"This little phoenix..."
Jiang Che stretched lazily, glanced at the sleeping Huang Feiyan beside him, and twitched his mouth.
The little phoenix was indeed Yu Wan'er's closed-door disciple, with a personality exactly like hers. However, her figure was far beyond what Yu Wan'er could compare to—absolutely stunning.
"Ahhh..." Jiang Che sighed, then purchased a piece of supreme phoenix bloodstone from the system, costing a full 50 billion points. It contained a trace of ancient phoenix bloodline.
After purchasing it, he raised his hand and placed it on Huang Feiyan's forehead. In almost an instant... the phoenix bloodline within the little phoenix began automatically absorbing the power of the bloodstone.
Huang Feiyan's bloodline was already extremely high, reaching pure-blood ancient phoenix level. In the future, as long as she didn't die... ascending to the rank of Immortal Emperor was merely a matter of time. She could even use her powerful bloodline to replace the Dao source and walk the path of transcendence.
But she still fell far short of the primordial divine phoenix.
"Mmm..." In her sleep, Huang Feiyan's delicate brows furrowed slightly. Her whole body felt warm, and she twisted over, nuzzling her head against Jiang Che's chest.
But her bloodline was undergoing wild improvement!
[Woo-hoo, takeoff! Yu Wan'er was right! Once you become Jiang Che's woman... whatever you ask for, you get!!!]
[This little mouse has finally made it out of the grind! A primordial celestial phoenix bloodline! Sure, it's a bit humiliating... but for a phoenix bloodstone like this, it's a total steal—totally worth it!]
The little phoenix's excited inner voice echoed. It was obvious she hadn't been asleep at all.
"Heh—" Jiang Che chuckled lightly. This little phoenix was also a little green tea in her own way. But then again, Jiang Che himself was a master of the art of tasting tea.
So-called "green tea girls" were just labels that the world pinned on them. All they wanted was to move forward in life. What wrong was there in that?
...
"Oh? Di Zhao actually bought the Time Ruins Dao Body?"
Jiang Che took a look at Di Zhao's purchase history and twitched his mouth. A hundred billion points, just like that?
Of course, Jiang Che wasn't stingy enough to grudge a mere hundred billion points.
"Time Ruins Dao Body... Di Zhao cultivates the way of destiny, while her child cultivates the dao of time? That makes sense..."
Jiang Che nodded. "But just the Time Ruins Dao Body alone won't cut it. I'll have to get him a Time Dao Origin as well!"
After all, wasn't Di Zhao's dowry so generous?
No man could resist a woman like Di Zhao.
The Time Dao Origin was also available in Jiang Che's system, but the price was exorbitant.
[Time Dao Origin: The source of dao that governs the dao of time, granting the favor of the dao of time and allowing entry into the supreme realm...]
[Price: 180 billion points]
Indeed, the price of the Time Dao Origin was a terrifying 180 billion points—18 times that of the Time Ruins Dao Body. Jiang Che's current system points were only a bit over 600 billion, meaning this would drain a full third of his reserves.
Buying it outright was definitely not an option. But Jiang Che had another way.
He started digging through his inventory.
"Hmm... if I remember correctly, didn't that Mo Shangxie once gift me a Time-Space Key?"
Jiang Che clearly remembered that back when he married Gu Wantang, the Supreme Demon Emperor Mo Shangxie had come to visit personally, bringing a large horde of resources as a congratulatory gift. Among those was a so-called Time-Space Key, which was said to unlock some time-space secret realm.
But Jiang Che had been so busy being a happy groom night after night that he had completely forgotten about the matter.
"Dammit... where the hell did I throw it away?"
Jiang Che was a bit annoyed. He had stored hundreds of millions of various spatial rings in his possession, nearly all of them stuffed with all sorts of cultivation resources—all acquired by scraping across the Nine Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms using his lifespan-extending pills.
Even though he had already given the Demon Lord several million of those storage artifacts last time, he still had many, many more.
If he were to take out all these resources, they could supply all the cultivators in the Nine Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms for tens of thousands of years.
"Oh! Found it!"
The spatial artifact Mo Shangxie had given was special—it was a spirit bead at the level of a Six-Rank Tribulation Immortal Artifact, making it easy to identify.
Sure enough, Jiang Che found the Time-Space Key inside the storage spirit bead.
"Tsk, tsk... a Time-Space Key, huh? I wonder where on earth that demon empress got this thing?"
Jiang Che held the Time-Space Key in his hand, examining it carefully.
[Ding! Time-Space Key detected.]
[One of the keys to unlock the Time Ruins Gate. Extremely high probability of obtaining the Time Dao Origin...]
Jiang Che narrowed his eyes slightly. He wasn't a fool. Why would Mo Shangxie give him a key to a secret realm? If there were no ulterior motives... He wouldn't believe it. But no matter what, there were only two possible reasons:
First: she wanted to use him as a treasure-hunting mouse, having him open the Time Ruins secret realm and work hard only for her to reap the rewards.
But Jiang Che found this unlikely, because his own status was already above hers. In the face of an overwhelming gap in standing and power, any small tricks were nothing but futility.
All schemes and conspiracies become utterly laughable when faced with an insurmountable difference in power.
Mo Shangxie wasn't stupid enough to go that far.
As for the second reason... there was probably something within the Time Ruins Gate that she wanted him to investigate.
Perhaps... to witness something?
Jiang Che thought for a moment, then let out a light laugh. He understood.
"In that case... I'll go take a look and get that Time Dao Origin while I'm at it."
Jiang Che showed no fear. He had already grasped that while his status wasn't completely invincible, it was more than enough to ensure his own survival.
...
"Beyond the Heavens... the Time Ruins Divine Palace?"
Following the coordinates provided by the Time-Space Key, Jiang Che directly crushed a Dimension-Breaking Talisman. In the next instant, he appeared above the heavens.
Jiang Che's Dimension-Breaking Divine Talisman was a supreme-level item card from the system. Crushing it allowed him to access any place in the Nine Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms—he didn't even need coordinates. He just thought of a destination and teleported.
He had heard that beyond the supreme-level item cards, there was another tier—mythical-level system items. But his system currently only lacked that last step to fully upgrade. Only after completing that final upgrade would mythical-level items be unlocked.
Before him stood a colossal sundial, towering in the sky beyond reach. The direction the sundial faced was a blazing sun.
"Tsk... so many secrets hide within the Nine Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms."
Jiang Che marveled at the sight.
As far as he knew, the Nine Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms had existed for at least tens of millions of years!
From the age of the Primordial Gods and Demons, to the Ancient Wilderness Era, then the period of the Ancient Heavenly Court, and then, a million years after the downfall of the Heavenly Court, came the present era.
The whole span of time stretched across at least tens of millions of years.
The supreme phoenix bloodstone he had just given the little phoenix was ancient-level phoenix blood. With that, she could use her bloodline to replace the Dao source and walk the demonic path of transcendence, let alone with a primordial bloodline.
So, logically speaking, there must already be countless immensely powerful beings existing across the Nine Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms. The fact that they cannot die means they should be eternal and indestructible. Yet, at present, the number of such mighty experts across the Nine Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms is surprisingly small. This clearly defies common sense. Unless... a catastrophe erupted, wiping out all those powerful beings entirely.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
