He was young, but his hair was slicked back and shiny with oil.
He wore a suit and bow tie, which looked somewhat out of place.
"Master! I found you an apprentice."
"This apprentice will absolutely satisfy you."
"The kind you can't take your eyes off of."
Yang Xuan's face beamed with excitement.
He raised an eyebrow, giving Chen Feng a look that only men understand.
Chen Feng frowned as he looked at the young man before him.
One sentence turned Yang Xuan to stone.
"Who are you?"
Yang Xuan seemed to hear the sound of his heart shattering.
He never expected that his Master would forget him so quickly.
Yang Xuan's eyes turned red, and he said with grievance:
"Master, I am your most loyal disciple, Yang Xuan!"
"How could you not recognize me?"
Yang Xuan?
It seemed like he did have such an apprentice.
Chen Feng frowned, trying to recall.
He remembered that kid with the glasses and yellow hair.
Looking again at the young man in front of him — slicked-back hair, dark face, and small eyes —
Chen Feng asked uncertainly:
"You're Yang Xuan?"
Yang Xuan nodded with a mournful expression.
"Where's your yellow hair? Where are your glasses?"
Chen Feng was curious.
He felt that young people nowadays really knew how to mess around.
Couldn't they just be normal?
Truly, ugly people love to make a fuss.
Hearing his Master's questions, Yang Xuan realized:
So it was because he had changed so much that his Master didn't recognize him.
"See! I knew it!"
"How could my Master possibly not remember me?"
Yang Xuan bounced back to full energy in an instant.
With a flattering grin, he said:
"I just didn't want to embarrass you, Master."
"So I dyed my hair black and changed my look."
"After all, yellow hair doesn't match my current image."
"Also, the martial arts you taught me are really powerful — they even cured my nearsightedness, so I don't need glasses anymore."
Chen Feng shook his head with a wry smile.
He couldn't quite understand the brain of a hype-beast youngster.
He just patted Yang Xuan on the shoulder and said:
"Looks don't matter. What matters is that you focus your mind on the martial path."
Yang Xuan immediately beamed with pride.
He even patted his own skinny chest,
and said with self-importance:
"Don't worry, Master."
"The martial arts you taught me — I practice them diligently every day."
"I'm strict with myself, training during the day and perfecting my practice in action."
"I've gone from twenty-two seconds at the start all the way up to five minutes and seventeen seconds now."
"That's a boost of more than ten times!"
Looking at Yang Xuan's smug face,
Chen Feng was completely baffled.
Twenty-two seconds up to five minutes and seventeen seconds?
What on earth is that?
Is this kid really practicing the martial arts I taught him?
Does the Yijin Jing have a time limit before reaching harmony between heaven and man?
Isn't it supposed to be a technique for purifying marrow and meridians?
Chen Feng asked in confusion:
"You have a time limit when cultivating the Yijin Jing?"
Yang Xuan also looked puzzled:
"Master, don't you have a time limit?"
Chen Feng cleared his throat and said modestly:
"Your Master has already reached the realm of harmony between heaven and man."
"So there's no time limit at all for me."
Yang Xuan's eyes widened in disbelief, and his mouth hung wide open.
He felt like his head was about to explode!
His Master had no time limit at all!
"Holy crap!"
"That's insane!"
"Master, don't you ever get tired?"
Chen Feng was quite perplexed and said:
"I wouldn't say tired."
"In fact, I feel quite refreshed and comfortable every time."
For Chen Feng,
every session of cleansing marrow and meridians was a bit painful,
but that feeling of clearly sensing his body growing stronger gave him a joy that came from the depths of his soul.
At that moment,
Yang Xuan's admiration was beyond words.
The gap between himself and his Master was just too huge.
Although his power had grown more than tenfold,
he would still lose to those three punk girls every time.
Five minutes and seventeen seconds was already his personal best.
If his Master took it on himself, even if all three punk girls went at once, they wouldn't stand a chance.
It seemed he still needed to work twice as hard.
But the important matter came first.
"Master, I found you a great apprentice in the mall."
"Once you see her, you won't be disappointed."
Chen Feng smiled helplessly.
His own disappointment or satisfaction meant nothing —
the system was the one that had to react.
He said with a smile:
"If she wanted to become your apprentice under me, she would have come over by now."
"Since she didn't come, she probably doesn't want to. Don't force anyone."
"Focus your energy on training, and don't go worrying about other things for me."
Yang Xuan immediately said:
"Don't worry about my training, Master. I work hard at it."
"I even put in extra time every night to test my progress."
"But the apprentice I found for you — she genuinely wants to learn from you."
"She didn't come because she must have some difficulty. You'll understand once you go see."
In Yang Xuan's mind,
if that beautiful woman came to seek apprenticeship, her terrifying figure and stunning looks would surely cause quite a stir.
By then, if his Master took her as a disciple in front of all the other people seeking apprenticeship,
it would inevitably invite gossip and criticism.
But oh well —
his Master was so outstanding, people were bound to be jealous.
Seeing how confidently Yang Xuan spoke,
Chen Feng thought to himself:
"Is she disabled or unable to move?"
Recalling the bizarre ways the system had selected apprentices before,
Chen Feng decided to take a look.
With his current speed, it wouldn't take long anyway.
He then grabbed Yang Xuan, activated his Adamantine Body,
and following Yang Xuan's directions, reached the mall within a few breaths.
Feeling his Master's lightning speed,
Yang Xuan thought in shock:
"Not only is Master long-lasting, he's also this fast — how could an ordinary person handle that?"
"Those three punk girls would be finished in three seconds if they went up against him."
"No wonder he hooked up with that fighting goddess as his side piece!"
"Before Master, any normal person would be a 'three-second woman'!"
"Truly worthy of my Master!"
"Don't know how many 'three-second men' he's secretly saved face for."
"A role model for all!"
Soon, Chen Feng saw the person Yang Xuan was talking about.
First, he was stunned by her stunning appearance.
Although she wasn't disabled as he'd imagined, one had to admit —
that figure could leave countless people exhausted to the point of disability.
He deeply understood what those old idioms meant for real now:
"Full of grace," "petite waist with bountiful fruits," "unshakable resolve"...
Then he was shocked by the system.
[Detected: Perfect 100% match with the Dragon God Technique].
[Name: Long Jiaojiao].
"So she really can be taken in?"
"That unreliable kid Yang Xuan actually came through!"
"But why does she seem so familiar to me?"
Seeing Chen Feng's stunned expression,
Yang Xuan grinned slyly.
"So, Master, you old-timer approve, right?"
"Not bad judgment on my part, eh?"
Chen Feng nodded,
and absentmindedly said:
"Not bad, not bad. I didn't expect you to actually find me a worthy apprentice."
Yang Xuan looked proud.
Chen Feng looked back at Long Jiaojiao and asked:
"You look very familiar to me. Have we met somewhere before?"
A hint of mockery curled at the corner of Long Jiaojiao's lips.
She thought to herself with fury:
"Of course we're familiar."
"Your blood contains my dragon pearl!"

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!

iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.

ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!

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.