"Holy crap, that was close. We can't ever do that again," Little Hei said, looking as if he were still palpitating with fear.
Fang Zhiyi smiled. "Even you get scared?"
"How could I not be? I felt like someone was already about to catch us, though I don't know why they stopped," Little Hei grumbled. "You're crazy enough, actually gambling with your life?"
"I had no choice. After all, it called me Master..."
"Stop right there! What I mean is, it's fine if you gamble with your own life, but gambling with mine is crossing the line!"
"Oh, don't be so petty."
"The last time we stumbled was in this world, and now it's happening again. I'm not going back there, no matter what," Little Hei said.
Fang Zhiyi didn't argue; instead, he nodded in agreement.
That world was truly terrifying. It was hard to imagine that those immortals had already monopolized the Heavenly Dao.
Just a single so-called Holy Mother showing up was enough for him to know he couldn't beat them at all.
Looking down at his clothes, Fang Zhiyi paused for a moment. "Stop nagging and give me the plot."
Only then did Little Hei deliver the storyline of this world.
Zhang Qingqing was the youngest in her family and also the least favored. Therefore, the task of going down to the countryside naturally fell on her shoulders. Although Zhang Qingqing was unwilling, she didn't dare say anything.
On the day of departure, the other educated youths basically brought a lot of good things from their families. She was the only one who just brought a few changes of clothes and two hard flatbreads.
On the train, the boy next to her struck up a conversation and generously shared his milk candies with her. This moved Zhang Qingqing deeply. Before they even reached their destination, the two had already become familiar with each other. The boy's name was Wei Xiangyang. Wei Xiangyang said he volunteered to come because his parents always controlled him at home, and he wanted to see the outside world.
"The vast world has much to offer!"
But his rose-tinted glasses were soon shattered. A dusty country road, a dilapidated donkey cart, and a dark-skinned man enthusiastically beckoning them to follow.
The group stumbled along the uneven path until they reached Xiashan Village.
When they stepped into the so-called educated youth spot, Wei Xiangyang's face turned green. People could actually live in this dump?
Zhang Qingqing also frowned, but she didn't say anything, silently listening to the production brigade captain's arrangements. She knew that since she was here, she could only obediently accept her assignment.
There was almost no transition. After a hasty night's sleep, the captain assigned them work the next day. The male educated youths were responsible for plowing, carrying water, and hauling manure, earning ten work points a day. The female youths had it slightly easier—watering, cutting grass, and feeding livestock for eight work points a day.
The captain thought this was quite reasonable and assigned a villager to guide each educated youth in their work.
The person leading Wei Xiangyang was the captain's daughter, Fang Xiaoxia. Fang Xiaoxia had somewhat dark skin but loved to smile. Faced with Wei Xiangyang's clumsiness, she would always laugh first before teaching him what to do.
Wei Xiangyang was no fool. With just a few sweet words and a couple of candies, he coaxed Fang Xiaoxia into blooming with joy. By the end of the day, he did the least amount of work, leaving most of it to Fang Xiaoxia.
Wei Xiangyang was handsome and came from a good family, naturally attracting some of the female youths at the settlement. In this era, there was no entertainment; besides working, it was all about romance.
Zhou Qiaoyun was scheming on how to approach Wei Xiangyang. She couldn't let someone else snatch away such a high-quality man. But just as she was about to confess her feelings, she stumbled upon Wei Xiangyang and Zhang Qingqing having a secret rendezvous.
From that moment on, Zhou Qiaoyun held a grudge against Zhang Qingqing. Zhang Qingqing always looked frail and delicate while working, and Zhou Qiaoyun ruthlessly expressed her dissatisfaction directly. After Zhang Qingqing defended herself with a few words and a face full of grievance, Zhou Qiaoyun, who didn't understand these manipulative tactics, was immediately criticized by the other youths.
"Qingqing is in poor health, stop giving her a hard time."
"We all came here together, how can you act like this?"
Zhou Qiaoyun hated Zhang Qingqing to the core. She had a brash personality and would bluntly show it if she disliked someone. After publicly scolding Zhang Qingqing, she managed to vent her anger, but she also ruined her own reputation among the group.
This also planted the seeds for Zhou Qiaoyun's tragic fate.
As the brigade captain, Fang Zhiyi knew his daughter liked that Wei Xiangyang. Fang Zhiyi didn't have much of an opinion on it. Wasn't there a term now called "free love"? As long as his daughter didn't suffer any losses, it was fine. So, he turned a blind eye to his daughter doing Wei Xiangyang's work for him.
Wei Xiangyang was also quick-witted. Every time he went to town to pick up packages from his family, he would first share them with the other youths and specifically bring a portion to Fang Zhiyi. This gesture pleased Fang Zhiyi immensely. After all, in this day and age, villagers couldn't even bear to buy fruit drops that didn't require sugar ration coupons, let alone the milk candies Wei Xiangyang brought, which were a true rarity.
Meanwhile, Zhang Qingqing would intentionally or unintentionally drop by his house often, either helping with chores or showing concern for his daily life. Zhang Qingqing's methods were clever. Her words completely charmed the long-widowed Fang Zhiyi. However, Fang Zhiyi knew there was a significant age gap between them, so naturally, he made no demands. Still, this didn't stop him from listening to Zhang Qingqing on many matters, whether it was assigning her the easiest jobs or standing up for her. Even if some people were dissatisfied, they didn't dare speak out directly due to Fang Zhiyi's status.
Not long after, an incident occurred in the village. Zhou Qiaoyun was tricked into the home of an old village bachelor and raped. Captain Fang Zhiyi wanted to call the police but was stopped. The villagers believed that calling the police would ruin the village's reputation, and the educated youths thought Zhou Qiaoyun herself wasn't clean to begin with.
After much back and forth, a weeping Zhou Qiaoyun was married off to the old bachelor.
Fang Zhiyi could only sigh and held a meeting with the educated youths, emphasizing the issue of safety.
He had absolutely no idea that this whole ordeal had been orchestrated by Wei Xiangyang and Zhang Qingqing. Nor did he realize that Zhang Qingqing and Wei Xiangyang had long been secretly hooking up. One approached him, and the other approached his daughter, all for the sake of having an easier life.
Because Zhang Qingqing was always acting coquettishly toward Fang Zhiyi, Wei Xiangyang felt stifled and frustrated, even though he knew she was just doing it to avoid labor. He sought out Fang Zhiyi for a drink. Fang Zhiyi didn't overthink it and had a few drinks with him. Wei Xiangyang couldn't hold his liquor well, so Fang Zhiyi invited him to stay the night, as there was a spare room in the house anyway.
But this overnight stay led to disaster. Waking up in the middle of the night to relieve himself, Wei Xiangyang's blood boiled at the thought of his beloved girl acting coquettishly toward Fang Zhiyi. Turning around, he saw Fang Xiaoxia, who had also gotten up to use the bathroom. Evil thoughts surged into his mind, and he dragged Fang Xiaoxia into his room.
Fang Xiaoxia neither resisted nor made a sound; she simply endured it in silence.
Wei Xiangyang, on the other hand, was filled with the thrill of revenge.
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?!”
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!
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."
