【When it came to finding an effective way to use up your clones, two things came to mind.】
【“Mr. Xun, doesn’t the Kindling Society possess a unique spirit treasure called the Earth-Binding Ghost Chain?”】
【You still remembered that in the sixth simulation, Ma Bang had sacrificed himself by activating the Earth-Binding Ghost Chain. Using his Core Formation cultivation, he had held back nine warriors of the Desolate Realm, buying you time to escape.】
【The Earth-Binding Ghost Chain was a legendary-grade spirit treasure with an extremely powerful binding effect. However, each use consumed a cultivator who was at least at the Core Formation realm.】
【“That’s right. We do have such a treasure. Our members often find themselves hunted down. When there’s nowhere left to run, rather than be captured and tortured by the enemy, it’s better to use this and perish together with them. Perhaps we can even buy our comrades time to escape.”】
【As Mr. Xun spoke, he took one out.】
【“If Mr. Chen is interested, I can give you one…”】
【“There’s no need. I know that the Kindling Society on a single planet can probably only receive one or two of these. I just want to take a look.”】
【The last time you saw this thing in the simulation, you had used “Reverse Engineering” to obtain its blueprint and the required materials, but this was a legendary-grade acquired spirit treasure, and its details were extraordinarily complicated.】
【At the time, you had been carrying A-Dou while fighting the enemy and hadn’t had time to memorize them.】
【Today, however, you could take your time.】
【After memorizing everything, you returned the chain to Mr. Xun.】
【“Mr. Chen, if you like it, just take it. It’s fine.”】
【“Strictly speaking, I’m not a member of the Kindling Society, so I shouldn’t take your resources. You’d better keep it. I hope you’ll never have to use it.”】
【Many of the materials required to refine the Earth-Binding Ghost Chain could not be produced on a second-tier planet.】
【This treasure had not been refined by Mr. Xun or You Keqing. It had come from a higher-level branch of the Kindling Society, such as the one Ji Wuqing served.】
【If you wanted to replicate this spirit treasure, you would have to wait until you reached a first-tier planet and gathered all the necessary materials.】
【“By the way, there’s one other thing—a spell called Primordial Core Attraction. May I take a look at it?”】
【Primordial Core Attraction was the technique Shen Yifeng had used in the sixth simulation to detonate his own core and perish together with several warriors of the Desolate Realm.】
【The power of this self-destruction technique was astonishing. It could kill enemies above one’s own level!】
【It was perfect for clones!】
【Although the clones themselves were not very powerful, with the “Lend Me Your Strength!” trait, every one of them could become a Desolate Realm bomb whenever necessary!】
【Killing a Heaven-Reaching Realm expert would be no problem. With a bit of luck, they might even injure an Immortal Lord!】
【The key was that these bombs refreshed the next day after being used!】
【Mr. Xun was extremely generous. Whatever you asked for, he provided, even giving you a transcription of the spell.】
【“Thank you!”】
【Now you could squeeze every last bit of value out of your clones!】
【Year Thirty-Two, age fifty-eight.】
【You devoted yourself to cultivation for some time in the village where Mr. Xun lived.】
【Your cultivation broke through to the mid-stage of the Desolate Realm in one fell swoop.】
【The number of equippable traits increased by two!】
【After being elevated by “Eternal Half-Emperor,” your apparent cultivation reached the late stage of the Desolate Realm.】
【With just one more breakthrough, you would possess the combat power of a Heaven-Reaching Realm expert!】
【“A-Dou was born when I was eighty in the previous simulation. But things have changed this time, so he may not be born at exactly the same age. It would be best to start ordering people to search for human newborns accompanied by natural phenomena.”】
【Year Thirty-Three, age fifty-nine.】
【Drawing traits…】
【Successfully drawn!】
【“Black Men Carrying a Coffin” (Purple Epic): You can summon a team of professional Black men at any time to perform a mysterious coffin-carrying ceremony for a dead person.】
【Adjust the trait?】
【Yes/No】
“What kind of useless trait is this? Why is it purple?”
Chen Yi had seen several traits before whose quality and effects did not quite match.
But for such an absurd trait to be rated purple… this was truly a first.
“There are two more trait slots now. Let’s see what I can equip.”
【You selected Yes.】
【You replaced “The Older, the Luckier” with “Human Radar.”】
【You equipped “The Hulk.”】
【You equipped “Zilong! Zilong!”】
【You bid farewell to Mr. Xun and returned to the Heavenly Fiend Sect.】
【To outsiders, you claimed that you had finished your secluded cultivation.】
【Ya Dada and the others could indeed sense that you seemed to have become stronger.】
【But according to their understanding, Si Duo Duo had already been in the late stage of the Heaven-Reaching Realm. If he had grown stronger, shouldn’t he have reached the level of an Immortal Lord?】
【Clearly, you were not an Immortal Lord.】
【Immortal Lords possessed a golden passport to first-tier planets. As long as one reached the Immortal Lord level and was not human, one could freely enter and leave first-tier planets.】
【As long as someone within the Milky Way galaxy broke through to the Immortal Lord level, the Sacred Dragon Association would sense it.】
【As long as you did not hide from the Sacred Dragon Association, it would not be long before they extended an olive branch to you.】
【You issued a new order. While continuing to advance the unification of the planet, the authorities were also to monitor all human newborns within the territory. Anyone born amid natural phenomena had to be reported immediately, without exception. Any delay would result in the extermination of nine generations of the offender’s family!】
【Seeing how much importance you placed on the human race, Ya Dada and the others felt reassured.】
【“The Sect Master is truly wise! The human race’s prodigies are often born amid extraordinary phenomena. Eliminating them while they are still in the cradle is the best strategy!”】
【You smiled without saying a word.】
【In your heart, you were already calculating when these high-ranking members of the Heavenly Fiend Alliance would meet their end.】
For the next several years, Chen Yi’s simulation focused almost entirely on three things.
The first was finding A-Dou.
He left this matter to his subordinates and had them search the entire planet. As soon as A-Dou was born, there would certainly be news.
The second was cultivation.
Although the concentration of immortal energy on a second-tier planet was low and cultivation efficiency was poor for someone in the Desolate Realm, Chen Yi’s cultivation aptitude had effectively improved after becoming a Dao Protector. Combined with the natural enhancement provided by several traits, he could still feel himself progressing.
Besides, he was the leader of the Heavenly Fiend Alliance, the Sect Master of the Heavenly Fiend Sect, the Demon Calamity True Lord, and Si Duo Duo!
The cultivation resources now under Chen Yi’s control were simply terrifying.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that every blade of grass and every tree on Firelight Star was his to take.
Although some regions had not yet been completely conquered, it was merely a matter of time.
With the assistance of external resources and the unlimited investment of cultivation materials, Chen Yi’s cultivation speed on Firelight Star was still quite impressive.
The third was delaying the progress of the war.
The moment Qingqiu Sect fell, the outcome of this war of unification had essentially ceased to be in doubt.
The only reason the war had continued for so many years afterward was that Chen Yi had been deliberately slowing things down.
As long as he reduced the frequency of his own interventions and relied solely on the Heavenly Fiend Alliance to wage war, the pace naturally slowed.
The purpose of delaying the war was to give the human race on Firelight Star time to develop.
The Heavenly Fiend Army did not have enough personnel and was forced to recruit humans.
But there were too few human cultivators, so the authorities had no choice but to invest resources in training them.
Taking advantage of these benefits, the human cultivators who had originally struggled with scarce resources on the second-tier planet were able to accelerate their growth.
Chen Yi single-handedly prolonged this battle from a person’s childhood all the way into adulthood, securing cultivation resources for an entire generation of humanity.
This laid a solid foundation for the sweeping changes that would later overtake Firelight Star.
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...
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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?"
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
