A bitingly cold gale swept through.
Greenish astral winds whirled and rose!
Lin Chen soared through the air, stepping forward, the Cloud-Splitting Staff in his hand.
On the streets of Huangcheng lay numerous martial artists, scattered in all directions.
All had been struck down by him; not a single one was his match.
"If any of you wish to continue the fight, I, Lin, will keep you company."
Lin Chen said indifferently.
Black light coiled around the jade pendant, murderous aura boiling, and along with it, his entire demeanor turned cold and ruthless.
Immediately, those who had taken action shivered.
At first, seeing this guy's grinning, playful appearance, they thought he was a clown.
Who would have thought that once he started fighting, he would be so ferocious!
Even martial artists at the peak of the Void Realm couldn't last more than a few rounds.
"You have impressive skills, sir."
At that moment, an old man with an immortal-like demeanor walked over slowly.
"Be careful, this old man is no simple character."
A voice came from the jade pendant, hurriedly reminding him.
Lin Chen's gaze turned serious. He tightened his grip on the Cloud-Splitting Staff, the green astral winds swirling around him, blowing his black hair to reveal sharp, ice-cold eyes.
This old man before him was the first martial artist of such formidable strength he had encountered since coming to the Immortal Gate.
His power was completely restrained, making him seem like an utterly ordinary old man, impossible to gauge his depth, which inspired caution.
"This old man is Xu Kang."
Noticing Lin Chen's vigilance, Xu Kang stopped and said with a smile.
Upon hearing the old man introduce himself as Xu Kang, everyone's expressions changed drastically, turning solemn. They struggled to their feet to pay their respects to Xu Kang.
Elder Longbrow Xu Kang!
One of the Four Great Guardians of the Celestial Palace!
A truly top-tier expert of the Celestial Palace.
Lin Chen, holding the Cloud-Splitting Staff, said coldly, "May I ask what business you have, Elder Xu?"
"Don't be alarmed, I bear no hostility."
Xu Kang chuckled lightly, taking a token from his sleeve.
Lin Chen raised an eyebrow. "This is..."
"Young Master Lin's strength is extraordinary, this old man is impressed. This token can guarantee your qualification for the marriage contest!" Xu Kang said with a smile.
Hearing this, the crowd was slightly taken aback, then sour with envy.
"Can being handsome let you do whatever you want?!"
"This bastard is so shameless! He deliberately picked fights, not only dragging us bystanders into it but also wrecking the Celestial Palace's restaurant."
"And yet, in the end, he actually gets a qualification token!"
"Unfair!"
In an instant, the surrounding people were both angry and resentful.
Some even planned to imitate Lin Chen next, attacking anyone they saw on the street!
Lin Chen raised an eyebrow, understanding something from their expressions.
"A marriage contest?"
"Thank you."
Lin Chen put away the token and said slowly.
Xu Kang smiled leisurely. "The Palace Lord thinks very highly of you, Young Master Lin. Don't disappoint her."
Hearing this, everyone's faces twisted with envy.
"He's already caught the Palace Lord's eye in advance?!"
Murong Qinghong's beauty is peerless—of course, that's secondary.
It's mainly her status! The Celestial Palace Lord!
What domineering female CEOs, what wealthy heiresses, they all pale in comparison.
In the Immortal Gate, Murong Qinghong is the genuine article, an empress!
To be favored by an empress!
That truly would be one person below, ten thousand above!
Money!
Power!
Beauty... well, that's a no-go, his... equipment would become the Palace Lord's exclusive tool from then on.
Anyway, in the future, he'd command the wind and rain, have everything he could wish for.
For this marriage contest, people from all walks of life in the Immortal Gate world wanted to get involved—men and women, old and young, even many from different races among them!
They were all hoping the Palace Lord had quirky tastes, just in case she liked their particular flavor!
Now it seems the Palace Lord's taste is normal.
She just likes young, handsome fellows!
Lin Chen took the token and stored it away.
"A marriage contest... Hah, not interested."
He wasn't An Yi; when he said he wasn't interested, he truly meant it.
He wasn't particularly obsessed with feminine charms.
Having one bespectacled, silly girl was enough.
Right now, Shangguan Qianqian was at the Celestial Palace. His main purpose was to come and understand the situation clearly.
Vaguely, he felt something was off about Shangguan Qianqian becoming the Celestial Palace's Saintess.
An aged voice came from the jade pendant: "Kid, you can participate in the marriage contest..."
After listening, Lin Chen fell into thought.
The next morning.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
War drums thundered, shattering the dawn's silence.
The entire Huangcheng was refreshed and renewed!
Flags were planted on the city walls, fluttering in the wind, rows of golden-armored soldiers standing imposingly.
In the center of Huangcheng.
Within a massive training ground, martial artists from all corners of the Immortal Gate gathered, all looking expectantly towards the high platform at the rear, awaiting the Palace Lord's arrival.
"Damn, this woman really knows how to put on airs!" Han Liang muttered impatiently.
Hearing this, Gu Changfeng broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly said, "Shh! Don't talk nonsense, do you want to keep your head?!"
Bad-mouthing the Palace Lord in Huangcheng was practically asking for death!
Han Liang was unperturbed.
Tu Langlang looked around curiously in the crowd: "Second Brother seems to be missing."
An Yi raised an eyebrow, as if just realizing: "Oh, someone is missing, huh."
Tu Langlang: "..."
At that moment, Hua Fengyu looked at An Yi and asked curiously, "Brother Lin, didn't you already qualify? Why are you still participating in the qualification round?"
"Qualified? When?!"
An Yi was a bit confused.
Yesterday, he beat up a bunch of people, then didn't pay for his meal and just ran off.
He didn't remember doing anything like that at all!
Hua Fengyu said helplessly, "No need to hide it. Guardian Xu personally delivered the token to you. The whole of Huangcheng knows about it."
An Yi raised an eyebrow: "Is that so..."
Right now, he was still disguised as Lin Chen.
And in the arena, quite a few people were looking at him with strange expressions.
An Yi sighed inwardly.
He knew it!
With Lin Chen's poker face and such a punchable look, disguising as him would draw hatred!
Thinking this, An Yi subtly retreated to a corner behind the crowd.
"It seems this Celestial Palace marriage contest is no ordinary affair."
Gu Changfeng swept his gaze over the surrounding crowd and sighed softly.
Top experts from many sects were practically all visible.
The Young Master of the Evil Dragon Gang, Hu Fei!
The premier warrior of the Ghost-Hand Tribe, Wei!
The Chieftain of the Flame Tribe, Ma Duoke!
Including the person next to him, Hua Fengyu, the direct grandson of the Great Elder of the Flower-Scent Sect.
Of course, these were the top young experts, but they didn't make up a large proportion of the total.
More numerous were a group of middle-aged men with imposing bearing!
Most of them were leaders of various sects, clan heads of major Immortal Gate families, and the like.
Their intent was obvious: to form a powerful alliance with the Celestial Palace and jointly carve up the Immortal Gate!
Gu Changfeng stole a glance, sizing them up quietly.
Good grief, many of them already had whole harems and a bunch of children!
And they could still participate in the marriage contest?
Of course, that wasn't the most excessive part.
There were also old-timers like the Grand Elder of the Canghai Sect, who didn't even have many teeth left, stubbornly participating while leaning on a cane.
Han Liang scoffed disdainfully, muttering under his breath: "A bunch of shameless old coots... Huh? Where's the Boss?"
"I'm here!"
An Yi's voice rang out.
Han Liang turned around and nearly stumbled in fright.
Behind him stood a two-meter-tall minotaur-like giant, looming like an iron tower.
A minotaur?
The word immediately popped into Han Liang's mind.
Boss, this is not the kind of cosplay you should be doing!
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!
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?!
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 + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
