"Really? You know my brother?" Fang Zhiyi ran down the stairs, his face full of excitement.
The moment they saw Fang Zhiyi, Lin Ye and his group exchanged strange looks. They all knew Wei Kaiyang had dealt with this Fang Zhiyi before, and they knew the boy was a bit odd. But now, it all made sense. Fang Zhiyi possessed a bizarre power that allowed him to connect with the demon world. His brother had fallen into depravity precisely to solve this issue.
"Yes, he wants to see you," Lin Ye said probingly.
Before his parents could object, Fang Zhiyi nodded. "Okay! I've been looking for him for so long!"
"Zhiyi!"
"Mom, Dad, don't stop me. I'm better now, and I have to bring my brother back!"
"That's right, Uncle and Auntie, don't worry. We are all professional exorcists. It will be perfectly fine for him to travel with us." As Lin Ye spoke, he was already asking the system which direction he should take.
However, the Fang parents refused to let Fang Zhiyi leave. The Order was gone, but demons still roamed outside. Who knew what might happen?
Seeing the shift in Lin Ye's gaze, Fang Zhiyi suddenly stepped sideways to block his parents' line of sight, gave Lin Ye a meaningful wink, and then glanced out the window.
Lin Ye was a bit confused, but fortunately, his girlfriend beside him, Ye Qingjie, understood Fang Zhiyi's intention.
She nudged Lin Ye, reminding him not to cause unnecessary complications, and the group finally left the Fang residence.
It wasn't until nightfall that a figure jumped down from the second-floor window. Seeing Fang Zhiyi, Lin Ye sneered inwardly.
"An NPC is just an NPC, rushing over to deliver intel."
Although he knew which way to go, he still needed to put on a show of asking around to convince his team. But Fang Zhiyi saved him the trouble: "I heard before that my brother went northwest."
Lin Ye was delighted but kept his face impassive. "That's right, he is over there. I didn't expect you to be so well-informed."
With the two of them chiming in together, the others noticed nothing unusual, assuming Lin Ye was merely playing along with Fang Zhiyi. They admired his adaptability even more.
Just like the original plot, Ye Qingjie, under Lin Ye's instructions, took great care of Fang Zhiyi along the way while constantly trying to fish for information. Fang Zhiyi was very cooperative, chattering incessantly about his experiences of being haunted by demons.
"Now that we know this, all we have to do next is figure out the reason behind Fang Linjie's fall," someone said.
Lin Ye sneered. "When have I ever failed to get a perfect clear?"
"Young Master Lin, are you thinking..."
"With our skills combined with these exorcism methods, hunting down a fallen human shouldn't be a problem."
The others broke into smiles. If Lin Ye said it could be done, it certainly could. Ever since they started following him, they had achieved a perfect clear almost every time.
After traveling for three days and three nights, the team stopped in a low-lying area. This was clearly an abandoned graveyard.
The system reminded Lin Ye that the target had completed the contract with the demon and was fully transformed.
Lin Ye merely took a brief look at the surrounding terrain before quietly ordering his teammates to set up camp. He was going to start laying traps.
It was just a demon, wasn't it? When he got back, he was going to thoroughly mock those useless trashes surnamed Wei.
Fang Zhiyi didn't question their actions. He just ate and slept, acting exactly like the NPC character Lin Ye imagined him to be.
However, another full three days passed, and Fang Linjie still hadn't shown up. The system seemed to be suffering from interference from this world and could not provide any specific answers to Lin Ye's questions.
The long wait made Lin Ye somewhat irritable. After all, he had always been praised for his fast and perfect clears. Now, he was growing increasingly restless.
Staying in this wretched place was truly miserable; it was nothing compared to the comfort of his own mansion.
"Young Master Lin, are you sure that Fang Linjie will come?" a teammate asked casually while starting a fire.
"His brother is in our hands. How could he not come?" Lin Ye replied.
"But I've heard that those possessed by demons completely lose their humanity and won't even recognize their own family."
A cold glint flashed in Lin Ye's eyes. "Then we'll awaken his familial love." Lacking patience, he turned his gaze toward Fang Zhiyi.
"This world isn't that big after all." Fang Zhiyi sat on the ground, sketching a simple map according to what Little Hei had told him.
Little Hei nodded. "This kind of world has no Heavenly Dao, which is why it attracts worlds like the Abyss to approach it. Some Heavenly Daos are born during the reconstruction of world order." As it spoke, it suddenly turned its head. "They seem to be studying you."
Fang Zhiyi couldn't even be bothered to turn his head. "Isn't that normal? I'm their bait."
It had to be said that although Lin Ye was arrogant, the other members of his team were careful enough. In order to find out if Fang Zhiyi posed a threat, they had beaten around the bush to extract information. Fortunately, Fang Zhiyi's ability to spin lies was top-notch. He made them believe that after helping a group of strangers last time, he had lost his powers and escaped the demon's entanglement.
Fang Zhiyi continued by drawing a sphere. "Then what kind of existence is the world Lin Ye and the others are from?"
Little Hei mimicked Fang Zhiyi's action, manifesting a hand to stroke its chin. "A wandering world, perhaps... It completes itself by constantly connecting with other minor worlds." It thought for a moment. "It's easier to understand it this way: the humans participating in the game are all chosen by the Heavenly Dao. If they win the game, the humans receive rewards, and a victory is actually a means for the Heavenly Dao to absorb nutrients from other minor worlds, since it interfered with their operations. Even if they fail, that world's Heavenly Dao doesn't lose out; it only loses a few taskers."
"A predator Heavenly Dao?" Fang Zhiyi clapped his hands.
Little Hei paused, then smiled. "That's an accurate name."
Fang Zhiyi drew over a dozen smaller spheres around the main one. "In other words, these so-called instance worlds are actually its source of nutrients, and once it eats its fill, these worlds will..."
"These minor worlds will never give birth to a Heavenly Dao, until they perish," Little Hei finished the thought.
"This time is quite interesting. The Abyss counts as one world, the original owner's place counts as one, their world counts as one, and Lin Ye is a transmigrator on top of that. Tsk."
"I'll go," Ye Qingjie said. By now, she had lost her usual gentleness, her face full of coldness. They had already discussed and reached a conclusion.
"Damn, they really aren't human."
"If you don't like watching, get out and go watch your kids' channels."
"Can't I even say a word? Lin Ye and his team are strong, but their methods are truly too cruel."
"Bro, if they aren't cruel, they'll die."
"But is this kind of approach really appropriate?"
Lin Ye had no idea what the stream chat thought of him, and even if he did, he wouldn't care. He had transmigrated here to enjoy himself; why should he care about the opinions of ants?
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
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?"
