Elsewhere, Li Yu looked at the faint red marks appearing on his body and sucked in a sharp breath.
It truly hurt, but after several days, he had gradually grown used to it.
As a fake protagonist, he was determined to live in the moment. There was no way he would solo Zhao Cheng, that blatant cheater, in a one-on-one fight. He had merely turned on a tiny cheat himself; he was no match for someone who had left his cheat permanently switched on. Normally, he could only scrape by by running dungeons.
As a reserve candidate for Lord of Civilization, Zhao Cheng had carried him all the way, unlocking one hundred Holy Cities for him and allowing him to initially condense the embryonic form of a civilization matrix. But because he himself was too weak, for now, both the system and the Holy Cities could offer him only limited help.
Many functions—such as analyzing, deriving, and allocating points to cultivation techniques, or unlocking various technologies and modifying himself—could only be unlocked once his mind was strong enough.
On the path of Firmament Civilization, the route approaching zero dimension naturally placed everything around the mind. If the mind was not strong enough, it simply could not bear too much.
In short, his cheat was the type that only came into its own in the late game. The stronger he became, the more powerful his cheat would be. As a weakling, the greatest help it gave him right now was one hundred safe zones in the dungeons, which he could teleport back to at any time.
At the same time, he recovered very quickly within the safe zones.
Beyond that, he could use the civilization points earned from himself and civilization warriors killing monsters to exchange for certain things, such as