I overslept and forgot to write today's update. I'll write it in a bit.
Everyone, this is a fake chapter.
(´╥ω╥`)
Northern Province, Azure Tide Continent.
"Fuck!! You damned swindler!! Stop right there!!"
"You bastard, if I catch you, I'll skin you and make underwear out of your hide!!"
"Stop talking, you guys. I... I can't hold it anymore... oh~~"
Furious curses rang across the sky as more than a dozen young cultivators glared with eyes ready to split.
Their legs turned inward, clamped tightly together.
They rode flying swords at full speed, chasing a man on the ground.
Every one of them looked livid, with something yellowish-brown dripping from their trouser legs.
Meanwhile, spell after spell bombarded the ground below, blasting dust into the air.
But the figure was incredibly nimble, darting left and right, always narrowly evading their attacks.
Instead of slowing down, he only ran faster.
Chen Yang had a Soaring Talisman stuck to each leg, and his legs pumped so fast they left afterimages.
Hearing the threats behind him, he immediately twisted around and flipped them the middle finger.
"How is this my fault?!! You bought my pills willingly!! What's wrong with a few side effects?!
Sure, they gave you explosive diarrhea in public, but they also made you the center of everyone's attention!!
Didn't you see that girl looking at you like she'd never leave you, even in death?"
[Malice from cultivator Liu +200]
"**Aaaaaah!! Shut up!!!
She fucking meant I should hurry up and die, not overstay my welcome!!!**"
"Whoa, why didn't you say so sooner!"
Before he finished speaking, that cultivator roared and slashed out a streak of sword qi.
"Holy shit!!"
Chen Yang jolted in fright and immediately slapped another Soaring Talisman onto each leg, instantly doubling his speed.
"Oh~~ I can't take it anymore~~"
Among the cultivators pursuing him in the sky, a rather fat male cultivator finally lost control.
With a shudder, he sprayed out a yellow torrent.
"No, I can't hold it either!"
"Pffft-"
"Urgh!! Blegh-you fucking-blegh-"
[Despair from Chen +104] [Humiliated fury from Zhang +144] [Terror from Liu +222]
Seeing his pursuers crash out of the sky one after another, Chen Yang breathed a sigh of relief. He hurriedly pulled out an Earth-Escape Talisman and vanished with a whoosh.
"Fuck! We lost him again! That damned swindler can't get far! Keep chasing!!"
A scrawny male cultivator with sunken eyes clutched his backside and led the others into the distance, gnashing his teeth.
An unknown amount of time passed.
Inside a ruined temple, Chen Yang cautiously poked his head out, watching his pursuers fly past in the distant sky.
Sigh...
Chen Yang lay on a straw mat, his face weary. He had transmigrated here a year ago.
The good news: he'd come with his own body.
The bad news: he had no spiritual root for cultivation...
That had once driven him to despair.
In a place where cultivators stood high above everyone and mortals were mere ants, there was no telling which would arrive first: tomorrow or disaster.
The shock waves from two cultivators fighting could kill him at any moment.
Fortunately, he had awakened a system that could absorb all kinds of emotions other people felt toward him.
The system had two shops: an exclusive shop and a regular shop.
Anything exchanged for emotion points in the exclusive shop could only be used by Chen Yang himself.
The regular shop had no such restriction, and its goods could also be bought with spirit stones. They just came with some side effects.
"System, open the panel."
"Ding, host: Chen Yang. Spiritual root: lower-grade spiritual root Cultivation: early-stage Qi Refining. Emotion points: 105086 Currently unlocked products: Unstoppable Diarrhea Weird-Flavored Bean: restores 10% of the user's magical energy proportionally. (Side effect: using spiritual energy within two hours of consumption will cause uncontrollable explosive diarrhea.) Price: 20 low-grade spirit stones. Kiss-and-Smooch Drink: increases the user's attack power by 10% for a short time. (Side effect: the effect disappears after one attack. Smooching someone else can trigger the effect again.) Price: 20 low-grade spirit stones. Also available: [Little Blue Pill] [Super Flyer Little Green Stick] [Save-Your-Life Little Pill]"
Phew-although I wasted a few talismans this time.
At least I sold all the pills I had and collected quite a few emotion points.
Chen Yang opened the exclusive shop and went straight on a spending spree.
"Ding, spent 100000 emotion points to upgrade to a middle-grade spiritual root." "Ding, spent 5000 emotion points to purchase Soaring Talisman ×5."
The instant his spiritual root finished upgrading, a refreshing sense of ease washed through Chen Yang's entire body.
The spiritual energy that had previously stumbled through his body now flowed with incredible smoothness.
He let out a long breath of stale air.
No wonder people with outstanding spiritual roots cultivate so quickly. This efficiency at absorbing spiritual energy isn't even in the same league as a lower-grade spiritual root.
But before he could savor the feeling any longer, a thunderous crash erupted overhead.
A figure smashed straight through the roof and landed squarely on top of him.
"Holy shit! They caught up already?!"
Chen Yang instinctively pulled out a Soaring Talisman, ready to flee. But when he saw who was on top of him, he drew back the foot he had been about to kick out.
It was a woman, and she looked half dead.
His heart immediately settled. He raised his hands and shoved her off him to one side.
Rubbing his aching back where she'd landed, he stood up and examined her closely.
Hmm, she's pretty good-looking. A high ponytail, an oval face, and blue-green robes wrapped around a body with curves in all the right places.
Big where she should be big, small where she should be small. An absolute stunner.
Shame there's a hole through her chest and blood trickling from her mouth. That spoils the view a little.
But it's fine. I won't turn my nose up at you, so don't turn yours up at me.
Hehehe~~
Without another word, Chen Yang reached out and started feeling around.
"Yun Yao? What a tacky name."
He glanced at her identification token, decided it wasn't worth anything, and casually tossed it behind him.
Before long, he had stripped off all the ornaments on her that looked valuable and put them into his system storage.
Suddenly, Chen Yang's gaze shifted, and he spotted something below her neck, round and white as a full moon.
"Oh~ There's something good hidden in here too!"
Chen Yang reached inside to rescue the Jade Pendant buried there.
Perhaps because there wasn't much room, he tugged at her wound. Yun Yao gave a muffled groan and slowly opened her eyes.
"I... didn't die? Hiss... it hurts..."
Intense pain spread from her chest. Yun Yao struggled to open her eyes, her mind still somewhat dazed.
She propped up her weak body, her gaze focusing on Chen Yang in front of her, filled with wariness and confusion.
"Who are you? What are you trying to do?"
Her brows knitted tightly, and her gaze fell on the Jade Pendant in Chen Yang's hand. It looked rather familiar.
Yun Yao instinctively lowered her head and looked at her chest.
The spot where the Jade Pendant should have rested against her skin was empty.
Her eyes instantly turned cold. She wanted to cut him down with a sword, but she couldn't muster any strength.
Under her cold, scrutinizing gaze, Chen Yang showed no trace of panic. His expression remained composed and perfectly at ease.
He casually set the Jade Pendant on the ground beside him and explained in a calm voice.
"Don't misunderstand. I'm an alchemist.
I happened to pass by and found you gravely injured and unconscious on the ground, fellow cultivator, so I wanted to see whether I could treat your wounds and save you."
Yun Yao stared coldly at him, not lowering her guard in the slightest.
"An alchemist? Then why did you take my Jade Pendant?"
Chen Yang pointed at the chest Yun Yao was covering and spoke with perfect self-assurance.
"Your wound is on your chest, and this Jade Pendant was in the way. How am I supposed to treat you without moving it? Were those two supposed to part on their own?"
Yun Yao's eyelid twitched, and she tried to calm herself. Although the man before her was only at early-stage Qi Refining,
she was gravely injured, with less than a tenth of her strength left. She needed to chew a handful of blood-stopping herb first.
Yun Yao instinctively reached toward her waist, only to find nothing.
"Where's my Storage Bag?!!"
(ꐦ°᷄д°᷅)
[Anger from Yun Yao +266]
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