Li Yan stopped in front of the safety line.
The dark-purple glow cast shifting light across his resolute profile.
He turned and faced the group of Huaqing’s top young geniuses.
“One final reminder.”
His voice made everyone’s heart jolt.
“Once you cross this line, you’re no longer students. You’re soldiers.”
“Forget the rules and courtesies you follow at the academy. Here, the only rule is to stay alive.”
Li Yan’s gaze swept over every face, pausing for a moment on Chen Guan.
“Move.”
He uttered only that one word before turning and striding toward the swirling abyss.
His back was swallowed by the vortex of dark-purple nebulae.
Sima Ming followed close behind.
An Changqing, Long Ao, Qin Wu, and the other students wore expressions mingled with excitement and tension as they entered the abyss one after another.
Chen Guan was the last.
The instant he stepped through, the world shattered.
The sky spun, his five senses tore away, and his entire body seemed to be thrown into bottomless darkness. There was nothing but falling—an endless plunge.
Inside his mind, Baal let out an excited, sinister cackle. “Heh heh heh, welcome to the gap between worlds, kid. Enjoy this free roller-coaster ride.”
He had no idea how long the weightlessness lasted before his feet suddenly landed on something that felt like thick, springy foam.
All his stolen senses returned at once.
Chen Guan opened his eyes.
Before him lay a bizarre world that overturned common sense.
The sky was dark purple, streaked with flowing bands of light, like a colossal crystal dome.
There was no sun. The light came from enormous luminous objects floating overhead, resembling a swarm of jellyfish in the deep sea.
In the distance, islands hovered in midair, connected by glowing vines and stone bridges.
They were standing at the edge of a floating island, on a gray-white carpet of springy fungi.
The air carried a strange smell of metal mixed with rotting plants. It felt cold as it entered their lungs.
“Whoa…”
A first-year student cried out excitedly. He leaped three meters into the air and landed without making a sound.
“Gravity’s so light here.”
“Gravity here is only two-thirds of what it is outside. Don’t make any sudden movements,” An Changqing immediately warned him, then cautiously scanned the surroundings.
This was his first time here as well.
Every plant in this place was blue, purple, or black. Some resembled twisted coral, while others looked like enormous mushrooms, their surfaces covered in glowing spores.
The entire world was beautiful—but it was a lethal kind of beauty.
Lethal in the most literal sense.
“There are no blue skies or white clouds here. Only predators and prey.”
Baal’s voice rang out in Chen Guan’s mind, gleeful with the satisfaction of showing off his knowledge. “Every plant that looks harmless could be an apex predator. Keep your eyes open, kid, or you won’t even know what killed you.”
Chen Guan said nothing. He only felt the hairs all over his body stand on end.
His senses were exceptionally keen. From the moment they arrived, he had felt countless greedy, icy gazes fixed on them, as if licking over their bodies from the outside in.
Baobao began to grow restless at his feet, a low warning rumble rising from its throat.
This land held a fatal attraction for it, yet it was also filled with a terror that made its blood tremble.
“Silence.”
Li Yan’s voice was not loud, but it caused every student’s heart to sink.
Everyone immediately shut their mouths and straightened up.
Li Yan and Sima Ming stood side by side at the front, their expressions more solemn than anyone else’s.
“This is the outskirts of Supply Point Three. The void concentration is stable, but low-level void beasts are active in the area.”
Li Yan kept his voice low, ensuring that everyone could hear him.
“The basic objective is adaptive hunting: collect void-beast cores and familiarize yourselves with the environment.”
He raised a finger and pointed toward a floating island in the distance, one wrapped in ghostly blue vines.
“That is the target area. Now, advance.”
The group began moving slowly, everyone gripping their weapons tightly and placing each step with extreme caution.
Crack.
A very faint sound, like a dead branch snapping, came from a waist-high cluster of purple, crystal-like plants at the front left of the group.
The sound was tiny, but in this deathly silent place, it stabbed painfully into their eardrums.
Chen Guan’s eyes locked onto the spot at once. He could not see anything with his naked eyes, but he had already sensed it.
“All units, prepare for battle.”
Li Yan’s voice, taut as a drawn bowstring, exploded in everyone’s ears.
“I’ll take a look.”
Unable to restrain himself, an impatient student stepped forward. He was a member of the enhancement class and had great confidence in his speed.
“Don’t move.”
An Changqing pressed a hand against his shoulder, his voice calm and utterly firm.
The instant he finished speaking, the thickest crystal in the beautiful purple cluster erupted with blinding violet light.
Whoosh!
A violet energy spike condensed into solid form and tore through the air with a shrill whistle, shooting straight toward the throat of a first-year student at the outer edge of the formation.
It was too fast.
So fast that the student’s expression was still one of eager anticipation when the shadow of death had already fallen over him.
Clang!
At the critical moment, a flash of silver appeared, blocking the spike’s path.
It was An Changqing’s sword.
He had not even drawn it fully. He had only pulled it halfway from its sheath, yet the blade’s gleaming arc collided with the violet spike.
The harsh scrape of metal rang out as sparks flew in every direction.
The fungal carpet beneath An Changqing’s feet caved in slightly. The tremendous impact left his palm numb.
His expression turned grave. As expected, not a single plant or blade of grass here could be underestimated.
Among all the known realms, aside from the god realm, which was steeped in myth, the most dangerous was this temporal rift, also known as the Void Realm.
Because of its extreme danger, humanity had conducted very little exploration of the Void Realm. In the past, powerful experts had stabilized certain regions and enclosed them. These areas became what were known as void secret realms.
Most of the creatures roaming here were various life-forms that had been accidentally swept into the rifts. Instead of being annihilated, they had miraculously mutated.
“T-Thank you, senior.”
The first-year student who had narrowly escaped death was deathly pale. He swallowed hard, still shaken.
Long Ao glanced at him, then stepped forward half a pace, shielding several first-years behind him.
“Heh heh heh, an interesting appetizer.”
Baal’s gleeful laughter echoed through Chen Guan’s mind. “Kid, take a good look. There isn’t just one of them.”
Baal did not need to remind him. Chen Guan’s perception had already spread outward.
The instant An Changqing blocked the attack, the seemingly harmless crystal grove came fully alive.
More than twenty crystals lit up at the same time, transforming into cannon barrels primed to fire. Every tip locked onto these unwelcome intruders.
“One type of mimetic void beast—the Crystal Shooters,” Sima Ming announced. “They live in groups, possess extremely high physical defenses, and are vulnerable at their roots.”
Before he had even finished speaking, the second volley erupted.
Dozens of violet energy spikes interwove into a web of death, sealing off every possible avenue of escape.
An Changqing drew his sword. Sword light flowed across its surface, forming a dense, impenetrable curtain of starlit blue before him, blocking most of the attacks.
Long Ao was far more direct. He clenched both fists and punched away the spikes that broke through An Changqing’s defenses.
Boom!
The fist collided with the spikes, and the shockwave sent the surrounding fungi plants reeling in every direction. At least it managed to block this wave of concentrated attacks.
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
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.
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?!”
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!
