You Put Me on Your Household Register?

In the canyon, fragrant aromas filled the air as Mo Shang fiddled with the delicious roast chicken in his hands, occasionally sprinkling on some spices.

"Clatter..."

Just then, a sound suddenly came from overhead, followed by a figure falling from above.

"Holy shit!"

Mo Shang jumped in alarm and hurried to his feet, but he had no intention of catching the person. Instead, he quickly snatched up the roast chicken and backed away.

"Boom!"

A king had fallen from the sky, landing with a mighty crash.

A figure landed precisely where Mo Shang had been standing moments before, smashing a person-shaped crater into the ground.

In the crater lay a young man, barely breathing, with wounds all over his body. Clearly, he had already been gravely injured before falling off the cliff...

"Are young people these days under that much pressure? They jump off cliffs over the slightest thing?"

Mo Shang glanced up at the towering cliff, then at the young man on the ground, and fell into thought.

"They say transmigrators all get cheat abilities, but I nearly got crushed to death..." Mo Shang muttered, a trace of helplessness in his expression.

It was the same old formula, the same familiar recipe. Like countless transmigrators before him, Mo Shang had been sent to this world by Dayun's elbow strike...

"System, check his traits." Looking at the young man before him, Mo Shang gave the system an order in his mind.

As everyone knew, transmigrators came with cheat abilities, and Mo Shang was no exception. He had a system, too.

His system didn't have any world-defying functions, though, and it couldn't grant him any incredible rewards. It had only one ability: to see the traits other people possessed.

"Understood, Master."

As a voice sounded, several traits appeared in Mo Shang's sight.

[Blue Trait: Loyal and Righteous]

[White Trait: Wealthy]

"Loyal and Righteous. I can save him, then..."

Looking at the traits the young man possessed, Mo Shang thought for a moment, then took out a jade-green pill and fed it to him.

Traits were divided into five grades, from highest to lowest: purple-gold, gold, purple, blue, and white.

Though the other man didn't have any world-defying traits, Mo Shang wasn't the kind of person who cared only about profit. He just hoped that after saving him, the guy wouldn't stab him in the back...

Under the pill's effects, the young man's life, which had been flickering like a candle in the wind, gradually stabilized. His ragged breathing also slowly returned to normal.

A moment later, the young man opened his eyes and gazed around in confusion. "Wasn't I dead? Where is this...?"

"Lucky you ran into me," Mo Shang said when he saw the other man wake up.

The young man followed the sound of his voice. When he saw Mo Shang's face, his eyes filled with shock and confusion, but it was quickly overtaken by delight.

"Mo Shang? Brother Mo! Is it really you?" the young man exclaimed happily.

Mo Shang: ???

"Wait, we just met and you've already put me on your household register?"

At the young man's words, a row of question marks appeared over Mo Shang's head. They had just met, so how did the other man know his name?

What kind of nonsense was this? They'd only just met, and the guy had already put him on his household register!

At Mo Shang's words, the young man seemed to realize something. He quickly climbed to his feet and looked around again. His delight gradually gave way to shock.

"Hahaha! This is great, just great!" The young man burst into laughter, his eyes shining with excitement.

"Um, since you're all right now, I'll be going..."

Seeing that the other man didn't seem quite right in the head, Mo Shang edged back a few steps, preparing to leave this troublesome place.

But just then, the young man suddenly turned and called out to him. "Wait, Brother Mo!"

Mo Shang had no intention of stopping. In a few quick leaps, he had already left, leaving the young man standing there, windblown and bewildered.

Skywatch City.

In front of a residence, Mo Shang looked left and right. After making sure the other man hadn't followed him, he quickly pushed open the courtyard gate and went inside.

There wasn't much in the courtyard: a well, a tree, and a few scattered odds and ends. Everything was neatly kept, though, giving the place a comfortable feel.

"What was with today? I saved someone out of kindness, and it turned out he was a lunatic..."

After entering the courtyard, Mo Shang quickly shut the gate again. Still feeling uneasy, he added another lock.

Once he'd finished, Mo Shang suddenly remembered something and said to the system, "System, today's the day I draw a trait, right?"

"Yes, Master. It's been a month since your last trait draw. Would you like to draw one now?" the system replied.

"Then let's do it." Without much hesitation, Mo Shang spoke again.

Besides letting him see traits, his system also allowed him to draw a trait once a month.

The traits he drew could be applied to himself, granting him special effects.

As Mo Shang spoke, the world before his eyes suddenly darkened. Countless purple, blue, and white specks, mixed with purple-gold and gold ones, appeared before him.

"Begin the draw!"

Mo Shang spoke again, and countless specks of light began spinning rapidly.

"Either blue or white. I wonder what grade I'll get this time..."

His system had awakened ten years ago. In all that time, every trait he'd drawn had been blue or white. Mo Shang had long since stopped hoping for a high-grade trait...

As the specks of light spun, a purple one slowly descended before Mo Shang.

"Hm? Am I really this lucky today? A purple trait!"

Looking at the purple trait before him, Mo Shang could hardly believe it. In eighteen years, this was his first time drawing a purple trait.

Without hesitation, Mo Shang immediately checked its properties.

[Wait at Ease for the Exhausted (Purple)]

[Effect: Resting is so you can cultivate better, and cultivating is so you can rest better. The equation holds: rest equals cultivation!]

"Now that's what I call waiting at ease for the exhausted! And the equation holds! Having a formula really makes solving problems faster!" Looking at the trait's effect, Mo Shang was dumbstruck.

This was absurd—so absurd that even absurdity's own mother had opened the door for it. Absurdity was right at home!

"System, equip the trait." Without hesitation, Mo Shang equipped it, impressed by the system's powerful effect.

As soon as the trait was equipped, Mo Shang immediately felt his body change. His cultivation technique, which had been idle, could now operate at full power even without his control.

"Isn't this basically AFK leveling? Cultivating is out of the question. Only slacking off can make me stronger..."

Feeling the change in his body, Mo Shang couldn't help getting excited. With this trait, he could say goodbye to hard cultivation!

"Open status panel."

With a thought, a status panel appeared before him.

[Name: Mo Shang]

[Cultivation: Body Tempering Realm, Ninth Level]

[Technique: Basic Body Tempering Technique]

[Martial Arts: None]

[Traits: Wait at Ease for the Exhausted (Purple), Be Kind to Others (White), Unremarkable (White)]

"If only I could change my Innate Traits..." Mo Shang murmured, looking at the two White Traits in the traits section.

Everyone had Innate Traits. Some had one, some had two, and others had seven or eight. Those two White Traits were his Innate Traits.

Though the system could add traits, it had its limits. Innate Traits a person was born with couldn't be changed.

There was also a limit to how many traits could be added. In the Body Tempering Realm, one could add only a single trait. After that, each breakthrough into a new realm increased the number of traits one could equip by one.