"One, two, three, four!"
"One, two, three, four!"
Early the next morning.
A stretch limousine cruised down the streets of Jiang City.
Su Muwan gazed out the window at the crowds of citizens dragging truck tires behind them as they sprinted wildly through the streets.
She blinked. "Have I not gone out in so long that the whole vibe has changed?"
Why was everyone—office workers, schoolchildren—running with tires strapped to their backs?
What was going on?
Beside her, Qin Luo flipped through some documents and explained, "The atmosphere hasn't changed, young lady. You just haven't been paying attention to Jiang City lately."
"Remember? Around the time we took over the Jiang City branch, we implemented a new policy."
Su Muwan turned her head curiously. "Policy?"
"Mm. It’s called the [Universal Martialization] initiative."
"Coinciding with the era of spiritual energy resurgence and our Emperor’s Foundation distributing Blood Qi Pills, it’s no surprise that—at the very least—every citizen in Jiang City can now cultivate."
Huh?
It could be like that?
Su Muwan was stunned.
Was this the benefit of leaving things to a T0-tier like him?
Qin Luo, you’re too much!
If you’re this capable, doesn’t that make me look like a total slacker?
Qin Luo slid a holographic projection from the fold-out table toward Su Muwan, pointing at the data. "Miss Su, look here."
"Our Emperor’s Foundation distributes one Blood Qi Pill per month. There’s even a reward system for breakthroughs in cultivation—all free of charge."
"Of course, the only condition for receiving a pill is joining our faction."
He smirked. "And we guarantee that members receive far more than just this."
So, Miss, you can roll down the window. Every person in Jiang City is now your loyal subordinate.
Hearing this, Su Muwan paused for a second—then immediately lowered the window.
Miss Su!!
It's Miss Su and Master Qin!
"Master Qin, look at me!"
"Master Qin, come scold me!!"
A deafening wave of cheers erupted, nearly blowing the car roof off.
Su Muwan’s long black hair whipped wildly in the wind as she gaped in shock—
The elderly folks sprinting with tires were now hanging upside-down from streetlights, waving at her with one hand while gripping truck tires with the other!
Miss, see that aunt in the floral shirt?
Qin Luo’s fingertip lit up another hologram. "Three months ago, she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now, she’s broken through to the Foundation Realm—full of energy."
Swish, swish, swish—
Su Muwan hastily rolled the window back up, pressing a hand to her pounding heart as she slumped into her seat.
Her pupils trembled.
Hey!
What kind of absurd scene is this?!
Even in my past life, I never saw anything this ridiculous!
Qin Luo...
She turned, eyes gleaming as she stared at him.
As expected...
As expected of Qin Luo, the protagonist! He’s just built different!
And—
Su Muwan listened gleefully to the roaring cheers that still seeped through the closed window.
Honestly, in my past life, I never had it this good.
Glad you're enjoying it, Miss.
Qin Luo smiled faintly before shutting off the hologram.
The effect of [Supreme Command] was absolute loyalty.
But what if, on top of that, they provided proper benefits?
Then...
His gaze darkened as he watched the sea of people outside.
They would forge an army of unshakable conviction.
[Loyalty!]
That word would be etched into their very bones.
"Oh, right."
Su Muwan tilted her head. "What’s the plan for today?"
"Good question."
Qin Luo snapped out of his thoughts and grinned. "Right now, due to power inflation—"
"Hey, hey—can you not start with something that makes me want to facepalm?"
"Fine. Simply put, to prepare for stronger enemies in the future, we need to accelerate our takeover of all existing factions."
"Meaning?"
"Meaning..."
Qin Luo took a deep breath, then pointed at Su Muwan.
Miss, brace yourself for days so busy you won't even have time to eat chips.
"?"
Su Muwan’s face stiffened. "W-Wait, it’s not like stronger enemies will just pop up immediately, right...?"
"They might not have. But now that you’ve said it, they definitely will."
"???"
...
...
East Sea Abyss.
30,000 meters deep.
Near a massive underwater trench, a squad of merfolk guards patrolled.
"Hey, heard the news? Sixth Princess went on a trip and brought back five ultra-rare Frostbone Sharks. Just getting close to them freezes you solid!"
"Yeah, yeah. Everyone used to say Sixth Princess Lan Xi was the least capable of the king’s children. But now? She’s practically the gem of our sea clan!"
A jellyfish-lantern swayed from the wrist of a guard carrying an iron quiver as he bubbled with pride.
The moment Lan Xi’s name came up, his eyes sparkled with admiration.
"Yeah, yeah. Hey, by the way, do you know how the battle in the West Sea is going?"
"Of course! The Great King’s tactics to reclaim the West Sea Dragon Palace this time were nothing short of spectacular!" The mermaid guard grinned. "The West Sea Dragon King overestimated himself—tried to stage a coup, only to be forced by the Great King to write a surrender letter with his own beard. Now he’s hiding in the coral reefs, crying. Hmph, no dragon can compare to our Great King, an ancient titan!"
"With all four seas—East, West, North, and South—now under the Great King’s control, the next step is surely an invasion of the land!"
Just as they spoke, the patrol captain ahead ran his fingers over the blood still wet on his trident, his scales glinting an iron-blue in the abyssal gloom. "Your intel’s outdated," he said.
"This era is called the Age of Spiritual Resurgence. The Ancient Epoch is over, and new factions are emerging on land by the day. The Great King has been listening to the Sixth Princess’s reports from her recent travels ashore. He’s weighing whether to attack or seek peace."
Then his tone shifted.
"Still, the humans know their place. This morning, another envoy delivered a bunch of strange gadgets to the palace—something called a ‘smartphone,’ made by humans. They claim it even works underwater. The Great King’s been studying this new technology."
"With the Second Prince overseeing the East Sea in his stead, we might even get to see one of these ‘smartphones’ ourselves."
No sooner had he spoken—
WOOOOOOSH!!!
A piercing shriek tore through the water.
The twelve luminous pearls hanging from the coral branches shattered simultaneously, their glowing fragments scattering like sparks. The entire patrol watched in horror as their scales began growing in reverse, defying nature.
The mermaid captain’s trident handle seared like hot iron. Every anomaly screamed one truth:
Something terrifying was here.
The air froze.
"Stay alert!" the captain barked. Weapons raised, the patrol scanned the darkness.
Then—
[Kill...]
A voice, ancient and guttural, flooded their minds without warning.
Their eyes glazed over. Against their will, their gazes dragged toward the yawning trench below.
For some reason, an inexplicable pull drew them downward.
Their expressions hollowed. Their bodies drifted toward the abyss.
[Kill...]
As time crawled, the voice in their heads grew heavier.
When they breached the churning black smoke and reached the trench’s heart—
They saw it.
A sight they’d never forget.
A grotesque, pulsating meatball, lodged in the fissure’s core.
And around it...
Three hundred sperm whale carcasses knelt like worshippers, their skeletal spines warped into lotus shapes by the meatball’s aura.
The colossal crimson sphere, hundreds of feet wide, was studded with countless human faces pulsing to its rhythm.
The voices in their heads?
They came from those faces.
Now, the mermaids heard them clearly.
A chorus of nightmarish whispers drilled into their skulls:
[Kill... the Scavenger...]
[So... hungry... so hungry...]
[Take me... out...]
[I need... to feed...]
The patrol stared, dumbstruck, at the abomination.
Every instinct screamed to flee.
Yet...
Not a shred of resistance stirred in their hearts.
With eerie devotion, they whispered back:
"Yes..."
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
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."
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
