"Whoa! Golden Legendary!!"
A 1.9% drop rate, that's quite something!
Chen Yi launched himself off the bed, standing up in excitement.
After reading the trait's effect clearly, he became even more thrilled.
"Special attack against foreign races! My attacks deal agonizing pain to them, but their attacks don't hurt me! They can't even deceive me; I will always stay clear-headed against foreign races!"
It should be known that in this third simulation, Chen Yi planned to use the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to slay demons and nourish the banner. Then, he would let the banner feed its power back to him, just like Old Liu did, to break the limits of his innate aptitude and rapidly increase his cultivation.
With this trait, slaying demons would be both safe and effortless!
Moreover, this trait wasn't just targeting the demon race, but all foreign races—any non-human group was considered a foreign race!
Although Chen Yi still had no idea what other races existed in this world besides the human and demon races.
"Now all I'm missing is the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. However, going to the Chixin Sect is also quite important. I need to see if 'I' can uncover more clues related to the massacre at Luoding Village..."
The golden trait had to be equipped.
In the simulation, traits could not be changed at will; they could only be adjusted during the annual trait draw.
If he happened to encounter the demon race, not having this trait equipped would be a massive loss.
It was just that the seven traits currently equipped all felt very necessary.
After weighing his options back and forth, Chen Yi decided to swap out Hard Work Always Pays Off.
This trait only guaranteed that repeating a task wouldn't result in zero gains. It was a safety net, but it couldn't push his upper limits.
[You have replaced Hard Work Always Pays Off with The Strictest Father to Foreign Races.]
[Before leaving Baiyun County, you visited the Yuelai Inn and gave the landlady a sum of money, asking her to look after Da Chun.]
[Under Shen Qingshan's recommendation, you joined the Chixin Sect.]
[Your innate aptitude is not high, which means your potential is limited.]
[However, your cultivation is surprisingly decent. Joining the Chixin Sect can still bolster the sect's overall strength.]
[Therefore, your current status is not a disciple of the Chixin Sect, but rather a sect retainer.]
[The former would formally acknowledge a high-realm martial artist within the sect as their master and focus primarily on cultivation.]
[The latter does not need to take a master, but can still learn the sect's cultivation techniques and receive cultivation resources. At the same time, however, they must take on certain duties and contribute to the sect's development, management, and the like.]
[Out of respect for the Shen family, the Chixin Sect arranged for you to be a patrolman. You only need to follow the patrol squad and take a stroll around the sect's perimeter every day.]
[You can spend the rest of your time cultivating on your own or doing other things.]
[Every month, the Chixin Sect issues you one Spirit-Guiding Pill and ten low-grade crystal stones as cultivation resources.]
[You can learn the sect's low-tier techniques freely, but mid-tier techniques and above require you to earn contribution points to exchange for them.]
[Contribution points are not difficult to obtain. For a duty-bound retainer like you, arriving at your post on time every day and completing your tasks will automatically earn you one contribution point.]
[Year Three. Twenty years old.]
[Commencing trait draw...]
[Draw successful!]
[Foreign Languages Are Important (Green): Your language talent is maxed out. You can master other languages at an extremely fast pace. If you study in bed, your learning efficiency is doubled.]
[Do you wish to adjust your traits?]
[Yes / No]
[You selected No.]
[It has been a year since you arrived at the Chixin Sect, and you have become thoroughly familiar with everything about this sect.]
[Just as the bandit from before had mentioned, because the majority of people in the Chixin Sect practice the external martial art Heart Fire Technique, the side effects of the technique cause them to grow more red hair the more proficient they become.]
[In the Chixin Sect, people are basically identified by their hair.]
["Hmph, a mere ant with but a single strand of red hair!"]
["Oh! It's actually a senior with half a head of red hair! This junior pays his respects!"]
["Is this an elder with a full head of red hair? So elegant!"]
[The above are common phrases used by the people of the Chixin Sect.]
[Over the past year, your cultivation efficiency has been much higher than it was in the county town.]
[On one hand, taking the Spirit-Guiding Pill on time every month has accelerated your accumulation of spiritual energy.]
[On the other hand, it is due to the environment.]
[The locations where martial arts sects establish their headquarters are all places where the essence of heaven and earth converges, which allows for higher efficiency in cultivating internal martial arts.]
[Additionally, martial artists in the Spirit Gathering Realm still need to practice external martial arts to enhance their vitality. If their vitality fails to keep up, their spiritual energy cannot be improved either.]
[Your main purpose for coming to the Chixin Sect is not actually to cultivate, but to investigate what connection the sect has to the massacre at Luoding Village.]
[So far, you have not found any useful intelligence.]
[There is only one strange anomaly.]
[There is an ancient tower within the sect. Every time you follow the patrol squad past this place, your Spider Sense activates, giving you goosebumps all over.]
["Senior Brother Lin, what is inside this tower?"]
[You ask the captain of the patrol squad.]
["This is the place where the Patriarch of our Chixin Sect is in secluded cultivation. Do not go in and disturb him without a good reason. Trespassing without prior announcement will lead to severe consequences! There was a reckless fool before who barged in and was mercilessly struck down by the Patriarch!"]
[The Chixin Sect is a young sect, so the founding Patriarch is still alive.]
[Is it because trespassing is forbidden that your Spider Sense is triggered?]
[Year Four. Twenty-one years old.]
[Commencing trait draw...]
[Draw successful!]
[Silent Step (Green): When you intentionally control your footsteps, you can move without making a sound. When you remain perfectly still, spiritual sense cannot detect your presence.]
[Do you wish to adjust your traits?]
[Yes / No]
"This trait is useful. It can help me investigate clues in the Chixin Sect. But which one should I swap out..."
Chen Yi couldn't help but feel a bit conflicted.
After looking them over, it seemed that Demonic Aura didn't have much room to shine at the moment, so it could be temporarily swapped out.
[You have replaced Demonic Aura with Silent Step.]
[One day, when you patrolled past the ancient tower, you noticed that your Spider Sense did not react.]
["Oh right, Qingzhou recently organized some sort of sect exchange conference. The Patriarch took a group of outstanding disciples and headed out."]
[You felt this was an opportunity.]
[You had already searched most places within the sect; this ancient tower was the only place you had never entered.]
[Since your Spider Sense did not react, it meant there was no danger inside.]
[After dark, you quietly approached the ancient tower. Your Spider Sense still showed no reaction, indicating that it was safe to enter.]
[Mustering your courage, you climbed up to the third floor and slipped inside through a window that hadn't been tightly shut.]
["There's absolutely nothing in here. Is this really a place for secluded cultivation?"]
[The tower had a total of seven floors. You strolled from the first floor all the way to the seventh, only to find that every single floor was completely empty, without a single piece of furniture.]
[However, the floors were very strange.]
[The ground of every level was engraved with complex patterns that seemed to follow some sort of specific rhythm or rule.]
["Is it an array?"]
[Having stayed in the Chixin Sect for a few years, although you had never formally studied array formations, you would occasionally sit in on the lectures given by senior array masters, so you had gained a basic understanding of them.]
[The style of the array patterns on each floor of this tower was vastly different from the array patterns you usually saw.]
["A person really needs to study more. You only regret reading too little when the time comes to actually use that knowledge..."]
[Just as you were carefully observing the details of the formation, intending to use "Photographic Memory" to memorize it all so you could study its purpose later...]
[The formation beneath your feet suddenly lit up!]
[At the same time, your "Spider-Sense" began to go off like crazy!]
["Not good!"]
[In a split second, you darted aside, leaped out the window, and stood perfectly motionless on the tower's eaves.]
[Because out of the corner of your eye, you clearly saw two figures materialize within the formation!]
[Rather than continuing to run, it seemed safer to use "Silent Step" and stay hidden outside.]
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
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...
d intelligence to keep the plot moving, and sometimes even the protagonists are forced into absurdly dumb decisions. Why does the A-list celebrity heroine in urban romance novels ditch the top-tier movie star and become a lovestruck fool for a pockmarked male lead? Why do the leads in historical tragedy novels keep dancing between love and death, only for the blind healer to end up suffering the most? And Gu Wei never expected that after finally landing a villain role to stir up trouble, she’d pick the wrong gender! No choice now—she’ll just have to crush the protagonists as a girl!
