Ye Chen didn't speak; he just kept his head down, eating the food in front of him.
After quite a long time, he finally looked up at Meng Wanyue, "I'm very curious about something, and I want you to give me an answer."
"What is the Dragon King curious about?"
Meng Wanyue asked.
"You tricked Xu Mu into the ruins this time, so why did he still let you stay by his side?"
Ye Chen lowered his head again and continued eating.
"I told him that Sister Ran was the one who told me about this ruin. He probably thought it was Sister Ran who deceived him."
Meng Wanyue explained.
Ye Chen continued asking, "Xu Mu knows very well that Xiao Ran is my subordinate. Why would he still go?"
"Perhaps because I said Sister Ran told me about this ruin a long time ago."
Meng Wanyue thought for a moment before answering.
"Then Xu Mu must trust you very much."
Ye Chen put down his chopsticks, picked up a napkin from the side, and wiped the corners of his mouth.
Meng Wanyue nodded, "He does trust me a lot."
"But you were clearly my subordinate before."
Ye Chen crossed his arms and looked at Meng Wanyue. "Even if you made it clear to Xu Mu that you wanted to leave me and join him, he is far too unguarded around you."
"Dragon King, I don't understand what you mean. What are you trying to say?"
Meng Wanyue frowned slightly.
"Insolent! Meng Wanyue, is that how you speak to the Dragon King? You're courting death!"
Zhang Hehua, who was standing by the window, shouted coldly.
She was just about to walk toward Meng Wanyue when Ye Chen raised a hand to stop her.
"Meng Wanyue, I've thought of two possibilities. First, Xu Mu has never trusted you. He only kept you by his side to use you. For example, regarding this ruin, if you wanted him to go, he would figure out that I had set up an ambush inside."
Ye Chen paused for a moment, then continued, "Therefore, he called in top-tier experts and did the exact opposite, preparing to go to the ruins to kill me."
Meng Wanyue remained silent. Xu Mu would never do that.
If he was just using her, his feelings might be fake.
But those precious pills and powerful cultivation techniques were all real.
One must know that an Earth-rank cultivation technique could set off a storm of blood and carnage in the ancient martial arts world.
"The second possibility is that you betrayed me. You told him many of my secrets, which is why he trusts you so much."
Ye Chen's expression remained flat. "I don't know whether you fall into the first or second category right now, but testing it would be very simple."
"How does the Dragon King intend to test it?"
Meng Wanyue said indifferently.
"Regardless of whether you belong to the first or second category, you definitely can no longer stay by Xu Mu's side."
Ye Chen raised his hand and said, "Kneel down first. I am going to carve a character on your face."
"Dragon King, if you carve a character on her face, it will be inconvenient for her to go out and execute missions for you in the future."
Xiao Ran whispered from the side.
"It's not like she's my only female subordinate. Even if I need a honey trap, wouldn't using you be better than using her?"
Ye Chen glanced at Xiao Ran, then turned to Zhang Hehua and said, "Hehua, go. Carve the character 'Dragon' on her left cheek."
"Yes!"
A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Zhang Hehua's eyes. "Dragon King, how big should the character be?"
"The size of your fist."
Ye Chen said indifferently.
Hearing this, a dagger appeared in Zhang Hehua's hand as she walked toward Meng Wanyue.
She arrived in front of Meng Wanyue and said coldly, "Didn't you hear the Dragon King tell you to kneel?"
Meng Wanyue looked at Ye Chen calmly. "As expected of the Dragon King. You really saw through me so easily, but you only hit the mark by a stroke of luck."
Ye Chen exhaled and asked softly, "Why a stroke of luck?"
"If you wanted to test my loyalty, whether it was making me kneel or carving a character on my face, I would have complied. You wouldn't have been able to see through me based on those two things alone."
Meng Wanyue paused for a moment. "But you said I could no longer stay by Brother Mu's side. That is something I cannot endure."
"Meng Wanyue! You dare betray the Dragon King! I'll kill you!"
The dagger in Zhang Hehua's hand instantly thrust toward Meng Wanyue's neck.
But Meng Wanyue simply extended two fingers and effortlessly caught the blade.
Meng Wanyue didn't make any further movement, yet Zhang Hehua felt a massive shock jolt through her body.
Stumbling back several steps, blood spilled from her mouth.
"Impossible!"
Zhang Hehua's expression changed drastically. She had originally been at the same cultivation realm as Meng Wanyue.
And now she had even broken through to the next level, reaching the mid-stage of Astral Qi.
Why did Meng Wanyue's strength feel as deep and unfathomable as the ocean to her?
"With just you? You still can't kill me."
Meng Wanyue threw the dagger in her hand onto the ground.
"Heh, I didn't expect you to have actually betrayed me."
As Ye Chen spoke, he glanced at Xiao Ran. "How are you feeling right now?"
"I..."
Xiao Ran was just about to speak when the door to the room was pushed open.
Xu Mu walked in holding a bottle of cola. "Little Ye, what did you call my Wanyue over for?"
After saying that, Xu Mu sat down on a chair, tilted his head back, and took a sip of cola.
Xiao Ran quickly left the room to check the hallway.
"Stop looking. I came alone this time."
Xu Mu said to Xiao Ran, "If you want to go downstairs to check, remember to pay for my cola. I charged it to your room's tab."
Hearing this, Xiao Ran returned to the private room and closed the door.
Ye Chen narrowed his eyes. "Xu Mu, what are you doing here?"
"I was afraid that my person would be bullied by you here."
Xu Mu smiled as he looked at Meng Wanyue. "Wanyue isn't a traitor. You make it sound as if you treated her so well. She simply didn't like working for you and jumped ship, that's all. The fact that she didn't demand her unpaid wages means she has already been more than generous."
"Insolent! You brat, you dare speak to the Dragon King like that?"
Zhang Hehua pointed at Xu Mu and shouted coldly.
"So noisy! Wanyue, slap her."
Xu Mu dug at his ear.
"Meng Wanyue, if you dare to make a move, you will die a miserable death."
Ye Chen stared at Meng Wanyue and barked a cold warning.
Swish!
Meng Wanyue instantly appeared in front of Zhang Hehua and delivered a vicious slap, showing absolutely no respect to Ye Chen.
Before Zhang Hehua could even react, the immense force tilted her body to the side. In the blink of an eye, a bright red handprint appeared on her face.
Zhang Hehua covered her cheek in complete disbelief. Just who exactly was this Xu Mu?
He didn't even take the Dragon King seriously.
"Little Ye, before you can make Wanyue die a miserable death, you will die a miserable death first."
Xu Mu stared at Ye Chen with an indifferent expression. "You need to remember, we still haven't settled the score for when you tried to kill me."
"Xu Mu, do you think that just because you have a sect backing you, you can do whatever you want?"
"That's right. I have a sect backing me, so I can do whatever I want."
Xu Mu took another sip of his cola. "Ye Chen, I remember you said something to me before. Now I'm returning it to you. You should be glad this isn't the ruins, otherwise, you would be dead."
Ye Chen's eyes were as dark and ruthless as a wild beast's. "Xu Mu, then we'll see about that!"
"Some Dragon King you are. It's like kids playing house. You might as well call yourself Old Wang, it rolls off the tongue much better."
Xu Mu scoffed. "Wanyue, let's go. If he dares to touch you, his three thousand soldiers will turn into three thousand graves."
...
Watching Xu Mu leave, Ye Chen shattered the table with a single palm strike, sending the food crashing all over the floor. "Xu Mu..."
Right at that moment, his phone rang.
Ye Chen took it out and saw that it was a call from Mu Qingying.
He took a deep breath. "What is it?"
"Mr. Ye, this is bad. Our initial test subjects, they... they've become impotent."
Mu Qingying reported from the other end of the line.
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.
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
