"Say, do you think it's like that other world? That there's something specifically pulling the two worlds together, and then..."
Little Hei shook its head. "I can't get close to that world, so I don't know what the situation is." It muttered, "It's hard to say if the Heavenly Dao of that world just has some sick sense of humor, or if the trajectory of that entire world was already set in stone the moment it was born."
Fang Zhiyi nodded, looking downstairs at the two pale-faced outsiders.
Because of Fang Zhiyi's recovery, the atmosphere in the Fang household had brightened. Faced with strangers knocking on their door for help, Fang's mother showed absolute friendliness.
"You said you want to stay here for a bit?" Fang's mother served water to the two people before her. "We do have a spare room. If you don't mind, you can stay here temporarily."
She turned and saw Fang Zhiyi, smiling as she beckoned her son over to greet the guests.
"Hello, my name is Li Lan."
"Hello, I am Wei Kaiyang."
Although this man and woman were panicked, they behaved very politely at this moment.
To survive, they naturally had to figure something out. Right now, the best plan was to find a household of local residents willing to take them in, and then lay low.
After a good while, Mr. and Mrs. Fang returned to their room. The pursuing demon hadn't appeared again either. Wei Kaiyang visibly breathed a sigh of relief, collapsing onto the sofa, while Li Lan covered her face and began to cry.
Wei Kaiyang looked at her somewhat impatiently. "What are you crying for? It's bad luck!"
Li Lan glared at him with red eyes. "Ah Mei is dead! How can you still look like you don't care? You cold-blooded jerk!"
Wei Kaiyang rolled his eyes at her. "How many of the people chosen to participate are still alive and well? Lady, it's hard enough for us to just stay alive. Can you stop crying? Don't attract that thing over here again!"
Hearing this, Li Lan was like a lit powder keg. "It's not like I wanted to participate! Why didn't you guys go save Ah Mei just now? There were several of you men, and you actually left a girl to die!"
Wei Kaiyang was somewhat speechless. "You ask me why I didn't save her, why didn't you go save her? You were running faster than I was just now!"
Li Lan immediately became furious. "I'm a woman! Of course I had to run! I don't have any combat power! Don't you know that men are supposed to protect women? And now you're lecturing me?"
Wei Kaiyang held up his hands. "Fine, fine, fine, my bad, my bad."
Li Lan's makeup was ruined. Looking at Wei Kaiyang's expression, she had nowhere to vent the anger in her heart.
At this time, a burst of heavy panting came from outside. Wei Kaiyang stood up nervously; this was the voice of that monster from before!
He desperately winked at Li Lan, but Li Lan didn't notice at all, just continuing to complain. "I want to go home! What the hell is this place! If they want to play this kind of deadly game, they should only let men participate. Why did it have to find me!"
"Auntie, please stop shouting!" Wei Kaiyang tried to cover her mouth, but Li Lan pushed him away desperately. "Don't touch me! You creep!"
"Oh boy, they're doomed." The viewers watching the livestream began to discuss.
"Sigh, guess Lao Wei is about to go offline too."
"Lao Wei shouldn't have even bothered with her, he should have just run on his own."
"I don't think staying at someone's house is any safer than staying in an abandoned building. Since they already know there's a problem with this place, shouldn't they stay away from crowds first?"
"I know this woman. She used to post feminist rhetoric all day on social media. How come now she's starting to say men should protect women?"
"The extreme feminism doesn't even matter, the key is that she's obviously a deadweight teammate. Lao Wei has managed to survive so many times, but it looks like he's going to bite the dust this time."
"That monster won't charge into the local residents' house, will it?"
"Don't make this about gender. Look at Luo Huan in Lin Ye's team, she's very impressive, calm and has good skills."
As a loud bang hit the door, Wei Kaiyang held his breath.
Meanwhile, Li Lan beside him screamed in terror, causing the entire audience in the livestream to frown collectively.
Fortunately, the door wasn't busted open. However, Wei Kaiyang still felt something was wrong. He suddenly turned his head, and there was a person standing at the kitchen doorway. That person's body was twisted, their head shaking rapidly, constantly emitting that awful panting sound.
Li Lan covered her ears and started screaming, while Wei Kaiyang looked around for a weapon. Since they couldn't hide, they had to fight.
But at this moment, a person walked down the stairs.
"The NPC got woken up!"
"It's over, another one is going to die."
"Wait, it seems like he doesn't see that monster?"
"He... saw it."
"Huh? Black screen?"
"???????"
The livestream went black, but there was no death notification.
Wei Kaiyang watched as the local resident named Fang Zhiyi grabbed the monster's violently shaking head and then threw a punch.
"Stop shaking, damn it! You're making my eyes dizzy!"
The beaten demon felt a bit wronged. It opened its mouth and hissed at Fang Zhiyi, while simultaneously reaching out its mutated, elongated fingers toward him. Just as it was about to touch Fang Zhiyi, the monster suddenly paused.
It violently sprang back, its entire body trembling uncontrollably.
"You recognize me?" Fang Zhiyi tilted his head and looked at it.
The monster nodded vigorously. It recognized him all too well! Recently, there was a rumor in the Abyss that a human was actually wreaking havoc down there by possessing demons, and he had even killed a Lord!
A young man who beat people up over the slightest disagreement, with an aura even more terrifying than a high-level demon's. Most importantly, he carried the aura of several of its own kind! Wasn't that the exact person standing right in front of it?
"Alright, if you recognize me, then get lost!" Fang Zhiyi waved his hand impatiently.
The monster hurriedly turned around and ran, violently shoving the door open. After a moment, it suddenly turned back and carefully closed the door behind it.
"Son, what's going on? It's so noisy!" Fang's mother and father also appeared in their pajamas.
Fang Zhiyi looked at Li Lan, who was still screaming, his brows furrowed tightly. "Nothing special, Mom. It seems you took in a psycho."
Li Lan instinctively wanted to curse back, but before she could open her mouth, Wei Kaiyang grabbed her by the hair and dragged her to the door. Li Lan was still screaming, but this time it was out of pain.
As the door opened, she felt a kick to her backside, and then she tumbled to the ground.
"You actually kicked me! And pulled my hair! You violent brute!" Li Lan cursed loudly at the closed door.
She wanted to smash the door open, but the panting sound behind her woke her from her anger.
Li Lan slowly turned her head.
The miserable screams outside the door abruptly ceased.
Fang's mother and father looked at the door in horror. Wei Kaiyang, who was using his body to hold the door shut, had a face full of apologetic smiles. "Sorry, sorry, I don't know her. I just saw that she was pitiful, so I let her tag along with me."
Fang Zhiyi looked the middle-aged man up and down. This guy was quite sensible.
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 + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
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."
