The next day.
Alliance Headquarters.
"What? Yiyi actually lost?"
"Unbelievable... Wang Yun used to adore Yiyi so much. How did things fall apart later?"
"Who defeated Yiyi? Su Muwan?"
"No... According to the footage from the scene, it was Su Muwan's subordinate, Qin Luo."
A group of people gathered around a long table, staring in shock at a pink ∞ badge placed on it.
This meant that Yiyi was no longer a Transcendent and thus had no right to stay here.
Only a Transcendent could defeat another Transcendent.
Everyone exchanged glances.
"Does this mean... Qin Luo is also a Transcendent?"
Two Transcendents in Jiang City?
This was unprecedented.
Jing Er frowned and said, "That can't be right. I've met Qin Luo before. He's only at the Peak Realm."
"Peak Realm? Since when does someone at the Peak Realm possess a Domain? And one that covered the entire Jiang City?"
"Exactly... And to defeat Yiyi... That's clearly not something a Peak Realm cultivator could achieve."
Li Mingyuan leaned back in his chair, silently observing the footage from the scene.
Domain...
Qin Luo also has a Domain?
But his aura wasn't even at the Return to Simplicity level.
Why was that?
Could it be...
Li Mingyuan's eyes sharpened. He swiped through the holographic projection and said gravely, "No, you're all wrong."
"The one who defeated Yiyi wasn't Qin Luo, but... Su Muwan!!"
Everyone: !!!
What? It was Su Muwan?
They looked at Li Mingyuan in astonishment.
If nothing else, Li Mingyuan, as the head of the Research Department, was one of the smartest among them.
So they had no choice but to believe him!
"Mingyuan, what do you mean?"
"Look at the footage."
Li Mingyuan swiped, and everyone turned their attention to it.
In the final moments, Su Muwan's figure appeared.
She had clearly come for Qin Luo.
"You can see that Su Muwan arrived at the last moment."
"From Qin Luo and Yiyi's earlier conversation, we know that Su Muwan had already figured out our purpose the moment we stepped into the headquarters."
"So I conclude that Su Muwan knew our goal was the Bronze Cauldron!"
At this, Wang Xiaohua timidly raised her hand and asked, "Uh... but Su Muwan didn't show up during the fight. She only appeared at the end. What does that prove?"
"No, no, you're all missing the point."
Li Mingyuan shook his head, his expression serious. "You think Su Muwan is that simple because you've never truly interacted with her."
"Jing Er and I have met Su Muwan, so we know what kind of person she really is."
"All of this was likely part of her plan!!"
As he spoke, he recalled the first time he had seen Su Muwan.
She... was enveloped in an aura of malice, her presence overwhelming. The deep, unfathomable sense of dread she exuded was something he had only felt in the presence of the Leader.
Jing Er also seemed to recall their trip to Jiang City. Back then, it was Qin Luo who did most of the talking, but the final decision always rested with Su Muwan.
And she...
Jing Er shrank her neck slightly, a hint of gravity in her eyes. "That woman is terrifying."
Back then, she had only dared to glance at Su Muwan once, afraid that the malice radiating from her would affect her mind.
Everyone fell silent at this.
Was she really that terrifying?
Ye Zhidie swallowed hard and forced a smile. "Come on, is she really as scary as you're making her out to be?"
"Yes, and I can confidently confirm one thing!"
Li Mingyuan nodded, then declared with certainty, "She deliberately created the illusion that Qin Luo defeated Yiyi!"
"Why would she do that?"
"Because she wanted to stir up trouble!"
"Stir up trouble!?"
Everyone was stunned. What did that mean?
Seeing that everyone was starting to grasp the severity of the situation, Li Mingyuan explained, "After meeting Su Muwan, I went through all her past battle records."
"Finally, I came to a conclusion."
He tapped the table, looking around at the attentive group, and said gravely, "She's a meticulous schemer who loves playing the role of a puppet master, manipulating others to do her bidding!"
"She enjoys the thrill of controlling the entire situation!"
"And Qin Luo!"
With that,
Whoosh—!
A large image of Qin Luo appeared before everyone.
Li Mingyuan pointed at Qin Luo and said, "This guy has been by Su Muwan's side for less than four months, yet he's already become her favorite subordinate."
"Why do you think that is?"
Wang Xiaohua thought for a moment, her face turning slightly red as she looked at Qin Luo. "Because he's handsome?"
"No."
"Because he's good at housework?"
"No."
"Because he's a great cook?"
"No, no."
"Because he's very considerate?"
"No. Can't you think a little deeper?"
Li Mingyuan was exasperated with his teammates. He took a deep breath and said solemnly, "Because he's... the most useful!"
"He's the most convenient pawn Su Muwan has found so far!"
"Looking at Su Muwan's battles, it's always this subordinate who makes the first move."
"You think he's just fulfilling his duties as a subordinate?"
"Wrong!"
"In reality! Su Muwan is the one pulling the strings from behind the scenes!! Qin Luo is nothing more than a pawn in Su Muwan's hands!"
"And Su Muwan! She's likely playing a much larger game, one that even includes our Alliance Headquarters in her plans!"
Sss—!
Everyone gasped in shock.
It was said that Transcendents were no ordinary beings, but this...
Su Muwan! She might just be an extremely dangerous Transcendent!
"Can someone like that even be recruited?"
"That's something we'll have to wait for the Leader to decide."
Everyone began discussing. In their eyes, a Transcendent like Su Muwan was too dangerous and should be eliminated as soon as possible.
But they knew the Leader's tendencies. As long as a Transcendent was willing to join the Alliance, no matter who they were, they would be welcomed with open arms.
This mission was undoubtedly a failure.
"Tch, that's why I hate dealing with troublesome Transcendents. Their systems are always so overpowered."
"Right? How does a Peak Realm cultivator defeat a Domain Realm one? Who can make sense of that?"
"Sigh, we'll just have to wait for the Leader to finish his seclusion."
"Who knows what Su Muwan is plotting now."
"By the way, where's Wang Yun?"
"Oh, he said he found true love in Jiang City and will be back later."
"??"
...
...
Su Family Villa.
Living Room.
"Huh? Miss, what did you say? You want to go on a trip?"
Qin Luo, wearing a shark apron, looked at Su Muwan in surprise as she clamored about wanting to go out and have fun early in the morning.
"Mm-hmm! I want to go to Cherry Blossom City!!"
Su Muwan's eyes sparkled as she pointed at the TV program.
【Detective Corgi Tour Performance!! Premiering in District 11 of Cherry Blossom City! Audience members will receive exclusive Corgi merchandise!】
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
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."
