The morning light filtered through the gap in the curtains, casting a soft glow on Su Di'er's forehead.
Li Moran, who had long since woken up, walked silently to the window and pulled the curtains tightly shut.
In the dim, quiet room, a faint luminescence radiated from the young girl's forehead.
It was the Ice Lotus mark Li Moran had left behind during her first playthrough.
By now, Li Moran had already navigated the early stages of the plot. The storyline had just reached the point where Su Di'er took her as a master and began her martial training.
This was the favorite stage for all cultivators. They would often deliberately slow down the pace of their cultivation, purposefully delaying Su Di'er from truly entering the Qi Condensation stage for as long as possible.
In a way, it was similar to how many players of Red Dead Redemption 2 in her previous life, after clearing the game, would choose to keep Arthur in the town of Valentine forever.
Li Moran did not intentionally stall for time.
In fact, she couldn't have stalled even if she wanted to.
The stats granted by the Ice Lotus mark were simply too absurd. Su Di'er gained experience points every day just by breathing and sleeping...
Because of this, Li Moran simply slowed down their cultivation schedule. Instead, she took a page out of Zhou Qiaoling's book and frequently brought Su Di'er along to do things unrelated to cultivation.
The only difference was that while Zhou Qiaoling would take Su Di'er out to scam and swindle people, Li Moran preferred to take her sightseeing to enjoy the beauty of nature.
At this moment, looking at the icy, translucent glow radiating from the mark on the young girl's forehead, Li Moran could not help but frown.
Because Su Di'er's level had increased again.
This also meant that they were one step closer to the final ending.
The hopeful goodwill from her first playthrough had, in a sense, become a curse in her second playthrough.
Li Moran let out a soft sigh, revealing a rare expression of gentleness.
Just as she stepped up to the bed, she was caught completely off guard when the young girl suddenly threw herself into her arms.
"Li Ang."
"I had a dream."
"In my dream, you were riding on seven-colored auspicious clouds, just like the storytellers say... and with a single strike of your sword, you opened the Gates of Heaven."
"But..."
The young girl's back suddenly began to tremble slightly, her voice choking with emotion.
"But when I tried to hug you, you shattered into pieces... just like the clouds..."
"Li Ang... please, don't leave me..."
Li Moran fell silent.
Memories that had been buried beneath their recent happy times suddenly came rushing back.
Looking at the tearful girl in front of her, an overwhelming sense of heartbreak caused her usually stable emotions to surge violently.
"Bang!"
A massive boom echoed through the Bingyi Pavilion.
Under the intense emotional fluctuation, the spiritual energy within Li Moran's body shattered the restrictions of the Illusion Tower, instantly severing her connection to the illusion.
"An inner... demon?"
Li Moran frowned but quickly dismissed the thought, immediately circulating her cultivation technique.
Under the influence of her Ice Phoenix Sword Physique, Li Moran had been born aloof and devoid of worldly desires.
The outside world generally believed that this emotionlessness was the price of possessing the Ice Phoenix Sword Physique, and that experiencing emotions would ruin its power.
That was why a strong sense of crisis welled up in Li Moran's heart the moment she noticed her own intense emotional fluctuations.
However, as she circulated her technique and her emotions began to settle, Li Moran gradually sensed something wondrous—
Her Ice Phoenix Sword Physique, which had remained completely stagnant since birth, was actually showing signs of breaking through its shackles at this very moment!
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Lihuo Peak, Lingyu Pavilion.
[Emotion Points +99999]
"It worked!"
Lu Ze clapped his hands in excitement, gleefully exiting the illusion.
It was exactly as he had predicted. For a cultivator like Li Moran, the Demonic Path Points generated from an emotional breakdown were far higher than those of ordinary cultivators!
Somehow, he had managed to push her to the point of disconnecting this time, and the Demonic Path Points he earned were even greater than what he got from those top-tier big shots!
"Not bad, not bad at all. With this, I can break through again..."
Lu Ze narrowed his eyes as he examined the emotion points in the system interface.
After all the grinding in this second playthrough, his Demonic Path Points had skyrocketed, pushing him all the way to the threshold of the late Nascent Soul stage.
Just as he was preparing to meditate and break through on the spot, a terrifyingly cold, frosty aura swept over from the distant Wenjian Peak.
Lu Ze suddenly shuddered.
"Why do I feel..."
"A chill down my spine..."
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."
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.”
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
