Mo Tianxiao motioned for Liya to calm down, and said in a steady tone, "Fellow Daoist Liya, do you still remember that time we got separated in the Ancient Realm?"
"These two Primal Demon Star Marrows were found by chance during that period. I was just lucky — while I was fleeing for my life, I stumbled right onto an unmarked mine tunnel no one else had ever discovered.
There weren't many Primal Demon Star Ores inside, but there were exactly two chunks of Primal Demon Star Marrow. Can you believe how coincidental that is?"
Mo Tianxiao looked at Liya with a completely earnest expression. "I originally planned to keep them for my own use, but then I thought, these things would just sit in my storage for who knows how long before I could actually put them to use. It's far better to give them to you two to aid your cultivation, they'll be perfect for helping you break through your current bottleneck."
"Besides, if you hadn't brought me into the Ancient Realm in the first place, I never would have gotten my hands on these treasures to begin with."
"But —"
Liya was a little skeptical of what Mo Tianxiao was saying. Was his luck really that good?
Two chunks of Primal Demon Star Marrow that large? There was no way that could just be dumb luck.
"Master Tianxiao! There's still a part of that new artifact forging technique you taught me that I don't understand, come over and explain it to me in detail right now!"
Just then, a familiar voice drifted over. Mo Tianxiao's face changed instantly, and he spoke hurriedly:
"No more questions, just put these Primal Demon Star Marrows away first. I'm heading into closed-door cultivation right now. You tell Little Qin that this master's bottleneck has started to shift, so I'll be secluding myself for a while, and she can work through her problems on her own for now."
Right after saying that, Mo Tianxiao's figure vanished from the room in a flash.
If Lan Qin got her hooks into him, he had no idea how much time he'd end up wasting.
"Hey!"
Liya could only watch as Mo Tianxiao made a run for it, so she had no choice but to put away the Primal Demon Star Marrows.
"Ugh, really. If he's that scared of Elder Lan, why did he even take her on as a disciple in the first place?"
"Little Ya, where's master?"
The voice came before the person even stepped through the door.
Lan Qin walked into the room with a confused look on her face, scanned the whole area, and found no trace of Mo Tianxiao. Her brows furrowed.
"I could sense master's aura was here just a second ago. Is he hiding from me on purpose?"
The thought had barely crossed her mind when Lan Qin instantly released her spiritual sense, locking onto Mo Tianxiao's exact location. Just as she was about to go drag her disobedient master back, Liya quickly stepped in to stop her.
"Elder Lan! Brother Mo has gone into seclusion to break through his cultivation. He said you should work through your problems on your own for this period of time, and you can ask him anything you need to once he leaves seclusion."
"Is that so?"
Lan Qin narrowed her eyes, clearly not fully convinced.
"Of course it's true. Brother Mo and I have known each other for over a thousand years, and it really is about time for him to make a breakthrough."
"Alright then. Make sure you notify me as soon as master comes out of seclusion."
Since it seemed Mo Tianxiao wasn't deliberately avoiding her, Lan Qin decided to put her doubts aside for the time being.
After all, cultivation was the most important thing. She couldn't very well disturb him and prevent him from advancing, right?
Only when his cultivation grew stronger would she get to see even more of his incredible, powerful abilities.
After Lan Qin left, Liya let out a long sigh of relief, and complained to Xuan Bingji, "Brother Mo is such a handful. If he doesn't actually break through when he comes out of seclusion next time, I'd love to see how he explains that to Elder Lan."
Xuan Bingji smiled faintly. "Maybe he really is about to break through this time."
"Let's stop worrying about his business for now. Liya, since Fellow Daoist Mo gave us such a precious treasure, we can go ahead and try to make our breakthrough to the Dao Verification Realm ahead of schedule."
Hearing that, Liya's eyes lit up. "Right! With a chunk of Primal Demon Star Marrow this big, we might even have a good amount left over after we finish breaking through to the Dao Verification Realm."
"Brother Mo gave us such an incredibly valuable gift though... how are we ever going to pay him back?"
Getting such a huge piece of Primal Demon Star Marrow had made Liya overjoyed, but that joy was quickly followed by distress. A treasure this precious felt like something she could never properly repay.
"Who cares about all that overthinking? Let's go, we'll worry about repaying him after we break through!"
Xuan Bingji had already given herself to Mo Tianxiao entirely, so she didn't care about keeping track of proper return gifts at all.
She grabbed Liya, and the two of them headed for the Feather Spirit Clan's secluded cultivation grounds to start preparing for their breakthrough to the Dao Verification Realm.
On the other side, Mo Tianxiao didn't choose to go into closed-door cultivation within the Feather Spirit Clan's territory. Instead, he traveled to a remote, desolate planet out in the Feather Spirit Galaxy.
After surveying the surrounding environment carefully, Mo Tianxiao waved his hand, and hundreds of formation flags flew out to wrap the whole area in a barrier, making sure no other cultivators would be able to detect him during his seclusion.
With a thought, his character panel appeared in front of his eyes.
Name: Mo Tianxiao
Cultivation Base: Peak of the Dao Master Realm
Fortune Rank: Black
Cultivation Technique: Primal Origin Free Divine Demon Art (First Layer +)
Dharma Artifacts: Nine-Tribulation Immortal Origin Sword (Four Seals), Human Emperor Banner (Damaged)
Sub-professions: Emperor Rank Alchemist, Emperor Rank Talisman Master, Emperor Rank Formation Master, Emperor Rank Artifact Forging Master, Puppet Refining Master
Secret Arts: Immortal Path Secret Art: Sleight of Hand, Immortal Path Secret Art: Yin-Yang Reversal, No Grade Secret Art: Blood Concealment Art
Techniques and Divine Abilities: Grand Annihilation Fist (True Grade), Eight Wilderness Dragon Steps (True Grade), Thousand Sword Net (Dao Grade), Annihilation Sword Formation (Saint Grade), Immortal Path Killing Move: Five Fists Heart Sword (Immortal Grade)
Villain Points: 1,613,840,970
Fortune Points: 70,000
After all his hard work, he'd already collected all of Xuan Bingji's fortune points, bringing his total fortune points up to seventy thousand. As long as he took down three more Children of Fortune, he'd be able to perform another epic-level gacha draw.
But right now, he needed to raise his cultivation base first. He'd been able to break through his cultivation the moment he hit a billion villain points, but one thing after another had kept delaying it until now.
If Lan Qin got her hands on him again, his schedule would just get pushed back even further.
"Power is the only real foundation. System, help me make the breakthrough!"
As soon as the thought crossed his mind, a billion villain points vanished in an instant. The next second, a vast, profound power rose up from his dantian, and the single, lonely Primal Origin Law inside his body began to stir under the effect of that mysterious power.
From one, it split into two.
Mo Tianxiao's cultivation base instantly stepped into the early stage of the Dao Verification Realm.
But this breakthrough was only just beginning. The two Primal Origin Laws split again, into four, then eight, then sixteen...
Dense, roaring strands of Law power shifted nonstop, transforming for a moment into Wood Law, then the next moment into Fire Law, changing over and over, before finally merging back into their original Primal Origin state.
Meanwhile, somewhere else, Mo Xingtian had just received a message from his father. In a hundred years at most, his father would finish his seclusion and come personally to the Feather Spirit Clan to propose a marriage for him.
Getting this news made Mo Xingtian absolutely ecstatic. Finally, finally he had a chance to deal with that damned human!
That despicable human had been hanging around his fiancee nonstop — did he have any idea how hard he'd had to hold back all this time? Nothing but endure, endure, and keep enduring!
He was so close to losing his mind from holding it in!
"Hahahahaha......"
"Mo Tianxiao, I'd like to see what you can do now. You think just because you lucked into the Feather Spirit Clan's favor, you can really steal my fiancee away?
This world respects nothing but strength. In the face of absolute power, everything else is nothing but empty illusion."
Once his father broke through to the late stage of Upper Sovereign Realm, he'd see if the Feather Spirit Clan would still side with that damned human.
Mo Xingtian's eyes glinted with icy malice, a wild, arrogant smile tugging at his lips, his tone thick with unmistakeable excitement. "Mo Tianxiao, just you wait. Your good days are numbered..."
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."
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
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?”
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
