Thirty Years East of the River, Thirty Years West

According to the timeline, there were still about three days until the official start of Chapter One.

Tang Yu's destination was Black Cloud City, home to the family of this novel's protagonist, Lin Xuan.

The four great families of the webnovel world were Ye, Lin, Xiao, and Chu. With the surname Lin alone, this family was destined to have a greater chance of producing a Son of Luck.

Black Cloud City, where they were located, lay in a relatively remote part of the southern Nine Heavens Continent.

That was also the standard setting for fantasy cultivation novels.

The protagonist could not be invincible from the start. Either he was reborn, or a genius became trash and had his engagement broken off. Then he climbed up from rock bottom, what was commonly known as fighting monsters and leveling up.

By the time he fought his way up to the Ninth Heaven—

Three thousand chapters had basically passed.

Then it was time to switch to a new map and keep leveling up.

"People these days are all about slacking off and lying flat. Relying on hardship to level up really doesn't fit the trends of the times. It'd be nice if I at least had a system."

On the way to Black Cloud City, Tang Yu could not help muttering to himself.

The Divine Tree's little girl immediately laughed in his ear. She giggled and said, "Systems are scams too."

Thinking of his previous Dog System, Tang Yu found himself unable to laugh for a moment.

After flying outside Black Cloud City, Tang Yu disguised his Nascent Soul cultivation as that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, lest he be too high-profile and scare people.

It was only among the seven great sects that Nascent Soul cultivators seemed somewhat unimpressive.

Elsewhere, it would