Detecting a Damaged Remnant Soul of an Innate Demon God? First Disciple Acceptance Critical Hit Reward!

The Kunlun Mountain Range stretched boundlessly.

Although the system could scan an immense area spanning hundreds of millions of li, Zhou Yi still felt uncertain.

[Ding! The system is scanning. Scan range: hundreds of millions of li in every direction...]

[Detected a Mountain Moving Ape with an upper-grade Postnatal Origin. Would you like to accept it as a disciple?]

[Detected a Cypress Tree with a mid-grade Postnatal Origin. Would you like to accept it as a disciple?]

[Detected...]

Soon after.

The Disciple-Acceptance System began sending out one notification after another.

Too many to count.

999+ would have been enough to describe them.

"System, can you filter out living beings below Innate Origin?"

Qingyuan was rather helpless.

After all, the Kunlun Mountains consisted of countless Great Thousand and Minor Worlds, and ordinary living beings could spend their entire lives without ever leaving the Kunlun Mountain Range.

There were endlessly countless living beings.

Yet this was no longer the era when Innate Divine Beings were born one after another.

Naturally, most of the beings detected by the system possessed Postnatal Origins.

[Living beings below Innate Origin have been filtered out. Scanning will continue...]

After more than half an hour of silence.

The system finally detected several beings with Innate Origins, appearing two or three at a time: the Innate Wutu White Tiger, Little Demon Dragon of the Waves, Netherlight Fierce Demon Leopard, and Spirit-Devouring Mountain Yao.

According to the personal profiles provided by the system,

his chances of subduing them were low. If his luck was poor, he might even be killed in a counterattack.

Qingyuan pondered.

Just as he was agonizing over which soft target to pick,

a sudden system notification made his expression freeze.

[Ding! A Remnant Soul of an Innate Demon God has been detected. Its degree of damage is 88%. Would the host like to replenish its origin and inject vital energy?]

[After restoration, disciple acceptance rate: 80%!!]

"A Remnant Soul of an Innate Demon God?"

Qingyuan could not help but stare blankly.

There were not many Innate Demon Gods in the Primordial Wilderness. Every one of them had been a renowned Overlord or great mighty expert. Just who was this Remnant Soul of an Innate Demon God that had drifted into the Kunlun Mountain Range?

But when he thought of how the higher a disciple's aptitude was, the greater the critical hit rewards from the Disciple-Acceptance System would be,

Qingyuan gritted his teeth and decided to take the gamble. He immediately ordered, "Replenish it!"

The next moment.

Qingyuan was stunned.

A sharp pain surged through his entire body.

He felt as though he had been hollowed out.

Only then did he come back to his senses and curse, "What the hell are you doing?!"

"You damned system, so replenishing its origin means draining my origin to restore it? Fuck your grandfather, I xxxxx..."

He cursed for a long time.

Eventually, Qingyuan no longer had the strength to curse. His face was pale, and his body weak.

The system then sent over the Innate Demon God's information.

[Ding! The damaged Remnant Soul of an Innate Demon God has been partially restored. Information is as follows.]

[Name: ??? (formerly Hong Yun, deceased)]

[Origin: Supreme-grade Innate Spirit (current origin)]

[Background: The first red cloud to attain the Dao after heaven and earth first opened. His physical body was destroyed after an attack by Ancestor Kunpeng, and he was subsequently prevented from entering Reincarnation by Ancestor Minghe. He drifted through the Primordial Wilderness. As clouds are formless, and formlessness is indestructible, his damaged divine soul wandered the Primordial Wilderness, devouring spirit clouds to replenish his origin. Later, the host sacrificed his own origin to replenish him, allowing him to be reborn within the clouds!]

[Talents: Heavenly Dao Fortune, Turn Misfortune into Fortune, Stand Upright Without Shadow]

[Divine Abilities: ?]

[Note: Favored by heaven and earth, a True Immortal of Fortune and Virtue!!]

[...]

The void rippled like water.

Then.

A blood-red, crystalline gourd appeared in the air. A faint figure could be seen gestating and hatching within it.

Boom!

In an instant.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth poured in like a reversing storm, flooding into the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul Scattering Gourd.

After a while.

A young man emerged from the gourd. He possessed the bearing of an immortal and a handsome face, tall and straight with an extraordinary presence. Divine light transformed into white robes around him, making him appear even more elegant.

The moment he was born.

He immediately knelt before Qingyuan without hesitation and said respectfully, "Thank you, Senior, for granting me a second life!"

At this moment.

Qingyuan was also secretly studying him.

He was shocked inside.

Handsome!

There was not a single flaw from head to toe. He was almost as handsome as Qingyuan himself!!

As expected of a Blessed Virtue Immortal.

There was absolutely nothing to criticize about his appearance or bearing!

"Do you... still remember the past?"

After pondering for a moment, Qingyuan still voiced the doubt in his heart.

Although the Disciple-Acceptance System provided rewards,

the host had to personally accept disciples. The system could not simply force a buff onto someone and make them a disciple. Otherwise, if he met Hongjun, he could just accept him as a disciple and swagger through the Primordial Wilderness, couldn't he?

If Hong Yun had forgotten the past, Qingyuan would still dare to mention accepting him as a disciple.

Otherwise, if he tried to make an Innate Demon God his disciple, would he not be furiously beaten to death by the other party?

One had to know that a great favor could become a great enmity. Why had the Two Sages of the West not helped when Hong Yun encountered disaster?

Was it not because they could not repay the Karma of giving up his seat, so they allowed Hong Yun to perish? Once he was dead, they no longer had to repay anything.

If Qingyuan so much as mentioned accepting him as a disciple,

and Hong Yun felt insulted and flew into a rage, would Qingyuan not be utterly finished?

Upon hearing this.

A dazed expression appeared on the young man's face.

He seemed deeply saddened.

Shaking his head, he said, "I have gained a new life. What do my past experiences have to do with me? Everything from the past has long since turned to ashes. Hong Yun is Hong Yun, and I am myself. If Senior had not risked your life to use your origin to save me, I do not know how many Yuan Hui I would have drifted for, devouring spirit clouds before I could finally be reborn!"

"If I do not repay this grace, I am unworthy of being human."

"Senior, there is no need to fear that I will repay kindness with enmity."

With 'Hong Yun's' intelligence, how could he fail to understand Qingyuan's thoughts?

But his nature was exceedingly kind, and he knew to repay gratitude.

Seeing Qingyuan hesitate, 'Hong Yun' bowed again and said, "I have wandered the Primordial Wilderness, regretting only that I never met my benefactor. If you do not disdain me, I am willing to acknowledge you as my father!"

This man had used his origin to help his remnant soul take form.

It was the grace of rebirth.

What was wrong with calling him father?

Little did he know that Qingyuan was so frightened by those words that his face changed drastically. He hurriedly said, "If you are willing, you may take me as your master. There is no need to call me father."

"Master above, receive three bows from your disciple!"

Although 'Hong Yun' was somewhat puzzled as to why Qingyuan looked so horrified,

his body moved quickly.

He knelt on the ground and respectfully bowed three times.

"You... do you have a name?"

"This disciple has only just been born and has no name. I beg Master to bestow one!"

"Good, good. Since you were born within the clouds, how about calling you Yun Zhongzi from now on?"

"Thank you, Master, for bestowing my name!!"

Yun Zhongzi bowed in thanks once more.

At the same time, the system's congratulatory notification arrived.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully accepting a disciple. As this is the host's first disciple acceptance, you are specially rewarded with Upper-grade Innate Demon God Origin*1, Million Years of Cultivation*1, "Nine Revolutions Primordial Art"*1, and one drop of Three Lights Divine Water!!]

[As the host has accepted the first disciple, the Disciple-Acceptance System has officially activated!]

[When the host accepts disciples in the future, the host will receive the full augmentation of all disciples' cultivation realms, talents, and Divine Abilities. 'First Disciple Yun Zhongzi' has currently been detected to possess the talents 'Heavenly Dao Fortune,' 'Turn Misfortune into Fortune,' and 'Stand Upright Without Shadow'; the cultivation realm 'Mid-stage Heavenly Immortal'; and the Divine Ability 'Ride Clouds and Drive Mist.' Would you like to synchronize cultivation realm, talents, and Divine Abilities?]

?!!

Qingyuan froze, his heart shaken.

Good heavens.

He had thought the critical hit rewards for accepting disciples were already absurd enough.

Yet he could also receive the full augmentation of every disciple's cultivation realm, talents, and Divine Abilities?

Did that not mean the more disciples he had in the future, the stronger he would become?

"Good heavens, if I accepted every living being in the entire Primordial Wilderness as a disciple, wouldn't I be able to crush Hongjun?"

Qingyuan muttered inwardly as he confirmed the synchronization.

In an instant.

He felt as though his entire being had been purified and sublimated.

All things between heaven and earth conveyed a sense of goodwill to him, while his mind became as calm as still water.

He could enter the state of Unity of Heaven and Man simply by sitting down to meditate.

With the augmentation of cultivation realm, Divine Abilities, and talents, he felt his strength rise by a tremendous amount.

"Good heavens, is this the power of a True Immortal of Fortune and Virtue? With this kind of buff, even if I charged into all sorts of deadly places—or even tried to throw my life away—I probably wouldn't be able to die?"

"This is truly too absurd!"