[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.
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
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?"
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!
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...
