“Agree!”
Just after reading through the game agreement once, Ye Lin resolutely muttered the words in his heart.
Entering the game at least gave him a chance to defy heaven and change his fate. If he didn't enter, he could only remain a cannon fodder villain waiting for death.
【Ding! You have agreed to all game protocols. True Spirit binding is complete.】
【Next is the novice tutorial. Please create your Dao Name.】
Just as Ye Lin made his choice, the mysterious prompt rang in his mind once again.
“Dao Name: Tai Cang!” After pondering for a moment, Ye Lin directly spoke his Dao Name.
【Ding! Dao Name creation complete. Congratulations on becoming the first player in this game to possess a Dao Name. You have triggered a special achievement. The reward has been automatically stored in the game space and can be retrieved later.】
【Player panel has been generated. Logging into the game.】
As the prompt rang again, Ye Lin was instantly enveloped by a mysterious force, and he vanished from the room without a sound.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a rustic courtyard filled with the fragrance of flowers and the singing of birds.
Furthermore, his clothes had changed into a set of coarse hemp garments, and his hair had grown long, simply tied up with a wooden hairpin.
【Ding! Player has successfully logged into the game. All novice tutorials have concluded.】
【Mortal Fate, Immortal Path begins now. How far you can go depends entirely on your own immortal destiny. We wish player ‘Tai Cang’ to rise above mortality and achieve eternal prosperity on the immortal path.】
Just as Ye Lin was sizing up his surroundings and his own changes, the game prompt rang out once more.
“Wait, the novice tutorial is over just like that? Where is the novice gift pack? Where is the main quest?”
Hearing the novice tutorial end so abruptly, Ye Lin was completely dumbfounded.
This was the goddamn peril-filled cultivation world! How was he supposed to play without any novice benefits?
But no matter how much he grumbled, the game guide gave no further response, as if it had completely vanished.
Left with no choice, he could only check his personal attribute panel.
【Player: Ye Lin
Dao Name: Tai Cang
Current Status: Ordinary Villager of Great Desolation Village
Luck: 1 point (Normal person is 10 points)
Talent: Low-Grade Five Elements Spiritual Root, Low-Grade Lightning Spiritual Root, Low-Grade Sword Spiritual Root (Collectively known as Low-Grade Seven-System Miscellaneous Spiritual Root)
Cultivation: None
Other: One Special Achievement Gift Pack...】
After looking at his Luck and talent, the usually optimistic Ye Lin's face contorted in frustration.
In this cultivation world, luck represented immortal destiny, and talent represented cultivation speed.
But as fate would have it, this was a real game, and all stats had to be based on his original body. His current body's luck had already been completely drained by Ye Tian, and his aptitude had been modified beyond recognition.
Thus, the scanned data was naturally terrible to the extreme.
Fortunately, heaven never seals off all paths; he still had a Special Achievement Gift Pack.
“Open the Achievement Gift Pack!” Taking a deep breath, Ye Lin immediately muttered in his heart.
【Ding! The Achievement Gift Pack has been opened. Congratulations on obtaining the trait ‘Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness’. After equipping this trait, all your efforts will yield a hundredfold return.】
Buzz!
Accompanied by a golden light sinking into his forehead, the ‘Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness’ trait was completely bound to Ye Lin's True Spirit.
“Thank the Great Dao for showing its presence. I finally have a cheat to become stronger.”
After seeing the effect of the 【Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness】 trait, Ye Lin instantly felt an urge to cry.
This transmigration into a book was simply too ridiculous. God only knew how many times he had experienced despair in such a short period.
Doomed as he had seemed, he finally had a sliver of a chance to contest with fate, even if this sliver of a chance was infinitely close to zero.
“Even though I have a cheat now, I only have one life. I should lay low and develop steadily first before looking for that so-called immortal destiny.”
Quickly making up his mind, Ye Lin began to exercise in the courtyard.
Running in place was his primary method of exercise. After all, because of excessive indulgence, his body was extremely weak at such a young age, making intense exercise virtually impossible.
【Ding! Detected that the player is diligently running and exercising in an environment rich in spiritual energy. The trait ‘Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness’ has automatically activated. Your exercise gains are being multiplied a hundredfold. Congratulations, your Constitution has increased by 1 point.】
【Ding! Congratulations, your Constitution has increased by 2 points.】
【Ding! Congratulations, your Constitution has increased by 3 points.】
Not long after Ye Lin started exercising, game prompts that only he could hear began ringing in his ears.
Accompanying these prompts, he could feel himself getting more and more energetic as he ran, and his breathing became smoother and smoother.
“As expected of a cultivation world rich in spiritual energy. The efficiency of this simple exercise could probably rival a special medicinal bath in a high-martial world.”
After whispering to himself in his heart, Ye Lin completely immersed himself in the joy of running and exercising.
Half a shichen passed in the blink of an eye. During this time, Ye Lin ran happier and happier, having absolutely no intention of stopping, until the game prompt rang in his ears once more.
【Ding! Congratulations to player ‘Tai Cang’ for exceeding 100 points in Constitution, becoming the first player in this game to break through to the First Layer of the Body Tempering Realm. You have triggered a special achievement reward. Please check it.】
Hearing this prompt, Ye Lin did not check the reward immediately. Instead, he kept running while contemplating in his heart.
Since entering the game, he had already received two achievement rewards: one for being the first to have a Dao Name, and the other for being the first to break through a cultivation realm.
“In other words, as long as I'm the first to accomplish something, I'm guaranteed to trigger the game's special achievement reward?” Ye Lin seemed to have discovered a pattern.
If it was truly as he thought, then for the next 3,650 years in the game, because he was the only player, he could monopolize all the awesome special achievement rewards.
A single special achievement reward had already granted him an awesome cheat that was not inferior to the protagonist Ye Tian's. If he were to obtain all the achievement rewards...
Then poor aptitude meant absolutely nothing, and low luck meant absolutely nothing. He, Ye Lin, would definitely possess the strength to set foot on the peak of the immortal path and completely take control of his own destiny.
At this thought, Ye Lin stopped running and exercising, walked into the wooden house, and poured himself a cup of water.
【Ding! Congratulations on becoming the first person in this game to drink plain water. You have triggered a common achievement reward and obtained a Water Spiritual Root Strengthening Pill.】
Just as Ye Lin drained the water in his cup, the game immediately granted him the achievement reward.
But unlike the first two times, this reward was clearly marked as a Common Grade, and the rewarded item was directly specified.
“It seems achievement rewards are also divided into grades. The harder the task is to accomplish, the richer the reward.” Ye Lin thought to himself.
This experiment also meant his idea of farming all kinds of heaven-defying rewards in a short period was simply unfeasible.
“But what does that matter? For the current me, even a Common Grade reward like a Spiritual Root Strengthening Pill is an incredibly rare, heaven-defying opportunity.”
“Aiming too high is undesirable; only what is held in one's hand truly belongs to oneself.”
Ye Lin was not disappointed by his inability to farm heaven-defying rewards. On the contrary, he was filled with boundless energy.
As long as he farmed all kinds of common rewards to stack up his various attributes, would the opportunity to achieve various heaven-defying achievements be far off?
“Open the second Special Achievement Gift Pack for me.”
Halting the various thoughts in his mind, Ye Lin immediately chose to use the gift pack obtained from his realm breakthrough before he started farming common rewards.
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