Qin Hao nodded, his face still holding that look of innocent bewilderment.
"Alright."
Seeing Qin Hao like this, Xu Siya's protective instinct grew even stronger. She thought for a moment, and suddenly her eyes lit up.
"Right! Since you've lost your memory and can't remember your name, I'll give you one. I can't just keep calling you 'beggar' all the time."
Qin Hao blinked and looked at her.
"What name?"
Xu Siya tilted her head in thought, then said,
"I picked you up at the city gates, so from now on, I'll call you Ah Cheng. Yes, 'Cheng' as in Northern Profound City. Even when you recover your memory in the future, don't forget that you and I started here."
"Ah Cheng?" Qin Hao repeated.
"How is it? Is this name okay?"
Qin Hao shrugged indifferently. "It's just a name, a title. It doesn't matter what I'm called."
Qin Hao wasn't opposed to the idea of taking a new name.
"Great, then I will call you Ah Cheng from now on."
"Ah Cheng!" Xu Siya called out tentatively.
"What is it?" Qin Hao looked up, gazing at Xu Siya with a serious expression.
Seeing Qin Hao's obedient demeanor, Xu Siya couldn't stop the corners of her mouth from rising.
She walked up to Qin Hao, tilting her head back to look up at him.
"Ah Cheng, you'd better remember this."
Qin Hao looked down at Xu Siya's slightly flushed face, somewhat puzzled.
"Remember what?"
"From now on, you are my, Xu Siya's, friend." Xu Siya raised her chin, striking the pose of a big sister.
"From now on in Northern Profound City, if anyone dares to bully you, just mention my name. I've got your back."
Qin Hao looked at Xu Siya. At this moment, she gave him the impression of a little kid pretending to be an adult, which made him unable to hold back a laugh.
It was this very smile that completely flustered Xu Siya.
"So handsome... he's even more handsome when he smiles. Ah Cheng, just who were you before you lost your memory? Why were you covered in rags and stripped of your past?"
Since Qin Hao could effortlessly point out the flaws in her swordplay, Xu Siya felt his identity must be extraordinary. She guessed that his family must have suffered a massive tragedy.
In no time, Xu Siya's imagination conjured up a tragic tale of a clan extermination—a massive family from which only Qin Hao had managed to escape, sustaining heavy injuries that led to his amnesia.
Xu Siya's speculation wasn't entirely wrong. The Qin family was indeed undergoing a major upheaval right now, and the cause, naturally, was Qin Hao's sudden disappearance.
...
Desolate Ancient Qin Family
In the courtyard, the moment the spatial vortex completely vanished, Shen Suning froze entirely. She stood blankly in place, staring in the direction where Qin Hao had disappeared.
"Haohao..."
Shen Suning immediately unleashed her mighty Immortal King power to divine Qin Hao's whereabouts. However, even as an almighty Immortal King, she could not divine a single thing.
"Damn it!"
Following that, Shen Suning took out her voice transmission jade pendant to contact the current master of the Oblivion Nunnery, issuing a strict, uncompromising order to search for Qin Hao's whereabouts across the entire Three Realms and Nine Heavens.
After doing all this, Shen Suning immediately went to find Qin Wuya.
"Father is an almighty Immortal Emperor, and Haohao once said that Father has completed the Great Dao. If he takes action, he might be able to directly divine Haohao's location."
With this thought in mind, Shen Suning did not dare to delay for even a moment. She hurriedly took Qin Kexin and went to find Qin Wuya.
The Main Hall of the Qin Family.
Shen Suning and Qin Kexin had just arrived when a voice echoed in their minds.
"I already know why you are here. However, even I cannot divine that boy's whereabouts. Do not worry, I will find a way to locate him."
Hearing Qin Wuya's promise, the two women bowed toward the inside of the hall from the entrance and then took their leave.
Inside the palace, Qin Wuya sat on the main seat. Below him were the other one hundred and seven ancestors of the Qin family.
"My son, Qin Hao, encountered an unforeseen mishap while undergoing his heavenly tribulation. He is now stranded in some unknown corner of the Three Realms and Nine Heavens, his memories sealed. From this moment on, the entire Qin family is to be mobilized."
"Even if we have to dig three feet into the ground across the entire Three Realms and Nine Heavens, we must find my son's whereabouts!"
At this point, Qin Wuya paused, his lightning-like gaze sweeping across the room.
"Everyone, do you have any objections to my arrangement?"
The First Ancestor was the first to step forward.
"Why waste time talking? Let us go find him right now! Qin Hao is the qilin son of our Qin family, our hope in this great era of contention. We cannot allow him to face even the slightest risk!"
"Exactly! Wuya, you underestimate us too much. We might have our own differing opinions on trivial matters, but when it comes to something of this magnitude, we will absolutely not hold anyone back. I agree to mobilize the full power of the Qin family to search for Qin Hao!"
Qin Wuya nodded. "Once found, ensure his safety! He is still undergoing his tribulation, so do not disturb him excessively, lest it affect his progress."
As soon as these words were spoken, the ancestors nodded in unison.
"It is only right."
"The tribulation is paramount, and safety comes first!"
On this day, the entire Three Realms and Nine Heavens boiled over. Countless figures surged out from the Qin family's ancestral land, transforming into streaks of light that shot off in all directions.
These figures possessed monstrous auras, stirring the winds and clouds the moment they appeared.
"My heavens, what kind of aura is that? A Great Luo Golden Immortal? No, that is a mighty figure at the Immortal Lord level at the very least!"
"What happened? Why are so many mighty immortals mobilizing all at once? Could it be that the Foreign Realm is attacking again after several epochs?"
The scale of the Qin family's deployment was enough to frighten ordinary cultivators out of their wits. Everyone who saw them steered clear, terrified of drawing unwanted karma upon themselves.
Some knowledgeable and experienced cultivators could not help but gasp at the sight of this grand formation.
"Is this the Desolate Ancient Qin Family? What are they trying to do? What could possibly be worth the Desolate Ancient Qin Family mobilizing such power?"
......
Di Que Heaven, Beixuan City.
Xu Siya had her servants bring Qin Hao a large pile of spirit herbs and pills that were said to be beneficial for restoring memories.
After Qin Hao consumed them, she asked eagerly.
"How is it? Have you remembered anything?"
Qin Hao shook his head blankly. "I still cannot remember anything."
Hearing this, Xu Siya patted Qin Hao on the shoulder.
"It is fine. Like I said before, if you cannot remember, just take your time. There will eventually come a day when you recall everything."
Right at this moment, the sound of footsteps came from outside the courtyard gate.
"Siya!"
The figure of Xu Siya's father, Xu Guang, appeared at the courtyard entrance.
Hearing the commotion, Xu Siya quickly turned around to greet him.
"Father, you are here!"
Xu Guang did not speak. Instead, he took a deep look at Qin Hao, his brows furrowing slightly.
"Is this the beggar that Siya picked up and brought back?"
Shaking his head, Xu Guang said to Xu Siya.
"Siya, rest assured. I already know what that little bastard Lin Yi has done. I have already gone to their door to cancel the engagement. You do not have to marry him."
At this point, Xu Guang pointed at Qin Hao and said to Xu Siya:
"As for this guy, throw him back wherever you picked him up. Stop bringing every shady character you find back to our home."
"You even publicly claimed that he is your fiancé. You are my daughter, the daughter of Xu Guang, yet you announce to the world that a beggar is your betrothed. How am I supposed to ever show my face in public again?"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
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.
