A system?
As a veteran bookworm in his previous life, Ye Chen naturally knew what a system was!
"System, what functions do you have?"
Ye Chen asked with some anticipation.
Although he had a bit of money now, and both his equipment and resources were decent, it was still far too little.
Besides, the Seventh Ancestor had tasked him with developing the Ye Lineage in the lower realm. Naturally, the more resources, the better!
"This system is the Invincible Sign-in System of the Myriad Worlds. The host receives one sign-in opportunity each day. Signing in at different locations yields different rewards. Sign-in opportunities can also be accumulated; the more you accumulate, the better the rewards!"
So that was how it worked. It looked like he would receive rewards as long as he signed in every day.
"System, sign in!"
Ye Chen wanted to see what his first sign-in reward would be.
"Ding! As this is the host's first sign-in, a beginner gift pack is specially awarded!" "Ding! Congratulations to the host on receiving one hundred thousand years of cultivation!" "Ding! Congratulations to the host on receiving a Dao Venerable-grade cultivation technique, Chaos Dao Scripture, First Volume! The Chaos Dao Scripture is a supreme-quality Dao Venerable-grade cultivation technique created by the Supreme Venerable of the Extreme Dao through comprehending the universe's power of chaos after reaching great attainment in cultivation. This technique not only allows cultivators to cultivate true power of chaos, but also leads directly to the Great Dao of Chaos!" "Ding! Congratulations to the host on receiving a supreme-quality supreme divine artifact, the Heaven-Asking Divine Sword! This sword was the personal sword of the Heaven-Asking Supreme Venerable. Although it is only a supreme divine artifact, its offensive might is unrivaled in the world!"
Ye Chen felt somewhat excited.
The hundred thousand years of cultivation went without saying-it could raise his cultivation realm by a huge margin.
A supreme-quality Dao Venerable-grade cultivation technique was supposedly something even the Patriarch could not create.
Cultivation techniques were divided, from lowest to highest, into yellow, profound, earth, heaven, saint, emperor, immortal, and Dao Venerable grades.
Each of the first four grades had four quality ranks: supreme, high, middle, and low, while the later immortal and Dao Venerable grades had more subdivisions.
However, supreme-quality Dao Venerable-grade techniques were the highest-grade cultivation techniques currently in existence.
At present, the Ye Lineage possessed only one such technique, and only a few ancestral masters were qualified to cultivate it.
The power of chaos was the most powerful force in the universe at present. Even a wisp of true power of chaos could destroy heaven and earth.
The Great Dao of Chaos also possessed the greatest offensive power among the three thousand Great Daos, its might unmatched.
Most importantly, one glance at the Chaos Dao Scripture told him it matched his Chaos Dao Physique, each complementing the other.
The system had given him a road leading straight to invincibility.
Supreme divine artifacts were standard equipment for Dao Venerable-level powerhouses. Some powerful factions might possess several supreme divine artifacts, and the Ye Lineage was one of them.
Weapons were divided, from lowest to highest, into yellow-grade spiritual artifacts, profound-grade spiritual artifacts, earth-grade spiritual artifacts, heaven-grade spiritual artifacts, saint artifacts, emperor artifacts, immortal artifacts, and supreme divine artifacts.
The first five grades were also divided into four quality ranks: supreme, high, middle, and low.
The classifications for emperor artifacts, immortal artifacts, and supreme divine artifacts were more complex.
However, supreme-quality supreme divine artifacts were also the most powerful weapons to have appeared in the current epoch.
Even the Ye Lineage possessed only one supreme-quality supreme divine artifact, and only the Patriarch could wield it.
Although the Fourth Ancestor was the strongest artifact refiner in the universe in the current epoch, he still could not forge supreme-quality supreme divine artifacts. At best, he could only forge high-quality supreme divine artifacts.
The storage ring the Fourth Ancestor had given him this time contained only three supreme divine artifacts: two low-quality and one middle-quality, without even a single high-quality one.
Compared with the system, the Fourth Ancestor suddenly seemed so stingy!
This system was truly generous. A single beginner gift pack contained rewards of such high quality.
With this system, combined with the things the ancestral masters had given him, he could establish another Ye Lineage in the lower realm, one even stronger than the one in the upper realm.
Imagining the looks on those old fellows' faces then, Ye Chen could not help laughing.
But his immediate priority was still to raise his cultivation realm.
The current cultivation realms were divided as follows. Lower realm: Body Tempering, Meridian Condensation, Qi Sea, Xiantian, Origin Core, Spirit Refinement, Heavenly Palace, Dharma Form, Shattering, King, Saint, Great Saint, Saint King, Quasi-Emperor, and Great Emperor.
Upper realm: Human Immortal, Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, Immortal King, Immortal Lord, Immortal Emperor, and Dao Venerable.
Each realm was further divided into nine heavens. The first three constituted the early stage, the middle three the middle stage, and the final three the late stage.
Since Ye Chen spent every day eating, drinking, and having fun without ever cultivating, he had only barely reached the Heavenly Palace realm.
Without hesitation, he used the hundred thousand years of cultivation.
Instantly, the Spiritual Qi within hundreds of millions of miles seemed to fall under an immensely powerful pull, all of it surging toward him.
A Spiritual Qi storm suddenly appeared without warning.
Many martial artists were stunned. Thinking some peerless treasure had emerged, they scrambled to rush toward Ye Chen.
At that moment, Ye Chen knew nothing of this, and even if he had known, he would not have cared.
What a joke. With his current equipment, anyone in the entire universe capable of threatening him probably had to be at the Dao Venerable level. Even an Immortal Emperor would have to call him Daddy before being allowed to leave.
Let alone these ants in the lower realm.
His cultivation was now rising at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Heavenly Palace, ninth heaven...
Dharma Form, ninth heaven...
Shattering, ninth heaven...
King, ninth heaven...
Saint, ninth heaven...
Great Saint, ninth heaven...
Saint King, ninth heaven...
Quasi-Emperor, first heaven.
In the blink of an eye, Ye Chen's cultivation reached the first heaven of the Quasi-Emperor realm.
The explosive increase in his cultivation did not diminish his control over himself.
On the contrary, he could control this heaven-and-earth-destroying power very well.
The cultivation granted by the system did not leave his foundation unstable either. Instead, it was exceptionally solid.
Immediately afterward, his comprehension of the laws of heaven and earth also reached the Quasi-Emperor level.
He had been born with the Chaos Dao Physique and was close to the Great Dao, so comprehending the Dao was as simple as eating and drinking for him.
Still, Ye Chen was somewhat disappointed.
"A hundred thousand years of cultivation only raised it this little!"
"I suppose the cultivation was calculated using the aptitude of people from the Heavenly Profound Continent!"
If it had been calculated using his aptitude, he would at least have been close to touching the threshold of Dao Venerable by now.
But one could not be too greedy. His current Quasi-Emperor cultivation was enough for the lower realm.
Just then, fierce winds suddenly rose, and the clear sky instantly darkened.
Endless black clouds surged wildly from every direction like ten thousand galloping horses, forming a thick layer of tribulation clouds in the sky.
Before long, the tribulation clouds grew thicker and spread ever farther, blanketing heaven and earth. An inky-black curtain shrouded the sky for hundreds of millions of miles around.
Rumble!
Muffled explosions rang out within the violently churning tribulation clouds, like a ferocious beast roaring as it chose someone to devour.
As the explosions intensified, a bolt of pitch-black tribulation lightning as thick as a colossal pillar holding up the heavens burst from the heavy tribulation clouds, illuminating all of heaven and earth.
It was as though the apocalypse had descended.
Within the Darkness Forbidden Zone, an ancient existence was startled awake. Slowly opening those deep, terrifying black eyes, the being's gaze instantly pierced endless space and time, reaching into the depths of the tribulation clouds.
"A Great Emperor Tribulation! Heh heh, humans clinging to their last breaths!"
Then those eyes slowly closed again, as though nothing had happened.
Inside a divine temple in the central region of the Heavenly Profound Continent, an old man in secluded cultivation looked toward the tribulation clouds with a grave expression.
"A Great Emperor Tribulation? That shouldn't be!"
In the Eastern Domain, within a certain immortal imperial dynasty.
A figure whose dominance overwhelmed heaven and earth stood in midair, his gaze imperious and his presence astonishing.
"Hmph! Someone actually got ahead of me. I want to see who it is!"
With that, his presence surged, and he transformed into a streak of golden light, instantly vanishing from the imperial palace.
"Senior brother, look at the sky! It looks like someone is undergoing a tribulation!"
"Indeed, but with tribulation clouds this vast, it shouldn't be someone undergoing a tribulation, right? A rare treasure has probably emerged. Let's hurry over and take a look. We can't let anyone beat us to it."
"Look, someone's undergoing a tribulation! Hurry over and see if we can pick up a bargain!"
"A rare treasure has emerged! It's all mine! None of you had better try to snatch it!"
For a time, clouds stirred in all directions as everyone rushed toward Ye Chen.
In the blink of an eye, thick black clouds covered ten thousand miles around.
Terrifying thunder rang out within the black clouds, making people's scalps prickle.