Dentist had only brought Chen Miemie along to sample the food. She preferred stronger flavors, and after eating so much, she wasn’t particularly fond of the lighter coconut-based dishes.
With the addition of this third diner, all her attention was focused on the pot.
Bobo was having a wonderful time.
It was enjoying a “hot spring.”
As it turned out, the table in the coconut room had a built-in stove underneath, keeping the temperature of the large pot constantly high.
Bobo pushed the white chicken meat toward the edge of the pot, then lay down right in the middle of the coconut broth. Picking up a large ladle meant for serving soup, it repeatedly poured the broth over itself, treating the whole pot like a bathhouse.
Of the two people in the room, Chen Miemie’s eccentricity went without saying. But Dentist’s thought process was unexpectedly abnormal too.
Usually, when people learned that the roast chicken they had eaten was actually an anomaly, they would feel a wave of lingering fear and keep their distance afterward.
Dentist was different. Once she learned that Bobo was “the Unfinishable,” she acted as if she had met a kindred spirit. They hit it off at once, and she even took the initiative to strike up a friendship.
Dentist was especially curious. “Bobo, there’s a stove under this pot, and the water’s boiling. Aren’t you afraid of getting burned?”
Bobo was very pleased with this edible new friend. Dentist’s earlier comment that she only ate chicken while cutting calories had really appealed to it.
It paused its movements for a moment.
“This is only a hundred degrees. When I’m in the oven, I start at two hundred.”
After soaking in the pot for quite a while, Bobo went over to Chen Miemie. “Hurry up and try it. I’ve already cracked the flavor of this broth. Tell me what you think.”
Chen Miemie tore off a piece of its breast meat and chewed thoughtfully. “The coconut flavor is very authentic, but this mild style still doesn’t suit the texture of roast chicken very well. It’s only good every once in a while.”
Bobo took flavors very seriously. It declared that once it returned, it would continue developing the corresponding style and refining it further.
After Bobo disappeared from the table, Dentist was still reluctant to part with it.
“Chen Miemie, Bobo is practically the dream companion of every explorer.”
Chen Miemie was still eating. Compared with combining coconut and meat, he preferred coconut beverages on their own—like the “cooling coconut dessert” given to him by the Coconut Boss. It had a coconut-milk base with various little pieces of fruit mixed in. Slightly sweet and richly fragrant, it was like taking a bite of the sea breeze.
“What makes you say that?”
“There are plenty of ruins beneath the sea. Sometimes, when people get trapped inside, the things they lack most are food and fresh water.”
“Haha, that’s true. Oh, right—I have a friend who’s free this afternoon. I’ll bring her along too.”
Dentist nodded. Chen Miemie was the one paying, and not just any patron at that. It was perfectly normal for him to invite a friend.
She had assumed it would be one of Chen Miemie’s eccentric friends, perhaps someone like Huan.
Instead, before Chen Miemie had even finished his meal, the person had already arrived. She was wrapped completely in a robe, concealing herself from head to toe.
Dentist frowned slightly, wondering to herself: That outfit, that style… Is she a witch? Then again, Chen Miemie does have connections to witches.
When the robed figure entered the coconut hut and lowered her hood, revealing her face—
“City Lord!” Dentist nearly jumped out of her skin.
Chen Miemie greeted her enthusiastically. “Mute, have you eaten? Want some?”
To Mute, Dentist was a stranger. She opened her mouth and let out only an “Ah.”
Then she took out her writing board.
〖I’m full. I’m not eating.〗
Chen Miemie repeated the itinerary he had just learned from Dentist, putting it into practice immediately. “This afternoon, we’re going to play at the [Birdway Around the City]. Let me tell you, apparently you can see the entire city, inside and out, from there. It’s supposed to be beautiful.”
Dentist watched him copy her exact words and was rendered speechless. She complained inwardly: The City Lord has been stationed in Wavefoam Harbor for two hundred years. What hasn’t she seen? And now you’re giving her a tour?
Chen Miemie didn’t forget to introduce his own people either. “This is the City's Number-One Tour Guide, Dentist.”
Mute nodded at Dentist.
Dentist was so excited she could hardly contain herself. She absolutely loved the title “the City's Number-One Tour Guide.”
The three of them left the [Coconut Cemetery].
“By the way, Mute, how did you get here? How did you arrive so quickly?”
Chen Miemie hadn’t noticed any means of transportation nearby.
Mute looked at Chen Miemie, then at Dentist.
“Ah~” A humming melody emerged from her lips.
By noon, the water level in Wavefoam Harbor had completely receded. Once they left the beach, the ground beneath their feet was covered in cobblestones.
As Mute hummed, the winding cobblestone path transformed into a three-dimensional musical staff. The cobblestones of all sizes became undulating notes rising and falling across the score.
Mute sat on one of the notes, and it carried her swiftly forward, like a horse on a carousel.
Chen Miemie was extremely envious. He tried to grab one of the notes passing beside him, hoping to sit on it as well, but his hand passed straight through it.
Dentist knew this trick and explained, “This is the City Lord’s ability, [Animated Notes]. When there’s a road, it works like this. When there’s water on the road, you’ll see the City Lord moving across the waves as they rise and fall.”
Mute made a full circle and returned.
Chen Miemie quickly asked, “Can your ability carry me along too?”
Mute shook her head.
〖It can only carry me.〗
Chen Miemie looked disappointed. “What a shame. Looks like I’ll have to use my own ability.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a pair of water-mimetic wings sprouted from his back, carrying him slowly into the air.
Dentist: …
Wait, one of you rides musical notes, and the other can simply fly. Am I, the City's Number-One Tour Guide, really the one slowing the group down?
And so, the three of them chatted and laughed as they made their way to the city wall. They followed the bird’s-nest-like structure upward, and before long, they reached the highest point of the wall.
Dentist pointed toward a small platform not far away and a line suspended in midair.
“This is our [Birdway Around the City].”
Only after they drew closer did Chen Miemie see that the line hanging in the air was actually a railway track.
“Choo-choo~”
A bell rang out like a birdcall.
Right before Chen Miemie’s eyes, a carriage suspended from the track came rushing toward them from the far end of his field of vision.
His eyes nearly popped out of his head.
“An aerial railway?”
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
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【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
