White Tiger's figure vanished from the spot without leaving even a ripple of spiritual energy. He came and went without a trace, just as he always did.
The abandoned industrial area returned to a dead silence, leaving only the whimpering wind and the increasingly piercing sound of police sirens approaching from afar.
Long Ao's eyelids struggled to open a crack, then closed heavily as he completely passed out.
Chen Guan didn't delay for a second. He bent down to prop Long Ao up, but the sheer weight of the man made him stumble.
He was dead heavy... Long Ao looked heavy, and he was indeed not light at all. If it were a proper illusionist, they really wouldn't be able to carry him.
He muttered to himself, adjusting his posture, and simply slung the man over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Choosing a direction opposite to the approaching official vehicles, he plunged headlong into the labyrinthine alleys.
The bullet screen comments floated by at the right moment.
[He's off, Brother Guan hides his achievements and fame.]
[This wave by White Tiger is an absolute landslide victory. The coolness factor is maxed out.]
[By the way, do Brother Ao and Brother Guan know they are colleagues now? One is Vermilion Bird, the other is a reservist... Speaking of which, doesn't that make Brother Ao Chen Guan's superior?]
[They probably don't know, right? Little Brother Guan hasn't even become a full member yet.]
Chen Guan had no time to pay attention to the banter on the bullet screen; his feet didn't stop moving.
His enhanced spiritual power worked rapidly in his mind, causing the layout of the entire area to surface in his head.
Like a ghost, he perfectly avoided all areas with surveillance cameras, specifically choosing to travel through abandoned pipes and the crevices between buildings.
Ten minutes later, he exerted force to pry open a rust-mottled manhole cover and jumped into an abandoned underground subway platform with Long Ao still on his shoulder.
The air was thick with the choking smell of a mixture of rust, mold, and stale dust.
Chen Guan set Long Ao down, leaning him against a graffiti-covered pillar, and checked the man's breathing.
His breathing was steady, and his chest rose and fell rhythmically.
White Tiger's healing methods were clearly simple and crude, merely keeping him alive. Long Ao's current condition was still a hundred thousand miles away from being fine. After all, he was a summoner, not a life-type Esper. Relying on summons to heal, it was understandable that the healing efficacy was a bit lacking.
But it was enough.
No one would find this place anytime soon, and his own condition was still perfectly intact—at the very least, casting a Raging Flame wouldn't be a problem.
Chen Guan took two steps back and leaned against the cold wall, finally having the time to take stock of his gains this time.
At the same time, a question hovered in his mind—who exactly was the person who sent the message in advance, warning him that he was being targeted?
He had no clues for now.
He stopped dwelling on it and sank his consciousness into the system.
In his field of vision, the popularity points counter had stopped jumping, and the final aftershocks had settled.
A number that was enough to make his breathing stop lay quietly on the panel.
[Popularity Points: 124,880]
One hundred and twenty thousand!
A Tier 7 firework display, followed by the pursuit, the plot twist, and White Tiger's entrance... This series of events had directly multiplied his assets several times over.
Greedy Wolf died a worthy death, as did his two colleagues.
A whole family of loyal martyrs!
The cold enemies had all turned into warm popularity points at this moment.
Chen Guan suppressed the emotions in his heart without the slightest hesitation.
"System, add points to Spirit, 10 points."
[Spirit: 50]
The moment the attribute breached the 50-point threshold, Chen Guan's world was turned upside down.
There was no exaggerated shifting of light and shadow.
It was just that in an instant, it felt as though all the limiters on his brain had been removed.
A drop of water seeped from the top of the tunnel and fell onto the tracks. In his hearing, that sound was broken down into the whistle of the water drop piercing the air, the sizzling sound of it hitting the rust, and the clear chime of it finally shattering.
The trajectory of every speck of dust in the air, the direction of every tiny crack on the wall, the faint sound of blood flowing within Long Ao's body...
The entire world transformed into an endless stream of data, flooding into his mind and being processed in an instant, constructing an unprecedentedly detailed and realistic model.
The previously black-and-white model had now been endowed with color.
This was the world of a Tier 5 Spirit Esper.
Illusions would no longer be mere visual deceptions.
Instead, he could construct out of thin air a reality that could deceive even the five senses.
Chen Guan opened his eyes. The gloomy subway platform was revealed in minute detail to his eyes, as bright as day.
He left the remaining twenty-odd thousand popularity points untouched for the time being, saving them for emergencies.
...
At the same time, in the abandoned industrial area next to Blackwater Pier.
Dozens of heavy armored vehicles bearing the insignia of the Great Wall had already surrounded the place, making it watertight.
Over a hundred Great Wall members in black combat uniforms blocked all the exits. In the sky, several drones hovered, their infrared beams scanning every inch of the ground over and over again.
Long Ye paid no attention to the reports of the subordinates beside him. He crouched down and, with white-gloved fingers, pinched a pinch of scorched black soil.
He brought the soil to his nose and closed his eyes.
A moment later, he opened his eyes, his gaze filled with an unresolvable solemnity.
"Old Master, high concentrations of Tier 7 magical residual have been detected at the scene. It should be Pojun and Qisha from the Flesh Embrace," an adjutant reported in a low voice. "In addition to that, there is an unidentifiable power of extremely high tier. Our instruments cannot even analyze its composition."
Long Ye did not speak.
Of course he knew.
In this soil, he smelled three scents.
One was the nauseating rot of Pojun and Qisha.
One was the aura of Dragon Blood Marrow belonging to the Long family bloodline, which he was all too familiar with—violent, blazing, and carrying a tendency toward self-destruction. His grandson had been here and had even used a taboo item; this was within his expectations.
As for the third...
It was an unfamiliar aura he had never encountered before: gentle and vast, yet carrying an unquestionable, absolute dominance.
It had easily smoothed out the violent frenzy of the Dragon Blood Marrow, and had even roughly erased the traces of Pojun and Qisha's existence from this space.
That person had indeed kept their promise and sent someone over.
"Lock down Jiangcheng, Class A alert." Long Ye stood up. His voice wasn't loud, but it carried the weight of a mountain. "Investigate. Turn all of Jiangcheng upside down if you have to, but find the remnants of the Flesh Embrace."
"Yes, sir!"
...
Abandoned subway platform.
Chen Guan had just adapted to the brand-new perception brought by the surge in his spiritual power when an extremely faint vibration came from Long Ao's direction.
In the past, it would have been absolutely impossible for him to notice it.
But now, in his ultra-precise perception, this vibration was as clear as a beating drum.
He walked over to Long Ao and fished out a still slightly vibrating phone from the other man's pocket.
The screen was lit up, showing a newly received encrypted message.
The sender was an unknown number.
Chen Guan looked at Long Ao's unconscious face, a hint of hesitation flashing in his heart.
Snooping on someone else's phone was immoral.
But considering that mysterious warning message...
To hell with morality.
Chen Guan grabbed Long Ao's finger, swiped it across the screen, and unlocked the phone.
The content of the message was only a single line of text.
A line of text that caused Chen Guan's newly maxed-out brain to instantly crash.
[The ritual is brought forward. The entire city is the sacrifice. — White Tiger.]
y came from. The chests contained supplies, currency, class-change scrolls, skills, talents… and even godhood! The laws of the world were completely rewritten. This became a world where everyone gambled with their fate! Some people, despite having nothing, opened a divine artifact and rose to the top, eventually ruling the world. Others went bankrupt, opened nothing but worthless junk, and leaped from skyscrapers in despair. Lin Ye arrived in this world from another reality, utterly bewildered. “What is going on? Why is everyone a gambling addict?!” “Opening chests? No way. I refuse to gamble. I’ll start with myself!” Until— On his first chest, he obtained a Mythic Talent: Void Incarnation! He could become completely intangible, pass through all things, and reduce everything to nothingness! … On his fiftieth chest, he obtained a Mythic Weapon: Blade of Karma! With a single slash, karma shattered, twisting the universe and overturning the myriad phenomena of creation! … On his ninety-ninth chest, he obtained a Mythic Divine Treasure: Primordial Purple Energy! It could split open the heavens and earth, create all things, and evolve countless worlds with a single thought! Lin Ye: “Now that I think about it… shouldn’t someone have told me that every chest is guaranteed to contain something Mythic?!”
nce】【Lighthearted Comedy】【Ultimate Gentleman's Novel】【Viewer Discretion Advised for Under 16】 The mightiest human hero, Sharen Morian, is resurrected after a thousand years by his wife—the Demon King. This is not your typical hero-vs-demon-king tale.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
