【Year 49, age 75.】
【Extracting trait...】
【Extraction successful!】
【「Inauspicious Old Age」(Golden Legend):
Friend, have you heard the legend of the Origin Heaven Master?
Once equipped, this trait allows you to discern the quality of anything within your field of vision at a glance.
You will sense and pinpoint the locations of naturally formed and man-made treasures of various grades within a certain radius.
You can also alter the surrounding terrain to create spirit veins manually, gathering the qi of Heaven and Earth—be it mortal-world qi, immortal qi, or something else.
However, once you use this trait to obtain a treasure or create a spirit vein, you will become muddle-headed in your later years. Your entire body will grow red hair, and you will be plagued by calamity and the uncanny.
Definition of “later years”: the final tenth of your theoretical lifespan.】
【Adjust trait?】
【Yes/No】
“It’s a legendary trait, but really, it’s just an upgraded version of ‘Treasure-sniffing Nose.’”
Ever since he had obtained the Epic trait “Treasure-sniffing Nose,” it had rendered outstanding service—from locating the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and forming a bond with Li Lingyue, to pinpointing Dalabeng recently and searching for the Female Heavenly Emperor’s relics.
Today, it could officially retire.
The “Inauspicious Old Age” trait completely covered its functions. Moreover, it did not require the treasure to be some supreme treasure—anything of value would do.
【You chose Yes.】
【You replaced “Treasure-sniffing Nose” with “Inauspicious Old Age.”】
【A new Golden trait had arrived, so you immediately tried it out.】
【First was its treasure-finding function.】
【After equipping “Inauspicious Old Age,” every magical artifact, pill, talisman, and so on in your surroundings was marked with an indication of its quality.】
【At the same time, you felt a mysterious connection with Heaven and Earth. From countless directions came the sensation that treasures lay there.】
【The higher the quality of a treasure, the stronger the sensation it gave off.】
【But there was no need to look for them.】
【Most of them were already in your Pot-Heaven space or in the treasury of the Heavenly Dragon Kingdom.】
【As for anything beyond Firelight Star, you sensed nothing.】
【It seemed that the range of your perception was limited to a single planet.】
【Next came the function of manually creating spirit veins.】
【This function was excellent.】
【You altered the terrain of a barren mountain outside the city, raising a great mountain here and lowering a river valley there.】
【Soon, the entire area resembled a deep-sea whirlpool. Any water passing by would be drawn into a circuit around it.】
【The same applied to immortal qi.】
【The immortal qi in the surrounding area formed a vortex centered on this place.】
【When you stood within this artificial spirit vein, you could feel immortal qi that was denser and purer than before.】
【This directly accelerated your cultivation!】
【Still, compared with the environment of a first-class star, it fell somewhat short.】
【That day, you were in the imperial study, practicing calligraphy with a brush to cultivate your temperament.】
【The chancellor, Wang Baobao—the most sycophantic member of the new court you had assembled—was grinding ink for you while reporting some news.】
【“Your Majesty, you previously ordered us to search among newborn human children for those born with strange signs. Well! Guess what? We actually found one!”】
【You stopped moving the brush and said calmly,】
【“Take me to see him.”】
【Wang Baobao arranged an impressive and splendid imperial procession. Eighteen high-level ferocious beasts known as Gale Azurebirds pulled the royal carriage, making the entire procession both mighty and imposing, with the majestic beauty expected of royalty. It was practical, too—the birds were fast.】
【You were beginning to understand why so many corrupt officials and treacherous ministers in ancient times had won the favor of emperors.】
【They were genuinely useful!】
【Of course, that was assuming you could keep them under control.】
【Wang Baobao brought you to Windrise Village.】
【As it happened, this was the very village where Mr. Xun taught.】
【One household in the village bore the surname Zhong. They had already given birth to seven children, and this boy born with strange signs was their eighth.】
【Although the lives of the human race had improved over the years,】
【raising eight children was still too much pressure for a single family.】
【Uncle Zhong had therefore been going from door to door, asking his neighbors whether anyone wanted a son. He hoped to give this Eighth Brother to another family to raise.】
【Normally, finding a new family for a boy would have been easy.】
【But Eighth Brother had been born with strange signs. His palms glowed with golden light, and the characters for “sun” and “moon” were engraved upon them.】
【Some people had heard that the imperial court had been searching for humans like this for years, so no one dared take on such a hot potato.】
【Just as the Zhong family was at their wits’ end, you arrived.】
【The emperor’s imperial procession, along with the gale stirred up by eighteen Gale Azurebirds, was an utterly astonishing sight to commoners. Every villager knelt with their head bowed, terrified of showing the slightest disrespect.】
【Some clever people had already guessed the truth.】
【The emperor had probably come for the child from the Zhong family.】
【Quite a few villagers were secretly relieved that they had not taken the child in.】
【Standing beside your royal carriage, Wang Baobao called out in his shrill voice,】
【“Who’s the village chief?”】
【The plainly dressed village chief of Windrise Village shuffled out of the crowd, bent at the waist, and knelt on the ground.】
【“I am the village chief, sir. May I ask what orders you have?”】
【“I hear your village has a child born with strange signs. Hand him over.”】
【Although the village chief looked rather timid, at that moment he summoned the courage to ask one more question.】
【“May I ask, sir... what does the imperial court want the child for?”】
【With the face of a villainous henchman, Wang Baobao shook his head, narrowed his eyes, and said menacingly,】
【“To make meat buns, what else?”】
【At those words, every villager was horrified and terrified.】
【Just then, you spoke.】
【“Chancellor, stop frightening them. The imperial court will raise this child with great care. We have no intention of harming him.”】
【Wang Baobao asked in a low voice,】
【“Your Majesty, if you feel that killing a child in public would be inappropriate, I can do it in your place...”】
【“When did I ever say I wanted him killed?”】
【“You really intend to raise him?”】
【“Of course. You should know exactly what it means for a human to be born with strange signs.”】
【“But wouldn’t that amount to strengthening the enemy?”】
【“Who told you he was our enemy? I intend to have him live in the imperial palace from childhood, enjoy fine clothes and exquisite food, receive the best resources, and be given more care and affection than anyone else. Why would he become our enemy?”】
【Wang Baobao understood immediately.】
【“Ah! Your Majesty truly possesses unparalleled wisdom! Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Using humans to deal with humans—since our Dragonborn race is currently lacking in numbers, this is truly a masterstroke that accomplishes two goals at once!”】
【Mr. Xun stood in the nearby mountain forest, watching everything unfold.】
【You had already sent an avatar to notify him in advance, telling him to prevent the Tinderfire Society from intervening, because you intended to take A-Dou away and raise him personally.】
【A-Dou was one of the People of Destiny. You felt it would be better to keep him by your side, lest he once again be exploited by another race as he had been last time.】
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