Boom!
After Doctor Ya finished saying, "Your predecessors have died by the millions," Qin Luo and Su Muwan stood frozen in silence.
However, the doctor herself didn’t notice anything unusual. On the contrary, seeing their silence, she assumed they were listening intently. Feeling reassured, she continued, "This world is a fusion of multiple realities, as you already know."
"What I’m about to tell you is that this world has a designation—it’s called [10086]."
"And it’s not the only one of its kind."
"Every world should, in theory, have a fragment of the Heavenly Will like me, along with a designated 'Janitor.'"
"Their duty is to contain the Chosen Ones—though the methods vary from person to person."
"Each Janitor gains a unique ability, but all abilities fall under one of three categories:"
"1. Conceptual System. For example, if the concept is 'river,' then the Milky Way is also a river."
"2. Rule System. Even if you kill me, by the rules, you’ll suffer the same damage in return."
"3. Causality System. Say there’s a wild protagonist who’s destined to be beaten by you in the Milky Way in three days—no matter what happens, that event will occur."
"To better contain the protagonists, every Janitor is granted one of these three abilities."
"Each category also has high, mid, and low-tier variations."
"But... even with these powers, tens of thousands of Janitors have died."
At this point, Doctor Ya’s expression turned grave. "This is intel gathered from countless versions of [me] across the multiverse."
"An entity is using worlds as testing grounds, artificially breeding [Abominations], using the Chosen Ones as incubators."
"It uses the Final Antagonist as a catalyst and the Janitors as the final nutrient source."
"It hunts down all three—Chosen Ones, Janitors, and Final Antagonists—in one sweep."
"Completely cutting off the Heavenly Will’s chance to recover."
"Once these three are eradicated, the world rots into a massive, pulsating mass of Abominations, spawning more horrors and corrupting other worlds."
"And this entity..."
"Is called..."
"[The Bone Shepherd]."
"Or alternatively—the World Observer..."
Doctor Ya had weighed her words carefully.
The Heavenly Will had gone mad for unknown reasons, and as a fragment of it, her duty was to restore balance.
She knew she wasn’t the only one tasked with this. Others like her existed, each with their own methods.
But for her...
The Destiny Mental Hospital was her only path to mending the Heavenly Will.
And right now, the only one who could help her was Qin Luo—the Janitor chosen long ago by the [Heavenly Will].
He was also an incarnation of the Heavenly Will, connected to her, though she didn’t understand his "System."
In simpler terms, the System operated on a different framework than her.
Her role was singular: assist the Janitor, contain all Chosen Ones, and ultimately restore the Heavenly Will.
She believed the System’s purpose was the same.
From the moment Qin Luo first delivered Xiao Tian to the hospital, she’d had an inkling.
On the surface, it seemed like he was just provoking these Chosen Ones, but...
His approach was unlike any other Janitor’s. Instead of following their scripts, he antagonized them outright and shipped them straight to the asylum.
At first, she found this Janitor... intriguing.
Then...
Two more protagonists arrived.
This time, she decided to place a bet on him.
Then another.
And another.
And yet another.
As the protagonists kept pouring in, Doctor Ya began to wonder—
What if a Janitor didn’t have to follow the protagonists’ predestined paths before containing them?
With this thought in mind...
She finally made up her mind to go all-in on Qin Luo.
Of course, this was also because she had him figured out. She knew his mentality—and that of the ultimate antagonist—was unshakable.
That’s why she chose to reveal everything now.
Just look at them.
One was a Janitor who’d captured dozens of protagonists in less than half a year—an efficiency unheard of.
The other was supposed to be an ordinary urban antagonist in the original world template, yet here he was, somehow morphing into the final boss of a high-martial world.
These two...
In terms of talent, or sheer resilience...
Were absolutely—
Splat.
Before she could finish, a hand clapped onto Doctor Ya’s head.
Doctor Ya: "?"
Silence. The kind that made the air itself feel awkward.
At least the two of them couldn’t hold it in anymore.
"Hey, hey, hey—"
Qin Luo grabbed Doctor Ya’s head and spun it 360 degrees like a top.
While shaking her violently, he yelled loudly, "Explain yourself clearly, you dark-eyed hag! What do you mean by 'street sweepers like you have died by the thousands, if not tens of thousands'?"
"Do I look like someone who jokes around?"
"And what the hell is all this nonsense afterward? What's this about 'World 10086'? 'The Bone Shepherd'? 'Abominations'?"
"Don't just dump a bunch of random lore like you're padding the word count right into the main story!"
"Do you even realize how much this ruins the reader experience?!"
On her end, Su Muwan also grabbed Doctor Ya by the collar, shaking her back and forth while shouting, "Old hag! What kind of insane nonsense are you spouting?!"
"You're cursing me, aren’t you? You’re definitely cursing me, right?"
"Don’t think I won’t shut down this damn mental hospital of yours, you bastard!"
"And what’s this about 'Concept-type,' 'Rule-type,' 'Causality-type,' and even 'Big Villain-type' all being no match for that so-called 'Observer'?!"
"Why are you spewing all this irrelevant crap?!"
Doctor Ya, dizzy from the shaking, stammered, "W-wait... This is the truth of this world..."
"Once you break through your limits... you’ll ascend to a higher-level world..."
"Where you’ll gain even more explosive abilities..."
Qin Luo and Su Muwan had already stopped caring.
They thought that after containing this world’s protagonist and dealing with some minor behind-the-scenes boss in the sky, they could finally live a carefree life.
But now they’re being told—
The final boss is some ridiculously overpowered monstrosity who can casually crush planets?
And not only that, they aren’t even qualified to face Him yet—they have to level up, ascend, and get stronger first?
What’s worse, this is just like fighting a T0 Chosen One—the worst part is the endless escalation!
What if, after finally beating that big boss, He just smirks and says—"Actually, there’s someone above me"?
Wouldn’t that just make you want to pass out from rage?!
Is there no end to this?!
The more they thought about it, the angrier they got.
SMACK!!
"Ugh—"
Qin Luo backhanded Doctor Ya across the face. Watching her freeze in shock while clutching her cheek, he snarled, "You turned people into street sweepers out of nowhere."
"Dumped these absurd missions on us without warning."
"And then had the nerve to say we shouldn’t have relationships?!"
"Is this how you so-called 'Heavenly Dao' enjoy playing with people’s fates?!"
Doctor Ya held her face, feeling an inexplicable sense of familiarity from that slap.
But there was no time to dwell on it. Stiffly, she muttered, "N-no, that’s not it... It was arranged by my true form..."
SMACK!
"Ghk!"
"Shut up! No more explanations!"
Qin Luo cut her off. "Your true form? Aren’t you just an avatar of the 'Heavenly Dao’s Will'? That damn Dao’s personality must be part of you too!"
"Damn it, if I ever meet the real Heavenly Dao, I’ll slap the hell out of it and toss that bastard into a mental hospital too!"
"B-but—"
SMACK!
"Urk—!"
Su Muwan interrupted with a slap of her own.
She shoved forward, gripping Doctor Ya’s collar, and glared at her furiously. "What kind of joke is this, you dead-faced old hag?!"
"Do you have any idea how much effort I put into being lovey-dovey with Qin Luo?!"
"Y-you’re in a no-male-lead story..."
SMACK!
"Eep!"
"What’s wrong with no male lead?! Stop cursing people with singledom!"
"And another thing! Useless as you seem, you’re still a Heavenly Dao fragment!"
"I’ve read enough books to know—beings like you always have hidden treasures!"
"All you need to do now is shut up and obediently hand over the cheats! Surely even you can manage that much, right?!"
"Hey! I’m talking to you!"
"Don’t tell me a Heavenly Dao fragment can’t even do something this simple!"
"That’s... That’s way too unreasonable... And procedurally, it shouldn’t work this way... You’re supposed to make some progress first... Only then can I..."
SMACK—!
"Gah—!"
Before she could finish—
Qin Luo grabbed her by the jaw and snapped, "Shut it! How dare a mere Heavenly Dao fragment disobey my young mistress?!"
"Don’t think she won’t blacklist you from the entire Heavenly Dao circle with just one word! Now cough up those cheats!!"
"Uh... Let’s just skip that last part..."
"Young Mistress, I get it. This Doctor Ya’s been acting all mysterious since she first showed up. I’ve had enough of her."
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. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
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."
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?”
