[Year 21, age 45.]
[Drawing trait...]
[Drawing successful!]
["Breathe and Get Stronger!" (Golden Legendary):
Kid! Still think cultivation is boring?! Starting today, free your hands!
As long as you're breathing, your cultivation will automatically rise!
The rate of increase equals your normal cultivation speed.
This boost can stack with your normal cultivation.
A little cheat isn't a cheat, a little hack isn't a hack~]
[Adjust trait?]
[Yes/No]
"Whoa! Golden Legendary!!"
Chen Yi stood in the courtyard of the Chen estate in Baiyun County, looking like a card game nerd who just pulled a UR card.
"At higher realms, the shortcuts dry up. It's not like before when I could use the Ten Thousand Soul Banner to refine souls for feedback and such. But with this trait, my cultivation speed is now doubled!"
On second thought, it wasn't just doubled—it was at least tripled!
Because no normal person can cultivate 24 hours a day, but anyone breathes 24 hours a day!
Now his cultivation aptitude had improved, he had immortal qi, and his cultivation speed had increased.
Chen Yi could sense that a new surge of progress was coming his way.
"My turn! Swap the trait!"
[You chose Yes.]
[You replaced "Trait Slingshot" with "Breathe and Get Stronger!".]
["Cultivation is boring? Others can find it boring, but I cannot..."]
[Whenever you feel weary or stuck, you see Liu Ying, Liu Tian, Cheng Guang, and the countless rebel soldiers who fell on Fubao Star.]
[They paved this path with their lives and blood—you refuse to let them down in the slightest!]
[Year 23, age 47.]
[Drawing trait...]
[Drawing successful!]
["Moonlight Poet" (Green Rare): On moonlit nights, you're always inspired to write poetry, and your poetic ability is maxed out.]
[Adjust trait?]
[Yes/No]
[You chose No.]
[Perhaps it was accumulated effort coming to fruition, or the burning conviction to push toward a higher realm.]
[The breakthrough from Huaqi Sixth Turn to Seventh Turn took you only three years.]
[In the Real Realm, the nine minor turns of the Huaqi stage are also known as the early, middle, and late phases.]
[This extra terminology exists because lifespan increases differ between phases (and lifespan growth varies by race as well).]
[Going from Sixth Turn to Seventh Turn is like going from Martial Saint to Martial God in the Void Realm.]
[Now, your theoretical lifespan has reached 1,040 years!]
[This shows just how fast a one-turn breakthrough in three years is, because comparing 3 to 1,040 makes it truly insignificant.]
[Your realm has broken through to Huaqi Seventh Turn. Trait slots +2, and the odds of drawing high-quality traits have increased!]
[Though it looks like you've broken through to Huaqi Seventh Turn, with "Millennium Half-Emperor" in effect, you're actually at Huadan First Turn!]
[From the prisoners of the Wing God Cult on Fubao Star, you've already learned—]
[In the Huadan stage, a core similar to a demon beast's inner core forms inside the cultivator's body. Cultivators from the Real Realm call it a Primordial Core.]
[There's a reason for this name.]
[At the Huadan stage, true qi advances to primordial qi.]
[If one reaches Huadan Perfection, they can even house their primordial spirit within the Primordial Core. As long as the core isn't destroyed, the primordial spirit won't perish. Even if the physical body suffers severe damage, the undying primordial spirit has a chance to revive.]
[However, this kind of "rebirth" isn't like "Wolverine's" unconditional regeneration. It requires specific methods, combined with rare treasures and the assistance of others.]
[The Huadan-stage cultivators you met on Fubao Star—like the White Priest Luo Ku—hadn't reached Huadan Perfection, so they couldn't do this.]
[Now, looking inward, you can see a translucent, fiery-red Primordial Core within your body.]
[The Huadan stage still doesn't have divine consciousness, but cultivators can sense the auras of those around them and roughly gauge the strength of those auras—that's why Luo Ku, a mere early-stage Huadan cultivator, could tell at first glance that you were a cultivator too.]
[Cultivators in the Real Realm call this ability "Qi Perception," and it can also be seen as a prototype of divine consciousness.]
[You can now observe your Primordial Core internally precisely because you have Qi Perception.]
["Does my current situation meet the requirements for 'Mortal Bones'?"]
[The Huaqi stage condenses true qi; the Huadan stage condenses qi into a core. The subsequent Absolute Earth and Heaven-Reaching stages are all about comprehending divine abilities.]
[In other words, normally you'd need to reach the Absolute Earth stage to comprehend a divine ability.]
[But "Mortal Bones" lets you comprehend divine abilities at the Huadan stage—with a tenfold increase in comprehension to boot.]
[The phrase "ignores the laws of heaven and earth" in its effect likely means you can comprehend divine abilities even in the Void Realm, just like the Sword Master!]
["Time to consolidate my cultivation for another year. Meanwhile, I'll wait for that lazy freeloader outside to swap my traits for me."]
"Lazy freeloader... are you talking about me?"
Chen Yi, sprawled lazily in a recliner in the courtyard, stared at the simulated text floating before him with a puzzled look.
"Well then, let's try equipping 'Mortal Bones.' With two extra slots now, I don't have to decide who to swap out. What else should I add?"
Judging from the simulation, there were quite a few cultivators on this second-rate planet.
Chen Yi decided to bring back "Treasure-Hunting Nose," which he hadn't equipped in a long time—maybe he'd find some treasure.
He needed treasures badly, because his hands were completely empty.
[Year 24, age 48.]
[Drawing trait...]
[Drawing successful!]
["Dog Neck Stick" (Green Rare): You can conjure, out of thin air, a stick onto the neck of any quadrupedal creature (non-sapient species) that it cannot bite off on its own.
This way, whenever it tries to chase you, its front legs will hit the stick, preventing it from running fast.
Unless it holds the stick in its mouth—but if it does that, it can't bite you.]
[Adjust trait?]
[Yes/No]
[You chose Yes.]
[You equipped "Mortal Bones".]
[You equipped "Treasure-Hunting Nose".]
[After equipping "Mortal Bones", you attempt to comprehend a divine ability.]
[How do you even do that?]
[You have no clue.]
[You feel this kind of cultivation knowledge requires someone to teach you.]
[But you vaguely sense that "Mortal Bones" hasn't activated.]
["Maybe it needs my true realm to reach Huadan first. I'll just keep cultivating—there's no bottleneck in sight for now."]
"Since it's useless for now, I'll swap it out and equip 'Dire News from the Warrior Circle.' That way, the effects of my elixirs during normal training are enhanced, and I'll progress even faster!"
Chen Yi kept micro-managing from his seat, coordinating perfectly with his simulated self.
[Year 25, age 49.]
[You replaced "Mortal Bones" with "Dire News from the Warrior Circle".]
[You continue gathering, hunting, refining elixirs, and cultivating in the remote mountains.]
[Thanks to the "Fortify!" trait, the elixirs you refine are extremely effective, and with "Dire News from the Warrior Circle" doubling that effect, it's even better.]
[Your cultivation speed soars as a result.]
For others, cultivating this way would still mean worrying about the accumulation of pill toxins.
But because you consumed the Five-Realm Saint Pill at the very start, you don't need to worry about that at all.
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
