouldn't want you getting scolded by her."
Fang Zhiyi took a quiet step back.
Liu Shishi knew what he was thinking and covered her mouth with a smile. "Coincidentally, I just received a commission. Interested?"
Fang Zhiyi hesitated, eyeing the slip that had appeared in her hand.
Liu Shishi winked playfully. "The original host is a Star Domain Governor. In or not?"
Fang Zhiyi was clearly tempted.
"What's your condition?"
"Condition? As long as you're safe and sound, that's all I ask. Just make sure you come back to see me." Liu Shishi reached out to touch his face but stopped halfway and pulled her hand back.
"Wow, this girl is on another level," Money Rat muttered.
Little Hei nodded in agreement. "She hasn't lost her touch."
In the end, though, Fang Zhiyi couldn't bring Money Rat along. The Quick Travel Bureau was severely understaffed, and there was no way to let two people take on a single commission at the same time.
To be absolutely certain nothing went wrong, Fang Zhiyi kicked Money Rat into another world entirely, not even giving the poor guy a moment to catch his breath after finishing his last mission before he was forced back into the grind.
Year 1100 of the Qiyao Era. The 32nd Star Domain of the Human Empire was invaded. The invaders looked almost human, but they were stronger and faster, and they screamed about reclaiming their homeland as they slaughtered human settlements again and again.
When the Star Domain Governor got word of it, he immediately dispatched the Star Domain forces to counterattack, along with a reconnaissance squad. He needed to figure out what these sudden blue-skinned aliens were all about, since he still had to file a report with the Empire.
There was a young man who got squeezed into the squad at the last minute, a decision that never even went through the Governor's approval. Rumors circulated internally that this fellow had connections to the Empire's nobility, perhaps someone from the Council.
All in all, this was a simple survey job, not too dangerous, and great for polishing one's resume—perfect for a young man with that kind of background.
Under the squad leader's direction, they found a relatively safe spot for observation. In practice, this meant controlling drones to gather intel: enemy locations, movement patterns, things like that. Even so, problems still managed to surface.
The new young man was overly sentimental, a trademark of the high-born noble families. Ordinary people were too exhausted just trying to stay alive to recite poetry while on duty.
But Gu Yuan did exactly that.
Not only did he recite poetry, he took an interest in every blade of grass and every pebble, sitting in front of the observation console for entire days at a time.
The first to notice something off about him was the squad's deputy leader, a tough woman who had once served in the Star Domain military before being transferred here due to injury. She noticed Gu Yuan often using the drones to send out strange signals and reported it immediately. But her report was shut down by the squad leader.
The reason was simple.
Gu Yuan was someone they couldn't afford to offend. It was better to just turn a blind eye. Besides, this was a remote star domain—if Gu Yuan put in a good word for them when he got back, maybe they'd get a chance to move to the bustling Imperial core planets.
The deputy wasn't happy about it, but she held her tongue out of respect for the chain of command.
They'd considered every possibility. They'd even considered the idea that Gu Yuan might be leaking Star Domain military movements. But they never once imagined he'd be falling in love with one of the blue-skinned aliens!
And what was even more ridiculous, he actually took a few accomplices, piloted a cloaked mech out of the safe zone, and went straight into blue-skin territory.
When the squad leader found out, he immediately reported it—not because of the mech, but because Gu Yuan's identity was too sensitive. They were terrified something might happen to him.
And because of Gu Yuan's actions, the suppression campaign that could have gone smoothly came to a grinding halt. The 9th War Corps' high command ordered a stop to the advance and instead sent out small units to search for him.
What those small units didn't expect was to be attacked by "friendly forces."
It had to be said, Gu Yuan's flirting skills were top-tier. He'd gotten together with the blue-skin princess, and so... Gu Yuan now had an army at his disposal—an army that was superior in endurance, strength, and killing power, even if their tech was a bit behind.
From that point on, the Star Domain forces that had once been overwhelmingly dominant began their decline. Under Gu Yuan's command, the Star Domain military suffered attacks on multiple fronts, with many regular soldiers wounded or killed. Yet the 9th War Corps' high command pretended not to see any of it.
Even when word reached the Star Domain Governor, he tacitly approved of the situation. The Empire had a strict hierarchy, and everyone knew the Gu family was untouchable. This was how a battle that should have ended in three months was dragged out indefinitely.
To curry favor with this young Master Gu, the guards at several weapons depots in the interior were pulled away, after which the blue-skin forces raided and pillaged them.
Then came a string of defeats for the Star Domain military. The reason was simple: with so much time having passed, the blue-skin reinforcements had also arrived, using their own transportation methods which, while somewhat primitive, still shifted the battlefield balance. Humanity faced total collapse, outposts were destroyed, and civilian and soldier casualties mounted.
It was this war, prolonged by Gu Yuan's recklessness, that finally caught the Empire's attention.
The Tribunal didn't bother with asking why. Someone had to take the blame for all the losses, public anger needed an outlet, and the deaths of ordinary soldiers needed a scapegoat. The Governor of the 32nd Star Domain was the perfect choice.
The irony, however, came a few years later when Gu Yuan became a peace ambassador, bringing the blue-skinned aliens into the Human Federation. The media painted him as a hero, and the former Star Domain Governor was vilified.
Everything went so smoothly.
"Look here," Little Hei said, conjuring a hand to point at the files. "The original host said he doesn't resent the Tribunal for stripping his position. What he can't accept is being branded a disgrace to humanity. They arrested him, declared to the public that he was a coward, and pinned the failures of the war as well as the deaths of soldiers and civilians all on him. Tsk, tsk."
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.
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.
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."
+ 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!
