Duan Fei rushed forward in order to prevent being killed by his fellow sect members.
"I'll hold it off, you guys retreat!"
Over a dozen people said in unison: "Good, hold on for as long as you can."
Duan Fei was stunned: "Shouldn't you be showing reluctance and grief?"
"You know clearly what kind of person you were before, how could we bear to stop you now that you're finally acting like a man?"
"Go on, Wu Senior Brother! We support you in spirit."
Wu Haosheng rushed towards the demonic beast desperately: "Demonic beast, I'll have your life!"
As Wu Hao charged forward prepared to die, there was a flash of lightning and thunder, sending dust flying.
Several dozen people jumped out from the dense forest and started violently beating the fifth-order demonic beast.
Wu Hao forgot to even put down the sword he had raised.
He turned back to look at the dozen or so fellow sect members behind him, who were watching the show with amusement, not having any intention of escaping at all.
"How did he even manage to live until now?"
"I've been wondering the same thing. With his intellect, how did he become so renowned before?"
"He's changed recently, but it seems his intellect has become even lower."
"I think it's the power of love."
"That makes sense."
The fifth-order demonic beast roared and snarled to no avail, suffering attacks of swords, fire, lightning, and mystic arts of the five elements.
In the end, still unwilling and stifled, it died.
After finishing the job, the rest was left for the people coming later to handle.
Xiao Chenfeng looked at Duan Fei, who was still holding up his sword, and asked doubtfully: "What's with the pose? What are you trying to do holding up that sword?"
Duan Fei awkwardly put down the sword and explained: "I just wanted to help!"
Over a dozen people walked over and saluted: "Greetings, Elder Brother Xiao."
Xiao Chenfeng nodded lightly: "Mm. Except for Ye Xuan, Liu YuXin and Zhang WanLing, almost everyone is here. Let's go deeper to find higher-order demonic beasts!"
Duan Fei perked up and volunteered: "Eldest Senior Brother, I'll lead the way. I'm familiar with this area."
Someone mocked: "He's quite familiar indeed. I think he's more familiar with running his mouth!"
"I feel there's no need to find them. With Senior Brother Duan's mouth, he can attract the demonic beasts over."
The others nodded in agreement: "That could work."
Duan Fei jumped up angrily from their ridicule: "That was just coincidence. I'll say 'come here, sixth-order demonic beast,' will it come or not?"
As he spoke, he shouted towards the surroundings: "Sixth-order demonic beast, come here!"
"See, nothing came! I told you it was just coincidence."
"Roar!" A beast's roar frightened Duan Fei into jumping three feet high.
Everyone looked at him together: "Jinx."
Duan Fei aggrievedly ran to a tree to sulk.
As everyone prepared to fight, Wang Ziyan led a group of female disciples over.
"Eldest Senior Brother, you guys killed another fifth-order demonic beast!"
Xiao Chenfeng calmly said: "There may soon be a sixth-order one added. But we'll need your help."
Sima Ruoxue vowed confidently: "Where's the sixth-order beast? I'll smash it to bits."
Everyone pointed in the direction the sound had come from: "Go ahead!"
Sima Ruoxue immediately rushed in that direction. She came back quickly too.
"It really was a sixth-order demonic beast. I lured it over."
Everyone was speechless: You call that luring it over? You clearly fled back desperately from its chase!
Xiao Chenfeng raised his sword: "Get to work."
"Let's start."
Then, a violent gust kicked up at the scene, with lightning and thunder flashing through.
Sima Ruoxue even took up a small tree and went to pound the beast with it.
Although the sixth-order demonic beast was comparable to an early Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, it couldn't beat the group's greater numbers and magic treasures, on top of their physical attacks.
The sixth-order demonic beast struggled desperately to no avail, and reluctantly met its end here.
Its last thoughts before death were: "Have Golden Core cultivators nowadays become so vicious? They used to flee at the sight of me!"
"Next time I definitely won't provoke these cultivators moving in groups. I was just unlucky this time."
Looking at the slain demonic beast, everyone gained a deeper understanding of the power of unity.
Wang Ziyan asked: "Eldest Senior Brother, shall we go look for a seventh-order demonic beast?"
Xiao Chenfeng considered briefly: "No need. Let's just hunt demonic beasts in this region."
"Alright."
Time passed quickly, and before they realized, it was already the sixth day.
"Eldest Senior Brother, how should we split the cores?" Wang Ziyan asked.
Xiao Chenfeng turned to look at everyone: "What are your thoughts?"
"I think we should just take a few cores each, and give the rest all to one person. That way, we can compete for the first place rewards."
"I agree with this approach. Not only can we obtain the first place rewards, it also doesn't impact our sect's overall score."
"The question is, who do we give them to?"
Everyone expressed their opinions. They were stumped on the issue of who to give the cores to.
Xiao Chenfeng spoke: "The Eldest Senior Brothers of each Peak cannot take them. I'm sure you all understand why."
Everyone nodded.
"Then how about we give them to the youngest junior sister? What do you all think?"
"I agree."
"I agree too."
In the end, the choice fell upon Sima Ruoxue.
Wang Ziyan patted her shoulder: "I'm rooting for you."
Sima Ruoxue promised: "When I obtain the rewards, we can cultivate the martial skills together. For the spiritual medicines, we can sell them for spirit stones and split those. For the pills, we can have internal sales, then split the spirit stones. What do you think?"
No one objected. It was better than being unable to rank and obtain any rewards after all.
Xiao Chenfeng surveyed the group and asked: "Where's Duan Fei?"
The crowd made way, revealing Duan Fei sulking behind a tree.
Duan Fei felt extremely depressed. These past few days, everyone forbade him from doing anything, only allowing him to make use of his jinxing ability.
His nickname had changed from the previous "Scumbag" to the current "Jinx".
Xiao Chenfeng walked over: "There's still some time left. Hurry up and get to work."
Duan Fei even felt like dying.
What had Ye Xuan's group of three been doing the past few days? Of course, killing monsters and robbing them.
When it was almost time to leave the secret realm, Liu YuXin and Zhang WanLing gave all of their obtained demon cores to Ye Xuan.
Ye Xuan definitely could not accept them! He returned some to the two women, because he believed the amount he had obtained was enough for the three to compete for the top three spots.
When the time was up, over four hundred proud geniuses of heaven were transmitted out. Most of the others had already been sent out in advance by Ye Xuan.
Those not from the Qingyun Sword Sect had gathered together early on. Some of them had also been sent out early by Ye Xuan.
When it came time to hand in the cores, there was only one disciple per sect who had an exceptionally large number of cores. The rest only had a few first-order demonic beast cores, of course not including Ye Xuan's group.
"First place, Sima Ruoxue with 265,331 cores. Second place, Wu Hao with 215,637 cores ...... Seventh place, Ye Xuan with 145,617 cores. Eighth place, Zhang WanLing with 21,351 cores. Ninth place, Liu YuXin with 19,732 cores. Tenth place..."
(Whether sixth-order demonic beast cores or third-order cores, everything was converted to first-order cores, with the ratio being 1:10 per order)
Hearing these rankings, Ye Xuan simply couldn't believe it. He roared furiously: "I refuse to accept this. You're all cheating!"
Li Qingfeng now wished he could strangle this brainless Ye Xuan to death.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
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.
