Just as Huo Zhenshan closed his eyes in despair, waiting for death—
“You nearly destroyed my money-printing machine.”
Su Yu stepped forward and shielded Huo Zhenshan behind him.
He looked up at the Demon Flame Emperor, whose towering form reached a hundred zhang into the air.
“And you also blocked my way to the Abyss to mine for ore.”
Su Yu slowly raised his right hand.
He clenched it around empty space.
Bzz—!
There was no violent eruption of vital energy.
No earth-shaking pressure leaked into the surroundings.
Not even the hem of Su Yu’s casual clothes fluttered.
And yet—
The instant his right hand closed into a fist, the air throughout the underground chamber suddenly froze.
An indescribable, supreme aura of the Dao—one that transcended all laws—erupted from Su Yu and spread outward in a thunderous wave!
Qi-Resonance Spear Intent!
It had taken shape!
A long spear woven entirely from transparent laws appeared in Su Yu’s hand out of thin air.
A trace of confusion flashed through the Demon Flame Emperor’s enormous purple eyes.
What was this ant, who didn’t even have a trace of vital-energy fluctuation, trying to do?
Did he think he could scare this emperor with a broken stick?
“Ant, die!”
The Demon Flame Emperor couldn’t be bothered to waste any more words. His massive hand, wreathed in burning demonic flames, slammed viciously down toward Su Yu and Huo Zhenshan!
In the face of an attack powerful enough to destroy heaven and earth—
Su Yu merely raised the transparent spear in his hand.
He thrust it forward.
“Suppress.”
The two ordinary-sounding words left Su Yu’s lips.
Ssss—!!!
There was no deafening collision.
No dazzling explosion of energy.
The instant Su Yu thrust out that spear—
The enormous palm the Demon Flame Emperor had brought down suddenly stopped in midair for no apparent reason.
A moment later—
The Demon Flame Emperor’s massive body abruptly stiffened!
“What?!”
The Demon Flame Emperor let out an incredulous, terrified roar.
He felt it!
At that moment, the laws of heaven and earth had completely betrayed him!
They were no longer under his control. Instead, they transformed into countless invisible blades and, following the trajectory of Su Yu’s spear, tore relentlessly into his true form!
His words had become law!
Heaven and earth had resonated!
Pffft!
A transparent hole more than ten meters in diameter instantly pierced through the Demon Flame Emperor’s chest!
Dark-purple Emperor blood gushed out like a waterfall!
“Ahhhhhh!!!”
The Demon Flame Emperor released a scream of unimaginable agony.
His enormous body staggered backward and slammed heavily into the rock wall behind him, collapsing more than half of the underground chamber.
One spear!
Without even using his vital energy!
With nothing more than the resonance of his martial will—
He had directly pierced through a genuine Abyssal Emperor!
The Demon Flame Emperor was stunned!
He lowered his head and stared at the transparent hole in his chest that refused to heal, feeling the source power within him rapidly drain away.
His mind went completely blank.
How was this possible?!
How could humanity possess such a terrifying expert—someone who could directly command the laws of heaven and earth to annihilate an Emperor without even using vital energy?!
What the hell was this?
A god?!
“Roar!!!”
The agony of his damaged source, combined with his fear of death, sent the Demon Flame Emperor into an utter frenzy!
“This emperor refuses to believe it!!!”
“This emperor is an Emperor! This emperor is immortal and indestructible!!!”
The Demon Flame Emperor roared madly.
The purple flames in his eyes completely transformed into a crimson red.
“Forbidden Art: Demonic Disintegration!!!”
Boom!!!
Without the slightest hesitation, the Demon Flame Emperor burned all of the source power he had left.
He unleashed the most terrifying life-or-death forbidden technique of the Abyssal demons!
In an instant—
His already hundred-zhang-tall body swelled to twice its original size!
The purple demonic flames around him transformed completely into pure black laws of destruction!
His combat power doubled in that moment!
A violent storm of energy swept across the entire chamber.
Standing behind Su Yu, Huo Zhenshan was utterly dumbfounded by the scene before him.
He stared blankly at the Emperor who had been pierced through by a single spear.
Then he looked at the Emperor who had unleashed a forbidden technique, doubled his combat power, and now seemed capable of destroying the world.
Huo Zhenshan felt his very soul trembling.
It was over.
The Emperor was fighting for his life.
Who could withstand an Emperor whose combat power had doubled?!
“Su… Su Yu…”
Huo Zhenshan’s teeth chattered, and he could barely get the words out.
However—
In the face of the Demon Flame Emperor, who had unleashed a forbidden technique and now radiated overwhelming might—
Su Yu’s expression remained utterly unchanged.
He looked at the black demonic shadow roaring furiously before him.
Then he raised the transparent spear in his hand once more.
He didn’t even use that terrifying drop of source blood.
It was still nothing more than pure Qi-Resonance Spear Intent.
“Die.”
Su Yu flicked his wrist.
His second spear thrust forward.
Bzz—!!!
The moment that spear shot out—
The Demon Flame Emperor’s doubled, berserk aura was abruptly cut off, as if an invisible hand had clamped down hard around his throat!
It stopped dead.
The Demon Flame Emperor’s eyes widened in terror.
At that moment—
He felt it.
The entire world.
The laws of heaven and earth.
Even the remaining Abyssal laws within his own body—
Everything was opposing him!
It was as though the heavens had grown furious and were bringing down the harshest punishment imaginable to erase him completely!
“No… No…”
The Demon Flame Emperor let out a despairing wail.
Before that irresistible will of heaven and earth, his doubled power failed to hold out for even a second.
Boom!
Like an enormous balloon being punctured—
The Demon Flame Emperor’s colossal body began to shatter inch by inch in midair!
It turned into a sky full of black ash that scattered with the wind.
Reduced to dust.
Not even a trace of his soul remained.
Clang.
A crystal the size of an adult’s head, radiating a pure and heart-pounding fluctuation of Abyssal source power, fell from the air.
It landed heavily amid the rubble at Su Yu’s feet.
An Emperor-grade demonic core.
Silence.
Deathly silence.
In the underground chamber, which had been reduced to ruins, only the soft rustling of wind through the rubble remained.
Huo Zhenshan collapsed onto the ground.
His mouth hung open, and his eyes were wide enough to rival bronze bells.
He stared fixedly at the Emperor-grade demonic core on the ground.
Then, stiffly, he raised his head and looked toward Su Yu, who stood ahead of him without even breathing heavily.
Huo Zhenshan was completely dumbfounded.
His mind had crashed, and he had lost all ability to think.
What?
What the hell?
It was over just like that?!
That had been an Emperor!
An Emperor who had unleashed a forbidden technique and doubled his combat power!
And he was just… gone?!
Huo Zhenshan’s lips trembled violently. The finger he pointed at Su Yu shook as though it were having a seizure.
“You…”
“You just now…”
“You didn’t use your vital energy?!”
Huo Zhenshan felt as though his entire worldview had been dragged to the ground and ground beneath someone’s heel.
He was a Martial Saint!
He had seen it clearly!
During those two spear thrusts, Su Yu hadn’t displayed even the slightest fluctuation of vital energy!
“It was purely martial will?!”
Huo Zhenshan’s voice cracked, carrying a near-hysterical sob.
“What the hell is the level of your martial will?!”
“You killed an Emperor who had gone all-out with two spears without using vital energy?!”
Huo Zhenshan clutched his head with both hands. He felt that everything he had known about martial arts over the past hundred-plus years had been completely wasted.
He suddenly sprang to his feet.
“You brat!”
“Tell this old man the truth!”
“What the hell is your cultivation realm?!”
Su Yu shook his head.
He didn’t know what realm he was in, either. All he knew was that the Emperor seemed rather pathetic.
Su Yu bent down and picked up the enormous Demon Emperor–level magic core from the ground.
He wiped the dust off it.
Then, satisfied, he put it into his storage ring.
After that,
he turned around and looked at Huo Zhenshan, who had collapsed, then pointed toward the abyssal plane faintly visible beyond the rift.
His tone was calm.
“Your cultivation level doesn’t matter.”
“What matters is this.”
“Elder Huo, you said just now that the mineral veins on the other side of the abyss can mint five hundred trillion a day.”
A brilliant light flickered in Su Yu’s deep eyes.
“Let’s go.”
“Let’s mine those veins and bring the ore back.”
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!
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!
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.
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.
