Three-Year Agreement

"Senior Dao Child, I know, I know."

At that moment, a Tianyuan Academy core disciple who looked rather fond of gossip hurriedly spoke up.

"The youth who came to our Tianyuan Academy is named Xiao Yan. He has some personal grievances with Ye Muqing, one of our academy's core disciples."

"Personal grievances?"

Gu Changge was somewhat puzzled, but why did this plot feel so familiar?

"That's right. Ye Muqing and Xiao Yan, the youth shouting challenges before our Tianyuan Academy's gates, were once betrothed from the womb."

"That Xiao Yan was the young master of the Xiao family in a small city within an ordinary county city of the Lingxu Divine Dynasty, while Ye Muqing was the daughter of the Ye Family in that county city. Back then, their grandfathers had been brothers who had faced life and death together, so they made an agreement: if their descendants were a boy and a girl, they would arrange a marriage between them."

"When it came to Xiao Yan's generation, they happened to be a boy and a girl. Furthermore, Xiao Yan's talent was fairly good, so their engagement was set when they were both twelve."

"Who would have thought that when Xiao Yan turned sixteen, his cultivation would suddenly stop advancing, and he would become the good-for-nothing everyone spoke of? The Ye Family then forcefully brought people to his door and pressured Xiao Yan to break off the engagement."

"But Xiao Yan was no easy target either. He directly made a three-year agreement with the Ye Family. Three years later, he would fight Ye Muqing. If he lost, she would break off the engagement with him; if he won, he would cast Ye Muqing aside."

The core disciple recounted the matter in detail.

"I didn't expect you to know so much."

Gu Changge said.

"Hehe, not at all, not at all. My family is in the same county city as Senior Sister Muqing's, so I know the details so well."

The core disciple chuckled and said.

At that moment, the system suddenly issued a notification.

"Ding! A Son of Heaven's Mandate has been discovered. System updating."

"Ding! Update complete."

Gu Changge opened his personal information and found that it had changed.

Host: Gu Changge

Realm: Ninth level Bone Forging Realm

Physique: Primordial Supreme Body

Heart Scriptures: Qianyuan Emperor Scripture, White Flame Emperor Scripture, Xuantian Emperor Scripture, Mysterious Ice Emperor Scripture, Blood Surge Emperor Scripture, Purple Firmament Emperor Scripture, Tianyuan Emperor Scripture

Combat Techniques: Qianyuan Seal, White Flame Saber Technique, Mysterious Ice Sword Technique, Blood Surge Fist, Xuantian Palm

Dao Arts: Purple Firmament Lightning Technique

Command Technique: Tianyuan Imperial Hand

Escape Arts: None

Healing Arts: None

Pills: Six Vajra Pills (Emperor Grade Low Rank)

Dao Artifacts: Azure Rainbow Sword (Emperor Grade Low Rank), Jadeite Bell (Emperor Grade Low Rank), Flowing Bright Saber (Emperor Grade Low Rank), Flying Feather Battle Robe (Emperor Grade Low Rank), Flying Feather Battle Boots (Emperor Grade Low Rank), Glazed Bottle (Emperor Grade Low Rank), Azure Nether Spear (Emperor Grade Low Rank), Snowy Wave Crossbow (Emperor Grade Low Rank), Tianyuan Ancient Zither (Emperor Grade Low Rank)

Puppets: Two Purple Gold Puppets (Emperor Grade Low Rank), one Mysterious Silver Puppet (Emperor Grade Low Rank), three Dragon Flame Puppets (Emperor Grade Low Rank)

Formations: Sky Locking Formation (Emperor Grade Low Rank), Nine Heavens Profound Spirit Array (Emperor Grade Top Rank), Tianyuan Bewildering Formation (Emperor Grade Low Rank)

Talismans: Two Earth Evasion Talismans (Emperor Grade Low Rank)

Gu Insects: Three Mother-and-Child Gu Insects (Emperor Grade Low Rank)

Spirit Beasts: Ink Profound Flood Dragon (Fifth level Marrow Cleansing Realm), Sky Winged Tiger (Fourth level Marrow Cleansing Realm), Frost Giant Wolf (Fourth level Marrow Cleansing Realm), Flame Giant Wolf (Fourth level Marrow Cleansing Realm)

Spirit Plants: Three Spirit Gathering Grass plants (Emperor Grade Low Rank), one Fire Sun Spirit Flower (Emperor Grade Low Rank), one Snow Jade Bone Ginseng (Emperor Grade Low Rank), one Nine-tailed Dragon Phoenix Vine (Middle Grade Emperor Tier)

Spirit Materials: Twelve Golden Horned Horse Horns (Profound Grade Middle Rank), twelve Golden Horned Horse Demonic Cores (Profound Grade Middle Rank), eleven Vajra Ape Hides (Profound Grade Top Rank), eleven Vajra Ape Demonic Cores (Profound Grade Top Rank)

Spirit Stones: 15,000

Servants: Yuechun (Ninth level Quasi-Emperor Realm), Murong Yuexia (Ninth level Quasi-Emperor Realm), Murong Yueqiu (Ninth level Quasi-Emperor Realm), Murong Yuedong (Ninth level Quasi-Emperor Realm), Ling Yanran (Fifth level Marrow Cleansing Realm), Jiang Yingluo (Fourth level Marrow Cleansing Realm), Su Luowei (Fifth level Marrow Cleansing Realm), Li Xianhan (Fourth level Marrow Cleansing Realm)

Heavenly Mandate Treasures: None

System Points: 5820

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for triggering a Heavenly Mandate mission: eliminate/subdue the Son of Heaven's Mandate, Xiao Yan (0/1)."

"System, what is a Heavenly Mandate Treasure? And what is a Son of Heaven's Mandate?"

Gu Changge silently asked the system in his heart.

"Ding! A Son of Heaven's Mandate is a person born in accordance with the Heavenly Dao, one capable of commanding an entire plane and contending for Heaven's Mandate. The Great Emperors of every generation were all Sons of Heaven's Mandate."

"A Heavenly Mandate Treasure is an item exclusive to a Son of Heaven's Mandate. It is even more valuable than an Emperor Grade Top Rank item."

The system answered.

"How many Sons of Heaven's Mandate can one plane have?"

Gu Changge asked again.

"A plane generally has two to three Sons of Heaven's Mandate. Before the Emperor's Road opens, the Sons of Heaven's Mandate of each plane will first seize first place within their own plane and command the entire plane. Then they will duel the other Sons of Heaven's Mandate from the Myriad Worlds, deciding the final victor, obtaining Heaven's Mandate, and becoming a Great Emperor."

"Doesn't that mean the candidate for Great Emperor is ordained by Heaven?"

Gu Changge said.

"Ding! Basically, yes. However, if another person kills a Son of Heaven's Mandate, they can inherit their status, obtain their Heavenly Mandate Treasure, and become a Son of Heaven's Mandate."

After questioning the system, Gu Changge turned his attention back to Xiao Yan, the Son of Heaven's Mandate, and Ye Muqing, Tianyuan Academy's core disciple.

At that moment, Gu Changge noticed that there was an option marked "Viewable" on Xiao Yan.

Gu Changge tapped it.

Son of Heaven's Mandate: Xiao Yan

Realm: Fourth level Marrow Cleansing Realm

Physique: Swallowing Flame Body

Destiny Value: 500

Heavenly Mandate Treasure: Flame Swallowing Pot

"System, what is this Destiny Value?"

Gu Changge asked.

"Ding! Destiny Value is something possessed only by Sons of Heaven's Mandate. The lower their Destiny Value, the lower the Son of Heaven's Mandate's luck. Only when their Destiny Value falls to zero can a Son of Heaven's Mandate be killed and their Heavenly Mandate Treasure dropped."

The system said.

"Then how can the Destiny Value of a Son of Heaven's Mandate be reduced?"

Gu Changge asked again.

"You only need to keep suppressing the Son of Heaven's Mandate."

"What kind of suppression?"

"Steal the Son of Heaven's Mandate's woman, seize the Son of Heaven's Mandate's opportunities, and destroy the Son of Heaven's Mandate's relatives and friends."

The system said.

"System, killing a Son of Heaven's Mandate is so troublesome. Did the Great Emperors of the past also need to do this to become Sons of Heaven's Mandate?"

Gu Changge could not help asking inwardly.

"No. They only needed to kill a Son of Heaven's Mandate. However, if the host directly kills a Son of Heaven's Mandate, the host cannot become one, because the host is the sole variable throughout all ages in the Myriad Worlds, and also the Myriad Worlds' only hope."

The system said.

"Well then, Ye Muqing, do you dare come out and fight me?"

At that moment, Xiao Yan spoke with a solemn expression.

"Why wouldn't I dare?"

Ye Muqing came from the mountain peak where the inner disciples were gathered to the outermost gates of Tianyuan Academy and spoke.