In the back room of the Hongfu Auction House, everyone was stunned by Fang Shi’s extravagant gesture.
A thousand gold coins!
And he was giving it away just like that!
A smug smile appeared at the corners of Fang Shi’s lips.
Although his family belonged to the Merchant Alliance, a thousand gold coins still caused him considerable pain.
But if it could win a beauty’s smile, it was worth it.
At the Hongfu Auction House, the Xue family had long since ceased to be the dominant clan. They had even been pushed to the margins.
Otherwise, Xue Jia would never have been transferred to a backwater like Luo Family Town.
“Thank you, Young Master Fang, but this gift is far too valuable. I really can’t accept it.”
Xue Jia shook her head firmly.
She naturally understood what Fang Shi was thinking.
If she accepted a gift worth ten million, things would take on an entirely different meaning.
“Xue Jia, I’ve already bought this thousand-gold Tear Crystal for you. If you refuse to accept it, you’re looking down on me, Fang Shi.”
Fang Shi’s gaze turned cold.
The fact that Xue Jia could be with him was already the Xue family reaching above their station!
What qualifications did a fallen clan like theirs have to compare themselves with the flourishing Fang family?
“But…but…”
Xue Jia bit her lower lip, tears welling in her eyes.
At that moment, a slick-looking, bald middle-aged man hurried over and put on a fawning expression toward Fang Shi.
“Young Master Fang, what brings you here? Please, have a seat. Little Xue is just a bit nervous. After all, she’s never met someone as important as you and must have been frightened.”
As he spoke, the middle-aged fat man turned toward Xue Jia and said harshly, “Jiajia, Young Master Fang thinks highly of you. Don’t be so ungrateful. Hurry up and accept it—it’s worth a thousand gold coins!”
The middle-aged fat man was named Zhu Fu.
He was the steward of the Zhu family at the Hongfu Auction House.
A few years ago, the Zhu family had been nothing special. In the eyes of the Xue family, they weren’t even worth mentioning.
But times had changed.
The two people who had held power in the Xue family had been implicated by the Ye family and executed by the Divine Spirit Cult.
Now, the Xue family had completely lost control of the Hongfu Auction House and had become dependent on the Zhu family.
“I…”
Xue Jia’s delicate hand trembled. With tears in her eyes, she gritted her teeth and prepared to accept the glass ball Fang Shi was holding out to her.
“Don’t take it!”
Ye Tian’s voice suddenly rang out.
Xue Jia stared at the doorway in surprise. “Little Tian?”
“You again!”
The moment Fang Shi saw Ye Tian, his fists clenched, and murderous intent surfaced in his eyes.
Ye Tian strode over and grabbed Xue Jia’s delicate hand.
“If you don’t want it, then don’t force yourself to accept it.”
Looking at Ye Tian’s tall, upright figure, Xue Jia felt a warmth spread through her heart.
The little boy she had always protected seemed to have grown up.
“Where did this brat come from? Where are the guards? Throw him out!”
Zhu Fu shouted furiously.
He had been counting on a marriage between Xue Jia and the Fang family to pave the way for the Hongfu Auction House in the future.
How could he let this troublesome brat ruin everything?
Zhu Fu let out several more angry shouts, but the guards still did not move. His heart began to pound, and a foreboding feeling took hold of him.
“There’s no need for them to act.”
Fang Shi looked at Ye Tian with a smile curling at the corners of his mouth.
“I was wondering who it was. So it’s Young Master Ye!”
Ye Tian stared coldly at Fang Shi.
“Brat, do you know what this is?”
Fang Shi picked up a glass marble from the jade box and held it up casually.
“This is called a Tear Crystal. Each one is worth more than a hundred gold coins—enough to feed and support an ordinary person for an entire lifetime! And I, Fang Shi, can casually give a thousand-gold Tear Crystal to Miss Xue as a decorative gift. Can you do the same?”
Faced with Fang Shi’s contemptuous gaze, Ye Tian’s eyes grew even colder.
“Brat, I hate that disgusting look in your eyes!”
Fang Shi flew into a rage. Earth spiritual energy swirled around his hand as he punched toward Ye Tian.
“Please, stop!”
At the critical moment, Xue Jia hurriedly stepped in front of Ye Tian.
Seeing Xue Jia’s beautiful figure throwing herself into harm’s way, veins bulged on Fang Shi’s forehead.
That damn woman!
He had spent a fortune just to win her smile.
And now she was actually protecting another man.
Damn it!
Fang Shi’s gaze turned sinister. Showing no mercy, he threw a punch wrapped in surging force, engulfing Xue Jia along with Ye Tian.
Xue Jia instinctively grabbed Ye Tian’s clothes and closed her eyes.
Boom!
Earth spiritual energy collided with fire spiritual energy.
Fang Shi staggered back several steps, his blood and qi churning violently.
He stared in astonishment at Ye Tian, whose palm was wreathed in blue flames.
Just now…was that attack from this good-for-nothing from the Ye family?
After clearly sensing Ye Tian’s mid-stage Spirit Gathering cultivation, Fang Shi was stunned. He murmured in disbelief,
“Impossible. How could this be…”
He was already thirty years old, yet he had only just reached the threshold of the early Spirit Gathering stage.
But Ye Tian—the man who had once been mocked as a good-for-nothing—had already reached the mid-stage of Spirit Gathering!
Xue Jia was stunned as well. Her cherry lips parted slightly, and her beautiful eyes shimmered as she stared at Ye Tian.
It was almost like a dream!
The last time they had met, Ye Tian had still been an ordinary person being beaten by Wang Mazi.
“L-Little Tian, you…you…”
Ye Tian gave Xue Jia a faint smile and opened his hand.
In an instant, a blue flame appeared in his palm, its sharpness so intense that it seemed almost tangible.
Everyone present was shocked.
A fire-type spirit vein!
And that strange blue flame was clearly of an extraordinary grade. It was very likely a high-grade spirit vein—or perhaps even a top-grade one.
Surprise filled Xue Jia’s beautiful eyes.
“You…you have a spirit vein!”
A smile appeared at the corners of Ye Tian’s mouth.
“Yeah.”
Nearby, Fang Shi’s face turned ashen, his eyes cold with fury.
The reason Ye Tian had been called a good-for-nothing was that he had not possessed even a single spirit vein. His strength had been inferior to that of ordinary farmers.
But now, not only did he possess a spirit vein, it was a high-grade fire spirit vein. His cultivation had even reached the mid-stage of Spirit Gathering!
“Men, seize this rebel!”
Fang Shi glared at Xue Jia and Ye Tian, who were standing so intimately together, and gnashed his teeth.
“Seize that disgusting slut as well!”
Ye Tian turned back to him, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes.
“Perfect. The two of you deserve whatever happens for offending Young Master Fang!”
Zhu Fu grinned and sneered.
Crash!
The attendants behind Fang Shi drew their weapons and surrounded Ye Tian and Xue Jia from all sides.
Fang Shi watched Ye Tian coldly, his expression arrogant.
So what if he wasn’t a good-for-nothing anymore?
They had strength in numbers.
Today, Ye Tian was at their mercy!
Even if he had a spirit vein, they would beat him into having a crippled one!
“Stay behind me.”
Ye Tian shielded Xue Jia behind him and gripped the Coiling Dragon Halberd.
A wisp of deep-blue flame curled upward around it.
The atmosphere was tense and ready to explode!
“Oh? Isn’t this a Tear Crystal? Why is it lying around here?”
An Yi appeared in the middle of the scene at some point.
He reached into the jade box, took out a glass marble, and held it up, squinting at it.
“You bastard, put that down!” Fang Shi roared coldly.
Crack!
An Yi crushed the glass marble into powder with his bare hand.
“Sorry. My hand slipped.”
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?"
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!
ver to a world of cultivation and returned invincible. Modern medicine is child's play compared to elixirs; technological might crumbles before true cultivation. My name is Qin Ning, Earth's sole cultivator!
