As soon as these words were spoken.
Shangguan Miaoyin's expression immediately turned cold, and a trace of killing intent flashed in her eyes as she glanced at the flamboyant man who had his feet propped up on the coffee table.
Sss... no... I must hold back... I can't expose myself...
Shangguan Miaoyin... you must hold back... endure...
Keep smiling... keep your composure... keep... huh?
Just as Shangguan Miaoyin was about to give herself a mental pep talk.
Suddenly.
She noticed the husband of her master in the mortal world, who had been sitting quietly with a smile all this time... now...
He suddenly stood up???
And then walked over to that flamboyant man???
Wait, what's going on?
Shangguan Miaoyin was stunned. What was he trying to do?
Was he angry because the other party had mentioned wiping out the Leng Family?
Shangguan Miaoyin looked at Gu Yan, who was still smiling.
Probably... not, right?
Gu Tianming also widened his eyes in shock as he watched Gu Yan suddenly stand up and walk toward the young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect with a smile.
He was about to speak up to stop him, but then a hint of helplessness crossed his mind. Ah... what a disaster...
The other factions also looked at this junior from the Gu Family, who had been silent until now, with confusion and curiosity.
Why was this person approaching the young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect? Didn't he know how ruthless the other party was? And his protector was right there!
The young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect had his legs propped up on the coffee table, and the murmurs around him gradually died down. Noticing that everyone's attention was focused on his left side, he frowned and looked up.
When he saw it was Gu Yan, he sneered disdainfully, "What? Do you have something to say?"
"As the son of the Gu Family's head, you do have the right to speak."
Upon hearing this, Gu Yan simply smiled amiably, clenched his fist, and said slowly, "Brace yourself."
"What are you talking about?"
The young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect didn't react immediately. "Are you talking to me?"
Ignoring the irrelevant chatter, Gu Yan silently recited in his heart.
[The system has given you a discount~~ 100,000 Pure Love Points have been consumed, and your strength has been boosted to the peak of the Innate Realm~]
And at the moment his strength surged.
Gu Yan's previously amiable expression suddenly turned ice-cold.
Boom!
He swiftly swung his fist, smashing it directly toward the stunned face of the young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect.
The young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect never expected Gu Yan to suddenly attack in such a place. Caught off guard, he could only instinctively raise his arm to block Gu Yan's punch.
"Are you insane! What do you think you're doing!"
The young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect was a genius at the mid-Innate Realm. The moment he raised his arm, he activated the Heavenly Demon Art to bolster his defense!
However, to his surprise, Gu Yan's punch was far too powerful.
With a loud bang!
True energy scattered in all directions as Gu Yan's well-timed punch shattered his defense.
Thud!
"Argh!!"
A dull sound echoed as the young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect let out a scream and was sent flying backward from the couch, crashing onto the floor.
A swollen bruise appeared on his face, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.
When had a genius of the Heavenly Demon Sect ever suffered such humiliation?
Gritting his teeth, he glared fiercely at Gu Yan and cursed, "You bastard! How dare you hit me! Do you even know who I am?!"
Gu Yan didn't respond. Instead, he walked expressionlessly to the young master's side, raised his fist again, and smashed it down onto the young master's face.
The young master tried to dodge, but Gu Yan was too fast. He couldn't react in time.
Bam!
Gu Yan's fist landed on his face once more, and this time, his nose was broken, blood gushing out.
"Argh!!"
The young master clutched his nose, groaning in pain.
Bam! Bam! Bam!!
Gu Yan didn't stop. He continued to rain down punches, each strike landing with brutal force.
The young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect was completely overwhelmed, unable to fight back, and could only writhe on the ground, trying to crawl away.
Everyone around was stunned by Gu Yan's actions, unable to process what was happening.
Just think about it.
You're in the middle of discussing how to eradicate demons, and someone proposes an idea.
Then, suddenly, the son of the person hosting the meeting charges over and starts beating the proposer without a word.
Anyone would be dumbfounded, right? Anyone would find it utterly baffling, right?
At this moment, the young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect couldn't take it anymore. He roared, "Elder Mo!! Save me!!"
As soon as these words were uttered.
An old man who had been watching in shock finally snapped out of it. He was a senior elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect and the young master's protector, a peak Innate Realm expert. Seeing his young master being beaten to such a state.
He finally regained his senses and rushed over, shouting at Gu Yan, "Stop! Stop right now!!! Are you trying to kill our young master?!"
Hearing this.
Gu Yan paused his assault, glanced at the young master who was now rolling his eyes and whimpering on the floor, then shook the blood off his hand.
He looked at the elder and said calmly, "Your young master wanted to kill someone close to me. The fact that I've left him alive shows that I'm a law-abiding citizen."
Everyone had expected Gu Yan to say something else.
But instead, he claimed that the young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect wanted to kill someone close to him? The elder was momentarily stunned.
He thought Gu Yan was deliberately picking a fight and turned to Gu Tianming in anger, demanding, "Patriarch Gu! What exactly is the meaning of your son's actions?"
"I don't mean anything."
Before Gu Tianming could respond.
Gu Yan picked up a wet towel handed to him by a trembling servant, wiped the blood from his fist, and coldly scanned the room.
Then, he uttered a sentence that left everyone in the room utterly stunned.
"I just wanted to tell everyone here that Leng Qingqiu is my lover."
The gravity of Gu Yan's words was no less than if a grandmaster in the ancient martial world had self-destructed and blown up the gates of the Primordial Sect.
In an instant.
Everyone's minds went blank.
Gu Tianming helplessly rubbed his forehead. He had known this would happen.
Now... there was no avoiding getting involved.
Old Gao chuckled silently, thinking to himself, This is the young master I know!
This is what youth is all about!
Shangguan Miaoyin's mind was also in a daze.
Did he... did he really just publicly declare his relationship with our master in front of so many factions?
Didn't he understand the implications of this?
Shangguan Miaoyin tightly gripped the armrest of her chair, her lips curling into an uncontrollable smile.
This is interesting... so very interesting...
This man... loves our master that much??
Shangguan Miaoyin was already looking forward to the day when her master revealed her true intentions, took over the Gu Family, and Gu Yan, the devoted lover, would break down in tears and despair!
Ning Qian also glanced at Gu Yan.
Her opinion of him rose slightly.
She had always thought that the most principled man in the world was her senior brother, Xiao Lin.
But who would have thought... this young master of the Gu Family was also so bold, daring to publicly declare in front of so many martial factions that the eldest daughter of the Leng Family was his lover.
Now... the Gu Family would also come under suspicion!
Gu Yan, however, showed no trace of regret.
Originally, he had planned to keep his emotions in check today, knowing that these people would inevitably bring up the Leng Family.
He had intended to calmly explain his relationship with the Leng Family, making it clear to everyone that the Leng Family was innocent and had no ties to the Night Organization.
That had been the plan...
But... he had chosen a method that would inevitably lead everyone to think the worst.
"Gu Tianming!! Does your Gu Family also have ties to the Night Organization?!!"
An elder who had recovered first suddenly stood up, slamming his cane on the ground as he glared at Gu Tianming and shouted.
In an instant, everyone else snapped out of their daze.
That's right! Back then, the Gu Family's absence during the siege of the Night Organization had always been suspicious!
And now, the Leng Family was connected to the Gu Family. This... they couldn't help but suspect!
Swish! Swish! Swish!!
In a flash, all the martial artists in the room stood up, eyeing Gu Tianming with vigilance.
The atmosphere grew extremely tense.
The instigator, Gu Yan, merely sneered and said softly, "A bunch of fools who believe every rumor they hear."
"With your level of intelligence, how do you expect to find the real Night?"
Thankfully, I had already anticipated that I might lose control and act out.
So, I had already prepared Plan B!
Now, let me... help the Leng Family clear their name!
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.”
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
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.
pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
