Lin Xiao stepped forward and answered respectfully.
“Reporting to the boss.”
“At present, only one-tenth of the factory’s machines are in operation.”
“Our net daily output is roughly fifty trillion.”
Fifty trillion!
In one day!
Su Yu’s breathing hitched slightly.
Fifty trillion a day meant five hundred trillion in ten days!
That was far more stable than making a killing by hacking the dark web.
“Why are only one-tenth of them running?”
Su Yu immediately seized on the key point.
The machines were clearly all there, so why leave them idle?
That was nothing short of a criminal waste of resources!
Lin Xiao let out a bitter laugh and pointed toward several enormous furnaces deep inside the factory.
“Because we don’t have enough raw materials.”
“To produce these high-grade counterfeit-proof dragon coins, we have to add an extremely rare special mineral to the pulp—Magnetar Crystals.”
“Only powder made from this mineral can carry the flow of spiritual power through the anti-counterfeiting formations.”
Lin Xiao sighed.
“At present, we only control one medium-to-small Magnetar Crystal vein, and it runs directly beneath our feet.”
“The vein’s mining output has already reached its limit. It can only produce this much ore per day.”
“Without the crystals, no matter how many machines we turn on, all they’ll produce is waste paper.”
Su Yu’s brows knitted slightly at these words.
Fifty trillion a day sounded like a lot.
But after experiencing the thrill of spending one hundred trillion just moments ago, it still felt a little slow to him.
It wasn’t enough to spend.
“Where else can we find Magnetar Crystals?” Su Yu asked.
Lin Xiao instinctively turned his head toward the deepest part of the base.
That direction led straight to the rift known as Ghost Gate Pass.
“The Abyss.”
Lin Xiao swallowed, his expression growing exceptionally grave.
“According to intelligence gathered by the military, there’s an enormous Magnetar Crystal vein in the Abyssal plane beyond the Ghost Gate Pass rift.”
“Its reserves are more than a hundred times greater than the vein beneath our feet!”
Huo Zhenshan picked up the conversation.
“That’s right.”
“If we can seize the vein on the other side of the Abyss and bring back enough ore…”
“Then every machine in this money-printing factory can operate at full capacity!”
Huo Zhenshan looked at Su Yu and held up five fingers.
“Five hundred trillion in cash per day!”
Five hundred trillion!
Every day!
And there was more.
“The military promised us before that, aside from the daily operating expenses of the Pojun Camp…”
“All the money printed by this factory would belong to you!”
“We won’t charge a single cent in fees!”
Huo Zhenshan’s words echoed in Su Yu’s ears like a spell.
All his.
No fees.
Five hundred trillion a day.
Su Yu’s eyes lit up completely.
In those deep, crystal-clear eyes, a feverish glow erupted—one that made everyone’s heart tremble.
Go to the Abyss!
Take the ore vein!
The moment this thought arose, it spread through Su Yu’s mind like wildfire.
What did he care about Abyssal monsters or dangers lurking everywhere?
In the face of the temptation of five hundred trillion a day, they were all nothing more than chickenshit and clay dogs!
Anyone who dared to stand in the way of his money-making would die!
Just as Su Yu was about to ask for the exact coordinates of the Abyssal ore vein—
“Woooooo—!”
The shrill alarm reserved for the highest level of emergency suddenly rang throughout the entire underground base!
Red warning lights flashed wildly, casting a sinister glow over everyone’s faces.
“What’s going on?!”
Lin Xiao’s expression changed drastically as he hurriedly pressed a hand to his communicator.
“Commander! This is bad!”
A sentry’s desperate roar came through the communicator from the front lines.
“The Ghost Gate Pass rift… it’s widening!”
“A terrifying Abyssal creature is forcing its way across!”
“The pressure is too strong! We can’t hold it back! Aah—!”
The transmission cut off abruptly, leaving behind only a harsh dead tone.
Rumble—!!!
The entire Ten Thousand Mountains suddenly began to shake violently.
Countless thick cracks split across the sturdy alloy walls of the underground base.
An indescribably terrifying pressure erupted from the deepest part of the base like a black ocean bursting through a breached dam!
In an instant, it swept through the entire money-printing factory!
The berserk pressure was about to crush all the printing machines into scrap metal when—
Buzz—!
Su Yu’s gaze turned cold.
An invisible barrier of astral force instantly rose before the factory floor!
Boom!
The Demon Emperor’s terrifying pressure slammed into the barrier and shattered with a thunderous crash. Not even the slightest breeze managed to enter the factory.
All the printing machines continued roaring away.
Su Yu glanced at the machines, the corner of his eye twitching faintly.
He had protected them.
But these were his money-making machines—his five hundred-trillion-a-day cash printers!
That beast had nearly destroyed them!
Killing intent.
An icy, bone-chilling killing intent spread from Su Yu’s body.
Huo Zhenshan, however, failed to notice anything unusual about Su Yu.
The terrifying pressure coming from deep within the rift had already scared him senseless.
“This aura…”
Huo Zhenshan’s murky eyes widened, and his entire body began to tremble uncontrollably.
“More than one hundred billion in qi-blood power?!”
“Impossible! Absolutely impossible!”
Huo Zhenshan let out a shrill cry, his voice filled with despair unlike anything he had ever felt before.
“It’s a Demon Emperor!!!”
“A true Demon Emperor has descended!!!”
Huo Zhenshan felt as though the heavens themselves were collapsing.
He had originally thought that only a high-level Demon Saint was trying to break through the rift.
Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that an actual Abyssal Demon Emperor would forcefully tear through the seal of Ghost Gate Pass!
This was a Demon Emperor!
An unrivaled overlord with more than one hundred billion in qi-blood power and mastery over the laws of the Abyss!
A Demon Emperor and a Demon Saint were worlds apart!
Even a hundred Demon Saints combined would not be enough for a Demon Emperor to crush with a single finger!
“Retreat! Now!!!”
Huo Zhenshan grabbed Su Yu by the arm and roared with his eyes bulging.
“Su Yu! Run!”
“That’s a true Demon Emperor! Not an illusion! Not just residual power!”
“Even I couldn’t withstand a single glance from him!”
“If you stay here, you’ll die without a doubt! Go!!!”
Huo Zhenshan was genuinely frantic.
He knew that Su Yu was incredibly powerful—powerful enough to kill four Saints with a single shot.
But so what?!
Before a true Demon Emperor, a Saint was as fragile as paper!
Yet—
Su Yu remained completely motionless.
He allowed Huo Zhenshan to tug at his arm while keeping his eyes fixed on the direction of the base.
There was not the slightest trace of fear in his eyes.
Only an extreme displeasure at having someone wreck his territory.
“Boom—!!!”
At the end of the base, the several-ton-thousand superalloy security door was blasted apart by purple demonic flames as easily as a sheet of paper!
A terrifying figure, a hundred zhang tall and wreathed in dark-purple flames of destruction, forcibly squeezed through the rift in space!
The Demon Flame Emperor!
His true form had descended!
“Hahahahaha!!!”
The Demon Flame Emperor threw back his head and laughed wildly, purple demonic flames instantly setting the entire underground space ablaze.
“The world of mankind!”
“At last, I’ve made it here!”
He lowered his enormous head. Two eyes, resembling purple suns, looked down upon the humans below like ants.
His gaze immediately locked onto Huo Zhenshan, who stood at the very front.
“Oh?”
The Demon Flame Emperor’s lips curled into a cruel smile, and his voice exploded like thunder.
“I didn’t expect a human Martial Saint to be waiting here the moment I crossed over.”
“What wonderful luck!”
“My first feast as the newly ascended Demon Flame Emperor—and a Martial Saint for an appetizer!”
“What incredible luck!!!”
The Demon Flame Emperor was arrogant to the extreme.
He didn’t take anyone present seriously.
A Martial Saint?
Before a newly ascended Demon Emperor like him, he was nothing more than a slightly larger tonic.
He slowly raised his massive palm, wreathed in blazing purple demonic flames, preparing to crush Huo Zhenshan outright and drain the hundreds of billions of units of vitality from his body.
Huo Zhenshan’s face was ashen.
Under that pure Emperor-level pressure, the vitality in his body was completely suppressed. He couldn’t even move a finger.
It was over.
Completely over.
Not only would he die, but the future hope of Great Xia would be buried along with him.
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.
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.
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!
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!
