Name: Yu Tianheng Age: five (three months shy of six) Affiliation: Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Realm: mortal (Martial Soul not yet awakened, martial arts not yet cultivated) Skills mastered: none Cultivation techniques mastered: none Heavenly Mandate Points: 0 Inventory: empty (30 slots)
"System, what are these Heavenly Mandate Points?" Yu Tianheng asked.
System: "Host, Heavenly Mandate Points are consumed when using the system. You can think of them as the currency the system requires. Buying items from the shop and upgrading skills, for example, both require Heavenly Mandate Points."
"I see. Then how do I get Heavenly Mandate Points?" Yu Tianheng asked again.
System: "To obtain Heavenly Mandate Points, you must change the fates of characters from the original story. The more important the character, the more Heavenly Mandate Points you can obtain by changing their fate. Besides that, you can also obtain Heavenly Mandate Points by completing the corresponding tasks."
"The fates of characters from the original story?" Yu Tianheng reached up with his little hand and rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
Suddenly, he asked, "If I saved a character who was supposed to die in the original story, or killed one who wasn't supposed to die, would that count as changing their fate and earn me Heavenly Mandate Points?"
System: "Yes."
"Then if someone who originally died at the male lead's hands died at mine instead, would that also count as changing their fate?"
"Yes!"
So that's how it is!
I understand now.
I just have to go after the protagonist's group like crazy, kill everyone connected to them or bring them under my command. That would change their fates. As for the villains from the original story who oppose the protagonist, I'll cooperate with those I can and save those I can. If I really can't save them, I'll make sure they die at my hands.
Looks like even if I don't want to be the protagonist's enemy, I have no choice. Otherwise, I won't be able to get Heavenly Mandate Points. Even if I can get some, there probably won't be enough to make me a peak expert.
Yu Tianheng pondered his plans for the future. Suddenly, his eyes happened to fall on an exclamation mark in the bottom left corner of the system.
He tapped it.
"Ding! Host Yu Tianheng has been detected using the system. One newbie gift pack has been delivered."
Immediately afterward, a mysterious ball of light coalesced before his eyes without warning.
"This system isn't bad! It even has a newbie gift pack. Let's see what goodies are inside."
Yu Tianheng reached out and touched the ball of light. In the blink of an eye, an antique sandalwood box appeared in his palm. Strange patterns were carved into the box, and a faint glow radiated from it. He took a deep breath and slowly opened it. An ancient book emitting a faint light lay quietly inside. On its cover, the gilded words "Innate Skill" shone brilliantly.
He opened the Innate Skill with trepidation. In an instant, arcane runes floated out of the book and streamed straight into his sea of consciousness. A vast amount of information about the technique surged in like a tide. The technique could temper Innate Qi, strengthen the foundation, and nurture vitality, allowing cultivation to yield twice the result with half the effort.
"Congratulations, host, on comprehending the black-grade cultivation technique, Innate Skill," the system announced.
Yu Tianheng immediately saw a new entry in the cultivation techniques section of his character attribute panel: the Innate Skill.
At present, however, he had only grasped the basics of the technique and had not yet cultivated it.
Yu Tianheng was overjoyed.
As he recalled, the concept of cultivation techniques did not exist in the original story. Apart from the Mysterious Heaven Skill that the protagonist Tang San had brought with him from another world, there seemed to be no other cultivation techniques on Douluo Continent.
Whether they were commoner Soul Masters of ordinary birth or Soul Masters born into noble families, they cultivated by sitting in meditation. Once they reached a breakthrough, they would hunt Soul Beasts and absorb Soul Rings to advance.
They relied entirely on their own talent and the level of their Martial Souls.
If someone awakened a trash Martial Soul or had zero Innate Soul Power, their life was ruined. They could only resign themselves to being an ordinary person.
The original story often said, "There are no trash Martial Souls, only trash Soul Masters," but it was the sort of thing one could listen to the protagonist say and leave it at that. No one should ever take it seriously, or else Yu Xiaogang was a classic example.
"Black-grade cultivation technique?" Yu Tianheng wondered.
So cultivation techniques have grades too?
"That's right. The system's cultivation techniques are divided into four grades: heaven, earth, black, and yellow. Heaven is the highest, and yellow is the lowest. Above those are divine-grade techniques. The Innate Skill is a black-grade technique, ranked in the second tier," the system explained.
Yu Tianheng nodded and asked, "Then what grade is the Mysterious Heaven Skill that the protagonist Tang San will bring from another world in the future? Heaven-grade, or...?"
System: "The Mysterious Heaven Skill Tang San cultivates is a black-grade technique. Its cultivation effects are much the same as the Innate Skill's."
Yu Tianheng was stunned. He had never imagined that the Mysterious Heaven Skill Tang San cultivated would be such trash, merely a black-grade technique. In that case, once he had enough Heavenly Mandate Points in the future, he could pick any earth-grade or heaven-grade technique from the system's shop and utterly crush Tang San.
The thought gave him a secret thrill.
Still, he could not let his guard down. Tang San was the male lead, after all, with an innate boost to his luck, and could not be judged by ordinary standards. Besides the Mysterious Heaven Skill, he had quite a few other tricks, such as the Purple Demon Eye, Hundred Solutions to Hidden Weapon, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Mysterious Jade Hand-strange and wondrous martial arts like those.
He still had to be careful.
Yu Tianheng put away the system, sat up in bed, opened the door, and walked outside.
The place he was in was none other than the ancestral home of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, located in a secluded mountain range within the Heaven Dou Empire.
Come to think of it, Yu Tianheng was a character of extraordinary background.
His clan was one of the Upper Three Sects, a superpower as renowned as the Clear Sky Sect and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. His grandfather, Yu Yuanzhen, was a Titled Douluo whose strength had reached level ninety-five.
If he succeeded in winning over Dugu Yan in the future, he would gain another Titled Douluo as a backer: Poison Douluo Dugu Bo. As long as he did not go out of his mind and provoke Spirit Hall or any of the other major powers, he could practically walk sideways across Douluo Continent.
Unfortunately, Yu Tianheng was not the male lead in the original story, or even an important supporting character. He barely had any presence at all.
But since he had transmigrated into Yu Tianheng and awakened the Super Heavenly Fate System, Yu Tianheng was destined to be anything but ordinary in this life.
"Tian Heng, why are you standing here?"
As Yu Tianheng pondered life, a voice rang out.
The speaker was a man who looked to be in his thirties. He was handsome and bore some resemblance to Yu Tianheng.
This was Yu Tianheng's father, Yu Xiaolong, the eldest legitimate son of Yu Yuanzhen, patriarch of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Through the system's character appraisal, Yu Tianheng learned that Yu Xiaolong's current Soul Power Level was sixty-one, at the Soul Emperor level.
To have reached that level at thirty-five was already a sign of extraordinary talent.
"Father." Yu Tianheng hurried forward and bowed.
Although he was a transmigrator, Lin Ye had quickly adapted to his identity as Yu Tianheng.