"Sigh!"
"Sigh!"
"Sigh!"
"Enough already, damn it!"
"You've been sighing nonstop for half a month since we left."
"If you miss it that much, go back and live in your damn dog cage."
It had been half a month since they left the Luo Shen Palace, and Da Huang had been sighing the entire time by Chen Chang'an's side.
"Sigh... I thought I could handle it, but... I couldn't."
"My beloved ladies... have left me behind."
"Shut up! Are you seriously about to break into song now?"
"Where the hell did you even learn this crap?"
Looking at Da Huang's dramatic display, Chen Chang'an had the urge to kick him. For a dog, he sure acted way too human.
"You don’t get it. You really don’t."
"Sigh... You’re a man without love," Da Huang said with a melancholic expression.
"You can still go back now."
"I haven’t dismantled the dog cage yet."
Hearing this, Da Huang immediately switched to a fawning expression.
"Brother, what are you saying?"
"How could I ever bear to leave you?"
"Come on, let’s go to the broth—uh, I mean, Nine Nether Ravine," Da Huang said with a cheeky grin.
"Da Huang, if you keep acting like this, I’m putting a damn chain on you next time we go out."
A chain?
Da Huang scoffed at the idea. As if a mere chain could restrain him. What a joke.
Seeing his expression, Chen Chang'an smirked. "Did you forget about the restriction seals?"
"If I can put them on a dog cage, why not a chain?"
Oh shit!
How could he have forgotten?
Chen Chang'an had the ability to place restriction seals on any object.
"Brother, that’s just hurtful, you know?"
"We’re good pals, no need for that."
"Who’s your pal? Shut up and let’s get moving."
"Got it, brother! Wanna ride me?"
"Stop hanging out with Xuan Wudao. You’re getting way too damn sleazy."
Da Huang had always been a bit of a mess, but lately, he’d crossed into full-blown degeneracy.
He had zero dignity as a qilin—just acting more and more like a damn dog.
Had his soul rotted from staying in this form too long?
Achoo!
Meanwhile, in the forbidden grounds of the Wuji Sect, Xuan Wudao—currently serving his confinement—suddenly sneezed, which puzzled him.
"Strange. I’m already at the Deathless Realm. How can I still sneeze?"
"Maybe some brothel girl is missing me?"
"Ah, seems my charm still lingers."
"Too bad I’m stuck here."
Hm?
Someone’s here?
Xuan Wudao sensed the Sect Master of Wuji Sect approaching and frowned. What was this guy doing here?
"Junior Brother, how’ve you been holding up?"
"Everything good?"
Xuan Wudao shot him a look. "Great. Just great. Wanna join me for a while?"
"No thanks. I didn’t break any rules or visit brothels."
"You weren’t like this before. What happened?"
"Are you here just to annoy me?" Xuan Wudao snapped.
"I have a question."
"Spit it out."
"I heard Ye Zhiqiu’s master is someone named Chen Chang'an. Is he the same one you know?"
Ye Zhiqiu?
"You mean the one ranked second on the Human Ranking?" Xuan Wudao frowned.
"Exactly. Rumor says his master is Chen Chang'an, so I came to ask you."
"Hmm... Not sure. Chen Chang'an never mentioned it."
"Why?"
"Ye Zhiqiu is challenging Lin Daoyi, the sword prodigy of the Nine Heavens Sect. They invited me to watch."
Lin Daoyi?
"The Nine Heavens Sect has a sword prodigy? Never heard of him."
"Of course you haven’t. You’ve been gone for ages. Lin Daoyi’s a genius who emerged in the last century."
"His sword talent is exceptional, and the sect’s grooming him as their next leader."
"He’s only in his eighties but already at the Supreme Realm."
A Supreme Realm cultivator at eighty? That was impressive. No wonder they were investing in him.
In the Central Heaven Domain, reaching the Supreme Realm before a hundred was a major milestone. If someone achieved it, they were guaranteed to break through to the Deathless Realm before five hundred.
As for reaching the Emperor Realm? That depended on fate.
But freaks like Chen Yunxuan and Ye Zhiqiu—ranked at the top of the Human Ranking—were once-in-a-millennium anomalies. Normal standards didn’t apply to them.
"So what’s this got to do with me?"
"I’m stuck here," Xuan Wudao said, confused.
"The Grand Elder said if Ye Zhiqiu really is Chen Chang'an’s disciple..."
"You’re coming with me. Just in case things go sideways, we’ll side with Ye Zhiqiu."
Wait.
No more confinement?
"Let’s go!"
"Huh? Where?"
"To the Nine Heavens Sect!"
"So Ye Zhiqiu is your Chen Chang'an’s disciple?"
"How the hell should I know? But probably. Who else could train such a monster?"
"We’ll find out when we get there."
For Xuan Wudao, this was a golden opportunity. Whether it was true or not, he’d make it true.
Besides, he had a strong feeling Ye Zhiqiu really was Chen Chang'an’s disciple.
Chen Chang'an rarely fought, but when he did, his swordplay was evident—though most couldn’t tell because he never needed a second strike.
Only those close to him, like Xuan Wudao, knew the truth.
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Meanwhile, news of Ye Zhiqiu’s challenge against Lin Daoyi had spread like wildfire.
A Human Ranking prodigy at the Hollow Void Realm daring to challenge a Supreme Realm expert? It was unheard of.
"Lin Daoyi’s a genius in his own right. How’s he gonna feel being challenged by a kid in his twenties?"
"Probably pissed. But Ye Zhiqiu’s no ordinary kid—he’s second on the Human Ranking."
"Still, the gap in cultivation is huge. Isn’t this arrogance?"
"Totally. Does he think ranking second makes him invincible?"
The crowd buzzed with skepticism. No one believed Ye Zhiqiu stood a chance against the seasoned Lin Daoyi.
The Nine Heavens Sect was packed—some invited, others drawn by the spectacle.
The Sect Master of Wuji Sect and Xuan Wudao arrived early.
"Damn, so many people?" Xuan Wudao hadn’t expected this level of interest.
"Of course. Everyone wants to see what the Human Ranking’s second place is made of."
"Don’t forget, in just over two years, it will be time for the Earth Ranking battles."
"By observing Ye Zhiqiu’s strength, everyone can also gauge Chen Yunxuan’s limits," the Sect Master of Wuji Sect said with a smile.
"That brat—so many people have arrived, yet he’s still not here?"
"He’s coming!"
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.
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
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?!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
