By the roadside.
“I said hurry up and find someone! Are you deaf?” Lin Baizhi had two bandages stuck to her forehead in an X. Beneath them was a slight bulge—look closely, and you’d find that it was actually a huge bump.
Yes… that’s right. The young lady had given her a vicious elbow.
The final battle had also come to an end because of that powerful elbow from the young lady. It had been the backup hidden energy source activated during the self-destruct sequence. After taking out Sister Lin, the young lady had burned through the last of her strength as well.
In the end, it was only after the short-haired woman and Lin Baizhi’s accompanying female bodyguard worked together that they managed to pull the two apart.
After waking up, Lin Baizhi clearly realized that the gap between people wasn’t reflected solely in their physical abilities and intelligence. There was also the brain, of course… though in this case, she meant it in the literal physical sense.
No matter how hard she tried, Lin Baizhi couldn’t understand why, despite both of them being human, the head of a certain problem child could be so hard.
Was that even reasonable?
Ignoring the huge bump on her head, Lin Baizhi prepared to launch another attack on the young lady and get her revenge.
“Miss, forget it, Miss. Your health is important, Miss…”
The female bodyguard pleaded earnestly, nearly on the verge of tears.
She knew her young lady’s physical condition better than anyone. When she had first seen the two of them wrestling, she had been quite nervous. But then she realized that they were evenly matched and was stunned in disbelief.
There was actually someone else in this world with the same physical capabilities as their young lady.
They could fight to a draw!
Wonderful! If that was the case…
Before the female bodyguard could stay happy for long, she heard a loud thud. When she looked over again, her young lady was already unconscious.
The female bodyguard: “???”
The female bodyguard let out a shriek and hurriedly rushed over…
“What? You think I’m no match for her too?” Lin Baizhi’s expression turned cold. The moment she heard those words of persuasion, she blew her top. Why should she be inferior?
She could beat her!
She was definitely more capable than that self-righteous problem child. She was the one who understood Big Brother best—not some self-righteous problem child!
Lin Baizhi came up with all sorts of strange scenarios in her head, quickly maxing out her anger meter. Then she charged off to challenge the young lady one-on-one.
“Shen Qinghan, I’m talking to you! Are you deaf? Get out here!”
The car door had been shut, so all Lin Baizhi could do was angrily hammer on the door and kick it over and over. Unfortunately… it was completely useless.
The private car Shen Qinghan rode in had undergone special modifications. Bullets couldn’t penetrate it, and to a certain extent, it could even withstand a Barrett rifle. Explosions were little more than child’s play…
The car alone had cost a terrifying seven figures and was fast approaching eight figures. How could it possibly be breached by the delicate and physically weak Sister Lin?
Inside the car, Shen Qinghan held a tablet in her hands and looked over the information her people had sent her regarding the military district…
No one knew exactly what had happened inside the military district, but the movements there were anything but small. They had no intention of concealing their intentions either—they were acting completely out in the open!
They had directly summoned every Zhengyi practitioner in the entire Dragon Kingdom…
According to the information from her people, the moment they received the call, they had already set out for the military district.
What could possibly have happened for them to be in such a hurry?
Shen Qinghan frowned. Instinctively, she linked it to the tall, dark figure that had just run past them and to the military district’s armed helicopters giving chase.
Was it just her imagination? Why did she feel that this had something to do with a certain Naturally Evil Obasan?
After all, a certain Naturally Evil Obasan really was capable of sneaking into a military district in the middle of the night. But… why had she gone there?
To steal classified information?
Or had she simply thought the military district looked like fun and gone inside to find herself some entertainment?
No matter what Du Wanyi did, the people around her who knew her well would never be surprised. Adults did things with a purpose. Madam did things simply because she was happy or curious.
She never considered the consequences…
As for outrunning an armed helicopter… that was hard to say.
Because Shen Qinghan’s body was relatively weak, her dynamic vision wasn’t especially good. At best, it was merely average for a normal person.
But the problem was that the soldiers inside the military district had received formal training, and even the various high-definition cameras in the hospital hadn’t managed to capture Madam’s full appearance. All they could see was a huge black mass floating by…
How was that any different from a ghost?
Only those who had been chased by Madam understood the terror and despair of being her target. Even someone like Ye Cheng, the Human Forklift, had nearly been driven to the point of crying out for Yang Jian while being pursued…
When the living called out…
As for why the information and reports sent back by the Du family’s people were so comprehensive and so quick?
Naturally, it was because the Du family had their fingers in countless pies and knew “just a tiny bit” about everything. Having two of their own people among the Zhengyi practitioners was perfectly normal, wasn’t it?
The foundations of the three great families truly showed themselves at times like this. The difference was a sheer cliff, and it was utterly terrifying. While Sister Lin was still out there going “Macarena,” the information in the young lady’s hands was already about to go cold.
“Let’s go. Turn around and head back.” Shen Qinghan closed the tablet and spoke calmly.
The short-haired woman, who had been standing guard outside, heard her young mistress’s voice and hurriedly ran back. “Yes, Young Mistress!”
“Sorry, Miss Lin, but please move aside.”
The short-haired woman looked rather troubled. Although… Lin Baizhi was very clearly an enemy of their young mistress—or no, more accurately, an enemy of their family head.
But the relationship between them was extremely complicated, the kind that couldn’t be untangled no matter how hard one tried. On top of that, their Madam seemed to have an excellent relationship with the other party’s father.
Using force would naturally be inappropriate. It might make their Madam lose face…
Fortunately, the family head wasn’t here. Otherwise…
“What a great job, Little Lanlan! You haven’t disgraced us! That’s right, hit her! Hit her! Tear that Little Green Tea’s mouth apart!”
The short-haired woman: “…”
For a moment, she seemed to hear the encouraging voice of her family head urging her on—telling her to viciously elbow the Little Green Tea in front of her!
“What do you mean, move aside? You haven’t even explained anything, and you expect me to move?”
Lin Baizhi stuck out her neck, looking like a shameless street thug. Then she quickly climbed onto the hood of the car and blocked it from leaving!
She wasn’t stupid.
The sudden change of plans by a certain problem child clearly meant that she had received new information. Meanwhile, the people on Lin Baizhi’s side hadn’t even managed to obtain a map, let alone the latest intelligence.
They had no chance whatsoever!
That was the confidence of an old-established member of the three great families. Find the gap yourself!
Lin Baizhi had never been the type to deceive herself. She could see the disparity clearly, so she decisively chose a different approach. Otherwise, if she continued searching at her current speed, the day they found Big Brother, the daylilies would have long since gone cold.
She even felt that Dongfang Zhixia, who had apparently been tricked into going all the way north to the country of the northern barbarians, had a better chance of finding him first than she did.
“Miss Lin, this is…” The short-haired woman frowned, looking deeply troubled.
The female bodyguard nearby hurried over as well, trying to persuade her young mistress to get off the other person’s car. What if she fell?
Besides, that kind of stunt was incredibly dangerous…
The female bodyguard had never imagined that her young mistress could be this shameless. In her impression, the woman had always been a cold, aloof female CEO in the workplace—meticulous and unable to tolerate even the slightest imperfection.
So how had she suddenly become such a completely different person here?
Could she be possessed?
“What do you mean, ‘what’? What’s with all the questions? Open the door! Let me in, or I’m not getting down!”
Lin Baizhi simply lay down across the windshield and hood of the car and began doing “stretching exercises,” determined to give the front of the car and its windshield a thorough polishing.
The female bodyguard: “…”
Miss, you’re really…
“Click.”
Just as the standoff seemed destined to continue, the lock on the rear passenger door suddenly popped up and unlocked. The moment Lin Baizhi heard it, her face lit up with delight. She hurriedly jumped off the windshield, pulled open the door, and climbed inside.
“What are you looking at? Drive!”
The moment she got into the car, Lin Baizhi put on the air of an old-time landlady and began ordering the short-haired woman around. That bearing gave the short-haired woman a vague sense of déjà vu—as though she were seeing Ye Cheng for the first time.
Had… the young mistress been possessed by Madam?
The short-haired woman: “…”
“Shut up.” Shen Qinghan frowned and spoke in a frigid tone.
“What are you yelling for? All you ever say is ‘shut up, shut up’ all day long. Aren’t you annoying?” Lin Baizhi launched straight into her face without the slightest hesitation, openly and indirectly calling Shen Qinghan a problem child.
And then…
Ora ora ora!!!
Muda muda muda—!
After only a few words, the two started fighting again. The scene descended into chaos, with nothing visible except their rapidly flying fists…
The short-haired woman: “…”
The female bodyguard: “…”
Rumble, rumble—the car started up, and the roar of the engine echoed through the night. On the pitch-black road, two black sedans set off one after the other, heading back the way they had come…
An unexpected situation had arisen, and the plan had changed at the last minute: they were going to sneak into the military district to find someone!
…
Mao Country, near the border, in a certain mountain range.
Heavy snow swirled through the air, and countless animals struggled through hunger and cold, praying that they could survive the winter…
Yet in a cave not far away, someone was enjoying an all-you-can-eat buffet.
A pack of wolves could only watch from a distance, too frightened to approach even a step, as though they were afraid of something.
“Caw—!”
A terrifying golden eagle with a wingspan of more than two meters appeared in the sky. It circled overhead, its razor-sharp eyes clearly taking in the roasted meat beside the campfire hundreds of meters below—and the “ginseng” on the ground.
It plummeted from the sky, transforming into an arrow piercing through the clouds as it shot straight toward the “ginseng” below. Its sharp talons glinted coldly, mere moments away from crushing the head in front of it!
Ye Cheng heard the noise and turned his head for a look. His face instantly turned several shades paler.
“Holy crap!”
“Madam, save me!”
“Bang!”
When all else failed, he could only save himself. Seeing the golden eagle getting closer and closer, Ye Cheng stopped pretending. With a bang, he blasted out of the soil, scrambled free, and prepared to elbow the beast that was trying to give him a brand-new “hole in the head.”
Meanwhile, Du Wanyi, who had been lying in ambush beneath the snow, was holding a stone and preparing to throw it. She had intended to land a killing blow before the golden eagle could strike, cracking its skull and claiming herself a delicious chicken wing!
But then…
Ye Cheng crawled out of the soil.
Du Wanyi: “???”
You little bastard, Chengcheng—I think you don’t want to eat chicken wings anymore. You want to taste Madam’s fangs instead!
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.
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)
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."
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.”
