Afterward, Yuan Jie found an excuse to temporarily leave the group with Han Ying'er to have a private conversation.
"What's the matter? Why call me out alone?"
"Ying'er, don't you like Qin San?"
Han Ying'er thought for a moment and replied uncertainly, "Probably... I don't like him."
"What do you mean, 'probably'? Either you like him or you don't."
"I don't know how to explain it. The more I get to know Qin San, the more I feel something is off. He's so hard to figure out, and I just can't bring myself to feel anything for him."
"That's your reason?!" Yuan Jie's voice rose slightly.
"What's wrong?" Han Ying'er was startled. They were supposed to be whispering, so why was Yuan Jie raising her voice?
Yuan Jie lowered her voice again, "What kind of reason is that? Don't you know how well Qin San has treated you all this time?"
"Yes, I know, but you can't force these things. You wouldn't understand."
"I wouldn't understand? Hah, I wouldn't understand!" Yuan Jie's voice rose again, this time with more agitation.
"Are you okay?" Han Ying'er was a bit frightened by Yuan Jie's sudden outburst.
"Sorry, it's nothing."
......
On the third day of their flight, while riding their flying mounts, the four of them appeared to be chatting and laughing, but there was an underlying tension in the air.
Even Lin Xuan, who had previously chimed in with a few words, was now quietly observing the situation.
Li Siyi whispered to Su Luo, "Why does the atmosphere feel so strange lately?"
"Ah, the mysteries of love," Su Luo replied cryptically.
"What are you talking about?"
"It's better if you don't understand."
"Don't leave me hanging like that."
But Su Luo did just that, leaving the rest of his thoughts to be written in his diary.
Of course, he only wrote when no one was around to disturb him. Although no one could see his diary, writing still required focus.
[It's been three days of flying, and we're almost at the secret realm. Let's talk about the plot inside the secret realm.]
[This secret realm was indeed left behind by an ancient powerhouse, and there are still some treasures inside. Qin San had already discovered them, but he didn't take them.]
[He waited until now to bring Han Ying'er and the others here to retrieve them, all to show off his good luck in front of Han Ying'er and use these treasures to win her favor.]
[He even went so far as to add some of his own precious treasures to the mix.]
[He's really something, I almost feel bad for him.]
[Of course, that's not his only goal. Another purpose is to sacrifice Zhuo Mingyuan and Yuan Jie to break the seal in the secret realm.]
[According to the records, this secret realm seals a Heart Demon Emperor.]
[As the name suggests, the Heart Demon Emperor is related to heart demons. He excels at provoking the heart demons of cultivators.]
[As everyone knows, heart demons are hidden within a cultivator's body, a part of themselves, but they are the embodiment of negative emotions, born from regrets, anger, or obsessions.]
[If left unchecked, the heart demon can grow and eventually take over, causing the cultivator to lose themselves to it.]
[Thus, at a certain point, one must conquer their heart demon to advance further.]
[The timing and impact of the heart demon vary from person to person.]
[The Heart Demon Emperor can manipulate these heart demons, causing others to fight against themselves before any real battle begins.]
[Under the right conditions, he can even control others through their heart demons.]
[In the lore, what makes him an emperor is his unique ability to materialize heart demons.]
[Normally, heart demons remain within the body, but the Heart Demon Emperor can manifest them into physical forms, indistinguishable from the real person.]
[A materialized heart demon is no weaker than the original, often even stronger. Its power is calculated as: the cultivator's own strength + negative emotional energy + soul power.]
[While a normal heart demon has everything the original does, the "dark side" is often stronger, and the heart demon's madness gives it an edge in combat.]
[However, the materialized heart demon, being a creation of the soul, has its limits.]
[The stronger the soul, the longer the materialized heart demon's "health bar." It can regenerate until its health is depleted, but it can't regenerate indefinitely.]
[For most people, the soul's strength is fixed at birth, so the heart demon's health is roughly equal to the original's, preventing it from becoming too overpowered.]
[Still, the materialized heart demon has its advantages. As long as its health isn't depleted, it can regenerate. Try cutting a person in half and see if they can do that!]
[So, is the Heart Demon Emperor a tough opponent?]
[Not really. He never broke free from the seal and simply faded away as the secret realm collapsed.]
[The reason is that Qin San didn't know how to break the seal. The only clue he had was the word "sacrifice" in the secret realm's records.]
[At the same time, the Heavenly Demon Sect had tasked him with eliminating some outstanding disciples of the righteous sects to prepare for their upcoming plans.]
[That's right, the Heavenly Demon Sect is planning to launch the fourth great sect war—or maybe not the fourth, but they're planning to take on ten major sects. Ambitious, to say the least.]
[So Qin San planned to kill Zhuo Mingyuan and Yuan Jie here, completing his undercover mission while also trying to break the Heart Demon Emperor's seal, killing two birds with one stone.]
[No, more than that. By eliminating Zhuo Mingyuan and Yuan Jie, he wouldn't have to share the treasures, and the ones he added would return to him.]
[With the group reduced from four to two, Han Ying'er would have no one else to rely on but him.]
[He could also pin their deaths on the secret realm, leaving himself completely unscathed.]
[What a genius plan.]
[Unfortunately, bringing Lin Xuan along threw a wrench in everything.]
[First, while discovering treasures was exciting, Lin Xuan soon found a large hidden chamber that even Qin San had missed.]
[Inside were eight rooms, each containing profound formations that greatly accelerated cultivation speed.]
[If two people cultivated together, the speed increased twentyfold.]
[But with three people, the formation would stop working.]
[Yes, these were dual cultivation formations.]
[However, unlike the more... intimate versions, these formations only required the two cultivators to hold hands to activate, with no additional actions needed.]
[With such formations, who cared about treasures? Cultivation came first.]
[Lin Xuan's luck truly knew no bounds.]
[This, of course, made Qin San resent Lin Xuan even more for stealing the spotlight.]
[As Lin Xuan and Han Ying'er grew closer during their cultivation sessions, the tension between Lin Xuan and Qin San escalated.]
[Finally, Qin San couldn't take it anymore and revealed his true colors.]
[In a sneak attack, he severed Zhuo Mingyuan's right hand and stabbed Yuan Jie.]
[They were too trusting of Qin San, and their disbelief at being betrayed made them easy targets.]
[As for Han Ying'er, Qin San crippled her cultivation. While his love for her was genuine, everything else about his time in the Seven Stars Sword Sect was a lie. Unable to kill her, he chose to strip her of her power, forcing her to stay by his side.]
[But what good did it do? In the end, he was just a clown. When he turned his attention to Lin Xuan, the "substitute fighter" appeared.]
[Elder Yan unleashed a "Three Thousand Flames Strike" and obliterated Qin San.]
[It's almost laughable how Qin San thought he could humiliate Lin Xuan. He clearly didn't know the meaning of death.]
[However, after this, Elder Yan fell into a deep slumber once more, leaving Lin Xuan temporarily without one of his trump cards.]
[With the overuse of the dual cultivation formations, the secret realm's energy was depleted, causing it to collapse.]
[The Seven Stars Sword Sect suffered heavy losses: one of the four prodigies dead, one crippled, one severely injured, and one lightly injured. What a tragedy.]
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.”
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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?"
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
