The System’s Changes

"Ah!"

Gu Sheng watched Tang Lie crumple to the ground, and an inexplicable sense of loss welled up inside him. Tang Lie could not be considered a heinous villain. He was merely a revenant. Originally, Gu Sheng’s only connection to him had been witnessing him pursue and kill Yao Xingxing. That was all.

"Bzzzz~~"

A cyan glow suddenly flashed from Tang Lie’s body. Its brilliance was dazzling, and invisible ripples twisted the space. Though the buzzing was faint, it left Gu Sheng feeling somewhat drained.

"Whoosh~"

The cyan light around Tang Lie abruptly contracted, and a cyan shadow shot out, attempting to break through the air and flee.

Just as Gu Sheng felt powerless all over, a burst of pink-and-cyan light suddenly flashed from his chest and enveloped his entire body. He immediately felt himself regain control of his body.

"Whoosh~"

A pink phantom flashed out from Gu Sheng’s body and intercepted the cyan shadow at an even greater speed.

"Boom~~"

The two light shadows collided in an instant. Amid the blinding clash, the pink and cyan radiance outshone the sunlight, leaving even Gu Sheng unable to open his eyes.

Gu Sheng turned his head aside, raised a hand to block most of the light, then peered through the gaps between his fingers. He saw a ball of light suspended in midair, the two dazzling colors constantly entangling and shrinking, seemingly in the process of merging.

"Ah~~"

In a daze, Gu Sheng seemed to hear an utterly unwilling roar. Then the ball of light in midair suddenly burst out with a wave of light, and Gu Sheng instinctively shut his eyes and turned his head away.

"Whoosh~"

Before Gu Sheng could turn around, a fierce gust of wind howled past his ear.

"Hello, Master!"

A soft, sweet voice rang beside his ear. Gu Sheng turned his head and saw that it was none other than the pink System Sprite of his personal system—the Multiverse Reincarnation System!

"Bzzzz~~"

A faint sound arose. Gu Sheng watched as a round jade pendant emerged from the System Sprite and floated in front of him.

"Xiao Yu is your true form!"

Gu Sheng reached out and caught the pendant. Pink and cyan colors intertwined across its surface, but he recognized it at a glance. It was the very jade pendant he often played with.

System Sprite Little Jade acted coquettishly. "I’m Xiao Yu, aren’t I?"

"Was that just an illusion?"

Gu Sheng looked at the System Sprite before him. He had the distinct feeling that something about her had changed. She no longer spoke as stiffly as before, seeming to have gained much more intelligence.

"Beep~ Wooo~~ Beep~ Wooo~~ Beep~ Wooo~"

At that moment, bursts of sirens sounded below the inpatient building. Gu Sheng looked down and saw that vehicles with flashing sirens had already completely surrounded the building.

"What a hassle!"

Gu Sheng glanced at Tang Lie’s corpse. The commotion this fellow had caused today was simply too great. In less than an hour, they had already come to arrest him.

"Let’s do one good deed."

Gu Sheng swept his gaze around, yanked over a clean bedsheet, and wrapped Tang Lie’s nearly brittle corpse inside it. With a forceful shake, Tang Lie, whose energy had been drained by the cyan shadow, turned into a pile of ashes.

"Ah!"

Gu Sheng sighed and shook his head before carrying Tang Lie’s ashes rapidly downstairs. If this fellow’s corpse fell into someone else’s hands, who knew what label they would slap on him? They would claim it was research, but in truth, they would only desecrate him. Since Gu Sheng had at least taken his belongings, he might as well do him one good deed and let him rest in peace.

"Come back!"

At Gu Sheng’s call, the petite and adorable System Sprite circled him a few times before darting into the jade pendant. The pendant then slowly disappeared into Gu Sheng’s palm.

"They got here really quickly."

Gu Sheng sped down the emergency stairwell. He had just reached the fourth floor when the clattering of footsteps came from the stairwell. He knew that the people below had come up to search.

"I can’t let them find me!"

Gu Sheng quickly pushed open the door and entered the fourth floor of the inpatient building through the emergency passage. After turning left and right several times, he followed the somewhat chaotic crowd to the first floor, then quietly slipped back into his own ward while no one was paying attention.

"Phew~"

Only after hiding the bedsheet containing Tang Lie’s ashes inside the cabinet did Gu Sheng finally relax a little. Recalling the details from earlier, he had acted carefully enough. The cameras in the inpatient department should have been damaged by Tang Lie beforehand, so he probably had not been recorded along the way.

"This guy really knows how to cause trouble for me!"

Gu Sheng looked worriedly at the door panel stuck against the wall. The ward door had been kicked into this state, and it seemed that his was the only ward on the entire floor that had suffered such treatment. Someone would probably come asking about it later. It was another hassle.

"Ding ling! Congratulations, Host. The system update is complete, and the new function is now online!"

While Gu Sheng was fretting, another notification sounded in his mind.

"This is… Attribute Power? The rhythm of adding points and becoming a god? The things that guy had on him are actually this incredible!"

After looking for a while, Gu Sheng discovered that the two functions he had originally been able to use—Heavenly Secrets Deduction and Skill Comprehension—had changed from pale cyan to bright cyan, seemingly receiving a considerable upgrade. Beside them, there was also a new cyan function button: Attribute Power.

Gu Sheng’s so-called Heavenly Secrets Deduction and Skill Comprehension had impressive-sounding names, but in practice they were utterly useless. After using them a few times, he had stopped bothering with them. There was no other reason—they cost more than they were worth!

Skill Comprehension was the lowest-level sort. After using it, it only gave him a general direction, and Gu Sheng still had to practice on his own. With that time spent practicing, he could more or less comprehend things to the same degree himself. That was why it was so useless.

Heavenly Secrets Deduction was a skill that burned money like kindling. Gu Sheng had killed far more than ten thousand people in The Nine Cauldrons World, yet most of his Fortune Points had been poured into it. The results it produced, however, were only rough outlines, which was truly exasperating.

After the upgrade, however, the two skills had completely changed. Skill Comprehension had become a function that simulated and constructed a Training Room in his mind, constantly increasing his skill proficiency.

The cost of Heavenly Secrets Deduction had been cut in half, while its results were far more accurate than before.

As for the newly developed function, Attribute Power, it was an extremely formidable one. It could raise the skills mastered by the host to the theoretical limit of the cultivation method, directly advancing his cultivation.

Of course, this increase in cultivation was not limitless. Its upper limit depended on the cultivation method. For example, the Cold Moon Saber Art Gu Sheng currently possessed could be cultivated to the Xiantian Void Core stage.

Therefore, the highest cultivation level Attribute Power could raise him to was the Xiantian Void Core. If he wanted to advance further, he would either need talent against the heavens, create his own cultivation method to escape the limitations of the Cold Moon Saber Art, and continue cultivating through his own efforts,

or find a higher-level cultivation method and switch to it, then use Attribute Power to improve that cultivation method and advance his cultivation once more.

If viewed this way, Attribute Power did not seem all that impressive. Without a sufficient cultivation method, there could be no high realm. But if it were combined with the system’s Skill Comprehension and deduction functions to continually break through the cultivation method’s limits, then this was truly a heaven-defying path!