The moment the shop owner Chen Long locked eyes with Qin Hao, he felt as if he had been cast into an endless sea of stars, as insignificant as a speck of dust.
With just one look, an oppressive aura that transcended mortal comprehension crashed down upon his soul like a corporeal immemorial divine mountain.
Thud!
Chen Long's legs gave way. As if all the bones in his body had been extracted, he dropped straight to his knees before Qin Hao.
"D-Dual Pupils! A Dual-Pupiled cultivator in the Soul Formation Realm!"
Looking at Qin Hao's eyes and feeling the terrifying pressure exuding from him, Chen Long's face turned as pale as paper. Bead-sized drops of sweat instantly covered his forehead and back, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.
Before these Dual Pupils, he felt like a flickering candle in the wind, pitifully weak. As long as the man in front of him willed it, he could be killed at any moment.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Chen Long kowtowed forcefully to Qin Hao, the immense impact sending the stone tiles beneath him flying.
"S-Senior... please spare my life..." Chen Long's voice was hoarse and trembling, filled with endless submission and regret.
What kind of sin had he committed to provoke a Soul Formation Realm cultivator with Dual Pupils?
Watching Chen Long groveling and struggling on the ground, Qin Hao shook his head. "Spare your life? I was ready to spare you, but you threw the chance away. Who can you blame?"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Chen Long kowtowed like pounding garlic, forcibly smashing a deep pit into the floor. At this moment, all his dignity and his shop's foundation were thrown out the window; he only wanted to survive.
"I had eyes but failed to recognize Mount Tai. I offended you, Senior. Please forgive me! As long as you forgive me, I will do anything you ask. I am even willing to work as a beast of burden for you!"
Qin Hao ignored Chen Long's pleas. Instead, he stepped forward and grabbed him by the throat.
"Compared to your pathetic begging now, I much preferred your arrogant and unruly look from before."
A dark light flashed within the Dual Pupils, and a ray of destructive divine light was injected into Chen Long's body. In an instant, Chen Long's physical body exploded on the spot, unable to withstand the power, leaving behind only a pure orb of soul light.
Qin Hao stored Chen Long's soul into the Soul-Devouring Banner. Turning his head, he saw Liu Ruyan looking at him with a face full of admiration.
Qin Hao ruffled Liu Ruyan's hair and said to her,
"Alright, the nuisance has been dealt with. Go pick out some clothes."
Liu Ruyan looked at Qin Hao blankly, lowering her head as she asked in a small voice,
"Is it really okay? We killed someone, and now we're taking things from his shop?"
Qin Hao placed a hand on Liu Ruyan's shoulder and said deeply,
"Ruyan, cast aside your mercy. If we didn't have strength, do you think he would have let us go? Since he wouldn't let us go, why should we let him off?"
"This shop is our spoils of war. We have the right to do whatever we want with everything in it."
Liu Ruyan nodded. She believed Qin Hao; he definitely wouldn't lie to her. "So that's how it is. I understand."
Enlightened by Qin Hao, Liu Ruyan cast aside all her reservations and turned to pick out the clothes she liked.
A moment later, Liu Ruyan slowly shuffled out of the fitting room, step by step, with her head bowed.
Her hands tightly gripped the hem of her skirt. The moon-white dress flowed like liquid moonlight, perfectly hugging her slender and exquisite figure.
She stood a few steps away from Qin Hao but didn't dare to look up. With deep shyness, she asked softly,
"B-Brother Qin Hao... does... does it look good?"
"Raise your head."
Hearing this, Liu Ruyan timidly lifted her head to look at Qin Hao.
Qin Hao didn't speak. He looked at her and fell into a momentary daze.
Washed of all dirt, stripped of her rags, and dressed in a fitting, gorgeous dress, the young girl before him seemed completely reborn.
Her peerless face, previously masked by despair and numbness, was now tinged with shyness. Like a rare pearl that had been carefully wiped clean of dust, she suddenly burst forth with a heart-palpitating radiance.
Liu Ruyan's beauty was not the heavy, ostentatious kind. Instead, it was a contradictory harmony of extreme coldness and extreme gorgeousness.
Even though Qin Hao was used to seeing various fairies and divine maidens, and had stunning beauties like Su Qingyue and Jiang Xinyao by his side, he had to admit that Liu Ruyan's appearance and aura at this moment had reached a soul-stirring zenith.
Not receiving a response from Qin Hao for a long time, Liu Ruyan thought she looked bad in it. Her voice carried a faint, almost imperceptible sob.
"Does... does it not look good? I... I'll go change immediately."
Just as Liu Ruyan was about to turn around, Qin Hao stood up and blocked her path.
"No, it's too beautiful."
Qin Hao admired Liu Ruyan in front of him, finding her more and more pleasing to the eye the longer he looked.
With a wave of his hand, he swept all the women's clothing in the Nishang Pavilion into a storage bag and handed it to Liu Ruyan.
"These are all yours now. Take your time to wear them in the future." Since these clothes could automatically adjust their size to fit their owner, Qin Hao wasn't worried that they wouldn't fit her.
Holding the storage bag and feeling the brimful spoils of war inside, Liu Ruyan felt a dazed sense of being dominantly pampered. She nodded obediently and replied, "Mhm."
Wasting no more time, Qin Hao wrapped an arm around Liu Ruyan's slender waist. With a flicker of his figure, he transformed into a streak of light invisible to the naked eye, swiftly leaving Starfall City and heading toward the vast mountains of Yuanchu.
He had already scanned the area with his divine sense. Starfall City was depleted of spiritual energy and completely unsuitable for cultivation. A thousand miles away lay a valley rich in spiritual energy, with a decent-quality small spiritual vein hidden underground.
The awakening of Liu Ruyan's Nine-Revolution Samsara Sovereign Physique required massive amounts of spiritual energy, making that valley the perfect spot.
In the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, Qin Hao arrived at the valley with Liu Ruyan. After handing her an Emperor-level cultivation method and a pile of cultivation resources, Qin Hao instructed her to cultivate there.
Watching Liu Ruyan cultivate cross-legged, Qin Hao stroked his chin.
"I also have the Nine-Revolution Samsara Sovereign Physique. This physique allows for rebirth, and the anchor point for each rebirth is the exact moment the physique awakens. I wonder which iteration of rebirth the Liu Ruyan who wakes up later will be."
Thinking of the scene in the Primordial Fortune-Plundering Stele where Liu Ruyan looked as though she couldn't wait to kill him, Qin Hao couldn't help but shiver.
"This makes my scalp tingle. I need to come up with a good excuse to deal with her."
Liu Ruyan sat cross-legged in the center of the Spirit Gathering Array Qin Hao had set up for her, surrounded by piles of crystal-clear spirit stones and spirit pills exuding medicinal fragrances.
Time slowly ticked by. Suddenly, Liu Ruyan's body trembled violently!
An indescribable, ancient, and vast sovereign aura—one that seemed to govern the samsara of the heavens—erupted from her body like a dormant volcano waking up.
Buzz—
A nine-colored pillar of light shot into the sky, weaving together behind her into nine interconnected halos. In an instant, all the spiritual energy in the valley surged madly toward her, even triggering a resonance from the underground spiritual vein that let out a low dragon's roar.
The Nine-Revolution Samsara Sovereign Physique had officially awakened.
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.
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."
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
