When the system upgrade reached 100%, Fang Cheng's remaining lifespan froze at 104.
[System rebooting...]
When the upgrade ended, countless lines of code—the kind that could make a programmer's hair fall out—flashed down like a waterfall across his retina. Then the system began rebooting.
Fang Cheng waited with some trepidation. Honestly, he hadn't been this nervous even when fighting Oni Rakshasa and Shuten-doji.
The system had been with him for a long time, but its greatest presence had amounted to little more than displaying prompts in his field of vision.
He had no idea whether its true form was round or flat. It held the same mysterious allure as wondering whether the beauty you met online was really a dog—or a scruffy middle-aged man.
In less than a minute, the system rebooted successfully.
Fang Cheng felt as if something had appeared in his mind. When he closed his eyes and focused on it, an anatomical diagram of a human body, limbs spread wide, appeared in his mind.
"What the heck?"
Fang Cheng furrowed his brow slightly.
He'd thought the diagram depicted himself, but on closer inspection, he could see breaks in many of its joints and along its torso, as if it had been pieced together from numerous fragments.
And the fragments had no discernible pattern to their size or shape.
Aside from that baffling diagram, the system had finally become a brand-new version.
First, every ability now displayed its level and proficiency, along with a detailed description.
Take Steel Blood, the ability he used most often. It was now listed as [Steel Blood lv3 (145/300)].
As for Purifying Demon Fire, which he'd only just acquired, it was listed as [Purifying Demon Fire lv1 (1/100)].
The LV in front indicated the ability's level, while the number in parentheses