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..."
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!
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!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
