This Time I'm Not Cheating

"Heavenly Book Spirit, recall the Crested Fire Python."

Zhou Yi walked to the side of the fire python's corpse, gave a command to the Supreme Heavenly Book, and waved his hand. The massive corpse of the fire python immediately disappeared.

"Hoo..."

Letting out a long breath, Zhou Yi tore off his burnt and tattered clothes and threw them heavily onto the ground.

"Heavenly Book Spirit, shouldn't you explain yourself?"

The near-death experience just now had made Zhou Yi extremely angry. He had almost been tricked to death! What the hell kind of exchange was this!

"Your Majesty, please calm your anger!"

The Heavenly Book Spirit smiled wryly and quickly apologized to Zhou Yi. "Your Majesty, this matter... it's a long story!"

"Then make it a short story."

Zhou Yi didn't dare to use this "Supreme Heavenly Book" anymore until he figured out what went wrong.

"Your Majesty, the prototype of the Supreme Heavenly Book was obtained by the Dao Ancestor from an extraterrestrial world. This item originally belonged to a great demon. After the Dao Ancestor killed this demon, he brought the prototype of the Heavenly Book back to this world." The Heavenly Book Spirit bowed to Zhou Yi and began to explain, "The Dao Ancestor re-forged the prototype of the Heavenly Book and turned it into the Supreme Heavenly Book. However... because the host of the Heavenly Book prototype was a demon, even though you now control the Heavenly Book, the system has not deleted the racial data of the original host."

At this point, the Heavenly Book Spirit gave a wry smile. "This led to the system adding the experience and skills that should have belonged to the demon clan to you when you redeemed experience skills. So..."

"Is that so?"

Zhou Yi was dumbfounded.

This explanation made sense. Even though it had been re-forged by the Grandmaster, the system, no matter how profound the Grandmaster's cultivation, probably didn't understand much about it, let alone know about racial data or anything like that.

So... it was just my bad luck?

Zhou Yi was so depressed that he couldn't speak for a long time.

"So, is this problem solved now? This kind of mix-up won't happen again, right?"

"Your Majesty, please rest assured. The system had a major error just now and has made corrections, updating the host data. There will be no more problems."

The Heavenly Book Spirit assured Zhou Yi and then offered compensation.

"Your Majesty, due to a system error, we have caused you inconvenience. The system has corrected the data and will adjust all redeemed experience skills for you free of charge. Do you agree to the correction?"

"Alright!"

His mind full of demon beast experience, which had truly been a killer, Zhou Yi shook his head helplessly. "Correct it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a cool aura seeped into Zhou Yi's mind, re-correcting the two experience skills he had redeemed. All the experience skills were readjusted based entirely on Zhou Yi.

"Correction complete."

A moment later, Zhou Yi shook his head and opened his eyes.

Sniffing the fragrance of the earth, looking at the light filtering through the gaps in the leaves, and listening to the whistling wind, Zhou Yi felt he had a whole new understanding of the jungle.

All the information he perceived gave him an instinctive sense of familiarity, without any awkwardness, as if everything in the jungle were something he had personally experienced.

"Alright. This time, there are no more mishaps."

Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief, his unease finally dissipating.

"Of course, there won't be any more mishaps. Young Zhou Yi, I really didn't trick you this time."

Seeing that Zhou Yi had accepted the correction, Li Yu also breathed a sigh of relief. The problematic product had finally been fixed, and his integrity as a conscientious businessman was preserved.

Well, if Zhou Yi knew about this, he would definitely spit on him.

Selling such a scam, and calling himself a conscientious businessman? Integrity? His integrity was all over the ground!

Fortunately, none of this happened.

"Let's continue hunting and gathering spirit herbs!"

After sensing the re-adjusted experience skills and finding no issues, Zhou Yi's frustrated feelings faded considerably.

His proficient jungle experience and stealth skills made Zhou Yi feel like a fish in water in the jungle. Soon, Zhou Yi was fully engrossed in the great cause of hunting monsters and leveling up.

"Alright, I've finally managed to muddle through."

Li Yu's old face flushed, and he shook his head slightly. "System, from now on, all similar issues will be based on the human race. After all, the vast majority of future hosts will be human."

"Instruction accepted."

The system's rigid voice was as flat as ever, and Li Yu was used to it.

"Zhou Yi has already started hunting monsters and leveling up, and he'll grow up quickly. My mission will then... huh?"

Thinking of this, Li Yu suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "System, my mission is to create and sell a system. The system has already been given to Zhou Yi, and he paid for it with the Bodhi Tree as collateral. Logically speaking, this mission should be complete, right?"

"Initial mission complete, submit?"

"What the hell. The mission is complete, and there's not even a prompt? I have to submit it myself for it to be considered complete? Is this system trying to scam me!"

Li Yu's eyes widened, and he was utterly speechless.

This system's intelligence was too poor! The experience extraction was a mess, and it didn't even prompt him when the mission was completed. Such a rigid system, it had no intelligence at all!

However, if the system truly had high intelligence... possessing such immense power and high intelligence, it would be difficult to control.

What if, one day, the System's intelligence suddenly decided it wanted to take over and be its own master…

Thinking of this, Li Yu shivered all over. It was better for the intelligence to be lower. Yes, no intelligence at all would be even better.

"Submit mission!"

Since the mission was completed, it naturally had to be submitted.

"Initial mission complete. User permission upgraded."

"Permission?"

Hearing the word "permission," Li Yu remembered that on the System's user profile, his permission level was still only one.

"System, what does this permission mean?"

"Permission represents the user's degree of control over the System. The higher the permission, the more functions the System unlocks. When permission is sufficient, the user can set the System's rules themselves."

"Permission means this?"

Li Yu nodded. "Can set rules myself? Hmm, not bad, not bad."

Li Yu was very satisfied with the ability to set rules himself. Why follow others' rules when it felt so much better to make his own?

"I'm level two permission now, what functions can I access?"

"New System function: Unlock Mall Dimension. A Mall Dimension space can be opened at the user's designated location."

"Mall Dimension space? A space completely under my control? This…"

Li Yu was ecstatic. This was a huge win. The System was really great this time! It wasn't a rip-off at all!

"Right, about how big is this space?"

"User permission level two, a Mall space with a radius of twenty kilometers can be opened."

"A radius of twenty kilometers? Four hundred square kilometers? That's not small at all! Not bad, not bad!"

Li Yu couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Recommending a friend's book, "My Talent Can Be Upgraded." It's a good book, check it out if you're interested.