As Chen Chang'an ventured deeper, the comforting sensation grew increasingly pronounced. Yet, he still couldn’t pinpoint the exact source of this energy.
The pressure in the depths of the sea was immense, and visibility was extremely poor, but none of this posed any difficulty for Chen Chang'an.
Just as he was about to press further, he suddenly sensed something amiss.
The feeling of being enveloped by seawater vanished, replaced instead by…
A barrier!
There was actually a barrier here, isolating the seawater!
"This place… there’s actually a barrier here."
"It seems there really is a secret hidden within."
No barrier had any effect on Chen Chang'an’s body, so he had unknowingly passed through it.
Despite the barrier’s presence, Chen Chang'an still couldn’t detect any signs of life within it.
Similarly, the strange aura he had sensed earlier had also disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed.
"Holy crap!"
"Big bro’s aura just vanished!"
"Oh no, oh no—did big bro just kick the bucket?"
The moment Chen Chang'an’s aura disappeared, Yi Tuo began shouting in panic.
Whack!
Da Huang smacked Yi Tuo on the head and snapped, "You’d kick the bucket before he ever would."
"With that freakish body of his, who could possibly take him down?"
"If you don’t know how to talk, then shut your damn mouth."
Getting smacked by Da Huang left Yi Tuo feeling a little aggrieved.
"I… I was just worried about big bro," Yi Tuo muttered gloomily.
"Who asked you to worry?"
"Obviously, something’s going on down there that’s blocking his aura."
"Who knows? Maybe he’s already found some treasure."
Treasure?
At the mention of those words, Little Earthworm’s eyes lit up.
"Should we… go down and take a look?" Little Earthworm said excitedly.
"Go down?"
"What if there’s danger?"
"How tough do you think your life is?" Da Huang asked disdainfully.
"Uh… decent, I guess?"
"Then don’t go looking for death."
"Oh."
Little Earthworm pouted in frustration, though the desire to go down and investigate still lingered in his heart.
Meanwhile, Chen Chang'an had discovered that the barrier was enormous, and the space beneath the sea was even vaster.
It was as if this barrier had completely isolated the entire seabed of the Immaculate Sea.
"How strange. What’s the purpose of creating such a massive barrier?"
"Or perhaps… this barrier wasn’t man-made, but formed by… a treasure?"
This wasn’t the first time Chen Chang'an had encountered such a situation. Back in the Heavenly Pool of the Tai Xuan Realm, the presence of the Divine Spirit Tree had naturally given rise to a powerful barrier.
The Divine Spirit Tree was a unique treasure in the Tai Xuan Realm—incredibly rare. Could it be that something of similar value existed here?
After all, this was the Primordial Immortal Domain. If that were truly the case, then this treasure would be exceptionally rare and precious.
Chen Chang'an extended his perception, attempting to cover the entire area within the Immaculate Sea’s barrier.
However, he found that this place interfered with his perception to some degree. While he couldn’t cover the entire space, the range he could perceive was still substantial.
"I’ll just take it one step at a time."
Chen Chang'an had no other choice. Whatever was hidden here seemed deeply concealed. Unless it revealed itself willingly, he had no quick way of finding it.
Before he knew it, seven days had passed since Chen Chang'an disappeared.
During this time, Da Huang and the others had grown increasingly frantic.
Seven days!
Wasn’t that too long to be missing?
"Shut up."
"I know what you’re about to say."
"Don’t jinx it."
The moment Yi Tuo opened his mouth to speak, Da Huang immediately shut him down.
"I was just going to ask what we should do now. Why won’t you even let me talk?" Yi Tuo grumbled.
"How should I know?"
"Big bro’s gone missing. All we can do is wait." Da Huang sighed in frustration.
"I say we go all out."
"Let’s go find big bro—no, wait, I mean, let’s go find my godfather!"
"My dad’s missing. I need to go find him!" Little Earthworm exclaimed excitedly.
"Cut the crap. I know you just want to see what the treasure is."
"But… you’re not wrong."
"Waiting around isn’t helping."
"Fine, let’s go find dad—ugh, I mean, big bro!"
As Da Huang and the others ventured deeper, they soon encountered the barrier as well.
However, unlike Chen Chang'an—who had passed through it without even noticing—they were blocked outside.
"There’s a barrier here. What do we do?"
"Should we force our way in?" Yi Tuo asked.
"Let’s not. We can’t break through."
"We’re not strong enough." Da Huang shook his head helplessly. The three of them were nothing without Chen Chang'an.
Left with no choice, Da Huang and the others could only turn back and return to the surface, waiting obediently for Chen Chang'an’s return.
Meanwhile, inside the barrier, Chen Chang'an had already spent seven days searching.
Though "searching" wasn’t quite the right word—he was waiting. Since that strange aura had appeared once before, he was certain it would appear again.
"Hm!"
"It’s back!"
Suddenly, Chen Chang'an sensed that faint aura once more. This time, however, he was prepared. The moment it appeared, he locked onto its location.
"Let’s see what’s playing this game of hide-and-seek."
In a flash, Chen Chang'an appeared at the spot where the aura had emerged.
Yet, aside from a modest-sized black stone mountain, there was nothing else here.
Could the aura have come from this black stone mountain?
But what exactly was this black stone mountain? Chen Chang'an couldn’t quite figure it out.
He tentatively placed his hand on the stone mountain—and in the next instant, the scenery before him transformed.
An illusion?
Or another dimension?
One moment, he had been standing in the pitch-black depths of the seabed. Now, he was surrounded by a vibrant, flourishing paradise.
The black stone mountain had vanished, replaced by a towering ancient tree.
Chen Chang'an carefully examined his surroundings. Everything felt real, yet he still couldn’t detect any other presence.
"Greetings."
"Stranger."
A voice suddenly rang out, startling Chen Chang'an.
He turned toward the ancient tree and asked, "You’ve gained sentience?"
"A tree demon?"
This reminded him of the tree demon he had encountered in the Forest of Life and Death within the Chaotic Zone.
"Demon?"
"I am no tree demon."
"I… am the Tree God."
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?!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
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!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
