“It seems to have gotten weaker… Could it be because it’s been asleep for too long?”
…
“The way Lord Wolf holds his sword is a little rusty…”
…
“Lord Wolf… After all this time, have you still not gotten used to this arm?”
…
Zhong Yi had long since lost count of how many times he had challenged Emma.
As always, Emma defeated him in just a few exchanges.
This sort of sparring match did not result in actual death.
Every time the fight ended, Zhong Yi had to watch the defeat CG of Emma pointing the edge of her sword at his chest.
Emma’s victory lines were not always the same.
But to Zhong Yi, they all meant roughly the same thing:
Why are you so much weaker than I expected, bro?
Zhong Yi’s face flushed red, and his entire body felt hot.
The live-stream chat immediately burst into laughter.
[Is Old Zhong in love? Why’s his face so red?]
[The thoughts of a lifelong virgin are so easy to read. They’re written all over his face.]
[Miss Emma is so strong…]
[That swordsmanship looks familiar. Isn’t it a little like Isshin Ashina when he fought True Disciple Li?]
[That Cross Slash really does look similar!]
…
“Holy crap… Isn’t Miss Emma supposed to be a doctor? How is her swordsmanship this ridiculous…”
Zhong Yi looked at the woman standing at the temple entrance, gazing gently at the sky, and grew increasingly curious about the story of this world.
Emma’s swordsmanship appeared light and airy, almost soft.
In reality, it combined both speed and power. That Cross Slash was as fast as thunder, making it practically impossible to react to.
“So this is the Soft Sword… Amazing! Looks like I still need to strengthen myself!”
Zhong Yi temporarily gave up on challenging Emma.
He was bad at the game, but he wasn’t stupid.
Emma was far stronger than any enemy he had encountered at his current stage.
Even Genichiro Ashina, who had cut off his arm in the reed fields, or Lady Butterfly, who had called him puppy all night, was no match for the Soft Sword Emma standing before him.
Clearly, this was an Easter egg challenge deliberately set up by Lu Ze. It was never intended for cultivators at his current level.
Knowing when to quit, Zhong Yi stopped throwing himself at Emma for a beating. He had even less intention of challenging the Sculptor.
Neither of them was someone he could handle at the moment.
“Back to bullying the grunts in Ashina Castle~~”
Zhong Yi’s figure appeared in Ashina Castle once more.
He had already completed Isshin Ashina’s rat-catching quest, and the skill book had now been unlocked. His immediate priority was to grind experience so he could learn the sword techniques of the Ashina School.
After being thoroughly abused by Emma, Zhong Yi’s hands were still hot.
The soldiers in Ashina Castle were no longer much of an obstacle to him.
As he cleared them out along the way, his experience and money began climbing rapidly.
“Hahaha! After sparring with Miss Emma, my skills have improved too!!!”
Zhong Yi laughed loudly as he cut down the surrounding grunts, an air of smugness creeping into his eyes.
“The moves of these soldiers look like slow motion to me now… Watch this!”
While demonstrating how to deflect and kill the soldiers for the live-stream audience, he declared proudly:
“After fighting one of the top human sword cultivators, ordinary enemies can’t do anything to me anymore… As long as they’re human, I’m confident I can trade a few blows with them. Even Genichiro Ashina would be no different!”
The moment he finished speaking, the ground began to tremble as his left foot stepped into a nearby estate.
With a loud boom, the wall in the distance shattered.
A tremendously powerful fire bull, its two horns blazing with roaring flames, charged toward him.
“???”
The corners of Zhong Yi’s mouth began twitching uncontrollably.
“Wait…”
“What happened to human enemies only???”
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!
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
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.
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!
