The towering tree trunks, their canopies blocking out the sun, Qi Yuan could feel their vibrant life force even before approaching them.
He opened his reconstructive vision, clearly seeing the roots transporting energy upwards, the energy within the osmanthus trees constantly growing.
Although he couldn't see the energy in the air and soil, energy couldn't be created from nothing.
The osmanthus forest on the moon was heavily absorbing the surrounding energy, no wonder the other trees withered so quickly.
Just standing under the trees for a moment, Qi Yuan saw the height of the osmanthus forest undulating like waves.
They were competing to absorb the energy from the land.
Qi Yuan took out a small knife and casually cut a notch in the nearest osmanthus tree.
Sap flowed from the wound in the bark, the cut healing and closing at an extremely rapid pace.
He saw this rapidly growing tree momentarily slow its growth speed.
It seemed the wound did have some effect on this tree.
Qi Yuan looked at the forest before him, his mind flickering with many thoughts.
If living beings were buried in the soil, would they be absorbed?
When energy was insufficient, would they devour each other?
With such strong self-healing abilities, could its branches and leaves be used as medicine?
A faint breeze blew, gently swaying the osmanthus blossoms in the moonlight, coating them in a cold glow.
The falling golden osmanthus petals danced in the air like golden foils, or golden butterflies flitting through the forest, adding a fresh color to the desolate ground.
The intense floral fragrance caused Qi Yuan discomfort, as he had always rejected strong scents.
Only faint fragrances were within the range he could accept.
Beyond this osmanthus forest lay an ancient, exquisite palace.
The terms "jade towers and palaces" and "carved railings and jade masonry" were most fitting to describe this palace.
The cold moonlight cast upon the palace, the chill nearly solidifying into substance, a faint mist swirling around it.
This magnificent structure, perhaps glittering and majestic in the glow of dawn.
But if asked which was a celestial palace, he would unhesitatingly choose this one.
Standing before this building, it was as if a myth had come to life.
The sense of awe was indescribable.
It was a pity that odd creatures always came to spoil the view.
Though he had yet to see its form, he could already hear its thoughts.
"A rabbit? Why are there rabbits everywhere?"
Qi Yuan followed the direction of the thoughts he sensed.
In the shadows, a pure white figure hid in the darkness, long ears swaying with its movement.
Unlike the ruby eyes of ordinary rabbits, its red eyes were like those of a bloodthirsty beast, greedily staring in his direction.
"Odd, I don't know why... but I have a feeling this rabbit has a strong presence..."
Although obscured in the shadows, a rabbit-like creature calling itself a rabbit...
Qi Yuan couldn't help but feel doubt from the bottom of his heart. He looked at his own palms, still the same as before.
Could it be that apart from their own kind, they saw other beings as rabbits?
So chickens and rabbits aren't actually shaped like that, but simply appear that way to them?
Then excluding humans who were the same as him, the intelligent being before him could only be a monster.
Qi Yuan changed directions, heading towards the rabbit monster.
He made no attempt to conceal his intent, allowing it no more than forty meters to run before being within his attack range.
The rabbit monster noticed him approaching, stepping back twice before stopping.
"Just a rabbit, why am I hiding?"
It mustered courage to step forward, but its feet involuntarily retreated a step.
"Is this the Rabbit King? How could a mutated animal have such a strong presence?"
Qi Yuan stopped a few meters away from it, testing the waters.
"I am human, you are under an illusion."
From its wooden expression and body language, he had already deduced the result.
"I can't understand the words it's saying, it's neither a monster nor a human... Could this be the language of mutated animals?"
As expected, it couldn't understand.
No use talking, time to test whether it was an illusion or real.
Light gathered in his hand into a sword, and he swung the blade of light, targeting the monster's long ears.
"Swish"
The dazzling light carved a crescent arc in the air, the monster's ear falling to the ground a few meters away.
The pure white, blood-stained ear dropped to the floor...
The rabbit monster's three-part mouth quivered, letting out pained "ee ee ee" screeches.
The scene looked somewhat unbearable.
Yet Qi Yuan's heart was unmoved.
This rabbit was too strange, despite its rabbit disguise, he still found it eerie.
"My ear! My ear!"
The monster clutched the wound with both hands, blood gushing unstoppably, fear spreading in its heart.
"A mutated rabbit killer!"
"Why would a mutated rabbit use such abilities? Could they have awakened intelligence?!"
It twisted and fled outwards, unwilling to linger for a moment.
Damn!
Qi Yuan couldn't discern whether it was illusion or reality.
Whether the arc of the falling ear or the monster's reaction to losing it, everything looked so real.
He had just laughed at someone else, and now karma came for him?
The illusion extended from him at an extreme speed, catching up to the rabbit monster and pulling it into the illusion.
Let him see what form he took in its eyes.
The monster's crimson eyes instantly went blank, deeply immersed in the illusion.
Qi Yuan manipulated the illusion, the monster's memories manifesting within.
From its perspective, a giant rabbit formed in the illusion - this was Qi Yuan's appearance in its eyes.
Qi Yuan saw the rabbit, a majestic and solemn Rabbit King, appear in the illusion after being filtered eighteen times.
With such a filter, even a pig would look regal.
He pondered for a moment, then prompted the monster to reveal more memories.
As far back as its memories went, it was in a certain forest.
Instinct drove it to wander outwards in search of humans, witnessing the trees go from lush green to yellowing leaves, fleeing animals gradually reduced to only rabbits.
Then...
Qi Yuan saw various animal species again.
He watched this segment of memory repeatedly, confirming there were no awkward transitions in the monster's recollections.
Like Qi Yuan, the monster had seen the palace from afar.
Judging it to be a human residence, it ran over in search of humans.
The monster made a cursory search inside the palace, only encountering a few strange rabbits at first.
After that, it laid in ambush along the path waiting for humans to show up, leading to its encounter with him.
The monster's memories differed from Qi Yuan's deductions.
Qi Yuan abandoned his previous assumptions and rethought his reasoning.
If it was under the influence of an illusion that made different species appear as rabbits, the monster shouldn't have seen various animals.
First there were diverse animal species, then only rabbits, then reverting to the original forms...
Two hypotheses could be made here.
One: The rabbits he saw were an illusion.
According to the monster's memories, the illusion would dissipate after a period of time, only to reappear later.
Two: The rabbits he saw were not an illusion.
The rabbit monster before him was real, and the rabbits in its memories were also real rabbits.
Then why did the rabbit monster see him as a rabbit?
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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!
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
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.
