8: Chapter 8 Immortal Emperor: I've been cuckolded, is that something to be proud of?
Uncle Gou opened his mouth and uttered an innocent remark.
"This plot is wrong! Shouldn't the Young Master have brought back a woman? Master, Madam! I have failed you! I really didn't watch over the Young Master! He actually turned gay! I don't even know when it happened!"
"What kind of nonsense is that? Stop reading so many Overbearing CEO novels."
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth. "You're an Overbearing CEO yourself."
"Fine..."
Uncle Gou raised his hand, trembling. "Young Master, this man you brought back... did you pay him?"
"You must not do anything illegal! We are all law-abiding citizens."
"I did!"
Shen Yuan said subconsciously. "What I gave him can't be bought with money!"
Uncle Gou lowered his head.
No wonder the Young Master hadn't been close to women for so many years; so that was why...
"Oh, right!"
"Uncle Gou!"
"This is Chu Yang, my brother!"
"My brother from different parents!"
"Arrange something for him... actually, forget it. He'll sleep with me tonight!"
"I want to sleep with him!"
Shen Yuan was grinning from ear to ear.
Uncle Gou watched the two of them walk towards the room with their arms around each other...
Uncle Gou reached out with an Er-Kang hand!
"Young Master... how am I supposed to explain this to Master and Madam!"
Shen Yuan's bedroom was ridiculously large, and the custom-made bed was very luxurious.
The bookshelves were filled with ancient books and calligraphy collected by the Original Owner.
The only thing was... there was half a bottle of unfinished "happy water" on the bedside table.
Chu Yang scanned the room as soon as he entered, staring at the "fat house happy water," and looked somewhat stunned. "Your aesthetic, to put it politely, is a weird mix of refined and vulgar!"
"Haha, humans, nobody is truly free of vulgarity!"
Shen Yuan kicked off his shoes and lay on the bed, patting the spot next to him. "Come, let's discuss!"
Chu Yang walked over and sat down.
The mattress was very soft, making him feel uncomfortable.
"The system should be omnipotent. What's in your system shop?" Chu Yang asked curiously.
Shen Yuan was beaming. "Everything!"
"There are even pangu ribs!"
"Do you believe me?"
"The system has even turned the Pangu into a dish now!"
Shen Yuan chuckled.
Chu Yang was speechless.
Sure enough, the rumors in the novel world were true! The system world must have started farming the Pangu.
"I'm at the peak of Qi Refining. What about you?" Shen Yuan asked.
"Peak!? Was that a gift package from the system?" Chu Yang smiled. "With the help of the healing pill, I've just sensed my Qi. I'm aiming to enter the Qi Refining stage tonight!"
Shen Yuan shrugged and asked the system about the cultivation realms.
Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Soul Separation, Spirit Severing, Integration, Tribulation Transcendence, Mahayana! These were the realms before becoming an immortal!
A martial artist's realm was actually within Qi Refining as well.
Houtian, Xiantian, Master, Grandmaster... these were the four stages of Qi Refining.
The realms after becoming an immortal were... Human Immortal, Earth Immortal, Heaven Immortal, Profound Immortal, Golden Immortal, Immortal Monarch, Immortal King, and Immortal Emperor!
"Do you have any marrow cleansing dew?" Chu Yang asked. "The spiritual energy on Blue Star is too thin. marrow cleansing dew can quickly cleanse the marrow and refine the body."
"Yes, it costs 500 villain points." Shen Yuan smiled.
"What about things like spirit gathering arrays?" Chu Yang asked again.
"Yes, a Spirit Gathering Array Disk. It costs 1000 villain points and can gather the surrounding spiritual energy," Shen Yuan explained.
I have to say, he really is an Immortal Emperor! Right from the start, he was already preparing for cultivation. Unlike me, I'm completely in a "lying flat" state.
"Good!" Chu Yang slapped his thigh. "Tomorrow, beat me within an inch of my life!"
"Let's put in some effort and try to gather enough villain points!"
"Don't worry, just hit me. I can take it. If that doesn't work, you can even whip me!" Chu Yang chuckled.
"That won't be necessary." Shen Yuan rolled his eyes. "I don't have S&M fetishes!"
"Besides, if I hit you too hard, I'll have to spend villain points on a healing pill. That would be counterproductive."
Shen Yuan smiled. "By the way, you, an Immortal Emperor, where did you go back then?"
"Did you transmigrate?"
"And how did you reincarnate back?" Shen Yuan was very curious.
Chu Yang sighed. "Originally, Yiyi, she..."
After hearing about what happened to Chu Yiyi, Shen Yuan's face was filled with murderous intent.
"That's my own sister!"
"Damn it!"
"The weather is getting cold; it's time for the Chen family to go bankrupt!" Shen Yuan gritted his teeth.
"I believe in you!" Chu Yang gave a thumbs up. "Destroy their whole family!"
Shen Yuan scratched his head. "I'm just venting. Do you think it's that easy to make them go bankrupt?"
"It requires precise poaching, then cutting off their supply chain, and finally, a reverse stranglehold."
"Only then can their family go bankrupt!"
"The most important thing is... it's the company that goes bankrupt, not the people!"
"Do you really think that just because it's in a novel, you end up sleeping on the street after bankruptcy?"
Shen Yuan stretched. "We could invest a huge amount of capital, drive their stock price into the ground, and short them..."
"But that's a crime!"
"Manipulation of the securities market, ever heard of it?"
Shen Yuan exhaled. "As for dealing with the Chen family, leave it to Uncle Gou!"
"We'll cultivate, and then assassinate them!"
"Speaking of assassination, should I go on the dark web and hire a killer?" Shen Yuan chuckled.
"I'd rather improve my cultivation and find an opportunity to kill them myself!" Chu Yang shook his head.
Chu Yang briefly described his transmigration...
Shen Yuan suddenly understood. Chu Yang had transmigrated to the Canglan Continent, struggled his way up, and became an Immortal Emperor.
"But you still haven't said how you came back," Shen Yuan asked curiously.
Chu Yang: "..."
The past was too painful to recall!
"The same way I transmigrated!" Chu Yang sighed.
Shen Yuan: Understood, he was killed by someone!
"How did you die?" Shen Yuan continued to ask.
"Can you stop being so persistent?" Chu Yang said with annoyance.
Shen Yuan: "..."
It looked like he had died quite miserably!
Chu Yang closed his eyes. "Go to sleep, I'm going to cultivate!"
Shen Yuan sneered. "Fine, don't tell me. I even told you about the system, yet you refuse to tell me how you died!"
"In the end, this brother was mistaken; in the end, this brother's efforts were all in vain!"
"So, my brother is still guarding against me!"
Shen Yuan clutched his chest, his expression distorted, radiating an overwhelming aroma of green tea.
"You, I, you..." Chu Yang pointed at Shen Yuan, then at himself, not knowing where to put his hands.
"I was in seclusion, cultivating hard, trying to break through the limits and become an Immortal Venerable, a level not seen for tens of thousands of years..."
"I was ambushed!"
"And then I kicked the bucket!"
"I self-destructed my soul and primordial spirit, and somehow distorted space-time..."
"That's how I came back!"
"Are you satisfied now?" Chu Yang roared frantically. "I died so indignantly!"
"Uh, sorry!" Shen Yuan clasped his hands. "Sleep, sleep!"
Chu Yang: Heh!
Sigh!
Actually, the real reason was still left unsaid.
My wife cheated on me!
I was cheated on!
Is that supposed to be something glorious?
Can I say that?
Chu Yang shook his head, sat cross-legged, and closed his eyes.
Shen Yuan slept soundly.
Chu Yang was also cultivating happily.
"Digging graves!"
"Dug up the graves of ancient cultivators!"
"Gain strength, then repair them back!"
Shen Yuan suddenly muttered a few times.
Chu Yang opened his eyes and shook his head.
Does this guy talk in his sleep?
Sleep-talking can reflect a person's true character. This Shen Yuan... he has no conscience!
Digging graves!?
To be honest, I think I've dug up quite a few graves of experts myself. And then I repaired them afterwards. It's all about being rude first and then making amends—that's called being classy!
In Uncle Gou's room, Uncle Gou paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, his face full of worry.
He was still clutching the book, "On the Self-Cultivation of an Overbearing CEO," and the pages were wrinkled from his grip.
"Bent? Straight?"
"Why is there no sound at all?"
"Is the soundproofing too good?"