The game opened up (1 / 2)

The instant Chen Yang forced open a spatial passage and used it to leave the Misty Cloud Sect, Soul One, Soul Two, and Soul Three, who lay hidden within the sect, all sensed it.

They keenly detected that a powerful presence had vanished from the Misty Cloud Sect just a moment ago.

This was an opportunity that came once in a thousand years.

The three exchanged glances, each seeing in the others' eyes that their chance had arrived.

After spending a week hiding there with their hearts in their throats, they had found ways to learn from the Misty Cloud Sect disciples that the mysterious powerhouse was called Chen Yang, and that he doted on the former sect master, Yun Yun, sharing her bed every night.

In an instant, a plan to earn credit took shape.

The three concealed themselves and split up, taking separate routes to fly up Sect Master Peak while avoiding the Misty Cloud Sect disciples.

As they set their three-pronged operation in motion, a catastrophe capable of destroying the Misty Cloud Sect descended!

An incense stick's time later, Chen Yang appeared outside Qingshan Town.

Using the location shared by the system, he found Xiao Yi Xian.

Standing in the air, Chen Yang scrutinized Xiao Yi Xian below as she raced along, occasionally stuffing poison into her mouth. His brows rose slightly.

At that moment, Xiao Yi Xian radiated a cold, venomous aura, like a malevolent ghost that had just crawled out of hell.

That cold ruthlessness was nothing like a teenage girl's. She had none of an ordinary young girl's kindness or innocence.

As she passed the edge of the Magical Beast Mountain Range and encountered magical beasts blocking her way, she struck decisively, regardless of whether they meant her any harm, cruelly corroding them into puddles of pus and blood with her Poison Dou Qi.

Chen Yang watched in horror.

He rubbed his throbbing brow. Was this still the innocent, kindhearted Xiao Yi Xian he remembered, the healer who had devoted herself to saving lives?

Her characterization had completely fallen apart.

"System Sprite, check this for me. What exactly is going on?"

"Why did her Woeful Poison Body awaken so much earlier?

"Xiao Yi Xian's early characterization as an innocent, kindhearted healer has fallen apart so badly that even her own mother wouldn't recognize her."

And why was she so determined to rush to Wutan City? It was strange.

A faint unease stirred in Chen Yang's heart.

Besides, this sudden personality-change scenario seemed somewhat familiar.

There were generally only three common reasons for someone's personality to change abruptly.

The first was some enormous setback or blow that drastically changed their temperament.

The second was rebirth, with their soul returning from some point in the future.

The third was their body suddenly acquiring a different core—a soul—through possession or transmigration.

In Xiao Yi Xian's case, the first possibility was vanishingly small.

So which explained Xiao Yi Xian's drastic change: the second or the third?

Compared with the second, Chen Yang was more worried about the third—someone having transmigrated into her.

If someone had transmigrated into her and brought a cheat system along, that would mean serious trouble.

Chen Yang desperately wanted to know which explanation lay behind Xiao Yi Xian's drastic change.

[Ding~! Host, there is no need to worry. The primary system is a Main God System, ranked above every other system.]

"What's a Main God System? Aren't you the System Sprite of the Modifier System?" Chen Yang asked in confusion.

[Ding~! A Main God System is similar to an administrator system. Its permissions supersede everything, and it can operate behind the scenes. The Modifier System is an alternate identity of the Main God System.]

You can think of it as the Main God System operating under the Modifier System's name.]

Chen Yang roughly understood. He nodded, only half comprehending. "Oh~! So that's how it is."

"Then I'm pretty lucky. In that case, I have nothing to fear."

At last, the heart hanging in Chen Yang's throat settled back into his belly.

"Huh~! After all that talk, why haven't you scanned her yet, System Sprite?"

"Didn't I tell you to check her ages ago?" Seeing that the System Sprite still had not done anything, Chen Yang could not help asking.

[Ding~! The primary system is under no obligation to scan for the host. If you wish to learn Xiao Yi Xian's identity, you may directly open her complete attribute panel. The flickering data anomalies will also be repaired automatically.]

"Hm~! That's all it takes?" Chen Yang was puzzled.

[Ding~! Yes, host. On the day the Main God System selected you, it granted you permission to access the panels.

I, the System Sprite, am the minor support system assigned to you by the Main God System. My primary role is to explain anything you do not understand.]

Chen Yang: "...!"

*The Main God System really knows how to slack off. It gives me the permissions, sets a few restrictions, assigns me a System Sprite, and then it doesn't have to do anything itself. It can just be a hands-off boss.*

He had to admit that this Main God System was a very successful "capitalist."

Chen Yang gathered his thoughts and opened Xiao Yi Xian's complete information panel.

[Name]: Xiao Yi Xian

[Height]: Square root of "2"

[Constitution]: Woeful Poison Body (awakened)

[Cultivation]: One-Star Dou Zhe

[Soul age]: 40 (An accident occurred during her future attempt to break through to Dou Di. Her soul entered the river of time, returned to the past, and was reborn in the present.)

[Cultivation methods]: Seven-Colored Poison Scripture (gray), Heavenly Nether Poison Canon (gray)

[Dou Techniques]: Thousand Illusions Poison Spring (gray), Heavenly Poison Prison Realm, Heavenly Erosion Rain (gray), Heavenly Yin Poison Hand, Calamity Poison Force (gray).

Note: (Gray) indicates that it has been cultivated, but remains locked for unknown reasons and is temporarily unavailable.

[Enable modification permissions?]

[Yes!][No!] ```

Below Xiao Yi Xian's complete information panel appeared a prompt asking whether to enable permissions, along with the options.

After Chen Yang selected [No!], Xiao Yi Xian's complete information panel closed automatically.

"So she's someone who was reborn~!"

Upon learning that Xiao Yi Xian had been reborn, a sharp gleam flashed through Chen Yang's eyes as he murmured to himself.

In that instant, Chen Yang considered several possibilities.

He wondered whether he should intervene and correct this error.

He could use the thirty-fifth art of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Stems Treasure Art, Great Dream Erasure, to delete Xiao Yi Xian's memories of the future, set things straight, and pull the plot back into territory he could control.

But on second thought, doing that would be far too immoral.

After all, she had expended the strength of nine oxen and two tigers to finally achieve rebirth. Now that she had a chance to change her future, depriving her of it would indeed be despicable.

Besides, rather than stripping away Xiao Yi Xian's memories of the future, Chen Yang wanted to see what she intended to do after her rebirth.

Perhaps he could secretly give her a little push.

[Host, those thoughts are dangerous!] Noticing the excitement glittering in Chen Yang's eyes, the System Sprite offered a lukewarm warning.

[Host, you have considerable potential to become an archvillain.

You possess every trait an archvillain has.]

[Archvillains enjoy playing chess, using people as their pieces. So do you.

Archvillains enjoy watching the show. So do you.]

Chen Yang frowned and looked up in surprise at the speaking System Sprite.

Her voice was different from the primary system's.

He stared straight at her and asked, "You can talk?"

[Yes. I always could!] The System Sprite nodded, answering Chen Yang's question.

"Then why didn't you ever speak before?" Chen Yang asked.

[Previously, I did not want to speak with a "nouveau riche." Talking to a "nouveau riche" can lower one's intelligence, so I remained silent.

Now you have grown, host. You have learned to manipulate people's hearts and enjoy the process of "playing chess."

You are showing signs of developing into a behind-the-scenes archvillain. The System Sprite finds that interesting, so I speak.]

The retort left Chen Yang speechless.

"Nouveau riche" referred to someone who suddenly gained wealth or power without developing the character and virtue to match.

He had suddenly been about to inherit the family business, then transmigrated, then suddenly acquired a system and begun a cheat-powered life, becoming a Nine-Star Dou Sheng in one leap before using his power and influence to force Yun Yun to marry him. Wasn't that precisely the "nouveau riche" the System Sprite meant?!

(Anyone still alive out there? If you are, give me a squeak!

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