"What the hell?"
Mu Yunhai never expected that Ye Beixuan would outdo him in business acumen.
He had taken resources from just one person, but now Ye Beixuan wanted to collect from everyone else?
No way, absolutely not!
"Ye Beixuan, what you gave only buys you the right to listen—no one else."
"Unless..."
Seeing the look in Mu Yunhai's eyes, Ye Beixuan instantly understood and nodded. "Fine, I’ll split it with you."
"Deal!"
The two of them grinned like shady merchants, leaving the others speechless.
Were these really the former top two geniuses on the Heavenly Pride Rankings?
How had their prestige plummeted so fast?
"Whatever, I’m too curious—I’ll pay."
"How about the rest of you?"
"I’ll pay too."
"Fine, me too!"
"Since everyone’s chipping in, let’s all listen together."
Aside from the Ye and Mu families, the Nine Great Immortal Clans included the Wang, Lin, Huo, Qin, Nie, Xu, and Su families.
The rising stars and peerless prodigies of these nine clans now gathered in one place. They formed a circle, set up a soundproof barrier, and stared intently at Mu Yunhai.
Mu Yunhai suddenly felt nervous under all this attention. It was his first time being the center of focus—why did he feel a little embarrassed?
"Hey, spit it out already!"
"Did you call us here to watch you space out?"
"You think you’re that good-looking?"
Su Wenqian of the Su Clan was impatient. Seeing Mu Yunhai hesitate, he couldn’t help but snap.
Mu Yunhai rolled his eyes at Su Wenqian before sharing some trivial details he knew about Chen Chang'an.
Yet even these minor facts left Ye Beixuan and the others utterly stunned, their eyes filled with awe.
"Unbelievable!"
"This is absolutely insane!"
"He ascended from the lower realm and hasn’t even been in the Ancient Immortal Domain for twenty years?"
"Even if we assume he was already at the Quasi-Immortal Realm when he ascended..."
"In less than twenty years, he broke through to the Golden Immortal Realm’s fifth level and has combat power rivaling an Immortal Emperor?"
"Is he even human?"
Su Wenqian shot Mu Yunhai a skeptical look. "You sure you’re not exaggerating?"
"Just because he’s your brother-in-law doesn’t mean you can make stuff up."
"Me? Make stuff up?"
"Here, ask Wang Tiangang—he should know something, right?"
Wang Tiangang?
Everyone turned to him, but Wang Tiangang was just as confused. "Know what?"
"When did your Wang Clan’s Wang Zhiwei go to the Profound Boundary?"
"And when did he clash with Chen Chang'an? You must know something about that."
"Oh, that... About over a decade ago."
"Wait... So it really hasn’t been twenty years?" Wang Tiangang said in shock.
At that moment, everyone fell into deep thought. How the hell did he cultivate so fast?
Among them, Ye Beixuan was widely regarded as the fastest cultivator. But compared to Chen Chang'an, he seemed downright mediocre.
"Why are you all looking at me?"
"Fine, I’m trash, okay?"
"But if I’m trash, then you’re all even bigger trash."
"Absolute garbage," Ye Beixuan grumbled.
"Seriously, don’t you have any thoughts about this?"
Thoughts? What kind of thoughts could he have?
Chen Chang'an spent ten thousand years in the Profound Boundary without cultivating. His total cultivation time didn’t even add up to fifty years.
How could anyone compete with that? What was there to even think about?
"Right now, I only have one thought."
"I want to see just how big the gap is between me and Chen Chang'an."
"But he’s been in seclusion for over two years now. Who knows how much longer it’ll take?" Ye Beixuan sighed.
"Immortals often spend long periods in seclusion."
"You planning to wait here indefinitely?"
Indefinitely?
Ye Beixuan wasn’t sure how long he’d wait, but he was willing to stay.
"Let’s just treat this place as our cultivation spot for now."
"It’s not like it makes a difference where we cultivate."
"What about the rest of you?" Ye Beixuan asked.
"If you’re staying, then so are we."
"Yeah, I want to see just how strong this Chen Chang'an really is."
"Then let’s all wait here together for him to come out."
"Agreed."
Ye Beixuan and the others decided to stay in the Heavenly Pride City to await Chen Chang'an’s emergence. But none of them expected his seclusion to last longer than ever before.
Before they knew it, ten years had passed.
"Enough already!"
"Is this ever going to end?"
"Your big brother is way too wasteful!"
"More resources?"
"We’re completely drained!"
Every time Yi Tuo showed up with that cheerful grin, everyone’s faces darkened.
For ten years, Yi Tuo had come like clockwork—always for the same reason: to demand more cultivation resources.
"You guys promised my brother you’d supply resources until he reached the Heavenly Immortal Realm’s peak."
"That was the deal. He hasn’t broken through yet, and the resources are almost gone."
"You need to prepare more."
"With your vast fortunes, why are you all so stingy?" Yi Tuo gave them a disdainful look. Same script every year—couldn’t they at least come up with something new?
"Vast fortunes?"
"Do you have any idea how much your brother has drained us?"
"Centuries of accumulated resources—gone!"
"All of it!"
"Is your brother a damn black hole?"
"There’s nothing left. Seriously, nothing."
In just over a decade, Chen Chang'an had completely emptied their reserves.
Now they felt poorer than anyone—even their lowest-ranking disciples probably had more to their names.
"Tsk."
"Pathetic."
"You’re supposed to be the top powerhouses of Flowing Cloud Domain."
"Back then, you swore you’d cover all my brother’s cultivation needs."
"And this is it?"
"Disappointing."
Yi Tuo’s words turned their faces green. Who could’ve predicted Chen Chang'an would need so damn much?
How wasn’t he exploding from all that energy?
"Really nothing left?" Yi Tuo pressed, unwilling to give up.
"Really. Nothing."
"Fine. My brother saw this coming—he had me collect extra resources for the next ten years in advance."
"Otherwise, we’d have been screwed by your unreliability."
Their faces turned even greener.
The audacity!
The sheer shamelessness!
All those years of taking extra—just to stockpile for the future?
"Yi Tuo, why don’t you go bother Mu Yunhai?"
"Isn’t he your brother’s so-called brother-in-law?"
"He’s from the Mu Clan—must have plenty to spare."
"Go squeeze him instead," the Ancestor of Wuji Hall suggested with a sly grin.
"Pfft. You think I’m stupid? I’m way smarter than that."
"You’re full of bad ideas, old man."
"I’ll tell my brother—you’re not someone to trust."
Damn it...
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
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he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
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