The Origin of the System? Surely Not Really a Heart's Desire Realization System?

Ye Chen was instantly fit to be tied with anger; he didn't even need to think to know it must have been Yan Feng who spread it again!

"Uncle Zhang, you don't know, Ye Chen is being kept by a rich sugar mummy outside of school!"

Li Xiaodie pointed at Ye Chen angrily and rebuked him.

"How can you be so good to a person like this? He even went so far as to brag that Imperial Capital University is a trash school!"

Zhang Daosheng looked at Ye Chen somewhat perplexedly. "Kid, when were you kept by someone?"

"I don't know either..." Ye Chen shrugged innocently, then looked at Li Xiaodie. "Words require responsibility, you know. When on earth was I ever kept by someone?"

Li Xiaodie quickly put some distance between herself and Ye Chen, saying with a guarded look on her face.

"The whole school knows by now! You're a poor student who suddenly became worry-free about food and clothing, and even started eating two-hundred-yuan meat buns—you must have been kept by someone!"

Ye Chen was completely dumbfounded. Just because of that?

Zhang Daosheng was speechless on the spot. "Xiaodie, you've got it all wrong..."

After hearing these words, a plan instantly hatched in Ye Chen's mind.

"That's right, I am being kept. So what? Never mind two-hundred-yuan meat buns, even if it were two hundred thousand spirit stones, I'd still toss away one for every one I used. What are you going to do about it?"

Ye Chen said proudly, and naturally, Li Xiaodie filled in the blanks herself regarding what he said...

Li Xiaodie pointed at Ye Chen and roared in exasperation, "You utter pervert!"

"Uncle Zhang, look at him!"

Seeing that she couldn't do anything to Ye Chen, she could only see if Zhang Daosheng would stand up for her.

Zhang Daosheng glared fiercely at Ye Chen, and upon seeing this, Li Xiaodie felt a surge of joy in her heart.

Yet the very next second, she was dumbfounded.

Zhang Daosheng merely coughed twice. "Ye boy's resources... were given by me..."

Li Xiaodie was completely baffled?!

"Uncle Zhang, you... with him... I..." Li Xiaodie couldn't believe it.

She swallowed hard, looked at Ye Chen, and then looked back at Zhang Daosheng.

Afterwards, she took a deep breath. "I understand. I won't tell Auntie."

Ye Chen was instantly stunned. Good grief, not only are you a sweet and innocent idiot, but you're also a fujoshi!

Zhang Daosheng raised his hand and gave Li Xiaodie a solid knock on the head.

"Can't you be a little more mature? You're about to turn twenty-two, and when your aunt was twenty-two, your Jiraiya Bro was already almost born!"

Zhang Daosheng felt exasperated that she failed to meet expectations; although Li Xiaodie wasn't his own daughter, the bond between Zhang Daosheng and Li Mo could be considered as close as brothers.

Naturally, he took very good care of Li Xiaodie.

Li Xiaodie felt extremely wronged, her face full of a pitiful expression.

Ye Chen shook his head helplessly. She looked like a flower raised in a greenhouse at a single glance.

Then, he stepped forward and said, "I, Ye Chen, possess an SSS-rank talent. Even if I'm of the support class, people will still be willing to cultivate me, and Old Zhang is precisely the one who chose to cultivate me. Understand?"

"Rumors stop at the wise. Imperial Capital University is a behemoth, and as a normal male human being, unless my brain was short-circuited, there is no way I would ever say anything like Imperial Capital University being trash."

"As for the resources you mentioned? Given by Old Zhang. So right now it can indeed be said that Old Zhang is supporting me, no problem there."

"Old Zhang is right, you... really do need to grow up. You're twenty-two years old, is all the nutrition in your brain stolen by those two mounds of flesh on your chest or what? If you weren't Old Li's daughter, I wouldn't even bother looking at you."

The more Ye Chen spoke, the more carried away he got, blurting out everything on his mind in one breath.

Ye Chen's words echoed in Li Xiaodie's mind. Her eye sockets turned red, and she turned and fled with a quick jog.

"Xiaodie!" Zhang Daosheng shouted anxiously as he watched her retreating back.

Meanwhile, Ye Chen glanced sideways at Zhang Daosheng. "Old Zhang, you guys always protect this young girl too well. You need to have some sense of reality—can't she even handle just a few words like these? If one day you and Old Li aren't around, how is she supposed to protect herself? By crying?"

Ye Chen turned and left, leaving Zhang Daosheng standing there in tangled contemplation.

Zhang Daosheng deeply agreed with Ye Chen's words, but after all, saying it was easy while doing it was hard.

"Only this way, then..." Zhang Daosheng sighed softly to himself.

However, the moment he returned home, Ye Chen instantly regretted it. "Time to start this dry and tasteless cultivation life again..."

"System, is there any method that lets me cultivate while eating and sleeping?"

The system:...

"Forget it, I was thinking too much..."

There were still two months until the gaokao trials...

And only five days had passed so far of this dull and tedious life.

On the other side, the City Defense Bureau was frantically searching for Ye Chen's tracks, but turned up empty-handed.

That was because Ye Chen was already staying in a school villa by this point; as long as Zhang Daosheng didn't speak up, there was no way they could find Ye Chen's location.

Yang Sanjin was very depressed. "What a pity. That big brother and I hit it off the moment we met..."

"Give it a rest, Captain. That's what you told me last time too." Chen Qing wore a look of utter speechlessness.

Recalling back then, Yang Sanjin had said the exact same thing to him, which had made him—then—too embarrassed to lift his head, thinking his captain was confessing his love to him...

"Hehe... Is that so? I forgot." Yang Sanjin rubbed the back of his head and laughed awkwardly.

Inside the Beast God Cult branch, Xu Shen used his status as a Blue-Robe Envoy to quickly secure an opportunity to report to his superiors.

Xu Shen reported everything he had witnessed in the Lianhai Mountains truthfully.

Upon hearing this news, the Beast God Cult immediately stirred into an uproar.

To capture a dragon to serve as the sect-protecting divine beast...

That definitely fit the style of the Beast God Cult!

"Today's lottery draw has arrived. No need to draw; what I'm giving you today is the Intermediate Sage Body."

Ye Chen had been waiting early on for today's lottery attempts.

The moment the countdown ended, the system's prompt echoed in his mind.

Ye Chen was speechless. "...At least let me experience the joy of drawing a prize yourself?"

"Hehe..."

"Tell me, just what kind of system are you anyway? Can't you be normal for once?"

"Confidential. Your strength is too weak."

Hearing this, Ye Chen rolled his eyes. Just one look told him this was no proper system.

"What a coincidence, you're no proper human either."

Ye Chen had already started thoroughly doubting the system's origins by now; this absolute, absolute piece of work was definitely not a proper system.

Would a proper system give you whatever you wanted?

The boost the Basic Sage Body gave Ye Chen had already allowed him to use the Wood Dragon!

With the Intermediate Sage Body, he should pretty much be able to employ the Wood Human Technique as well...

If an eighteen-year-old youth in the Awakening Realm were to employ the True Thousand Hands?

I'm afraid it would shock the entire world?!

Thinking of this, Ye Chen crushed the purple orb in his hand, and a stream of airflow surged into his body.

Only this time, unlike before, the pearl-like bead did not appear.

Even so, the bead inside Ye Chen's body expanded significantly, though Ye Chen felt no pain at all.

Sensing the changes within his body, Ye Chen felt immensely joyful.

Wood Release indeed matched the sage chakra of Shikkotsu Forest to a T.

The slug chakra of Shikkotsu Forest leaned heavily toward healing, and Wood Release also possessed signless healing. Under the enhancement of the Intermediate Sage Body, his physical recovery capabilities rose to yet another level.

Ye Chen couldn't wait to... test out the Wood Human Technique!

Yet he held himself back once more. Wouldn't giving people an unexpected surprise be even better?

Ye Chen could already envision the scene on the day of the gaokao trials when Old Zhang and Old Li saw his performance and their jaws dropped to the floor!

At this thought, the corners of Ye Chen's mouth involuntarily curled into a wretched smile.