The next morning.
[Lackey System upgrade successful!!]
[Long time no see, Master (^▽^)]
[Your little pup has now reached Version 3.0!]
[New Feature 1: Rule Gems (Can convert rule-based powers into gems stored in the system space! Throw the gem to activate the rule when needed! Note: Cooldown applies!)]
[New Feature 2: Major Lackey Skill Tree upgrade! All skills have evolved! Reminder: The Lackey Skill Tree is the most crucial, most crucial, most crucial source of your combat power! Current remaining skill points: 27!]
[New Feature 3: Coordinate Teleportation (Can traverse between worlds with known coordinates)!]
[Congratulations, Master, for performing lackey deeds on twenty Chosen Ones of the Great Thousand Worlds!! Reward distributed: 400 attribute points!!]
Qin Luo was making breakfast while glancing at the fresh system notifications.
Rule Gems?
What’s next, an Infinity Gauntlet?
Still, the idea of converting rule-based powers into gems...
Qin Luo focused his mind.
A blood-red iron fragment floated before him.
This was a small leftover piece from defeating the Sword Abomination.
He had already examined it—it was essentially the Sword Abomination’s egg, requiring active absorption of its sword intent to grow.
Duan Jiujian was a prime example.
Rise by the Abomination, fall by the Abomination.
But the Abomination’s rule-based power was quite useful. If he could wield it actively, why not?
With that thought, he tested the new feature.
In an instant—
Hum!
A white light flashed, and the iron fragment transformed into a translucent blood-red cat’s eye gem.
[Sword Tomb]
[Instantly deploys the power of the Sword Tomb, turning all affected into Sword Tomb Spirits]
[The more people affected, the stronger the user becomes, ascending as the Supreme Sword Tomb King]
[Cooldown: 24 hours]
Qin Luo: ?
“Sword Tomb, Sword Tomb”... sounds kinda like an insult?
Qin Luo stayed silent and simply tossed it into the system storage.
Next up...
The much-anticipated moment.
“Open status panel.”
Since arriving in the Great Thousand Worlds, Qin Luo hadn’t checked his attributes in a while.
The next second—
[Qin Luo]
Cultivation: Early-stage Supreme Realm
Strength: 200
Defense: 200
Endurance: 200
Agility: 200
Insight: 200
Available Attribute Points: 400
Containment Points: 27
Bond Value: 8050
Constitution: Innate Addictive Body
Titles: Top Lackey, Scheming Hound, Noble Friend of Elegance
Cultivation Techniques: Lackey Rakshasa Art, Poison Shadow Heart Sutra, Divine Dragon Art, War God Avatar Art, Gu Poison Cycle Art, Heaven's Fate Transfer Technique
Skills: Lackey Shadow Form, Lackey Soul-Destroying Palm, Counterforce Drain, Army Command, Mystic Ghost Fourteen Needles, God-Tier Hacking, Natural Affinity, Pressure Demonflame, Whispering Winds, God-Tier Driving, Fate Recognition, Aura Concealment, Investment Return Analysis, Heaven's Calculation Art, Toxin Emission, True Damage Strikes, Iron-Willed Leader, Soul Condensation, Heavenly Eye, Word Magic... (a bunch of miscellaneous minor skills)
Lackey Skill Tree (Shadow Arts Master profession): Shadow Creatures [LV1], Shadow Pact, Shadow Annihilation, Shadow Resurrection, Shadow Domain...
Lackey Skill Tree (Night Shadow Assassin profession): Shadow Phase
Lackey Skill Tree (Netherworld Witch Doctor profession): Shadow Drain (Can absorb energy from others to replenish oneself or release energy to heal others)
Items: Dark Iron Silver Needles (set), War God's Command Token x1, Fate Dream Cauldron, Bronze Gate.
[System Containment Space]: God-Tier Charm System, Invincible Underworld System, Daily Assistant System, Personalized Decoration System, Lucky Clover System...
[System Feedback Skills]: Charm Eyes, Underworld Control (stronger with larger influence), Automation, Decoration Generation, Lucky Moment...
The dazzling display of his status panel filled Qin Luo with satisfaction and comfort.
Having broken through to the Supreme Realm, his attributes had all reached the critical limit of the minor world.
To progress further, he needed more attribute points.
After defeating Chosen Ones like Huo Feng, who had dominated the Eastern Hua Heavenly Realm for tens of thousands of years, the accumulated attribute points were distributed in bulk after the system’s upgrade.
So...
All into Defense!
In an instant, 400 attribute points went into Defense.
200 → 600!
[Congratulations, Master, for breaking through to the Early-stage Peerless Realm!]
His aura surged as Qin Luo leveled up.
Pleased, he nodded. Now, it was time to examine the Lackey Skill Tree.
He had allocated some skill points before but hadn’t bothered afterward—there was no need. After all, the highest combat power was Su Muwan, and if he encountered someone he couldn’t beat... well, so far, he hadn’t.
But since the system had reminded him twice now, he figured he should take this “Lackey Skill Tree” seriously.
With that thought, a black panel materialized before him.
Just like before.
The panel of the Lackey Skill Tree exuded an ominous aura from every corner.
Displayed on it was a twisted, tree-like diagram.
Each branch was marked with different grayed-out skills.
Since he had already allocated some skill points before, numerous branching paths had extended outward.
He examined it carefully.
The skill tree was divided into three upgrade paths:
1. Shadow Arts Master
2. Night Shadow Assassin
3. Netherworld Witch Doctor
Theoretically, as long as he had enough skill points, he could unlock all the skills of these three professions.
But right now, he only had 27 points.
Well, he’d figure it out as he went.
Previously, he had unlocked the three professions, granting him access to the Shadow Domain.
He even had a passive survival skill that made him phase into intangibility at night.
But to have even a sliver of self-preservation in this vast world, this was far from enough.
So...
Qin Luo stared at the skill panel, deliberating carefully before making his decision.
With a thought, he allocated his points like this:
[Shadow Creatures upgraded to LV3]
Effect: Summon 1,000 Frenzied Ravens, 500 Shadow Owls, and 100 Shadow Titans!
[Annihilation]
Effect: When shadow creatures self-destruct, they generate [Annihilation Black Holes], which continuously pull in enemies and deal true damage (each black hole lasts 10 seconds).
[Shadow Nest]
Effect: Summon a Shadow Nest rooted in the battlefield, continuously spawning [Shadow Worms]. The worms can devour corpses to evolve into [Shadow Behemoths].
While the nest exists, all shadow creatures' attacks deal additional true damage.
[Veil of Eternal Night]
Effect: Expands a 2-kilometer radius of absolute darkness, blocking all detection methods.
Within the domain, spiritual energy is forbidden (all techniques related to spiritual energy become unusable).
Allied shadow creatures gain [Phantom Form] inside the domain, becoming immune to physical damage.
[Shadow’s Grasp]
Effect: Forcibly restrains and crushes the target, can be combined with other techniques.
[Crossing the Styx]
Effect: Select an allied shadow creature or an enemy to sacrifice, summoning the [Ferry of the Styx].
(Unless the target is stronger than the Lord of the Styx, this skill cannot be evaded.)
Ferry effects:
Allies: Restores all shadow creatures to full condition and removes all debuffs.
Enemies: Strips away one-third of the target’s cultivation and transfers it to the caster for one minute.
[Prerequisite skills for all three professions activated]
[Now unlocked: Shadow Monarch – Throne of Dominion]
Effect: Summons the [Shadow Throne]. When the caster sits upon it, all conditions are fully restored, and all shadow creatures are revived.
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
invincible power, Gu Changge transmigrates into a fantasy world, bound to a sign-in system that grants him cultivation rewards and various peerless treasures daily. While others struggle desperately to break through their cultivation realms, he has long since reached the pinnacle of the Great Dao, becoming a reclusive Emperor whose true strength even he himself cannot fathom. Originally planning to lie low and retire peacefully on Purple Bamboo Peak, the system suddenly issues a new task — take on disciples. With no other choice, Gu Changge casually picks up a few disciples: The eldest disciple, born with a War God Constitution, is thrown a copy of "War God Stratagems" by him, and ends up conquering the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, becoming a peerless War God who sweeps across the cosmos. The second disciple, possessing a Chaos Sword Body, can break all techniques with a single sword, his swordsmanship unmatched throughout history. He points his sword at the heavens: "My master said, the sword and the man stand together. If the sword perishes... my master will give me another one." The third disciple, a reborn Empress who returns to her throne, her elegance and grace overshadowing all beings. And without anyone noticing, his own sect, the Qingxuan Sect, has become the number one sect on the continent. Looking at these unbelievably formidable disciples, Gu Changge, holding the "Primordial Purple Qi" he just signed in for, falls into deep thought: — Wasn't this supposed to be a peaceful retirement? How did I become the ultimate master?!
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
