"Bind the system?"
Since it had appeared within the Reincarnation passage, Xuan Wu had no reason to worry. Curious though he was, he answered silently:
"Bind!"
The dusky purple lotus mark flashed. A wisp of his aura was drawn into it, and a phantom appeared before him.
Words were written across the phantom.
Xuan Wu was startled. It listed his true name, cultivation realm, and divine abilities. But since Empress Pingxin had made it, there was nothing strange about her knowing all that...
He soon understood that this treasure called a "system" could record battle merits beyond the realm and promptly grant rewards of merit and fortune. If the worst came to pass... it could even protect his true spirit and guide it into Reincarnation!
Xuan Wu was overjoyed.
He turned to the others and saw lotus marks on the backs of their hands. He called out:
"All soldiers, heed my command!"
"Bind your systems at once..."
"This is Empress Pingxin's protection!"
Auras surged, and cries of astonishment overlapped. Once everyone had bound their systems, they followed Xuan Wu in bowing several times toward the Primordial World, silently reciting Empress Pingxin's honored name.
Only then did they proceed down the Reincarnation passage...
A moment later.
They appeared in the Faith True Realm.
Before they had fully emerged, the power of heaven and earth sensed them and drew the realm's cultivators over to attack. Xuan Wu immediately led his people into the fray, and the two sides clashed...
Meanwhile, in Six Paths Samsara Palace.
Wu Tian gazed far into the Void, silently watching everything that happened to Xuan Wu and the others. He could not help feeling wistful.
When he had first been born in Pangu Hall, he had eagerly awaited the arrival of a system, but nothing had ever come