He Yuling now somewhat understood what it felt like to be chased by a vengeful spirit.
She dove headfirst into the He residence, even shutting the main gates, only to hear Fang Zhiyi pounding on them so hard they shook the heavens.
Every crash nearly scared He Yuling to death; she was truly terrified.
Just when she thought she had escaped disaster, that despair-inducing voice rang out from the top of the wall.
"Let's see where you can run!"
"Oh my god! I was wrong! I admit I was wrong, okay?! I was wrong!"
"You don't know you were wrong, you're just fucking scared!"
The eldest miss of the He family had died. The reason this news spread was because someone had seen He Yuling's ghost.
"I heard Miss He did too many bad things and was punished."
"Huh?"
"Don't doubt it. Did you hear the commotion outside last night?"
"I did."
"I took a secret peek. Miss He's ghost was running for her life, and an evil spirit was chasing and beating her!"
"Yikes, that miserable?"
Soon, people went to the He residence to check and consequently discovered He Yuling's corpse. The He family rushed back upon hearing the news, and Old Master He nearly fainted dead away.
"I said this house was highly ominous. I thought it would be fine if our He family just moved away, but who knew Yuling would actually come back to stay... Heavens!"
To this moment, Old Master He still believed it was the house's fault.
"Go, go invite my worthy nephew over to preside over things." He hadn't forgotten Fang Zhiyi.
However, the servants soon returned to report that Fang Zhiyi was missing.
In his grief, Old Master He didn't overthink it; everything could wait until after his daughter was buried.
On the mountain path, Fang Zhiyi carried the dying vengeful spirit in his hand, grimacing in pain with every step. Yet, he didn't stop. Behind him followed over a dozen demons; all the demons from the Xiangyang Cave who had survived until now had come.
They watched their Great King limping along, and none dared to speak.
Thick fog gradually rose, and the sound of a suona drifted over.
Fang Zhiyi sighed, stood in place, and looked around. The Red and White Curses had appeared once again.
"I knew you wouldn't die that easily. Perfect, I'm burning with anger from the pain right now!"
But when they were about two or three meters away from Fang Zhiyi, the Red Curse lifted the sedan curtain to take a look. Its already deathly pale face quickly shrank back inside, and the White Curse lying in the coffin simply played dead outright.
That person wasn't a big deal, and the vengeful spirit in his hand wasn't a big deal either. But the dozen or so great demons behind him were no joke! Just a moment ago, those dozen terrifying demonic auras had locked onto them.
They were fierce, but not stupid.
They immediately decided to obediently bypass Fang Zhiyi and continue moving forward.
"?" Fang Zhiyi's eyes were red. "Hey!"
The large red sedan chair passed right in front of him. Hearing him speak, the eight sedan bearers obviously quickened their pace significantly.
"Hey? Stop right there!"
Unlike their previous proactive encirclement, the two processions sped up, started to jog, and finally just broke into a wild sprint, vanishing completely up the mountain path.
"Motherfucker." Fang Zhiyi, somewhat frustrated, raised his hand and smacked He Yuling's head. "See that? They're much better at reading the room than you are!"
He Yuling wore a miserable expression; she didn't dare say a word now.
As a vengeful spirit, beatings weren't fatal, so she had truly suffered terribly.
Eventually, Fang Zhiyi carried He Yuling into the Daoist temple. The moment it saw him, the Black Bear Spirit was a bit surprised. Then, seeing the vengeful spirit in Fang Zhiyi's hand, the Black Bear Spirit was full of curiosity. Finally, seeing the great demons filing in one after another, the Black Bear Spirit shrank its neck.
What was going on?
"This one, take care of it for me." Fang Zhiyi tossed He Yuling in front of the statue of the Ancestral Master like throwing out trash. "Don't tell me you don't know how."
The Black Bear Spirit scratched its head and answered honestly, "I really don't know how."
Fang Zhiyi sighed. "I'll tell you step by step, and you do it."
"Alright."
This black bear had one merit: it was obedient. As long as you were familiar with it, it was willing to listen to you, though it could be a bit stubborn sometimes.
The dozen or so demon kings, led by Da Huang, stood quietly in the courtyard watching. They exchanged glances from time to time, their eyes filled with complex emotions.
Originally, they had been somewhat skeptical, but now it seemed this human really was their Great King whom they hadn't seen in a thousand years. They just didn't understand why the Great King had reincarnated as a human.
The lengthy ghost-sealing ceremony concluded. He Yuling was incredibly cooperative; she even voluntarily squeezed into that broken jar at the very end. Now, as long as she didn't have to face Fang Zhiyi, she was willing to do anything.
Watching Fang Zhiyi prop his hands on his knees and slowly stand up, his face filled with pain, Ah Huang took a step forward. "Great King, why put yourself through this? A human body is simply incapable of bearing demonic qi... Why not let me..." He reached out his hand, but Fang Zhiyi raised his own to refuse the goodwill.
"Leave."
"Huh?"
"I said, all of you, leave." Fang Zhiyi struggled to raise his head and look at these familiar faces he hadn't seen in a long time.
"Great King..."
"I am Fang Zhiyi, an ordinary person. I have no relation to you, and we do not know each other. Do you understand?"
"Great King? What are you saying! I..."
Fang Zhiyi's eyes were completely bloodshot. "Get lost!!!"
The Black Bear Spirit watched curiously as these great demons all shrank their necks in fear at Fang Zhiyi's shout. It suddenly felt somewhat glad that it hadn't fought Fang Zhiyi that day.
Da Huang looked at Fang Zhiyi's ferocious expression, gave a muffled response, cupped his hands in a salute, and was the first to leave.
He was closely followed by the second, and then the third.
The Black Bear Spirit just watched these great demons leave, and then turned its head to meet Fang Zhiyi's gaze.
"You get lost too."
"Me?" The Black Bear Spirit pointed at its own nose. "No, this is my master's..."
It looked at Fang Zhiyi's completely red pupils and forcefully swallowed the rest of its words.
However, the stubbornness in its bones still made it mutter, "This is our Daoist temple, on what grounds are you telling me to get lost? Even if you just told me to leave, that would be fine..."
"Come back in seven days," Fang Zhiyi said.
The Black Bear Spirit didn't dare provoke him either. It called its two junior brothers and left. Not far away was a vegetable patch; it planned to build a small shed there and stay for a couple of days, which would also allow it to keep an eye on the temple and prevent this Fang Zhiyi from doing anything outrageous.
Little Hei watched as Fang Zhiyi walked laboriously, blood seeping out from the pores on his skin.
"I say, now that the vengeful spirit is dealt with, why don't we just leave?"
Fang Zhiyi shook his head. "Last time we came here, despite trying over and over, we couldn't save a woman's life. This time, I've actually been reduced to needing a mouse to die in my place. It's too humiliating."
"But what can you do? Let alone you, even I don't dare to speak loudly in this world." Little Hei was also a bit indignant at this point.
"This world has no Heavenly Dao, right?" Fang Zhiyi asked suddenly.

rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!

young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."

transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”

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?!