After leaving the night market, the road grew increasingly empty and silent. There wasn't a soul in sight.
"Someone's here!"
An Yi grabbed Shen Muxuan's hand, took two steps, and suddenly stopped.
Shen Muxuan looked around cautiously, then leaned in close with a solemn expression, whispering, "Where?"
"Watch closely."
An Yi chuckled softly, crouched down, and tapped the ground lightly with his finger.
With him as the center, dark shadows on the ground turned into streams of flowing light, chasing outwards like swimming fish.
"What is this?" Shen Muxuan crouched down beside him, staring wide-eyed at the black shadows, asking curiously.
"Black Soul Art!"
An Yi grinned. "Just a little trick from the Dark element."
His strength was now at the late stage of the Spirit Gathering realm.
He wasn't very proficient in spiritual arts of other elements, but he could easily perform some of the Dark element arts he had learned previously.
"Ah!"
Screams rang out abruptly.
Behind them, three men stiffened and collapsed, falling unconscious.
Shen Muxuan was shocked. "How did you do that?"
An Yi said proudly, "It's a secret!"
"However, it seems you missed one," Shen Muxuan said with a giggle.
Thud!
In another spot, a frozen figure hit the ground.
An Yi looked at Shen Muxuan in disbelief.
What was going on? Was this girl's perception even stronger than his?
Shen Muxuan looked triumphant, putting her hands on her hips and humming softly. "I'm very formidable too, you know."
She possessed the Heavenly Yin Spirit Vein, which was also an extremely rare variant: the Ice Spirit Vein.
Her cultivation talent was excellent, and combined with her previous foundation, she was already at the early stage of the Spirit Gathering realm.
"Fine, you're the most formidable," An Yi said with a perfunctory smile.
Shen Muxuan gave him a reproachful look and asked curiously, "Why were they following us?"
"They weren't following us," An Yi mused.
"Then why did you attack..."
Shen Muxuan's eyes widened.
"They didn't feel like good people, so I just took care of them in passing."
An Yi brushed his finger, and a pitch-black longsword appeared in his hand.
These people carried a heavy aura of malevolence.
You don't get an aura that heavy without having taken a few lives.
As the Master of the Asura Gate, the big boss of the An family company, fourth on the Heaven Rankings, and the owner of a Lamborghini Veneno worth over a hundred million...
Of course, none of that really mattered; he simply couldn't sit by and watch.
At the same time, a cold, stoic face appeared opposite him. They had bumped into each other by chance.
Their eyes met.
Lin Chen frowned and muttered, "Bad luck."
"Hey now, Poker Face, what are you saying? I'm your boss!"
An Yi said with a fake smile.
Raising his reputation points was imminent.
He was going to assign this Poker Face to the position of toilet scrubber!
"An Yi!"
Upon seeing An Yi, Qin Yao chased after him hurriedly, her eyes revealing a hint of joy. "I knew I didn't recognize the wrong person... Muxuan, you—you're here too?"
"Yao Yao, hello!" Shen Muxuan raised her hand and greeted her with a beaming smile.
Qin Yao smiled. "Muxuan, when did you get back?"
"Just a few days ago. It's been a long time."
"Yes, yes. Muxuan, why didn't you tell anyone you were back?"
"..."
Watching the two girls chat affectionately, An Yi felt like he had thorns in his back. He was sitting on pins and needles!
He had been careful enough!
He didn't expect to run into them even after leaving the night market.
"It's dangerous right now. This isn't the time to catch up," Lin Chen said in a deep voice, scanning the area ahead.
Through his wind perception, he sensed two very dangerous auras!
An Yi, holding the Dragon Tooth Demon Sword, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. "Right, right, it's very dangerous right now!"
As they spoke, a group of ferocious-looking individuals swarmed in from all directions, a massive crowd.
It looked quite like a gangster gathering.
The only thing missing was some blood-pumping background music!
"Where did these two kids come from? They beat up four or five of our brothers!"
"Never seen them. Damn it, I've never seen anyone so arrogant."
They were martial artists of the Poison Sect.
They had prepared to hunt down Zhang Fan, but unexpectedly, before they even saw him, these two kids had taken out four or five of their brothers.
An Yi asked curiously, "Old Lin, I remember the Poison Sect is that guy Zhang Fan's organization, right?"
Lin Chen nodded slightly.
Although there were over a hundred people, he didn't really regard them as a threat.
There wasn't a single Void Realm expert; the strongest among them were merely Transformation Realm masters.
Whether it was him or An Yi, either one could take them all on alone.
"Yo, did you see those two chicks?"
"Beautiful! Holy crap!"
A group of Poison Sect martial artists couldn't take their eyes off Qin Yao and the other girl.
They were lawless individuals to begin with!
Moreover, Shen Muxuan and Qin Yao were both beauties scoring over 9 out of 10; how could they possibly let them go?
At the very front, a bald man grinned. "Brothers, kill the two kids. We'll take the two women together."
"Don't be like that. Chop off their hands and let these two brats watch. Wouldn't that be better?"
Another middle-aged man wearing glasses, who looked refined and gentle, said with a smile.
"Makes sense!"
The bald giant laughed heartily, then—thud—he collapsed.
A sword blade had sliced open his back, and blood flowed into a pool.
An Yi slowly sheathed his sword.
Everyone was startled.
Was this kid a ghost?
"Careful! This kid isn't simple!"
The Poison Sect martial artists retreated one after another, putting distance between themselves and An Yi.
An Yi revealed an arrogant expression, raised his hand, and under the watchful eyes of the crowd, snapped his fingers.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang...
The chests of a dozen men in the front row exploded, killing them instantly.
Everyone shuddered, looking at An Yi with eyes full of terror.
How did this kid do that!
Behind An Yi, Lin Chen, who was manipulating the Air Control Technique with a clenched fist, looked gloomy.
This guy... was truly shameless!
An Yi looked at the crowd with contempt and said indifferently, "Scared yet?"
"Watch out!"
Lin Chen shouted hurriedly.
At that moment, a beam of fire rushed towards them.
An Yi's gaze darkened slightly. He raised his hand, forming an wall of air.
Bang!
After blocking the fire beam, the air wall shattered, and flames splashed everywhere.
Just as the scattered fire was about to ignite the surrounding buildings, the flames suddenly froze in the air!
They abruptly disintegrated into finer sparks and extinguished!
Lin Chen slowly unclenched his fist, dispersing his spiritual energy, and said, "Your Air Control Technique is as lousy as ever."
An Yi, holding the Dragon Tooth Demon Sword, looked in the direction the fire had come from and said in a deep voice, "A late-stage Spirit Gathering martial artist... doesn't seem human."
"Heh heh, impressive! You actually spotted me."
At this moment, a child with green skin walked out from the shadows.
He wasn't tall and let out a distinctive "heh heh heh" laugh that was hair-raising.
"A toad?" An Yi asked curiously.
The child's laughter came to an abrupt halt. "How did you know?"
An Yi raised an eyebrow. A level five demon beast, the Green Fire Toad!
In his current state, he wouldn't really consider it a threat, but the problem was, this was the secular world—how could there be a level five demon beast here?
Things were getting more and more chaotic.
"Ghost Vine is almost done on his side. Qing Chan, don't drag this out!"
Not far away, a blonde man radiating a suffocating aura walked over slowly.
Lin Chen's expression became grave as he drew the Splitting Cloud Tonfa from his waist.
These two guys don't seem simple. It's time to get serious.
A sinister smile surfaced on Qing Chan's childish face. "Both leaders of the Shura Gate are here. I really want to know why the Sect Master would be wary of small fry like them!"

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."

and couldn't return to the real world. Finally, I gave up and decided to go with the flow, only to discover that writing a diary could make me stronger. Since no one could read it, Su Luo wrote freely, daring to pen anything and everything. Female Lead #1: "Not bad. This diary helped me steal all the protagonist's opportunities. I just want to get stronger." Female Lead #2: "I don’t care about reaching the peak of the cultivation world. Right now, I just want to enjoy the chaos." Female Lead #3: "What? Everyone around me is a spy? I’m the Joker Demon Lord?" ... It’s so strange. Why is the plot completely off track, yet the ending remains the same? Are you all just messing with me?!

e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"

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.”