"Ha... ah-choo!"
Jiang Che yawned. He had already been pampered to the point of uselessness by the system and didn't want to think too much anymore.
He arrived beneath a massive sundial, pulled out the Time Key from his pocket, and placed it under the sundial.
In the next second, as if some mechanism had been triggered, the sundial burst into dazzling light, and countless temporal energies surged forth.
But soon, the light dimmed.
Jiang Che: "..."
He was at a loss. He had already taken the key, and still wasn’t allowed in?
"Don’t push me, or I’ll get angry... and smash your gate to pieces, get it?"
Jiang Che held a prop card in his hand, glaring at the giant sundial. If he lost his temper, he would directly crush the prop card and blow the sundial to bits!
No strategy, just raw stats!
But the sundial seemed to have no consciousness and didn’t know fear. It gave Jiang Che no reaction whatsoever.
Jiang Che: "..."
Of course, he wasn’t about to pick a fight with a piece of stone. Smashing the sundial with the prop card would just make him look like an idiot.
"Fine, fine. You don’t think much of me, do you? What about my child? Surely you’ll be interested in that—a Time Ruins Dao Body... I don’t believe you won’t be tempted!"
With a single thought, Jiang Che vanished from where he stood.
The next instant, he appeared right beside Di Zhao.
[Beep! Host has died. Now reviving.]
[Beep! Host has died...]
As soon as Jiang Che appeared, he lost several lives.
But death was something Jiang Che had long grown used to.
Di Zhao was sitting cross-legged in the River of Fate, surrounded by phantom images of countless heroes and legends from endless ages... Their fates were all revealed in the river. So many causes and effects were entangled here that Jiang Che accidentally stepped in and died in a single second, without even reacting.
"Hm?" Di Zhao seemed to sense something. She turned her gaze toward Jiang Che, her eyes filled with disbelief.
"Hus... husband?" But the next moment, the woman’s expression changed drastically!
She struck out without hesitation, attacking Jiang Che with lethal force!
[Beep! Host has died. Now reviving...]
Jiang Che was dumbfounded. Why would you attack me as soon as you see me?
Di Zhao frowned. The River of Fate was truly terrifying. It could even mimic the aura of her husband, and the power of fate itself could not kill it?
"Hey, hey, hey, it’s me, Zhao Zhao!" Jiang Che grabbed Di Zhao’s wrist and pulled her out of the River of Fate, bringing her back to the sundial.
Di Zhao: "???"
Her mind went blank. What was going on?
Could... could it really be Jiang Che?
"What is this? Time Power?!"
Di Zhao frowned and looked at the massive sundial before her. A feeling of familiarity surged in her heart. "This is... the Time Ruins Divine Palace?"
"Oh? You recognize it too?"
Di Zhao took a serious look at Jiang Che and confirmed that it was indeed him. "I recognize it. However, back in the Heavenly Court era, the Time Ruins Divine Palace had already collapsed. I’ve heard that inside the palace lies the most mysterious Time Dao Method, but over millions of years, no one has ever gained its recognition."
"Hehe... How about the Time Ruins Dao Body? You just bought one for the baby, right? Zhao Zhao, put your hand on it and see if you can earn the sundial’s recognition?"
Jiang Che certainly had the ability to enter the Time Ruins Divine Palace himself, but he had brought Di Zhao along. After all, he wanted to show her how hard he was working for their child’s future.
"I’m planning to go inside, retrieve the Time Dao Origin, and hand it over to our child in the future..."
Di Zhao looked up, then nodded. But inside, her heart was trembling uncontrollably, and a faint smile curled at the corners of her mouth.
Not only did her husband allow her to buy the Time Ruins Dao Body for their child, but he was even going to personally capture the Time Dao Origin. From this, she could see that he truly cherished the child in her womb.
"Thank you, husband!"
Di Zhao placed her delicate hand on the sundial. In the next second, the entire Time Ruins Divine Palace began to change. The giant sundial started to rotate!
"Rumble—"
The shadow of the sundial quickly pointed to the direction of 0 o’clock. Then, a flash of light emerged... A rainbow-colored tunnel appeared before Di Zhao.
"Heh—" Jiang Che let out a light laugh, then wrapped his arm around Di Zhao’s slender waist and gave her a kiss.
"Husband... do you need me to cast a fortune for you?" Di Zhao asked.
"No need. Just a mere Time Dao Origin. I’ll be back in no time."
Di Zhao nodded. She now trusted Jiang Che’s abilities unconditionally. After all, he had easily suppressed the Evil Emperor Ji Qingyi, so the Time Ruins Divine Palace was no challenge for him.
Meanwhile, taking advantage of Di Zhao’s presence, Jiang Che shot himself like an arrow into the rainbow tunnel before the sundial gate could even react.
Di Zhao turned and left, stepping back into the River of Fate.
The Sundial: "..."
If the sundial had consciousness instead of being a mere mechanism, it would probably be furious.
It was as if the groom was holding the wedding, but the neighbor old Jiang was the one entering the bridal chamber.
Yet, it could do nothing against Jiang Che.
...
"Heh... is that all?"
Jiang Che had effortlessly slipped into the Time Ruins Divine Palace.
This was an entirely different world!
The entire world was in a state of absolute time stasis. That is to say, right here, time flowed at zero speed!
Even if one stayed in the Time Ruins Divine Palace for a hundred million years, not a single moment would pass in the outside world.
A vast, boundless cosmic world stretched before him. Jiang Che stepped onto the void and walked forward. There were no stars or galaxies here—only countless diagrams shaped like sundials and clocks. Every object that could represent the concept of time could be found here.
Jiang Che did not wander around. He calmly surveyed this world.
"You brought me here... it must have something to do with the Demon Ancestor!"
Jiang Che muttered to himself. "The Time Dao Origin must be here. Since Mo Shangxie lured me here, is it to awaken the memories of my past life as the Demon Ancestor?"
"Or perhaps... to show me what the Demon Ancestor went through?"
Jiang Che was speculating, but these ideas were too ordinary. The logic didn't add up. Even if he inherited the Demon Ancestor's memories, he would still be himself. Jiang Che didn't think inheriting millions of years of memories would actually turn him into the Demon Ancestor.
To him, inheriting even a million years of Demon Ancestor's memories was just like reading a slightly longer novel.
"So... is this meant to stir the River of Time and make me swim against the current?"
Jiang Che made a bold guess.
The River of Time was mysterious beyond measure—even more mysterious than the River of Fate. Even a supreme Immortal Emperor wouldn’t dare to step into it lightly.
Di Zhao was an exception because she held the Fate Dao Origin, allowing her to walk the River of Fate without backlash.
As expected, the very next moment!
The entire Time Ruins Divine Palace began to shake violently. From the endless sky above, a majestic river descended like a Milky Way. Every ripple carried fragments of time, and even the slightest rising tide could crush immortals.
"Heh—"
At the moment he glimpsed the river of time, Jiang Che smiled.
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?!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
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!
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
