Chapter 715: Chun

Hearing Zhou Huai's disdainful remarks about bathwater, the woman in the water stopped her movements.

Immediately after, she giggled.

The laughter echoed through the spacious underground karst cave.

She rolled her eyes at Zhou Huai, reproaching the young man for his lack of romance.

"You fellow, you really don't know how to read the mood."

The woman's fair fingers gently stirred the lake water, "Once upon a time, in our era…"

"Those men who fancied themselves overlords of heaven and earth, let alone drinking the water in my pool, even just to catch a whiff of the aura on my body, would have to line up for three days and three nights."

As she spoke, she stood up from the emerald-green lake water, stepped forward, and walked towards Zhou Huai on the shore.

With her steps, an astonishing scene occurred.

The lake water wrapping around her body rapidly climbed up and intertwined along her fair skin.

In the blink of an eye, the water current turned into a cyan long robe draped over her body, half-concealing her curves.

Facing this scene, Zhou Huai averted his gaze.

In this cruel world, any untimely desire would become a fatal poison. Moreover, the woman in front of him was an ancient monster that had lived for an unknown number of eras.

"Alright, put away your charm tricks."

Zhou Huai steadied his mind and forcibly pulled the topic back on track: "Since I have already arrived, say less nonsense. Tell me directly, how do you plan to help me?"

Hearing these stiff words, the woman stopped her footsteps.

She frowned, a pair of green eyes sizing Zhou Huai up and down, with a dissatisfied tone.

"Young man, your attitude is truly very impolite."

She raised her chin, "Running into someone else's territory to discuss cooperation, you at least have to tell me your name first, right?"

Zhou Huai's expression stiffened.

Looking at the woman getting closer and closer to him, he took a step back.

At the same time, Great Sage Li Er standing beside him stepped half a step forward, the horsetail whisk in his hand fluttering without wind, and the power of Law circulated in the air, preparing to burst out with a fatal blow.

Seeing that the other party had no further extreme actions, Zhou Huai then stood firm and spat out two words:

"Zhou Huai."

"Zhou Huai?"

The woman stopped at a place less than three meters away from him, repeatedly chewing on this name.

A moment later, she shook her head in disdain, "Plain and unnoticeable, it's truly a very ordinary name. Compared to those god titles that call for wind and rain, it's far too lacking."

Without waiting for Zhou Huai to retort, the woman smiled on her own accord.

"Listen well, my name is —— Chun."

Chun?

Zhou Huai silently chanted this single character in his heart, unable to help sighing inwardly.

In antiquity, there was the Great Chun, taking eight thousand years as spring and eight thousand years as autumn.

This name perfectly matched her Origin identity as an ancient tree demon, fitting her natural temperament of looking down upon the current world.

"Names have also been exchanged, can we talk about serious matters now?" Zhou Huai pressed.

Chun walked half a circle around Zhou Huai and Li Er.

Afterwards, she stopped her footsteps, a pair of eyes staring at Zhou Huai, throwing out a question:

"Before this, I want to ask you… what is a Professional?"

This sentence directly baffled Zhou Huai.

He frowned, looking at the woman in front of him.

What does what is a Professional mean? Isn't this the most basic and common-sense thing in the current world?

But on second thought, the other party was a remnant soul of the first generation sealed for countless years, and it was only natural for her to feel unfamiliar with the world rules of the present day that had undergone countless version updates.

Helplessly, Zhou Huai could only patiently explain roughly.

"The so-called Professionals are an identity awakened by humans through the job-transfer ceremony when they reach the age of eighteen."

"After Awakening, we will have our own attribute panels, divided into basic values like strength, agility, stamina, and spirit. At the same time, every class has strict skill tree restrictions, and must kill exotic beasts and clear instances to gain experience points to increase Rank, thereby unlocking more powerful skills."

"Mages can only use magic, swordsmen can only use swordsmanship, assassins can only stealth and assassinate… Furthermore, all skills have restrictions of cooldown time and mana consumption."

Zhou Huai tried his best to use the most concise language to describe this set of Rank Law that had penetrated deep into the bone marrow of all humanity.

However, before he could finish speaking, Chun couldn't help covering her mouth and giggling delicately.

At first it was just a light laugh, but later on, she laughed so hard that her flower-like branches trembled, her laughter carrying mockery.

"What are you laughing at?" Zhou Huai's expression sank.

"I am laughing at how pathetic you all are! Laughing at your ignorance!"

Chun restrained her laughter, her gaze turning fierce, and she stared straight at Zhou Huai, "In the eyes of you later-generation humans, do you feel… that it is the identity of Professionals that bestowed upon you the extraordinary power to resist disasters?"

Zhou Huai did not retort, because this was the consensus of everyone in the current world.

People who failed to successfully transfer classes were ordinary people at the bottom of society; successfully transferring classes meant stepping up to the heavens in a single bound.

"Utterly foolish!"

Chun snorted coldly, her cyan long robe fluttering without wind: "I tell you, in that past world, in our initial era… there was no such damn distinction of Professionals at all!"

"As long as your own talent and Comprehension Ability are sufficient, as long as you want, you can simultaneously be a mage releasing Forbidden Spells, a swordsman splitting the earth, or even a summoner ruling over all beasts!"

"There is no so-called skill tree! No rigid cooldown time! Even more, no Rank upper limit that traps people!"

Chun's words echoed in the underground karst cave.

She extended her fair fingers, pointing at Zhou Huai, "You think it is the rules of Professionals that bestowed power upon you? Wrong! Terribly wrong!"

"In fact… it is the will of heaven imposed upon you, the deepest shackles restricting you!"

Hearing these words, Zhou Huai was stunned in place.

Shackles?!

That's right! How could he not have thought of this point!

Recalling the life-and-death battle outside Donghai City earlier, where all his Clones went out to fight Mr. Duan. That Mr. Duan who claimed to be a Transcendent could not only release Earth-element absolute defense, but also wield fire-element dark blue fire snakes, and in the next second use Space-type Law to teleport and kill people!

At that time, he was still wondering why the other party could break through the class barriers and master various completely different powers of Law.

Now it seemed that Mr. Duan had directly shattered this layer of shackles named Professionals! He had restored the most primitive combat form!

Looking at Zhou Huai's expression, Chun's tone softened slightly.

"In that world of ours, without these rigid restrictions, every person as long as they lived long enough had the opportunity to master world-destroying power."

"But precisely because of this, power lost its constraints, causing irrecoverable chaos and collapse…"

Hearing this, Zhou Huai fell silent.

He could completely understand the other party's statement.

As someone with memories of two lifetimes through Transmigration, the logic within this couldn't be clearer!

This was just like the initial stage of a large-scale online game. At the very beginning, the game planner (will of heaven) did not have a clear understanding of the game's worldview and balance, only a vague concept.

Therefore, when creating that first-generation (version 1.0) game world, so many rigid rules were not set up.

There was no class division, no skill cooldowns, no Rank upper limit.

The result was —— various numerical values swelled crazily! Immortals flew all over the sky! Pull out a random passerby NPC and they could punch a planet to pieces!

Seeing that the game server was about to be squeezed to bursting by this group of numerical monsters, and the world was about to completely collapse, the will of heaven couldn't just watch anymore.

Therefore, there were the later version updates!

And there was the forced annihilation of the lives of the old era using various natural disasters and calamities to carry out a so-called System major cleansing!