Obtaining the System

"Ding. Destined One detected. System activation conditions met."

"Ding. System successfully activated."

All of a sudden, after Su Yun and the two members of the Xiao Family came within one meter of each other, a mechanical, stiff notification rang out in his mind.

"System?" Su Yun froze, then was instantly overjoyed.

After six years on the Douqi Continent, the must-have Cheat/System for a transmigrator had finally arrived.

Then a profound sensation flowed into Su Yun's mind. Su Yun closed his eyes and carefully felt it. A flicker of understanding flashed through his mind.

The system was transmitting information to him.

A moment later, Su Yun opened his eyes again.

The information was not large in volume. It was only a simple introduction to the system's functions. Having lived two lives, his Soul Power was passable, so digesting it was not difficult.

"This function is a bit crude..."

However, if used well, it could also produce miraculous results.

Su Yun thought to himself.

In the brief time it took for the system to activate, Su Yun had already brushed past the two from the Xiao Family and was walking in the opposite direction.

"Wait, Destined One?" A sharp glint surged in Su Yun's eyes. "Xiao Yan?"

Su Yun looked back at the boy among the two children and silently said in his heart, "Scan!"

"Ding. Scanning."

"Scan successful."

Then an information panel only Su Yun could see hovered in the air.

Name: Xiao Yan

Gender: Male

Cultivation: Dou Qi Stage Three

Cultivation Method: None

Dou Techniques: None

Items: Mysterious Ring

"As expected, it's Xiao Yan."

A trace of understanding passed through Su Yun's eyes. On this Douqi Continent, only Xiao Yan was worthy of being called the Destined One.

If he had known earlier that he had to encounter the so-called Destined One to activate the system, he definitely would have found a way to make contact with Xiao Yan!

However, it was not too late now.

As for the little girl beside him, Su Yun knew who she was even without using the system to scan her.

"Still, it doesn't have much to do with me." Su Yun shook his head. He had no intention of clinging to a powerful backer.

He had not had that intention before he had the system, let alone now.

Although this system barely passed muster, combined with his foresight, he might not be able to become a Dou Zhe in one year, a Dou Emperor in three, a Dou Di in ten, and break through the firmament on horseback.

But on this Douqi Continent, he still had the confidence to make something of himself.

Su Yun seemed to be thinking a great deal, but in reality, only the blink of an eye had passed.

Su Yun turned his head back and continued forward, then suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"If I remember correctly, the Battle Through the Heavens Original Work said Xiao Yan's mother passed away when Xiao Yan was four."

"In other words, that ring is already in Xiao Yan's hands now."

After figuring this out, Su Yun's hands trembled slightly, and the burning heat in his eyes could not be concealed no matter what.

He immediately turned around, green light surging in his eyes as he stared straight at Xiao Yan's hands.

Sure enough, there was a ring on the ring finger of Xiao Yan's left hand.

"System, scan that ring!" Su Yun shouted in his heart.

"Ding. Scan failed."

"The scanned item exceeds the scanning range."

The system's notification rang in his mind, and Su Yun's excitement faded somewhat.

He took several deep breaths, trying his best to calm himself.

Su Yun walked toward Xiao Yan and the others. After estimating that the distance was about right, he continued saying to the system, "Scan that ring."

"Ding. Scan successful."

"A sleeping Soul Body has been detected."

"Continue. Scan that Soul Body," Su Yun continued.

"Ding. Scanning."

"Ding. Scan successful."

Name: Yao Chen

Gender: Male

Cultivation: Peak Dou Venerate

Identity: Peak Eighth-Grade Alchemist

Cultivation Method: "Blazing Sun Burning Heaven Art," High Earth Tier...

Dou Techniques: "Flame Splitting Wave Ruler," Low Earth Tier...

Items: Bone Chilling Flame, Heavy Xuan Ruler, Black Demon Cauldron, Bone Flame Ring...

"Scan Yao Chen's Memories."

As he issued the command to the system in his heart, the heat in Su Yun's eyes surged again.

"Ding. Yao Chen has been detected to be in a sleeping state. Beginning scan."

"Ding. Scan complete."

"Recycle!"

"Ding. Recycle successful. Yao Chen's Memories have been stored in the System Warehouse."

An irrepressible smile appeared at the corner of Su Yun's mouth.

Suppressing the urge to burst into wild laughter on the spot, he immediately turned around, ignored Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er's puzzled expressions, and quickly left.

"Brother Xiao Yan, do you know this person?" Xiao Xun'er asked Xiao Yan.

"I don't." Xiao Yan shook his head. Like Xiao Xun'er, his heart was filled with confusion.

Su Yun's gaze just now had made his scalp prickle a little.

He had never met this little boy, who was dressed simply but looked like a porcelain doll.

"Forget it. Let's hurry back. We've been out for a long time," Xiao Yan said to Xiao Xun'er.

Xiao Yan did not take Su Yun's strange behavior to heart.

A stranger he had never met, a trivial interlude, that was all.

"Mm."

After returning home, Su Yun bolted his door shut, threw the grain in his hands to the side, sat on the bed, and immersed his mind in the system.

Sure enough, in the empty System Warehouse, its first resident had arrived: a grayish-white mass of energy.

"So this is Medicine Elder's lifetime of Memories?"

"My first pot of gold!" Su Yun sighed.

He shifted his attention away from Medicine Elder's Memories and back to the system.

The system's functions were extremely simple. It could even be called crude.

There were only three.

Scan, recycle, fuse.

These functions were fewer than even those of the shoddy online games from his previous life. Su Yun could not help but complain.

The abilities of the three functions were also very simple, exactly as their names implied.

Scan: with Su Yun as the center, people and objects within a one-meter radius could have information displayed for Su Yun to see.

Recycle: this function was built on the foundation of scanning.

Things that were scanned, inanimate objects, living beings that had temporarily lost consciousness, and living beings that offered no resistance could all be recycled into the System Space that came with the system.

As for the function of fusion, Su Yun was now planning to test it.

After carefully sensing the usage method and conditions of the fusion function, Su Yun went out again, came to the marketplace, approached each stall, and used the scan function one by one, carefully selecting.

"Ding. Scanned..."

"Ding. Scanned..."

"Ding. Scanned..."

Su Yun waited patiently.

"Ding. Bone Cleansing Flower scanned."

When Su Yun heard this, his heart stirred, and he glanced without leaving a trace at the stall owner.

"How much is this Yellow Lotus Essence?"

"This thing costs one hundred Gold Coins."

It was feasible! Seeing that the stall owner was not paying attention here, Su Yun's heart stirred. Recycle!

Su Yun glanced inside the System Warehouse. The Bone Cleansing Flower was already lying there safe and sound. He immediately left the scene of the crime.

After succeeding once, Su Yun followed the same method and obtained the medicinal herbs and Magic Cores he needed from other stalls.

Su Yun had always been cautious. From each stall, he only took one of a single kind.

The marketplace was huge, and it was common for ordinary stalls to occasionally lose one or two things.

After returning home again, he shut the doors and windows tightly. After confirming that no one was around, Su Yun began counting the gains from this trip.

Three complete Purple Leaf Orchid Grasses, two Bone Cleansing Flowers, one wood-element First-Level Magic Core, and one Second-Level Magic Core.

A faint smile flashed across the corner of Su Yun's mouth. Only one step remained.