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.
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."
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)
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
