Qi's mother tiptoed behind Qi Yuan, who was busy putting on his shoes.
She placed her small backpack, prepared for refuge, in the entryway and unexpectedly spoke up.
"Why haven't you left yet?"
Qi Yuan, once again startled by his mother's silent footsteps, almost jumped and stepped on her.
In response to her question, Qi Yuan was left with a puzzled expression.
Are you being too heartless?
I only received the call a few minutes ago!
"You can still hear the phone with your brother around?"
"I don't recall hitting menopause, do I?"
Qi Yuan finished putting on his shoes, stood up, and took the opportunity to quip, "Stop obsessing over the hundred ways of communication. The more you listen, the more it sounds like cryptic gossip."
"Fine."
Qi's mother swiftly switched tactics, throwing a familiar direct punch, "Before leaving, say a proper goodbye to the people who take care of us in this city."
"Okay."
Qi Yuan nodded solemnly, turning to his mother, "Don't worry."
...
Cheng Yizhou was rescued by Wu Xiong and two others, with other B-level ability users quickly arriving.
"Attack!"
A mist appeared out of nowhere, signaling the start of the assault.
The mist swiftly surrounded Beauty Phase, attaching droplets to its body.
A duty officer quickly approached, waving his hands towards the mist.
Ability - Heat Absorption.
In just a moment, he absorbed most of the heat from the water vapor. The water droplets, deprived of heat, instantly turned into ice fragments, absorbing and conducting the heat emanating from Beauty Phase.
Beauty Phase twitched its branches, seemingly slowing its pace under the influence of the ice fragments.
A sigh of relief swept through the onlookers.
It works!
The A-level monster isn't as formidable as imagined...
Seeing teammates successfully slowing down Beauty Phase indirectly, another duty officer aimed a water cannon at its roots. Though the water cannon didn't cause any damage, it successfully covered the ground beneath it with a thick layer of water.
The water duty officer nodded to his partner.
Concentrating, he closed his eyes, activating his ability.
Ability - Venom.
He transformed water into a highly corrosive liquid.
The liquid made a sizzling sound upon contact with Beauty Phase's roots, but unfortunately, it only managed to clean the surface stains.
Beauty Phase, unruffled, played with its food.
Having stayed in Qipan City for so long, it was well aware of the city's strength.
Even when moving its roots, it was merely cleaning the blood and flesh residues left by consuming humans.
Such a provocative act not only failed to anger the duty officers but instead, they all revealed triumphant smiles.
"You..."
Sensing danger, Beauty Phase realized too late. Suddenly, it felt its body lifted into the air, beginning to descend.
The ground beneath the building melted into a large hole due to the highly corrosive liquid, leaving Beauty Phase with no support for its roots in the liquid.
It plummeted to the floor below.
"Boom, boom, boom—"
Pre-set bomb traps and reinforced ability users were already in position.
As Beauty Phase fell into the trap, a barrage of explosions ensued.
This was their plan discussed early in the morning.
With their strength, penetrating the ability protection directly to cause damage was like a fool's dream.
However, indirect damage like this, relying on physics and chemistry, could yield results.
The power of a bomb enhanced by a reaction and infused with heat is several times stronger than regular explosives.
"Hurry, it's about to explode again."
A well-known duty officer directed his teammates.
Upon hearing the warning, several B-level supernaturals brought along a special duty team to evacuate.
The Beauty Phase, unscathed by the attacks of several supernaturals, let out a howl amidst the smoke.
The monstrous howl mixed with the Beauty Phase's unique hallucinogenic effect caused the supernaturals to pause, almost being hit by the aftermath of the explosives.
"Let's keep going, we're running out of time."
Wu Xiong and the others pushed Cheng Yizhou towards the blockade team and returned to the battlefield.
After assessing the Beauty Phase's condition, Wu Xiong and his companions wished they could run away.
The Beauty Phase, screaming in agony, reappeared after the smoke cleared.
Several of its roots were severed by the explosion, and a few drops of juice dripped down before quickly regenerating.
The ethereal and beautiful face revealed a poignant expression, accusing them of their violent actions.
Was it a bit too much?
As soon as Wu Xiong had this thought, he raised his arm and bit down fiercely.
Just a few roots severed, was that too much?
After confirming that their mental state and values were intact, Wu Xiong looked at his two brothers.
His two brothers had clearly experienced the same things as him, knowing that the other possessed a captivating ability, they were constantly scrutinizing their own hearts.
Seeing that no one was falling for the Beauty Phase's charm, the stunning face displayed a look of anger and embarrassment.
"You men who don't know how to cherish beauty."
Its petals began to close layer by layer, its upper body curling into the flower chamber, and its roots extending downward, piercing into the ground.
After rooting itself in the soil, the root stem grew rapidly, reaching tens of meters high in no time.
After a few breaths, the closed petals reopened, and pollen sprayed into the sky from the flower's heart, stopping in mid-air before falling down.
Moonlight shone on these pollen grains, causing them to sparkle with a soft light, resembling stars hanging in the sky.
Although the effect of the pollen was unclear, the enchanting fragrance of the flower warned the blockade team leader, who immediately made a decision.
"Intercept the pollen, don't let it pass our blockade line."
"The captain is too late."
The evacuating crowd, pushing and shoving, still nervously watched the direction of the battle, afraid that something might happen to the duty team before they could evacuate.
Suddenly, there were twinkling lights in the sky, and consciousness froze in place.
"So beautiful..."
The Beauty Phase's unparalleled beauty lingered in their minds.
Their gazes were blank, staring fixedly at the Beauty Phase in the sky, starting to walk back in the same rhythm.
The blockade team was jostled by the returning crowd, and the team leader, in the chaos, commanded, "Block the scene, don't let the crowd enter the battlefield."
The original intention was to protect the crowd from being harmed by the aftermath.
Now the blockade team was being overwhelmed by the crowd, unable to do anything in the middle.
The duty team outside quickly arrived, some using their abilities to control the crowd, while others subdued and pushed them onto crude carts, allowing logistics personnel to drag them away.
Everything was just beginning to fall into place, developing in a positive direction.
A sudden anomaly erupted as crimson roots burst from the ground, snaking into the crowd and ensnaring several citizens, dragging them below.
Amidst the chaos, several B-grade psychics found themselves at a loss.
"Damn it, why is this so difficult?" muttered one officer under his breath, their sense of triumph evaporating in an instant.
The infuriated Beauty Phase wasted no time in dispatching the collaborative efforts of the B-grade psychics.
If it weren't for Lin Cang relying on parasitic absorption of the Beauty Phase's energy, coming through at the crucial moment, they would have perished long ago.
"Hasn't the rescue arrived yet?" Wu Xiong lamented inwardly. What on earth was going on?
High above, flowers continued to exert their influence, hallucinatory petals and pollen refracting the light, their enchanting fragrance and captivating beauty luring humans incessantly, with the radiation range continuously expanding.
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.
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!
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...
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
