Li Mu's laughter echoed by the river. He laughed so hard he leaned forward and backward, tears almost coming to his eyes, as if he had just heard the biggest joke in the world.
"You? Beat me up? Hahaha, kid, even if I stood here and let you hit me, what kind of damage could you possibly do to me?"
"Ah Cheng, no, you can't fight him!" Xu Siya tugged at Qin Hao's sleeve, her face full of anxiety and worry.
It wasn't that she was worried about Li Mu. Although she and Li Mu used to be very good friends, they were just friends. She had already clearly expressed her unwillingness regarding marriage, yet he kept pestering her—wasn't this a sign of disrespect toward her?
Furthermore, Li Mu kept opening and closing his mouth with "Do you know my status now?" That condescending attitude, disregarding everyone else, made Xu Siya detest him.
What she worried about was Qin Hao. According to that Immortal Emperor mighty figure, Ah Cheng had lost his memory because of undergoing a tribulation. Moreover, Ah Cheng had no spiritual energy fluctuations at all; evidently, the tribulation had stripped him of his cultivation base.
Xu Siya did not doubt for a second that Qin Hao at his peak could easily defeat Li Mu. But the problem was, the current Qin Hao was a man without any cultivation.
What could he use to deal with a half-step Soul Formation realm cultivator?
Qin Hao looked at Xu Siya, tilted his head, and asked, "What? Are you heartbroken that I'm going to hit him?"
Hearing this, Xu Siya hastily waved her hands. "H-how could that be? There is nothing between him and me, what is there to be heartbroken about?"
Speaking up to here, as if afraid Qin Hao would misunderstand, Xu Siya quickly added another sentence:
"My relationship with him now isn't even as good as my relationship with you."
Xu Siya's words were like a sharp blade piercing fiercely into Li Mu's heart. He felt as though his heart had been ruthlessly seized by a massive, invisible hand, squeezing it so hard he could barely breathe.
Every day he cultivated desperately, just so that one day he could return in glory and tell Xu Siya: Look, I did it, I am worthy of you.
Yet now, he had returned, bearing the identity of a disciple of the Xuantian Holy Land, carrying a half-step Soul Formation cultivation base, and filled with anticipation and love.
But Xu Siya actually said that her relationship with him was worse than with a cripple.
"Siya..." Li Mu muttered, his voice so hoarse it didn't sound like his own. "Do you know how long I've waited for you?"
Xu Siya curled her lip. "Li Mu, I never asked you to wait. You and that Lin Yi are exactly the same kind of people, only knowing how to be self-centered and completely ignoring other people's feelings."
"Stop being so full of yourself. Go back to wherever you came from."
"Hey, wait. Before you leave, be a good boy and come over here to let me beat you up."
Saying so, Qin Hao beckoned to Li Mu with his finger. That careless attitude completely enraged Li Mu. This bastard stole the woman he longed for, and now he actually wanted to beat him up?
"Fine, you want to fight me, right? Okay, then I'll play with you, kid! I won't hold back, so don't accidentally get beaten to death by me!"
Xu Siya's expression changed drastically. She stepped forward and grabbed Qin Hao:
"Ah Cheng, are you crazy? You can't fight him. You don't have any cultivation right now, and he's furious; he definitely won't hold back."
Xu Siya could feel that the spiritual energy aura on Li Mu's body was rising steadily. The surrounding air seemed to have solidified, and that terrifying presence made Xu Siya tremble slightly.
Qin Hao patted Xu Siya's shoulder and smiled:
"It's fine, Siya. Trust me, I can handle it."
"To tell you the truth, I really feel that this friend of yours is no different from an ant."
Li Mu laughed out of extreme anger at Qin Hao's arrogant words:
"No different from an ant? You ignorant fool who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth, today I'll let you know why I was able to become a disciple of the Xuantian Holy Land!"
Li Mu moved. His figure was like a streak of light, crossing a distance of dozens of meters in an instant to appear before Qin Hao.
He clenched his right fist, and the spiritual energy within his body surged madly toward it.
This punch was enough to shatter a small mountain!
Xu Siya widened her eyes in horror. She wanted to stop Li Mu, but Li Mu's speed was too fast—so fast that it didn't give Xu Siya any time to react and take action.
The wind from the punch howled as it approached. A fierce light burst from Li Mu's eyes; if he killed this kid, he could return to Siya's side.
Thinking this, Li Mu added a bit more force to his hand.
However, facing such a swift strike, Qin Hao simply tilted his body slightly and easily dodged it.
"Too slow~"
Qin Hao's faint voice sounded. Li Mu, whose punch had hit empty air, had a face full of astonishment:
"So fast! This speed, how is it possible?"
Li Mu couldn't believe it. Just now, he hadn't even been able to see Qin Hao's movements clearly before Qin Hao dodged his attack.
"Could this kid be playing the pig to eat the tiger? Has he hidden his cultivation?"
Thinking of this, Li Mu retreated continuously, putting distance between himself and Qin Hao again, and looked Qin Hao up and down.
Qin Hao cracked his neck, his bones making popping sounds:
"You are even weaker than I imagined."
Li Mu gritted his teeth. He shot a glance at Xu Siya, and when he saw her looking at Qin Hao with a face full of admiration, he couldn't help but bite down hard:
"Stop acting mysterious! You just got lucky just now! I refuse to believe I can't handle you! I am a disciple of the Xuantian Holy Land! Again!"
Saying so, Li Mu charged at Qin Hao once more. This time, he was fully focused, and his speed was even faster than before.
Qin Hao stood rooted to the spot, motionless.
Li Mu's eyes locked onto Qin Hao. The wind from the punch caused Qin Hao's clothes to flutter loudly and his hair to fly backward.
This punch landed solidly on Qin Hao's chest.
Having landed the blow, Li Mu felt a surge of joy, thinking the kid had indeed just been lucky earlier. But soon, the joy in his heart was overshadowed by a wave of terror.
"Boom—"
When Li Mu's punch hit Qin Hao's chest, it didn't feel like hitting a person at all; rather, it felt like striking an unshakeable divine mountain.
A powerful rebounding force transmitted from Li Mu's fist, sending Li Mu flying away.
Li Mu's body flew backward like a kite with a broken string, tracing a parabolic curve in the air before smashing heavily onto the riverbank dozens of meters away.
"Bang—"
A large crater was smashed into the riverbank, sending mud and sand flying. Li Mu was embedded in the mud pit, looking extremely miserable.
He lying in the crater, he spat out a mouthful of blood, his eyes full of disbelief.
"Are you kidding me!"
Li Mu's eyes were filled with shock. He had clearly hit his target with that punch just now, and it had landed solidly. But why was he the one who ended up injured? How was that kid completely unharmed?
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
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.”
'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.
ts me of treason?" "Correct. The host must return to the capital and gradually build up influence." "Wait—I have half a million soldiers, and you want me to go back to the capital to 'build influence'?" "Host, you are currently the Northern Garrison General, loyal to the Great Xia Dynasty." "Of course I am loyal to Great Xia! Absolutely loyal!" "But you keep referring to yourself as 'We'..." "Never mind the details! Summon all the regional commanders and military officers! We suspect treacherous officials are manipulating the court! They shall march with Us to the capital and purge the corrupt!" "......"
