"Blegh!"
"Blegh, blegh!"
After his consciousness detached from the Book of a Hundred Lives, Xiao Mo felt nauseated and retched. His head spun.
He wanted to throw up, but nothing would come out.
To keep Wei Xun, who was standing guard outside, from noticing anything was wrong, Xiao Mo covered his mouth and tried his best not to make a sound.
He knew this was the side effect the Book of a Hundred Lives had mentioned.
It took a full stick of incense before Xiao Mo finally began to feel better.
[The first life experience has been settled.] The Book of a Hundred Lives spoke in Xiao Mo's mind. [During this life experience, the host lived for a total of fifteen years and one month.] [The host brought Jiang Qingyi to Linggan Peak and taught her to cultivate. At the cost of his Root Bone and lifespan, he opened up Jiang Qingyi's Spiritual Meridians. At the final moment, the host removed the Innate Sword Bone and returned it to Jiang Qingyi.] [At the time of the host's death, Jiang Qingyi had reached the Nascent Soul Realm.] [System reward settlement: One. Chaos Human Emperor Bone: This bone came into being in the ancient era of chaos. In ancient times, even Emperors could cultivate. Later, the laws of heaven and earth changed, and Emperors could no longer cultivate; otherwise, they would be deeply entangled in karmic consequences. With this bone, the host can still cultivate even as an Emperor and will not be affected by the karma of being an Emperor. Two. Grass Character Sword Intent: The Grass Character Sword Art was a sword technique that 'Xiao Mo' found in a ruin. It was focused on slaughter and could lead to the Great Dao. The Grass Character Sword Intent contains the entire Grass Character Sword Art as well as Xiao Mo's understanding of it. Three. Breath Concealing Art: By cultivating this art, no one below the Upper Three Realms can discern the host's cultivation level.] [Reward settlement complete. The Book of a Hundred Lives will spend one stick of incense preparing. After that, the host may experience another life.]
As the Book of a Hundred Lives fell silent, Xiao Mo felt one of his vertebrae grow scorching hot, as if it were being burned.
"Gah!"
Xiao Mo sucked in a sharp breath from the pain, grabbed his pillow, hugged it tightly, and bit down hard.
Cold sweat poured down his forehead.
Ten minutes later, the burning pain gradually faded.
Lying on the bed, Xiao Mo panted heavily. Sweat had soaked the quilt and pillow.
But Xiao Mo felt as if he had become much lighter.
It was an inexplicable sensation.
Before, he had felt as though his body were bound by all kinds of invisible shackles.
But now, every one of those shackles had fallen away.
Xiao Mo guessed those shackles had been karma.
Now that he had obtained the Human Emperor Bone, that karma no longer had any hold over him.
Then, the contents of the Grass Character Sword Art and the Breath Concealing Art suddenly appeared in Xiao Mo's mind.
While experiencing that life, Xiao Mo had already felt that the Grass Character Sword Art was extraordinary.
Unfortunately, the moment he left the Book of a Hundred Lives, he forgot everything about the techniques and cultivation insights he had learned inside it.
There was no way Xiao Mo could recreate in real life anything he had learned in the Book of a Hundred Lives.
But now, he had the Grass Character Sword Intent.
It contained the Grass Character Sword Art and Xiao Mo's understanding of it.
It was like having a master guide him in cultivation, helping him avoid many wrong turns.
The only difference was that this "master" was actually me.
All in all, Xiao Mo was very satisfied with the rewards this time.
He even wondered how bountiful his rewards would be if Qingyi reached the Jade Uncarved Realm.
But Xiao Mo only let himself imagine it.
In his first life, he really felt he had done everything he could.
[Preparation for the host's second life in the Book of a Hundred Lives is complete. Would the host like to enter the Book of a Hundred Lives and experience it?]
"Yes!"
Xiao Mo didn't hesitate.
He was curious to see what the next "life experience" would be like.
[Please create a name for the host.]
"Xiao Mo."
Xiao Mo decisively used his real name.
I just like using my real name online.
[The host is about to enter the Book of a Hundred Lives and experience a different life. Please be prepared.]
A familiar wave of dizziness swept over him.
By the time Xiao Mo came to his senses, he was standing inside a dilapidated wooden hut.
He looked at his hands.
"Hm? I've become a child?"
[Task background: Your name is Xiao Mo. You are an ordinary villager from Honghua Village, and you are eleven years old. When you were seven, your parents passed away, leaving you an orphan. But the people of Honghua Village are kind and honest. Your parents had also been helpful and popular with the villagers while they were alive. So the villagers take turns bringing you food. You grew up eating meals provided by the whole village. After you turned ten, you started going up the mountain to gather herbs and sell them for money, or herding the villagers' cattle to repay them for feeding you. Although you live in poverty, you won't starve to death.] [Tasks: Task One: You are an ordinary person with no Spiritual Root, and you cannot cultivate in this life. But you have a talent for reading. Please pass the imperial examinations, enter the imperial court, and become an official. The higher your rank and the greater your reputation, the richer your reward will be. Task Two: Today, you are going up the mountain to gather herbs. Head north. By the pond where you often herd cattle, you will find an injured White Snake. She is sentient, and once encountered a great opportunity—she obtained a drop of True Dragon Essence Blood. She has the potential to become a dragon. The transformation into a dragon has five stages: "snake, python, boa, flood dragon, dragon." Please help her become a dragon. For every stage she evolves through, the host's reward will grow richer.] [Task duration: Two lifetimes. A thousand years to become a flood dragon, ten thousand years to become a dragon. Under normal circumstances, transforming from a snake into a dragon takes ten thousand years. Though this snake is exceptionally gifted and has obtained True Dragon Essence Blood, she will still need at least several thousand years. So this life experience will be divided into two lifetimes, and the host will be an ordinary person, unable to cultivate, in both. The host is now in the first lifetime. Three thousand years after his death, the host will live a second lifetime and continue helping her become a dragon. Once both lifetimes are over, this life experience will end and the rewards will be settled.]
After the Book of a Hundred Lives fell silent, Xiao Mo carefully thought over what it had told him.
It wasn't hard to understand.
It would take too long for the snake to become a dragon, while both of his lifetimes would be too short because he was an ordinary person who couldn't cultivate.
So this life experience in the Book of a Hundred Lives was divided into two lifetimes.
After the first lifetime ended, the White Snake would spend three thousand years accumulating strength on her own.
Three thousand years later, I'd live another lifetime and continue helping her become a dragon.
"But here's the problem. Even across two lifetimes, I'll still be an ordinary person. What can I do to help this White Snake?"
Xiao Mo sighed.
"Never mind. I'll save the White Snake first."
Xiao Mo slung a bamboo basket over his back, took a hoe and a sickle, and walked out of the yard, heading up the mountain.
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