[The situation took a sudden turn for the worse!]
[Despite exhausting all the martial arts you had learned in your life, you still couldn't gain the upper hand against the tiger demon.]
[You couldn't kill it, and it couldn't kill you either, but it kept pestering you, refusing to let you leave.]
[If it came down to a test of stamina, you would likely be no match for it.]
["Myriad Soul Banner, are you completely out of tricks?!"]
["Don't panic! I've already prepared a premium suite for you. You can move right in after you die!"]
["Damn it!!"]
[In this critical moment, a massive golden cudgel descended from the sky!]
[Rumble!!]
[A single strike settled the heavens and earth, causing the mountains to shake and the ground to tremble, changing the color of the clear sky for ten thousand miles!]
[The measly tiger demon, even after activating its golden body state, was smashed into a puddle of mush on the spot!]
[The golden cudgel, standing tall upon the earth, gave off an inexplicable sense of security.]
[An agile figure leaped onto it.]
["Hey! Good friend, we meet again! We really are destined!"]
[It was the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey.]
[You awkwardly scratched your cheek.]
["Are you sure you aren't stalking me?"]
["Hahaha! Then please forgive me. My brother and I have to protect our master and the people of the Divine Weapon Prefecture. We really had no other choice."]
[You knew that the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey had seen through the existence of the Myriad Soul Banner.]
[However, only he and that Four-Eyed Monkey had been following you these past few days; you hadn't seen anyone else.]
[This meant they hadn't revealed this matter to anyone else.]
["Be that as it may, my brother and I have indeed offended you. As an apology, I can do you a small favor."]
[The Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey knew you had been studying a mental cultivation method but couldn't find the right path. He offered to give you some pointers and help you get started.]
[With someone willing to guide you, you were more than happy to humbly ask for advice.]
[A few hours later, the problem of initiating the mental cultivation method that had troubled you for days was easily solved!]
[It was just that you hadn't reached the Soul Tempering Realm yet. Even though you grasped how to circulate the mental cultivation method, you still couldn't condense your vital energy.]
[After observing you, the two great spiritual monkeys saw that you were not the type to slaughter the innocent with the Myriad Soul Banner, but were instead subduing demons and slaying monsters. Thus, they stopped keeping an eye on you.]
Time in the simulation passed by in a flash.
In the blink of an eye, another five years went by.
During these five years, Chen Yi continued to travel around slaying demons, collecting demon souls, and earning spirit crystals with demon materials.
Although his cultivation base was stuck at the twelfth layer of the Spirit Gathering Realm, the proficiency of his various cultivation techniques was constantly improving.
Once he had accumulated enough resources, he could finally break through to the Soul Tempering Realm!
[Year Twenty-Eight, forty-five years old.]
[Drawing a trait...]
[Draw successful!]
[[Stroke of Genius] (Purple): Your mind will occasionally have flashes of inspiration. It might bring you a brilliant idea, or it might cause a sudden burst of comprehension. Let's just hope it's not a terrible idea.]
[Would you like to adjust your traits?]
[Yes / No]
"Oh? A budget version of an enlightenment-enhancing trait. Useful, but not by much. My slots are tight right now, so I'll leave it for later."
[You chose No.]
[You collected multiple sets of materials to craft a budget version of the Myriad Soul Banner, and you also had enough spirit crystals.]
[You returned to Divine Weapon City once again and asked the master artifact refiner of the Hidden Weapon Pavilion to forge the spiritual artifact body for the Myriad Soul Banner.]
[Your luck was quite good. After failing once, the highly skilled old master forged a high-tier spiritual artifact version of the Myriad Soul Banner for you.]
[The old master stared at the large black banner billowing with thick black smoke fresh out of the furnace, falling into deep thought.]
[You, however, told him that this was all perfectly normal.]
[The Myriad Soul Banner was relatively satisfied with its new body, expressing with a tsundere attitude:]
["Oh, not-so-young warrior, you have used your diligence and bravery to replace my body. Please do not worry about the wealth that was lost in the process. I will use my new body to snatch back everything you've lost!"]
["Stop being so dramatic..."]
[Now, you had left the Divine Weapon Prefecture and arrived in the neighboring Nanyang Prefecture.]
[A rogue martial artist who was well-versed in formations had settled down here.]
[You had met him while wandering around searching for demons.]
["Brother Mo Ye, I need you to set up a formation for me. It concerns whether I can break through to the Soul Tempering Realm. Please! Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, I have prepared a sum of spirit crystals as your reward."]
[Mo Ye was about your age. Although he understood formations, his martial arts realm was not high; he was also stuck at the twelfth layer of the Spirit Gathering Realm.]
[In fact, Mo Ye did not have low-tier bone aptitude; he possessed mid-tier bone aptitude.]
[However, that didn't stop him from getting stuck at a bottleneck.]
[Everyone has their own bottlenecks. Some can break through, while others never grasp the key and remain stuck there forever.]
[It was like how some people attend top-tier universities while others attend regular ones; the former might fail their postgraduate exams, while the latter might succeed.]
["Hahaha! Brother Chen, there is no need to talk about rewards. It's just setting up a formation, a mere lifting of a finger. Do you have the formation blueprint? Let me take a look, and I'll set it up immediately!"]
[You handed him the blueprint for the Myriad Soul Empowerment Formation provided by the Myriad Soul Banner. It included detailed setup instructions as well as all the required resources.]
[Of course, you had already prepared all these resources.]
[This formation looked extremely complex. Anyway, to a layman like you, the blueprint was no different from a book of heavenly gibberish.]
[After taking a glance at it, Mo Ye looked up and said,]
["Brother Chen, let's talk about the reward after all..."]
[It seemed it wasn't just a mere lifting of a finger.]
[You carefully selected an empty clearing with no demonic aura and rarely visited by people to set up the formation and break through.]
[A few days later.]
[After multiple attempts and failures, Mo Ye, looking as disheveled and covered in dirt as an auto mechanic, jumped out of the formation rune trenches you had helped him dig.]
["It's done, it's done! It's running! Startup successful! All pathways lit up, spirit crystals are being consumed normally, no explosions, no fizzling out, functional tests are all normal!"]
[You felt he resembled your old profession from your past life: a programmer.]
[You had no idea if this formation he set up had any bugs.]
[After all, Mo Ye was a rogue cultivator, entirely self-taught.]
[But he was quite talented. Without the guidance of a professional formation master, relying solely on a formation manual he had stumbled upon by chance and using various clients for practice, he had actually managed to gain some skill in the Dao of Formations.]
[The key point was that he was cheap.]
[After the formation was successfully set up, you gave him his reward.]
[Mo Ye tactfully took the initiative to leave, having no interest in prying into your secrets.]
[Those who often wandered the martial world knew that lacking a sense of boundaries was a quick way to die.]
["Commence the breakthrough! Myriad Soul Banner! It's your time to shine!"]
[The Myriad Soul Banner, now possessing the body of a high-tier spiritual artifact, looked incredibly majestic.]
[As the banner unfurled, it blotted out the sun and clouds. A thick fog, seemingly straight from hell, directly engulfed half the mountaintop.]
["Awoo—"]
[The demon souls you had collected over the years were no longer "purified." They had all been preserved until now, accumulating to over three hundred in number.]
[The Myriad Soul Banner released them all in one breath.]
[When they tried to flee, they were blocked and forced back by the Myriad Soul Empowerment Formation.]
Massive amounts of crystals burned within the formation. Every single second of the formation's operation was fueled by the energy of these crystals.
"Chen Yi! Are you ready? It's going to hurt a bit!"
Your gaze was resolute, your Dao Heart as unyielding as iron!
"Bring it on! I don't even fear death, why would I be afraid of this?!"
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!
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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.
