Above the azure skies of the Tianyuan Sage Palace, painful wails that were excruciating to hear were sounding unceasingly.
"Big brother, I have motion sickness!" Ye Xiu cried with tears streaming down his face. The howling winds roared in his ears; it felt as if his entire body was tied to the fuselage of the airplane.
Mo Lao stared at Ye Xiu with a rather complicated expression. He couldn't sense even a shred of stellar power from Ye Xiu's body, which was merely that of an ordinary mortal. How could such a useless piece of trash unlock the Nine Stars Celestial Formation?
"Big brother, are we there yet?"
"Big brother, can you carry me and fly there?"
"You sure talk a lot. We're here!" Mo Lao's coarse voice rang out as their flying speed abruptly decreased.
Ye Xiu let out a hot breath. Looking down from the high altitude, he saw nine towering mountain peaks piercing the clouds in the distance. The nine peaks surrounded and enclosed the area in a circle, and in the very center, there was an even taller mountain peak, giving the impression that the nine were paying respects to one.
Mo Lao lightly landed with Ye Xiu on the highest mountain peak. In front of them was a majestic palace with golden bricks and glazed tiles, quite dazzling to behold.
"Big brother, where is this place?" Ye Xiu asked in bewilderment.
"The Nine Immortals Palace of Tianyuan!"
Ye Xiu was shocked. Didn't this mean he would soon be able to witness the exceptional immortal grace and beauty of the legendary Nine Immortals of Tianyuan?
"So the next step is to pay my respects to the Nine Immortals and become their disciple?" Ye Xiu started to theatrically kowtow outside the main hall.
"Become what disciple. Come with me!"
With that, Mo Lao headed inside the hall.
"Try comprehending the meaning behind the arts engraved on these stone tablets first."
Ye Xiu followed behind and entered the hall. The first thing he noticed were the nine towering stone tablets arranged inside.
Ye Xiu walked over to the tablet furthest right. Engraved on it were seven swords. As soon as his gaze swept past the swords, a golden ray flashed in his eyes. In the next instant, the scene before him completely changed.
In the pitch black void, seven massive swords stood erect before him.
He watched as the seven swords maneuvered through the desolate space. Before he could react, his pupils suddenly enlarged as the seven swords incessantly magnified in his eyes, then directly stabbed into the center of his brows.
"Why are you dawdling, hurry up already..."
Mo Lao impatiently spoke, but as he turned around, his entire body stiffened as if petrified, his eyes fixed unblinkingly on the youth standing before the tablet.
How is this possible? Mo Lao nearly popped his eyeballs out in shock!
He saw seven golden swords suspended above Ye Xiu's head. Innumerable sharp and fierce sword auras were howling and raging wildly within the hall!
"Don't disturb him!" An icy voice snapped.
Then an incredulous, quivering voice sounded, "Without any foundation in sword arts, he comprehended the perfect Seven Absolute Sword aura just by a look? This...this is inconceivable!"
Behind the beaded curtain in the inner hall, a soft and tender voice spoke from the eighth curtain, "Eldest sister, I thought his talent would lie in cultivating your Myriad Star Celestial Method, but unexpectedly, he was able to see through little sister's Seven Absolute Swords with a single look!"
"Even when I comprehended the Seven Absolute Sword aura, it took me a month. His speed is simply astounding. I've never seen someone so monstrous!" The sharp voice rang out again from the ninth curtain.
"Yet someone so monstrously gifted has neither stellar power nor a strong physique. How can this be?" An ethereal, melodious voice drifted out from behind the first curtain.
"Stellar power is the foundation of cultivating in the Starry Sky Continent."
"Stop talking. Look, he's gone to little sister's tablet!"
As the voice fell, powerful strands of divine sense immediately probed over.
Ye Xiu was also puzzled. Whether it was the Nine Star Celestial Formation or the Seven Absolute Swords, with just a look, numerous insights would suddenly arise in his mind. Moreover, it was as if he had created them himself, giving him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Could it be that my golden finger is my eyes? That I can see through any profound mystery with a single look? Ye Xiu couldn't help but think.
In just a few steps, he arrived before the second tablet.
Carved atop this tablet was a guqin.
"Big brother, can you get me a qin?" Ye Xiu called out to Mo Lao, who was standing not far away. Initially fierce, he now stood there completely dumbfounded.
"Give it to him." The tender voice rang in Mo Lao's ears.
Mo Lao pointed, and a ray of light landed before Ye Xiu as a guqin emerged in front of his eyes.
Ye Xiu sat down cross-legged and placed his fingers atop the strings.
At this time, a brilliant glow flashed in his eyes once more.
Twang—
His fingers plucked the strings, and though the music was unbearable to the ear, when the notes sounded, it made one feel as if their very soul would be shaken apart!
"Qin aura!" The tender voice also quivered abruptly.
"Comprehending qin aura is extremely difficult. Unless one has practiced the qin for many years, it is impossible to emit qin aura. Qin aura emphasizes proficiency and at the very least, an understanding of the qin. However, looking at Ye Xiu's hand movements, it is obvious he has never even touched a qin before. Yet the instant he started playing, he was able to summon qin aura!
Although weak, it is still shocking and unimaginable!"
Mo Lao froze again, no longer able to speak from the repeated astonishments.
Earlier, he had thought Ye Xiu was unremarkable. Although he had unsealed the Nine Star Celestial Formation, his mortal physique remained with not a wisp of stellar power. Thus, even if he accomplished something in the future, it would be limited. But now, Ye Xiu had comprehended the peerless Seven Absolute Sword aura with a single look, and with a single strum, summoned the elusive qin aura. Either achievement on its own would be enough to proclaim him a once-in-a-generation genius!
Ye Xiu walked to the third tablet. Before he even stopped, brush and paper had landed before him.
In the inner hall, the Nine Immortals held their breaths, also wanting to see how many arts Ye Xiu could comprehend from the nine tablets.
The golden light in Ye Xiu's eyes coruscated once more. A vast scene unfolded before him, vividly depicting mountains, rivers, beasts of the sea. The brush in Ye Xiu's hand dotted down on the paper, sketching just a single stroke. That single raised line denoted a mountain.
Buzz—
A momentum as vast and thick as a mountain suddenly pressed down within the great hall.
With that one oscillating stroke, he had summoned the grand spirit of the mountains!
Behind the seventh beaded curtain, the gentle voice rippled like a tidal wave. "One stroke capturing the soul of the mountains!"
Mo Lao could barely stand steadily, staggering back a step. His gaze remained fixed on Ye Xiu, unable to look away for even a moment.
By now, Ye Xiu put down the brush and paper and walked towards the fourth tablet.
With a point of his finger, Mo Lao made paper appear in Ye Xiu's hands again. He took a close look and nearly vomited blood at what he saw.
What?
It was just a single line!
Yet it vividly depicted the majestic spirit of the mountains!
Painting valued form, yet that single brush stroke contained no shape at all. Still, it was able to elicit such a grand aura!
This child can no longer be described as just a monster.
A prodigy defying the heavens! His comprehension ability is simply unparalleled under the heavens!
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!
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
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.
