The Void Crystal Turtle seemed to be enraged. The floating energy orb blazed with light, and a thick blue beam shot from its center straight toward Baobao.
Baobao reacted instantly, throwing itself sideways to evade the beam.
Boom!
The energy beam struck the ground. The fungal mat was vaporized in an instant, leaving behind a glassy crater several meters deep, with wisps of white smoke sizzling around its edges.
“Awwooo!”
Baobao let out an angry roar at the Crystal Turtle. Purple arcs of electricity crackled around its body, making it clear that it was truly furious.
“Its energy shield and shell are one and the same. Its energy comes from the earth crystals it devours. Your lightning is conducted through the entire shell and absorbed by the ground.”
Li Yan’s voice drifted over leisurely. “Unless you can find its energy nodes, your attacks are nothing more than a tickle.”
Chen Guan stroked his chin, narrowing his eyes as he watched the Crystal Turtle facing off against Baobao.
It was indeed an interesting creature.
His mental web had already spread out. Through it, he could clearly sense three faint streams of energy flowing beneath the Crystal Turtle’s shell at a specific frequency. The external energy core looked more like a decoy meant to draw fire.
“Lightning alone really won’t work.”
Chen Guan sent a thought to Baobao, telling it to retreat for the moment.
Baobao was reluctant, but it still obediently returned to Chen Guan’s feet. It whimpered aggrievedly and rubbed its head against his trouser leg.
“Don’t worry. I’ll handle this.”
Chen Guan smiled and ruffled its head.
He took one step forward, and the familiar massive scythe appeared in his hand out of thin air.
If magical damage didn’t work, then he would use physical damage.
Chen Guan’s figure turned into a ghostly blur. His toes tapped lightly across the fleshy fungal mat, making not a sound as he circled around to the Crystal Turtle’s flank.
The Crystal Turtle’s energy core immediately turned toward him, and another energy beam shot out.
Chen Guan neither dodged nor retreated. Instead, he cast an illusion.
An invisible mental shockwave spread outward from him.
The Crystal Turtle, which had been preparing to fire, suddenly froze. The floating energy orb flickered violently, as though it had been disrupted.
Now!
Chen Guan accelerated abruptly. The scythe in his hand dragged a streak of pitch-black light as it struck the rear side of the turtle’s shell at a tricky, bizarre angle.
Clang!
Sparks flew, accompanied by the ringing crash of metal against metal.
A faint white mark appeared on the Crystal Turtle’s hardened shell.
“Awwooo!”
Baobao seized the opportunity. A condensed bolt of Void lightning followed close behind, striking the exact same spot.
Crack!
A hairline fracture split open along the white mark.
It worked!
Baobao wagged its tail excitedly.
However, the crack quickly repaired itself, returning to its original state.
“Awwoo…”
Baobao retreated, an unwilling growl rumbling in its throat.
Chen Guan stared at the Crystal Turtle’s shell, which now gleamed even more brightly, and a realization dawned on him.
The creature’s recovery was faster than the damage his scythe could inflict.
“Heh heh, kid, looks like you’ve run into a tough one,” Baal’s voice rang out in his mind. “Shells like this are the most troublesome. Unless you can shatter the whole thing in a single strike, you’re just wasting your effort.”
Shatter it in one strike?
Chen Guan glanced at the shell, which was thicker than an armored vehicle. At present, he simply couldn’t inflict enough physical damage to destroy it in one blow.
As a fellow nuisance with astonishing regenerative power, Chen Guan quickly thought of another solution.
“If you can repair yourself that quickly…” Chen Guan rolled his wrist and tightened his grip on the scythe. He sent a thought to the sulking Baobao at his feet. “Then I’ll just have to hit you faster than you can heal.”
Baobao raised its head. The confusion in its golden slit pupils instantly turned into excitement.
“Keep attacking that white mark. Don’t stop.”
“Aw!”
With a roar, Baobao lashed out with a condensed purple lightning whip. Crackling with explosive arcs, it slammed viciously into the same spot on the Crystal Turtle.
Sizzle!
Lightning burst across the shell. Before the white mark could fade, Chen Guan moved.
His figure became a low, ground-hugging blur. The scythe in his hand carved out streak after streak of black light, every blow landing on the white mark illuminated by the lightning.
Clang!
A crisp impact rang out, sparks flying as the mark deepened.
The Void Crystal Turtle sensed the danger. Light surged around its body, and an even thicker blue beam swept across the area.
Chen Guan never slowed. His body slipped through the gaps between the beams, while the scythe in his hands continued to strike without pause.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
A dense barrage of impacts rang out. Every blow struck the same spot.
The instant cracks began to appear along the white mark, before they had any chance to heal, even heavier strikes tore them open again, driving them deeper.
Crack.
A splintering sound came from the turtle’s shell.
“Wooo…”
The Void Crystal Turtle let out a mournful cry and abandoned its attack. Its entire body began spinning rapidly, trying to fling Chen Guan off like an irritating fly.
But Chen Guan was faster. He lowered his body until it was nearly parallel to the ground and sprinted around the shell. The scythe in his hands became a storm of blackness, relentlessly biting into the sunken weak point.
Baobao’s lightning whip followed like a shadow. Purple bolts slithered into the widening cracks like venomous snakes, destroying the structure within.
“Awwooo!”
Baobao was thoroughly enjoying itself. The sensation of sustained damage output was far more satisfying than delivering a single killing blow.
It was like using a massive electric drill to bore into a nutcracker.
Li Yan stood in the distance with his arms folded. His bronze-colored face remained expressionless, but admiration showed in his bell-like eyes.
This kid was quick-witted, and his battle instincts were downright beastly.
When his initial approach failed, he had immediately switched to the most primitive—and most effective—method.
Overwhelming regenerative power with absolute destructive force.
Crack.
At last, with a tremendous boom, that section of crystal shell could no longer withstand the endless assault.
Cracks instantly spread across the entire shell.
Boom!
The enormous shell shattered. Countless crystal fragments shot in every direction, revealing the flesh-and-blood body beneath.
The floating blue energy orb rapidly dimmed. It wobbled twice, then dropped to the ground with a clack and rolled away.
The battle was over.
Chen Guan slowly straightened and shook his numb arm.
This thing’s shell had been absurdly hard.
He put away his scythe and walked over to the shattered crystal. Kicking aside the largest fragment, he revealed a fist-sized purple core lying quietly beneath it, with what looked like a galaxy swirling inside.
“Looks like the effort wasn’t wasted after all.”
Chen Guan bent down and picked up the core. Feeling the pure energy within, he nodded in satisfaction.
Its quality was more than a tier higher than those of the stalkers from before.
Without even looking back, he tossed it behind him.
“Awwooo!”
Baobao leapt into the air and caught it neatly. This time, it didn’t chew it up immediately. Instead, it hugged the crystal core between its forepaws and carefully licked it twice.
A massive surge of pure energy flowed into its body through the tip of its tongue.
Baobao narrowed its eyes in bliss. Its purple fur lifted as though blown by a wind, while arcs of electricity danced across its body. In an instant, its entire form was enveloped in dense violet light.
A moment later, the light faded.
Baobao let out a long, satisfied burp, puffing a small cloud of black smoke from its mouth.
It looked as though it had just feasted on a banquet of every rare delicacy imaginable and was now too stuffed to walk properly.
It staggered over on unsteady feline paws, reached Chen Guan’s feet, and weakly rubbed against him. A contented purr rumbled in its throat.
It was a rare sight to see it looking so carbon-dazed.
Chen Guan chuckled as he rubbed its large head, then turned his gaze to the scattered fragments of turtle shell.
They were all high-grade materials. What a waste to throw them away.
Embracing the traditional virtue of thrift, Chen Guan gladly took every last one.
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
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?!”
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!
