【I am the system designed to assist the host in escaping your established fate and guiding this world onto its proper path.】
“Established fate?”
【The host originally died in an accident in the real world. Due to your compatibility with this world, you were brought into this body. The original owner's lifeline was meant to end outside the mountain gates of the Xuanxiao Sect. Today, the host has successfully altered your first point of death.】
Yun Heng let out a sigh. So it was true—she really had died.
The final scene from the real world flashed through her mind. Cold coffee, an unfinished document, and a computer screen still glowing. All of that was reduced to a single phrase from the System: “accidental death.”
Yun Heng remained silent for a moment before asking, “Why did Yun Zhao call me Young Lord?”
【Relevant information is not yet unlocked. The host must explore and discover it on your own.】
“What is the origin of the broken jade?”
【Relevant information is not yet unlocked. The host must explore and discover it on your own.】
Yun Heng was speechlessly exasperated. Was this even a proper system? What kind of system told its host nothing at all, leaving everything for them to explore on their own?
She looked down at the jade in her palm and slowly exhaled a breath.
Forget it. Yun Heng knew she wouldn't get any more answers right now, so she might as well figure out what this System could actually do first.
“How exactly do I use it?”
A faint screen of light emerged within her sea of consciousness.
【This system uses Awe Points as its core resource.】
【Sources of Awe Points include emotional feedback such as shock, apprehension, fear, submission, and admiration.】
【Awe Points can be used to draw cards.】
【The current card pool is divided into six categories: Character Cards, Item Cards, Building Cards, Heritage Cards, Identity Cards, and Event Cards.】
【Card ranks are divided into: 1-Star, 2-Star, 3-Star, 4-Star, and 5-Star.】
So it was a gacha card system. She had played gacha games in her past life, so she generally understood the rules. The higher the rank of a card, the more valuable it definitely was, which represented a stronger trump card in this cultivation world.
After reading through the System's introduction, Yun Heng asked, “Which category does the Temporary Guard Summoning Order belong to?”
【The Temporary Guard Summoning Order is an incomplete 3-Star Character Card.】
A 3-Star? She recalled the scene when Yun Zhao appeared on the Heart-Interrogation Platform.
A mere projection had forced the array runes of the Heart-Interrogation Platform to retreat. He Lansong was a cultivator at the late stage of Soul Transformation who held an extraordinarily high position in the Xuanxiao Sect, yet even he had changed his attitude when facing Yun Zhao.
Such a powerful figure was merely an incomplete 3-Star card.
Yun Heng was deeply shocked. If a 3-Star was already like this, what level would 4-Star or 5-Star cards reach?
“What does 'incomplete' mean?”
【Cards in the Starter Pack are temporarily invoked. The Temporary Guard Summoning Order has been used once. Current status: Incomplete.】
【If the host needs to summon Yun Zhao again, you may expend Awe Points to complete the card.】
“How much does it cost to complete?”
A new prompt quickly floated onto the light screen.
【Current authority is insufficient. The full completion price cannot be viewed at this time.】
Yun Heng held back a curse. Fine, fine. Who made it so she had no other options right now?
【After the host completes your first official card draw, more functions will be unlocked on the System panel.】
“How many stars is the Broken Command?”
【The Broken Command is an item of heritage and falls outside the standard star rating system.】
【The host must explore and discover its specific effects on your own.】
Yun Heng completely lost her temper. From the moment she woke up until now, whenever it involved Yun Zhao, the broken jade, or the Broken Command, the System's answers always evaded the core truth.
Yun Heng set the broken jade on the low table, lightly tapping its surface with her finger.
There was definitely something else hidden behind the System. Yun Zhao called her Young Lord, and the Broken Command fell outside the standard star ratings—yet the very first thing she did after transmigrating was use these items to break the original owner's fatal dead end.
None of this felt like a coincidence.
However, she currently lacked the standing to press further.
Yun Heng reined in her thoughts and asked the most practical question: “How many Awe Points do I have right now?”
【Current Awe Points: 300.】
This number wasn't particularly high. During that scene on the Heart-Interrogation Platform, the elders of the Xuanxiao Sect, the disciples participating in the selection, and the people beside Su Mingyuan had all witnessed the Shadow-Tracing Talisman, the Broken Command, and Yun Zhao with their own eyes. Whether it was shock or apprehension, a fair amount of emotion was bound to fall on her.
She just didn't know yet what three hundred Awe Points could do.
“Open the System panel.”
In the next instant, the screen of light in her sea of consciousness shifted.
A massive wheel emerged before Yun Heng's eyes.
The wheel was divided into thirty slots. The six categories of cards were arranged in sequence, each further divided into 1-Star through 5-Star ranks. The words Character, Item, Building, Heritage, Identity, and Event were displayed across them, each in varying shades of color.
The upper right corner of the light screen displayed her current Awe Points.
【300】
At the very bottom of the wheel was a button.
【Draw Card】
Next to the button were two lines of small text.
【Single Draw: 100 Awe Points】
【10-Draw: 900 Awe Points】
A ten-draw saved one hundred Awe Points—the System was clearly well-versed in the tactics of enticing players to pull more.
However, she didn't have nine hundred right now, only three hundred. Even if she wanted to save up for a ten-draw, she had no idea how long that would take. The people of the Xuanxiao Sect had already seen her trump cards today; trying to earn Awe Points using the same method again anytime soon would not be easy.
More importantly, she was currently too weak.
Her survival on the Heart-Interrogation Platform was thanks to the Starter Pack. The Shadow-Tracing Talisman was already consumed, the Temporary Guard Summoning Order had been used once, and both the origin and function of the Broken Command remained unknown. If the Xuanxiao Sect probed her in secret or Su Mingyuan struck again, she couldn't gamble every time on the System leaving her a way out.
She needed something she could truly hold in her own hands—cultivation, identity, or heritage. At least one of them had to give her a solid footing.
Yun Heng placed her hand on the broken jade, a decision forming in her mind.
Tomorrow, she would test her spiritual roots.
In the original book, the original owner was driven out of the sect before she could even undergo the spirit test. Now that the jade theft accusation had been shattered, since the Xuanxiao Sect was temporarily keeping her, they could not bypass the selection process.
If her spiritual root turned out to be better than Su Mingyuan's, the three hundred Awe Points from the Heart-Interrogation Platform would likely be just the beginning.
Yun Heng looked at the System's prize wheel. Three hundred Awe Points meant she could draw three times, but she didn't intend to spend them all.
The safest approach right now was to draw once first and see what a proper card from this System actually looked like.
She raised her hand and let her fingertip fall on 【Draw Card】.
The System prompt quickly appeared.
【Expend 100 Awe Points to perform one card draw?】
Yun Heng gritted her teeth. “Draw.”
【Awe Points deducted by 100.】
【Current Awe Points: 200.】
The wheel began to spin.
The thirty slots blurred past her eyes one by one. Character Cards, Item Cards, Building Cards, Heritage Cards, Identity Cards, and Event Cards alternated continuously, the starlight dots flashing alongside them.
Sitting before the low table, Yun Heng kept her gaze fixed on the wheel. She clasped her hands together in non-stop prayer, hoping her very first card draw would grant her something good.
Outside, the night had grown deep, and a low bell resonated amidst the peaks of the Xuanxiao Sect.
The wheel gradually slowed down.
The pointer swept past a 1-Star Item Card, crossed a 2-Star Character Card, and finally came to a slow halt in front of a slot faint with glowing light.
The result of the draw appeared on the light screen.
【Draw Result: 3-Star Heritage Card.】
【Tianheng Guiyuan Art.】
Yun Heng stared at those words, unable to pull her gaze away for a long moment.
She had originally assumed that her first draw would most likely yield an item or a temporary character card. Receiving a Heritage Card was an outcome whose true weight she couldn't immediately gauge.
“What is a Heritage Card?”
The light screen in her sea of consciousness lit up slightly.
【Heritage Cards contain cultivation legacies such as cultivation methods, secret techniques, bloodline arts, arrays, alchemy, and artifact crafting.】
【Tianheng Guiyuan Art: 3-Star Heritage Card.】
【Category: Internal Cultivation Secret Method.】
【Effect: Draws Qi into the origin, stabilizes meridians, and increases the speed of spiritual energy refinement. Beginners can use this method to achieve drawing Qi into the body and rapidly accumulate spiritual power within the Qi Refinement Realm.】
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