Meanwhile, Lin Xiao, who had just emerged from seclusion, was sitting in his little bamboo house on Spirit Accumulation Mountain, staring blankly at one of the disciple panels in the system.
【Name: Tong Jialiang】
【Gender: Male】
【Bone Age: 20】
【Aptitudes: Keen Edge, One Thought—God or Demon】
【Cultivation: Mortal】
【Sect Status: Ordinary Disciple (Changeable)】
【Sect Position: None (Changeable)】
【Remark: Body of Universal Extremity】
Having just finished a year of secluded cultivation, he really didn’t want to keep cultivating.
But everyone in the sect was busy, and there was no one available to keep him company.
The first person Lin Xiao went looking for whenever he had free time was his father. Unfortunately, his father merely gave him two glances before telling him to go sit wherever it was cool and stop getting in the way of his farming.
The Spirit Field Group was pulling out all the stops today, with everyone pitching in to show the newcomers what an excellent team they were.
Lin Xiao had never been reliable with minor matters. Lin Dayou was worried that once the new disciples arrived, the boy might suddenly put on a little performance in which the spirit fields disappeared or something.
If that happened, the Spirit Field Group would suffer a huge loss.
And when that time came, Lin Dayou, as the Spirit Field Elder, would probably be torn into pieces by his own father and scattered over the fields as fertilizer.
At Lingxian Sect, even Jiang Youfu—normally the most idle person around and the one who most enjoyed sticking to Lin Xiao—was extremely busy.
After all, he had to prepare dinner for more than a hundred new disciples.
Thus, Lin Xiao, now the sect’s only truly idle person, could only curl up alone in his little bamboo house and flip through the disciple panels out of boredom.
He might as well get to know the newcomers.
He leisurely looked through a dozen or so panels but didn’t find anyone with particularly unusual or outstanding aptitudes. Most of them were merely exceptional.
A small number were only mediocre.
Overall, however, the quality was quite good. Besides, aptitude wasn’t absolute; it could change. So he was only looking through the panels casually.
But when he reached Tong Jialiang’s disciple panel, he stopped.
Well, this panel was certainly fresh.
Just look at that aptitude. “Keen Edge” was one thing, but what was this “One Thought—God or Demon”?
Was it the same “One Thought—God or Demon” he understood it to be?
And then there was the 【Remark】 section, which had never appeared before.
What was a Body of Universal Extremity?
“Extremity”?
A Jí Stone?
At that thought, Lin Xiao understood.
Of course. When it came to the “extremity” connected with Tong Jialiang, it could only be the Jí Stone.
He just didn’t know what this so-called Body of Universal Extremity meant.
After what had happened on the Path of the Heart, Lin Xiao knew that Tong Jialiang’s character should not be a problem.
Otherwise, he couldn’t have passed the Path of the Heart, and the system hadn’t given any warning either.
“Sys, what does this Body of Universal Extremity mean?”
After more than three years of getting along, the system’s attitude in certain areas seemed to have become less resistant. Once Lin Xiao asked, Sys gave him a straightforward answer:
【Because Tong Jialiang’s consciousness was invaded by Jí energy in the Jí Stone mine, he spent three years resisting it, preventing it from completely invading him. Later, after being cleansed by the natural energy produced when the host broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, the Jí energy within him was thoroughly purified, and his damaged consciousness was restored. However, the convergence of Jí essence within his body produced a wondrous mutation. Thus, he became the Body of Universal Extremity.】
【The Body of Universal Extremity is immune to interference from Jí Stones. If he cultivates normally, he will be able to transform spiritual energy directly into essence. At the same time, he can also use Jí Stones to cultivate Jí energy.】
Hiss—
Well, damn!
This was what people meant by objectively having the best of both worlds!
Tong Jialiang had basically activated a cheat!
Lin Xiao found the system’s explanation unbelievable.
But when he thought about all the suffering Tong Jialiang had endured over the past three years, it also seemed only right.
He deserved it.
Still, this Body of Universal Extremity would have to remain a secret for now…
The Jí Stone had thrown the cultivation world into chaos ten thousand years ago. Now that it had resurfaced three years ago, who knew what the situation was like this time?
During his trips to the cultivation world over the past few years, Lin Xiao hadn’t heard much more about the Jí Stone incident. There had been no signs of anything unusual in the mortal world either.
But he knew that this was merely a temporary calm.
After all, if the cultivation world had truly resolved the matter of the Jí Stones and those involved with them, they would certainly have publicized it far and wide. There was no way there would be not even the slightest rumor.
Besides, the allied forces in the mortal world still hadn’t captured that State Preceptor who had escaped back then.
If outsiders learned about Tong Jialiang’s special constitution, who knew what they might take him away to do?
As for attempting to replicate Tong Jialiang’s constitution by following the process through which his Body of Universal Extremity had formed, Lin Xiao thought that was completely unrealistic as well.
No one could say for certain whether another person could endure the same experiences and achieve what Tong Jialiang had.
Nor could anyone say whether they would coincidentally obtain a convergence of Jí essence and happen to mutate into a Body of Universal Extremity.
After all, where in the world were there so many cultivators like him, capable of transforming spiritual energy into essence, who would just happen to break through and undergo a baptism of natural energy?
If even one step went wrong, it might ruin another person’s entire life.
Lin Xiao decided to bury this truth deep within himself.
However, he still had one question:
“What would happen if someone’s consciousness was successfully invaded by Jí energy?”
System: …
【The Myriad Realms Encyclopedia System (Temporary) is online to answer your questions with all its heart: The path of cultivation is full of twists and hardships. As long as you, the sect master, become powerful enough, and the sect you lead becomes powerful enough, all questions will eventually receive their answers. Exploration is also a form of cultivation~】
Then, before Lin Xiao could say anything else, the system immediately let out a sharp “Bzzzt—”:
【Notice: Some system functions have entered automatic upgrade mode. Only voice and text pop-up functions have been disabled. Other functions, including the private storage, remain available as normal. For the next twenty-four hours, the system will not answer any questions from the host, issue any missions, or provide any notifications.】
Lin Xiao: …
Night fell.
Over at the new disciples’ residential area, Liu Yunan and the others did not show up again.
They were trying not to make the newcomers uncomfortable.
It also gave the new disciples some space to get to know one another.
In front of the thatched shelters, those with more life experience had already gathered some people to search the surrounding area for dead branches and dried leaves, using them to light a fire.
The sect’s main grounds halfway up the mountain had streetlamps.
But from the first trail upward, all the way to the new disciples’ residential area at the top of the mountain, there was truly nothing at all. The newcomers would have to plan and build everything themselves.
If no one among them had been quick-witted, they would have been left staring into complete darkness.
When the first fire was lit, more and more people gathered around it, helping to start several more fires.
Some had traveled a long way to reach Xiushui Village for the disciple examination and had brought some dry food with them.
Others had either eaten all the food they carried or lived nearby and hadn’t brought any in the first place. By now, their stomachs were already crying out in hunger.
So those who had food divided it into several portions, large or small, and gave some to the fellow disciples around them who had none.
At that moment, someone happened to look up at the sky. Suddenly, they pointed at a flickering object overhead and cried out in alarm:
“Look! What’s that?!”
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!"
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
