4: Chapter 4 The Woman?

Tianxuan Peak.

The main hall at the Peak's summit.

The moment Gu Sheng landed, his legs completely gave out.

He slumped directly onto the cold jade floor, gasping for air. The clothes on his back were already soaked through.

Acting like a badass was physically exhausting work.

Especially when doing it in front of four Golden Core Peak experts.

A single slip-up would have meant eternal damnation.

[Remaining Duration: 18 minutes 05 seconds]

The timer was still counting down.

Gu Sheng looked up.

He looked at the phantom old man standing before him.

The old man still maintained a respectful posture, with lowered eyes and hands at his sides.

Like a truly loyal servant.

"System."

A faint blue light screen flickered in front of Gu Sheng's retinas.

[Ding. The great thousand creation system is wholeheartedly at your service.]

Gu Sheng leaned against a jade pillar. The blood on his left arm had already coagulated, forming a dark red scab.

"If you had come any later, you could have just retired," Gu Sheng transmitted the message in his mind. "You wouldn't even have made it in time for my funeral."

[Host, please pay attention to emotional management. This System took two thousand nine hundred and twenty days to load, which falls under normal network latency.]

[Furthermore, if this System hadn't just issued the Newbie Gift Pack, the host's carotid artery would have already been severed.]

Gu Sheng twitched his facial muscles, pulling them into a cold sneer.

"An eight-year delay. Are you using a 2G network?"

[This System does not accept cross-dimensional technical disdain.]

Gu Sheng didn't continue the bickering. The blood loss had left him somewhat fatigued.

He focused his attention on the light screen.

"Open the detailed panel. Introduce your functions."

[The core function of this System is the Double Gacha Pool.]

[1. character card pool.]

[Consumes Spirit Stones to pull. Produces various character cards from the Myriad Realms.]

[Character cards possess independent consciousness, retaining combat experience and personality traits from their previous lives. They are absolutely loyal to the host.]

[Main responsibilities: Acting as thugs, guards, mentors, Alchemists, etc.]

Gu Sheng glanced at the old man standing beside him with lowered eyes.

This was a product of the character card pool.

Powerful, possessing his own aura, and even able to automatically flesh out a persona based on Gu Sheng's subconscious.

Very useful.

The only downside was that this old man was a trial card.

[2. destiny card pool.]

[Consumes destiny points to pull.]

[Can produce character shells with random appearances and genders, as well as weapons and Medicinal Pills from the Myriad Realms, etc.]

[Note: Shells have no independent consciousness and no Soul. They are entirely controlled by the host's split Divine Soul.]

Gu Sheng stared at the four words "destiny card pool."

He quickly calculated in his mind.

Shells without consciousness. Entirely controlled by himself.

What did this mean?

It meant absolute safety.

While character cards were loyal, they were independent individuals after all, with their own logic of action, making it easy to expose themselves in the details.

But a Clone was himself.

He could manipulate a Clone to explore, to make mistakes, and to do those things that couldn't see the light of day.

Even if the Clone died, the damage to his main body would be extremely limited.

More importantly, the appearance and gender were random.

Who would have thought that the newly risen God of Slaughter of the Demonic Path and the trash Peak Master of Tianxuan Peak in the Righteous Path were actually the same person?

"How do I obtain destiny points?" Gu Sheng asked.

[Change the predetermined plot direction.]

[Cause major world line variations.]

[Plunder or kill Children of Luck.]

[The above actions can all grant varying amounts of destiny points.]

Gu Sheng nodded.

Understood. It was about causing trouble.

The bigger the incident, the higher the returns.

"What's the deal with the nine servants I pulled earlier?"

[Permanent character cards. No time limit.]

[Summon immediately?]

"Summon."

In the empty space in the center of the hall, nine streaks of white light lit up out of thin air.

The white light dissipated.

Nine figures appeared on the jade floor.

Five men and four women.

Uniformly dressed in grey coarse cloth short-suits.

No weapons.

They all knelt on one knee in unison.

"Greetings, Master."

The volume of the nine people was perfectly identical, overlapping and echoing within the hall.

Gu Sheng looked them over.

Ordinary-looking. The kind that couldn't be found if thrown into a crowd.

Their cultivation was uniformly at the third layer of the Qi Refinement Stage.

In the Piaomiao Holy Land, this level of cultivation didn't even qualify as an Outer Sect Disciple; they could only go to the servant Peak to carry water and chop wood.

But for the current Gu Sheng, it was just right.

Tianxuan Peak was too large.

Seventeen acres of spirit fields were overgrown with weeds.

Thirty-six rooms were covered in dust.

He couldn't manage it all by himself.

"Rise," Gu Sheng said.

The nine stood up, hands hanging at their sides, heads lowered.

"Go and wash the stairs outside clean," Gu Sheng issued the command. "Then, till the spirit fields on the back mountain once."

"As you command."

The nine turned and walked out of the hall with synchronized steps.

Not a single superfluous question was asked.

Execution power: perfect score.

Gu Sheng watched the nine servants turn and walk out of the hall with synchronized steps.

Silence returned to the hall.

He leaned against the jade pillar.

The phantom of the old man stood to the side.

[Remaining Duration: 0 minutes 15 seconds]

The numbers ticked.

Zero.

The old man's body turned into countless points of light and dissipated into the air.

The pressure completely vanished.

Gu Sheng stood up straight. The blood scab on his left arm cracked a bit, oozing a hint of red.

He walked back to the main seat deep within the hall and sat down.

The faint blue light screen floated in front of him.

"How much for one pull of destiny points?" Gu Sheng transmitted the message in his mind.

[One hundred points for a single pull. One thousand points for a ten-pull.]

[Pity mechanism: A ten-pull is guaranteed to yield an item or shell of Rare rank or higher.]

Gu Sheng looked at the zero in his balance.

"Where do I find Children of Luck?"

[This System does not provide precise positioning services.]

[Hint: Children of Luck usually possess the following characteristics.]

[Surviving falls off cliffs. Counter-killing after having a marriage engagement broken. Picking up treasures while walking. Breaking through in desperate situations. Often accompanied by an incorporeal old man.]

[Host can look out for individuals matching the above characteristics on your own.]

Gu Sheng leaned against the back of his chair.

This world was vast and boundless. Where was he supposed to find people who came with a Protagonist Halo?

Even if he found one, with his current strength, trying to snatch a Child of Luck's Opportunity was no different from seeking death.

A destiny card pool Ten-Pull Voucher lay quietly in his inventory.

This was opened from the Newbie Gift Pack.

Might as well use it.

"Use the destiny card pool Ten-Pull Voucher."

[Command confirmed.]

[Consuming destiny card pool Ten-Pull Voucher ×1.]

A giant vortex appeared in the center of the light screen.

Ten meteors shot out from the vortex.

White light. Green light. Blue light.

The colors flashed alternately.

The final light was a blinding gold.

The text on the panel scrolled rapidly.

[Obtained: Rejuvenation Pill ×5 (Mortal Grade Medium Grade)]

[Obtained: Fasting Pill ×3 (Mortal Grade Low Grade)]

[Obtained: Breath-Concealing Jade Talisman ×1 (Consumable)]

[Obtained: Peerless Grade Shell — Lunar MysteriousChar Body (Female)]

Gu Sheng's gaze paused on the last line of text.

Peerless Grade.

Female.

He first clicked on the icon for the Rejuvenation Pill.

"Extract."

A small white porcelain bottle appeared in his hand out of thin air.

The bottle was slightly cool.

He pulled out the wooden cork and poured out a pale green pill.

It was the size of a fingernail, carrying a faint herbal fragrance.

Gu Sheng tilted his head back and swallowed the pill.

The pill melted as soon as it entered his mouth.

A warm current of air slid down his throat into his abdomen, then rapidly spread to his limbs and bones.

The heat gathered at his left arm and neck.

A subtle itching sensation came from the wounds.

The flesh writhed quickly.

The two-inch-long sword wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The dark red blood scab fell off, dropping onto the jade floor.

Revealing the fair and smooth new skin underneath.

Not even a single scar was left.

The thin blood line on his neck also completely disappeared.

His fatigue was swept away, and his physical strength returned to its Peak state.

Gu Sheng moved his left arm; there was no stiffness.

He turned his gaze back to the light screen.

He clicked on that golden ball of light.

A three-dimensional projection appeared beside the light screen.

A shell floated in mid-air.

Gu Sheng examined it carefully.

Female. Estimated Bone Age was around seventeen.

Height was about one hundred and sixty centimeters.

A head of black hair reached down to her ankles, without any adornments.

She wore a plain white dress that came with the System.

Her features were extremely exquisite, without a single flaw to be found.

Her skin was so pale it was almost sickly, exuding an aura of extreme cold.

No breathing. No heartbeat.

It was entirely a soulless empty shell.

Gu Sheng clicked on the detailed attribute panel beside it.

[Shell Name: Unnamed]

[Gender: Female]

[Physique: Lunar MysteriousChar Body (Peerless Grade)]

[Cultivation: None (Cultivatable)]

[Trait 1: Lunar Origin. Affinity for ice-System and Yin-attribute techniques reaches the extreme. Cultivation speed increased tenfold. Immune to all ice-System Spell damage of the same Realm.]

[Trait 2: Ultimate Cauldron. Special Physique. If plucked by a high-Realm Cultivator, can help the other party unconditionally break through a Bottleneck.]

[Note: This trait easily attracts the frenzied plundering of experts in the cultivation world. Please use with caution, Host.]

[Trait 3: Thousand Faces. Can consume destiny points to finely adjust appearance and conceal original Physique aura.]