【Over the next few days, you came across some bad news in the Milky Way Monthly.】
【On the super-grade star of Yalu, the man who called himself “I, the Emperor” was executed.】
【Yalu was where the headquarters of the Peace Bureau was located.】
【The Milky Way Monthly contained nothing but text, with no pictures.】
【But it did mention the true name of “I, the Emperor.”】
【“Li Wentian…”】
【You let out a long sigh.】
【“I’ll save him in his next life…”】
【Another day passed.】
【A Shen human, proficient in all sorts of arts, had been sentenced to life imprisonment for offending the Saint Dragon people and was being held on Oka.】
【Oka was the stronghold of the Saint Dragon Society, and it too was a super-grade star.】
【“Who puts prisoners on a super-grade star? Old Shen was captured to serve as a tool…”】
【How tragic.】
【There was another piece of news.】
【The “Devil,” who had caused planet-wide mass extinctions on multiple second- and third-grade stars, had been brought to justice.】
【An Immortal King had personally taken action, reducing him to ashes on the spot and scattering his soul completely.】
【The paper had also published an original poem recited by the Devil before his death.】
【The journalist described the poem as “complete gibberish.”】
【“It was definitely the Great Demon, but unfortunately, he’s gone too…”】
【You were beginning to lose the desire to read the news.】
【You were afraid of coming across bad news about the Sword Master.】
【You realized that no matter how talented and promising your old friends from the human world were, scattered across different places and surrounded by hostile alien races, none of them were likely to meet a good end.】
In the real world.
“My sixth life was spent constantly on the move too. I was basically a lone wolf, and that won’t do… Since everyone is in the Milky Way galaxy, and the star routes here are so well developed, can’t we bring them together?”
Every one of Chen Yi’s old friends from the human world was a once-in-a-generation super-talent.
In the Void Realm, their limits had been constrained by the laws of Heaven and Earth.
But once they reached the real world, those limits would be lifted. Given the opportunity, Chen Yi couldn’t even imagine what kind of accomplishments they might achieve.
The problem was that each of them was isolated and without support, surrounded by powerful enemies.
They had to unite!
Chen Yi had already begun planning what to do in his next simulation.
【Several days later, the “funeral” ceremony held once every hundred years at Longevity Wood Village began.】
【The ceremony was held with extraordinary solemnity. All several thousand residents of the village had gathered.】
【Before the ceremony began, the village hosted a communal feast, providing free food and drink for everyone.】
【For the cultivators who had been staying in the village recently, this was undoubtedly a welcome perk.】
【Everyone sat together, eating, drinking, chatting, and laughing.】
【You looked at the ancestral soup before you and sighed.】
【“I never thought I’d get to attend a feast in this world too.”】
【Ji Wuqing wielded her chopsticks, picking food from one dish after another. She even ran over to the neighboring table to steal a few bites.】
【“Eat up! Why aren’t you eating? If I hadn’t insisted that you two stay for the ceremony, when would you ever get a free meal like this?”】
【Ji Baiming gave a bitter smile.】
【“Even if we had to pay, your father can afford it.”】
【After the meal, the “funeral” ceremony officially began.】
【Everyone dressed in mourning clothes, carried spirit-attracting banners, scattered paper money, and bore a coffin containing nothing but clothing.】
【The men carried the coffin while the women wailed along the road.】
【The Ten Thousand Souls Banner found the scene deeply evocative.】
【“Good, good, good! Now this feels like home!”】
【You were familiar with this scene as well.】
【“It really is a funeral…”】
【Ji Wuqing and Ji Baiming, however, were seeing such a spectacle for the first time.】
【“What are they doing?”】
【“Holding a funeral. When someone dies, there are various rituals before they’re buried.”】
【“Why go through all that? Just burn the body.”】
【“Your culture has suffered far too much of a break.”】
【The funeral procession began at Longevity Wood Village and ended at the Imperial Tomb on the mountain behind it.】
【White paper money and thick black fog combined to paint a meaningless black-and-white scene.】
【The cultivators who had been staying in the village recently were also drawn to the grand ceremony and stopped to watch.】
【Once the procession had gone some distance, Ji Wuqing urged the two of you to follow.】
【“Hurry, hurry, hurry! Let’s see what they’re going to do up there!”】
【You and Ji Baiming were rather helpless.】
【You three had lingered in the village for far too long. As wanted criminals, that was not a good thing.】
【You were supposed to keep moving from place to place in order to stay safe.】
【The funeral procession arrived before the Imperial Tomb.】
【The villagers formed ring after ring around the statue of the Ancestral Emperor.】
【They burned paper money while wailing in grief.】
【“Emperor! Hear the words of your descendants! The universe today has no place for us to live. The alien races oppress and enslave us. We are either killed or forced to serve as dogs. The human race has lost the dignity to live as human beings!”】
【“Emperor! I heard that on some planets, humans are born slaves, with no chance of ever rising above their station!”】
【“Emperor! I heard that on some planets, humans are forbidden to cultivate for their entire lives. They want to cut off our path to immortality!”】
【“Emperor! I heard that on some planets, humans finally achieve something through cultivation, only to be executed on trumped-up charges!”】
【“Emperor! Can you hear our cries?”】
【“Emperor! Look upon your descendants!”】
【“Emperor! When will your imperial might once again shine across the heavens?”】
【Some old women wept and sang at the same time, using a tune that sounded almost like a song.】
【You suspected they might not even understand the meaning of the words. They were merely repeating what the older generations had taught them.】
【Ji Wuqing began wiping away her tears again.】
【“The Kindling Society has to incorporate this ritual!”】
【Ji Baiming’s expression was complicated as he let out a long sigh.】
【“If the Ji family hadn’t cooperated with the alien races all these years, we would have been wiped out long ago. But this kind of ‘cooperation’ often means selling out our own people. Sigh…”】
【Ji Wuqing shot her father a glance.】
【“At least you know it!”】
【That was why Ji Wuqing had told you earlier that you could eat, drink, and use whatever you wanted in the Ji family—but you must never work for them.】
【Because nearly everything the Ji family possessed today had been obtained by selling out their fellow humans.】
【Yet from another perspective, they had at least preserved one branch of humanity’s strength.】
【That was why Ji Wuqing’s feelings toward her family were so complicated. She both loved and hated them.】
【You thought of something.】
【“Why do they only hold this ceremony once every hundred years?”】
【Ji Wuqing thought for a moment.】
【“Probably because they can’t afford to hold it more often. Providing food, putting on such a huge spectacle… It must cost a lot of money.”】
【Just then, the wailing and singing filling the scene suddenly grew distant and hollow, as though they were traveling into some vast and endless expanse.】
【Every cultivator present sensed that something was wrong.】
【They all looked around, searching for the source of the anomaly.】
【Suddenly, a mysterious black light erupted from the statue of the Ancestral Emperor.】
【With unstoppable force, the profound black radiance swept across every direction.】
【Wherever it passed, no cultivator could withstand the might contained within the mysterious radiance. They were forced to fall, kneel, or prostrate themselves; otherwise, resisting it would leave them feeling as though their entire bodies were being torn apart.】
【“What is this...?”】
【You were shocked to discover that...】
【When the mysterious radiance swept across the heavens and earth, all the pollution vanished!】
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?"
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
