A System Appeared as Soon as He Returned—It Really Couldn't Wait

After checking the time, Liu Bing instinctively thought that it was almost time for work. He had no intention of quitting his job right away. After all, for one pursuing the immortal path, cultivation was not merely about tempering the body; what mattered even more was honing the mind.

And amid the mortal world was precisely the best place to temper one's heart.

As for quitting, he would just let nature take its course. If he did not feel like going to work in the future, he could simply resign. To Liu Bing, the time he had spent in the Primordial World was equivalent to taking ten thousand years of vacation. Coming back to experience the stench of work was a kind of amusement too.

However, when he turned his attention to his surroundings, he chuckled. This world truly was a Spiritually Barren Land, just as Empress Nuwa had said. Liu Bing could now casually perceive every corner of the entire world, yet he could barely detect even a trace of spiritual energy.

The only place where spiritual energy fluctuated was a tiny opening in the world's barrier, where wisps of spiritual energy were quietly seeping into this world.

Liu Bing instantly understood that it was the small opening left behind when the system had forcibly torn through the world's barrier. With a single shift, he arrived at the location of the crack.

Looking at the opening, no wider than a strand of hair, Liu Bing had no intention of repairing it. He primarily cultivated the Way of Destruction and was not skilled at restoration.

If he tried to fix it himself, he would probably turn the tiny opening into a huge gash. That would be rather tragic. Besides, judging from the current situation, the continuously seeping spiritual energy seemed beneficial to the entire world. Since that was the case, he might as well let nature take its course and allow this spiritual energy to slowly transform the world.

With him here, he should be able to protect this world from being wrecked by the system, allowing it to gradually merge into the Sea of Realms and become a normal world.

Having made up his mind, Liu Bing prepared to return to work.

However, just as he was about to leave, he sensed another small opening appearing on the other side of the world. His divine sense immediately spread in that direction, and he saw something like a tiny speck of light preparing to break through the world barrier with a person in tow.

Liu Bing's mouth twitched. With a casual grab, he scooped that tiny speck of light into his hand, then threw the person it had wrapped up back where he belonged.

Liu Bing then held the faintly glowing speck of light and examined it closely. "So this is a system? It really does look like an interesting little thing!"

His divine sense forcibly breached the system's protective barrier, then directly erased its consciousness. Only then did he have the time to inspect what was inside.

The first thing that caught his eye was a neatly arranged exchange list, filled with all manner of dazzling rare treasures and peerless cultivation arts. Overall, though, there was nothing particularly special. These things held little appeal for Liu Bing.

Liu Bing's attention was mainly drawn to the most eye-catching first entry on the exchange list. There was a familiar name there: Pangu's Essence Blood!

Upon seeing Pangu's Essence Blood, the corner of his mouth could not help twitching. Did these systems all like using Pangu Components as bait? Were they not afraid that Great God Pangu would catch them and chop them to death?

Liu Bing suddenly thought of the Great God Pangu in the Primordial World. He probably would not care about such things. That Great God Pangu seemed to prefer being an old farmer, facing the sea as spring flowers bloomed. So long as no one harmed the flowers and plants he had grown, he did not care much about anything else.

Liu Bing continued looking at the exchange points required for Pangu's Essence Blood, listed below it. It was a full one trillion points! Liu Bing only needed a glance to understand that this Pangu's Essence Blood was clearly nothing more than an empty promise, a gimmick meant to fool people. That was precisely why it had been set behind such an absurdly high point threshold.

Moreover, Liu Bing could see from the system backend that the Pangu's Essence Blood exchange option was marked as unavailable. So it was merely there for show.

Liu Bing shifted his attention to the other exchangeable items and discovered that the system possessed pitifully few items. It could even be called completely empty. Most exchange items had to be ordered through the system and then delivered through other platforms.

Was this not basically an online shopping platform for the myriad worlds? As long as someone paid, it would ship the goods through the corresponding system. Aside from certain high-end goods that could not be exchanged due to a lack of supply, everything else could be delivered.

Empress Nuwa's words had not been entirely accurate either. Why did this system seem incapable of exchanging Pangu Components?

Liu Bing took out his phone and sent Empress Nuwa a message. After all, it was a phone from the Primordial World, and he had a whole host of contacts.

[​Liu Bing​]: Empress Nuwa, didn't you say systems would have Pangu Components? Why does it say they can't be exchanged?

[​Nuwa​]: Oh? You got another system so quickly?

[​Nuwa​]: Not every system has Pangu Components. Those things are precious even to them and require an enormous amount of materials to synthesize. How could they be so easily exchanged? You think you can exchange one from any random system? What the hell are you thinking?

[​Nuwa​]: At the very least, you need to upgrade the system you have to a certain level before you can exchange for one. So work hard, youngster.

[​Liu Bing​]: All right. Thank you, Empress Nuwa, for clearing that up.

Having learned how Pangu Components could be obtained, Liu Bing prepared to examine the system's other functions.

He looked at the points column, which displayed 0 points.

So had he dismantled it, causing the whole system to be wiped clean? Of course, the more likely possibility was that this system had only just bound to its host, and its previous host had not earned any points at all.

But Liu Bing did not care about points. He soon spotted a familiar interface. It looked somewhat like a Penguin chat window. Could it be a Chat Group?

Liu Bing looked at the chat interface and saw the pitiful number of group members, along with a conspicuous announcement.

[The Chat Group has suffered an unknown attack. The group owner has been stripped away.]

[The Chat Group is being dissolved...]

[The Chat Group has been destroyed. Dissolution failed.]

[Group members, fend for yourselves.]

Seeing these system announcements, Liu Bing did not know whether to laugh or cry. This system was quite principled. Even at the very end, it still gave the group members a warning. He looked at the members in the group. Sure enough, it was a novice Chat Group that had only just set sail. There was only one group owner and one group member in the entire group.

The group owner had just been thrown back to where he belonged by Liu Bing, leaving only one group member. That member's group name was [Old Zhu of Great Ming], which made Liu Bing think of someone. Great Ming, Zhu Chongba.

With a mischievous grin, Liu Bing used the Chat Group to play a Ming Marvelous Tune by Zhu Yuanzhang's ear. Then, following the Chat Group's karmic thread, he looked into Zhu Yuanzhang's world to see how he would react.

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