The accumulated incense power of countless members of the Blessing Star Human Race, amplified by its many attributes, finally bursts forth through you.
This Red Cardinal, despite his ninth-cycle Pill Transformation cultivation, cannot withstand your full-powered eruption.
His body is brutally suppressed by the golden giant hand, utterly unable to break free throughout the entire fall, his wings nearly breaking from frantic flapping to no avail.
The Red Cardinal is pushed all the way to the ground, slammed deep into the earth.
“Rumble!!”
Your golden avatar stamps a massive handprint into the starport's surface, the surrounding ground shaking violently, shockwaves sweeping outward in rings, kicking up dust that blots out the sun and plunges the area into deeper gloom.
The incense power is not yet depleted.
The colossal golden statue raises its hand and presses down again.
Every movement of the golden avatar sends shockwaves through the air that, to the many alien races on the starport, are no different from a super typhoon.
Before the golden hand even arrives, the sheer pressure and gale-force winds scatter them into chaos.
“Boom!!”
“Boom!!”
“Boom!!”
Palm after palm, your incense golden avatar avenges the slaughtered righteous army in the most straightforward, unadorned manner.
The entire starport and surrounding regions are shattered into rubble, reduced to a lifeless wasteland.
Apart from some winged races that managed to flee, the enemy forces involved in the starport battle are nearly wiped out.
The Winged God Cult slaughtered the righteous army, yet they too were slain by the incense power the righteous army had gathered.
Truly, karma cycles, and retribution is inevitable.
You climb back up the iron chains into the starship.
The starship, accelerating ever faster, has now broken through the atmosphere.
The Blessing Star appears in your view as a giant sphere floating in space.
Unlike Earth, which is blue-white, this planet is seen from space as a brownish-yellow sphere, somewhat bleak and lifeless.
You have finally left this third-rate planet.
Earlier, even though you could defeat the Red Cardinal with your attributes, if he couldn't beat you, he could still attack the starship.
If the starship were destroyed, you would never have another chance to leave.
Thanks to the incense power gathered over all these years, you caught the Red Cardinal completely off guard.
“Those who helped me board the ship were you, and at the final moment, those who helped me repel the enemy were still you...”
You sit inside the starship, surrounded by the pitch-black cosmos, recklessly displaying its boundlessness and profundity.
There is no time for grief.
You know that even now in outer space, the Winged God Cult may still give chase.
You enter the core chamber of the ship, and at the center of this room, a holographic map floats in midair, displaying a star chart centered on the Blessing Star.
This star chart is not to scale with the actual universe.
If it were, no map, no matter how large, could show more than a few stars — the scale of the cosmos is simply too immense.
The chart marks nearby celestial bodies, including stars, planets, comets, asteroids, and planetary moons. Distances between them, however, are not accurate on the chart and may be ignored.
The chart is generated by a small formation, and this formation is inscribed with divine runes.
As a celestial-rank formation master, combined with “Reverse Engineering,” you can understand the formation, but you cannot comprehend the divine runes upon it.
Divine runes cannot be parsed by “Reverse Engineering.”
This is also a discovery: divine runes are not only drawn in battle for combat but can also be etched onto surfaces to take effect over long periods.
How exactly that is accomplished, you have no idea. It certainly isn't simply carving a few strokes.
You zoom out on the star chart and locate Firelight Star in the Saint Sun system, five stellar systems away.
You have already familiarized yourself with the operations of the starship.
Skillfully, you send a stream of true energy onto the star chart, tapping the marker for Firelight Star — thus setting the navigation course.
Then, you channel your true energy again to drive the entire ship into “Forward Four” state.
“Forward” means moving toward the target direction; conversely, if you control the ship into “Reverse” state, it moves in the opposite direction of the target.
And the “Four” in “Forward Four” refers to speed — the higher the number, the faster. Four is the maximum.
However, this speed also depends on the quality and craftsmanship of the ship itself.
The more advantage a ship has in speed, the faster its “Forward Four” velocity will be.
So not all starships have the same speed.
Your starship was originally very low quality — bottom of the barrel — but after “Enhance!”, its quality has been upgraded by at least one tier.
A starship has only two directions of motion; it cannot move arbitrarily through space.
That's because these ships, in essence, cannot perform interstellar navigation on their own. They simply operate along something called a “Lane.”
Lane, full name “Interstellar Traffic Navigation Track.”
It is a special construct built by the Shijie people, continuously constructed from ancient times to the present, never ceasing.
Lanes span nearly every planet — at least every inhabited planet generally has a lane connecting it.
The scale of the universe renders all power and speed utterly insignificant, like ants before giants. Starships can cross planetary distances in a short time not because the ships are fast, but because the lanes are fast.
A lane is like a river, with water flowing within. The faster the current, the faster a boat travels downstream.
The difference is that the “water” in a lane can flow in two directions simultaneously, so a starship can go either “Forward” or “Reverse.”
The “flow speed” of the lanes is astonishing — theoretically surpassing the speed of light.
Yet in such faster-than-light travel, you do not experience time dilation; that is, you won't find that flying on a lane for one year means many years pass for a stationary observer on the ground.
You cannot comprehend this phenomenon that is both scientific and mystical, and can only attribute it to the wondrous power of divine runes.
Because you can clearly see that the lane is covered in glowing golden divine runes.
Year seventeen, age forty-one.
Drawing attributes...
Draw successful!
“Good Drinking Manners” (White Common): You fall asleep instantly after drinking, never causing a scene.
Adjust attribute?
Yes / No
You choose Yes.
You replace “Someone’s Been Copying My Face” with “Martin's Morning.”
The situation of the human race in the Shijie realm is a hundred times worse than Chen Yi had anticipated.
Though the situation on the Blessing Star may be an extreme case, and other planets likely aren't that severe,
it's easy to imagine it's not much better either.
Next, Chen Yi will head to Firelight Star to find the Old Hag — both to reclaim his immortal weapon companion and to cultivate in a place with immortal energy.
That's why Chen Yi thought of the “Martin's Morning” attribute.
Thanks to this ability, he could change his appearance every single day, even switching races entirely. This came in handy when he first arrived in a new place, making it easier for him to move around and get things done. Otherwise, if he walked around looking like a human, some "speciesist" types might try to cause trouble for him, which would get in the way of his cultivation and other important matters.
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
