(A beautiful picture of Dong'er to anchor the book)
Lin Ye crossed over to the Douluo Continent.
The good news was that he was born into a fairly decent family.
The bad news was that on the day he awakened his martial soul at age six, he felt utterly dumbfounded.
Lotus root.
His martial soul was a section of lotus root.
The snow-white, crunchy kind that even stretched with strings when you took a bite.
Innate Soul Power was two and a half levels.
He could barely cultivate, which basically meant he had dreams but shouldn't expect too much.
Lin Ye thought right then, Lord Heaven, are you toying with me?
Other people got cheat codes when they crossed over, but as for him, he started off with a single root of lotus.
He cultivated hard for six years like this, finally reaching level fifteen with the help of various resources from home.
His family mulled it over—they couldn't just let the child stay home and sponge off his parents, could they?
So they sent him to the best soul master academy on the entire continent.
Shrek Academy.
Did Lin Ye want to go, you ask?
No.
To be honest, he didn't have a very favorable impression of that bunch at Shrek.
Tang San with his double standards, the lecherous Three Scoundrels, and that Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang; it just felt revolting to think about them.
But the question was, where else could he go right now?
No god-tier martial soul, no system cheat.
Just a completely ordinary food-system soul master.
Forget it, since he had arrived, he would make the best of it.
Besides, this was the era of the Peerless Tang Sect, and Tang San and the others had long since been gone.
In this era where Evil Soul Masters ran rampant, staying at Shrek Academy in the early stages was relatively safer.
Shrek City, Shrek Academy.
The Freshman Teaching Building was as bustling as a vegetable market today.
Freshmen carrying large and small bags, with excited or nervous expressions on their faces, were everywhere.
Lin Ye had just waved goodbye to his family and was preparing to go inside to register and report.
The line was quite long, and he looked around out of sheer boredom.
Then he noticed a youth up ahead.
Short black hair, gray cloth garments, carrying a small bundle, with a well-proportioned physique.
Utterly ordinary, the kind you definitely wouldn't be able to find once he was thrown into a crowd.
Yet the two people beside him were anything but ordinary.
A young girl of fifteen or sixteen, wearing a ponytail; a light-blue martial outfit outlined her budding, youthful body, making it brimming with youthful vitality.
An almost perfect melon seed face, large and expressive eyes, and her entire being exuded a youthful and lively vibe.
The other youth was of a similar age, with dark blue short hair and a refined demeanor, a lazy smile hanging at the corners of his lips, his hands resting behind his head, looking utterly punchable no matter how one looked at him.
Yet he had to admit, he really was quite handsome.
The crucial point was that the conversation between these two drifted into Lin Ye's ears.
"Xiao Ya, how do you think the quality of the freshmen is this year?"
"Who cares, anyway we can't waste that exemption quota for our Tang Sect."
Tang Sect, Xiao Ya, Tang Ya?
Beibei?
Lin Ye's brain went "buzz."
Then that gray-clothed youth in front—
Huo Yuhao?!
The future God of Emotions, the Son of Destiny of the Douluo Continent, the possessor of a million-year soul ring.
Was standing just three spots ahead of him.
Lin Ye's first reaction: should he go up and hug his thighs?
Thinking about it seriously, this seemed like a bright path.
Hanging out with the Son of Fortune meant good food and drink, not to mention that resources would at least never be a worry.
Yet the next second, he thought of Tang San.
He thought of Dai Yuhao.
His stomach churned.
Forget it.
Clinging to a powerful thigh?
In the end, that would just get him trained like a dog.
Dai Yuhao was not much better than God King Tang!
Even though he, Lin Ye, was a lotus root, he did not want to be a licking root!
Compared to being manipulated by God King Tang, he would rather roam freely and leisurely in this mortal world.
"My fate is up to me, not the heavens!"
Right at that moment, a voice exploded in his mind.
[Passcode correct! Congratulations, Host, activating the system!]
Lin Ye: "???"
He froze for a second.
Then his inner feelings surged wildly while his exterior remained steady as an old dog.
Brother System? You should have said there was a passcode! Why didn't you give a hint beforehand!
And here I thought I was going to have to rely on a single lotus root to stubbornly fight it out all my life...
A pale blue light screen appeared out of thin air in front of him.
Text materialized on it:
[Master of the System!]
Lin Ye glanced to the left and right.
People came and went all around, but not a single person reacted.
Fine, only he could see it.
Content continued to pop up on the screen:
[The Master of the System can distribute systems and tasks to others. Once others complete the tasks, the Host can obtain lucky draw opportunities!]
[The higher the talent of the distributed target, the better the rewards may be.]
[The higher the difficulty of the task completed by the target, the more likely critical hit rewards are to be obtained!]
[Novice reward initial system points: 500.]
[100 system points can be obtained every month.]
[Each time the distributed target completes a task, the Host can also obtain corresponding system points.]
[System points are consumed based on the difficulty of the task each time a task is distributed.]
[System distribution consumption: 100 points]
[Tasks for the target can be set arbitrarily, and their rewards and punishments are automatically generated by the system based on the tasks.]
Lin Ye stared at the screen, his eyes widening larger and larger.
Wait--
Meaning, I don't have to do tasks myself?
Letting others do tasks while he lay back and drew prizes?
He took a deep breath, the corners of his mouth curving upward slightly.
Brother System, you truly understand me.
Since it was like this, he might as well give it a try.
The higher the other party's talent, the better the rewards.
Then--
The decision is yours, Huo Yuhao!
Lin Ye silently chanted in his heart: Bind to Huo Yuhao.
[Ding! Consuming 100 system points, Huo Yuhao bound successfully! A system has been distributed to him!]
At the same time.
At the entrance of Shrek Academy.
Huo Yuhao was listening to Tang Ya and Beibei introduce the academy's situation when a voice suddenly exploded in his brain.
[Child of Destiny detected, Jiahao System already bound!]
Huo Yuhao kept his expression unchanged.
Was it the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm? Had it woken up?
He swept a glance out of the corner of his eye toward Tang Ya and Beibei beside him.
The two of them were chatting away happily with no reaction at all.
Did they not hear it?
The next second, a translucent panel materialized out of thin air before his eyes.
It seemed only he could see it.
A few lines of text were written upon it:
[Child of Destiny detected, Jiahao System already bound!]
[No matter how strong your spiritual power is, it's not as good as acting lavish.]
[From now on, walk the Douluo world; who doesn't know my Jiahao!]
[Remember: you must not let others know of this system's existence!]
Huo Yuhao: "..."
Jiahao? What on earth was that?
Yet he quickly caught the main point: "Child of Destiny."
The system said he was the Child of Destiny?
Huo Yuhao's heart stirred slightly.
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and now a system as well...
Could this also be an opportunity exclusive to him?
He lowered his eyelids, the corners of his mouth curving slightly into an extremely faint arc.
Interesting.
New messages popped up on the system panel before Lin Ye:
[System binding successful, current remaining system points: 400] [Obtained system binding reward!] [Dharma treasure: Fire-Tip Spear!]
Lin Ye moved his consciousness, as though seeing deep within his own empty sea of consciousness where a gold-and-red double-headed spear floated in suspension.
Flames circulated around the tip of the spear, as if waiting for him to reach out and grasp it.
Lin Ye's eyes lit up.
A reward just for binding? And a magic treasure of this caliber?
That was Nezha's weapon!
Brother System, you are far too generous!
He grinned, already beginning to calculate in his mind.
Alright, time to arrange a task for Huo Yuhao!
It was about to be Huo Yuhao's turn to handle his registration.
The system panel popped up before him once more.
[Ding—] [Obtained Grade C task: Shout "Ah! Ah! Ah!" three times, with each shout louder than the previous one] [Task time limit: 5 minutes!] [Task completion reward: Spirit Power increases by one rank!] [Task failure penalty: Spirit Power decreases by one rank!]
Huo Yuhao's pupils contracted slightly.
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