【Faced with the overbearing rules you had imposed, someone raised his arm and shouted, rallying a large crowd to his side.】
【“We’re not leaving! We’ll fight him! The Soaring Feather Sect hasn’t fallen yet. We’ll all join the Soaring Feather Sect—I refuse to believe we can’t defeat this overbearing dictator!”】
【You clapped your hands excitedly.】
【“Good, good, good! I like that spirit! Don’t say I’m bullying you. I’ll give you some time to leave the starport. Then we’ll have a fair showdown. Come on, get ready…”】
【“You’re giving us several days?!”】
【“Three…”】
【“Three days? Hmph, that’s more than enough!”】
【“Two…”】
【“!!!”】
【Year Thirty, age fifty-six.】
【The Heavenly Fiend Sect’s war of unification was proceeding in full force.】
【On the map of Firelight Star, the Heavenly Fiend Sect’s banner grew larger and larger, while the other factions struggled on the brink of collapse.】
【As its territory continued to expand, problems came one after another.】
【Even with the direct vassals incorporated into it, the Heavenly Fiend Alliance was running desperately short of manpower.】
【The territory had been conquered, but they at least needed to leave people behind to garrison it, and at least leave people behind to maintain order.】
【Yet after years of warfare, the Heavenly Fiend Alliance had already suffered heavy casualties, and it still needed to keep increasing its numbers.】
【Most nonhuman races had pitifully slow reproductive rates—one child every few centuries. They simply couldn’t keep up with the intensity of the war.】
【They were running out of people. What were they supposed to do?】
【They had promised to unify the entire world. Surely they couldn’t just abandon the cities they had conquered and let them fend for themselves?】
【Of course not.】
【Those uneducated nonhuman races thought that once territory had been conquered, they only needed to loot it and leave. There was no need to govern it.】
【But you, the sect master, had profound foresight and felt that this wouldn’t do. So they could only follow your lead and agree that it wouldn’t do.】
【“But, Sect Master, we truly can’t spare anyone to garrison the cities unless we pull people from the front lines. However, the Soaring Feather Sect has formed a ‘Resistance Alliance’ and is fighting us to the death. Every faction on Firelight Star has willingly brought out all its trump cards. The front lines are under tremendous pressure, and we’ve been suffering more defeats as well. This…”】
【In the Heavenly Fiend Sect’s royal hall, you and the alliance’s senior leaders discussed your next strategy.】
【“If only we’d known this would happen. We should have brought more allies into the war at the beginning. Even if we planned to betray them afterward, that would still have been better than pushing them all onto the other side.”】
【“Exactly. Our territory has grown, but so has the front line—it’s stretched endlessly. We’re practically fighting in every region of the world, and the intensity is too much.”】
【“That’s not all. We also have to defend the cities and protect the population. The enemy, meanwhile, is throwing caution to the wind. They just come out, cause some damage, kill a few people, and run. The cost of war is low for them, but far too high for us.”】
【Faced with the manpower shortage, you calmly said,】
【“Who says we’re short on people? Who says we have no allies?”】
【“Sect Master, do you have another brilliant plan?”】
【“The human race!”】
【“The human race?”】
【“They have plenty of people!”】
【“But humans are too weak. They aren’t even qualified to serve as cannon fodder on the front lines!”】
【“They can handle logistics in the rear, maintain order, and guard the cities, can’t they?”】
【“They could barely manage that, perhaps. But they’re still too weak. Most of them are mortals, and there are too few cultivators. Even among the cultivators, there aren’t any high-level experts.”】
【“Then cultivate them! Distribute cultivation techniques and resources, and let the humans practice!”】
【Everyone in the hall immediately reacted as though they had been struck by lightning.】
【Ya Dada, the Heavenly Fiend Sect’s grand elder, was the first to step forward.】
【“Sect Master, please reconsider! Supporting the human race is no different from raising a tiger in our own house! It’s one thing to let them pick through scraps to cultivate—we don’t have the energy to manage every single one of them. But if we give them proper, systematic training, the humans will rise rapidly!”】
【You adopted the attitude of a nonhuman aristocrat looking down on human slaves.】
【“Nonsense! What, are all humans born with first-grade immortal roots?”】
【“Well… no.”】
【“Then what are you so afraid of?”】
【“It’s… the ancestral injunction…”】
【“What a load of nonsense! We said we were going to unify the world. Our brothers have been fighting for so long and so many have died. Do you want me to leave the job unfinished? Complete the great cause of unification first. After that, you can talk to me about your ancestral injunction!”】
【You heard several inner thoughts:】
【‘Wow! The Sect Master is so domineering. I love it~’】
【‘Exactly! We’re the mighty dragonfolk, and the Heavenly Fiend Sect controls all the resources in the world. Why should we be afraid of humans?’】
【‘We’re about to witness history! We’re about to witness history! Firelight Star is going to be unified. Unified…’】
【This showed that although guarding against humans was an ancestral injunction among many nonhuman races, not everyone treated it as an inviolable creed. Some simply didn’t take it seriously.】
【It wasn’t that they lacked vigilance. It was that, on the surface, the humans of Firelight Star truly did not pose any threat.】
【With the exception of the Tinder Society.】
【However, the forces of a second-tier planet would not regard eliminating the Tinder Society as their top priority.】
【The Tinder Society was spread throughout the entire universe. It was not a problem that the nonhuman races of a single planet needed to deal with.】
【Therefore, the nonhuman factions on any given planet generally would not regard the Tinder Society as their mortal enemy, nor would they spend vast amounts of time and effort trying to eliminate it.】
【They would simply deal with it whenever they discovered traces of the Tinder Society. If they couldn’t handle the problem, they would report it to a stronger faction.】
【The Tinder Society operated as discreetly as possible. The nonhuman races on each planet had settled into an unspoken rule: if they didn’t see the society, they would pretend it didn’t exist; if they did see it, they would kill its members.】
【Only an organization as powerful as the Sacred Dragon Society, a top-level organization within the entire star system, would relentlessly pursue the Tinder Society.】
【On the question of supporting the humans and turning them into allies, the Heavenly Fiend Alliance split into conservatives and radicals.】
【The conservatives believed that they should uphold the ancestral injunction and find another way to solve the current manpower shortage.】
【The radicals believed that completing the great cause of unification took priority over guarding against humans. They argued that the unification should be completed first, after which the humans could be suppressed.】
【In the end, the radicals defeated the conservatives.】
【Your policy of supporting human cultivation began to be implemented.】
【Year Thirty-One, age fifty-seven.】
【Claiming that your cultivation was on the verge of a breakthrough, you entered secluded cultivation and stopped taking action.】
【You wanted to put some pressure on the Soaring Feather Sect and its “Resistance Alliance.”】
【That way, everyone in the Heavenly Fiend Alliance would come to believe that supporting the humans was necessary—otherwise, they might lose the war.】
【In truth, your cultivation really was on the verge of a breakthrough.】
【Under the pretext of secluded cultivation, you disappeared from the Heavenly Fiend Sect for a while.】
【Now, you had returned to your original appearance.】
【Maintaining the transformed state of “Guangzhi, Save Me” for long periods consumed twice as much lifespan, so you avoided using it whenever possible.】
【You arrived at the rural schoolhouse where Mr. Xun taught.】
【After You Keqing and the others passed away, Mr. Xun had become the leader of the Tinder Society on Firelight Star.】
【Shen Yifeng had also been promoted to the position of strategist.】
【This time, the moment he saw you, Mr. Xun immediately knelt in greeting.】
【“Mr. Xun pays his respects to Mr. Chen!”】
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?"
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.
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...
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
