【While Black Wind was asking around for information about you, he happened to run into Shen Yifeng and Ma Bang, who were rushing about gathering people.】
【Shen Yifeng knew a little about the Dragon-Scaled Horse clan. Upon seeing the legendary ancient divine beast, he gave it a curious look.】
【And just like that, man and horse became acquainted.】
【From Shen Yifeng, Black Wind confirmed that you existed.】
【The only problem was that Shen Yifeng didn’t know where you were at the time, either.】
【So Black Wind decided to join their operation. That way, he would meet you sooner or later.】
【“Senior Shen said you could take us away?”】
【“Of course!”】
【Black Wind opened his mouth and spat out a starship.】
【It had been given to him by Shen Yifeng.】
【“Having a starship alone isn’t enough. How do we reach the space lanes beyond the atmosphere?”】
【You raised your head and gazed up at the sky.】
【From the ground, one had to ascend into the air, break through the atmosphere, and enter the cosmic environment.】
【Even you, with your status entries maxed out, couldn’t do it yet.】
【Much less you—those Heaven-Reaching Realm cultivators who possessed the ability to fly couldn’t fly in a vacuum for any length of time, even if they forcibly broke through the atmosphere.】
【A cultivator’s body might withstand the vacuum for a while, but surviving there for an extended period was absolutely impossible.】
【“Shen Yifeng left behind materials for setting up an Ascension Array.”】
【The Ascension Array was the same kind of array that created the seven-colored pillars of light in the spaceports.】
【Shen Yifeng knew that you understood formations, so he had left the materials for you.】
【“There’s an Ascension Array? Then why didn’t he give it to me directly when we were at the Firewood Sect?”】
【If you hadn’t needed a spaceport, you wouldn’t have had to take that two-year detour at all.】
【You soon understood why.】
【There simply weren’t enough materials. You could only set up the smallest possible Ascension Array.】
【It was so small that it couldn’t lift a regular-sized starship into the air. It could only send a person of ordinary size up.】
【For Shen Yifeng to obtain such strategically important materials right under the noses of the alien races was extraordinarily difficult. Naturally, he couldn’t have secured very much.】
【You could use this miniature Ascension Array to enter outer space and reach the altitude of the space lanes.】
【You would spend a brief period in a vacuum during the process, but as a Core Formation Realm cultivator, you could withstand it.】
【During the ascent, the starship would remain shrunken. Once you reached the height of the space lanes, you could restore it to its normal size and continue your interstellar journey.】
【But what about A-Dou?】
【He was so small that, forget about entering outer space, the low pressure at high altitude alone would be enough to kill him.】
【That was why Shen Yifeng hadn’t told them that they possessed an Ascension Array.】
【But now, he had relayed the information to you through Black Wind.】
【Without a doubt, as far as Shen Yifeng was concerned, the person they needed to escort away from Firelight Star had changed.】
【It was no longer A-Dou. It was you!】
【It was a cruel decision.】
【Either you abandoned A-Dou and left on your own,】
【or you stayed behind, raised A-Dou to adulthood, taught him how to cultivate, and waited until he was strong enough before taking him away with you.】
【You knew full well that the second choice could never succeed.】
【The planets weren’t isolated from one another.】
【The forces of Firelight Star might not be able to capture you, but what if alien factions on other planets heard the news and came after A-Dou as well?】
【How could you possibly stand against the entire universe?】
【The tiny A-Dou lay on your back. Seeing the cold sweat continuously trickling down your cheeks, he seemed to understand what you were thinking.】
【“Uncle Chen, you should go. A-Dou isn’t afraid of dying.”】
【The Myriad Soul Banner hurriedly spoke up.】
【“Oh, come on! Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey! Little Master, don’t say things like that! If this heartless Old Chen doesn’t want you, how could this old servant abandon you?”】
【The Myriad Soul Banner put on a bizarre monster voice, making A-Dou laugh again.】
【You thought of something and looked toward Black Wind.】
【“This Ascension Array can only send one person into space. How are you going to leave, Black Wind?”】
【“I don’t need an Ascension Array. They said I’m an ancient divine beast, so I can survive in outer space naturally.”】
【You blurted out, “Holy crap!”】
【This clan was even more unreasonable than you’d imagined.】
【“You can fly here?”】
【You knew very well how difficult it was to fly in the Real World.】
【No matter how unreasonable an ancient divine beast was, it couldn’t be this unreasonable, could it?】
【“I couldn’t before. While I was traveling with that merchant caravan, they were attacked by bandits on a planet. The two sides fought, and a great many of the bandits were killed.”】
【“And then?”】
【“Those bandits were all members of the Dragonkin race.”】
【You understood.】
【Black Wind had evolved!】
【“Can you still evolve?”】
【“I think so. I feel like I haven’t reached the limit of my bloodline yet.”】
【As he spoke, you took out a huge sack of dragon pearls.】
【They were all dragon pearls you had casually picked up from the battlefield after fighting the Dragonkin on Firelight Star—belonging to Dragonkin who had died.】
【“Eat them. Evolve a little more. Maybe you’ll get a surprise.”】
【Black Wind wolfed them down.】
【He ate until his horse belly bulged like a ball.】
【Yet Black Wind circulated his power to digest them, and his swollen belly visibly shrank.】
【Every dragon pearl was transformed into nourishment for his evolution.】
【“Roar—!”】
【A dragon’s roar erupted from Black Wind. The roar transformed into visible sound waves and instantly sent you stumbling backward.】
【“Whoa! Is this his ultimate form?”】
【A ring of dark-golden radiance appeared above Black Wind’s head and slowly spread all the way to his tail.】
【Wherever the ring of light passed, thick, tightly packed dark-golden dragon scales immediately covered Black Wind’s body.】
【His horse tail also became much more like a dragon’s tail.】
【Black Wind’s normal form grew even taller and more imposing. He stood over five meters tall and was nearly ten meters long!】
【Scarlet flames surged beneath his hooves, sweeping outward in circles. Even from far away, you could feel the astonishing heat rolling toward you.】
【“Boss! I think I’ve completely purged all the mixed bloodlines I inherited and restored the pure bloodline of my clan!”】
【Black Wind was a creature of the Real World, yet somehow he had appeared in the Void World.】
【Naturally, he wasn’t the first Dragon-Scaled Horse to fall into the Void World.】
【After reproducing generation after generation, the Dragon-Scaled Horses had incorporated bloodlines that did not belong to their race—apparently, Dragon-Scaled Horses possessed the ability to reproduce with any living creature.】
【Black Wind hadn’t evolved by devouring the dragon pearls. He had purified his bloodline!】
【Your gaze turned toward the distance.】
【“Black Wind, the commotion you made during your evolution was a little too big. Looks like you’ve attracted some people…”】
【That was fine, though.】
【Because you had never intended to leave by yourself in the first place.】
【“Boss! Get on! I’ll take you to the space lanes!”】
【“What about A-Dou?”】
【“No problem!”】
【You chose to trust Black Wind and leaped onto his back.】
【With a long neigh, Black Wind leaped from the mountaintop. His hooves stepped on empty air as he rose against the wind.】
【A-Dou cheered.】
【“Uncle Chen! We’re flying!”】
【Roiling flames blazed beneath Black Wind’s hooves, leaving behind a dazzling trail of fire in the sky.】
【Black Wind tossed his head, and a surge of divine power roared outward. It gathered the fiery trails together, forming a spherical protective shield around his body.】
【“Boss, with this, I can carry you and A-Dou through the cosmic environment!”】
【“Good grief, do we not even need a starship or the space lanes anymore?!”】
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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...
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
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?"
