The northern frontier.
The Abyss-Suppressing Great Wall.
Once an impregnable line of defense for humanity, it had now been reduced to a field of ruins.
Countless human soldiers lay sprawled in pools of blood, their fates unknown.
High in the sky, that Abyssal Demon God—towering ten thousand zhang tall—was like an insurmountable black mountain, pressing down on the hearts of everyone present.
Beneath the Demon God’s feet.
Qin Fuhai and Chu Zhan, the two Nation-Guarding Martial Emperors, had every bone in their bodies shattered. They were pinned into a crater like two lumps of mangled flesh.
“Still not here?”
The Demon God yawned.
His voice rolled out like thunder, causing the surrounding void to collapse again and again.
In his black-hole-like eyes flashed undisguised impatience.
“What about that so-called genius of humanity?”
“This god has already been waiting here for a full ten minutes.”
“How is it that I haven’t even seen his shadow?”
The Demon God lowered his head and looked down at the two Nation-Guarding Martial Emperors in the crater.
The corners of his mouth curled into a cruel, mocking smile.
“Could it be…”
“That he abandoned you?”
“And hid away like a cowardly turtle?”
At those words, Black Heaven Demon Emperor, who was kneeling submissively in the void nearby, immediately crawled forward obsequiously.
“The Demon God is wise!”
“Humans are nothing but selfish, cowardly ants!”
“That brat named Su Yu was probably so terrified by your supreme might that he wet himself. For all we know, he’s hiding in some rat hole and trembling right now!”
“Please, my lord, strike at once and crush these ants!”
The Demon God paid no attention to Black Heaven Demon Emperor’s flattery.
He merely looked down at Qin Fuhai and Chu Zhan from on high, his eyes filled with pity and ridicule.
“How pitiful.”
“This is the race you fought so desperately to protect?”
“This is the prodigy in whom you placed your hopes?”
The Demon God shook his head, his voice filled with arrogant superiority.
“Among the countless races of the vast starry sky, your human race’s main branch can at least be considered one of the overlords.”
“But this branch of yours, stranded in a remote star region, is so weak that it’s laughable.”
“Your laws are incomplete, your origin is depleted.”
“You can’t even give birth to a single stellar lifeform capable of breaking through the planar barrier.”
“And when you finally produced a mutant with a bit of talent, he turned out to be nothing more than a cowardly piece of trash.”
The Demon God let out a cold laugh as the chaotic currents around his body churned violently.
“Do you think he can stay alive just by hiding?”
“Once this god crushes you and devours the origin of this world…”
“Even if he flees to the ends of the earth, he still won’t escape this god’s grasp!”
At the bottom of the crater, Chu Zhan coughed violently. Every cough brought up large chunks of his shattered internal organs.
Yet he was laughing.
Laughing wildly. Laughing with boundless satisfaction.
“Cough, cough… Hahaha!”
“Good! He ran!”
“That brat Su Yu… should run!”
“He’s only eighteen years old!”
“At eighteen, he can already kill a Demon Emperor in an instant!”
“Give him enough time, and don’t even mention some goddamn Demon God like you!”
“Even the ancient monsters in the ancestral land of the Abyss will eventually be crushed by him one by one!”
Qin Fuhai was covered in blood as well. He gritted his teeth.
“That’s right!”
“Even if these two old bones of ours break here today, it will be worth it!”
“As long as Su Yu is still alive…”
“The spark of humanity will never be extinguished!”
“Run as far away as you can!”
“One day, he will flatten your entire Abyss and butcher every last one of you bastards!”
Although the two Nation-Guarding Martial Emperors’ voices were weak, they carried an ironclad will that would rather break than bend.
They were not afraid of death.
They were only afraid that humanity would have no future.
And now, Su Yu’s absence was the best news of all!
It meant that Huo Zhenshan had successfully hidden Su Yu away.
Humanity’s hope had been preserved!
Upon hearing the two Nation-Guarding Martial Emperors’ roars, the Demon God’s gaze instantly turned cold.
The temperature around them plummeted at a terrifying speed.
Even the space itself froze, forming shards of ice.
“Still clinging to your bravado?”
The Demon God’s voice was filled with undisguised killing intent.
“You two mere ants dare bark in front of this god!”
“Since that coward doesn’t dare come…”
“Then you will die first!”
The Demon God had completely lost his patience.
He slowly raised his enormous foot, which was formed entirely from fragments of stars.
He aimed it at Qin Fuhai and Chu Zhan in the bottom of the crater.
He was preparing to crush these two pillars of humanity into meat paste with a single stomp!
“Go to hell!”
Rumble—!!!
The enormous foot descended with terrifying might capable of destroying heaven and earth!
Space collapsed inch by inch.
The berserk chaotic currents pulverized the surrounding Abyss-Suppressing Great Wall into dust.
Qin Fuhai and Chu Zhan closed their eyes.
There was no despair in them.
Only calm acceptance.
“Great Xia…”
“Victory forever!”
The two men roared their final cry in their hearts.
Just as that enormous foot, powerful enough to crush a star, was less than ten meters from the two Nation-Guarding Martial Emperors’ heads…
Just as cruel, savage smiles appeared on the faces of Black Heaven and the other two Demon Emperors…
Just as the human soldiers across the entire northern frontier fell into utter despair…
Rip—!
A faint yet unmistakably clear tearing sound suddenly rang out across heaven and earth.
Immediately afterward—
Beneath the Demon God’s enormous foot,
above the heads of Qin Fuhai and Chu Zhan,
an extremely clean spatial rift was forcibly torn open without warning!
Hum!
A fair, slender human hand that seemed utterly devoid of strength slowly reached out from the spatial rift.
Then, with seemingly effortless ease, it pushed upward.
Boom!!!
A dull, thunderous impact exploded through the void!
There was no earth-shaking storm of energy.
No blinding radiance that tore apart the sky.
Everything came to an abrupt halt the instant that fair hand caught the Demon God’s foot.
Silence.
Deathly silence.
The wind stopped.
Space solidified.
The Demon God’s enormous foot, carrying ten trillion units of terrifying power—power sufficient to crush this entire world—
had been stopped in midair just like that!
It could not advance even a fraction farther!
“What?!”
The Demon God’s black-hole-like eyes suddenly contracted to pinpricks!
He felt that what lay beneath his foot was not a human hand at all.
It was an immovable barrier of the universe!
No matter how he urged the trillions of units of vital energy within his body, that fair hand remained as steady as Mount Tai.
It did not tremble in the slightest!
“Who?!”
The Demon God let out a furious roar filled with shock and rage.
For the first time, his voice carried a trace of panic.
At the bottom of the crater, Qin Fuhai and Chu Zhan, who had already closed their eyes and awaited death, sensed that something was wrong.
They struggled to open their eyes.
The scene before them left the minds of the two Nation-Guarding Martial Emperors utterly blank.
They saw that within the spatial rift that had been torn open,
a youthful eighteen-year-old boy dressed in casual clothes was slowly stepping out.
His right hand remained raised in a supporting gesture.
With one hand,
he held up the Demon God’s foot.
And right behind the young man followed an old man whose face was flushed with excitement, his entire body trembling.
Huo Zhenshan!
“Su… Su Yu?!”
Chu Zhan’s eyes widened, almost bulging out of their sockets.
Qin Fuhai drew in a sharp breath, his voice trembling violently.
“You… what are you doing here?!”
“Old Huo! Have you lost your damn mind?! Didn’t I tell you to get him out of here?!”
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.
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!
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
