This group of kids' words not only injured Qi Yuan, but also the Ghost Bride.
She didn't understand why she had to be the bride instead of the groom.
It was an unhealable scar to begin with, and the elementary schoolers were just pouring salt on the wound. The Ghost Bride's rationality slipped away as her black hair started swirling, showing signs that she was about to attack.
"Why am I the Ghost Bride! I don't want a male companion!"
The middle-aged lady looked at Qi Yuan worriedly, wondering if the young esper could handle this situation.
Sensing the middle-aged lady's concern, Qi Yuan thought things were taking a bad turn. His powers were least effective against irrational lunatics.
They wouldn't evaluate the difference in strength between them, only acting on instinct.
He had to buy time by bringing up topics that piqued her interest first, Qi Yuan strategized, before directly speaking up.
"Why can't the groom be female when the bride can be male?"
The Ghost Bride, who was about to max out her anger meter, was interrupted in her spell casting as rationality returned.
"Oh right, why can't I have a female groom?"
The question that had bothered her since birth was resolved by Qi Yuan, and the Ghost Bride felt the doors to a new world open up.
She let out the classic, eerie, female ghost laughter, which would have been more frightening if not for the overly coarse voice.
"You're very right. As thanks for clearing up my confusion, I'll spare the others but you have to stay."
Isn't this being ungrateful a bit too quick?
The monster's thoughts were completely transparent to Qi Yuan, but he didn't show anything on his face, only complaining inwardly.
Oblivious, the Ghost Bride singled out Qi Yuan as her first target outwardly while greedily eyeing the foul-mouthed kids.
"If he agrees, I'll make more excessive demands to force him to change his mind; if he doesn't agree, cracks will definitely form between the other humans, and I can still enjoy the other humans even if this brat gets disheartened and leaves angrily."
The middle-aged lady had a calm heart. Superstitious as she was, she also believed in one thing - tall tales. But she worried that the kids' nonsense would anger Qi Yuan into leaving.
The elementary school chickens, listening to the wind as rain, started clamoring. Some of the kids were indeed led by the monster to switch sides.
They started hoping that Qi Yuan would stay so they could leave this place.
The students, young in age, didn't know how to conceal their inner thoughts, which were perfectly reflected on their faces.
"Uncle Patrol Team officer, I want to go home."
"Me too..."
Embarrassed to outright ask Qi Yuan to stay, they started bawling, hoping to achieve their wish through throwing a tantrum as usual.
The middle-aged lady was both anxious and annoyed by the kids' antics. "What did your teacher teach you all? You can't believe the monster's words!"
The teacher's scolding changed the kids' loud wailing into sobs, and the scene fell silent.
It wasn't very realistic to expect kids who had never experienced society's blows and were only ever catered to since birth to understand gratitude, but rational analysis didn't mean emotions could accept it.
Qi Yuan observed coldly as the kids bawled.
"Haven't you all seen the Patrol Team uncle's videos?"
One boy broke the silence. Qi Yuan recognized him as one of the temporary team leaders he had appointed.
"For a monster like this, the Patrol Team uncle can take on ten by himself! There's just the glow...then...the monster is gone...many, many monsters disappear all at once."
The boy's poor vocabulary made his depiction faltering as he anxiously scratched his head, using gestures to make up for what he couldn't convey in words.
"That's right, the glow is the same color as the Patrol Team uncle's eyes."
Although the boy's portrayal was crude, the elementary schoolers understood each other, echoing his words despite never having witnessed what he described.
"It's true, I saw it too."
"No, I saw the Patrol Team uncle summon a golden dragon that bit the monster to death."
"You're both wrong, the Patrol Team uncle turned into a dragon himself and bit the monster to death."
"What you said is wrong, it was many Patrol Team uncles that all turned into dragons and bit the monster to death."
The elementary schoolers bickered incessantly.
The middle-aged lady rubbed her forehead worriedly. These kids were making a ruckus without reading the situation.
When the first boy stood up to try and portray the scene, Qi Yuan started paying attention to see if the Ghost Bride would visualize it.
But the kids got more and more outrageous that he couldn't cut in at all to add details to have the Ghost Bride imagine specific abilities.
With her level of tall tales, the Ghost Bride probably wouldn't believe them.
"A golden-eyed human can actually summon giant dragons!"
"An A-rank monster got insta-killed?!"
"There's so many abilities too!!"
The Ghost Bride was frightened out of her wits.
She didn't doubt the elementary students because she had the ability to discern truth from lies herself, and was shocked to discover that everything these human cubs said was the truth.
She had...actually believed it...
Qi Yuan didn't expect there to be such a pleasant surprise. The previously hateful brats suddenly became cute.
Familiarity breeds acceptance. The elementary schoolers had rendered great merit in one go, also fulfilling their wish.
A dragon's cry rang out as an awe-inspiring dragon's might wrapped around Qi Yuan. His golden irises transformed into dazzling, golden beast eyes, gazing down majestically at the Ghost Bride like a king surveying his territory.
Golden scale patterns emerged on his face and hands, and an illusory dragon horn flickered on his forehead as rays of light flashed.
The golden dragon illusion he summoned coiled behind him. The dragon cries came from its mouth.
Qi Yuan was resplendent in light that resonated with the golden dragon illusion, which ascended amidst the dazzling radiance.
The frolicking and swishing tail of the golden dragon seemed to contain some rhythm. Small thunderclouds formed inside and outside the building.
With a snap of his fingers,
The pitch-black teaching building was suddenly illuminated by piercing electric light that shone upon half of it, taking away all monsters in the area.
He sent off the special Ghost Bride in the most gorgeous and cool way on the spot before she could find her female groom. Fragrant and vanished like disappearing jade.
Before leaving, she kept thinking.
The golden-eyed human looks so strong, so why was I still fooled by the human cubs?
Did I get cocky, or was I still wishfully thinking?
Many thoughts ultimately turned into one line.
"You have..."
You have this level of strength and didn't say so earlier!
She didn't even get to finish her sentence before the roaring lightning engulfed her...
Thanks to the elementary students' nonsense, his portrayed strength was greater than before. He completely had the ability to clear out more monsters.
But his esper ability didn't differentiate between humans and monsters. His brain couldn't distinguish more people from monsters.
If it was an AOE that took out the little brothers too...
Qi Yuan didn't dare imagine.
Since the danger had passed from the surroundings, he could also deactivate his ability to rest for a bit.
The shocked elementary students were unable to process the information, remaining foolishly frozen.
Only when Qi Yuan adjusted his breathing and the middle-aged lady handed him the mineral water she had been reluctant to drink did the kids start screaming even louder than the actual ghosts. They charged at Qi Yuan, shouting about how amazing Uncle Patrol Team was, and not even the middle-aged lady's teacher authority could suppress their antics.
Qi Yuan had no choice but to put on a stern face. "Second order, did all the team leaders take note of who broke the rules just now?"
These words instantly suppressed the elementary school chickens.
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
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!
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.
