“Holy crap, that airdropped Pal, Huiyueyi, on Sakura Island is insanely strong! It’s even a Level 7 Crafter—way better than Anubis!!”
“Tch, you guys are progressing way too slowly. I’m already at the Land of the Falling Sky… Whoa!!! Why is Flying Mountain getting shelled?!”
“Damn it, Coral Ingots are such a pain… Why do they need so many new materials?”
“Hahaha! Dismembering the Sea Emperor Whale can drop Coral Ingots! The Shadowbeak can finally take a break!”
“What the hell? The next tower is… in the sky!?”
“Sunreach Village! It’s so high up, and so beautiful!!”
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As the fully released Version 1.0, which had been updated continuously for two years, the game offered one thing above all: an enormous amount of content.
After not logging in for several days, Zhong Yi’s gaming addiction flared up. He played nonstop through the night, clearing the towers on Sakura Island and the Land of the Falling Sky one after another, and finally arrived at Sunreach Village, where the eighth tower was located.
The tower master of Sunreach Village was Cang Li, the Eastern beauty who best fit a cultivator’s aesthetic out of all the tower masters.
“She really is beautiful, and she really does hit hard…”
After joining forces to defeat Cang Li, Zhong Yi grimaced in pain as he rubbed his bruised and battered face.
Cang Li’s exclusive Pal was the Water-type powerhouse Xiaolong. Its control over waterspouts was utterly masterful, and it could unleash full-map area-of-effect attacks at the drop of a hat, often accompanied by crowd control.
Players frequently had to take manual control to dodge them.
For Zhong Yi, it had undoubtedly been a disaster.
“This woman is incredibly strong! And she’s a long-lived species, too. She must have a naturally gifted cultivation bloodline… I want to team up with this tower master!”
Zhou Yue’s eyes shone with excitement.
Of the four of them, he was the only one who still didn’t have a tower master as a companion.
Zhong Yi had told him how to capture Li Wei, the tower master of the Icefield Tower, but Zhou Yue thought hatching eggs on the farm was too boring and had never gone to capture her.
Now that he had encountered Cang Li, who perfectly suited his tastes, he was immediately tempted.
“Old Zhong, what do you think Cang Li’s condition for joining the party is?”
“Given her personality and how she only acknowledges the strong… I’d guess she wants us to prove our strength?”
Zhong Yi stroked his chin thoughtfully.
“Bro, don’t bother guessing. Cang Li has already been whisked away by Senior Sister Li~~~ Her progress is way ahead of ours. I think she’s already inside the World Tree.”
Zhou Qiaoling cheerfully poured cold water on Zhou Yue’s hopes.
Li Moran had always been someone who saw things through to the end. Less than half a day after breaking through to the next realm, she had returned to Palworld and continued advancing through the main storyline.
As another beautiful and powerful cultivator, Li Moran had encountered no obstacles at all in recruiting Cang Li to her party.
“What a shame…”
Zhou Yue shook his head, feeling slightly disappointed.
“Looks like I’ll have to team up with that gloomy man who spends every day obsessing over breeding combinations and watching his Pals have babies.”
“Who the hell do you think you’re talking about, kid?!”
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……
All eight key spheres had been collected.
However, entering the World Tree still required meeting certain conditions.
According to Cang Li, a “calamity” had erupted within the World Tree in ancient times.
To prevent the “calamity” from devouring the world, all the tower masters had joined forces to seal it deep within the World Tree.
The one who had guarded the World Tree’s seal for generations was Aocang Whale, one of the strongest Pals in the Palworld.
The World Tree, corrupted by the “calamity,” was incredibly ferocious. To enter it, they first had to earn Aocang Whale’s approval.
After completing a long series of quests, Zhong Yi and the others finally obtained the Echo Flute, which could summon Aocang Whale, and began the most spectacular boss battle in the entire game.
Aocang Whale suddenly appeared above the four of them, its colossal body blotting out the sky.
The overwhelming pressure made their hearts tremble.
“Holy crap… It’s way too huge!?”
“So this is the giant whale from the trailer! I can’t believe it’s actually this big!!”
“That’s not even a whale anymore… It has to be a Kun!?”
“I only want to know one thing—can we capture it…?”
“Damn!! It’s diving at us!!!”
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Beastmaster Sect, Beast God Hall.
After two days of arranging the formation, the evil soul’s consciousness within the illusion had finally been completely separated from the Taixu Mengchi.
“Young Friend Lu, how did you manage to… purify the evil soul’s resentment?”
Looking at the Taixu Mengchi, which now cowered on the floor like a docile cat or dog, He Muye couldn’t help asking.
At this moment, there wasn’t the slightest trace of its former ferocity or fiendishness.
Its eyes were so clear and innocent that it looked practically like a college student.
“I couldn’t have done it alone. All the righteous cultivators deserve the credit.”
Lu Ze waved his hand with a smile.
The moment he thought of what this creature had suffered in Palworld, he felt that even the most overwhelming resentment would have to let go.
Compared with those deranged capitalists who forced it to work twenty-four-seven as a slave, made it breed endlessly with itself, and dismembered it over and over, the righteous cultivators of the real world were practically angels.
Its resentment hadn’t merely been redirected—it had been redirected completely.
The rest was simple.
Once deprived of the resentment that sustained it, and with the aid of the sealing formation, the Taixu Mengchi could easily digest that wisp of evil soul.
Although, at this point, it could hardly be called an evil soul anymore. It had lost the ability to be evil.
Afterward, the Taixu Mengchi could undergo rebirth and reincarnation, entering the next cycle.
“It should take about half a year from its awakening to its rebirth… Young Friend Lu, rest assured. Once the time comes, our Beastmaster Sect will present you with the Taixu Soul Crystal left behind by the Taixu Mengchi with both hands!”
He Muye bent at the waist and gave Lu Ze a deep bow.
The crisis that had plagued the Beastmaster Sect for thousands of years had finally been resolved.
Although losing a Taixu Soul Crystal would affect the Taixu Mengchi’s growth, compared with the debt they owed Lu Ze, it was insignificant.
“In that case, I’ll return to the Skyreach Sect for now and await good news from Sect Leader He.”
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!
. 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!"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
