[After a long while, you finally came back to your senses amid the Myriad Souls Banner’s laughter.]
[“Hahahaha! Old Man Chen is already so old, yet he’s playing at being the domineering general who falls in love with me! I could laugh about this for a year! No—ten years! Hahahaha!”]
[You were so depressed that you no longer even had the energy to beat the Myriad Souls Banner.]
[You sat on a large rock, brow furrowed tightly.]
[“Where exactly did things go wrong? Why isn’t the story following the script? The first time we met, she said something about marrying her. Wasn’t that her way of jokingly confessing her true feelings?”]
[If you had equipped the “Built-In BGM” trait right now, you would have heard:]
[♫ There’s a simple question: What is love?]
[♫ Is it a kind of flavor? Or perhaps gravity?]
[…]
[♫ Love is like blue skies and white clouds, clear skies for miles—then suddenly, a storm…]
[No seats!]
[Year sixty-two, age eighty-eight.]
[Ji Wuqing still came to the base from time to time, but she no longer came to see you. She had already labeled you a complete pervert.]
[You knew you had picked the wrong strategy, so you simply stopped worrying about it and focused on cultivating.]
[Using the “Ill-Fated in Old Age” trait, you transformed a patch of wasteland in the base into a spirit vein, further increasing your cultivation speed.]
[The environment was now equivalent to a first-tier star. With the environment’s power further enhanced on top of that, and with the amplification from multiple traits, your cultivation speed was in no way inferior to that of some of the base’s geniuses.]
[Year sixty-three, age eighty-nine.]
[A-Dou continued to grow year by year.]
[At your age and level of cultivation, there seemed to be little change from one year to the next. Every day felt like a repetition of yesterday.]
[But for A-Dou, every day brought something new.]
[The one thing that had not changed was that, among the geniuses at the Torch Society’s base, he had become the king of the children.]
[No, he wasn’t a child anymore. He was an adolescent now—the king of the youths.]
[You had not concealed the existence of the Hao-Ri Ring from He Xiangdong. They also knew that it was in your possession.]
[There was more than one Chosen One at the base. You intended to wait until they had reached a certain level of cultivation before letting them try to activate the Hao-Ri Ring.]
[Otherwise, with an item possessing such tremendous power, even if they were Chosen Ones, they might be unable to withstand it while using it.]
[He Xiangdong and the others had no objections. They permitted you to keep the Hao-Ri Ring in your temporary custody.]
[Judging by the date, the Starry Ape should be arriving soon.]
[As luck would have it, Ji Wuqing happened to come to the base that day to deliver supplies.]
[The supplies she delivered had, of course, been legally acquired from the Ji family’s warehouses through various justifications.]
[You found Ji Wuqing and said to her,]
[“Wuqing, I want to go to the Ji family with you.”]
[Ji Wuqing rolled her eyes at you on the spot.]
[“Why can’t you, you dead pervert, just give up already?”]
[He Xiangdong was nearby, taking inventory of the supplies. Upon hearing Ji Wuqing speak to you that way, he immediately put on a stern expression.]
[“Wuqing, you must not be rude to Brother Chen. I’ve always regarded your usual bossiness as nothing more than a lively personality, but how can you treat Brother Chen Dong with such an attitude?”]
[Ji Wuqing had no choice but to explain everything, describing your previous perverted behavior in detail.]
[You scratched your head awkwardly.]
[“Th-that was a misunderstanding…”]
[He Xiangdong, however, spoke with complete seriousness.]
[“A woman should marry when the time is right. Don’t you often complain that you can’t find a husband? Brother Chen Dong is handsome, noble, formidable in battle, brave, and resourceful. In what way is he not worthy of you? Since Brother Chen Dong is interested, why are you still being so picky? I may not be your father, but I’m practically half your master. I watched you grow up. I’ll make the decision on this matter—pick an auspicious day and get married!”]
[You and Ji Wuqing waved your hands at the same time.]
[“No, no, no!”]
[You gave a bitter laugh.]
[“Something like this requires both parties to be in love. I don’t want to force anyone. Besides, I’m going to the Ji family with Wuqing today for a different reason…”]
[You told Ji Wuqing that you knew the Starry Ape had arrived, and that they were looking for someone to enter the Void Realm and search for their prince.]
[You were the most suitable candidate, and you knew where their prince was.]
[Ji Wuqing looked at you suspiciously.]
[“How do you know where their prince is? And why are you the most suitable?”]
[“Because… I’m from the Void Realm!”]
[Once again, you shocked He Xiangdong, Ji Wuqing, and the others.]
[“A Dao Ascender?!”]
[“That’s right.”]
[“According to the intelligence records of our Torch Society, there hasn’t been a human Dao Ascender in the entire universe for tens of thousands of years. The human world seems to have declined as well. I never expected that we’d still get to see a Dao Ascender.”]
[“There have actually always been Dao Ascenders from the human world. It’s just that every last one of them was a traitor. The moment they ascended, they joined the alien races. It’s a long story. I’ll explain it all to you in detail another day.”]
[That was another long story—one that had taken you a full five simulations to figure out.]
[So you had no time to explain it to He Xiangdong and the others right now.]
[Ji Wuqing still half-believed your claim that you were from the Void Realm.]
[But He Xiangdong and the other senior figures at the base trusted you completely and vouched for you.]
[Ji Wuqing had no choice but to approach the matter with the attitude of trying anything when all else had failed. She took you away from the base and headed for the Ji family.]
[Before leaving, you gave the Female Heavenly Emperor’s Cloud-Glow Feather Robe to A-Dou.]
[A-Dou was young and proud, and had absolutely no interest in a dress with fluttering sleeves. This remained true even after you told him that it possessed extremely powerful defensive abilities.]
[For A-Dou’s safety, you still insisted that he keep it with him. If he encountered any danger, he had to put it on immediately.]
[A-Dou had no choice but to agree.]
[After returning to the Ji family, events unfolded just as you remembered. Nothing unexpected happened.]
[Ji Wuqing brought you back to the Ji family, where you attended the Starry Ape’s “bidding conference.”]
[Using your identity as a member of the Ji family, you secured an opportunity to speak with the Starry Apes privately. You revealed that you were from the Void Realm and gave them a detailed account of the two princes’ situation in the human world.]
[What else could the Starry Apes say? You could practically tell them how many hairs their princes had. If they didn’t choose you as their “projector,” who else could they choose?]
[While the Starry Apes prepared, the Ji family patriarch, Ji Baiming, summoned you.]
[“This is a list of several proposals concerning the exploration of the Void Realm, compiled by the Ji family’s think tank…”]
[Ji Baiming took out his thick catalog once again.]
[Before he could finish, you pulled out a book taller than you were.]
[“I’ve already written it.”]
[Ji Baiming and Ji Wuqing were both stunned on the spot.]
[Ji Baiming glanced at the catalog in his hand.]
[“I haven’t even finished speaking yet, have I? You… can see the future?”]
[You smiled.]
[“Don’t worry about the details. Please take this as proof of my sincerity. Here’s to a pleasant cooperation.”]
[Ji Baiming nodded blankly.]
[“Ah… yes. A pleasant cooperation…”]
[After you left the room, Ji Baiming flipped through the pile of books you had given him and discovered that their contents matched the proposals in his own catalog point for point.]
[“This is haunted…”]
【Ji Wuqing follows you out of Ji Baiming’s study, circling around you while keeping her eyes fixed on you.】
【“Why have you suddenly become so mysterious?”】
【you say calmly.】
【“Don’t worry about the details. Focus on the task at hand!”】
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...
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?"
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
