"Qiangwei, the qin shouldn't be played like this. The guqin is different from the piano..."
By a guqin, Jiang Che was personally teaching Bai Qiangwei how to play—purely focusing on the music, nothing else!
Huangdoufen, transformed into a little orange cat, lay beside the qin, wagging its tail with a small yellow croaker in its mouth.
"Brother Jiang Che, why does the piano have so many keys while the guqin only has seven strings, yet the guqin is so much harder to play?"
The young girl wore a frustrated expression, already considering giving up.
She seriously doubted whether her so-called 'Innate Music Saint Body' was just something Jiang Che made up to fool her.
"Heh... The guqin has evolved over thousands of years—how could a Western instrument like the piano compare? The seven strings of the guqin represent Gong, Shang, Jue, Zhi, Yu, Wen, and Wu. Of course... the earliest five-string qin was even harder."
"You're supposed to ascend through the path of music. Do you really think you'll be lugging around a several-hundred-pound piano when facing enemies? The guqin is so much more ethereal..."
Jiang Che chuckled.
Qiangwei nodded—he was right!
A qin immortal, a qin immortal... Who ever heard of a qin immortal playing the piano?
Imagine getting so mad in a fight that you just pick up a piano and smash someone with it?
"Sweetheart, keep practicing... It'd be such a waste if someone with your physique didn’t cultivate the path of music."
Truthfully, for his own woman, Jiang Che could easily let her be. Even if she were just an ordinary person, he would still cherish her and take her along on the path to immortality.
But this girl, Qiangwei, had never shown any real independence in front of him—to put it bluntly, she had always been under his control.
If he told her to practice piano, she obediently learned piano. Now that he told her to switch to the guqin, she gave up piano and started learning the guqin.
So obedient, so silly—a proper little airhead.
Bai Qiangwei’s physique was truly terrifying!
Originally only at the Foundation Establishment stage, after practicing the guqin for a while and gradually familiarizing herself with the musical tones, she suddenly entered a state of harmony between heaven and man.
"Weng—"
With a single pluck of the string, her power skyrocketed!
Mid Foundation Establishment! Late Foundation Establishment! Peak Foundation Establishment!
Early Soul Formation! Late Soul Formation! Peak Soul Formation!
Just by learning the basics of playing the qin, her strength had jumped from mid Foundation Establishment all the way to peak Soul Formation!
[So envious! A Saint Body... When will I ever get a Saint Body? Husband, can you get me one?]
[Heh, sure. Want me to get you an Abyssal Yin Saint Body?]
Abyssal Yin Saint Body...
Mo Lianxing’s lips twitched.
The Abyssal Yin Saint Body and the Solar Saint Body were a matched pair!
If the Solar Saint Body was known as the... playboy physique, then the Abyssal Yin Saint Body was the ultimate succubus physique!
Though the Abyssal Yin Saint Body allowed for rapid cultivation, the side effects were obvious—it was the kind that couldn’t survive without a man.
Clearly, Jiang Che was just teasing her.
After teaching Qiangwei how to play the qin, Jiang Che bought an Emperor-level music cultivation technique from the system.
Things like cultivation techniques were relatively cheap—even an Emperor-level technique cost at most two or three million points.
"Th-thank you, Brother Jiang Che..."
Bai Qiangwei lowered her head, her small fists clenched tightly.
Power! She needed power!
She no longer hoped for Jiang Che’s special favor—she just wanted to stand by his side in the future without embarrassing him.
Qiangwei’s love was that simple, that humble.
"Brother Jiang Che, I’ll practice hard!"
"Ah, wait a second! Sweetheart, your cultivation just skyrocketed—let Brother Jiang Che help stabilize your foundation." Jiang Che took Qiangwei’s small hand.
Qiangwei: "......"
Meanwhile, Huangdoufen, basking in the sun and wagging its tail, blinked its cat eyes before covering its head with its tail!
...
Jiang Che spent his days in the underwater Dragon Palace, living a nocturnal lifestyle, fully unleashing the potential of his Solar Saint Body.
It wasn’t until three days later that he finally returned to the Jiang family.
As for Yu Wan'er and the others... they insisted on staying in the Dragon Palace to play a while longer.
After leaving the Dragon Palace, he immediately flew toward the Jiang family on his sword.
With Jiang Che’s current abilities, he could easily open a portal and teleport directly from the Dragon Palace to the Jiang family.
So why fly on a sword?
Because it looked cool! Plus, he had recently discovered a new way to play with his system.
Jiang Che’s figure soared through the skies above major cities, drawing the gazes of countless pedestrians, their eyes filled with admiration and envy.
Now that spiritual energy had resurged and everyone was cultivating, people were well-versed in the realms of cultivation.
"Mom, is that an immortal?"
"Holy crap, a cultivator who can fly on a sword... You’d need at least the Heavenly Origin Realm for that! And here I am, still stuck at early Foundation Establishment!"
"Who knows which big shot that is? There are fewer than fifty people in our country right now who can fly on swords!"
"Flying on a sword... Think of all the money saved on train tickets!"
[Ding! Host successfully shows off, rewarded with 200,000 points.]
The system’s voice echoed in Jiang Che’s ears.
That’s right—Jiang Che had discovered a new way to exploit his system.
If he could install subsystems for other protagonists, why not install one for himself?
He tried it, and the result shocked him—it actually worked!
Of course, there were limitations. He couldn’t farm points infinitely, and he could only bind three subsystems at once.
The efficiency of earning points wasn’t as high as his "workers," but it was still a nice side hustle.
Right now, Jiang Che had three subsystems bound to him:
[Show-off System: Earn points by showing off.]
No doubt, the same system as Jiang Ruoxu’s—but with much better point rates. Since it was his own system, Jiang Che naturally maxed out the rewards.
[Dual Cultivation System: Earn points through dual cultivation.]
Ahem, a perfectly legitimate system! Anyone thinking otherwise should go reflect in a corner!
As for the last system... Chen Hao’s signature [Troll System: Earn points by trolling people.]
These three systems were a perfect match for Jiang Che!
Especially the Dual Cultivation System—during his time in the Dragon Palace, he had already earned over three million points from it.
Double the pleasure, double the gains—Young Master Jiang couldn’t resist.
This wasn’t about indulging in desires; it was about working hard to earn points!
How far would a man go to grow stronger? Just look at Young Master Jiang!
Even as the boss of a company, he still took on three side jobs in secret.
Where else could you find such a hardworking (and shameless) boss?
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
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?!
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
