Touring the Mortal World and Binding a System
Li Jie walked down the street like a curious child, looking around with a sense of wonder.
Everything around me was so unfamiliar, as if I had stumbled into another world.
Just then, he overheard several passersby discussing the arena competition in the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm; their words reached his ears clearly.
"I think those cultivators are really weak. Basically, any system host at the Dao Image Realm can easily obtain the entry qualification for the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm."
"And those holy sons and daughters, apart from Ye Qingxue, the others are practically weaklings. They were easily defeated by the system host and then just gave up. They're truly useless."
"However, those holy sons and daughters were quite pitiful, being repeatedly beaten by the system host, and many of them looked like their Dao hearts were about to collapse."
"I wonder if any of them are like Ye Liang, with a firm Dao heart and enough luck to become a system host and turn their lives around."
"Hahaha, Ye Liang could make Zheng Siqi admit defeat, but in the end he still lost to Qian Duoduo. He still hasn't shaken off the title of 'the most miserable saint in history'."
Although the other holy sons were actually in a worse situation, who told him to be the first to be challenged and beaten up several times?
"Hahaha, those two old sly devils, Qian Duoduo and Ye Liang, both wanted to hide their strength and plot against each other, but they didn't expect that they had the same idea."
The two of them were fighting and hurling insults at each other in the ring; it was quite a sight.
"Qian Duoduo is such a show-off. He completely fooled the cultivators present. I wonder if they'll beat him up when they find out the truth."
Most importantly, he even promoted his own "Duoduo Lending" service at the end, which made me really want to punch him.
"You want to beat him up? You'd better have the strength. He's a top expert on the Dao Image Realm Combat Power Rankings."
Li Jie was so shocked by their conversation that his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
These people seemed to know everything about the tournament, speaking as if they had been there themselves.
What puzzled him even more was what exactly these "Dao Image Realm Combat Power Rankings" and "System Hosts" were.
Moreover, judging from their words, Qian Duoduo, Ye Liang, Zheng Siqi all seem to be so-called system hosts.
As he walked forward, he went into the shops along the street to look around. He saw a dazzling array of goods, so many that it made his eyes spin.
Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of the pork being sold by the butcher on the street corner; it turned out to be the meat of a spirit beast.
He could hardly believe his eyes. He quickly rubbed them and checked them repeatedly with his Divine Sense. After confirming again and again, he was sure he wasn't mistaken; it was indeed the meat of a spirit beast.
What exactly happened?
How could spirit beast meat be sold so casually on the streets of the mortal realm?
Then look at the butcher wielding his cleaver, cutting the spirit beast meat into pieces with lightning speed and selling them, while the people around him seemed completely unfazed.
Didn't they know it was spirit beast meat?
No! They all possess cultivation, and judging from their conversation just now, they were clearly aware of the situation.
Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information, Li Jie felt his head buzzing and, in a daze, wandered into a rice shop.
As dusk approached, the light bulbs in the rice shop were turned on, illuminating the entire store with bright light.
Li Jie stared wide-eyed at the bright light bulbs hanging from the shop's ceiling.
This thing could emit such a dazzling light. He sensed that it was powered by energy. It looked like Law Treasure but was definitely not Law Treasure. He had never seen such an object in the cultivation Immortal Realm.
You should know that in the cultivation Immortal Realm, the means of lighting at night are nothing more than magical Law Treasure for illumination, luminous pearls, and of course, most people still use oil lamps.
Because both lighting Law Treasure and luminous pearls that can be used for illumination must be purchased with Spirit Stone.
Those who lack Spirit Stone can only use oil lamps like those in the mortal world, or even simply don't light lamps at all.
He turned around, his gaze falling on the grain in the shop, and his eyes narrowed sharply again.
He immediately rushed forward, grabbed the Sun Rice, and began to carefully sense it.
Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information, he was starting to lose his composure, muttering to himself:
"That's right, my intuition is correct, this is spirit rice."
But how is that possible? How could there be spirit rice in the mortal realm?
Why has the mortal realm changed so much? Have I fallen into an illusion?
As he spoke, he formed hand seals and performed a magic Method Formula to break the illusion.
But no matter how he tried, he could not prove that he was not trapped in an illusion.
The rice shop assistant noticed that Li Jie was making a lot of noise as soon as he entered, acting like he'd never seen anything like it before.
Looking at his clothes and listening to the words he was muttering, I instantly realized that he was a cultivator from the cultivation Immortal Realm.
The waiter's eyes lit up, and he immediately stepped forward with a beaming smile, asking:
"Esteemed guest, are you a cultivator? How may I be of service to you?"
Li Jie snapped out of his daze, staring blankly at the smiling waiter before him, whose cultivation had reached the Foundation Establishment Realm (Divine Sea Realm). He quickly asked:
"I am indeed a cultivator. How come you have spirit rice for sale here? And what's the deal with that lamp?"
Upon hearing Li Jie's question, the waiter smiled and replied:
"That lamp was made by mixing glass with array formations and is powered by Energy Points, spiritual power or True Power. It's not a rare item, but it is indeed much brighter than the oil lamps of the past."
The "spirit rice" you mentioned is actually "Sun Rice," which is now grown by ordinary households and is not expensive.
Upon hearing this, Li Jie was startled and quickly asked, "This Sun Rice can be grown even by ordinary people? How is that possible? Doesn't it need Spiritual Qi to nourish it?"
"Sun Rice doesn't need Spiritual Qi; it only needs to absorb sunlight," the waiter replied.
"Absorbing only sunlight? How is that even possible? It's unbelievable." Seeing that the other party was willing to answer, Li Jie decided to ask again:
"Do you know what a system host is?"
The waiter glanced at him, knowing he could earn another batch of Energy Points, and said with a smile:
"The system host is the person bound to the system. Once you're bound to the Fairness System, the answers to some questions will naturally become clear."
After saying that, he immediately exchanged for a System Seed and handed it over.
Li Jie accepted the System Seed, thought for a moment, and agreed to bind it. But the next moment, he froze completely as if struck by lightning.
"This is truly a heaven-defying artifact! It's too amazing! Could it be that all the functions of this system are real? But how is that possible!"
He opened the System Store and stared wide-eyed at the densely packed and diverse array of goods.
"With so many products, we not only sell spirit beast meat and Sun Rice, but also cultivation Cultivation Method."
It even includes Cultivation Method from other systems, and these Cultivation Method look extraordinary.
The more he looked, the more horrified he became. Suddenly, he saw something and gasped in shock:
"They actually sell Artificial Heavenly Spirit Root? Can these artificial Heavenly Spirit Root really compare to naturally born Heavenly Spirit Root?"
Seeing Li Jie's astonished expression, the waiter couldn't help but think to himself:
Cultivators are, after all, human beings; they also have curiosity, and they may seem rather dull.
He then explained, "This Artificial Heavenly Spirit Root, just as described, is no different from Innate Heavenly Spirit Root."
Some users even say that it's more effective than the Innate Heavenly Spirit Root.
Among those who have received Artificial Heavenly Spirit Root and are quite skilled and well-known are Qian Duoduo, Zheng Siqi, and Chen Lin.