Since childhood, An Yi had clearly understood one thing:
If you lack strength, don’t act tough!
So, after two probing moves, he knew he was no match.
When Butcher swung his blade at him again, An Yi didn’t hesitate. Gripping the tangled, rusted pipes overhead, he swung lightly and leaped onto them.
Butcher glanced at Lin Chen, who was locked in combat with Viper, and smirked disdainfully. "Buying time? Fine, I’ll play along!"
Suddenly!
Butcher lunged into the air like a diving hawk, his short blade slicing through the obstructing pipes as he charged straight at An Yi.
Watching the blade loom closer, An Yi’s pupils constricted.
No way!
Meanwhile, Lin Chen and Viper had already engaged in battle.
If there was one thing Lin Chen excelled at, it was close-quarters combat.
He wielded no weapons—because he himself was the weapon.
Fists, shoulders, elbows, palms, knees…
A master of all fighting techniques, he now faced an unexpected challenge.
The woman before him seemed boneless, her body unnervingly supple, living up to her name—Viper.
In their initial exchanges, both had merely tested the waters, but Lin Chen gained no advantage. If anything, he was at a disadvantage.
"Don’t underestimate a woman. I’m quasi-S rank!"
Viper’s thick lips curled into a cold smile.
Stomping the ground, Lin Chen whipped his leg like a lash toward Viper’s face.
Yet Viper bent her waist into an impossible arc, evading the strike effortlessly.
Open-hand thrust!
Lin Chen unleashed a flurry of punches.
But Viper dodged them nimbly, countering with a vicious kick to his chest.
Though she appeared soft, the force behind that kick was terrifying. Lin Chen felt as if his heart had been jolted out of place.
Yet in that split second, he seized Viper’s ankle.
Bone-breaking strike!
Lin Chen drove his elbow toward her knee.
But Viper’s leg bent like rubber, rendering the attack useless.
Instead, she coiled around him like a serpent, her legs locking around his waist as her hands snaked toward his throat.
"Strong men… I like them," Viper purred, though her actions were anything but affectionate. A steel needle flicked from her sleeve, aimed at his neck.
Suplex!
In a flash, Lin Chen hurled them both into the wall.
The brutal impact forced her to drop the needle.
"Same outcome," Viper hissed, tightening her grip on his throat while her legs twisted his waist sideways.
The pose might’ve looked intimate, but all Lin Chen felt was death’s approach.
The black woman’s hands were vise-like, unyielding no matter how he struggled—only squeezing tighter.
She was using jujitsu.
Jujitsu was a revolutionary combat style.
Countless fierce, hard-hitting martial arts had fallen to its unorthodox techniques.
Lin Chen knew this woman was a jujitsu expert. Once entangled, he was already half-defeated. If she took him to the ground, it’d be a death sentence.
"Haah!"
With a roar, Lin Chen charged like a raging bull toward the wall, twisting at the last moment.
Viper, still clinging to him, took the brunt of the impact. Blood sprayed from her mouth, her face paling.
Yet she seized the chance to slam Lin Chen onto the ground.
The moment they hit, Viper flipped their positions, pinning him beneath her.
Lin Chen struggled.
Now, he truly felt like a python had coiled around him, slowly crushing his bones. Breathing grew labored.
Viper didn’t look too good either.
She had underestimated Lin Chen's strength. The earlier collision had cracked several of her ribs, leaving her looking pale and weak, her strength nearly sapped.
Lin Chen was still struggling, and for a moment, the two of them were locked in a tug-of-war. Whoever ran out of stamina first would be the loser.
However, just then, a series of sharp whistling sounds cut through the air.
Several silver needles embedded themselves into Viper's spine.
In that instant, her entire body went limp.
"Cheap shot! Sneak attack!"
Viper's icy gaze fixed on An Yi, who stood not far away.
It was him—his needles had struck her back.
Now, no matter how hard she tried, her arms felt weak and powerless.
An Yi scoffed. "Idiot, this isn’t a martial arts tournament. Who has time to solo you?"
From what he’d seen, Lin Chen was at best evenly matched with that jiu-jitsu woman. Even if he won, it would be a pyrrhic victory.
And right now, he was still being chased down by Butcher!
So, from the start, An Yi had come prepared.
His Nine Yang Divine Needles—this was the first time he’d used them in actual combat.
But judging by the results, they worked just fine.
Lin Chen seized the opportunity, twisting Viper’s arm behind her back and slamming her face into the ground.
Crack!
Viper lay motionless, her fate unknown.
Lin Chen gasped for breath, his eyes shifting to An Yi, who was still locked in battle with Butcher.
The silver needles in Viper’s back were clearly An Yi’s doing.
But in that split second of distraction, Butcher’s blade sliced into An Yi’s shoulder, leaving a bloody gash.
Relentless attacks had left An Yi covered in cuts, his white shirt soaked with blood.
"Save Qin Yao first!"
An Yi clutched his wound, panting heavily.
The chase had drained much of his stamina, while Butcher still looked unfazed.
"Watch yourself!" Lin Chen said grimly.
For the first time, Lin Chen felt something like respect for this cocky bastard.
The priority was Qin Yao. Once she was safe, they could make their escape.
"Viper!"
Butcher’s eyes locked onto her motionless body.
Rage boiled inside him.
Viper had been taken down by these two brats!
"You’ll pay with your life!"
Butcher’s strikes grew even more frenzied.
An Yi barely managed to block with his dagger.
Clang!
The dagger was knocked from his grip.
Cold sweat beaded on An Yi’s forehead. Butcher was serious now—his strength had clearly leveled up.
How much longer could he hold out?
Lin Chen reached Qin Yao and tore off her blindfold.
"Lin Chen, you—"
Her voice trembled.
"No time to talk," Lin Chen cut in.
His fingers traced the wires as he prepared to disarm the bomb.
But then his expression darkened, sweat rolling down his forehead.
The bomb’s wiring was different—he couldn’t disarm it.
"Still not done?!"
An Yi had lost his dagger and could only dodge Butcher’s attacks desperately.
Lin Chen gritted his teeth. "Can’t disarm it. We have to cut the wires."
He isolated three of them.
His hands hesitated. They only had one shot.
"Moron! Don’t cut any of them! Unless you want us all to die here."
Butcher’s voice was cold.
He immediately shifted his target.
An Yi was nimble, and the factory’s maze-like layout made him hard to pin down.
But Lin Chen and Qin Yao were easier prey.
Just as Butcher turned—
A shockwave blasted toward him like a hammer, slamming into his back.
In an instant, his shirt shredded, leaving a dark purple bruise.
With the mace (sneak attack) amplifying the force by 150%, the impact was devastating—even Butcher couldn't ignore it.
"Who the hell told you to go over there? Your opponent is me!"
An Yi declared arrogantly, assuming the opening stance of his Qi Control technique.
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!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
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!
