The next day.
"Hahaha~"
Su Muwan and Qin Luo walked through the headquarters lobby, yawning.
Su Muwan, her eyes half-closed and looking utterly exhausted, muttered, "So tired... so sleepy... Why do I have to attend a meeting so early in the morning?"
Whether it was because of that strange dream from yesterday or the effects of water magic, Su Muwan was now both physically and mentally drained.
But the main reason was...
Swish!
Su Muwan opened her eyes and pointed at Qin Luo, who was glowing with energy beside her, and exclaimed, "Hey! Qin Luo, why do you always look so energetic every day?"
With his stamina maxed out and his addiction to pure love, Qin Luo genuinely didn’t know what it meant to feel tired.
Hearing this, Qin Luo gave her a playful smile and said, "Miss, isn’t it a good thing that I’m energetic?"
"Uh..."
Su Muwan was momentarily stunned, and then, perhaps thinking of something, her face suddenly turned red.
She glared at Qin Luo and snorted, "Pervert."
Qin Luo chuckled helplessly. If we're talking about being a pervert...
Compared to you, Miss, I’m nothing...
Just as he was thinking this, Su Muwan frowned suspiciously and looked at him, "Are you secretly bad-mouthing me in your head? My intuition radar is very accurate."
"...Cough, of course not."
"Hmph! You better not be!"
Click!
They arrived at the meeting room.
Everyone was already there.
Su Bailian, upon seeing Su Muwan and Qin Luo, immediately stood up from her plush sofa seat and greeted them warmly, "Good morning, Sister Su!"
Heh...
Su Muwan glanced at Su Bailian’s exclusive throne-like seat and couldn’t help but roll her eyes, "Morning, Little Lotus."
Su Bailian blinked innocently and said, "Oh, stop it! Call me Lianlian, okay?"
With everyone present, Ouyang Xuan, seated at the head of the table, began the core members' meeting.
He spoke in a serious tone, "I believe everyone is already aware of the situation."
"At 3 a.m. this morning, 36 towering peaks, each ten thousand meters high, suddenly appeared in the outskirts of Xinghuan City."
"According to the research department's investigation of ancient texts, this is the work of the ancient faction—[Misty Sect]!"
"They excel in setting up terrifying formations based on terrain and geographical locations."
"Every disciple of this sect, if placed in the modern world, would be considered a master of formations!"
Su Muwan and Qin Luo sat below.
The former fiddled with Qin Luo’s fingernails, muttering boredly, "What’s all this about? Ancient factions, Misty Sect... sounds like something out of a fantasy novel."
"Don’t you think so, Qin Luo?"
As she played with his hand, Su Muwan looked up at Qin Luo.
Hehe, Qin Luo is so handsome.
Hearing this, Qin Luo smiled slightly and leaned closer to Su Muwan, whispering in her ear, "Miss, with these ancient factions emerging, countless prodigies will appear. Shouldn’t you be more cautious?"
"Ah, it’s fine!"
"Relax, relax!"
Su Muwan waved her hand dismissively, her expression carefree, "If the ancient factions want to show up, let them! They’ll be the ones fighting each other first!"
"After all, they’ll all be trying to expand their territories. We just need to make sure we don’t provoke them!"
Qin Luo understood.
Looking at Su Muwan’s calm demeanor, he couldn’t help but smile inwardly.
Such a composed attitude—no wonder she’s destined to become the greatest antagonist in the future!
With that, Qin Luo also relaxed and reached out to hold Su Muwan’s cold, delicate hand.
"Qin Luo, what are you doing?"
Su Muwan was startled.
Qin Luo gave her a mischievous smile, "What’s wrong, Miss? You can play with my hand, but I can’t play with yours?"
Play...
Perhaps recalling something embarrassing, Su Muwan glared at Qin Luo and huffed, "Qin Luo! You’re getting more and more audacious!"
"This isn’t audacity, Miss. Your hand is cold. I’m just warming it up."
"Hmph!"
Meanwhile, Ouyang Xuan continued discussing matters that could potentially change the world’s landscape.
At the same time, he glanced at the most crucial pair in the room.
When he saw the two of them ignoring everything and being all lovey-dovey, his eye twitched.
After half a second of contemplation, he decided to ignore them for now.
He continued, "Additionally, based on instrument readings and predictions, the first wave of ancient factions will awaken and emerge within a week."
"As I mentioned in yesterday’s emergency meeting,"
"We need to focus our attention on... the Great Yan Dynasty!"
As soon as he finished speaking, both Su Muwan and Qin Luo froze.
They turned their heads to look at Ouyang Xuan.
The Great what?
Great Yan Dynasty??
Su Muwan blinked.
Why does that name sound so familiar?
Qin Luo also frowned. The Great Yan Dynasty?
Wasn’t that the dynasty from the dream last night with the bronze cauldron...
Wait, wait...
As if realizing something crucial, Qin Luo sat up straight and asked Ouyang Xuan, "Do you have any information on the Great Yan Dynasty?"
Seeing Qin Luo speak up, Ouyang Xuan nodded and projected the relevant images.
Hum—!
As the majestic backdrop of the dynasty appeared before everyone, Qin Luo’s eyes narrowed slightly.
Yes, it was exactly the same as the scene from the dream.
The reason?
It was that magnificent library!
Ouyang Xuan explained, "The Great Yan Dynasty was a powerful empire in ancient times."
"They once faced a war of annihilation. According to surviving records, their downfall was caused by the fourth princess of the dynasty."
"This fourth princess was referred to by the people of the dynasty as... the Calamity!"
"Because, at birth, the spiritual energy she possessed was considered demonic... the energy of frost!"
"This was utterly inconceivable in a dynasty where everyone wielded the energy of true fire."
The fourth princess... frost energy...
It all matched up...
Qin Luo suddenly realized something.
Su Muwan, on the other hand, tugged at Qin Luo’s arm, whispering in confusion, "Qin Luo, Qin Luo, why does this Great Yan Dynasty seem so similar to the dream we had last night?"
It wasn’t just similar... it was practically identical...
Qin Luo suddenly realized that the bronze cauldron might indeed hold some inexplicable secret!
[True Dream].
This was something the little dog had emphasized when introducing the cauldron.
It mentioned that the bronze cauldron had a chance to trigger a true dream, but the effects were unknown.
Considering the true dream of Su Muwan’s childhood from before, the effect was likely...
Changing the future!!
No way... changing the future?
That’s too fantastical.
The novel world I transmigrated into wasn’t supposed to have things like this...
Qin Luo rubbed his temples. He’d rather believe that the bronze cauldron simply allowed him and Su Muwan to experience someone else’s perspective in a vivid dream.
But... the sudden appearance of the doll proved that the bronze cauldron might indeed be capable of altering the future.
The future had changed? That’s why the doll returned.
"So, how did the Great Yan Dynasty rise again?"
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.”
【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.)
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
