Meanwhile...
Inside Luo Bingchen's consciousness.
The world was collapsing.
Fragments of memory floated everywhere.
Childhood.
Humiliation.
Beatings.
Loneliness.
Resentment.
Thousands of memories shattered like broken mirrors.
Luo Bingchen stood in the center of the storm.
His body was covered with cracks.
Opposite him stood the azure-robed man.
Calm.
Indifferent.
As though everything happening around him was insignificant.
"You stole my body!"
Luo Bingchen roared.
Luo Chen merely looked at him.
"Stole?"
"I died."
"You died."
"Your body happened to be empty."
His tone was so natural that Luo Bingchen nearly exploded from anger.
"You monster!"
Luo Chen sighed.
"Eight hundred years of cultivation."
"Countless battles."
"Three destroyed sects."
"Seven life-and-death tribulations."
"Do you truly believe I would lose to a teenager?"
The cracks covering Luo Bingchen rapidly spread.
Despair appeared in his eyes.
For the first time...
he understood the gap between them.
One was an ordinary youth.
The other was a monster who had survived eight centuries of cultivation.
Outside in the real world...
a faint stream of spiritual energy quietly gathered around Luo Bingchen's body.
No ordinary person could detect it.
Yet Neo immediately noticed.
His face became even uglier.
"Host."
"We have another problem."
Li Tao's eyelid twitched.
"Another?"
Neo pointed toward Luo Bingchen.
"That guy is cultivating."
"..."
"In a Yellow-rank world?"
"..."
"And not martial arts."
"Actual cultivation."
Li Tao's expression finally became serious.
Ye Feng's rebirth was already a troublesome variable.
If another cultivator from a different world had appeared...
then this world was becoming increasingly far away from the original story.
At that moment—
a cute yet slightly mature voice suddenly shattered the atmosphere.
"Enough!! Don't you think you are overdoing it?"
Li Tao asked Neo, "What the fk is going on here? Didn't you say there were no Immortal cultivators in this world?"
Neo was also stunned by this development. He retorted, "The world changed when I brought you back. It is common to have some variables. Since you are cultivating immortality there might be others who can do it as well."
"And, if I am not wrong. This Luo Chen is not from this world. His soul travelled from another world and is currently fighting for occupying this boy's body."
"No wonder he was indifferent to this b!tch, unlike his licking dog attribute which was stronger than mine. He stood there watching me beat his family."
"Previous Luo Bingchen might have jumped the gun by now even if it had to cost him his life." He analyzed the situation.
He originally wanted to kill them and avoid future problems but things were getting interesting, the heroine had yet to show up.
Luo Meng was done talking to her father and was scared sh!tless at this point. She went down on her knees and begged, "Please let us go.." she cried.
Li Tao interuped her while looking at her coldly and said, "As I recall, you were the ones who cursed the most fiercely just now, right?"
"Don't you claim to be born with a golden spoon?"
"Go back and tell your family. I'll give them a day to prepare."
"One day later, Li Group officially acquired their company."
"By the way, my name is Li Tao."
Nangong Li was watching this act from the crowd. Just as she was about to shout another voice disturbed the scene.
Li Tao slowly exhaled.
One reborn protagonist.
One mysterious black gate.
One system spirit under disciplinary punishment.
And now an ancient cultivator possessing someone's body.
The plot had officially stopped pretending to follow the original novel.
At this rate...
a dragon might crawl out of the toilet tomorrow.
Neo replied immediately.
[Ding! Please don't say things like that.]
[Ding! The World Will might hear you.]
Li Tao: "..."
Neo: "..."
Li Tao suddenly wasn't sure whether Neo was joking.
"Enough!! Don't you thing you are overdoing it?" a cute yet slightly mature voice destroyed the solemn atmosphere.
Qin Chanchan rushed past the crowd while shouting at Li Tao and his company. Unlike others she and her best friend were accompanied by a dozen grandmasters from her family.
From her knowledge strongest person in the fortune city beside the Good Fortune mountain is middle-stage grandmaster from the Tang family. Her team was strong enough to flatten this city.
Li Tao said 'finally' in his mind. Now the stage is set he could start beating people for good.
"Who is this annoying lady? Someone escort her outside!" he signaled Mr. Law to take care of her.
Mr. Law finally saw the opportunity to redeem himself, so without checking the background he asked the security present to follow the orders.
One of the bodyguards standing behind Qin Chanchan stepped forward and easily neutralized the people sent by Mr. Law.
Now Mr. Law was swearing everything he could think of, the best possible outcome for him today would be to be able to walk out of this club alive. Other security guards stood there not intending to risk their lives for this job.
He signaled them to take the injured and retreat. The play is already above their paygrade by several levels. They cannot do anything about the matter anymore than just prey.
Qin Chanchan joined Nangong Li and stood in front of Li Tao. She commanded, "You better listen to my words or you might end up like these security guards."
Nangong Li just hmphed and warned him to watch his actions. She helped Luo Meng up while staring at Luo Bingchen for being a coward and spineless.
*Snap**Snap**Snap*
Li Tao clapped at this performance and mocked, "You might have to check your own weight before you jump in a fight, Mrs. Ye and Mrs. Ye. Haha."
"It would be a waste if you people don't act in a play."
"A'Qian!!...A'Fu!! are you here just to watch?" he shouted.
Two of them took action almost immediately as if they were waiting for this moment for a long time.
Bang...Bang...Bang...crash!!
Within a minute the army of dozen grandmasters were now lying on the ground wailing. Some had broken hands, sunken chest and a few even had difficulty breathing as if dead.
The expressions of everyone present changed drastically.
Only now did they realize what kind of force Li Tao had gathered around him.
A'Qian and A'Fu were not ordinary experts.
Both had already stepped into the middle-stage of the Dan-Forging Realm, standing among the strongest martial artists in the entire province.
As for Li Tao's faction, its growth had long exceeded common sense.
Li Tao himself had reached the early-stage of the Dan-Forging Realm.
Family Head Li Tian and Uncle Cheng had both advanced to the middle-stage of the Dan-Forging Realm.
Mother Li and Aunt Ling stood at the Half-step Dan-Forging Realm and could break through at any time.
Li Jing had reached the peak Grandmaster Realm and was only one step away from forging her Dan.
What truly terrified people was the speed of these breakthroughs.
Only a short time ago, most of these people had merely been Grandmasters or below.
Yet now they possessed enough combat power to rival some of the established martial arts families of the province.
The Li Family was no longer the declining family others remembered.
Without anyone noticing, a new giant had already begun to rise.
It was now Nangong Li and Qin Chanchan's turn to get dumbstruck. They only had one question, "How?!"
Nangong Li was still composed, Qin Chanchan on the other hand was like a robot whose power source was cut off. She was stuck in the phase of consoling the distressed Luo Meng.
Beating her people was one thing but what the fkcu does this man mean by 'Mrs. Ye and Mrs. Ye'?
Did he recognize the wrong people? But from the looks of it, it is not the case. He still has that smug look on his face like he was watching them perform.