Fang Zhiyi snorted. What a bunch of worthless trash this whole village was, selfish and ungrateful... After only a brief thought, he made his decision. "You're coming with me!" He pointed at Chen A Cui.
Chen A Cui bit her lip. "You have to promise me you won't hurt the villagers!"
"Why would I hurt them? They'd dirty my claws." Fang Zhiyi scoffed, then remembered something and added, "Bring your grandmother too."
Chen A Cui was taken aback. "Is that allowed?"
Fang Zhiyi frowned. "Why wouldn't it be? Are you afraid I can't afford to feed an old woman?"
"Really? But my grandmother is blind, she can't walk fast..."
Chen A Cui hesitated. She was also worried about what would happen to her grandmother if she left. But while she was hesitating, the villagers had already pushed her grandmother out. They had to satisfy the monster's demands, as long as it meant saving their own skins.
As they were leaving, Fang Zhiyi looked back and saw the villagers kneeling and kowtowing to him. Faint whispers drifted to his ears.
"That jinx is gone. Can we divide up her family's land now?"
"Shh, keep your voice down. The village chief will remember when the time comes."
Fang Zhiyi restrained himself from killing them. He was a good monster now, after all.
Chen A Cui was very talkative. Supporting her grandmother, she kept asking Fang Zhiyi strange questions.
"Do you live in a cave?"
"What do you usually eat? Do you eat a lot of people?"
"How old are you?"
Along the way, Fang Zhiyi felt his head was about to explode. But looking at Chen A Cui's dark eyes, he could only force a smile, though it looked rather fierce. "Can you shut up?"
Chen A Cui said "Oh," but immediately continued, "If you want to eat someone, eat me. Don't eat my grandmother."
"Great King... you're back... Whoa! What are these?" The little monster guarding the entrance was surprised to see the old woman and young girl following behind the king.
"Go, prepare a place for them to stay," Fang Zhiyi ordered.
"Huh? Right, right." The little monster scurried off.
This so-called Sunny Cave Abode was really just a slightly larger cave, quite crude. Fang Zhiyi looked at his dwelling place with some disdain and immediately summoned all the little monsters. Thus, that very afternoon, the Sunny Cave Abode's first cleaning mission commenced.
Watching the little monsters bustling about, Fang Zhiyi couldn't help but nod. It had to be said, monsters had one good point: they could scale walls and walk on rafters. If he started a housekeeping company, he'd probably get tons of business.
After settling the blind grandmother, Chen A Cui squatted on the ground watching the busy monsters. She was curious, and the monsters were even more curious. They had seen humans before, but never had a human come to their territory. So, everyone who passed by would take a good look at her.
Fang Zhiyi's mind was a bit chaotic. He pondered all afternoon and only came out when his underlings reported the cleaning was finished. He saw his minions gathered around Chen A Cui, taking turns patting her head like she was a pet. Chen A Cui was also wide-eyed, looking utterly amazed.
"How do you have four hands?"
"Your claws are so long!"
"Can your tail be used as a swing?"
The little monsters were more than happy to answer her questions, even demonstrating on the spot, until someone noticed Fang Zhiyi standing nearby, and they quieted down.
"So... do you want to learn some immortal arts?" Fang Zhiyi looked at Chen A Cui. This world was clearly quite different, and he was somewhat at a loss himself.
As for fighting Sun Wukong? Don't even think about it!
Chen A Cui looked curious. "Immortal arts? Aren't you a monster?"
The little monsters also looked at their king. Yeah, we're monsters. If we're teaching anything, it should be demonic arts, right? Wait, no, this girl is human. She can't learn demonic arts.
Fang Zhiyi coughed. "Never mind that. I have my ways." Just kidding, in the world of Journey to the West, cultivating immortality is normal, right?
And so, under Fang Zhiyi's guidance, Chen A Cui stepped onto the path of immortal cultivation.
Not only that, Fang Zhiyi also had his underlings sit in on the lessons. Although monsters cultivated differently, as long as they could understand, it would be of great benefit to them.
A Cui's grandmother was initially terrified, but fortunately, she couldn't see. Fang Zhiyi had tried to heal her; her blindness was congenital, and demonic power was almost useless. Yet, precisely because she couldn't see, the old lady adapted quite quickly. She sensed these monsters meant no harm, they were just a bit noisy and had a strong smell. So, she settled down peacefully, even setting up a statue of a deity she had specially brought in her little wooden hut, offering prayers daily.
"This is strange..." Fang Zhiyi felt a headache coming on. He had already selected the most suitable cultivation method for A Cui, but A Cui remained stuck at the threshold. Although she was already stronger than an ordinary person, there was no sign of further progress.
Xiao Hei said lazily, "Heavenly Dao suppression. The Heavenly Dao of this place... is unprecedented."
Fang Zhiyi glanced at the sky, calculating in his heart.
"It's fine. As long as she can protect herself." In the original storyline, she was burned to death by the villagers. Now, those wretches couldn't possibly be her match.
A Cui was like a stone thrown into a calm lake. The entire Sunny Cave Abode brimmed with vitality every day after her arrival. For the little monsters, this human girl was fascinating. She taught them many things, even some human writing.
A Cui said that she once helped a traveling teacher who passed by. He taught her some characters, saying something like "only through reading can one understand principles." She wanted to study, but the next year her father was killed by a tiger, and she had to shoulder the household chores.
But seeing the wrong characters A Cui wrote, Fang Zhiyi simply couldn't hold back any longer.
"You wrote 'left' and 'right' backwards!" On the fifty-sixth time seeing her write a character wrong, Fang Zhiyi finally intervened. He reached out with his claw, knocked the branch from A Cui's hand, and carefully wrote the characters stroke by stroke. Turning his head, he was met with a bunch of dumbfounded stares.
"What?" Fang Zhiyi became somewhat wary.
"G-Great King, you know how to write?" the wolf demon asked cautiously.
"Obviously."
He was met with a sea of skeptical looks.
A Cui snatched the stick back. "You're the one who wrote it wrong! Mine is correct!"
The monsters all nodded in agreement. One even said, "Great King, why don't you go play somewhere else? Don't hold back our progress."
Fang Zhiyi felt these guys were really a bit ungrateful. He might not be a walking library, but he had at least thoroughly memorized the Three Hundred Tang Poems!
So, when he used a stick to write out an entire poem, the expressions of all the monsters changed. They couldn't understand it, but they could be sure of one thing: the Great King truly was literate.
"Great King, I've heard other monsters say that if you eat a scholar, you gain their knowledge. Tell us the truth, did you eat a scholar?" The little monsters all looked at Fang Zhiyi with suspicion.
"Get lost!"
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.
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
or! A blessing for those who struggle with love, a guidebook for dating novices. Quickly match with your dream goddess! Complete walkthroughs earn rewards, and perfect walkthroughs unlock limited achievements!】 Shen Yi, an ordinary office worker, accidentally downloads a mini-game called Dating Simulator. The mini-game is simple: randomly search for dating targets, simulate dates, and receive rewards upon successful confession. Rewards include but are not limited to money, attributes, and skills. The higher the evaluation, the better the rewards, with perfect ratings unlocking mysterious achievements. Shen Yi plans to use this mysterious mini-game to continuously pursue targets and improve himself, making his life better and better. ...... However, after several successful walkthroughs, Shen Yi suddenly notices something strange - the targets he previously simulated dating seem to be searching for him in real life?
