“Woooo—”
A sharp wail unlike anything a living creature could produce rang throughout the entire space.
The tongue-like ground beneath everyone’s feet began to convulse and roll with unprecedented violence.
The enormous jaws that had been closing suddenly froze. Then, completely out of control, they spread open again, their gigantic teeth crashing against one another in a thunderous roar.
“Watch out!” An Changqing shouted. His sword light surged, shielding several students who had nearly lost their footing.
Chen Guan’s figure flashed once more, returning to its original position. The enormous scythe in his hand had vanished, replaced by a crystal core glowing with a dim purple light.
It was the creature’s core.
Chen Guan weighed the crystal core in his hand, then turned to Sima Ming and Li Yan. “Teachers, according to the rules, I’m allowed to take this with me, right?”
Sima Ming gave a slight nod. “Naturally. There’s no problem with that.”
“Thank you, Teacher.”
Chen Guan casually tossed the crystal core to Baobao, who was hopping excitedly nearby.
“Awoo!”
Baobao leaped into the air and caught it in one bite, refining it in an instant.
A moment later, it jumped for joy and pounced into Chen Guan’s arms. Chen Guan casually rubbed its head a couple of times. Baobao purred contentedly and obediently licked his palm.
As everyone knew, if you reached out and came back with a wet hand, it was a cheetah. If you reached out and came back empty-handed, it was a leopard. If you reached out and came back as a corpse, it was an American jaguar.
Even though Baobao was an awakened spirit leopard, it still couldn’t escape the basic cat-loving code written into its DNA.
Chen Guan was in an excellent mood. His gaze fell upon the crystal shooters that had lost their luster.
These little snacks couldn’t go to waste either.
He walked toward the crystal remains that had served as the creature’s companions.
Although they were companion creatures, they should still drop some loot.
Chen Guan came to the largest cluster of crystal shooters and gave it a kick.
Crack.
The crystal shattered, revealing a pigeon-egg-sized core radiating a faint purple glow.
Chen Guan bent down to pick it up and, without even turning his head, tossed it behind him.
Baobao caught it accurately in midair, chewed it twice, and swallowed it. Its tail wagged even more enthusiastically.
“Awoo!”
Qin Wu and the others watched Chen Guan skillfully scavenge the enormous corpse. Their expressions grew more spectacular by the second.
The awe inspired by his instant kill of the giant beast had been completely swept away by this absurd scene of domestic frugality.
The corner of An Changqing’s eye twitched. He stepped forward to remind him, “The crystal cores of these companion beasts are impure. Absorbing them could be dangerous.”
“It’s fine. Its stomach is strong, and it isn’t picky.” Chen Guan didn’t even raise his head. He dug another core out of the rubble and continued feeding it to Baobao.
Compared to what he had fed Baobao before, this was practically a feast.
“Awoo!”
Baobao swallowed it in one bite. A satisfied purr rumbled in its throat as it rubbed its head against Chen Guan’s pant leg, as if urging him to hurry up with the next one.
Qin Wu’s eye twitched violently as he watched. He leaned over and whispered, “Old Guan, you’re taking frugality a little too far. Even a mosquito’s leg doesn’t have enough grease for you to scrape off. How much could this stuff possibly be worth?”
“Many a little makes a mickle. A mountain is built from grains of dust.”
Chen Guan finally straightened up and dusted off his hands. He looked at Qin Wu with complete seriousness.
“Thriftiness is a virtue. Understand?”
Qin Wu stood there with his mouth hanging open, unable to come up with a reply for quite some time.
There didn’t seem to be anything wrong with that statement.
“All right. Stop wasting time.”
Li Yan’s voice interrupted the discussion on household frugality. His gaze, more intimidating than a pair of bronze bells, swept over everyone.
“Keep moving. Stay alert.”
The group set off again, though the atmosphere had become somewhat strange.
Several students from the summoning department looked at Baobao crunching crystal cores like candy beside Chen Guan’s feet. Then they looked at their own trembling summoned beasts.
The expressions on their faces were indescribable.
People died comparing themselves to others, and beasts were discarded when compared to other beasts.
They had ended up living a life where they were inferior to Chen Guan above them and inferior to a leopard below them.
Baobao, meanwhile, looked smugly at the other pets.
Hmph. Not everyone possessed its kind of fortune.
Just as it was secretly basking in its superiority, the group crossed a suspended bridge made of enormous vines and arrived at the next floating island.
The island was covered in blue fungi shaped like gigantic umbrellas. The tallest reached dozens of meters into the air, radiating a ghostly blue light that bathed the entire island in the atmosphere of a dream beneath the deep sea.
Beneath a massive umbrella-shaped fungus up ahead, dozens of pairs of scarlet eyes lit up.
“Hiss…”
Amid a shrill chorus of hisses, a group of Void Beasts resembling giant mantises charged out of the shadows. Their bodies were covered in black carapaces, while their forelimbs had transformed into two enormous bone scythes.
“Void Reavers. They’re extremely fast, so watch out for their scythes.”
An Changqing immediately identified them this time. He drew his longsword, preparing to strike first.
However, someone else was even faster.
In the next instant, a streak of purple lightning savagely tore through the air and plunged straight into the group of Void Reavers.
Wherever the purple lightning passed, one reaver’s bone scythe was broken clean off, while another’s head was twisted a full hundred and eighty degrees.
In no more than three or five breaths, the streak of purple lightning returned to Chen Guan’s feet.
The dozen or so Void Reavers that had charged forward so menacingly now stood frozen in place.
Plop. Plop.
Like a row of dominoes, the Void Reavers toppled one after another, lifeless.
Baobao lifted its head proudly as though asking for praise. Its golden slit pupils shone brightly at Chen Guan, and its tail wagged even faster.
“Nicely done.”
As he spoke, Chen Guan habitually walked toward the corpses, preparing to begin another round of scavenging.
The first-year students stared in shock. The expressions on their faces changed from “Wow, that’s amazing!” to “Huh? That’s it?”
Weren’t they here for training? Why did this feel like a sightseeing tour?
“Ahem.”
A cough broke the awkward silence.
Li Yan walked up to Chen Guan. His mountain-like figure brought immense pressure as he looked down at Chen Guan, then at the harmless-looking Baobao by his feet. He appeared somewhat helpless.
By now, he had already realized that this area posed no challenge to Chen Guan whatsoever. It was nothing more than a beginner’s village to him.
“Chen Guan.”
“Here, Teacher.”
Chen Guan stood straight and answered.
Li Yan looked at him. “If you keep this up, they’ll only be able to watch the show.”
Chen Guan froze for a moment before understanding.
He turned and looked at the group of students behind him, whose faces all seemed to be asking, “Who am I? Where am I?”
Only then did he realize that he might have gone a little overboard.
Li Yan continued, “You’re too efficient. So efficient that they don’t even have a chance to make a move.”
“Then should I hold back a little?” Chen Guan asked tentatively.
“You can’t.”
Li Yan shook his head, hitting the nail on the head.
“Your way of fighting is to kill with a single strike. Asking you to hold back would be like asking you to put a knife to your own throat. That’s not how things work on a battlefield. Besides, I doubt your leopard would agree to it either.”
“My plan is for you to act alone.”
The moment he said this, everyone froze.
“That doesn’t seem appropriate, Teacher,” An Changqing objected first. “The Void Realm is extremely dangerous. For him to go alone—”
“I’ll go with him.”
Li Yan cut him off directly.
“I’ll accompany him. Dean Situ will continue taking you along the original route. The Void Beasts here are too dangerous for Chen Guan.”
That way, you’ll have a fight on your hands, and he’ll be free to do what he needs to do. No one gets in the other’s way.
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!
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.”
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
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.
