"So you were actually trying to save me when you were about to slash my face just now?"
Forcing himself to calm down, Wang Hao carefully recalled what had just happened. Only then did he realize that the peerless beauty really did seem to have been acting in his best interests.
"What did you think?"
Rolling her eyes in exasperation, the peerless beauty explained, "I don't know the exact requirements for selecting palace attendants, but from what I learned outside just now, a handsome face seems to be one of them.
"As it happens, you're fairly good-looking. I was going to slash your face temporarily so you wouldn't risk being selected, then help you restore it afterward. Too bad someone didn't appreciate it!"
The peerless beauty regarded Wang Hao at her leisure and casually tossed him the black lump the knight had left behind. Grinning, she said, "You're fairly lucky, though. They gave you a good amount of wound medicine.
"It can not only heal the wound from your castration, but also the wound the shadow wolf clawed into your chest. Judging by the potency of this salve, you should be fully healed within two hours. It's simple to use, too. Just dissolve it in a little water and apply it to the wounds."
Looking at the black lump in his hand, Wang Hao once again wanted to cry but had no tears.
"Beautiful miss, I know I was wrong. Please save me! I'm still a virgin, and I haven't carried on the old Wang family line yet. I can't become a eunuch!"
Wang Hao hurriedly threw himself to the ground and clung to the peerless beauty's long, shapely leg through her dress, begging desperately.
This time, he really wasn't taking advantage of her!
But the peerless beauty was an unmarried maiden who had never been touched so intimately by a man. She instinctively swung her leg and sent Wang Hao flying. He smashed through a wall, but his momentum didn't stop there, and he continued hurtling backward outside.
"This feels so familiar!"
Wang Hao felt an even more intense pain strike his already agonizing chest. Then his whole body went flying, just as it had when that luxury car hit him.
It also made him even more certain that he really had transmigrated. After all, no woman on Earth could kick an adult through a wall, and, by the look of it, send him flying at least another hundred meters.
But before his body could land, Wang Hao's consciousness reeled as though heaven and earth were spinning. Then he found himself in a strange place, surrounded by darkness.
"Am I... dead again?"
Looking at the darkness around him, Wang Hao looked down at his body again. The first thing that caught his eye was still his eight sharply defined abs. Clearly, it was the same body as before.
"You're in soul form now. This is the System Space, and I'm the cute and clever system spirit, Xiao Mengmeng!"
As Wang Hao was puzzling over this, a soft, adorable voice suddenly came from behind him. He turned around and pointed at the Loli who had appeared there, looking as though he'd seen a ghost.
"It's... it's you!"
Although he didn't recognize the Loli, he remembered her pink princess dress vividly. It belonged to the Loli he had saved earlier.
"Did that luxury car hit and kill you too?"
Wang Hao felt deeply disappointed to see the cute Loli here as well.
The first time in his life he had sacrificed himself to save someone, he had not only gotten himself killed and transmigrated, but had also failed to save the little girl he'd been trying to rescue.
What a failure!
"Wrong! That car didn't kill me. You pushed me into the river on the other side of the road, you big idiot!"
As she spoke, Xiao Mengmeng produced a baseball bat from somewhere and began whacking Wang Hao hard with it, looking furious and deeply aggrieved.
Wang Hao was dumbfounded. Staring at the Loli before him, he said blankly, "That can happen?"
He swore he hadn't meant to. His mind had gone blank at the time, and all he'd thought about was pushing the Loli out of the way so the luxury car wouldn't hit her. He hadn't considered that there was a river on the other side of the road, and the current along that stretch really did seem quite swift.
Even a champion swimmer wouldn't dare get into the water there, let alone a little girl.
For a moment, Wang Hao was filled with embarrassment and guilt!
His intentions might have been good, but the fact remained that he hadn't done a good deed.
Because of that guilt, Wang Hao didn't dodge the baseball bat the Loli was bringing down on him. He even crouched down of his own accord to make it easier for her to hit him.
Anyway, with the Loli's strength, her blows barely hurt. He might as well treat it as one of those legendary full-service massages.
"Um, what's our situation now? And what was that about you being a system spirit?"
After gathering his thoughts a little, Wang Hao felt that the Loli ought to know something.
The Loli's anger had subsided somewhat after beating Wang Hao. She gathered her words and explained, "It all started with the jade pendant I wore on my chest. It was the last fragment of the Chaos Supreme Treasure, the Jade Disc of Creation, and the Escaped One, a sliver of hope for the Primordial World, was dwelling in it."
"After I died, I fused with the fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation and created this System Space. Then I saw that, even though you were a big idiot who couldn't accomplish anything and only made things worse, your character was fairly decent. So I collected your true spirit, and then the escaped sliver of hope brought us to the Primordial era, where your true spirit fused with your previous life."
At the end, the Loli added, "This Primordial Wilderness is much like the ones in those Primordial novels you've read. Some details are different, but all the major events are there. It's currently the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors."
"You mean that body with the eight-pack belonged to my previous life?"
Wang Hao's eyes lit up. He was very satisfied with the body and didn't particularly care about the other matters for the moment.
"That's all you've got going for you. Hmph! You can't see past the end of your nose!"
Xiao Mengmeng snorted and gave him a look of unmistakable contempt.
"Since he was my previous life, do you know what happened to him afterward? Did he get castrated and made into a eunuch too?"
Wang Hao attached great importance to this. After all, the most pressing problem he had to solve was his impending castration. At the same time, he somewhat resented his previous life for being so handsome.
Now look what had happened. His good looks had caught someone's eye, and they wanted to make him a eunuch. Although serving the legendary Yellow Emperor was an honor, there was no fucking way he could stand serving him as a eunuch.
So he urgently needed to know how his previous life had dealt with it.
"Your previous life didn't have an afterward. He died before you entered his body. Otherwise, did you think taking it over would have been so easy?"
Xiao Mengmeng gave him another contemptuous look, and her words left Wang Hao dumbfounded once more.
"I can't be that unlucky, can I?"
Wang Hao felt utterly miserable. He had indeed learned how his previous life had avoided becoming a eunuch, but that method wouldn't work for him!
"All right, let's leave that aside for now. Tell me why you brought me to this era."
He didn't believe the Loli had brought him here merely to give him another life. She had to have some purpose.
At the mention of this, the Loli's expression grew somewhat awkward. She waved a hand and said as though it were nothing, "It's not much. I just want you to compete with that old Dao Ancestor Hongjun for the job, squeeze him out of his position as Dao Ancestor, and take the seat yourself... What are you looking for?"
"A rope! I'm going to hang myself!"
Wang Hao looked around, preparing to find something he could use to kill himself.
"Can't you be more of a man? It's such a small thing, and you already want to kill yourself!"
The Loli was angry. Her cheeks puffed out, and she held the baseball bat as though she wanted to give this fellow another sound thrashing.
This fellow really was a lump of mud that wouldn't stick to a wall. If she hadn't been so pressed for time back then, she really wouldn't have wanted to choose him!
"A small thing? Is a big shot like Dao Ancestor Hongjun someone a little shrimp like me can afford to provoke? And you want me to compete with him for his job? I might as well die right now and get it over with."
Wang Hao widened his eyes and glared at the Loli in front of him, who was telling blatant lies with her eyes wide open.
If what the little girl said was true and the situation in this Primordial Wilderness resembled the one in those Primordial novels, then Dao Ancestor Hongjun was currently among the most powerful beings in existence.
What made it worse was that it was already the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. If it had been the period when Dao Ancestor Hongjun rose to power, back when heaven and earth had first been created, Wang Hao might have had a tiny sliver of hope thanks to his foreknowledge.
But it was already the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Hongjun had already merged with the Dao, becoming an existence on the same level as the Heavenly Dao and even more formidable than the saints.
And what about Wang Hao now?
He was just a weakling. What could he possibly use to compete with Hongjun for the job?
"Don't panic! We have a system. Forget kicking that old fellow Hongjun off his seat-even fucking that stupid bitch the Heavenly Dao wouldn't be a problem."
Xiao Mengmeng grabbed Wang Hao, who was trying to kill himself again, and explained urgently. Her tone was remarkably bold and uninhibited, especially in that last sentence.
It just seemed very out of place coming from someone who looked like a Loli.
"Oh? Really? First, tell me what the system can do."
Wang Hao stopped, looking somewhat tempted.
If the system was powerful enough, competing with Dao Ancestor Hongjun for the job in this era wasn't necessarily impossible.
"It has a function for traveling through the myriad worlds, a treasure-hunting function, and a Dao comprehension function that enhances comprehension and assists cultivation. There aren't many functions, but every one of them is first-rate.
"The treasure-hunting function alone is incredibly heaven-defying. As long as you have enough Fortune Points, you can even find a Chaos Supreme Treasure like the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe."
The Loli spoke proudly, her hands clasped behind her back, chest out and head high. She radiated an invincible domineering air, as though having the system meant having the world.
"It's that powerful? Then I could consider it!"
Rubbing his chin, Wang Hao felt that this might be doable, but there were some things he needed to clarify first.
"Tell me about what's going on between you, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, and that Heavenly Dao. If you want me to do something, you have to explain the reasons behind it. At the very least, I need to understand why we're doing this."
He didn't believe the Loli would become enemies with Dao Ancestor Hongjun for no reason. There was clearly some hidden story behind it.
Scratching her head, the Loli explained with a hint of confusion, "I don't really know the details either. It's just that some information was passed down within the Escaped One. Basically, it says that old fellow Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao want to devour all the living beings of the Primordial Wilderness to further themselves."
"Although their plan hasn't reached its final stage yet, it has already begun. The Primordial World growing weaker and weaker is the strongest proof.
"You should understand that, unless some earthshaking upheaval occurs, any civilization should grow stronger as it develops. The development of scientific civilization on Earth was just like that.
"Yet the cultivation civilization in the Primordial Wilderness grew weaker and weaker. By our time, it had even entered the Age of Dharma Decline, completely severing the path of cultivation for all living beings. Do you think that's normal?"
"It certainly isn't!"
Wang Hao nodded in agreement, his expression growing grave.
This really was a major event!
"Since you agree, take a look at the missions you need to complete!"
Seeing Wang Hao finally nod in agreement, the Loli excitedly pulled out a transparent dialogue box listing the three main missions he needed to undertake.
Main mission one: Protagonists of heaven and earth-lead the human race out from under the control of the Heavenly Dao, Hongjun, and the saints, and become the true protagonists of heaven and earth. Completion reward: One chance to forge an Innate Supreme Treasure. Main mission two: Dao Ancestor of the Primordial Wilderness—kill Dao Ancestor Hongjun and take his place as the Dao Ancestor of the Primordial Wilderness main world. Completion reward: One chance to forge a Chaos Supreme Treasure. Main mission three: Fuck the heavens! Completion reward: One chance to forge a Hongmeng Supreme Treasure.
Wang Hao wasn't surprised by a dialogue box like this. It was a system, after all!
Although this system spirit was a little strange, he could accept the appearance of something as high-tech as a transparent dialogue box.
His gaze swept over the three missions. The first required him to lead the human race out from under the control of the saints and the Heavenly Dao and become the true protagonists of heaven and earth in the Primordial World. The second was to kill Dao Ancestor Hongjun and take his place.
He felt he could understand those two main missions, but when he saw the third, he was dumbfounded.
"Little girl, I understand the first and second main missions, but what does the third one, 'Fuck the heavens,' mean?"
Pointing at the final main mission, which had no explanation beyond the words "Fuck the heavens," Wang Hao turned to look at the Loli.
He couldn't shake the feeling that this "Fuck the heavens" main mission was brimming with malice.