Wang Lei's hand paused for a moment, but he still rolled up the rolling door.
"Where's the ghost? Sending you to be an apprentice is to learn skills, not magic..."
The next moment, Wang Lei frowned in confusion. "No one? Which naughty kid is knocking on the door in the middle of the night for fun?"
Su Xun, however, had his eyes wide open. Right beside Wang Lei, an extremely tall man bent slightly and walked into the shop.
This was the first ghost he had ever seen that could walk in!
The man slowly took off his hat, revealing an abnormally pale face.
"Where is Zhao Chengyang?"
In an instant, Su Xun felt a cold and gloomy aura spreading in the shop.
"He, he..."
"Lao Su, who are you talking to? Are you out of your mind too?" Wang Lei closed the door, turned around, and looked at Su Xun with a pale face in puzzlement. But suddenly he shivered. "Damn it, they didn't say it was going to get cold. I'll go upstairs first. You clean up and come up later. Let's discuss sending Master to the hospital tomorrow."
Wang Lei trotted away. If it weren't for knowing him well, Su Xun would have suspected that Wang Lei could actually see the ghost.
"Where is Zhao Chengyang?" the ghost asked again.
Su Xun hesitantly wanted to turn around and look, but just as he moved his body, he stopped.
The ghost looked at Su Xun in surprise as he met its gaze.
"He's not here."
The ghost bowed slightly. "Who are you?"
"I'm... Su Xun."
"Su Xun." The male ghost frowned, as if trying to recall something, but finally shook his head. "Don't know. Why are you here?"
At this time, Su Xun had already grabbed the copper coin hidden in his trouser pocket. Zhao Chengyang had saved him and was his master. This ghost must be here to cause trouble today, and Master was in such a state... If it really came to that, he could only try himself.
But just as he was about to make a surprise move, the ghost raised his hand, with his index finger and middle finger together, pointing at his face. "Don't play those sneaky tricks if you're a half - baked. Are you also a cultivator of the Dao?"
Su Xun was a little surprised. Was this ghost's cultivation so high that it could see through his thoughts?
"Fine, I'll go look for him myself." Seeing that Su Xun didn't say a word, the ghost simply stood up straight.
"No!" Su Xun immediately blocked in front of it. These days, following Zhao Chengyang, he had seen all kinds of ghosts. Although he had never made a move himself, he roughly knew the process.
Master was in a vulnerable state now. If he let this ghost in...
The ghost looked at the hand seal Su Xun had made and raised his eyebrows. "His technique. Who exactly are you..."
At this point, Su Xun threw caution to the wind. "Zhao Chengyang is my master. If you want to cause trouble for him, you have to get through me first!"
The ghost was stunned for a moment and suddenly laughed. This laugh almost made Su Xun's blood freeze. Master had said that when a ghost laughed, someone would die.
But the ghost just stretched out his cold hand and patted him on the shoulder, sizing him up and down.
"Unexpectedly, among the four brothers, only he took in an apprentice."
"Brothers?" Su Xun caught on to this sentence.
The ghost's smiling face gradually disappeared, and his gaze turned to the back of the shop, as if he could see Zhao Chengyang through the wall.
"Tell your master that he knows the rules. This is the rule of the underworld and also his fate. He can't escape. This time it's me. If there's a next time... I won't be able to help either." He gave Su Xun a deep look. "Kid, you're not bad."
It wasn't until the ghost walked out of the door that Su Xun realized that his back was soaked with cold sweat.
Was the ghost just now an underworld messenger? No, something even more powerful than an underworld messenger? He had to tell Master! Master's wife's soul couldn't stay any longer!
He rushed to the door of that small room and tried to open it.
Suddenly, he heard Master's voice.
"Is what you said true?"
"I believe. I can believe..."
Su Xun's raised hand hung in mid - air. Who was Master talking to? Master's wife? No, Master's wife's soul was forcibly detained. It was almost impossible for her to talk now.
Could it be...
The door suddenly opened, and Zhao Chengyang's haggard face gave Su Xun a big scare.
"Master, just now..."
Zhao Chengyang waved his hand. "Don't be in a hurry. I have something to entrust to you."
From this day on, Zhao Chengyang seemed to have changed into a different person. It seemed that he had forgotten about his wife's passing and became much stricter. He poured a lot of knowledge into Su Xun's head like pouring water, as if he was in a great hurry.
Su Xun didn't understand, but he couldn't ask either, because Zhao Chengyang looked very strange. He was anxious and self - reproachful.
Especially at many times, he would talk to himself, but it sounded like he was talking to someone.
Until one night seven days later, Zhao Chengyang pulled the exhausted Su Xun out of bed.
"Apprentice, Master is sorry for you."
Su Xun was a little dazed.
"Take this book. It records some methods of our sect." Zhao Chengyang looked at the book reluctantly, and then took out a bank card. "There's some money in this card. You take it too." He looked at Wang Lei snoring not far away.
"Your fate won't allow you to stay with him for long."
"After I'm gone, this shop will be yours. Do you understand?"
Su Xun finally came to his senses. "Master, where are you going?" He had had this feeling before, but now it was becoming more and more real.
"I... am going to change my fate." Zhao Chengyang patted him on the shoulder. "If I succeed, your fate can also be changed."
He stood up and looked back at Su Xun reluctantly. "Your Heavenly Fiend fate means you're destined to be alone all your life. Although you can achieve great things, you're fated to commit killings... So I wanted you to practice the Dao. Originally, I should have protected you, but there's not enough time."
"Master..."
"I... remember to offer incense to your grand - master for me on the Zhongyuan Festival every year." Zhao Chengyang bowed solemnly to Su Xun.
Su Xun quickly returned the bow, but when he looked up, his master in front of him had already disappeared.
Su Xun got up and ran downstairs, but he didn't find anything. A chill ran down his back.
The back door was locked, and the front door wasn't open. In the blink of an eye, Master had disappeared? Could it be...
Su Xun rushed into that room anxiously, but there was nothing in the room. There was no body as he had imagined, nor any terrifying and strange sight. Instead, there were neatly stacked yellow talismans, writing brushes, and books. It was obvious that they had been carefully organized.
In the middle was placed a wooden plaque with the name of the grand - master engraved on it.
Su Xun felt that his world was in chaos again. Why did his master suddenly disappear? Was it so strange?
At this time, there was another knocking sound outside the rolling door.
"Bang, bang."
Su Xun was stunned for a moment. He tidied up his clothes and walked towards the rolling door.
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."
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, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
