Seeing the Earth Spirit floating before him, the Myriad Soul Banner’s heart began to stir again.
“Ohhh—the Earth Spirit!”
Chen Yi shot him a glance.
“What are you planning to do?”
The Myriad Soul Banner immediately reined in its villainous expression.
“I want to hold its shoes.”
After the Earth Spirit appeared, Hua Wuyan explained the matter of the inheritance, then began casting a spell to sever the connection between herself and the Earth Spirit.
Next, the Earth Spirit passed a cultivation technique on to Chen Yi.
Calling it a cultivation technique was not entirely accurate, because it did not cultivate anything in particular. It was merely a route for circulating immortal energy. After completing one major cycle of circulation, the practitioner could establish communication with the Earth Spirit.
The Earth Spirit could not speak. From beginning to end, it communicated with Chen Yi through consciousness.
It told Chen Yi that this method was not something everyone could learn.
Some people could spend their entire lives without mastering it. In that case, they had no choice but to pass the method on to someone else.
If that person could not learn it either, it would be passed down to the next generation.
That was why, over the past thirty thousand years, there had been only five Guardians.
The gaps between them existed because no one had ever managed to master the method.
“I’ve learned it.”
His “proficiency” had come into play.
Chen Yi’s single sentence left both the Earth Spirit and Hua Wuyan dumbfounded.
“You’ve already mastered it? It took me several decades to learn it back then. This method requires an absurdly precise circulation of true qi. Even someone with extraordinary talent would need to repeatedly hone and practice it. How could you possibly have mastered it already?”
Chen Yi proved it with his actions.
The moment Chen Yi circulated the method, an invisible connection formed between him and the Earth Spirit.
At that moment, Chen Yi entered a strange state.
He felt as if he could hear the thoughts of everyone across the entire human world!
Some were praying for their families to reunite.
Some were praying for favorable weather and bountiful harvests.
Others were praying for their loved ones to recover from illness.
Apart from human voices, Chen Yi felt that he could even sense the consciousness of animals and plants.
Since they possessed no intelligence, they could not form any concrete expressions. All that remained were streams of consciousness such as thirst, hunger, excitement, and the like.
This was not the “Mind Reading” trait at work. This was simply the state in which the Earth Spirit existed every day—sharing the joys and sorrows of every living creature in this world!
The Guardian could be regarded as the Earth Spirit’s representative walking among humanity.
Seeing that Chen Yi had officially become a Guardian, Hua Wuyan said with relief, “All right. I can finally set down this responsibility and live the life an old man ought to live… Oh, right. I only told you about the benefits of being a Guardian just now. I forgot to tell you about the responsibilities and obligations.”
Seeing the nervous look on Chen Yi’s face, Hua Wuyan smiled.
“Don’t worry. There’s basically nothing you need to do. Anything that requires you to step in and resolve will be a major matter concerning the entire world. Of course, if you wish to do more for all living beings, that is entirely up to you.”
Hua Wuyan explained everything one point at a time, while Chen Yi committed it all to memory with his “Never Forget” ability.
Compared with the obligations, the authority of a Guardian seemed truly insignificant.
After finishing, Hua Wuyan teased him.
“Martial God Chen, are you regretting your decision?”
Chen Yi replied calmly, “Regretting it? How could I? A true man keeps his word. Since I agreed to take on this responsibility, I will naturally perform my duties faithfully.”
Chen Yi had already decided to send a clone to handle the job. He himself would merely act as a mouthpiece.
“Then, busy man, you should go deal with the four Five-Element Artifacts in your possession. Oh, and there’s one more thing.”
Chen Yi had already been preparing to slip away, but he stumbled and came back.
“Please, go on.”
“Aren’t there various problems with our Five-Element Artifacts?”
“There are indeed.”
“If your moral standards aren’t too high, there is a way to repair them completely.”
“My standards have always been flexible. If it’s for the sake of the human world, I can lower them a little further.”
“Didn’t you say you planned to hide these artifacts in other planes?
“When the time comes, you can use your identity as a Guardian to lure out the Earth Spirits of those other planes.
“Then have those Earth Spirits restore our Five-Element Artifacts for you.
“This will consume the Earth Spirits’ spirituality and, to a certain extent, affect the reproduction and cultivation of the local life-forms.
“But if you only leave one artifact there, the impact won’t be too great.”
The artifacts of the human world all had more or less serious problems.
If they were nourished by the Earth Spirit of the human world, it simply would not be able to support them.
As for traveling to other planes, ordinary Guardians did not possess the ability to come and go as they pleased.
If Chen Yi sent the artifacts over and could not retrieve them, the consequences would be disastrous.
That was why only Chen Yi could make use of this method.
There was just one problem.
“Are all Earth Spirits really this easy to trick?”
Hua Wuyan answered with only one word.
“Hm?”
Chen Yi understood.
That response meant: What kind of question is that? Is this your first day knowing the Earth Spirits?
“Senior Hua, now that you no longer bear the burden of being a Guardian, why don’t you take the Ascension Road next year and seek your fortune in the Material Realm?”
Hua Wuyan waved his hand.
“No. I like this land. I can’t leave her.”
Chen Yi did not force the matter and bid Hua Wuyan farewell.
After that, Chen Yi headed south, flying out over the continent and across the Southern Sea. He continued until he reached a desolate region where there were no traces of humanity and the ocean stretched endlessly in every direction.
He intended to open a breach leading to another plane here.
Now that he had become a Guardian, this would be much easier.
Chen Yi took out the Sun and Moon Tower.
The Sun and Moon Tower’s spirit still spoke in that same coquettish tone.
“May I ask where we’re going now, new Guardian~?”
Chen Yi shuddered, goosebumps rising all over his body.
“We’re going to find you a good place to recuperate.”
“I don’t have any injuries anymore~”
“During all those years the Great Demon confined you in the forbidden land, he was using you to stabilize his soul. At the same time, he was helping you neutralize your ‘demonic nature.’”
“What demonic nature? I don’t understand what you mean~”
When the Great Demon set foot on the Ascension Road and left the human world, he had sent Chen Yi a message through consciousness.
He told Chen Yi that the Sun and Moon Tower had once been persecuted in the past.
It might have been the work of the Ancient Desolate survivors, or it might have been the work of the hidden hand. It no longer mattered who was responsible. In any case, both sides wanted to harm the Five-Element Artifacts.
The spirit of the Sun and Moon Tower had been replaced with the spirit of an evil object.
It was like stuffing the spirit of the Myriad Soul Banner into the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
The evil spirit that had replaced the Sun and Moon Tower was extremely similar to the tower itself. It had been specially created to fit the Sun and Moon Tower and could adapt to it almost perfectly.
Through many years of effort, the Great Demon had completely suppressed the evil spirit’s demonic nature and neutralized a large portion of it.
Now that the Great Demon was gone, the evil spirit within the Sun and Moon Tower had lost its suppression and might return to its original form.
“What? I’m a bad person? No, no, I don’t want to be! I want to be a good person~”
“That’s why we’re going to find you a ‘successor’—someone to take you off our hands. We’ll use an Earth Spirit to nourish your spirituality and extinguish your demonic nature.”
Chen Yi began destroying the world barrier.
It was very simple. All he needed was power that exceeded the Void Realm’s upper limit.
With a single punch from his “Lightspeed Fist,” the surrounding spacetime collapsed like a landslide. Spatial turbulence surged toward him, while fragments of time from other planes flickered in and out amid the chaos.
“Earth Spirit, lend me your strength!”
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
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.
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!
