At the exit.
A dense crowd of people was lined up in a queue.
At this moment, there were tens of thousands of people inside the venue.
The others had either been killed by Guo Duan for resisting in secret or had fled after handing over their rare treasures.
Some had also perished due to infighting.
Among them, a few had secretly gathered thousands of people, forming a resistance force.
But they were all slaughtered by Guo Duan.
"Should we wait for the fifth Son of Destiny to arrive?"
Inside the wooden cabin, Ye Wangchuan was deep in thought.
At this moment, it had already been forty-seven hours since Ye Wangchuan began his Soul Purification.
As long as nothing unexpected happened, he would successfully break through to the third level in just one more hour.
Soon.
An hour passed just like that.
Ye Wangchuan smoothly broke through to the early stage of the third level.
After all, Ye Wangchuan was a villain, not a Son of Destiny.
Unexpected interruptions during breakthroughs were reserved for the Sons of Destiny.
What did that have to do with a villain like him?
"Phew~"
Ye Wangchuan let out a long exhale.
Four days and nights of continuous thinking, combined with the effects of the Soul Purification Pills, had yielded remarkable results.
Now, Ye Wangchuan's mind could handle multiple tasks simultaneously without any issue.
Solving math problems with his left hand, drawing with his right, and reciting a poem at the same time?
Piece of cake.
This was the power of Soul Purification.
Ye Wangchuan was beginning to wonder how far the so-called Core Condensation at the fourth level could push the body.
According to the diary he had read underground, the fourth level and the third level were not even in the same realm of existence.
Judging by Guo Duan's overwhelming strength, which was leagues ahead of others, it seemed to be true.
Lost in thought, Ye Wangchuan walked into the living room of the wooden cabin.
Living room.
Li Luo: "Ye Wangchuan is such a small fry~ Just by leaning on his back and saying a few words, rubbing against him, he gets all flustered. He tries to act calm on the surface, but he's such a small fry~"
Puppet: "Small fry?"
Li Luo: "Small fry means a minor character."
Puppet: "Oh, I see. Small fry~"
Li Luo: "Small fry Ye Wangchuan~ Small fry..."
[Villain Emotion Points +200]
[Current Balance: 10,500 points]
Ye Wangchuan: "What are you doing?"
"..."
Li Luo stiffly turned her head toward Ye Wangchuan, putting on a serious face.
"I was telling this puppet about your glorious achievements!"
Puppet: "Small fry Ye Wangchuan~"
"..."
[Villain Emotion Points +100]
[Current Balance: 10,600 points]
"You've corrupted my puppet, and now you're insulting me. Pay me ninety Cultivation Pills and thirty Foundation Building Pills."
Ye Wangchuan spoke with a look of exasperation.
Li Luo was instantly shocked and cursed back.
"Wow! You really dare to ask for that much!"
"I'll give you a Body Tempering Pill. This thing can shorten your second-level breakthrough from two months to just six hours. Deal?"
As he spoke, Ye Wangchuan took out a Body Tempering Pill.
Hearing this, Li Luo checked her system space.
After a month of killing monsters, chopping trees, and teasing Ye Wangchuan, she had accumulated 10,600 Villain Emotion Points!
And this was after she and Ye Wangchuan had used a bunch of explosive talismans!
"Deal!"
Seeing that she had so many Villain Emotion Points, Li Luo decisively spent 5,400 points to purchase ninety Cultivation Pills and thirty Foundation Building Pills.
At the same time, her remaining Villain Emotion Points dropped from 10,600 to 5,200.
But Li Luo didn't feel the slightest bit of regret.
Saving two months of breakthrough time? This deal was a total win for her!
An absolute steal!
"Wait a second, I need to find something in my spatial bracelet."
As she spoke, Li Luo took off her shoe.
This action wasn't to show Ye Wangchuan her delicate little foot to negotiate a better price.
It was to remove a bracelet from her ankle.
That bracelet was her spatial bracelet.
Though not as advanced as a spatial ring, its storage space was just enough for Li Luo's needs.
The reason she wore it on her ankle was that her wrists were too thin, and the bracelet kept slipping off.
Left with no choice, she opted to wear it on her ankle.
Holding the bracelet, Li Luo pretended to concentrate and released the 120 pills from her system space.
The reason for this act was that Li Luo didn't want Ye Wangchuan to know she had a system.
She feared that if Ye Wangchuan found out, he might imprison her in a dungeon and force her to grind rewards every day.
Li Luo felt that even if she secretly saved up a ninth-level experience card, she probably still wouldn't be able to defeat Ye Zhentian.
Seeing that all the pills were accounted for, Ye Wangchuan nodded in satisfaction, stored them away, and tossed the Body Tempering Pill to Li Luo.
Body Tempering Pills were something he could easily get a few of by just asking the Fourth Elder.
Trading one for so many of Li Luo's pills was an absolute win.
Besides, Li Luo's cultivation level really needed a boost. He couldn't hold her back too much.
Otherwise, she'd just drag him down.
This deal?
A total win for both sides!
At this moment, both parties were extremely satisfied with the exchange.
Li Luo immediately swallowed the pill and began her Body Tempering process.
After all, Body Tempering didn't have as many requirements as Soul Purification. She just needed to abstain from eating, drinking, and sleeping for six hours.
Meanwhile, Ye Wangchuan checked his spatial ring.
Inside the spatial ring.
Including the 120 pills he had just received, there were now...
165 Cultivation Pills and 55 Foundation Building Pills!
Over the past month, Ye Wangchuan had chopped down hundreds of thousands of trees.
Li Luo had promised Ye Wangchuan that for every five gold coins' worth of rare treasures he obtained, she would give him one Cultivation Pill.
On top of that, Ye Wangchuan had been occasionally squeezing Li Luo for more.
Bit by bit, he had accumulated this much.
In theory, the number of pills shouldn't have been this low.
Unfortunately, after the first week of the secret realm opening, most of the rare treasures in the forest had already been scavenged.
Li Luo was after the treasures on the trees, not the trees themselves.
Naturally, she gave fewer pills afterward.
Even so, it was still quite a lot.
Moreover, from the mid-second level to the late-second level, nearing his breakthrough, Ye Wangchuan had consumed about 105 Cultivation Pills and 35 Foundation Building Pills.
In just one month, the number of pills he had consumed was several times more than what he had eaten back in Chang'an.
Ye Wangchuan roughly calculated that he only needed another 120 Cultivation Pills and 40 Foundation Building Pills to break through to the mid-third level.
As for reaching the late-third level, he didn't have enough.
With that in mind, Ye Wangchuan immediately started devouring the pills.
One hundred and sixty pills, one per second.
In no time, Ye Wangchuan's cultivation successfully broke through to the mid-third level.
It had to be said...
Wasn't his cultivation progressing just a bit too fast?
Ye Wangchuan's lips twitched.
In just one month, he had gone from the early second level to the mid-third level.
An average person would take about forty years to reach the third level.
Yet he had done it in forty days.
Li Luo's system was truly absurd.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
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.
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
