Gu Qingfeng's sudden outburst of acting left the Shadow Demon momentarily stunned.
It gave Gu Qingfeng a complex look, as if questioning his intelligence, and thought to itself, "My blade didn't even scratch your skin, do I really need you to tell me that? We have no grudge, so why are you treating me like an idiot?"
"No wonder you're ranked second among the Seven Demon Generals. With such power, I admit my inferiority. Today, I, Gu Qingfeng, declare you the strongest."
Gu Qingfeng continued his performance.
The Shadow Demon felt an inexplicable sense of awkwardness and, without looking back, turned and fled. Using Shadow Shift, it disappeared from Gu Qingfeng's sight in an instant.
The Shadow Domain dissipated, and the shadows in the room receded, revealing vibrant colors once more.
Seeing the Shadow Demon flee, Gu Qingfeng was furious. It wasn't that the demon had escaped that angered him, but rather that it had ignored his acting skills, which were on par with a Hollywood legend!
"Do you even understand acting?!"
"If I let you get away today, I won't even deserve to keep the surname Gu!" Gu Qingfeng's face twisted with rage as he leaped out the window, merging with the darkness outside.
In the darkness, Gu Qingfeng, using his master-level soul power and spiritual sense, firmly locked onto the Shadow Demon's constantly shifting position and activated Shadow Shift to chase after it.
The Shadow Demon continuously used Shadow Shift to teleport through the shadows of Wutong Prefecture—shadows under eaves, tree shadows by the road, and even the shadows of passersby, all serving as its stepping stones.
In just a few breaths, the Shadow Demon had escaped Wutong Prefecture and reached the wilderness.
In the wild, it was even more at ease. Though the moonlight hindered the darkness, the dense trees provided endless shadows.
It teleported through the forest, covering a hundred miles in the blink of an eye.
At this distance, the Shadow Demon felt safe and began to rest.
After all, this was only one of its shadow clones, and the shadow energy it contained had been significantly depleted by multiple uses of Shadow Shift. Moreover, Shadow Shift not only consumed shadow energy but also soul power.
Shadow Shift required soul power to lock onto targets, much like how running requires eyes to see.
Therefore, the distance of Shadow Shift was not only limited by the range of shadows but also by one's own soul power. If your soul power only covers 500 meters, you can only teleport 500 meters.
Just as the Shadow Demon was resting, it suddenly turned pale!
Because it sensed a fluctuation of shadow energy nearby!
How was this possible?
The Shadow Clan was almost extinct. Could there be another member of my clan in the world?
The Shadow Demon immediately looked toward the source of the fluctuation. A shadow appeared out of nowhere, and as the shadow receded like a tide, Gu Qingfeng's grinning face was revealed.
The Shadow Demon's face changed drastically. How could it be Gu Qingfeng!?
"Who exactly are you? Why can you also use Shadow Shift? Are you also a member of the Shadow Clan?" The Shadow Demon fired off three questions in a panic.
Gu Qingfeng shook his head. "What I am doesn't matter. What matters is, I was 'severely injured' by you earlier. Why didn't you finish me off and instead ran away?"
Shadow Demon: "...
Seeing that the conversation wasn't going anywhere, the Shadow Demon turned and merged into the darkness, disappearing once again.
Gu Qingfeng's anger intensified. He hated two kinds of people the most: those who talked too much and those who thought he talked too much.
What's the meaning of turning your back and leaving without a word when I'm talking to you? Do you look down on me?
Shadow Shift activated, and Gu Qingfeng, relying on his master-level soul power, teleported far beyond the Shadow Demon's (which was just a shadow clone) range, blocking its path.
The Shadow Demon wasn't willing to back down. It weaved through the shadows of the forest, changing direction hundreds of times in a second, trying to shake off Gu Qingfeng.
Gu Qingfeng furiously mobilized his perception, searching for the Shadow Demon's position, but due to its rapid changes in direction, he found it difficult to lock on.
This made Gu Qingfeng feel like he was trying to swat a mosquito at home. He stared at it, waiting for it to land so he could crush it, but the mosquito kept doing 360-degree spins in the air, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
After all, Shadow Shift was the Shadow Demon's ability. Having practiced it for over a century, it was naturally more skilled than a newbie like Gu Qingfeng.
"Could it be that I have to change my surname today?" Gu Qingfeng grew even more furious.
The shadow energy fluctuations had disappeared, and Gu Qingfeng knew the Shadow Demon was hiding in this forest, blending into the shadows and concealing its power, making it hard to detect.
Shadows were naturally good at hiding.
The Shadow Demon was clever. It knew Gu Qingfeng's soul power surpassed its own, so his teleportation range was greater. If it relied solely on teleportation to escape, it would eventually be caught. Moreover, the energy fluctuations caused by Shadow Shift would be sensed by Gu Qingfeng, making it impossible to escape.
Therefore, the Shadow Demon kept changing directions to throw off Gu Qingfeng's lock-on, then hid itself. In the darkness, the Shadow Demon was undoubtedly the king of concealment.
Gu Qingfeng had no intention of giving up his surname. He kept teleporting through the forest, searching for the Shadow Demon's tracks.
The prolonged fruitless search made him furious, but also amused.
Standing in the forest, his face twisted into a sinister smile. "Enjoying hide-and-seek, huh? My dear little sister, you better hide well. Don't let me find you... or else... hehehe..."
The sinister laughter echoed through the night forest, adding an eerie and terrifying atmosphere.
Hiding in the shadow of a nearby tree, the Shadow Demon watched Gu Qingfeng, who looked like a demon, and felt an inexplicable fear rise in its heart. It silently prayed not to be discovered.
Although it was only a shadow clone, its main body had injected a significant amount of essence into it to test Gu Qingfeng. If this shadow clone were to die, the Shadow Demon's main body would also suffer severe injuries.
Originally, it wasn't too worried about Gu Qingfeng being able to harm it, but when it discovered that Gu Qingfeng also possessed shadow energy, it panicked completely. Because the powers of the same source could harm each other.
Back when the Mirror Demon competed with it for the second rank, the clone could hurt it. If it hadn't expanded its Shadow Domain and used infinite teleportation to exhaust the Mirror Domain until it collapsed, it would have lost. Although the clone could also use infinite teleportation, the two kept teleporting endlessly, neither able to harm the other, relying solely on whose Shadow Domain lasted longer.
Beating the Mirror Demon was purely due to the advantage of the Shadow Domain. The rules of the Mirror Domain were strange, so it consumed more energy, while the Shadow Domain only covered shadows, making it more energy-efficient and longer-lasting.
This was why the Mirror Demon never accepted its defeat, feeling it had lost unfairly.
...
"Is it here?" Gu Qingfeng suddenly flipped over a clump of grass.
But there was nothing inside.
"Not here?"
Gu Qingfeng turned to search elsewhere.
"Come out!"
Gu Qingfeng pounced again, only to find nothing.
The Shadow Demon watched as Gu Qingfeng got closer and closer, its "heart" almost jumping out of its throat, though it didn't actually have a heart.
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!
+ Slow Paced + Main Character Thrives Together with His Disciples】 Transmigrated into a cultivation world, Chu Xingchen awakens a discipleship system that reveals the tags of his disciples! Starting from scratch, he builds the strongest sect. Disciple One: Li Yingling 【Gold Tag: Genius Cultivator】【Purple Tag: Extremely Lucky】【Blue Tag: Bewitchingly Beautiful】 Disciple Two: Li Hangtian 【Gold Tag: Reincarnated】【Purple Tag: Ruthless and Decisive】【Blue Tag: Loyal and Noble】 Disciple Three: ??? 【Orange Tag: Alluring Demoness】【???】【???】 Thus, in the cultivation world, an unremarkable little sect appears out of nowhere, but little do others know that each member of this sect is a powerhouse in their own right. The book is also known as: Cultivation? It's Exactly Like This!
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.
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.
