Beneath the stone crevice lay a deep pool.
On both banks of the pool, snakes clustered in thick, tangled masses—enough to trigger anyone's trypophobia.
"Hiss!"
Pythons slithered across the ground.
Liu Yu gripped his short blade, eyes cold and hard, backing away step by step from the serpent swarm.
He had been too eager.
Beneath the water was a snake den.
Tier after tier of serpent beasts packed the space, their scales rasping in a sound that made skin crawl. Their forked tongues flicked in and out—utterly horrifying.
This place was already deep inside Dragon Bone Mountain Range, and the beasts here had risen in rank.
Tier-two and tier-three creatures were everywhere.
He had been lured here by a surge of powerful spiritual energy, only to find himself in a snake pit.
Even escaping was now a problem.
Dark spiritual power condensed in his palm, and Liu Yu cast out a veil of shadow.
The entire area plunged into pitch darkness.
Whoosh!
Even so, the pythons lunged forward, snapping at Liu Yu.
Die!
He swung his short blade.
A massive serpent head tumbled to the ground.
The severed body writhed and thrashed, a gruesome sight.
Then, dozens of pythons surged in from all sides, surrounding him.
"Get away!"
Liu Yu roared, but the snakes coiled around him, binding his body.
"Hiss!"
A colossal serpent slithered forward, circling him in ring after ring, and opened its cavernous jaws, ready to swallow him whole.
This was a tier-four beast—the ruler of this nest.
Dark spiritual power swirled in Liu Yu's hand like a vortex. He tore free of a snake that had wrapped around his arm and pressed his palm against the massive serpent's body.
"Hiss!"
The great serpent let out a shrill, agonized cry.
A mist of blood exploded from its body; it burst apart in a rain of crimson.
"Damn it... poison!"
Liu Yu's eyelids drooped heavily, his mind foggy. He collapsed face-first to the ground with a dull thud.
Outside the stone cavern, a group of mercenaries stood guard. At the sight, their faces shifted.
"Damn it, where did this brat come from? Ruining our business!"
A bald mercenary muttered darkly.
Deep within the stone pool lay a giant python of immensely high rank, currently mid-transformation.
Legend had it that if a python's level was high enough, it might elevate its bloodline during its molt.
They had camped here for half a month, waiting for the moment of weakness before the python's transformation, when it would be vulnerable enough to capture.
And now this kid had screwed everything up.
"Old Liu, you in there?"
Purple lightning crackled.
The pythons that had been closing in on Liu Yu scattered in retreat.
Yan Kui walked in, Qiansui at his side.
"What happened?"
Seeing Liu Yu sprawled on the ground, Qiansui hurried over.
"Take the antidote pill!"
Yan Kui frowned, pressing a pill into Qiansui's hand without another word.
After swallowing the antidote, the two propped Liu Yu up between them.
Then three more students from the special recruitment class dashed in, holding torches.
"You guys okay?"
"Whoa—look at all these snakes, it's disgusting!"
The three new arrivals flinched at the writhing masses.
"Liu Yu's been poisoned. Keep an eye on him."
Yan Kui raised his torch, scanning the cave.
Then his hand began to tremble.
Straight ahead, a python so enormous it defied belief fixed its gaze on them. Its eyes hung like lanterns, utterly terrifying!
"What... in the name of hell is that!"
Yan Kui's whole body was shaking uncontrollably.
Qiansui and the other three students were barely any better.
"Roar!"
The massive python whipped its tail.
In an instant, all the smaller snakes scattered and fled the cavern.
The python's enormous tail slammed into the stone pool.
Rocks shattered and tumbled as the entire cavern caved in.
Yan Kui, Qiansui, and the others were blown out by the shockwave of debris.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
Yan Kui hacked violently, feeling like his lungs might come out.
"Qiansui, Hu Cheng, be careful…"
He gritted his teeth and wiped the dust from his face.
Now he could finally see the true form of the beast.
The entire serpent was covered in white scales, easily ninety meters tall, shielding even the tallest ancient trees beneath its shadow.
"No wonder so many beasts fled to the outer regions!"
Qiansui's eyes trembled with shock.
This white python was already tier-six!
If anything, its aura suggested even higher.
With a beast like this around, all lower-ranked creatures would flee its territory and spread outward.
The python's head turned toward Yan Kui and the others below.
Instantly, they felt as if the blood in their veins had frozen solid.
"Run…" Liu Yu, carried by one of the students, forced his eyes open and rasped. "Find Instructor An Yi—only he can handle this!"
Yan Kui didn't hesitate.
He pulled out his sound whistle and blew it.
Every student had been issued one; it was meant for emergencies.
"Damn brats. If any of you survive this, I swear I'll beat you senseless!"
The mercenaries outside spotted the commotion, spat curses, and abandoned their post.
Staying any longer meant risking getting caught in the crossfire.
The massive python's presence sent shockwaves through the mountain.
Countless low-tier beasts cowered in fear.
Zhang Qi swung his longsword, impaling a bull-type beast through the chest.
"Someone's in trouble!"
Zhang Qi heard the whistle and tensed.
"Big Brother Qi, look—what is that?"
Houzi balanced on a tree branch, steadying himself, and pointed into the distance.
Zhang Qi looked up. A massive python was surging forward at incredible speed, seemingly attacking something.
Zhang Qi sheathed his sword: "Let's go. Check it out!"
Houzi's face went stiff: "R-really? We're really going to look? That thing's like tier-six, at least!"
"Then you stay here. I'm going."
"Wait—Big Brother Qi, wait up!"
Meanwhile, Yan Kui and the others were in the middle of defending against the python's assault.
"Thunder Formation!"
Yan Kui roared.
Purple lightning erupted from the ground, coiling around the white python and holding it in place.
The white python paid it no mind, and simply walked through it.
The lightning struck its hide and couldn't even break the skin.
Qiansui's ice layers froze over the python's body, but they looked like nothing more than sparkling decorations—utterly useless.
Hu Cheng, working with the other two students, couldn't manage a single scratch on the monster. All they could do was watch as the white python opened its jaws wide toward them.
Then, blue flames surged into a blazing beam of fire and shot forward like a spear, slamming into the python's head!
The azure flame dissipated, revealing a long halberd embedded in the serpent's skull.
Yan Kui and the others stared in awe.
The weapon looked familiar.
"Ye Tian! It's Ye Tian!"
The white python wailed in pain, twisting its head toward the source of the attack.
On the mountain peak stood a figure cloaked in blue flames. It could only be Ye Tian.
On the outer edges of Dragon Bone Mountain Range.
An Yi spread his black feathered wings, tearing through the sky like a meteor toward the mountain's depths.
"Those damn kids! Always causing me trouble!"
His eyes narrowed. Far off, he could already see the shadow of the white python.
That aura… it was at least peak tier-six!
What the hell had they done?
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
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!
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.”
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.
