Several decades passed in the blink of an eye. After a few dozen years of chaos, the Xuanhuang Realm entered a period of rapid development, and many new forces began to emerge.
Of course, several ancient powers still remained firmly seated at the top. Forces such as the Demon Sect and the Jade Lake Heavenly Palace, which possessed Quasi-Emperor cultivators, had even risen to become the most powerful factions in the Xuanhuang Realm.
The Central Divine Continent, which had always been at odds with the Demon Province, had now become a loyal ally of the Demon Province. Even within top orthodox sects such as the Haoran Righteousness Sect, several statues had been erected—and among them were statues of members of the Demon Sect.
All the Quasi-Emperors who had helped the Xuanhuang Realm overcome its calamity had statues erected in the various sects, where disciples and later generations of cultivators could pay their respects. Mo Tianxiao’s figure was prominently featured among them.
The cultivators of both the orthodox and demonic paths had entered a temporary period of peace. It was simply impossible to know how many years this peace would last after such a calamity.
“It hasn’t even been that long, yet I actually missed such a huge event? Nannan, why didn’t you let me leave seclusion earlier?”
Zi Ling'er had successfully broken through to the Saint Realm and emerged from the Time Tower. Upon hearing about the tremendous calamity that had struck the Xuanhuang Realm, her eyes widened and her cherry-red lips fell open.
She had merely gone into seclusion, and the Xuanhuang Realm had already survived an apocalyptic calamity?
Lin Nannan covered her mouth and giggled as she looked at Zi Ling'er. “Wasn’t it for Sister Ling'er’s safety? Staying inside the Demon Sect was the safest choice. Besides, even if we’d let you out of seclusion, you couldn’t have helped much.”
Zi Ling'er’s lips curled into a slight pout. “Nannan, you’ll hurt your sister’s feelings if you put it that way.”
“By the way, where’s Senior Brother Mo? I never expected him to become the great hero who saved the Xuanhuang Realm.”
Lin Nannan shook her head. “Brother Tianxiao stayed in the Demon Sect for more than ten years before leaving again. No one knows where he went.”
“I heard Sister Wan'er and the others say that Brother Tianxiao seems to have gone out to gain experience and search for an opportunity to break through to the Quasi-Emperor Realm.”
Whenever she mentioned Mo Tianxiao, a look of admiration appeared on Lin Nannan’s face. Brother Tianxiao was already so powerful, yet he remained incredibly diligent, constantly thinking about how to increase his strength.
Zi Ling'er nodded. “As expected of Senior Brother Mo. It’s precisely because of that attitude that he was able to become the great hero of the Xuanhuang Realm.”
While the two of them were chatting, a certain town in the Xuanhuang Realm was packed with cultivators. On a high platform in the bustling street, a figure shouted at the top of his lungs:
“Premium Aphrodisiac Pills! Saint Mo himself has used them and says they’re excellent! Special price for today only! Not 998! Not 798! Just 388!”
“Three hundred and eighty-eight! You can’t lose out, and you can’t get cheated! Buying them is pure profit! There are only one hundred thousand left! Once they’re gone, they’re gone! Hurry up and grab them!”
“Did Saint Mo really say they worked? Would someone like Saint Mo even need this kind of thing?”
Many people in the crowd expressed their doubts.
Saint Mo was a mighty peak Saint King, one of the heroes who had saved the Xuanhuang Realm, and a Saint-grade alchemist to boot. How could he possibly need such pills?
“Hey! Don’t doubt it!”
The figure on the platform leaned forward and lowered his voice as he told the crowd, “To be honest, I have a distant cousin who’s a disciple of the Demon Sect. According to the inside information he heard, Saint Mo has wives and concubines by the dozen and enjoys himself every night.”
“Even a peak Saint King couldn’t keep going like that forever. The secret to Saint Mo’s continued strength lies in these premium aphrodisiac pills!”
Hearing the man’s utterly serious sales pitch, quite a few cultivators were persuaded.
“Give me ten!”
“I’ll take twenty!”
“...”
Before long, all one hundred thousand premium aphrodisiac pills had been snapped up.
The person selling the pills happily departed with more than thirty million spirit stones. “If you find the effects satisfactory, remember to spread the word. I’ll be back at this same place in a month.”
To prevent himself from being robbed, the man used a treasure to conceal his aura. After taking several winding turns, he quickly disappeared into a small alley.
“Thirty-eight million! After deducting the cost, that’s a net profit of thirty-five million. What a haul!”
Bang!
The next moment, a dark figure appeared behind him and casually struck him, knocking him unconscious.
“You shameless bastard. You made this much money by using my name, and you didn’t even pay me a licensing fee?”
Remembering what the man had said earlier, Mo Tianxiao angrily gave him another kick.
He casually took the man’s spatial ring and glanced at the so-called premium aphrodisiac pills inside. He clicked his tongue in disdain. “A low-grade pill, yet you dared to sell it at such a high price. And it even has side effects. What a swindler.”
Mo Tianxiao had never expected that, after leaving the sect to earn some villain points and see whether he could find any Child of Destiny to bully, he would instead run into a con artist trading on his name.
Of course, Mo Tianxiao had long since grown accustomed to such things. Everywhere he went, whether it was a tavern, a shop, or a restaurant, people tried to associate themselves with the Demon Sect to some extent.
“Who earns this money doesn’t matter. Since that’s the case, I might as well do it myself.”
A plan began to form in Mo Tianxiao’s mind.
Before long, an entirely new merchant association appeared in the Xuanhuang Realm: the Nanmo Merchant Association. It incorporated the Xuanhuang Realm’s number-one merchant association, the Floating Cloud Merchant Association, and also received investments from top powers across every region.
With a little publicity and the Nanmo name behind it, the Nanmo Merchant Association quickly became the largest and most powerful merchant association in the history of the Xuanhuang Realm.
From low-grade pills to Saint-grade pills, from low-grade talismans to Saint-grade talismans, from low-grade formations to Saint-grade formations, and from ordinary magical artifacts to Saint artifacts—the Nanmo Merchant Association had everything a cultivator could want.
Not only that, but heavenly treasures ranging from a hundred years old to ten thousand years old were also available in abundance. Rare worldly treasures, techniques and divine abilities, books of strange knowledge—in short, it covered nearly every need a cultivator could have.
Not long after the Nanmo Merchant Association appeared, a series of affiliated businesses were launched as well: Nanmo Restaurants, Nanmo Auction Houses, Nanmo Secondhand Magical Artifact Recycling, and more.
In just two hundred years, the Nanmo Merchant Association had infiltrated every aspect of the Xuanhuang Realm, forming an absolute monopoly over its resources. Whether for daily life or cultivation, the Nanmo Merchant Association had become an indispensable part of every cultivator’s life.
Aside from a select few, no one knew that the true mastermind behind the Nanmo Merchant Association was not the Nanmo Superstar, but the Demon Sect’s leader, Mo Tianxiao.
[You have completely monopolized the resources of the Xuanhuang Realm and become its greatest capitalist tycoon. You have achieved the “Behind-the-Scenes Control” accomplishment. This behavior is in keeping with the actions of a villain. Villain Points +66,666,666!]
[You have successfully conquered the Novice Village. The novice protection period has ended. The function that reminds you of the probability of killing a Child of Destiny has been disabled. Furthermore, aside from Children of Destiny, killing other cultivators will no longer grant Destiny Points.]
The sudden system notification startled Mo Tianxiao, who had been lying in his palace while enjoying a massage from his junior sister. He sprang up from his chair.
“Senior Brother?”
Nangong Wan tilted her head and looked at Mo Tianxiao curiously.
Mo Tianxiao came back to his senses and waved lightly. “It’s nothing.”
The sudden reward of villain points had startled him. The notification that followed, however, caused a sense of danger to rise in his heart.
What did it mean to “successfully conquer the newbie village”? He knew that the Xuanhuang Realm was a lower plane, but a major plane of its caliber could hardly be called a newbie village.
That damn system had to be trying to scare him...
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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."
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.
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
