Rewriting the Rules

"So, what are you all here for?"

Gu Chen sighed and set down the watering can in his hand.

Originally, he had planned to live a quiet retirement life. After all, for the time being, he had hit the same kind of dead end as before. Cultivating on his own could no longer take him another step forward. He was stuck at the early God King stage. There were two solutions: faith, or an even greater opportunity.

But there was nothing he could do about that. Neither method was something that could be solved in a short time, so he would leave it at that for now.

The result was that just as he was watering the plants, several people came crashing down and snapped every flower in front of him.

"Heh-heh, well, there wasn't really any way to get here quickly, was there? Spatial traversal is kind of unstable."

Gu Chen nodded, taking that as accepting Xie Xie's explanation by default. Then he turned his gaze toward the blond girl lying off to the side, tied up like a rice dumpling. "So..."

"Why is this tsundere blond sore loser here?"

"Pfft—" Di Rui'er really could not hold it in and burst out laughing.

"Mmph! Mmph!" Dai Yun'er, tied up on the ground almost like a rice dumpling, started struggling again, wriggling around like a fish. But after struggling for ages, she still could not get free. She had been bound too tightly.

"Her? She counts as one of the weaker ones among Douluo's younger generation. An Evil Soul Master saw her and caught her in passing. The fact that she wasn't killed already counts as lucky."

Gu Chen looked at Dai Yun'er with pity and dissolved all the ropes on the girl's body. "Long time no see. I'll have