After sending off Li Qianren, Gu Qingfeng closed the door and went back to sleep. After all, being interrupted by Demon Pu in the middle of his nap had severely affected his sleep quality.
He slept until the sun was high in the sky, and after waking up, he went out for a hearty meal.
Returning to his residence, Gu Qingfeng decided to flip through the books Li Qianren had given him. However, after barely glancing at a couple of pages and memorizing one book, he felt drowsy again.
As everyone knows, the Chinese habit of taking a midday nap is ingrained in their very souls, and even after crossing over to another world, this tradition couldn’t be abandoned.
So, Gu Qingfeng went back to sleep.
Squeak, squeak, squeak~
When he woke up again, it was already dark outside, and he felt refreshed.
He took out the alchemy books and continued reading. Thanks to his photographic memory, he read incredibly fast and with great efficiency. Just as he was getting into it, there was a knock at the door.
Knock, knock, knock...
"Master Gu, let's go."
"Go?" Gu Qingfeng was puzzled. "Go where?"
Wang Fatty pushed the door open and said, "Master Gu, have you forgotten? After drinking last night, didn’t you reject the request from the beauties to stay the night and tell them you’d visit them today?
It’s already dark now, and someone from the Heavenly Fragrance Tower just came to remind us. The ladies are waiting for you."
Gu Qingfeng slapped his forehead. He had been so drunk that he’d forgotten the important matter.
Looking at the alchemy book in his hand, it suddenly didn’t seem as appealing anymore.
People say that books hold the allure of beauty, but the problem was that a group of beauties were waiting for him at the Heavenly Fragrance Tower. He knew which was more important.
Gu Qingfeng tossed the book aside and quickly got out of bed.
"Let’s go, Wang Fatty. A man must keep his word. Although I don’t feel like going, since I promised, I can’t break my promise."
"Master, you are truly noble."
As Gu Qingfeng was about to leave, Wang Fatty hurriedly called out, "Master Gu, Master Gu, your shoes! Your shoes!"
Gu Qingfeng quickly put on his shoes and changed the subject. "Where’s Xu Daizi?"
"He went ahead to book a private room."
......
After a night of revelry, Gu Qingfeng returned to his residence in the dead of night.
Lying in bed, he found himself unable to sleep for some reason.
Thinking that he shouldn’t waste even a moment of cultivation time, he got up and began his training.
Following his usual routine, he took out a True Essence Pill and frowned slightly as he looked at it. "I’m already comparable to a grandmaster. How can I still be taking such low-grade pills? At the very least, it should be a Rising Essence Pill."
So, he switched to a Rising Essence Pill.
The Cultivation Foundation Pill is suitable for warriors in the Internal Qi Realm, the True Essence Pill for those in the True Qi Realm, and the Rising Essence Pill for those in the Tough Qi Realm.
One could imagine how potent the effects were.
Normally, a warrior in the Qi Gathering Realm would explode from consuming a Rising Essence Pill, but Gu Qingfeng wouldn’t.
His physique was too strong. If others were balloons, he was a metal ball. Trying to inflate a metal ball to the point of bursting was nothing short of a pipe dream.
Of course, although the Rising Essence Pill was potent, Gu Qingfeng couldn’t fully absorb its medicinal power, and most of it would dissipate.
However, this dissipation wasn’t a waste, as the excess energy would be absorbed by his Black Dragon Immortal Body. That’s why Gu Qingfeng chose to take the Rising Essence Pill.
As soon as the Rising Essence Pill entered his stomach, a vast and pure surge of energy flooded Gu Qingfeng’s body, making him feel as though he were soaring in an ocean of elemental energy.
He began circulating the Dragon God Technique, focusing his mind and immersing himself in his cultivation.
At that moment, a Demon Eliminator who had just finished his training in the practice room was walking back. As he passed by Gu Qingfeng’s residence, he couldn’t help but take a second look.
While all the other residences had their lights turned off, Gu Qingfeng’s was still lit.
The dim candlelight cast a flickering shadow on the window, showing someone sitting cross-legged on the bed, deeply engrossed in meditation.
The Demon Eliminator couldn’t help but feel moved. He had thought that training for a whole day made him a diligent and hardworking individual, but he hadn’t expected someone to be cultivating through the night.
Indeed, you should never think you’ve worked hard enough, because there will always be someone working harder than you.
Inspired by this display of dedication, the Demon Eliminator decided to forgo sleep and continue his training.
Unaware that his diligent cultivation had become an inspiration to others, Gu Qingfeng focused all his attention on the energy within his body.
Because his energy had mutated.
It was sudden. He hadn’t done anything differently, just cultivating as diligently as he had countless nights before, but the energy within him had inexplicably changed.
Previously, the energy cultivated through the Dragon God Technique was a pale black, but this time it had turned into a pitch-black color, as if it could swallow all light like a black hole.
This ink-black energy, like a living creature, appeared and immediately began devouring the surrounding pale black Dragon God energy, like a shark entering a school of fish.
Gu Qingfeng’s cultivation, which had reached the sixth level of the Qi Gathering Realm, began to waver under the devouring force of the ink-black energy, teetering on the edge of falling.
Fortunately, the Rising Essence Pill was powerful enough, releasing an endless stream of pure energy to replenish the loss, stabilizing his cultivation level.
And so, one devoured while the other replenished. The ink-black energy grew increasingly bloated and massive, eventually consuming all the pale black energy.
From then on, all of Gu Qingfeng’s energy had turned into the ink-black variety.
Once the transformation was complete, the ink-black energy seemed to unleash an intense gravitational pull, greedily absorbing the energy continuously released by the Rising Essence Pill, growing stronger by the moment.
"What on earth is going on? This energy is so domineering!" Gu Qingfeng thought to himself, alarmed. He had always considered the Dragon God energy to be overbearing, but this mutated ink-black energy was even more ruthless, almost tyrannical.
Am I going berserk?
Wait, does going berserk count as becoming a demon?
Gu Qingfeng considered stopping his cultivation, but when he felt his cultivation level rapidly climbing, nearing the seventh level of the Qi Gathering Realm, he decided to continue.
After all, his physique was incredibly strong. Even if this energy exploded within him, it wouldn’t harm him. At worst, his cultivation would reset to zero, but it wouldn’t affect his actual strength.
As he continued cultivating, the energy within him grew stronger, and a deep sense of comfort spread through his limbs.
After a long while...
Pop!
A faint sound came from within Gu Qingfeng’s body, as if a thin membrane had been pierced.
His aura surged, unmistakably reaching the seventh level of the Qi Gathering Realm!
Although it was the seventh level, his aura felt more solid, profound, and weighty than that of an ordinary seventh-level cultivator.
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.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
