[Year 170, age 194.]
[Drawing a Trait…]
[Successfully Drawn!]
[“Barrier-Free Communication” (Purple Epic): You can understand the language of any intelligent life-form and are proficient in its corresponding written language.]
[Would you like to adjust the trait?]
[Yes/No]
[You chose Yes.]
[You replaced “Bad News from the Martial Artist Circle” with “Barrier-Free Communication.”]
You and the father-and-daughter pair, Ji Wuqing and her father, followed the underground lightway Zhang Beihai had opened for you, arriving at the Outside World Village.
At first glance, it was an ordinary mountain village hidden among a range of mountains.
A dilapidated, overgrown road led from the village to a small town outside the mountains.
But you knew the truth: every resident of this village was an Immortal Lord or Immortal King of human origin!
They had simply chosen to seal away their own cultivation and live as ordinary mortals.
Of course, not everyone in the village was an Immortal Lord or Immortal King. Some were their wives and children.
But without exception, anyone who chose to live here was forbidden from cultivating.
You watched an Immortal Lord hunt in the mountains and an Immortal King hoe the fields, shaking your head.
“This is such a waste. They possess cultivation that others dream of, yet live like mortals. Isn’t that just spending an entire lifetime working hard, only to return to the starting point?”
At some point, Zhang Beihai had appeared behind you. He smiled faintly.
“Young man, the world is a circle. Returning to the starting point is simply following Heaven’s will.”
Ji Baiming explained the purpose behind the Outside World Village.
“Take my Ji Clan, for example. The moment an Immortal King appears among us, organizations like the Peace Bureau and the Heavenly River Guard will find an excuse to cause trouble.
“Dealing with an Immortal King is troublesome, but dealing with the Ji Clan is easy.
“That is the cruel reality. Once a human faction possesses an Immortal King, it may actually become a bad thing.
“So the Immortal Kings of my Ji Clan have also chosen to live in the Outside World Village. Unless the Ji Clan faces a life-or-death crisis, they will never show themselves.”
Thinking about it this way, the Outside World Village was not a waste at all. It was a place to hide one’s trump cards.
It was not just the Ji Clan. Even the Jiang Clan, which competed fiercely with the Ji Clan in every area and could be called its mortal enemy, had Immortal Kings living here.
Normally, the Ji and Jiang Clans were as incompatible as fire and water. Yet in the Outside World Village, the Immortal Kings of the two clans lived together as perfectly friendly neighbors.
Aside from the Immortal Kings of the various human factions who had come here to escape the world, there were also people like Zhang Beihai. After spending a lifetime resisting the suppression of the alien races, they had grown utterly exhausted and come here to enjoy their twilight years.
You asked curiously,
“Uncle Ji, which one is the Ji Clan’s Immortal King? How many of them are there?”
Ji Baiming smiled.
“Boy, remember this: don’t ask about anyone’s identity here. That’s the rule.”
“Oh, I see. Then Senior Zhang…”
“Unless he tells you himself.”
Zhang Beihai, who was standing nearby, let out a wry laugh.
“I have no children, no wife, and no concubines. I’m all alone, so these old fellows made me the village chief and left me to deal with matters concerning the village.”
The Outside World Village truly was a wonderful place.
On a third-class or second-class star, ordinary humans would surely live miserable lives, perhaps even being captured and made into slaves.
But this was a first-class star—and the largest first-class star in the Southern Star Realm.
It was a place where dragons and tigers contended, where experts were as common as clouds, and where the top cultivators from the entire Southern Star Realm were drawn like water into a whirlpool.
Even to be a slave here, one needed a certain level of cultivation. Otherwise, one would be of little use.
These human Immortal Lords and Immortal Kings had hidden in plain sight. By pretending to be mortals on a first-class star, they had managed to avoid the notice of the powerful alien factions and the direct line of the Sacred Dragon Society.
Even when the occasional slipup occurred, the village’s collection of powerful figures, along with the forces behind them, could erase every trace without anyone noticing.
The three of you built a courtyard at the edge of the village and settled there.
By now, wanted posters for the three of you were plastered everywhere outside.
The Heavenly River Daily had run you as its front-page headline for an entire month, filling a whole page with your portraits.
Anyone who showed their face would be killed instantly.
So you had no choice but to lie low for a while.
However, after undergoing the Blood-Exchange Secret Art, you could no longer use “Mortal Bones,” and you were forbidden from cultivating while staying in the Outside World Village.
In other words, you could neither increase your cultivation nor rapidly comprehend divine abilities.
But there was one advantage.
Drawing traits!
Outside, even with a thousand-year lifespan, it would be difficult to live to a thousand because the human race’s living conditions were simply too harsh.
But things were different here.
This entire village was filled with tigers pretending to be pigs. It was unbelievably safe.
“This is pretty nice too…”
You lay on the hillside outside the village, watching the clouds constantly change shape in the sky.
You had not enjoyed such a peaceful, carefree life in a very long time.
Chen Yi spent thirty years in the Outside World Village just like this.
Every day, he learned about events happening outside through the Heavenly River Daily.
Although it only reported major events within the entire star system and did not cover smaller, specific incidents, at least he would not fall behind the times.
You had been able to enter the Outside World Village because of the Ji Clan’s connections.
Leaving was not so easy.
Forget about going outside to cultivate today and returning to hide tomorrow.
You could leave the village, but first you had to have all memories related to the village erased.
Otherwise, the location of the Outside World Village would have been exposed long ago.
How could one erase memories?
The village was home to all kinds of Immortal Kings. Surely at least one of them could do it.
However, erasing memories was an act that defied Heaven’s laws. Even an Immortal King could not perform it casually. The person whose memories were being erased had to cooperate.
And so, throughout those thirty years, Chen Yi could only conduct theoretical research and refine his own insights.
From time to time, he would also sit down and discuss the Dao with Ji Baiming and Zhang Beihai, exchanging cultivation insights.
He had to admit that he gained quite a lot from it.
You had thought that this kind of life could continue indefinitely, until you reached the end of your natural lifespan and concluded your sixth simulation.
But change still came.
[Year 200, age 224.]
[Drawing a Trait…]
[The effect of “The Older You Get, the Luckier You Become” has been triggered!]
[Successfully Drawn!]
[“Eavesdropping on Hearts” (Prismatic Mythical):
Who is it~
Knocking on my window?
You can hear the thoughts in other people’s hearts, and you can also choose to let others hear your thoughts.
You can even choose to broadcast your own thoughts—or someone else’s.
Come, let us bare our hearts!]
[Would you like to adjust the trait?]
[Yes/No]
After drawing another Mythical trait, Chen Yi was already quite calm.
“This Mythical trait doesn’t seem very strong.”
He had drawn so many traits related to combat power that Chen Yi was beginning to feel dissatisfied whenever he drew a utility trait.
“But if it has no prerequisites, does that mean it works on anyone? Then I won’t have to worry about people lying to me anymore. Broadcasting people’s thoughts could also be useful for all sorts of tricks.”
He still had to keep a Mythical trait. Even if he could not make use of it, it would look nice sparkling in the trait panel.
[You chose Yes.]
[You replaced “Ageless Male God” with “Eavesdropping on Hearts.”]
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!
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...
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
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?"
