【Year Twenty-Two, Age Forty-Eight.】
【Extracting a trait...】
【Extraction successful!】
【“No Seat↓” (Purple Epic): When they throw mud at you, you use it to make egg tarts.
Within the same quality and the same Five Elements category, you may convert any material into another.
For example, you can convert a fifth-grade Fragrant Lingzhi into another fifth-grade spiritual plant, or transform third-grade Starcore Refined Iron into another third-grade metal material for artifact forging.】
【Would you like to adjust the trait?】
【Yes/No?】
“Oh? This one is pretty useful.”
Chen Yi was an artifact refiner and an alchemist to begin with, and his skill had already reached the second rank.
With the trait assisting his studies, advancing to the first rank was only a matter of time.
With this trait, he would have a great deal of help in alchemy and artifact refinement in the future.
But there was nothing that needed refining during the current simulation, so he decided to leave it in storage and let it gather dust for now.
【You chose No.】
【The rebel army advanced toward the other two Grade-Three planets in the Ascension Star System: Longevity Star and Prosperity Star.】
【Remnants of the Winged God Cult still remained on both planets.】
【Confronted by the now powerful and battle-hardened rebel army, these remnants could do nothing but surrender at the first sign of trouble.】
【And so, the balance of power shifted. The humans who had originally been slaves—laborers, servants, food producers, and resource miners on Fortune Star, Prosperity Star, and Longevity Star—finally became the masters of their own homes.】
【The aliens who had once oppressed and humiliated the humans were reduced to miners, laborers, and servants.】
【Wait... aren’t we missing something? Farmers?】
【There really weren’t any.】
【The local human commoners declared that letting those clumsy aliens farm the land would be a complete waste.】
【Many humans willingly remained in the towns and villages to continue working as farmers, asking only for a plot of land they could call their own.】
【Land reform was carried out in full swing across the three Grade-Three planets.】
【The rebel army advocated that everyone should have fields and every household should have land. However, the people only possessed the right to use the land. Ownership would forever remain with the imperial court, and all forms of buying and selling land were strictly prohibited.】
【Year Twenty-Three, Age Forty-Nine.】
【In just twenty years, you led the humans of the Ascension Star System to reclaim their power, rise up, and become masters of their own destiny, ensuring that the next generation would not be born with the status of slaves already hanging over them.】
【On Spiritveil Star, Liu Ying held her child’s hand and gazed at the countless lights of homes nearby and the vast stretches of fertile farmland in the distance. Tears filled her eyes.】
【“Marshal, this truly is a miracle.”】
【You smiled faintly.】
【“It wasn’t a miracle. It was a victory bought with blood and tears—a counterattack born from generations of endurance.”】
【Liu Ying nodded in agreement.】
【But the two of you were not actually talking about the same thing.】
【Liu Ying had seen only the sacrifices and battles of this lifetime. She could not see the devastation of the previous one.】
【On the surface, it had taken you twenty years to achieve victory. In truth, the sacrifices of the previous life could never be overlooked.】
【“Marshal, are you really leaving?”】
【“I still have a long journey ahead of me.”】
【“But everyone thinks you should stay and become emperor. You are the savior of our people. As long as you’re here, our good days can continue.”】
【“There has never been any savior, nor do we rely on some divine emperor. If you want to create a happy life for humanity, you must depend on yourselves.”】
【Conquering the Ascension Star System and making its humans masters of their own fate had been one part of your plan.】
【But the more important purpose of this plan was to turn the Ascension Star System into a starting point for ascenders from the Human Realm.】
【As long as the ascenders of the Human Realm listened to Chen Six and walked the nine hundred and ninety-nine deadly paths, they would descend upon Fortune Star.】
【In the past, anyone who arrived at Fortune Star would be dragged away to mine ore—a perfect illustration of the saying, “Ascension is a trap.”】
【But things were different now.】
【The ascension point was heavily guarded by human soldiers, and unauthorized personnel were strictly forbidden from entering.】
【The moment anyone ascended, they would immediately receive a copy of From Survival to Cultivation in the True Realm: A Beginner’s Guide to Mastery—a book you had personally compiled.】
【The ascender would then be escorted by the rebel army to Fortune Star’s spaceport and sent by a dedicated starship to Spiritveil Star.】
【Fortune Star was a Grade-Three planet and could not support cultivation, but Spiritveil Star was a Grade-Two planet, where reaching the Peerless Realm was no great challenge.】
【The people capable of ascending would have excellent aptitudes to begin with. Even on a Grade-Two planet, their cultivation speed would not be slow.】
【This was the “starting point” you had prepared for the ascenders of the Human Realm.】
【There would be no threat from alien races, only a stable environment for cultivation.】
【This newcomer’s gift package for the True Realm would win you powerful allies who could aid you in the future.】
【But your blueprint contained far more than a single starting point. You still had many plans to carry out.】
【That was why you could not stay behind.】
【Your departure would leave the Ascension Star System with a massive power vacuum, making large-scale internal unrest a real possibility.】
【So you left a clone behind.】
【The clone rarely showed himself. Most of the time, he remained in the palace, eating, drinking, and enjoying life.】
【He had only two tasks.】
【First, he would receive ascenders from the Human Realm, allowing them to see the familiar Martial God Chen and feel at ease about settling on Spiritveil Star. If any of them wanted to see the outside world, you would not stop them.】
【Second, if the Ascension Star System encountered a major crisis—such as an alien uprising—the clone would use “Lend Me Your Power!” to obtain your current cultivation level and suppress the rebellion.】
【The second task might not necessarily be completed, because the clone possessed no traits and could not achieve absolute combat superiority.】
【All you could do was hope that the reputation of Great Marshal Chen Dong would be enough to intimidate any would-be troublemakers. (“Someone Is Wearing My Face” and “Six-Eared Macaque” could allow the clone to possess the same face as you at any time, whether you were Chen Dong or Chen Yi.)】
【With the clone holding down the fort, no major disturbances would arise within the Ascension Star System.】
【The current supreme marshal of the rebel army was Xiang Xing, while the Winged Army remained under the leadership of Sotuofeiren.】
【There was no need to say more about their loyalty to you.】
【With the two of them leading the two most powerful armed forces in the Ascension Star System, there would be no trouble.】
【Although Dalabeng had not yet pledged his complete allegiance, listening to his thoughts revealed that he was quite satisfied with his current situation and had no intention of becoming a dictator again.】
【Dalabeng did not know that the one you had left behind was a clone. He believed that you were still there, merely secluded in cultivation most of the time.】
【You had beaten him twice, and he absolutely did not dare cause trouble again.】
【With Dalabeng around, whenever a powerful outside force questioned the prosperous state of the human race in the Ascension Star System, you could simply have Dalabeng stand in front of them. That alone would resolve many problems.】
【After arranging everything, you took out Childless Granny Duobao’s Voyager Starship, brought Black Wind along, carried the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls and a group of immortal artifacts from the Human Realm, and rose into the air.】
【Childless Granny Duobao and her disciples had now become the Ascension Star System’s foremost divine-inscription professors, teaching at Spiritveil Star’s Divine Inscription University.】
【“Goodbye, Fortune Star, Spiritveil Star, Ascension Star System. I’ll be back...”】
【In space, you gazed at the planet before you, while your thoughts had already soared into the vast universe.】
【The seventh life of your existence—and your second campaign across the True Realm—had only just begun!】
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?"
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...
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
