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【Congratulations to the host for binding the Great Dao Rule Choice System!】
【Ding! Would the host like to claim the beginner gift pack?】
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The world of Honghuang.
The East. Mount Wuyi.
This was a blessed grotto-heaven enveloped and sealed by an innate grand array.
Deep within Mount Wuyi, sealed by innate restrictions, lay a self-contained world shrouded in mist. Ten innate spirit springs gurgled, continuously spewing innate spiritual energy. Over countless years of accumulation, the innate spiritual energy had grown so dense that it had liquefied.
In the center of the ten innate spirit springs, a dazzling pillar of light connected heaven and earth. Within this golden light, a golden coin was faintly visible—round with a square hole in the center and flanked by two small white wings.
The coin radiated shimmering treasure light, its surface etched with innate Dao patterns that fully manifested the profound mysteries of the Great Dao of Commerce.
This treasure was none other than the renowned Heavenly Dao anomalous treasure of Honghuang—the Luobao Gold Coin!
Hearing those iconic lines, the Luobao Gold Coin, which had been lying motionless like a corpse, began to tremble and dance in wild excitement!
“System?”
“A thousand years... System, do you know how I’ve spent these past thousand years?!”
Lin Bao cried out in his heart. The Luobao Gold Coin danced wildly, yet from beginning to end, it could not break free from the constraints of the golden pillar of light.
Lin Bao was once a cancer-stricken young man on Earth.
In his past life, squatting by the side of a national highway and watching a Dayun heavy truck speed past, Lin Bao had stuck out his leg without hesitation, wanting to trip the truck.
The outcome was obvious.
Lin Bao was sent straight to the afterlife by the truck.
(That was fucking suicide!)
After dying, Lin Bao transmigrated to Honghuang and became the Luobao Gold Coin—the Heavenly Dao anomalous treasure that would later cause the God of Wealth, Zhao Gongming, to suffer a tremendous loss during the Investiture of the Gods era.
Upon transmigrating, the sheer novelty had made his blood surge with ambition. He had vowed to punch the Three Purities, kick the Ancestral Witches, rise in Honghuang, attain the Dao of Hunyuan, roam freely between heaven and earth, and live forever.
However.
Ideals were wonderful.
Reality was brutal.
As the Luobao Gold Coin, Lin Bao was inherently flawed. Moreover, because he was a Heavenly Dao anomalous treasure, the laws of this world simply did not allow him to take human form and emerge into the world!
He could not even escape this damn golden pillar of light.
And so...
Lin Bao had been stuck inside this golden pillar of light for a full thousand years!
If things continued like this, once Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao were born and discovered him, they would definitely wipe away his spiritual consciousness!
By then, his thousand years in this prison would have all been for nothing.
Fortunately, the bitterness had finally yielded sweetness—his cheat had arrived!
“A thousand years... I’ve been locked up for a thousand years.” Lin Bao wept bitter tears. Although he was currently a coin and had no tear ducts, it did not stop him from expressing his sorrow. “If you hadn't shown up, I really would have gone crazy.”
After venting his emotions, Lin Bao calmed down and asked, “System, what specific functions do you have?”
【Ding! Whenever the host faces a pivotal choice of destiny, a choice mission will be triggered. Complete the choice mission to obtain the corresponding rewards.
Note: Different choices forge different futures. The host is advised to choose carefully before deciding.】
With a whoosh, a golden panel materialized before Lin Bao—an interface visible only to him.
Line after line of gilded characters appeared on the panel.
Seeing the contents, Lin Bao instantly understood. “To put it simply, it’s just multiple-choice questions.”
In his past life, Lin Bao had been a regular on the Fanqie web novel platform. He had read tens of thousands of novels, scanned countless works, watched endless films, and was thoroughly experienced.
【Ding! Would the host like to claim the beginner gift pack?】
The system’s cold voice, sounding almost like the voice of natural laws, rang out once more.
“Claim.”
Lin Bao did not hesitate in the slightest and decisively claimed the beginner gift pack.
【Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining the reward: Great Dao Rule Skill—Fifty-Fifty with Anyone (Level 1).】
【Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining the reward: Direct Human Transformation and Emergence.】
The beginner gift pack contained only two rewards, but each was enough to send Lin Bao into ecstasy.
Lin Bao could not wait to open the descriptions for both rewards:
【Great Dao Rule Skill—Fifty-Fifty with Anyone: Active skill. Once activated, the user becomes stronger against the strong and weaker against the weak. The rules of the Great Dao will equalize the combat power between the enemy and the host to the exact same level. Spiritual treasures, divine abilities, innate talents, and intellect are all calculated into the balance. To put it simply: You can defeat no one, and no one can defeat you.
Note: Current skill level is Level 1, with an upper limit of Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal / Honghuang Saint.】
Seeing the system description, Lin Bao was stunned.
This skill... wasn't it a bit too game-breaking?!
Didn't that mean that once he took human form, even if he were a mere mortal, he could go fifty-fifty against a Saint?
Moreover, this Great Dao rule skill was an active skill!
It could be toggled on and off at will.
In that case...
If he encountered ant-like weaklings whose cultivation was lower than his, he could simply crush them with his own cultivation.
If he ran into senior experts whose cultivation was far above his, he could activate 【Fifty-Fifty】 and wrestle with them on equal terms!
As long as he fought to a draw, it would surely make him famous across the realms, leading those mighty figures with great supernatural powers—and even the Saints—to mistakenly believe he was in the same realm as them.
At that moment, Lin Bao noticed the “Level 1” in the notes.
If the upper limit of Level 1 was Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal / Honghuang Saint, wouldn't Level 2 correspond to Hunyuan Wuji Daluo Golden Immortal / Dao Integration Realm Saint?
And so on!
“System, how do I upgrade the level of the 【Fifty-Fifty with Anyone】 skill?”
【Ding! This skill upgrades along with the host’s cultivation. When the host’s cultivation reaches Hunyuan Golden Immortal / Quasi-Saint, the skill will automatically upgrade to Level 2.】
“Is that so?”
Lin Bao breathed a sigh of relief. “That sounds pretty straightforward.”
“System! I want to take human form!”
“I want to be human!”
“I want some style!”
Now that the system had awakened, if not take form now, then when?
A spiritual treasure body had too many limitations. Only by transforming into an Innate Dao Body could he cultivate immortality, seek the Dao, walk freely at every step, and attain eternal life.
Rumble! Rumble!
The moment Lin Bao's words fell, profound and intricate Great Dao patterns materialized on the physical form of the Luobao Gold Coin. This was none other than the Great Dao of Commerce Law among the Three Thousand Great Daos!
With Lin Bao at the center, boundless innate spiritual energy converged from the surrounding world, forming a spiritual storm that poured continuously into the Luobao Gold Coin.
During the process of transformation, Lin Bao directly observed his own origin.
He comprehended the Law of Commerce.
He clearly defined his future path of Dao...
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Time had no meaning in Honghuang.
Seas turned into mulberry fields, and eras shifted. In the blink of an eye, a yuanhui of 129,600 years passed in a flash.
On this day, across the territory of Mount Wuyi, golden clouds pierced the mist, radiating ten thousand zhang of auspicious light. The Law of Commerce flowed endlessly as wealth qi across the sky condensed into myriad auspicious patterns. Lotuses bloomed from the void, treasure qi formed radiant clouds, and phantom silhouettes of copper coins circled around, chiming like ceremonial music.
Inside the golden pillar of light that was supposed to imprison the Luobao Gold Coin, the coin was nowhere to be seen. In its place stood a handsome youth clad in golden Daoist robes, supported by auspicious clouds and surrounded by clusters of treasure light.
With bright eyes, white teeth, and a jade-like countenance, his brows exuded an easygoing yet gallant aura.
“I've finally taken human form.”
“A High-Grade Innate Divine Being foundation.”
“My initial cultivation is only late stage Taiyi Golden Immortal?”
“Well, it’s decent enough. It’s far better than starting out as a Golden Immortal, or worse, an Earth Immortal or Heavenly Immortal.”
Rate on N.U.
