[Ding! Host has scammed the Jialan Empress, earning 400 million scam points.]
Jiang Che, who had been sleeping while hugging Jia Ling'er, suddenly woke up from his dream. He rubbed his eyes with his hand.
Young Master Jiang had always been grumpy when woken up, hating nothing more than being disturbed during his sleep—except for the sound of points being credited. Especially when it was a whopping 400 million points, which would only make him grin from ear to ear.
It was like being abruptly awakened by your phone ringing with the announcement, "[Fortune Pay has credited your account with 100 million yuan...]" Even if your sweet dream was interrupted, you wouldn’t feel the slightest bit of anger.
"Jialan Empress? Where did I scam her? Logically, that woman should still be in her cooldown period after the last big explosion..."
But soon, Jiang Che noticed something strange.
The soul of the person beside him seemed to have vanished, pulled into another space.
"Ling'er?" Jiang Che patted Jia Ling'er’s shoulder, but she didn’t react at all.
"Soul projection? But that doesn’t make sense..." Jiang Che narrowed his eyes.
Someone was clearly messing around.
[Mother, does the Stone Man’s Tear really have such powerful effects?]
[Indeed, and that’s not all... Our ancestral lands hold even more treasures, including countless immortal artifacts. I don’t know how Jiang Che managed to find them.]
[Mother, do you still plan to kill him? He’s the hope for our Jialan Clan’s future rise! If I can win his favor... you could live a happy life too. Maybe he could even purify your bloodline!]
[...]
With his "Eavesdropping" ability activated, Jiang Che heard Jia Ling'er seemingly conversing with someone—likely her mother.
After all, an Empress was still an Empress. Her methods were formidable. Without using Eavesdropping, he might not have even detected her presence.
"System, what’s going on? Why can’t I trace the source of the voice?"
The ever-dutiful System responded promptly.
[Host, this information involves Emperor-level secrets. A fee of 1 million points is required...]
"I’ll give you nothing! Spit it out—you even dare to charge me for this?"
[Ding! Host has scammed the System, earning 10 million scam points...]
Jiang Che had long understood the System’s quirks. A little bargaining or scolding could sometimes squeeze out extra rewards—making it the most considerate System ever.
[The Jialan Empress cultivates the 'Dream Dao,' allowing her to invade others' dreams or even merge her own dreams with theirs. Within dreams, she is invincible—an extremely terrifying ability. Jia Ling'er has been dragged into a dream. Exercise extreme caution, Host.]
Jiang Che nodded slightly. "Dream invasion?"
This was the first time the System had warned him to be careful, meaning there was real danger.
After all, the Jialan Empress was a half-step Immortal powerhouse—her methods were beyond ordinary comprehension.
But Jiang Che wasn’t afraid of capsizing in a ditch. His ship was an aircraft carrier—no ditch could hold it!
"Can you get me into the dream? I want to eavesdrop on their conversation and see what this Jialan Empress looks like!"
The System fell silent for a few seconds, as if frozen.
[Advanced Dream Card: Allows dream invasion as an observer. 90% chance of detection by the Empress.]
[Super Dream Card: 45% detection chance.]
[Ultimate Dream Card: 5% detection chance, bypasses all cultivation barriers.]
The Ultimate Dream Card cost 5 million points. Jiang Che didn’t haggle this time—occasional bargaining was fine, but doing it every time would be too shameless.
Still, before entering the dream, he prepared multiple life-saving measures. The survival items he’d bought from the System could form a small mountain.
Against an Empress? No fear. From physical immortality to causality-defying resilience—his motto was simple: "Hard to kill."
......
"Ling'er, you must remember—staying by his side is fine, but you must never fall in love with him. Our Jialan Clan’s ancestral rule is... never love a human."
The Jialan Empress spoke with absolute seriousness.
"Our ancestor, the first mermaid, was deceived by a human. That’s why this prohibition is etched into our bloodline. Violating it... means turning into stone!"
Her tone was grave.
"Mother, do you really think I’d fall for that scoundrel? Impossible! Even if he took my purity... my heart will never belong to him!"
"Lin—Ling'er!!! Your hand!!!" The Empress suddenly widened her eyes in shock.
"My hand? What’s wrong with it?"
Jia Ling'er looked down—and her composure shattered.
The tip of her little finger had begun turning to stone.
The petrification wasn’t severe yet, but it was undeniably happening.
"Mo-Mother, I swear I don’t love him! He’s a perverted bastard—I’d rather die than love him!"
Panic set in. She’d just claimed she wouldn’t fall for Jiang Che, and now this?
The Empress also flustered but forced calm.
"Then Jiang Che must die. Before your feelings deepen, eliminating him is the only way to stop the petrification."
"Wha—Mother! But killing him means losing the ancestral land’s secrets! He holds the key information!"
The Empress studied her daughter silently before speaking.
"Ling'er, you’ll have to endure. Extract the ancestral land’s secrets or have him purify your bloodline first. Once his value is drained... I’ll eliminate him for you."
"But remember—you must not love him. This is our ancestor’s inescapable curse, one even Immortals can’t break."
Her words were final.
...
"Petrification?"
Jiang Che, eavesdropping in secret, frowned.
The Jialan Clan turns to stone if they love humans?
But that didn’t add up.
Why hadn’t Qing'er and the other mermaids petrified? Did they not love him?
The thought stung, but he shook his head.
"Impossible. Qing'er and the others definitely have feelings for me. It must be because of my Emperor’s Blood—their lineage changed, bypassing the curse."
A complete bloodline overhaul meant their DNA no longer carried the ancestral prohibition.
Maybe in another realm, the mermaid ancestor and her human lover lived happily ever after, shedding tears of joy every day.
Jiang Che made a bold hypothesis.
After all, who said tears only came from sorrow? Sometimes, overwhelming happiness could bring them too.
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
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!
iaobai: "Councilor Dad, front me some funds. I want to hire ten thousand professional miners for a project!" [Five-Star Mission Issued: Capture the leader of the Blood Heaven Pirate Gang, who is on the run in the Radiant Star Sector. It is said the gang has over a hundred members. Proceed with caution.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, lend me the family's hundred-thousand-strong Lu Army!" [Seven-Star Mission Issued: Subdue a juvenile Void Dragon Beast.] Lu Xiaobai: "Councilor Dad, I'm taking your tamed Void Dragon Beast King out for a family reunion!" I said, System, don't you have any slightly more challenging missions? You're just not up to par! [Nine-Star Mission Issued: Become the Human Councilor.] Lu Xiaobai: "Dad, there's a small matter I'd like to discuss with you..."
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?!
