【When the Five Elements collapsed and the stars of the celestial region fell, the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey joined forces with several Qi Transformation cultivators from the human realm to intercept and destroy the massive celestial bodies before they crashed into the ground.】
【Afterward, the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey disappeared.】
【“That won’t do. My main task this time is to take this monkey away. Otherwise, I’ll have a hard time explaining myself to the Starfield Apes…”】
【I’d already boasted that I knew where both monkeys were and that I could definitely bring them back. If I couldn’t find this one now, I’d really be making a fool of myself.】
【“Martial God Chen, you’ve projected yourself into the human realm to accomplish some great undertaking. Is there anything we can do to help?”】
【You looked around at the devastation and sighed.】
【“Pavilion Master Zhuge, take care of yourselves. Do your best to stay alive.”】
【“Sigh… Once the Five Elements fall into disorder, everything will return to primordial chaos. Nothing will remain…”】
【“Don’t worry. There will be a way to save everyone.”】
【“How?”】
【You said no more. With a leap, you vanished from the spot.】
【How could it be saved?】
【There was naturally no way to solve the problem in this simulation.】
【You would have to rely on future simulations.】
【The schemes of Fu Yucheng in Baiyun County, the war between the demon clans in the Great Wilderness, and the invasion of the Dragonkin from another world.】
【You had overcome each crisis one after another.】
【This time, you still had confidence that you could solve the problem.】
【All you could do in this simulation was gather as much information as possible and prepare for the next one.】
【If the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey was no longer in the human realm, finding him would be difficult.】
【With your Core Formation cultivation, traveling to other planes was not difficult, but that would be like searching for a needle in a haystack—and you had limited time.】
【You would still begin by searching the human realm.】
【You released your divine sense to its utmost range, scanning every detail of the world.】
【Fortunately, the celestial region was gone, saving you from searching a vast area.】
【While looking for traces of the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey, you spotted Li Chengqian.】
【The city had fallen, and its people were dead.】
【The capital of the Great Qian Dynasty lay in desolation.】
【For ten years, the imperial court had concentrated all its resources and strength on protecting the capital. But recently, it had finally been unable to hold out.】
【Rain poured from the heavens as if the sky had split open. Floodwaters submerged the low-lying areas of the capital, dividing the ancient city into isolated sections.】
【Magma erupted from the earth. Flames continued to burn beneath the torrential rain, making them impossible to extinguish.】
【The people and soldiers within the city had either died or fled.】
【The civil and military officials had taken their families and were barely able to fend for themselves, desperately searching for somewhere safe to settle.】
【As the city’s defenses weakened, the disasters attacked with even greater ferocity. In only a day or two, everything was destroyed.】
【Within the vast imperial palace,】
【Li Chengqian sat alone in the empty main hall, his imperial robe hanging in disarray.】
【“Leave! All of you, leave! As long as even one citizen remains in this city, I, the emperor, will never leave!”】
【His voice echoed through the hall.】
【Then he collapsed onto the floor from his throne, laughing and crying at the same time.】
【“The Great Qian Dynasty!”】
【The palace grounds gradually fell silent.】
【Only the roar of the natural disasters remained.】
【Li Chengqian’s divine sense covered the entire capital.】
【The floodwaters were steadily rising and would soon submerge the imperial palace.】
【There was no one left in the city.】
【If even the capital—the heart of the nation—had ended up like this, it was easy to imagine how bad things were elsewhere.】
【A strip of white silk hung before the main entrance of the hall.】
【Li Chengqian had decided to die for his country.】
【“Though the nation has perished, it was neither my fault nor the fault of the officials! Heaven and earth are impartial, treating all things like straw dogs!”】
【He hung there for a while.】
【His cultivation was simply too high. He failed to die.】
【Just as Li Chengqian was preparing to try another method, you appeared.】
【“Benefactor?! No—Martial God Chen!”】
【You smiled.】
【“It’s me.”】
【“I heard that Martial God Chen had ascended to the True Realm. How…”】
【You had no choice but to explain the situation to Li Chengqian as well.】
【When you finished, you glanced at the strip of white silk.】
【“You were planning to…”】
【“I’m embarrassed for you to see this, Martial God Chen, but it was what I ought to do. The Great Qian Dynasty has fallen, and its people have suffered. As the emperor, I bear the primary responsibility. Only death can atone for my crimes.”】
【You patted him on the shoulder.】
【“Don’t be so narrow-minded. This is a natural disaster, though its underlying cause was human wrongdoing. Rather than dying here, you should preserve your life. With your cultivation and influence, you may be able to save one person—or perhaps many. That would be far better than dying here.”】
【Your words awakened him from his confusion.】
【“Martial God Chen is absolutely right!”】
【“As emperor, I imagine you know a great deal. I’d like to ask you about a few things.”】
【“Please ask, Martial God Chen. But if you want to know who destroyed the five spiritual vessels, I truly have no idea. No one in the world does. Otherwise, everyone would have gone looking for that bastard to take revenge long ago!”】
【“What about Senior Hua Wuyan? She was a guardian. Didn’t she notice anything at all?”】
【“She died under mysterious circumstances twenty years ago. As for who killed her, the Imperial Dragon Guard has investigated to this day without finding anything. Now that I think about it, the culprit must have been the person who destroyed the five spiritual vessels.”】
【“So the enemy really did make his move long ago… What about Li Lingyue?”】
【“Ten years ago, she embarked upon the path to immortality and went to the True Realm.”】
【“She ascended?”】
【Li Lingyue’s rate of improvement in this simulation was even faster than in the previous ones.】
【Perhaps it was because, before you ascended, you had given the Li imperial clan some advice, prompting them to protect Li Lingyue with the full strength of the royal family.】
【She had also been guided by a renowned master like her guardian.】
【On top of that, she possessed the powerful Incense Fire Saint Physique.】
【When Li Lingyue ascended, the Five Elements of Heaven and Earth had not yet completely collapsed.】
【The year after she left, the path to immortality did not appear again as it had in previous years. This might have been related to the chaos of the Five Elements.】
【“However, before Li Lingyue ascended, she said that the person who killed her master, Hua Wuyan, came from the True Realm. She intended to find him there and avenge her master.”】
【As expected of the female protagonist—she was still bold in love and hate, decisive in everything she did.】
【But those words contained a great deal of information.】
【“How could Li Lingyue be certain that the culprit came from the True Realm… Judging from his actions, he probably wasn’t all that powerful. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have waited until after Great Demon, Shen Yang, and the others ascended before making his move.”】
【From Li Chengqian, you also learned that your eldest brother and third sister had already died in this calamity.】
【You had been mentally prepared for it, so you felt little emotion.】
【With the world transformed into this state, how many people could possibly survive?】
【As time passed, the entire human realm would eventually turn into a sea of primordial chaos. Nothing would remain—nothing at all.】
【The outcome was already decided. You did not want to grieve over it too deeply.】
【You bid farewell to Li Chengqian and went back to your own task.】
【Since you could not find the monkey on the continent, you decided to search overseas.】
【You headed east first.】
【On your way past the Great Wilderness, you saw the demon clans struggling to survive amid the calamity.】
【Of the four Demon Ancestors, only the Black Tortoise remained alive. Using its enormous body, it shielded a group of weak demons from the raging wind and torrential rain.】
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.
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
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?"
