“Let the match begin!”
The instant the referee’s voice fell, Kyle abruptly opened his mouth. An invisible spatial distortion field transformed into a sonic-boom tsunami and crashed down on Su Yuehe.
“Stop.”
Her voice was soft, yet a ring of golden ripples spread out before her.
The destructive infrasound touched the ripples and was instantly smoothed away by an invisible force, vanishing without a trace.
“Interesting.”
The frivolous look on Kyle’s face faded. He clasped his hands before his chest, and a series of sharper, higher-frequency sound waves erupted from his palms.
“Sonic Boom—Flurry!”
The screech of tearing air rang throughout the arena. Dozens of solidified white sound blades sliced toward Su Yuehe from every direction.
Facing the white blades sweeping toward her from all sides, Su Yuehe slowly closed her eyes.
“It’s over. She doesn’t even have a chance to react.”
“Kyle is every mage’s nightmare. Wordcraft won’t be an exception.”
In Zero Academy’s rest area, the others were already wearing confident smiles.
Yet on the field, the scene they had expected never came.
The sound blades, powerful enough to slice through alloy armor, stopped dead just before touching Su Yuehe’s body.
“What… what’s going on?”
The confident smile on Kyle’s face cracked apart, freezing at the corners of his mouth.
He could feel that his connection to the sound blades had not been severed. Yet no matter how he urged them forward, the destructive weapons he had created refused to move even an inch—as though they were facing an existence more worthy of reverence than their own creator.
Under the astonished gazes of the entire arena, the dozens of suspended white sound blades began silently disintegrating from their edges. They transformed into wisps of gentle light, like fireflies returning to their nest, and slowly drifted toward Su Yuehe, whose eyes remained closed.
They did not attack. Instead, they flew around her affectionately like weary birds returning to the forest, before finally merging into her body and disappearing.
Kyle was dumbfounded.
What was happening? Had his skill betrayed him?
Su Yuehe opened her eyes. Her clear gaze remained calm and undisturbed as she quietly looked at the opponent standing opposite her, who had already been reduced to a state of utter shock.
“You… What did you do?”
For the first time, Kyle’s voice carried bewilderment and horror he could not conceal. The attack he was so proud of had been neutralized in a way that defied all reason.
In Huaqing Academy’s rest area, An Changqing watched the scene with undisguised admiration and pride. He softly explained to the teammates beside him:
“Kyle thinks Wordcraft relies on sound. He’s wrong.”
An Changqing’s gaze rested on Su Yuehe, filled with warmth.
“Sound is only a medium—a crutch beginners use to focus their minds. When one’s will is strong enough, every thought is itself a true word.”
Ever since Su Yuehe had received the inheritance from that old gentleman, she had no longer needed to rely on her voice.
Most of the time, speaking was merely a habit.
Shan Heng adjusted his glasses, concealing his stunned eyes.
So Senior Su Yuehe had already reached such a realm—where the mind prevailed over matter.
No wonder…
“I don’t believe it!”
The tremendous setback had driven Kyle’s eyes bloodshot. He abandoned all his fancy techniques and spread his arms, releasing every ounce of his power without holding anything back.
“If techniques are useless, then I’ll use pure power and shake you into dust!”
Buzz.
A terrifying sonic field, invisible to the naked eye yet powerful enough to distort the entire arena, spread outward from Kyle.
The air wailed. The protective barrier flickered violently. In the audience stands, students with weaker abilities had already gone pale as they covered their ears, feeling their internal organs resonate.
This was Kyle’s ultimate trump card: an ultra-high-frequency sonic vibration that was indiscriminate and left no blind spots. It was powerful enough to destroy everything within its domain by tearing apart the internal structure of matter.
He refused to believe that such a purely physical attack governed by the laws of nature could also be dispelled by that mysterious, unfathomable theory.
Facing this final strike capable of destroying heaven and earth, Su Yuehe finally moved.
She raised her slender right hand and gently placed her pale index finger before her lips, making a “shh” gesture.
In an instant, every sound in the world was drawn away.
Kyle’s sonic field, powerful enough to tear space apart, collapsed soundlessly like a punctured balloon.
The hum of the arena’s protective barrier vanished.
The shouts and chatter of tens of thousands of spectators vanished.
Even the howl of the wind sweeping across the domed roof vanished.
Time had not stopped. The scene continued to move. Yet the entire circular arena had fallen into absolute silence.
Kyle opened his mouth wide and roared with all his strength. He could feel his vocal cords rubbing violently and his chest heaving furiously, but not the slightest sound came out.
He tried to raise his hand, only to discover that his body had also become impossibly heavy within that absolute silence. Even moving a finger had become an extravagant hope.
Panic—an unprecedented panic—flooded his reason like icy seawater.
He had lost.
He had not been defeated by strength, but by the rules themselves.
His opponent had not attacked him. She had merely taken away the weapon he depended on to survive. More than that, she had taken away the entire sky of the world he inhabited.
This was the ultimate victory: defeating the enemy without fighting.
There was no point in continuing. A monster like this simply could not be defeated.
Kyle’s knees gave way. Unable to support himself any longer, he collapsed to his knees, his eyes vacant. He clutched his soundless throat with both hands, like a fish thrown onto the shore, making one last futile struggle.
The referee was equally stunned by the bizarre scene. It took several seconds before he remembered his duty in the midst of the absolute silence.
He opened and closed his mouth, but he could not make a sound either. In the end, he could only raise the arm representing victory with all his strength and point toward Su Yuehe.
Su Yuehe gave the kneeling Kyle a slight nod, as though expressing an apology, then turned and quietly walked off the field.
As she left, the absolute silence enveloping the arena receded like the tide.
Boom!
All the sounds suppressed to their breaking point exploded at once. The cries of tens of thousands of people blended with the hum of the arena facilities into a wave of noise that stabbed fiercely into everyone’s eardrums.
Many people instinctively covered their ears, only then realizing that they could hear again. They stared at the slender figure who had already returned to Huaqing Academy’s rest area, and their eyes held nothing but awe.
“Did she… did she just shut off every sound in the entire arena?”
“A monster! Every single one of Huaqing Academy’s students is a monster!”
Su Yuehe returned to her seat, and An Changqing immediately handed her a bottle of water.
“That was hard on you.”
Chen Guan looked at her. He knew that although Su Yuehe’s move had appeared effortless, it must have consumed an enormous amount of energy.
Yet her breathing remained steady. Clearly, this was not even her limit.
With her mana shortage no longer a concern, this was a truly epic power-up.
No wonder Mr. Yan had been able to contend with the fully evolved Dabar for an entire era.
This skill was far too broken. Even the renowned cheat king Chen Guan could not help feeling envious.
Just then, the large screen in the center of the arena flickered once more. Two new portraits slowly locked into place.
“Match Twelve: Huaqing Academy’s Shan Heng versus Zero Academy’s Ross.”
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.
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!
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.
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
