Su Xun stared blankly at the people before him.
Had he really... done so many wrong things?
“Why are you still alive? What gives you the right to live? They’re all dead. Why are you still alive?”
A voice pressed him for an answer.
Su Xun was bewildered. Yes, why was he alive? He didn’t understand it himself. It seemed he had never known what he was supposed to do with his life.
“Then what should I do?”
He looked up and asked.
The venomous faces retreated, and he suddenly saw several faces he had encountered in his dreams.
His grandfather, his younger brother, and... his master.
“Come join us.”
They spoke, and Su Xun stared at them in a daze.
“You have no friends, no family. Everyone who cared about you has left you one by one. Why are you still alive?”
Su Xun suddenly understood.
Yes. He had always been lost. Even after becoming a Taoist priest, he still didn’t know what he truly wanted.
“Then I...” He suddenly noticed that he was holding a knife. Su Xun picked it up and looked at those faces. They gazed back at him expectantly.
“Then I can’t die either!” Su Xun frowned. “Wouldn’t dying make it even harder to figure things out?”
The faces abruptly froze. Then they began to merge, finally becoming the hideous face of a fat man.
“If that’s the case, I’ll finish you off myself... A cultivator’s soul. Such a rare delicacy...” In the darkness, a thick, powerful hand reached toward Su Xun. He raised the knife in his hand.
He didn’t understand why he was alive, but at the very least, he didn’t want to die.
“Damn, what a lousy place.”
A voice rang out. The hand reaching for Su Xun halted midair. The evil ghost turned around in astonishment, while Su Xun looked in the same direction.
A figure walked into the darkness. With every step he took, the darkness receded, as though it feared him.
When the man came close enough, Su Xun finally saw his face.
How should he put it? The man clearly wasn’t young, yet he dressed in an outrageously flashy manner. Some of his hair had been deliberately dyed yellow, and he wore five, six, seven, or even eight earrings. His ripped jeans made him look like... an utterly unserious old thug.
“Well, well. You nearly became a Ghost King,” the man teased, looking at the livid evil ghost.
By now, the evil ghost’s illusion had completely shattered. A man and a woman glared viciously at this uninvited guest.
“Don’t look at me like that. It’s not as if I came here specifically to ruin your fun,” the man said. He then turned to glance at the battered Su Xun. His eyes settled on the small knife in Su Xun’s hand, and the corner of his mouth suddenly curled upward. “Second Son really wasn’t lying to me. Zhao Chengyang actually took in a disciple.”
The moment Su Xun heard his master’s name, he stared at the man in confusion.
The man crouched down, completely ignoring the two evil ghosts behind him.
“Come on. Call me Martial Uncle and let me hear it.”
“Huh?”
The man smacked Su Xun on the head. “Call me Martial Uncle! I’m your master’s senior brother!”
But Su Xun’s gaze had already shifted behind him. The two evil ghosts had pounced forward.
The man didn’t even bother to turn around. Instead, he frowned. “This is bad. It looks like Zhao Chengyang’s disciple has been beaten stupid.”
“Behind you...” Su Xun pointed over the man’s shoulder, then witnessed a scene that left him stunned.
The tall ghost he had seen once before at the shop suddenly appeared there. The chain in his hand shot out, binding the two evil ghosts so tightly that they were powerless no matter how violently they struggled.
“Second Son, come take a look. Do you think this kid’s been knocked silly?”
The tall ghost frowned. “Call me Senior Brother.”
“Oh, come on. Now that you’ve become a ghost officer, you’re even more rigid. What a bore.” The man turned back and grumbled, then looked at Su Xun again. “There. This is your Second Martial Uncle. Don’t let the fact that he’s a ghost fool you—he still has some connections down below.”
Su Xun was utterly baffled.
The man suddenly frowned. “Don’t tell me that useless master of yours never told you he had senior brothers and sisters?”
Su Xun nodded.
“That bastard!” The man leaped to his feet.
At that moment, the surveillance footage on Boss Huang’s phone had finally returned to normal. But he didn’t dare look at it again, because a cold-faced woman was bracing herself against the car window and bending down to stare at him. His driver had also been pinned against the hood, while several business vans had surrounded his car. It was obvious that the other party had come looking for trouble.
“You’re pretty bold, aren’t you?” the woman said coldly.
Boss Huang finally remembered who she was. She was Gu Qingnan, the famous head of a major conglomerate in the provincial capital.
“P-President Gu, what are you doing here...?”
“Do I need to report to you?”
Boss Huang was a shrewd man. He quickly guessed what had happened. “Could it be...” He instinctively turned toward Master Li in the passenger seat, but Master Li had already curled himself into a ball.
“You really thought our sect had no one backing it?”
Liu Lang carried Su Xun out of the villa on his back, chattering all the while. “I’m telling you, there are plenty of ways to make money. Why risk your life? Take that haunted house behind us, for example. We can ask your Second Martial Uncle to dump those little ghosts in there. Then you advertise it as a place where people can see ghosts and charge five thousand yuan for one night. I guarantee you’ll make a fortune...”
Su Xun subconsciously looked back at the ghostly Martial Uncle walking behind them. His expression was stern.
“Junior Brother, stop talking nonsense.”
“If you’d listened to me earlier, we’d already be rich.”
The two men and the ghost walked toward the distance. Gu Qingnan had already taught Boss Huang a lesson and let him go.
That made Liu Lang complain again. “You just let him go? Senior Sister, you’re really getting less and less decisive.”
Gu Qingnan looked at him coldly.
Liu Lang wisely shut his mouth.
Su Xun was still completely dazed. He had no idea why he had suddenly acquired several martial uncles and a martial aunt.
But he did know one thing: his life had been spared.
“Where did your master go?”
The vehicle slowly started moving. Liu Lang had sent the original driver away and was now driving himself, humming a tune. Gu Qingnan sat in the passenger seat without turning around.
Su Xun answered weakly, “I don’t know.”
They didn’t seem to doubt his answer. They merely exchanged a glance.
The ghostly Martial Uncle hadn’t gotten in the car. He was busy.
“Senior Sister, how’s your illness?” Liu Lang suddenly asked.
Gu Qingnan gazed out the window. “Not good. I probably have a few months left.”
“Oh.” Liu Lang nodded.
Su Xun was horrified. What did she mean? Was Senior Martial Aunt...?
As if she knew what he was thinking, Gu Qingnan turned around and glanced at him.
“I have terminal cancer. It can’t be cured.”
Su Xun was stunned.
“Nothing unusual. Senior Sister suffers from a fate deficiency... Your master has the fate of solitude, while I was born under a fate of poverty...” Liu Lang laughed. “As for your dead Second Martial Uncle, there’s even less to say.”
y came from. The chests contained supplies, currency, class-change scrolls, skills, talents… and even godhood! The laws of the world were completely rewritten. This became a world where everyone gambled with their fate! Some people, despite having nothing, opened a divine artifact and rose to the top, eventually ruling the world. Others went bankrupt, opened nothing but worthless junk, and leaped from skyscrapers in despair. Lin Ye arrived in this world from another reality, utterly bewildered. “What is going on? Why is everyone a gambling addict?!” “Opening chests? No way. I refuse to gamble. I’ll start with myself!” Until— On his first chest, he obtained a Mythic Talent: Void Incarnation! He could become completely intangible, pass through all things, and reduce everything to nothingness! … On his fiftieth chest, he obtained a Mythic Weapon: Blade of Karma! With a single slash, karma shattered, twisting the universe and overturning the myriad phenomena of creation! … On his ninety-ninth chest, he obtained a Mythic Divine Treasure: Primordial Purple Energy! It could split open the heavens and earth, create all things, and evolve countless worlds with a single thought! Lin Ye: “Now that I think about it… shouldn’t someone have told me that every chest is guaranteed to contain something Mythic?!”
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.
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."
. 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!"
