Lu Xinghe found himself in complete agreement.
“Top ten.”
“With his divine ability that grants a thousandfold burst of power, as long as he doesn’t run into the Ninth Prince, Lin Yuan, or those other monsters too early…”
“His chances are still pretty good.”
As they spoke, the two pushed open the heavy gates of the manor.
Inside, energy hung thick in the air like mist.
Chen Xuan and Lu Xinghe headed straight for the underground training chamber.
The alloy doors were unlocked.
They pushed them open and entered.
At the center of the training chamber, Su Yu was sitting cross-legged on a meditation cushion.
Hearing the doors open, he slowly opened his eyes.
“Commander.”
Su Yu rose to his feet, his tone calm.
“Is it time?”
Chen Xuan nodded, his gaze falling on Su Yu.
“Yes. It’s time for us to leave for the Central Imperial Star.”
As he spoke, Chen Xuan instinctively released a trace of his Domain Lord-level perception, intending to examine the results of Su Yu’s three months of cultivation.
He wanted to see whether Su Yu had reached the twenty- or thirty-drop level, just as he had predicted.
However…
The instant Chen Xuan’s mental power touched Su Yu’s body—
Boom!
Chen Xuan’s mind felt as though it had been struck by a massive hammer from the depths of the universe!
His entire body stiffened.
Those eyes, which had seen the vicissitudes of the starry sky and remained unmoved even before the collapse of Mount Tai, suddenly widened to their limits!
His pupils contracted violently!
Deep in his eyes appeared an unprecedented—and even faintly horrified—shock!
“You…”
Chen Xuan’s voice sounded as though an invisible hand had clamped tightly around his throat.
Hoarse.
Trembling.
Distorted!
Lu Xinghe, standing nearby, noticed something was wrong with Chen Xuan.
He turned his head in confusion.
“Commander, what’s wrong?”
“Could he really have broken through a hundred drops?”
As he spoke, Lu Xinghe also released his mental power and probed toward Su Yu.
The next second—
Clatter.
The jade slip Lu Xinghe had been holding to record data slipped from his hand without warning.
It shattered on the ground.
But he did not notice at all.
Lu Xinghe’s mouth hung wide open, his jaw practically dislocated, as he stared fixedly at Su Yu’s heart.
His breathing completely stopped.
His heart seemed to miss a beat.
What had he seen?!
Deep within Su Yu’s heart, the scarlet source blood was no longer a few lonely drops slowly circling in isolation.
Instead, it had transformed into a dense, dazzling miniature blood-colored nebula!
One drop.
Ten drops.
A hundred drops.
Five hundred drops.
A thousand drops!!!
A full thousand drops of crystal-clear, utterly flawless origin blood!
They were linked end to end, emitting a deep rumble like a mighty river surging forward!
Silence.
The underground training chamber sank into suffocating silence.
Only the suppressed roar of Su Yu’s surging vital energy echoed through the air.
Chen Xuan and Lu Xinghe stood frozen in place like two stone statues.
Neither moved an inch.
A full ten seconds passed before Chen Xuan finally swallowed with difficulty.
His Adam’s apple bobbed up and down as he forced out an extremely dry voice.
“A thousand drops…”
“A thousand drops of flawless source blood…”
Chen Xuan suddenly raised his head and stared fixedly at Su Yu.
At that moment, his Domain Lord-level pressure even leaked out of his control, pressing against the surrounding alloy walls until they creaked.
“Su Yu!”
“What exactly did you do during these three months?!”
Chen Xuan’s voice was almost a roar.
His entire understanding of the world had been torn to shreds!
Before entering the chamber, he had still been confidently explaining martial arts common sense to Lu Xinghe.
He had said that enlightenment could not be sustained.
That the further one progressed, the harder it became to condense source blood.
That reaching twenty or thirty drops in three months would already be an earth-shaking achievement.
And then?
He opened the door.
A thousand drops!
A full thousand drops!
Was this really enlightenment?
This was practically rubbing the universe’s fundamental laws into the dirt!
Lu Xinghe’s legs went weak, and he nearly collapsed to his knees.
His expression was one of utter disbelief.
“A thousand drops…”
“A thousand drops in three months…”
“I thought I was already being insane when I guessed he might break through a hundred!”
“And then you come up with a thousand drops?!”
Lu Xinghe looked at Su Yu, his eyes filled with a distinctly sour resentment.
“Do you know how long it takes an ordinary genius to condense a thousand drops of flawless source blood?!”
“A thousand years!”
“A full thousand years!”
“You walked the path that takes others a thousand years in just three months?!”
Facing their expressions, which suggested they were on the verge of collapse, Su Yu remained perfectly calm.
There was even a faint trace of helplessness in his eyes.
He had already done his best to compress and disguise forty-five thousand drops as one thousand.
How had they still reacted like this?
Of course, he could never say any of that aloud.
Su Yu looked at Chen Xuan, his tone composed and carrying an air of effortless certainty.
“Commander.”
“I told Commander Lu before that my constitution is somewhat special.”
“During these three months of secluded cultivation, I discovered that the effects of the Primordial Chaos Limitless Origin Blood Art on my body far exceeded my expectations.”
“On top of that, the energy in the manor is extremely abundant.”
“Every day, aside from cultivating, I absorbed energy.”
“And as I kept practicing…”
“It somehow became a thousand drops.”
Those final words, spoken so casually—
“It somehow became a thousand drops.”
—were like nine blades stabbing viciously into Chen Xuan and Lu Xinghe’s hearts.
Chen Xuan took several deep breaths before barely suppressing the urge to vomit blood.
He stared at Su Yu.
“A special constitution?”
“What kind of special constitution could be this absurdly powerful?!”
Yet no matter how he examined Su Yu, the source blood remained one hundred percent flawless.
There were no traces whatsoever of forbidden resources being used to forcefully catalyze it.
This meant that all one thousand drops of source blood had truly been cultivated by Su Yu, one drop at a time!
“Monster…”
Chen Xuan muttered to himself.
He suddenly realized that his previous assessment of Su Yu had been outrageously wrong.
He had thought Su Yu was merely an exceptionally gifted piece of uncut jade that would need several thousand—or even tens of thousands—of years of refinement.
But he had been wrong.
This wasn’t uncut jade at all.
This was a supernova that had already begun to burn and was on the verge of illuminating the entire starry sky!
“A thousand drops!”
Chen Xuan clenched his fists, the shock in his eyes gradually replaced by unprecedented fervor.
He looked at Su Yu, his voice trembling slightly with extreme excitement.
“A thousand-drop source-blood foundation!”
“Combined with the ten-thousandfold amplification of the Primordial Chaos Limitless Origin Blood Art…”
“Your normal theoretical combat strength has directly reached the level of ten million drops of source blood!”
“Ten million drops!”
Chen Xuan paced back and forth across the underground training chamber, his steps growing faster and faster.
“And if we add your innate divine ability’s thousandfold burst of power…”
“Your peak combat strength…”
Chen Xuan abruptly stopped.
He turned around, his eyes blazing as he stared at Su Yu.
“Top ten?”
“No!”
“Su Yu!”
“With your current strength, you have what it takes to compete for the top three!”
“Even…”
Chen Xuan swallowed, his mind conjuring the terrifying figure of the Ninth Prince’s fifteen-hundred-thousand-drop source-blood foundation.
“Even the Ninth Prince, who has already been designated the champion, would have to fight you!”
Lu Xinghe’s blood boiled as he listened from the side.
“A chance to fight him!”
“The commander is right!”
“Although the Ninth Prince has a source-blood foundation of one hundred and fifty thousand drops, he cultivates only a Stellar-level technique, so its amplification is limited!”
“Su Yu’s cultivation techniques and divine abilities can completely make up for the gap in our basic attributes!”
Lu Xinghe looked at Su Yu, his eyes burning with fervor.
“Su Yu, crush him!”
“Take that Black Hole–class God of War Armament!”
“Show those high-and-mighty members of the imperial family what a truly peerless prodigy looks like!”
Seeing the two of them so excited, as if they had already secured first place, Su Yu remained calm.
He nodded.
“I’ll do my best.”
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
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.
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!
