【You need Chen Six to stay behind, inform the Li Imperial Clan, make sure they pay close attention to Li Lingyue, and send her to Hua Wuyan to train once she comes of age.】
【Notify the Vajra Temple to secretly watch over Zhenpin.】
【Find an excuse to stop the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey from setting foot on the Ascension Road, and delay him until you return from the projection in the Realmscape.】
【Keep an eye on Big Brother. Make sure he works hard, endures hardship, and grows up smoothly. Under no circumstances let him stray onto the misguided path of a peaceful, carefree life.】
【And so on—minor tasks like these.】
【Chen Six will need to remain in the Mortal Realm to carry them out or supervise them from the sidelines.】
【He will also be responsible for informing everyone who later sets foot on the Ascension Road that they must choose the dead end 999 times.】
【Although Fortune Star is only a third-tier star and has no immortal energy,】
【you are about to take the first step and turn Fortune Star into a safe starting point for those ascending from the Mortal Realm.】
【Starting from Fortune Star is far better than randomly dropping onto some other planet, being captured and forced to mine, or being suppressed and wiped out.】
【Chen Six looks exactly like you. Aside from being unable to use traits, there is no difference between you.】
【Leaving him behind in the Mortal Realm will make it seem to your family, old acquaintances, and friends as though you never left.】
【“Oh, right. There’s also Sotuofeiren and the Xuanmai Five Brothers. Starting next year, let Black Wind take the Ascension Road first, then arrange for the six of them to ascend one by one.”】
【Chen Six gave you an “OK” sign.】
【“You want them to walk the dead ends 999 times too?”】
【“Of course. Otherwise, with them scattered across the world, they’d never meet in their lifetimes. What else would I be sending them up there for?”】
【If the six Winged-Race Martial Gods—Sotuofeiren and the others—found out they could take the Ascension Road to the Realmscape, who knew how ecstatic they would be?】
【The Xuanlan Five Heroes in particular had gone to great lengths to find the Ascension Road to the Realmscape.】
【When the time came, seeing “you” still in the Mortal Realm and being sent up the Ascension Road, they would probably be overjoyed.】
【They would think, “We’ve finally escaped that jinx! And for free!”】
【Then, upon reaching the end, they would discover that you were already waiting there.】
【Just imagining the despair on their faces made you want to laugh.】
【Before your previous ascension to the Realmscape, you had wandered around the Mortal Realm for a while.】
【After all, it had been your first ascension, and your feelings had been rather complicated.】
【This time, you skipped all those sentimental formalities. You crossed the Northern Sea and arrived at the Ascension Road, then stepped onto it without the slightest hesitation.】
【“Nine hundred and ninety-nine dead ends are not truly dead ends. This time, I’ll turn them into a path to life—the path to life for every ascender in the Mortal Realm!
I’ll make sure that evil cult can never force me to mine as a slave again!
I’ll make sure that vicious sect can never hunt me down again!
I’ll make sure that those foreign races can never hold my life and death in their hands again!”】
【The second year. Age twenty-eight.】
【Drawing a trait…】
【Drawing failed!】
【Adjust the trait?】
【Yes/No】
【You chose yes.】
【You replaced “Human Scanner” with “Running Playlist.”】
【“♫ After waiting so long, I’ve finally reached this day~
After squatting for so long, I’ve finally made my dream come true…”】
【You sprinted along the Ascension Road while singing.】
【You discovered that the Ascension Road not only restricted flight, but also restricted supernatural abilities.】
【If you could use your abilities, you could step on “Quantum Ghoststep” and reach the end in no time.】
【Even so, you were still faster this time than the last.】
【After all, your cultivation realm had improved.】
【“Xiao Wu, your master won’t eat you this time. Come with me and see that sea of stars.”】
【The Five Domains Sacred Pill had remained in your hair the entire journey.】
【Whenever you sang, she sang along.】
【You sang to activate the trait’s effect and run faster.】
【She sang simply because she was happy to be with her master.】
【The small boost to her lifespan from consuming the Five Domains Sacred Pill was insignificant compared with your current thousand-year lifespan—barely a drop in the ocean.】
【As for its poison immunity effect,】
【it was at most equivalent to the “Veteran Tomato User” trait.】
【Yet even that trait couldn’t withstand the Dragonfolk’s demonic poison. You would still die; it would merely take a little longer.】
【Besides, you now possessed the super-healing ability of “Wolverine.”】
【So the poison immunity wasn’t particularly important either.】
【Naturally, there was no need to consume the Five Domains Sacred Pill.】
【“Master, have you eaten me before?”】
【“I have. You just didn’t know it, Xiao Wu.”】
【“Then Master should eat Xiao Wu. I can only help Master after you eat me.”】
【“There’s no need. I want Xiao Wu to witness the rest of my life and see how far I can go this time.”】
【“All right. Xiao Wu will do as Master says. La la la~ la la la~”】
【The third year. Age twenty-nine.】
【Drawing a trait…】
【Drawing failed!】
【Adjust the trait?】
【Yes/No】
【You chose no.】
【This time, it took you only a little over a year to reach the end.】
【“Xiao Wu, the nine-hundred-and-ninety-ninth beacon tower is just ahead.”】
【“Yes, Master. I counted them too. Once we cross this beacon tower, will we arrive in the Realmscape?”】
【“That’s right. Hold on tight. We’re charging through!”】
【“Wow!!”】
【The Five Domains Sacred Pill sat in your hair, with several strands wrapped around her body, making her look like a little pill with twin ponytails.】
【When one of your feet stepped onto the Ascension Road’s nine-hundred-and-ninety-ninth beacon tower bearing a stone stele marked with the character “death” for the second time,】
【a familiar sensation of weightlessness rose from beneath your feet.】
【Everything around you vanished in an instant!】
【At that moment, you could neither hear nor feel anything, as though you had fallen asleep without even dreaming.】
【By the time your senses and vision returned, you were already standing in the familiar wilderness.】
【Unlike last time, there was no pile of luggage scattered at your feet from the storage bags and rings.】
【That was because you had already placed all the supplies you had brought from the Mortal Realm—including the Demon Refining Pot and the Immortal-Binding Rope—inside the World-in-a-Pot space.】
【Xiao Wu looked around curiously.】
【“Master, is this the Realmscape? It looks no different from our Mortal Realm.”】
【“The Realmscape possesses an endless sea of stars. This is merely one of its planets. Looking at this single planet, it really does resemble the Mortal Realm, but the grandeur of the Realmscape lies in that stellar sea.”】
【“Wow… There are so many planets…”】
【You did not linger. Instead, you recalled the memories from the sixth simulation and calculated the time.】
【“We arrived in the same year, but a few months earlier than last time. That fellow should still be at the main headquarters of the Winged God Cult.”】
【After determining the direction, you leaped into the air and directly activated the Saint Dragon Clan’s dragon-transformation talent. Amid a resounding dragon’s roar, you rode the clouds and soared away.】
【“Master, where are we going?”】
【“To find an old hag!”】
【“Is she a bad person?”】
【“Heh. She’s rotten to the core.”】
【“Are you going to kill her, Master?”】
【“I wanted to kill her last time, but for the sake of my plan, I’ll probably have to keep her alive this time. I only hope she knows how to read the situation!”】
【The last time you came to the Mortal Realm, you trudged along on foot, miserably lugging a heap of immortal artifacts that clanked and rattled with every step.】
【This time, you flew straight through the clouds at breakneck speed—the difference was like night and day.】
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?"
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
