【Inside the palace, candlelight illuminated the faces of Ya Dada and the others.】
【Everyone present today had once conquered the world alongside you, earning outstanding military achievements.】
【After the kingdom was founded, some became regional governors, while others became pillars of the imperial court. Every one of them stood at the pinnacle of power. A single word from them, a single stomp of the foot, could unleash a tsunami across the entire world.】
【Though they feared and respected you, you heard their inner thoughts every day and knew exactly what was on their minds.】
【Some still doubted your true identity and believed you should be exposed. Perhaps they could seize the opportunity to stage a rebellion.】
【Some suspected that your motives for supporting humanity were impure. Maybe you had reached some kind of agreement with the human race and intended to bypass them by contacting the Dragonfolk forces on a first-tier star, inviting outside troops to come to their aid and overthrow you.】
【Some believed that, having rendered great service, they deserved to do whatever they pleased on this planet for the rest of their lives instead of being restrained by the piles of laws you had established. In truth, they had already been doing whatever they wanted in their own territories.】
【In short, not a single one of them had entirely pure intentions.】
【Even if they had not been members of another race, none of them would have been wrongfully killed if you decided to eliminate them today.】
【On the surface, however, you and your ministers continued to treat each other with courtesy and decorum.】
【The chief eunuch stepped forward to report.】
【“Your Majesty, the ministers you summoned by secret order are all here. Even Marquis Chenbing, who lives farthest from the capital, hurried here on a flying spirit treasure.”】
【“Excellent. I imagine that after seeing one another, everyone has guessed why I summoned you here.”】
【The ministers exchanged glances, their smiles already impossible to contain.】
【“At last, His Majesty is going to stand up for us! We can no longer allow those troublemakers to slander and provoke us!”】
【“A bunch of peacetime soldiers who have never even set foot on a battlefield want to seize power from veterans like us? They should take a good look at themselves first! Fortunately, His Majesty is on our side!”】
【“I told you His Majesty was wise and discerning. He would never become muddleheaded!”】
【Seeing how delighted they were, you could not help smiling as well.】
【A bunch of fools. They’re on the verge of death, yet they still want to use me to secure their positions?】
【A toad dreaming of eating swan meat. Ugly as sin, but dreaming beautifully.】
【“My beloved ministers, quiet down. Tonight, I would first like to show everyone a wonderful treasure.”】
【The hall fell silent.】
【For the current Lord of Firelight Star and Emperor of the Heavenly Dragon Kingdom to call something a “wonderful treasure,” it had to be an extraordinary item indeed.】
【A golden slingshot.】
【“Oh! What is this? I have never seen anything like it!”】
【“Crystalline and translucent, radiating countless colors—clearly no ordinary object!”】
【“Could it be an innate spirit treasure? Or perhaps a relic of an ancient Heavenly Emperor?!”】
【As everyone speculated, they saw you take out another object—a ball composed of a mass of writing.】
【Then you loaded the ball of writing into the slingshot and fired it into the air above the hall.】
【Line after line of text scattered downward, merging into the bodies of everyone inside.】
【No one understood what was happening.】
【They were just about to ask when you hurriedly fired a second ball, then a third, a fourth, a fifth...】
【It seemed to go on forever!】
【At last, someone realized that something was wrong, because some people were already behaving abnormally.】
【“Ji Ni is so beautiful!! Ji Ni is truly so beautiful~~”】
【Ya Dada, the former Grand Elder of the Heavenly Fiend Sect and current Chancellor of the Heavenly Dragon Kingdom—a venerable Dragonfolk elder of advanced age—was actually striking poses and preening in the middle of the hall.】
【Meanwhile, the imposing and dignified commander-in-chief of the three armies was publicly sobbing about the time his wife had cheated on him, endlessly chanting rhyming lines such as, “The wine of celebration has already been poured for me.”】
【The composed and seasoned ministers of the Six Ministries had even joined hands and begun singing in unison, “Come on~ Let’s have some fun~ We’ve got~ Plenty of time~~”】
【“What’s happening?! Have they gone mad?!”】
【“It’s those things His Majesty just fired! They’re poisonous!”】
【“Your Majesty... why... why are you toying with us?!”】
【“And you still call him ‘Your Majesty’?! I knew from the start that something was wrong with this man! He gathered us here today to kill us all!!”】
【At long last, these people realized that you intended to harm them.】
【It was not surprising that their reactions had been slow.】
【Who could have imagined that the Founding Emperor would have the resolve to wipe out every founding hero and regional governor in one fell swoop?】
【You had completely disregarded whether the nation would still be able to function normally after their deaths.】
【You had already fired a whole pile of negative traits with the “Trait Slingshot.”】
【This battle was even more difficult than the one at Spearhead Valley.】
【Because more than ninety percent of those present today were in the Heaven-Reaching Realm!】
【Fortunately, they had realized that something was wrong too late, allowing you to bring the slingshot’s power to its fullest.】
【After being struck by a heap of negative traits, those Heaven-Reaching Realm cultivators were hardly much stronger than you, a late-stage Earthly Extremity cultivator.】
【What was more, the resources at your disposal today were vastly greater than those you had possessed at Spearhead Valley.】
【“Activate the formations!!”】
【Ten grade-two killing formations rose inside and outside the palace, intertwining with one another as murderous intent filled every corner!】
【The moment Ya Dada and the others sensed the formations’ aura, their hearts sank halfway to the bottom.】
【“Why do I feel like I’m looking at the Golden Crow Incinerates the Heavens Formation... Wasn’t this a supreme killing formation that had been lost by the Azure Hill Sect for countless years? How...”】
【“What else is there to figure out?! Our supposedly devoted and calculating emperor must have found the formation manuals in the Azure Hill Sect’s treasury, then mobilized the resources of the entire world to restore them!”】
【“Very well, very well! He certainly thinks highly of us! Everyone, there’s nothing left to say. Let’s fight him to the death!”】
【“To the death! Whoever survives gets to write the history books!!”】
【Many of them charged toward you.】
【But the real you had already used one of the formations to teleport outside the palace the instant the formations were activated.】
【The figure left behind was merely an illusion created by the formations.】
【Without saying a word, you continued piling more “prizes” into the prize pool.】
【“Battle-armor puppet soldiers, activate!”】
【One hundred thousand puppet soldiers forged from Vajra Metal burst from the ground and charged into the formations, slaughtering the assembled ministers.】
【“Release the gu insects, savage beasts, and Space-Devouring Raptors!”】
【In the distance, buzzing swarms of insects, roaring beasts, and shrieking raptors sealed off the sky and the earth, ensuring that no one could silently escape using any kind of secret technique.】
【And that still was not the end. You unleashed every killing move that had ever appeared on this planet—everything capable of threatening high-level cultivators.】
【Every single move you used tonight was the kind of trump card that might decide life or death for any given faction.】
【Yet you had thrown them all out at once.】
【After all, the entire Firelight Star belonged to you. You had no shortage of resources.】
【Looking at the flames covering the mountains and plains, the beasts, the formation patterns, the divine runes, and everything else...】
【The Myriad Soul Banner could not stop exclaiming in astonishment.】
【“Buddy! That’s brutal! Are you trying to make them die a hundred times over?!”】
【Apart from pressing a pile of “switches,” you had barely needed to act personally.】
【It felt far easier than what happened at Spearhead Valley.】
【“They’re all cunning old foxes. Who knows what hidden trump cards they might have? I need to make absolutely sure nothing can go wrong. That’s what you call a saturation strike!”】
【The Myriad Soul Banner clicked its tongue repeatedly.】
【“Good heavens! Anyone who follows you is cursed for eight lifetimes!”】
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?"
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
