"What happened?" Qin Hao's brows were tightly knitted. His old man was an Immortal Emperor who had mastered a complete Great Dao, and he even wielded the Nine Tribulations Sword, a supreme Dao artifact. How could he just mysteriously disappear in front of everyone? What exactly happened?
Lao Liu shook his head. "I don't know. The ancestors in the clan tried to deduce the Patriarch's whereabouts, but there was only nothingness. They couldn't deduce anything at all."
Qin Hao pursed his lips and said nothing. Lao Liu was silent for a moment before speaking up, "We don't have much time left, Lord Emperor Son. You must become stronger as soon as possible."
Qin Hao smiled helplessly. He felt that his cultivation was already improving fast enough. Calculating carefully, it had only been a full two years since he started cultivating. In two years, he had broken through from the Golden Core realm to the current Mahayana realm, and he even had the power to fight against an immortal.
Was this strength and speed of improvement still not enough? I really can't do any more than this!
"Lord Emperor Son, if there is nothing else, I will head back first. The clan is quite short on manpower right now."
Qin Hao nodded. "Alright, go back. Stay safe!"
Lao Liu smiled gently. "Don't worry, Lord Emperor Son. I still have to serve the little Emperor Son in the future. How could I dare put myself in danger? I, Lao Liu, have no other special traits except that I cherish my life."
After saying that, Lao Liu's figure disappeared right before Qin Hao's eyes.
Looking at the spot where Lao Liu had left, Qin Hao took out his jade pendant and tried to contact Qin Wuya. He couldn't get in touch. It wasn't that the message was sent and ignored, but rather that a connection couldn't be established between them at all. Qin Hao's messages simply wouldn't go through.
"How could this be? With this jade pendant, as long as my old man is in the Three Realms and Nine Heavens, I should be able to contact him. Has he left the Three Realms and Nine Heavens? What in the world happened?"
Just as Qin Hao was feeling confused, his jade pendant vibrated. Qin Hao immediately picked it up to check and found it was a message from Qin Kexin.
"Kexin, what's wrong?"
"Qin Hao, where are you right now? My dad told you to come home once you're done with your business."
Fifth Ancestor? What does the Fifth Ancestor want with me? Is it related to my old man's disappearance?
Thinking of this, Qin Hao quickly replied, "Alright, I'll head back right now."
Afterward, Qin Hao found Chen Qingning and instructed her to cultivate well, saying he would be away for a while and would come find her later.
After giving his instructions, Qin Hao activated the jade pendant and returned to the Qin family.
As soon as he returned to his courtyard, several women surrounded him, sniffed him, and then their expressions darkened.
Jiang Xinyao gritted her teeth and stomped her foot. "Why do you have the scent of several different women on you?!?!"
Qin Kexin added, "You're too brazen! We've been way too good to you! We indulge you in everything."
Su Qingyue's face was icy. "Who are these wild women?"
Xia Lingxi fanned the flames from the side. "Sisters, don't be angry. You all know that Qin Hao's fortune is just like this. What did he do wrong? He just falls in love with every woman he sees and made the mistakes that all men make."
Qin Hao's eyes widened. Wait, why is this little girl acting so manipulative? Who did she learn this from?
Xu Siya huffed, "Hmph, and you even said you would always be my Ah Cheng. Tell me, whose man are you this time?"
Among so many people, only Shen Suning didn't step forward to accuse Qin Hao. Instead, just like usual, she threw herself into Qin Hao's arms.
"Haohao, you're finally back. I missed you so much." As she spoke, Shen Suning rubbed her head against Qin Hao's chest.
Qin Hao hugged Shen Suning, glanced at the five women besieging him, and feigned displeasure.
"Look at Suning! She is truly worthy of being your older sister, and even more worthy of being an Immortal King powerhouse. Look at her broad-mindedness and her maturity. Can't you all learn a bit from her?"
The five women looked at each other in dismay. Hold on, you were the one messing around outside and neglecting your family, so how did it end up being our fault?
Just as they wanted to say something else, Qin Hao raised his hand to interrupt them. "Enough! I know you are only saying this because you care about me. This time, I forgive you, but don't let it happen again!"
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
Several of them stood with their mouths agape, looking at Qin Hao in disbelief. Wait, you forgive us?
Qin Hao laughed it off. "Ahem, let's just let this matter pass. Right, Kexin, didn't you say your dad was looking for me? Where is he?"
"Why don't you look at who is behind you?" A slightly exhausted voice sounded behind Qin Hao. Qin Hao turned his head and saw an old man dressed in white, exuding an immortal and transcendent aura.
Qin Hao couldn't help but grumble inwardly. His cultivation had reached the Immortal Emperor realm, giving him an endless lifespan, so he could completely maintain a youthful appearance. Why did his father-in-law still keep the appearance of an old man?
Looking at his appearance and then looking at Kexin, it really felt like there was a generational gap.
Qin Hao bowed to Qin Cang and asked, "Ancestor, what did you call me back for?"
Qin Cang didn't beat around the bush with Qin Hao and got straight to the point. "You have many Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons on you, right? I need you to hand these Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons over to the family."
Qin Hao frowned slightly and asked, "Hand them over to the family? These are my own. Besides, doesn't the family already have quite a few Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons?"
Qin Cang shook his head. "We have some, but we need every ancestor to have two. Our current reserves are only enough for one per person."
Qin Hao pursed his lips, thought for a moment, and asked, "Did something happen? Is it related to my dad?"
"Yes. We are still looking for your dad. Our preliminary judgment is that he might no longer be in the Three Realms and Nine Heavens. We suspect he went to a foreign realm. He didn't go there on his own; rather, he was forcibly taken by a powerful force."
"We discussed it and are preparing to mobilize all the ancestors to set off for the foreign realm to find your dad."
Saying this, Qin Cang looked at Qin Hao. "Make a trip to the Jiang family and the Myriad Demon Kingdom. The Patriarch of the Jiang family and the Clan Head of the Northern Wasteland Dragon Clan in the Myriad Demon Kingdom are life-and-death friends with your dad. They should be willing to help too."
"Alright."
Since it was to save someone, Qin Hao didn't waste words and directly handed over his Nine-Turn Linglong Pagoda and other Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons.
"By the way, Ancestor, there is a remnant thought inside my Nine-Turn Linglong Pagoda. Could you ancestors take a look and see if she can be revived?"
Qin Cang probed his divine sense into the Nine-Turn Linglong Pagoda. After checking Chen Wan's condition, he shook his head. "It's not even a remnant soul, just a remnant thought. She can't be revived. Refining her into an artifact spirit might be a possibility, though."
"Then let's refine her into an artifact spirit. It's more or less the same, just living on in a different form."
After collecting the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons, Qin Cang left.
"Qin Hao! Shouldn't you give us an explanation?"
"Exactly! We haven't even scolded you yet. What do you mean you forgive us?"
"Who are those wild women? I'm going to kill them!"
As soon as Qin Cang left, the courtyard immediately exploded into chaos again.
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."
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.
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.”
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
