【“Patriarch, the eldest young lady has brought down a calamity upon us! For the sake of the Ji Clan’s future, we can only hand her over!”】
【“Patriarch! How can the Ji Clan possibly oppose the Peace Bureau and the Sacred Dragon Society? Haven’t we always bowed our heads to those in higher positions all these millions of years?”】
【“Patriarch! Hand over the eldest young lady. It’s the right choice!”】
【Confronted by the fury of an Immortal Lord-level powerhouse, and with the Ji Clan’s upper echelons pleading desperately behind him,】
【Ji Baiming gritted his teeth and forced himself to cup his fists.】
【“A child’s failure to receive proper discipline is the father’s fault. If my daughter has committed a crime, then I, Ji Baiming, bear the primary responsibility!
I don’t know where Xiaoyue is now. If the Immortal Lord insists on punishing someone today, then punish Ji Baiming!
This has nothing to do with the Ji Clan. I hope the Immortal Lord will judge the matter fairly!”】
【Ji Baiming flicked his hand, removed the battle armor he wore, and threw away his storage ring.】
【The Ji Clan’s higher-ups exchanged glances, their faces filled with confusion, bewilderment, and anger.】
【“The patriarch has always been wise. How could he be so foolish today?”】
【“The Ji Clan is going to be destroyed because of that father and daughter!”】
【“Our Ji Clan barely managed to survive from the ancient era until now. For countless years, we bowed our heads before the foreign races and never dared disobey them in the slightest. Who could have imagined that this would happen today… Sigh…”】
【The Ji Clan’s entire upper echelon was utterly devoid of fighting spirit.】
【They knew far more than ordinary members of the Ji Clan, and they understood the strength of their enemy even better.】
【At that moment, in their eyes, daring to defy the deputy director of the Peace Bureau was tantamount to sentencing the clan to death.】
【Meanwhile.】
【Outside the barrier formed by the war drums of the Peace Army,】
【the various factions of Vermilion Purple Star had been drawn over by the commotion and were watching from all around.】
【Each of them had their own methods of learning what was happening at the scene.】
【Seeing Ji Baiming act so “foolishly” for the sake of his daughter, many of them sneered with disdain.】
【“The Ji Clan is finished. From now on, our Jiang Clan will be the number-one clan among humanity!”】
【“Once the Ji Clan falls, all those vast industries of theirs will be a huge slab of meat. Our Winterfell Chamber of Commerce will gladly take a bite!”】
【“Many people will die in the Ji Clan today. My Corpse-Driving Sect is more than happy to lend a hand!”】
【“The patriarch’s own daughter is a member of the Kindling Society. I reckon he won’t escape involvement either. Perhaps the entire Ji Clan belongs to the Kindling Society!”】
【“If that’s the case, then the Ji Clan deserves to be exterminated!”】
【These people were like hyenas—gloating, standing by and watching, and even planning to rush in and carve up the Ji Clan the moment it perished.】
【Among them were both foreign races and humans.】
【Tens of thousands of Peace Army soldiers descended upon the area atop clouds of colored light. It was an absolutely overwhelming force. Even those who wished to help the Ji Clan were intimidated by this power and did not dare make the slightest move.】
【Seeing Ji Baiming speak this way, Golden Sea Immortal Lord let out a mocking laugh.】
【“What is your life worth, Ji Baiming?
And what is the life of your daughter, Ji Wuqing, worth?
The people I’m here to capture today are members of the Kindling Society. Do you understand?
I want Ji Wuqing alive. I want to search her soul, learn more about the Kindling Society’s intelligence, and root out more branches of this insurgent organization!
Do you really think a mere Ji Clan is worth mobilizing the Peace Bureau in force? How presumptuous!”】
【It was naked contempt and humiliation.】
【Ji Baiming swallowed his anger.】
【The members of the Ji Clan shouted from behind him.】
【“Patriarch! Stop letting your emotions cloud your judgment. Hurry and tell the Immortal Lord where the eldest young lady is!”】
【“Ji Baiming! Do you really have the heart to watch the entire Ji Clan be buried alongside your daughter?”】
【“Ji Baiming! Your daughter’s life is a life, but the lives of all these Ji Clan members aren’t? You’re not fit to be patriarch!”】
【Ji Baiming felt as though his heart were being torn apart by a thousand blades.】
【What tormented him was that the words spoken by these Ji Clan elders, who did not dare resist authority, made far too much sense.】
【Ji Baiming knew very well that if the person being captured today were not his most beloved eldest daughter but another member of the Ji Clan, he would certainly support handing that person over as well.】
【Ji Baiming clenched his fists. He had no idea what he should do.】
【“Ji Baiming, do you think I don’t know where she is just because you refuse to speak?”】
【Golden Sea Immortal Lord raised one hand and turned his palm through the air.】
【A beam of golden light flew into Ji Baiming’s body.】
【Ji Baiming thought the other party was taking his life. Trapped in a painful internal struggle, he instead felt that it would be a kind of release.】
【So he did not resist at all.】
【“Consider it repayment for Xiaoyue’s sins…”】
【However, that was not what happened.】
【After entering Ji Baiming’s body, the golden light transformed into countless straight threads that flew in every direction.】
【The threads came in several different colors.】
【Golden words wound around each thread. For example:】
【First wife—Jiang Cunxin.】
【Second wife—Lin Moyun.】
【Third wife—…】
【The threads belonging to his wives were one color.】
【Eldest daughter—Ji Xiaoyue.】
【Second son—Ji Xiaochen.】
【Third son—Ji Xiaori.】
【Fourth daughter—…】
【The threads belonging to his children were another color.】
【There were also threads representing brothers, parents, uncles, aunts, friends, enemies, and more…】
【All kinds of relationships were displayed along those threads.】
【One end of every thread was connected to Ji Baiming, while the other end extended toward the person it indicated.】
【Every member of the Ji Clan’s upper echelon present had a thread connecting them to Ji Baiming.】
【After all, they were relatives, and naturally had relationships with him.】
【At that moment, Ji Baiming looked like a ball of tangled yarn with its threads exploding in every direction.】
【“Ji Baiming, Ji Baiming… You haven’t told me the truth. Isn’t your daughter right here?”】
【Golden Sea Immortal Lord unraveled and sifted through the web of relationships, removing the useless threads until only the one connected to Ji Wuqing remained.】
【One day, you would learn that what Golden Sea Immortal Lord was using at this moment was the law he had mastered—the Interpersonal Index!】
【Ji Baiming saw Ji Wuqing’s thread as well.】
【The thread was rapidly growing shorter.】
【Because Ji Wuqing had arrived!】
【“Ji Wuqing is here! Don’t make things difficult for my clansmen!”】
【Ji Wuqing wore purple battle armor and held a purple broken sword. With a wave of her hand, the broken sword was reforged, its scabbard returning as it resumed its normal appearance.】
【“Xiaoyue, you…”】
【Ji Wuqing looked toward Ji Baiming.】
【“Father, why make things difficult? Your daughter has never contributed anything to the clan. Handing me over in exchange for the clan’s peace is a worthwhile bargain!”】
【Ji Baiming lowered his head and said nothing.】
【The Ji Clan’s higher-ups were all ashamed and avoided meeting Ji Wuqing’s eyes.】
【Ji Wuqing stood on the ground, looking up at the vast Peace Army and the Immortal Lord radiating boundless golden light high above her. Her long hair flowed freely in the wind.】
【“Jinhai! And you lot of shrimp soldiers and crab generals! The Ji Clan knew nothing about anything I did! If you want to capture me, then come and prove that you have the ability!”】
【Golden Sea Immortal Lord sat atop a four-wheeled war chariot and chuckled lightly.】
【“A mere Ji Clan. Do you really think I’m interested in you?
If you had shown yourself sooner, I could have spared myself all this arguing and preparation.
“The Mo Ke brothers—seize her!”
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.
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.
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
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!
