Lin Yu, being a child of fortune, had many tricks up his sleeve.
He actually managed to get someone to bail him out.
After breathing in the fresh air outside for a few moments, Lin Yu's gaze gradually became more determined.
"The school can wait, the cave dwelling is more important!"
With that, Lin Yu rushed non-stop towards the mountainous area his master had left for him.
Yes, he ran!
Currently, Lin Yu was penniless, his wallet had disappeared at some point, and nowadays all transportation required scanning QR codes for payment. As someone who had spent over a decade training in the mountains... his impression of the city was still stuck in the past decade.
No different from a wild man!
He had originally planned to contact Ye Changkong to have someone drive him there.
But the journey to the cave dwelling had to be kept secret - this was his destined opportunity, and he couldn't allow even the slightest mistake.
He ran from afternoon until deep into the night, covering roughly the distance of two marathons - even Kipchoge, the world marathon champion, would have shed tears at the sight.
"Damn, finally made it."
"It was so far, should have just called Ye Changkong after all."
Lin Yu grumbled, looking down at his shoes - the soles were completely worn through, with his big toe poking out.
Even as a Dark Force master, he was thoroughly exhausted.
Lin Yu arrived at the mountain stream and leaped down from above.
The height of about ten meters, though significant, wasn't much of a challenge for a Dark Force master like him.
He landed smoothly, even showing off a bit, despite having no audience.
"Holy crap!!!"
"Which idiot left nails here? [expletives]!"
Lin Yu clutched his foot in pain - a long nail had nearly pierced through his sole.
But with remarkable willpower, he managed to stumble to his feet.
He slowly walked to the stone door... wait, where's the stone door?
Lin Yu's eyes widened as he stared bewilderedly at the electronic door before him, his mind filled with countless question marks.
Lin Yu crouched by the electronic door to examine it carefully, even gently tapping it with his finger.
"Please enter password!"
The electronic synthesized voice startled Lin Yu.
"Damn it, old man Lin, are you messing with me? An electronic door?"
"You set up this so-called sacred realm and told me it opens once every six years? Bull!"
Lin Yu clearly didn't take the electronic door seriously and clenched his fist.
He threw a punch straight at it!
"Ahhhh!!!"
A scream like a slaughtered pig.
"Why is this door so hard? I'm a Dark Force master!"
He couldn't break through, and his fingers were numb from the impact.
If brute force won't work, try cunning!
"What password?"
Lin Yu had no choice but to properly crack this password thing.
[Ding! Please answer three questions, and the door will open automatically]
Lin Yu smiled, confident and arrogant.
Despite spending over a decade training in the mountains, when it came to knowledge... he was undoubtedly a top student!
"Ask away!"
[Question One: Shout 'I am a dog' three times and bark three times]
"Damn you, old man Lin!"
Lin Yu cursed out loud.
This kind of torturous nonsense was exactly the sort of thing old man Lin would come up with.
"Old man Lin, I know this is your doing, and you can probably hear me talking, right? Stop messing with me, I won't bow down."
Lin Yu crossed his arms, maintaining a proud stance.
He continued this battle of wits with thin air for about ten minutes.
Lin Yu was starting to crack.
"Hey? Old man Lin, you're not really going to make me bark like a dog, are you?"
"Can you at least answer me?"
"Fine, fine, fine, I'll remember this grudge!"
"I am a dog! I am a dog! I am a dog! Woof woof woof~"
Lin Yu practically had to grit his teeth to say it.
In Lin Yu's mind, it was still his master playing tricks on him.
[Ding! Now for the second question, please reveal your deepest secret]
Lin Yu shrugged, this wasn't a problem.
"Old man, you already know this, don't you? Peeping at Widow Wang from the neighboring village while she was bathing, you were there with me, why are you playing these games now?"
[Ding! Now for the third question]
Lin Yu's smile grew wider, is that all?
Old man Lin, you're not as tough as I thought.
Is this supposed to be challenging?
[Question Three: Please recite all 10,000 decimal places of pi]
Lin Yu: "???"
What?
Could you possibly be any more sadistic?
Recite 10,000 decimal places? Could you be any more inhuman?
But Lin Yu finally surrendered to reality.
He opened his phone and began reciting the long string of pi digits.
"Heh... just 10,000 digits! It's just reading... not memorizing? This is piece of cake!"
Although Lin Yu thought the question was absurd, mere 10,000 digits... was too simple. Reading two digits per second would only take about an hour, not a difficult task.
"3.1415926...."
When he reached around 400 digits, he suddenly made a mistake.
[Ding! Error, please start over...]
Lin Yu frowned, instinctively sensing something wasn't quite right.
But he started reading again, this time slower and more carefully.
Yet when he reached about 1,000 digits, he made another mistake.
"Damn!"
Had to start over!
Made it to 2,000 digits... damn it!
3,000 digits... curse it!
5,000 digits... ah!
After countless attempts, two nights had passed, and it was already noon of the third day.
Lin Yu was still reading!
He conserved his phone battery as much as possible, and eventually could even recite up to 5,000 digits from memory. His brain was severely overloaded, hungry and tired... his vision blurring.
[Ding! Congratulations on completing all trials, beep! Door opening]
The electronic door opened—
Lin Yu burst into tears.
To think that he, the proud dragon descending from the mountain, a Dark Force master... a tough guy who would bleed but never cry, would actually weep!
He had been tortured beyond humanity, his head now full of nothing but numbers, seeing numbers in everything, feeling like he was about to ascend to become a machine.
"Finally made it in. Lin Xiaotian, just wait until I get my hands on you... I'll pluck every hair from your beard."
Lin Yu practically crawled into the cave dwelling.
The cave was clean, with only a stone table holding a golden jade pendant and a blue-purple manual.
Wait... blue-purple?
Lin Yu was somewhat confused.
Upon closer inspection, Lin Yu drew a sharp breath.
"Five Years of Research and Examination, Three Years of Practice"???
"Is this... is this some kind of new skin for an ancient martial arts manual?"
Lin Yu's mouth twitched as he picked up the thick materials.
"These are really study materials? Damn, it's mathematics? And this year's new edition?"
Even if Lin Yu was dense, he knew he'd been played!
"Damn you, old man Lin, you're just picking on me, aren't you?"
What sacred realm opening once every six years - it was all lies!
Well... this kind of deception was exactly what Lin Xiaotian would do.
But he still stubbornly flipped through to the last page.
Sure enough, there was writing.
[Child, knowledge changes destiny. I know your personality is hasty and your temper is fierce - you must have suffered some setbacks, right? Listen to your master's advice... put aside martial arts and read more books, it'll do you good]
[In this descent from the mountain, we masters want you to temper your heart in the mortal world, advancing too quickly in power isn't good for you]
[Also, don't get too caught up with women, only studying can help you progress - women will only slow down your sword-drawing speed]
shall grant"] ["Inscribing the glory of our race upon tombstones"] ["All that is threatened, I shall protect"] How his younger sister sees her brother: A brother who only makes eye contact once a day, mostly fading into the background as he tinkers with who-knows-what in his room all day. Their life paths should have remained largely separate. Until one day. Su Qi created an equipment card for his never-met "online girlfriend." His sister fell into silent contemplation upon receiving the "white stockings." [Card can be upgraded] [Upgrade by fulfilling any of the following conditions] [Condition ①: Consume one hundred higher-tier cards] [Condition ②: Complete one 'Heart-Pounding Adventure'] What constitutes a Heart-Pounding Adventure? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Beginner Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to admire it.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Easy Level): Equip the card, invite 'Su Qi' to touch it, and analyze the equipment's texture.] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Entry Level): Equip the card and invite 'Su Qi' to...] [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Challenge Level): Freely combine the words 'Brother' 'Out' 'Brother' 'Me' 'Please' into a complete sentence...] "Please help me analyze both teams' mistakes in this match, brother..." His sister exhaled in relief—surely... surely there couldn't be anything more difficult? [Heart-Pounding Adventure (Suicide Mission Level): Sneak a peek at the names of the galgames in 'Su Qi's' hidden E-drive folder]
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
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 the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
