Free Web NovelEast Desolation, Ziyang Prefecture.
Under the clear blue sky, the official road was bustling with carriages and horses. The convoy numbered over a hundred people with more than a dozen carriages, rushing along at full speed.
A young man dressed in silk clothing lifted the curtain of his carriage, his face pale, wishing to breathe in some fresh air.
“Whew...”
“Traveling long distances in ancient times is truly deadly, cough.”
The young man lifted the curtain, but was choked by the stirred-up dust, coughing twice.
“Young Master, it’s still two days’ journey to Qingyuan Sect,” the coachman, a butler, said with a smile.
After speaking, he cautiously added, “Our manor’s carriage is already the most comfortable for traveling.”
“Alright.”
Li Mo responded, sighing inwardly.
High-speed rail and airplanes are so much more comfortable.
Two days ago, he deciphered the mystery of his birth, Awakening his past life’s memories.
His previous life was lived in a place called Bluestar, where modern technology was highly advanced.
Great Yu, however, was different.
This was a world where everyone revered martial Dao, and great power belonged to individuals.
He was now sixteen, and before he could fully enjoy the leisurely life of a wealthy family in ancient times, his father had put him in a carriage, sending him to Qingyuan Sect, one of the three great sects of Ziyang Prefecture, to participate in the entrance examination.
“Practicing martial arts...”
Li Mo showed a look of longing, gazing at the three suns hanging high in the sky.
He had heard from a young man, also on his way to Qingyuan Sect, that in this world, martial artists like his father, who were like humanoid mechas, were only at the Stubborn Bronze level.
Legend has it that the three suns in the sky were transformed from two Great Yu Emperors.
This was not a myth or legend; it was a clearly recorded history.
An hour later.
Dusk approached.
The convoy, escorted by a security escort agency, slowly stopped at an inn.
As Li Mo jumped out of the carriage, the curtain of the carriage behind him was also lifted at the same time.
The young woman wore an indigo blue cloth dress, her skin as delicate as white porcelain under the moonlight.
Her body, in the bloom of youth, was beginning to show its graceful curves, and she was almost as tall as Li Mo.
Days of travel and the torment of illness had left a touch of fragility on her beautiful and noble face, yet she remained breathtakingly stunning.
She was tired, weak, and dressed simply, yet anyone who saw her at first glance would believe that the phrase “all other beauties pale in comparison” was not merely a metaphor.
The young woman’s name surfaced in Li Mo’s mind.
Ying Bing.
The Li Family and the Ying Family were old friends, with close ties dating back to their grandfathers’ generation.
By their generation, the elders of both families even intended to arrange a marriage between the younger generation, to further strengthen their bond.
“Is there anything you’d like to eat? I’ll tell the kitchen to prepare it.”
Li Mo said casually.
The young woman paid no attention to him, her ice-mirror-like eyes not even glancing at Li Mo as she walked past him into the inn, leaving only a faint fragrance.
“Miss Ying’s family also just suffered a misfortune, so...”
“No need to explain for her; I used to be too reckless.”
Li Mo was helpless.
What a mess.
He had changed worlds, so how did he become a mischievous child?
With a comfortable family background and being spoiled by his entire family, he had done many outrageous things.
For example, peeking at the little maid bathing, hiding firecrackers in the firewood pile...
A few years ago, when Disaster Beasts entered the city, the entire Ying Family unfortunately perished, leaving only Ying Bing. His father then arranged for her to stay at the Li Manor for the time being.
He had often deliberately bullied her, yet he also liked her in his heart.
It was a bit like a middle school student who likes a girl and then deliberately pulls her hair, trying to get her attention...
“As is well known, those whose entire family has been sacrificed usually aren’t simple.”
As a novel enthusiast in his previous life, Li Mo inexplicably made this connection.
“Here comes the chicken soup!”
The waiter, beaming, brought a tray.
Li Mo’s mouth twitched slightly as he mumbled:
“I’ve lived two lives, how come I don’t have a Golden Finger or something...”
“Hello, you do.”
“Who’s speaking?”
Li Mo jumped up suddenly, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
“Young Master?” The butler looked confused. What madness was the Young Master up to now?
“Nothing, perhaps it’s tinnitus.”
Li Mo frowned. Just as he was wondering if he was hallucinating.
That voice resonated in his mind again:
“Since you, host, have sincerely asked, then this System must appear.”
Li Mo: “......?”
Does that mean if I didn’t ask, you weren’t planning to come out this lifetime?
Well, that’s not the point.
“What’s your use, System?”
“This System is an investment rebate System.”
“The host can invest in any target. The stronger the ‘Tianming’ ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) of the investment target, the better the reward obtained.”
“If the investment target makes a major Breakthrough, additional rewards can also be obtained.”
Li Mo raised an eyebrow slightly.
Any target?
“Then can I invest in myself?”
“Tianming Divine Eye has been issued to the host. Please judge whether it has investment value yourself.”
Meaning, yes.
Just as Li Mo was thinking this, he suddenly felt that something obscure had appeared in his mind. It was invisible and intangible, but it truly existed.
He didn’t know the profundity of that thing, but he found that he could use it.
However, those inexplicable messages were obscure and difficult to understand, neither sounds nor words.
Tianming Divine Eye?
Li Mo frowned; he couldn’t understand it either.
The next moment, a panel suddenly appeared before him, seemingly undergoing humanized modification.
Name: Li Mo
Age: 16
Root Bone: None.
Realm: Mortal.
Tianming: Gray (Innate deficiency, ill-fated life)
Evaluation: Innate deficiency, leading to weakness and frailty, not suitable for martial arts. Besides being handsome and having a good father, what else do you have? What else are you?
Recent Encounter: Encountered this System.
Li Mo: “......”
Too real.
It wasn’t very polite, but he had to admit, there was indeed no investment value.
“Among those from the county going to Qingyuan Sect, there must be a few good prospects.”
Li Mo no longer had the appetite to eat and looked up.
A flicker of obscurity flashed in his eyes as he looked at his fellow villagers resting and eating in the hall.
Name: He Yong
Age: 16
Root Bone: None.
Realm: Qi Blood Realm, First Meridian.
Tianming: White (Pampas grass posture)
Evaluation: Among the common people, like pampas grass and mayflies, nothing remarkable.
Encounter: From a woodcutting background, his travel expenses were borrowed from neighbors. He is currently worried about repaying the money.
...
Name: Chen Xiaoyan frёeweɓηovel.coɱ
Age: 16
Root Bone: None.
.....
....
After looking at a few people, most had white Tianming, at most green.
It wasn’t until Li Mo’s gaze fell on the corner that a bluish-green color appeared before his eyes.
Name: Wang Hu
Age: 16
Root Bone: Tiger Arms and Leopard Waist.
Realm: Qi Blood Realm, Third Meridian.
Tianming: Green (Minor Talent)
Evaluation: Possesses minor talent. If he studies diligently and practices hard, he might achieve something in the future. However, he is narrow-minded, holds grudges, and is arrogant and overbearing, easily falling onto an extreme path.
Recent Encounter: His boxing technique has reached a Bottleneck, urgently needs sparring for a Breakthrough.
.....
All in all, there was no particularly worthwhile investment target.
The only one who seemed decent, Wang Hu, also had a conflict with him.
At this moment.
“Guest, your chicken soup, prepared as per your request, with ten-year-old wild ginseng.”
“I’ll send it up to the second floor now.”
The inn’s waiter greeted him and prepared to carry the food box upstairs.
“Wait.”
Li Mo’s heart stirred, and he stopped him:
“I’ll take it up myself.”
Under the waiter’s puzzled gaze, Li Mo took the food box.
His gaze turned to the private room at the end of the second floor.
What kind of Tianming would she possess?
Knock knock—
After a moment of knocking, a soft voice came from inside:
“Come in.”
The young woman sat quietly by the window. Moonlight streamed through the gauze window, scattering onto her hair like water, and making her eyes glow faintly like light.
Upon realizing it was Li Mo who had entered, her delicate brows furrowed slightly.
Li Mo, however, had no time to observe her expressions, as he was completely rooted to the spot.
The other party’s information clearly appeared before his eyes:
Name: Ying Bing
Age: 16
Root Bone: Taiyin Moon Phoenix Body.
Realm: None.
Tianming: .....
At this point, the Tianming Divine Eye showed some stagnation, as if the Karma she bore was too great, causing it to momentarily crash.
After a few seconds, the subsequent information slowly appeared.
Tianming: Red (Possessing Emperor Bone, Xuanbing as her life, Autumn Water as her spirit, with the appearance of Phoenix Heaven)
Evaluation: Her destiny is fraught with calamities, yet she always turns misfortune into good fortune. At this time, her feathers are not yet fully grown. When the winds and clouds change, she will surely soar high above the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, a Phoenix presiding over the Six Directions and Eight Desolations.
Recent Encounter: Before the Taiyin Moon Phoenix Body opens its meridians, it manifests as an Absolute Meridian Body. Before fully controlling Taiyin Power, she must endure extreme cold every day.
Li Mo: “?”
Goodness, what did I tell you?
Even the colors were gone, directly calculated by anomaly.
According to the Tianming Divine Eye’s judgment, Tianming is divided from low to high as follows:
Black, Gray, White, Green, Blue, Purple, Gold.
Above Gold, there is also Red Tianming.
Such Tianming could not be simply categorized by color; they all possessed various anomalies.
The Martial God, the founding ancestor who established the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths for the Human Race and founded the Great Yu Dynasty, is clearly recorded in historical texts as having been born when the sun and moon were in the same sky, the Ziwei Star moved, and a divine turtle carried a stele to name him.
Thinking this way, this was also a so-called Tianming anomaly.
His unbetrothed wife, an existence that could rival the Founding Ancestor Martial God in the future?
It was, quite sudden.
Xiao Li fell into deep thought, doubting his life.
“Um... chicken soup, drink it while it’s hot.”
Slam—
The door closed.
“To think I returned on this day.”
“Nirvana Rebirth, so that’s what it means.”
Ying Bing picked up a piece of chicken and threw it out the second-floor window into the backyard.
The guard dog in the courtyard ate it with grunts and snorts, and a moment later, there was no abnormality.
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It wasn’t that she held a grudge. Aside from her closest relatives, those distant loves and hates had long become fleeting clouds in her eyes.
It was just that in her memories, Li Mo loved to tease her with childish methods.
Today, why did he proactively bring her chicken soup?
“Ding dong—”
At this moment.
A crisp sound suddenly came from her ear.
“Who?”
Ying Bing instantly narrowed her eyes.
The voice seemed to disregard her alertness, sounding again on its own:
“System binding successful.”
“The victor is king, the defeated eats dust. Are you... ready?”
