I Am a Shen of Show Lineage

The old woman stopped and turned to look at you.

Her wrinkled face revealed a kind and benevolent smile.

"A very strange-looking flower? You speak so strangely, young man. How exactly is it strange? What does it look like? How would I know if you don't tell me?"

"It's... uh..."

You were left speechless because in the last simulation, the Empress's letter didn't describe what the strange flower looked like, only mentioning it was a strange flower.

Just as you were at a loss for words...

A black flower appeared out of thin air in the old woman's hand, emitting an eerie yet captivating fragrance.

"Is it this one?"

Your Treasure-Hunting Nose twitched wildly.

The black flower before your eyes was judged as a supreme treasure by your trait!

No wonder it could stimulate the awakening of Li Lingyue's Sacred Physique.

You reached out your hand...

And touched your own hair.

This old granny was strolling alone in a place where no one else could be seen for five hundred miles, and she could produce items out of thin air. Could she be an ordinary person?

What's more, in the last simulation, the Empress's letter also mentioned that when she mistakenly ate the strange flower and fell into a coma, she was saved by a mysterious old granny.

Later, she even took the granny as her master.

At this time and place, you couldn't think of anyone else who could be the Empress's mentor mentioned in the letter other than the one standing right in front of you.

Moreover, you also realized why there was no strange flower in the cave this time; the flower had ended up in the old granny's hands.

This old granny was originally here to pluck this natural treasure, the strange flower.

In the last simulation, Li Lingyue arrived at the cave a step earlier than her.

This time, because the two of you didn't know the way and asked around along the journey, a lot of time was delayed. Therefore, you arrived late, and the old granny had already picked the flower.

"Senior, to tell you the truth, there is a girl in the cave beneath the cliff who really needs this flower. Could you please..."

The old woman smiled and put the flower away.

"Just eating the flower won't do. She is a mortal and cannot withstand the impact of the Sacred Physique's awakening. Someone needs to protect her during the process..."

Saying that, she glanced at you.

"Your cultivation realm is not high enough. Let me do it."

"Senior, do you know that Li Lingyue has a sealed Sacred Physique?"

"It is the Incense Sacred Physique, which has never appeared in our world before. Its upper limit is very high... It's a pity she was born in the Void Realm."

Void Realm?

It was the first time you had heard this term.

You wanted to ask, but this old woman didn't seem to want to continue chatting with you.

"Young man, you have already formed too much karma with her. If you don't part ways now, it will definitely affect her heart for seeking the Dao. I will take her as my disciple and support her for a part of her journey. You can rest assured. As for how far she can go in the future, it will depend on her own fortune."

Even if Li Lingyue would become the Southern Border Empress twenty years later, she was just a young woman under twenty right now.

Her temperament was far less resilient than when she became the Empress, and emotions would become her stumbling block.

You knew you had to make a clean break.

Take another look and say goodbye?

No, it was better to be decisive. The old granny meant the same thing.

"Then this junior will take his leave. Please pass a message to her for me, I... never mind, farewell!"

You whistled, and Black Wind galloped over from a distance, stepping on black flames.

You mounted the horse and rode north toward the Central Plains.

Looking back, you found that the hunched old granny was still looking at you from afar with a half-smile that was quite eerie.

However, your Spider Sense didn't trigger, indicating the old granny posed no danger.

"Li Lingyue, when you become the Empress and we meet again, I will apologize for leaving without saying goodbye today..."

Everyone has their own path, and parting is for a better reunion.

Black Wind shuttled through the mountains of the Southern Border.

Next stop, the Starry Sky Shen Family!

Eighteenth year, thirty-six years old.

Extracting traits...

Extraction successful!

Moonlight Clan (White Ordinary): You cannot save money. Even as a martial artist, you cannot save crystals. You always want to buy, buy, buy!

Adjust traits?

Yes / No

You replaced Husband Material with Galloping Steed.

You replaced Ageless Male God with Alchemy Master.

You replaced Playing with the Dragon and Phoenix with Bad News from the Martial Arts Circle.

You whipped your horse and hurried back to Baiyun County in Qingzhou.

Feng Mountain was located in the northern part of the Southern Border, not far from the Central Plains.

With the boost from the Galloping Steed trait, plus the fact that you were alone, the return journey was much faster than the trip there.

Along the way, relying on the ability to identify spiritual plants granted to you by the Alchemy Master trait, you picked many useful spiritual plants in some deep mountains, old forests, and desolate places.

After giving them to Da Chun, he concocted some new medicines.

Relying on the effect of Bad News from the Martial Arts Circle, you accepted everything and swallowed them all, not worrying at all about pill toxicity.

Some pills were indeed very effective, and your martial arts realm was elevated to the fifth level of the Golden Body.

Nineteenth year, thirty-seven years old.

Extracting traits...

Extraction successful!

Awesome! (White Ordinary): You have superior intelligence and can easily identify radishes, tissues, and Mickey Mouse.

Adjust traits?

Yes / No

You replaced Galloping Steed with Hard Work Pays Off.

In this wave, Chen Yi executed a very crucial micro-management move.

He equipped Hard Work Pays Off, a trait he hadn't used in a long time.

In the first and second simulations, Shen Qingshan didn't live to the year Chen Yi turned thirty-seven.

In the third simulation, he finally lived to this year.

Thus, Chen Yi learned that he would be taken away by the Starry Sky Shen Family, and the other party stated that returning with them to the Shen Family would bring tremendous opportunities.

Regardless of whether the opportunity was real or fake, since it was a simulation, as long as there was a slight possibility, it was worth checking out.

If it was fake, he could just restart.

If it was real, he would profit!

The way the Starry Sky Shen Family identified their wandering clan members was to see if the person could cultivate the Pure Yang Art.

Chen Yi was not a member of the Shen Family. In the previous simulations, why was he also able to master this mid-tier external martial art?

After thinking it over, there was only one possibility.

Hard Work Pays Off (Green): When you persevere in doing something, you will definitely reap a reward, though it might not be much.

This was actually a bug.

If I keep doing one thing, but this thing is impossible for me to succeed in.

But Hard Work Pays Off has to guarantee a lower limit; there must be some kind of reward.

For cultivating a technique, what is the lowest reward?

Getting started!

My Hard Work Pays Off might not let you master the technique, but it will let you get started even if it takes your life!

With Proficiency, it seemed he didn't need to equip Hard Work Pays Off.

But this Shen Family technique recognized bloodlines and was highly unique. Just in case of any accidents, Chen Yi still equipped both traits as a double insurance.

[You switched your cultivation to external martial arts, changing your external technique back to the True Sun Art.]

[Once again, you successfully mastered it, and it seemed to take even less time than your first attempt.]

["Then it all makes sense! I am a pure-blooded, top-tier genius of the Shen family! Elders, hurry and come fetch me!"]

[On this day, high above the skies of White Cloud County, two elderly men soared through the air, drawing curious gazes from the city's entire populace...]