Gu Changyuan stayed at the Shuyu Sect for about three shichen.
They said they were discussing business, but in reality, most of the time was spent chatting.
They chatted about Lin Jingyu and Wang Yutang, about their century together, and about their future arrangements.
The people of the Shuyu Sect naturally did not neglect him; five patriarchs kept him company, personally serving tea and pouring water with the utmost respect.
After three shichen, the matter between Lin Jingyu and Wang Yutang was completely settled.
There would be no grand fanfare, no making it known to the whole world. Neither of them liked such superficial things.
Lin Jingyu had always been indifferent to fame and fortune, and Wang Yutang, having followed him around for the past century, had long grown accustomed to this lifestyle.
With no distractions, they only focused on their cultivation and protecting those around them, never caring about the rumors and worldly judgments of the outside world.
A simple wedding, witnessed by the patriarchs and elders of both sects, would be enough.
Wang Yutang said this herself.
She did not care about worldly gazes, the extravagance expected of a Holy Maiden's marriage, or whether the whole world knew about it.
The only thing she had ever cared about was Lin Jingyu.
That was enough.
Gu Changyuan was very satisfied with this.
Seeing that it was about time, he stood up and prepared to take his leave.
Over at the Zhuge family, there were still two newly accepted grand-disciples waiting to be brought back.
Lin Jingyu, however, did not follow.
Master, I wish to stay at the Shuyu Sect for a few more days.
He rarely spoke up on his own initiative. His tone remained aloof, but as his gaze fell upon Wang Yutang beside him, a touch of softness entered that coldness.
Recently, Yutang has been running around with me. Now that she is home, I want to stay with her for a few more days.
Hearing this, the corners of Gu Changyuan's mouth curled up slightly.
Good boy, making progress.
He waved his hand.
Go on, go on. The Celestial Holy Land has nothing that needs your attention right now; accompanying your wife is more important.
Lin Jingyu nodded slightly, while Wang Yutang's cheeks flushed red, her eyes full of smiles.
The people of the Shuyu Sect escorted them all the way to the plaza, preparing to watch Gu Changyuan and his two companions leave.
Gu Changyuan stood still and raised his right hand, preparing to activate the teleportation to send himself, Ye Qingxue, and Yue Lingxi back to the Zhuge family.
Suddenly!
His figure paused!
A faint fluctuation fell into his Divine Sense without any warning.
That was...
The power of karma?
And the power of providence?
The two forces intertwined, like two pebbles thrown into a calm lake, stirring up ripples in his sea of consciousness.
Gu Changyuan did not hesitate at all, instantly expanding his Divine Sense to its limits.
That fluctuation was very weak, so weak that if he had not just comprehended a secret providence technique, and if he did not also have a profound understanding of karmic power, he would not have noticed it at all.
Seeing Gu Changyuan's raised hand suddenly stop, Ye Qingxue and Yue Lingxi sensed the anomaly almost instantly.
Master?
Ye Qingxue called out softly, her gaze inquiring.
Gu Changyuan did not answer immediately.
Three breaths later, he lowered his hand, a smile curling on his lips.
The smile was faint, but it carried a rare... pleasant surprise.
I found two good things.
His tone was brisk.
Let's go, I'll take you to see.
As his voice fell, a ray of light instantly enveloped Ye Qingxue and Yue Lingxi.
In the next instant, the figures of the three disappeared from the Shuyu Sect plaza.
Lin Jingyu looked in the direction his master had disappeared and raised an eyebrow slightly.
He didn't use a teleportation array, but flew away directly?
It seemed he had encountered something.
But judging by his master's expression, it most likely wasn't a bad thing. Even if it was...
With his master's current strength, capable of piercing through the Jiuxiao Realm, it wouldn't be an issue at all.
He withdrew his gaze and looked at Wang Yutang beside him.
Let's go.
Wang Yutang nodded, and the two walked side by side into the Shuyu Sect.
...
Gu Changyuan took the two women and sped towards the south of the Shuyu Sect. Their speed was so fast that it tore through space, leaving behind faint spatial ripples.
In less than five breaths, the three had arrived at a desolate mountain a hundred miles away from the Shuyu Sect.
The three stood at the peak of a towering mountain, looking down.
It was a canyon.
On both sides of the canyon were steep cliffs covered in vines. Occasionally, a few spirit plants could be seen growing stubbornly in the crevices of the rocks.
At the bottom of the canyon was a dried-up riverbed, scattered with rocks of various sizes.
And at this moment, on the riverbed, a pursuit was taking place.
Dozens of cultivators completely surrounded a young man and woman.
Those cultivators wore uniform attire; their auras were mixed but none were weak.
The leader was a Nascent Soul cultivator, and the rest were all at the Golden Core stage. At a glance, they were clearly a formal squad from some faction.
As for the two who were surrounded...
A man and a woman, both appearing to be in their early twenties.
The man had a slender figure and a handsome face with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, even though his clothes were currently stained with blood and he looked thoroughly wretched.
The woman was breathtakingly beautiful, with skin like creamy jade and picturesque features. Her light purple dress was mostly soaked in blood, yet she still stood stubbornly beside the man, gripping a longsword that had been snapped in half.
Standing back-to-back, their auras were weak; they were clearly at the end of their ropes.
Surrounding them were dozens of enemies eyeing them like prey.
Gu Changyuan's gaze did not fall on those enemies at all.
His eyes were dead set on the young man and woman.
More accurately, he was locked onto the light lingering around them.
The light was faint, but clearly visible.
It was not an ordinary color.
It was multicolored.
Multicolored light!
Tenth-grade providence!
The highest grade of destiny's favor.
Gu Changyuan's pupils shrank slightly.
And that wasn't all.
As his Divine Sense swept through their bodies, he perceived something even deeper, a terrifying talent slumbering deep within their bloodlines, yet to awaken.
The woman's physique was related to time.
It wasn't simply controlling time, but resonating with it, the Temporal Dao Body.
The man's physique was related to space. It wasn't ordinary spatial affinity, but the true Void Dao Body.
Time and space.
Both were peerless physiques rarely seen among human cultivators even in ten thousand years!
At this moment, a rare look of surprise appeared on Gu Changyuan's face.
Even though Ye Qingxue and Yue Lingxi had followed him for so many years, they rarely saw such an expression on him.
One must know that some cultivators might be able to master secret techniques of time and space.
However, trying to find pure temporal and spatial physiques among human cultivators was harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
In contrast, they were easier to find among demon and devil cultivators.
For example, Lu Jiuyi of the Sky Demon Pavilion possessed spatial laws; Zhu Jiuyin possessed temporal laws.
Demon cultivators were uniquely blessed by nature, with various law comprehensions embedded in their bloodline inheritance, so it wasn't rare for spatial or temporal talents to appear among them.
If it weren't for the Great Dao origins fed back from the system through these two disciples, it would have been very difficult for him to achieve great things in these two Great Daos.
But now...
Two human cultivators possessing temporal and spatial physiques had just appeared right in front of him?
And both were of the highest tier.
Furthermore, neither of their physiques had awakened yet.
Therefore, the talent displayed at this moment was not considered particularly high. However, likely due to a hidden physique, they had still achieved the strength of the Golden Core realm despite being only in their twenties.
Had it not been for possessing secret arts of providence and karma, it would have been absolutely impossible to grasp this fleeting sliver of opportunity from a hundred miles away.

e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.

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!

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.”

or! A blessing for those who struggle with love, a guidebook for dating novices. Quickly match with your dream goddess! Complete walkthroughs earn rewards, and perfect walkthroughs unlock limited achievements!】 Shen Yi, an ordinary office worker, accidentally downloads a mini-game called Dating Simulator. The mini-game is simple: randomly search for dating targets, simulate dates, and receive rewards upon successful confession. Rewards include but are not limited to money, attributes, and skills. The higher the evaluation, the better the rewards, with perfect ratings unlocking mysterious achievements. Shen Yi plans to use this mysterious mini-game to continuously pursue targets and improve himself, making his life better and better. ...... However, after several successful walkthroughs, Shen Yi suddenly notices something strange - the targets he previously simulated dating seem to be searching for him in real life?