About the System

"Low-grade Energy detected: 16 points. Absorb?"

"Yes/No."

"Yes!"

This yellowish-white small flower was a Spirit Herb called Yilan Fragrance. Although Spirit Herbs on the Dou Qi Continent did not have clearly defined grades like medicinal pills, Yilan Fragrance was still quite valuable in terms of rarity alone.

"Sixteen Energy Points... according to the system's settings, this Yilan Fragrance can actually be compared to an ordinary 2nd-grade Pill..."

That was truly astonishing!

One had to know that the market price of a Yilan Fragrance was no more than 600 Gold Coins, while a 2nd-grade Pill cost more than ten times that amount!

If he got his hands on pills or similar items in the future, letting the system absorb them would be far too wasteful!

"I wonder what criteria this system uses..." Mo Tang muttered inwardly.

There was also something else Mo Tang had noticed: the system had classified the energy as low-grade... which meant it could only be used to improve those at the Da Dou Shi level or below.

This was also related to the system's rules...

The system divided energy into Low-grade Energy, Mid-grade Energy, and High-grade Energy.

Energy levels one through three were Low-grade Energy and were ineffective on those at the Dou Ling level and above; levels four through six were Mid-grade Energy and were ineffective on those at the Dou Zong level and above; levels seven through nine were High-grade Energy and were ineffective on those above the Dou Saint level.

That was easy enough to understand. In Dou Qi cultivation, the gap between Da Dou Shi and Dou Ling was a watershed. Once one condensed a Dou Crystal, one's Dou Qi underwent a qualitative transformation.

As for Dou Emperor and Dou Zong, there was even less need to mention them. Those above the Dou Zong realm could control the Power of Space. They had entered an entirely different tier, and even their Life Level had been elevated.

Sixteen points of energy were just enough for Mo Tang to raise his cultivation from Dou Disciple 3rd stage to the fourth stage, or to raise the Yellow-tier High-grade Dou Technique, Triple Blade Light, from the beginner stage to Minor Accomplishment...

But neither option would do much to improve Mo Tang's current combat power, so he did not blindly start allocating points to himself.

After its energy was absorbed, the yellowish-white small flower, which had been giving off a faint medicinal fragrance, instantly withered and became nothing more than useless dry grass.

Then Mo Tang shifted his gaze to the green jade box beside him...

"Low-grade Energy detected: 4 points. Absorb?"

"Yes/No."

Mo Tang's lips twitched as he looked at the Irregular crystal shimmering with Silver light inside the jade box...

The Thunder Wolf Demonic Core of a 1st-tier Thunder Attribute Magical Beast was certainly worth far more than Yilan Fragrance outside, yet its energy was four times lower!

Anyone who absorbed that would be an idiot!

"No!"

Mo Tang made his choice with a dark expression, though his mood was anything but pleasant.

"It seems real-world value has nothing to do with the system's assessment. In that case, I can only sell it for money, then buy some Spirit Medicine with low real-world value but a higher value in the system's evaluation."

He was still too poor. Mo Tang had no choice but to calculate every expense carefully and make sure this first step was taken correctly!

There was no helping it. Although the Original Body's Father had possessed some strength and authority when he was alive, he had been dead for ten years already...

Even ants had been marching for ten years!

Whatever Connections and influence his Father had once possessed had long since vanished.

Had Mo Tang lacked the fortune of being reincarnated through transmigration, he would have spent his entire life as a lowest-class ordinary person, lonely and helpless.

But now, everything was different...

As a Transmigrator who had come from Earth—the center of the Myriad Worlds Universe—Mo Tang did not believe that this Dou Qi Continent, which now had its own world, still belonged to that brat Xiao Yan as the Protagonist...

Picking up the Magic Core, Mo Tang carefully placed the box and the Dou Qi cultivation method scroll inside it back into the Secret Compartment. Then, carrying his long saber, he left the courtyard.

Standing at the Street end, Mo Tang looked at the Mo Family Headquarters, tightly sealed up like a Small fortress, and could not help shaking his head. The Mo Clan truly deserved to be called the strongest family in the Eastern Province of the Jia Ma Empire. Just building this Heavily guarded fortress must have cost an untold fortune.

Along the towering walls, patrol defenses were stationed every few dozen meters. Through certain gaps, Mo Tang could faintly see sharp Arrow blades glinting with a cold sheen beneath the sunlight.

According to Mo Tang's understanding, at least a dozen lines of sight without blind spots were laid out above Mo Family Fortress. If anyone tried to enter from the sky, the countless hidden Arrows would probably turn the intruder into a hedgehog at once.

This was the Mo Clan's true stronghold—Mo Family Fortress!

Mo Family Fortress was located in Salt City Center and could be called a City within a city. All the Mo Clan's Direct Descendants and middle- to high-ranking members lived within the fortress, while Mo Tang, a Side Branch Nobody, could only live in the streets Outside the fortress as one of the Mo Clan's Outer guards.

The Mo Clan had established itself here for several hundred years and had long become a Great Clan with thousands of members. Aside from the Mo Clan's Direct Descendants and middle- to high-ranking personnel, the two streets surrounding Mo Family Fortress were inhabited entirely by people surnamed Mo.

This was one of the benefits the family gave ordinary people like them: they could live in such a Prime location in the City center area!

Fortunately, no one on the Dou Qi Continent dealt in Real Estate. Otherwise, given the location of Mo Tang's home, it would be prime Commercial Street property in the center of a Provincial capital city. Just collecting rent would have been enough for him to Squander for a lifetime!

What a pity, what a pity...

Mo Tang looked at the towering fortress, shook his head with a soft sigh, then tugged at the clothes that marked his identity before strolling toward the Commercial Street outside.

Due to the Mo Clan's Overbearing monopoly, nearly sixty percent of Salt City's businesses belonged to the Mo Clan. Even after deducting the necessary Taxes and the massive expenditures used to build Connections, the annual profits still made the Mo Clan fatter and fatter.

Although a tall tree caught the wind, with the colossal Misty Cloud Sect backing them, even the Jia Ma Empire's Imperial Family would not lightly provoke the Mo Clan.

Thus, under such unrestrained development, the Mo Clan's power had practically made it the Local Overlord of Salt City. If not for the other three families in the Eastern Province keeping it in check, the Mo Clan would likely have long expanded its Sphere of influence into other major cities.

Even so, in recent years, relying on its powerful backer, the Mo Clan had firmly suppressed the other Three great families, presenting the Hegemonic posture of a sole leader.

As the saying went: long-term high position breeds lifelong ambition.

After serving as Salt City's Local emperor for so long, many within the Mo Clan had begun to lose sight of themselves. They eyed the offerings sent to the Misty Cloud Sect every year with envy and had even started fantasizing about the day the Mo Clan could control the Misty Cloud Sect...

Driven by such unrealistic ambition, Mo Cheng began to Concentrate on researching the half-baked Transplant Technique created by the Mo Family Ancestor. He wanted to increase his strength through such an Unorthodox path, and in the end set his sights on Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils—only to have a whole group of powerful experts come knocking at his door...

He was the very definition of courting death!