Author's Note: Thanks to "LoveStruckFool" for the spa treat! Boss is generous!
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Sacred Domain, Commercial Street.
"Wow! So many people!"
"So beautiful!"
"This place is even bigger than our courtyard!"
"Longlong, that's obvious. Ours was a hospital, you know?"
"Huh? A hospital? You all lived in a hospital before? Wait... now that I look, why are you all wearing patient gowns?"
"Yeah, but I won't share my lollipop with you."
"Uh... haha... no need..."
Su Muwan stared at the chaotic crowd before her, her lips twitching.
How the hell did Qin Luo interpret her glance like this?!
Has his comprehension skill not improved since the first time they met?!
For heaven's sake, learn to read my expressions already!
Just as she was thinking this—
"What are you standing around for? My treat today—everything’s on me!"
Yan Qiuyue cheerfully squeezed over, grabbing a pack of spicy strips from a nearby stall and waving it in front of Su Muwan. "Wanwan, does this thing replenish spiritual energy?"
"Replenish your head! It’s junk food!"
Su Muwan smacked her hand away, only to notice Xiao Tian crouching by a shelf, poking a spiritual-energy pudding with his lollipop.
What the heck is a "spiritual-energy pudding"?
The stall owner hurriedly warned, "Careful! That pudding has evolved—it’s alive now!"
Before he finished speaking—
Pop! The pudding sprouted a jagged, gelatinous mouth and chomped down on Xiao Tian’s lollipop stick.
The boy plopped onto the ground, bursting into tears. "Waaah! My lollipop got eaten!"
"Don’t worry, Longlong! Xueqi will avenge you!"
Jiang Xueqi grabbed a broom nearby, ready to smash the pudding, but Wang Yong yanked her back. "Hey, wait, Xueqi! You can’t just wreck someone’s stall!"
Su Muwan facepalmed.
She turned to glare at Qin Luo, grinding her teeth. "Qin Luo, control them!"
Qin Luo, meanwhile, was engrossed in examining the various novel [spiritual artifacts] born from the rules of the Great Thousand Worlds at another stall.
Some objects from minor worlds had directly gained sentience and evolved into living beings.
It was like how a ten-thousand-year-old ginseng could become a spirit and run around.
But...
Even pudding could become sentient? The Great Thousand Worlds really were fascinating.
Hearing Su Muwan’s voice, he blinked and looked up. "Didn’t the young miss want to experience the lively street atmosphere with everyone?"
Huh?
Why did the young miss look so pissed?
Did he misunderstand?
"Lively atmosphere my foot!"
Su Muwan shot another glare at Qin Luo, who still hadn’t grasped the situation.
This idiot! Couldn’t he tell she wanted some alone time with him?!
And yet...
"Wow! Sugar painting! I want this!"
"Dean! Dean! I want cotton candy!"
"I want candied hawthorns!"
"Me too!"
"Me three! I’ll buy some for Lianlian!"
Xiao Tian, Jiang Xueqi, Song Ming, Suan Tianxing, and the others crowded around the stalls, refusing to budge.
"Hubby, I want this~"
"Wanwan, me too~"
Why.
Su Muwan’s eye twitched as she pulled out a black card and tossed it over to pay.
Why did she end up having to take care of all these people?!
Life was hard. Muwan sighed.
Since she couldn’t change anything...
Fine!
Su Muwan grabbed Qin Luo’s arm and declared petulantly, "Qin Luo! I’m going to eat my fill too!"
She pointed at a stall.
"I want cola, chips, spirit fruits, candied fruits, cotton candy, candied hawthorns... Buy me everything!"
Qin Luo smiled and nodded.
Ah, so the young miss was just upset she hadn’t gotten to eat yet.
She really loved this kind of atmosphere, huh?
A while later...
After passing through the snack district, Qin Luo and the group arrived at the entrance of a dazzling spherical building shaped like a soccer ball.
Floating above it were the words:
[Pleasure Pavilion]
Below, a smaller line read:
[Spiritual-energy holographic experience. Caution advised for those below the Initiation Realm.]
Su Muwan blinked up at it. "This place... doesn’t look very reputable."
"Pleasure Pavilion"? The name alone sounded shady.
But the soccer-ball architecture seemed oddly wholesome.
"No, no!"
Qin Luo shook his head, pulling out a tablet to check the details.
"Young miss, this is an entertainment complex Li Mingyuan and the others designed to fit the Great Thousand Worlds theme!"
"It combines illusion arrays and holographic projections—basically, an arcade."
After a second of thought, Su Muwan’s eyes sparkled. "Let’s check it out."
Inside the lobby...
A neon sign glowed at the center:
[Immortal-Demon War: Battle of Destiny 5v5 Showdown!!]
"What kind of game is this? Never heard of it."
Su Muwan leaned in to read the rules. "Team battle? Winners have a 99% chance to draw an exclusive Immortal-Demon War skin? Huh?! 99%?!"
Her eyes lit up. Isn't this like getting something for free?!
Although she didn't know what this game was all about, getting a free game skin was enough to wake her up from any drowsiness!
"Miss, do you want to give it a try?"
Qin Luo somehow managed to whisper in her ear, "How about forming a team with me? I'll support you."
Hearing this,
Su Muwan gave a soft snort. "Since you're so eager to play, then I'll accompany you."
A moment later,
Everyone arrived at the character selection platform in the gaming area. Dozens of holographic projections descended from the sky, transforming into various immortal and demonic heroes.
Each character was so lifelike that it seemed as if they could jump out of the screen at any moment.
"Wow, these characters are so cool!"
Yan Qiuyue excitedly leaned closer to the screen, her eyes shining. "I'll choose this so - called Blazing Flame Empress. It's obvious she's a fire - type mage. Perfect for me!"
Alicia adjusted her glasses. After thinking for a while, she said, "Well... I'll play an assassin."
Qin Luo looked at Su Muwan and smiled. "Miss, have you decided which character to choose?"
On Su Muwan's side, she was lying on the console, twirling the ice - type female mage with silver hair in the virtual screen with her fingertips.
"That's the one!"
"Is her ultimate skill called [Universal Ice Coffin]?"
"Damn it, why didn't I come up with a name like that?"
"Alright, this skill name is mine now."
Qin Luo chose a support - type character named [Luo Shen], whose skills mainly focused on healing and control.
He smiled and said, "Then I'll be the exclusive support for the miss."
After everyone had chosen their characters, they were teleported to the pre - game area inside the game.
Su Muwan looked down and found that she had transformed into the appearance of the "Frost Queen", wearing an ice - blue robe and holding a crystal - clear staff in her hand.
She waved the staff, and immediately, a frosty aura condensed into ice crystals in the air, making a "click - click" sound.
"Wow, this feels so real!"
Su Muwan excitedly spun around.
"Yes, this is the realism of this game,"
Qin Luo had transformed into the white - robed "Luo Shen", holding a folding fan with a landscape painting on it.
And their teammates were randomly matched.
There was a marksman named Xiao Tian, a top - laner named Jiang Zixuan, and a jungler named Feng Yueke.
It all seemed rather odd.
The next second,
[All troops, attack!]
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
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?!
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!
