["It is meaningless. In the Void Realm War, one must defeat all other worlds.
Once you wage war, it means you have learned the connection between the 'Realm War' and 'Ascension to Immortality.'
Then all the worlds that know the secret of ascending to immortality will know that you will attack them sooner or later.
Because of this, it is impossible for allies to exist.
You do not know whether your ally knows this secret. Once your ally finds out, they will definitely attack you when you are unprepared, because you are also one of their targets.
Everyone becomes a hunter in the forest. Once the bow is drawn, there is no turning back. You either fight all the hunters to the death, or you become the target of other hunters."]
[What kind of Void Realm Dark Forest is this!]
[You gained a massive amount of insight from your conversation with Shen Yang.]
[The outline of the entire Void Realm, as well as the events hidden beneath the fog of millions of years of history, gradually became clear.]
[Your thoughts returned to reality, and you began to discuss some "practical issues" with Shen Yang.]
["Brother Shen, look, I found you a 'Twin Soul Holy Body,' which saved you from having to possess bodies multiple times, right?"]
["Exactly. You have been a great help."]
["Every time you possess a body, the Shen family has to organize a Mirror Holder selection for you, consuming a massive amount of financial, material, and human resources each time."]
["That is indeed true."]
["Now that I've saved you all that trouble, shouldn't you give all those saved resources to me?"]
[Your fierce negotiation tactics completely dumbfounded Shen Qingshan, who was standing to the side.]
[In just a few days, his young and fragile mind had been utterly shattered by your actions.]
[You were simply too street-smart, making Shen Qingshan look like a complete rookie.]
[Shen Yang smiled and pointed at you.]
["Alright, alright, so you were waiting for me here. But what you say makes sense."]
[Is 'Chinese Succubus' really this strong? He even agreed to such a request?]
["But your appetite is too big. I can't satisfy all of it. Let me make you an offer."]
[It seems it has nothing to do with 'Chinese Succubus'; Old Shen is just quite generous.]
[Shen Yang made a list for you and told you to go to the Shen family's storehouse to collect the items.]
[The list was so long that you couldn't see the end of it at a glance.]
[You suspected that Shen Yang was just dumping all of the Shen family's overproduced goods on you to clear their inventory.]
[Thus, you argued strongly for your rights, demanding the option for equivalent exchanges.]
[For example, if you didn't need a certain material, you could exchange it for another material of equal value.]
["Brother Shen! I don't want these resources for myself. This is part of the plan to resist the Dragonkin!"]
[Old Shen couldn't out-argue you and reluctantly agreed.]
["By the way, there's one more thing you need to handle, Brother Shen."]
["What is it?"]
["Shen Wanquan, the Grand Elder of the Shen Family's Council of Elders, has already contacted the Dragonkin and become their inside man."]
[Shen Yang's face instantly turned gloomy.]
["Such a thing actually happened?"]
["I believe you have a hundred ways to make him tell the truth. This is your family's internal affair, so I won't worry about it."]
["Naturally. Before I merge with Shen Qingshan, I will first clean house and conduct a thorough investigation from top to bottom to ensure the Shen family is united. After all, internal problems are far more terrifying than external enemies."]
[Year 20, 39 years old.]
[For the first time in many years, Patriarch Shen stepped out of the Star Power Profound Realm, drawing the attention of the entire family.]
[He subsequently announced that a massive search would be conducted inside and outside the Star Domain, across the entire Shen family.]
[They were to investigate whether anyone was colluding with alien races from other realms, attempting to sell out the Human Realm for personal gain.]
[Shen Wanquan was finished.]
[Although you didn't pay attention to the specific process, you knew he had been executed by Patriarch Shen as a warning to the others.]
[You stayed in the Star Domain and lived with Third Sister's family.]
[In your daily life, you were busy cultivating and delving into formations, artifact forging, alchemy, the Path of Incense, and other disciplines.]
[Teaching staff was also a resource. According to your agreement with Shen Yang, the Shen family had to arrange teachers for you.]
[The resources needed for practice during your studies also had to be provided.]
[You spoke to your real-world self outside the simulation.]
["Brother, equip some learning-related traits for me. I'll be settling down in the Shen family for a while, and I can also see if the Shen family takes action to help human martial artists improve their combat power to jointly resist the Dragonkin."]
Chen Yi outside the simulation.
"Received."
[Year 21, 40 years old.]
[You replaced 'Serious Punch' with 'Formation Master.']
[You replaced 'Treasure-Snatching Nose' with 'Alchemy Sage.']
[You replaced 'Veteran Tomato User' with 'Forging Sage.']
[You replaced 'Trait Slingshot' with 'Man and Sword as One.']
[The academic atmosphere in the Star Domain was intense.]
[Exchange meetings, competitions, and lectures on the eighteen disciplines were everywhere.]
[Your Dao of Alchemy, Forging, Formations, Swordsmanship, and even the Path of Incense, which had no trait assisting it, were constantly improving.]
["Oh God! Really, it seems I can attract the power of incense, but I can only turn it into a faint amount of cultivation. It's simply too little, practically nonexistent."]
["The Path of Incense is just like that. Those who obtain little call it useless, while those who obtain much realize its wonders."]
["Speak plainly."]
["You have received too little incense. It only becomes meaningful when it reaches a certain amount."]
[The person discussing the Path of Incense with you was an old gentleman in the Star Domain known as Elder Taiping.]
[He had spent his entire life traveling around the Human Realm, dedicating himself to enlightening ordinary commoners and teaching them basic culture and knowledge.]
[He didn't have any temples of merit, but the Path of Incense didn't require people to build temples and burn incense for you. As long as people were grateful for your virtues, it was just as effective.]
[As the person with the most profound mastery of the Path of Incense in the Star Domain, Elder Taiping was not weak. He was one of the over thirty Martial Sages in the Shen family.]
[It was just that he was very old, already over four hundred years old.]
[The theoretical lifespan of a Martial Sage was four hundred years. He truly didn't have much lifespan left now; he was a Martial Sage in his twilight years.]
["It is already not easy for you to grasp the basics. If you want to master the more profound applications of the Path of Incense, you need talent."]
[Elder Taiping said it quite tactfully.]
[With a teacher like him guiding you hand-in-hand, and Old Shen's high-level research results as teaching materials, it took you a long time just to get started. If you wanted to go deeper, it would probably be a waste of time.]
[You also knew your own limits.]
[It would be better to wait for a relevant trait before studying the Path of Incense again.]
[In your spare time, you 'talked on the phone' with Xie Guihong from the Xiaoyao Sacred Ground.]
[This 'phone' was the Xiaoyao Token.]
["Island Master, is there any news about the Holy Son finals?"]
["Don't worry, it's still early. Focus on handling your family affairs and come back when you're done. If you have any difficulties, just say the word. Even if you're far away in the Five Regions, the Sacred Ground can send people to help."]
["Sorry for the trouble. Are all the masters doing well?"]
["Good... they're doing very well."]
[After confirming that there was still a long time before the Holy Son finals began, you decided to do something big.]
[Forge the Immortal Artifact, the Myriad Soul Banner!]
[Not forging a Heaven-rank Spiritual Artifact and turning it into an Immortal Artifact through 'Enhancement!']
Instead, he would directly forge an Immortal Artifact, the true and original Myriad Soul Banner!
As for what "Enhance!" would upgrade it into, that remained unknown.
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!
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?!
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
saw a female celebrity tied up and stuffed in the trunk! Little did he know, countless cameras were aimed at him at this moment - this was a new type of reality show. The first randomly selected passerby was caught in less than an hour. But when Xu Moru was selected, things started to take an unexpected turn. "Damn, this isn't how the script goes. This Xu Moru is too bold, he's not following the rules at all." "Crap, is this guy taking it seriously?" "The female celebrity has been scared to tears!"
