Early morning, 5:20 AM.
The apartment was completely silent.
Lin Yu tiptoed downstairs, careful not to disturb his sleeping housemates.
Anyone who could wake up at this hour undoubtedly possessed tremendous willpower.
With the system's enhancements to his physique and the tempering effects of medicinal pills,
staying up late or rising early had no physical impact on him.
The real challenge lay in the mental and psychological toll.
Despite feeling no physical discomfort,
there was an inexplicable emptiness in his heart when he woke up while everyone else—and even he himself—should still be asleep.
Arriving at the residential complex's entrance,
Lin Yu immediately spotted Mao Ruirui, dressed in sporty athletic wear.
The girls in the apartment had an impeccable sense of punctuality.
No matter how early Lin Yu arrived for their meetups,
his date always seemed to beat him there.
[Ding!]
[Masterful Move: The Holy Son arrives early, refreshed and spirited, leaving the Beast Garden Elder utterly charmed!]
[Reward: 20 Spirit Stones]
Hearing the system's pleasant notification,
Lin Yu's early-morning gloom instantly dissipated.
Around Mao Ruirui, it seemed like everything Lin Yu did radiated masculine allure.
Poor Ruirui-jie.
She hadn’t even realized it yet.
Under the subtle influence of the Hundred Beasts Token,
her heart had already begun to stir with budding affection.
"Morning, Ruirui-jie!"
"Honestly, sportswear suits you so much—it really shows off your figure."
[Ding!]
[Masterful Move…]
Lin Yu wasn’t just flattering her.
He was simply speaking his mind with cheerful sincerity.
Each girl had her own distinct style, and what suited one might not suit another.
Mao Ruirui in a dress couldn’t compare to Mao Ruirui in athletic wear—she was simply more captivating this way.
"Xiao Yu, your outfit looks great too—so energetic."
"Shall we go? How about running there?"
"There aren’t many cars on the road right now, and the air is fresh."
Mao Ruirui averted her gaze, unwilling to engage with his compliments.
Logically, she should have brushed them off as mere politeness.
But seeing the sincerity in his eyes and hearing the warmth in his voice,
she couldn’t help but feel…
that Xiao Yu genuinely meant every word.
Since entering the workforce and climbing her way up,
Mao Ruirui had never encountered a man like this before.
To be fair, she’d never been particularly interested in romance.
Even when someone harbored feelings for her, she remained oblivious.
Except with Lin Yu.
Every word, every action, made her thoughts drift toward romance.
When Mao Ruirui suggested running to Pingchuan University’s track field,
Lin Yu naturally agreed without hesitation.
With his Soul Cultivation trial task in mind,
his goal for today’s morning workout was simple—
to endlessly showcase his "personal charm" within the limited time frame.
In other words… peacocking.
Speaking of peacocking,
Lin Yu couldn’t help but recall a certain "old acquaintance" he’d run into the day before.
Who would’ve thought?
Not even twenty-four hours later,
he’d be demonstrating the proper way to "peacock" himself.
Keeping a steady pace beside Mao Ruirui,
Lin Yu chatted effortlessly, his breathing perfectly even:
"Ruirui-jie, isn’t our university’s track field usually restricted to students?"
"At this hour, wouldn’t the guards stop us at the gate?"
"Is there some secret passage? As an actual student, I’ve never heard of one!"
[Ding!]
[Masterful Move: Your steady breathing and effortless agility leave the fitness-loving Beast Garden Elder deeply impressed!]
[Reward: 20 Spirit Stones]
Mao Ruirui looked at him in surprise before answering:
"Xiao Yu, you’ve really never run at your own university before, have you?"
"You’ll understand once we get there!"
"Your stride and breathing… are incredibly stable. Way better than mine!"
While running,
Mao Ruirui had to pause to catch her breath after speaking so much.
Meanwhile, Xiao Yu sounded no different than if they were casually chatting.
Had he trained even more than her?
Without long-term conditioning, such stamina would be impossible!
At the same time,
Mao Ruirui secretly congratulated herself.
Inviting Xiao Yu to join her for a morning run had been the perfect decision.
……
Before long,
the two arrived at the small path beside Pingchuan University’s track field.
The side gate, usually locked with a chain,
was surprisingly wide open.
Spotting the garbage truck parked nearby,
Lin Yu immediately understood.
This must be the time when the university’s cleaning crew disposed of the trash,
temporarily opening the gate for transport.
In this era, university campuses weren’t as tightly secured.
Outsiders coming in for exercise weren’t strictly prohibited.
By the time Lin Yu and Mao Ruirui arrived,
a few others were already working out on the field.
The moment Lin Yu stepped onto the track,
the system’s notification chimed once more…
[Ding!]
[Time-Limited Quest Issued: While the Holy Son and Beast Garden Elder engage in worldly training, their whereabouts are accidentally discovered by the Succubus and Deer Maiden duo! The Holy Son must swiftly counter this disturbance to preserve their private cultivation session!]
[Time Limit: 30 minutes.]
[Reward: 100 Sect Contribution Points, 200 Spirit Stones]
Lin Yu: "???"
Oh?
Swaying Sister, Lv Rou!
Running Queen, Wu Chuntian!
His old "friends" were making a surprise reappearance?
He hadn’t even gone out of his way to mess with them,
yet they’d delivered themselves right to his doorstep.
Lin Yu quickly scanned the vast field.
Near the bleachers, he spotted a group of students setting up cameras and tripods for filming.
With his sharp vision, he instantly recognized all four girls.
Lv Rou and Wu Chuntian were obvious.
The other two familiar faces were their dormmates!
……
(Progress report on today’s "blacklist" revisions (so readers can follow along in real-time):
Last night’s edits dragged on until past 2 AM before submission.
As expected, they were rejected this morning.
Most of the revised chapters passed,
but a whole new batch of problematic sections emerged—standard procedure by now.
To summarize the worst offenders:
Thursday’s content wasn’t heavily flagged, just minor tweaks.
The real disasters were Friday’s, Saturday’s, every single massage scene involving Auntie’s Dao Body (yes, every single one, sigh), Teacher Tang’s "reading lessons," Ying’er’s naptime, and… an ocean of "flavorful descriptions"!
What counts as "flavorful descriptions"?
Examples: "Temptations on the Tip of the Tongue," "newbie carrying two telephone poles," "motion-sensor faucet," "biting down on the unshakable mountain," "boneless chicken deboning," select classical poems, "Tai character," "Ah Kun from the morgue," "hair tied up," etc., etc.—the list goes on. Readers who’ve followed the story will recall plenty more.
All of these?
Gutted.
Do they affect the main plot? Of course not.
What they affect is the novel’s overall flavor.
Removing them strips away countless highlights,
leaving the story… painfully ordinary.
The reason I initially recommended everyone to read this book by following along closely instead of saving it for later is that by the time you come back to it, it might not be the same story anymore.
I’m writing this summary both to give longtime readers some closure and to help any future readers who reach this point understand the author’s perspective.
If you read from start to finish and end up grumbling, “That’s it?”—well, all I can say in response is, “I tried my best.”
Because at one point, this book was actually quite interesting…)
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."
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.”
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
