【Although the human sects that had developed in secret under the protection of the Tinderfire Association were far stronger than the Firewood Sect, they were still vastly weaker than the Featherwing Sect—even some of its subordinate forces. As a result, countless people had sacrificed their lives.】
【The Tinderfire Association had brought order to many regions. Peace prevailed, the government functioned smoothly, the people lived in harmony, and everything flourished.】
【The common people saw the truth clearly. Even some non-human races sincerely admired these new government offices formed from the human foundation.】
【Therefore, when the Featherwing Sect seized local political power, many commoners joined the resistance. Although their efforts had little effect, they produced countless stirring and heroic scenes.】
【Take Jiangyang City, for example. Its one hundred thousand soldiers and civilians, together with the hidden human sects that came to reinforce it, defended the city to the very last person. In the end, all the enemy gained was an empty city—not even a living dog remained.】
【These stories were all recorded in the history books.】
【But for you, the most pressing problem was how to win this Battle of Red Cliffs between the Sun and Liu alliance.】
【You had repeatedly led high-level cultivators in attacks against the battle corpse guarding the mountain gate of the Qingqiu Sect, bringing out the Tiansha Sect Alliance’s most precious trump cards. The Tiansha Sect Alliance was a coalition centered around the Tiansha Sect and composed of multiple forces, while the Tiansha Army consisted of elite cultivators selected from those forces.】
【Unfortunately, the results were negligible. You had even lost several Heaven-Connecting Realm cultivators.】
【The problem was that you had no choice but to keep fighting.】
【Whenever you retreated, the battle corpse would pursue the Tiansha Army and pummel them.】
【Whenever you stopped, it would return to guard the Qingqiu Sect’s mountain gate.】
【“Damn it! We have an army of a million, yet one corpse has us stumped!”】
【Inside the command tent, you were so furious that you flipped over the table.】
【It was entirely in keeping with the Dragonfolk’s violent nature.】
【Ya Dada said,】
【“Sect Master, we discussed the matter and feel that we should withdraw our troops. With so many cultivators, mounts, and battle pets stationed here, the daily consumption of supplies is an unbearable burden for the rear. On top of that, the Featherwing Sect has been steadily devouring our territory. If this continues, our army could collapse at any moment and be swept away in a rout…”】
【“How could I not understand that…”】
【Even the “Infinite White Congee” could not solve the problem of provisions.】
【There were simply too many people.】
【The white congee was produced bowl by bowl. Even if you sat in the congee shed from dawn to dusk, it would be impossible to give every one of the million soldiers a bowl.】
【Besides, a single bowl was nowhere near enough for a cultivator.】
【And mounts and battle pets had even more voracious appetites—they were practically gluttonous beasts.】
【You stared at the battle-map model inside the camp. The wooden carving of the battle corpse stood tall at its center, and you knitted your brows tightly.】
【“I don’t think this battle corpse is difficult to deal with. No matter how powerful he is, he’s still a corpse without the intelligence of a living person. The key is that golden wheel. Its power is simply too immense. An innate spiritual treasure? Our sect also possesses an innate spiritual treasure, so why does it look like a child’s toy beside that golden wheel?”】
【Ya Dada continued,】
【“Sect Master, the Qingqiu Sect’s golden wheel is so powerful. Why did they need to join forces with the Featherwing Sect and use the Featherwing Sect’s ancestor’s battle corpse to wield it?”】
【Ya Dada’s words suddenly enlightened you.】
【“The living can’t use this thing! No wonder there’s never been any record of the Qingqiu Sect using it!”】
【“That’s very likely! Its power is simply too immense. A living person might be unable to withstand the cost or price of using it. Perhaps it shortens one’s lifespan or damages one’s foundation.”】
【Your heart was stirred.】
【If only you could obtain such a powerful treasure.】
【Although you couldn’t use it yourself, your clone could!】
【It could thrash around with it as much as it pleased!】
【Who cared about shortened lifespans or damaged foundations? Do whatever you want!】
【“Knowing this doesn’t seem to help us overcome the problem…”】
【Just as everyone was at their wits’ end,】
【a soldier entered the tent to deliver a report.】
【“Reporting to the Sect Master! There’s a human outside asking for an audience. He says he has a way to defeat the Featherwing battle corpse!”】
【Upon hearing this, all the high-ranking officers and Tiansha Sect elders in the tent immediately beamed with delight.】
【“Invite him in at once!”】
【“Good thing the Sect Master told us that we need to get along with humans from now on and mustn’t attack them on sight. Otherwise, this human wouldn’t have lived long enough to meet us.”】
【“Don’t celebrate too soon. I admit that humans are competent enough at managing domestic affairs in the rear, but they’re weak and backward when it comes to cultivation. How could they possibly deal with the greatest foundation of the two major sects?”】
【“Not necessarily. This human dared to request an audience, so he must have some confidence in his abilities. Otherwise, wouldn’t he be putting his entire clan at risk?”】
【Your gaze swept across the Dragonfolk and other non-human races inside the tent.】
【In truth, they were still the same as ever. They looked down on humans and instinctively enjoyed bullying them.】
【It was only because your current strategic objective was to unify the entire Firelight Star. If you continued treating humans as before, every force and every race outside the Tiansha Sect Alliance would be driven into the enemy’s camp.】
【At a time like this, it truly would not do to mistreat the humans, who possessed the largest population base.】
【On the contrary, winning them over and building friendly relations with them, allowing them to manage their vast territories in an orderly fashion while the Dragonfolk lords focused on cultivation and happily collected taxes, was indeed an ingenious arrangement.】
【All of this was the result of your planning and careful maneuvering—using Firelight Star as a chessboard and the various forces as pieces to tip the balance once more.】
【A moment later, a thin, dark-skinned human farmer wearing a bamboo hat entered the tent.】
【The visitor was none other than You Keqing, president of the Firelight Star branch of the Tinderfire Association.】
【However, when the people inside the tent saw his appearance, they were all sorely disappointed.】
【It was difficult to believe that a farmer like this could defeat a battle corpse with the strength of an Immortal Lord and wielding a top-tier weapon.】
【Someone immediately shouted at him.】
【“What kind of lowlife is this? Has he come here to make fools of us? Throw him out and beat him to death! Exterminate his entire clan!”】
【Before you could stop him, Ya Dada spoke first.】
【“Wait! This man is no ordinary person. Even I can’t see through his cultivation!”】
【Hearing this, everyone tried to test him in their own way.】
【Some used cultivation techniques, some used magical artifacts, and others released their exotic beast companions.】
【Yet none of it worked.】
【That was only natural.】
【Concealing one’s aura and cultivation was the Tinderfire Association’s specialty.】
【The Tinderfire Association had been passed down through endless ages and had branches scattered throughout the universe. Of course they would be exceptionally good at hiding themselves.】
【However, although this aura-concealing technique was useful, it came with a considerable price.】
【Using it for too long damaged one’s vital energy and blood, weakening the body’s strength.】
【That was also why the members of the Tinderfire Association’s committee—You Keqing and the others—looked like farmers worn down by years of toil.】
【This was both a necessary disguise for their usual identities and an unfortunate consequence of their long-term use of aura-concealing techniques.】
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...
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
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!
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.
