【At this moment, Xuanlan Big Brother’s emotions were more intense than a roller coaster’s—no, even more thrilling than a drop tower.】
【The moment he saw your familiar face, cold sweat poured down him. After struggling for a long while, he finally squeezed a few words out through his throat.】
【“You came… Y-you really came! The real world is wonderful! You came too… Uh? Why are you here?”】
【You replied calmly.】
【“The one in the Human Realm was my clone.”】
【Even your clone had cultivation at the Peerless Realm?】
【Xuanlan Big Brother felt as if his entire worldview had shattered once again.】
【“Also, remember that my name is Chen Dong now, not Chen Yi. Don’t get it wrong.”】
【As he spoke, you used “Who Am I?” to change your appearance back to the Chen Dong form you had edited previously.】
【When he saw your face change—and your hair turn red—Xuanlan Big Brother was already completely unfazed.】
【“You’re overthinking it. How could this humble one dare address you by your full name?”】
【“Come on. I’ll get you settled in. Once all your brothers arrive, we’ll carry out the next phase of our operation.”】
【You arranged for Xuanlan Big Brother to live in White Porridge City.】
【After all, he was a member of the Winged Race.】
【His appearance attracted quite a few sidelong glances from the members of the rebellion.】
【Everyone knew that the only place in the city where winged people could currently be found was the prison holding the Grand Archbishop and the others.】
【For Xuanlan Big Brother to move into the city as an ordinary resident was an extremely unusual privilege.】
【Even the rebel army’s current training instructors—members of the Three-Eyed Race, the Scaled Race, and other alien races—were only permitted to live in woodsheds, abandoned warehouses, and similar places.】
【Xuanlan Big Brother quickly noticed the strange looks from those around him. After learning more about his surroundings and what had happened before his arrival,】
【his mood took another ride on the drop tower.】
【What did they mean, the Winged Race was supreme and untouchable throughout this star system, born superior to all others and entitled to every resource?】
【What did they mean, the Savior of Fubao Star’s Humanity—the Red-Haired Grand Marshal—had appeared, destroyed Fubao Star’s headquarters of the Winged God Church in his very first battle, ignited a wave of rebellion, and sent the Winged God Church tumbling from its pedestal?】
【Xuanlan Big Brother could only lament that he had arrived too late.】
【But he had no choice but to accept reality.】
【He knew that, from this point onward, he would have to help you deal with the Winged God Church.】
【The thought alone made him even more depressed.】
【Year Six, age thirty-two.】
【Drawing trait…】
【Trait acquired!】
【“Paranormal Detective” (Epic, Purple): By touching an item belonging to a dead person, you can sense fragmented pieces of information from the moments before their death, provided the deceased wished for someone to learn the truth about how they died—for example, if they were murdered.】
【Adjust trait?】
【Yes/No】
【You chose No.】
【Second Brother Xuanlan arrived at Fubao Star.】
【His experience was more or less the same as his elder brother’s.】
【At first, he was extraordinarily excited and loudly proclaimed all sorts of grand declarations.】
【Then he saw his elder brother and became even more excited, making even more grand declarations.】
【After learning the whole story from Xuanlan Big Brother, however, he stood there in a daze for a full ten minutes.】
【“Sigh, little brother, accept reality. We can’t escape his clutches.”】
【Second Brother Xuanlan cried his eyes out.】
【That same year, the Voyager returned from its expedition, bringing back Black Wind, your clone, and the Old Hag’s disciples.】
【The Old Hag’s accomplishments in artifact forging were no worse than yours, and she was also an excellent teacher. As a result, every one of her disciples was highly skilled.】
【Now that you had lured them here, you directly had the Old Hag tell them the truth.】
【“Master, are we really going to stay here and mass-produce magical artifacts and spirit treasures for that Chen Dong fellow?”】
【At that moment, the several dozen members of the master-and-disciple group were inside the city’s magical artifact factory.】
【The Myriad Treasures Child Grandmother was comparing the assembly-line blueprints you had provided while tinkering with the prototype machine.】
【Your plan was to use magical artifacts to manufacture magical artifacts, rather than having artifact refiners make them one by one.】
【The artifact refiners only needed to create the magical artifacts or spirit treasures used in the production line, then combine these treasures so that they could automatically manufacture other artifacts.】
【The artifact refiners would only need to cast spells to ensure that the magical artifacts and spirit treasures kept running smoothly without errors, then assemble, test, and adjust the finished products.】
【This would dramatically increase the speed of mass production.】
【Naturally, the purpose was to equip the army on a massive scale.】
【You had gotten the idea from the Dragon Realm.】
【“That’s right. For now, we can only obey him.”】
【The Old Hag’s senior disciple was deeply confused.】
【“Master, I used a spirit treasure to examine him. That Chen Dong is also at the Peerless Realm, the same as you, isn’t he? He can’t be as terrifying as you make him sound. With so many of us, surely we could find an opportunity to leave this planet?”】
【The Myriad Treasures Child Grandmother did not even raise her head, continuing to adjust the magical artifact.】
【“You can try. Your master won’t stop you.”】
【“Master, when did you become so timid and afraid of trouble? Fine, I’ll go try right now!”】
【Several days later.】
【The senior disciple returned with a black eye, a swollen face, and a cane.】
【“Master, which part should we start with?”】
【The Myriad Treasures Child Grandmother stopped working and said to her other disciples,】
【“All of you, endure it for now. At least Chen Dong isn’t one of those barbaric alien races. As long as we remain useful, our lives won’t be in danger. As for escaping…”】
【As she spoke, she glanced at her senior disciple.】
【“There’s no way we can escape his clutches. Give up on that idea.”】
【Year Seven, age thirty-three.】
【Drawing trait…】
【Trait acquired!】
【“The Emperor’s New Weapon” (Rare, Green): The weapon in your hand can become invisible, but only to the naked eye. It can still be detected by divine-sense-based abilities.】
【Adjust trait?】
【Yes/No】
【You chose No.】
【Near the exit of the Ascension Road on Fubao Star.】
【Xuanlan Big Brother and Second Brother Xuanlan had waited there for more than half a year, but Third Brother still had not appeared.】
【They had no choice but to return to White Porridge City and tell you that Third Brother might never have made it up.】
【“Impossible. My clone would definitely have urged him to enter the Ascension Road.”】
【Xuanlan Big Brother awkwardly scratched his head.】
【“Uh… he might have…”】
【“He chose another branch instead of taking the nine hundred and ninety-nine dead ends.”】
【“That makes sense. Third Brother has always been the more unpredictable one among the five of us. He never does things by the book.”】
【“He’s doomed.”】
【“Yeah. We have no idea what the other planets are like. Being alone out there is extremely dangerous. What if he offended some mighty figure or faction…”】
【“I mean he disobeyed my orders. If I find him, he’s doomed.”】
【“…”】
【This really was a problem.】
【How could you ensure that anyone who came up from the Human Realm would follow your instructions instead of impulsively taking some other route?】
【“Leave someone watching at every fork in the road? But only one person can come up at a time… If I had a thousand clones, that would work. The problem is, I don’t have any…”】
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!
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
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...
