The two men, each harboring his own thoughts, arrived in front of the village chief.
The old man was just about to ask Liu Xuan what he wanted when the Eagle Spirit companion on Liu Xuan’s shoulder suddenly materialized on its own.
The village chief’s eyes lit up with excitement. “Warrior, have you dealt with the hidden threat in Eagle Spirit Mountain?”
Liu Xuan smiled and nodded. “That’s right. I cleared them all out.”
“Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful! Now we don’t have to worry about them coming to steal our food anymore, and you’ll be able to head north without concern!”
The village chief danced around in excitement. Then, as if he had suddenly remembered something, he fumbled around inside his clothes for a while, apparently looking for something.
After searching for quite some time without finding it, he said awkwardly, “Looks like I didn’t bring it with me. Warrior, before you set off for the north, remember to come see me.”
Was this the quest reward, or a follow-up quest?
Curious, Liu Xuan nodded. “All right. I’ll come by then.”
Wang Dafu, who was standing nearby, had been completely stunned the moment a transparent blue eagle appeared on Liu Xuan’s shoulder.
Then, when he saw Liu Xuan chatting cheerfully with the village chief, all he could do was stand there blankly.
What Eagle Spirit Mountain? What north? What the hell were they talking about?!
Wang Dafu had no idea that the mountain he had made up in his story was actually called Eagle Spirit Mountain.
All he knew was that there were a lot of human soldiers over there. What did they have to do with eagles?
Seeing that Liu Xuan still had no intention of ending his conversation with the village chief, Wang Dafu couldn’t hold it in any longer.
“Ace, this is urgent! My friend is still waiting to be rescued. Hurry up and ask him about those monsters!”
As he spoke, he simply turned to the village chief and asked, “Chief, isn’t there a mountain east of the village covered with human soldiers? And aren’t they hostile?”
The village chief stroked his beard and nodded. “That’s correct.”
Wang Dafu immediately perked up. “See? See? I wasn’t making it up, was I? We—”
Before he could finish, the village chief slowly added, “But this warrior has already cleared out the threat there. Young man, what are you in such a hurry about?”
Wang Dafu’s face instantly became a giant question mark. “???”
Huh???
What did he mean, “already cleared it out”?
Wang Dafu stiffly turned his neck toward Liu Xuan. Liu Xuan was looking at him with a beaming smile and an expression that clearly said, “Go on, keep acting.”
“Before I ran into you after leaving the inn, I had just returned from Eagle Spirit Mountain. Oh, right—you might not know this, but Eagle Spirit Mountain is the place where your friend was supposedly captured.”
“You… I…”
Wang Dafu opened and closed his mouth, stammering for a long time without managing to say anything.
He finally understood. Liu Xuan had been messing with him from beginning to end!
He had wanted to trick Liu Xuan into going to Eagle Spirit Mountain to his death, but the man had already slaughtered everyone there!
So in the end, he was the one who had turned himself into a clown?
Liu Xuan stared at him with a half-smile. “Are you still claiming that your friend was just captured by the soldiers from Eagle Spirit Mountain?”
“Ace, I…” Cold sweat poured down Wang Dafu’s forehead as his mind raced to find an excuse. “Maybe… maybe… they were already killed, so you didn’t run into them when you went there.”
“Stop making things up! Tell me—are Shen Zhou and Chang Feng your accomplices?”
“No! I don’t even know those two.”
“Heh. What names did you give your supposedly captured friends earlier? Need me to remind you? Shen Feng and Chang Zhou? Besides, I’ve already messaged Zhang Meng to ask. You used to be part of Shen Zhou’s squad, Wang Dafu!”
Seeing that Liu Xuan had exposed everything about him, Wang Dafu knew there was no point hiding it anymore. All he could do was force out a smile uglier than crying.
“Well, Legendary Liu Xuan, I was wrong. I really know I was wrong! I… I did lie to you, but I didn’t mean any harm! Really! I’ve admired your reputation for a long time and wanted to see with my own eyes how powerful you really were. That’s why I came up with the idea of tricking you into going to Eagle Spirit Mountain.”
“So that’s it? You just wanted to see how powerful I am?”
“Yes, yes, exactly.”
“All right.” Liu Xuan waved his hand. “Then get lost.”
“Huh?”
Wang Dafu froze. He hadn’t expected Liu Xuan to actually let him go.
“What? Is there a problem?”
“No, no problem!”
Wang Dafu hurriedly shook his head and took off running, afraid that Liu Xuan might change his mind.
Liu Xuan watched his retreating back, the corners of his mouth curling upward.
Hmph. You think you can get away?
He then opened the chat channel and sent a message in the public battlefield channel:
“Wang Dafu, fuck your grandpa!”
For some reason, Wang Dafu, who was in the middle of running away, suddenly felt a chill down his back.
But he had no time to check the chat channel. Worried that Liu Xuan might change his mind, he ran even faster.
The channel had been bustling with activity, but the moment Liu Xuan’s message appeared with its dazzling golden title, it fell silent for two seconds.
Then a flood of messages began scrolling across the screen at lightning speed.
“Holy crap, who am I looking at?”
“Is that really Legendary Liu Xuan?”
“What happened? What did this Wang Dafu guy do to make Legendary Liu Xuan so angry?”
“I think I know him… He’s in our squad. He only joined the battlefield yesterday, and I was assigned to help him level up and get familiar with how things work here.”
“Then his level should be pretty low. How did he manage to piss off Legendary Liu Xuan?”
“No idea.”
“Legendary Liu Xuan, come on, tell us what this guy did!”
Once the discussion had reached the right temperature, Liu Xuan finally replied.
“I’m furious just thinking about it. This bastard lied to me and said his friends had been captured by monsters on the mountain east of here, begging me to go rescue them. When I got there, I found tens of thousands of soldiers, siege weapons capable of killing people instantly, and even a boss. They were all level ten to twenty.
“Luckily, I’m pretty damn capable. Otherwise, I might not have made it back alive. But after fighting my way inside, I didn’t find a single one of the people he claimed had been captured. When I came back and asked him about it, this Wang Dafu guy actually said he only wanted to see how strong I was. It makes me furious!”
After saying that, Liu Xuan even uploaded a picture of the [Hamorvi General’s Breastplate] that had dropped from the boss, proving that he wasn’t exaggerating.
“Oh my god, a level-20 [Fine] piece of equipment? Can something like that really drop in a beginner village?!”
“Three hundred HP and ten points of Strength… Mmm, I’m drooling.”
“Is that really the important part? The important part is that Wang Dafu lied!”
“What a disgusting person. He took advantage of someone else’s kindness to trick them. The world is going downhill because of people like this. Who would dare help anyone again?”
“Exactly. How can you lie about something involving someone’s life?”
“Have you considered that this wasn’t merely a case of lying? If the person who went there hadn’t been Legendary Liu Xuan, anyone else would have died for sure. That’s attempted murder, isn’t it?”
“Now that you mention it, something does seem off. Would a normal person really make up a lie like that just to test how powerful an ace was? Wasn’t he specifically targeting Legendary Liu Xuan?”
“No way. What would he gain from setting up Legendary Liu Xuan?”
“That’s hard to say. Some people are just twisted like that. Aren’t there plenty of people in real life who hurt others without gaining anything themselves?”
“Exactly. We can’t let this go. We should capture Wang Dafu and interrogate him properly!”
“I’ll contact Brother Zhang Meng. We’ll get to the bottom of this.”
Meanwhile, Zhang Meng sent Liu Xuan a private message. It contained nothing but a thumbs-up emoji.
Seeing this, Liu Xuan closed the chat channel.
If he let these people expose the conspiracy of Wang Dafu, Shen Zhou, and the others themselves, it would prevent everyone from panicking.
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.
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!
