Parents

Thud, thud, thud...

Following his memories, Ning Yue went straight up to the third floor and entered his room.

He looked at the jumble of things in the system's storage inventory and prepared to clear them out.

"Thirteen silver notes. Useless!"

With a ripping sound, the silver notes were all torn to pieces, whether they were worth a hundred taels or ten thousand.

"The Jade Blood Saber isn't bad. Its blade glimmers like autumn water and gleams with a chilling light. It's no worse than an F-grade alloy saber. I'll keep it for now."

"The Sunflower Manual?"

Ning Yue pondered for a moment. Li Feng's eighteenth birthday was a week away, and as one of his good friends, Ning Yue would give it to him as a birthday present.

After all, this was the only copy of the Sunflower Manual: Collector's Edition in the whole world. Surely he wouldn't be moved to tears?

He put the Sunflower Manual aside, leaving it alone for now.

"Thirty taels of silver... no use for it. Into the trash."

Ever since the resurgence of spiritual energy on Blue Star, gold and silver had lost their value. Unless they had been imbued with spiritual energy and could be used as alloy materials, such ordinary things were worthless.

The human race, whose lives were as fleeting as creatures born at dawn and dead by dusk, placed greater importance on practicality. So-called luxury goods were less desirable than a pound of ferocious beast meat.

He casually picked up the bottle of pills. They were held in a jade bottle, and when he opened it, he found two pills left inside.

"True Qi Pills? I wonder how they're different from Qi and Blood Pills. I'll keep them for now."

After sorting through the odds and ends in his inventory, Ning Yue silently called out in excitement.

"System, open the character panel."

Character: Ning Yue

Realm: None, qi and blood value (22 points)

Cultivation technique: Basic Body Tempering Art (beginner)

Inventory: Jade Blood Saber, Sunflower Manual, True Qi Pills

Simulations: 0

"Only 22 points. That's a bit far from the First-Rank Realm."

Ning Yue was somewhat unwilling to accept it. In his memories, his predecessor's parents had put a great deal of thought into his martial cultivation. They had spent at least ten million on various pills and medicinal baths alone.

Moreover, in his memories, his predecessor's talent wasn't bad either. He had broken through to the Body Tempering Realm in less than a day, with an initial qi and blood value of 8 points. His talent was above average.

How could his talent be only 22 points after three years of cultivation?

"System, did you devour the energy?"

Ning Yue recalled a novel he had read in his previous life. A genius had fallen because his golden finger had secretly eaten his battle qi, and from then on, he had lived a life where anyone could bully him.

Ning Yue couldn't help growing suspicious of the system. Could it be...

"Fine, if you're not saying anything, I'll take that as an admission."

Ning Yue was furious. If it hadn't devoured his predecessor's energy, he wouldn't have transmigrated here either. Back in his previous life, he had lived amid the three thousand zhang of the mortal world, only to lose his footing once and end up in another world.

"You did a good job devouring it. Don't do it again."

Ning Yue studied the Myriad Heavens Simulator for a while. There were no points to allocate, and no lottery either...

After studying it for a while, he found it dull and didn't know what to do for the moment.

Cultivate? Impossible. His predecessor's instincts were still at work inside his body, and the word "cultivation" wasn't even in his head.

All he wanted now was to lie flat. With the Myriad Heavens Simulator, he could still grow powerful as long as he kept running simulations every day.

That was the direction of his efforts, his future.

As for wars with other worlds, ferocious beasts attacking cities...

(⊙o⊙)...

I've got my parents holding things up above me, and the city lord's residence is right next door. The city lord is a seventh-rank grandmaster, and above him are the human race's guardians, every one of them an eighth-rank great grandmaster. Above them is the army lord, who's in the Ninth-Grade Supreme Realm.

Apparently, above the army lord were god-level experts, the ultimate foundation of Blue Star's human race.

Ning Yue couldn't help sighing. When will it ever be my turn to hold up a patch of sky?

Night fell.

Ning Yue met his predecessor's parents. Perhaps because his memories had fused with his predecessor's, he was no longer himself, yet he was still his original self.

Meeting his parents wasn't as awkward as he had imagined, and their conversation flowed naturally.

Everything was so harmonious.

As for Ning Yue's parents, they had navigated the business world for decades and met countless people. They could tell their son was a little different from before, but they simply took it as the price of growing up.

"Son, I heard you're about to start your martial arts exams again?" Mo Zini asked with a smile.

"I think so," Ning Yue said, recalling that there was indeed such a thing.

He just hadn't paid close attention and didn't remember it very clearly.

Hearing his answer, Mo Zini and Ning Baichuan exchanged a glance, their eyes full of helplessness.

My son's a good-for-nothing, Ning Baichuan's eyes said.

Let's support him for life. We can afford it anyway, Mo Zini's eyes said.

"All right, how about we..."

"Stop right there. The child's still young. We can talk about making an alt account later."

"He's already had his eighteenth birthday, and he's still young?"

"Get lost. I don't want to make an alt account. I just want to live a beautiful life. Can't I?"

"Sure, no alt account, then. We're each other's true love. Our son was just an accident."

Having reached an agreement, the two exchanged a tender, loving look.

Watching from beside them, Ning Yue suddenly realized he seemed to be the third wheel. He was speechless. What's wrong with you two?

The food on the table instantly lost its appeal. He was stuffed with dog food.

"Dad, Mom, I'm going back to my room."

He said his piece, but his parents ignored him. He watched them draw closer and closer to each other.

Back to his room, and to sleep.

Dog food? As long as I don't see it, it doesn't exist.

Seeing how loving his parents were, he felt a little anticipation too. Before long, he should have a younger brother or sister.

A family without younger siblings to bully was incomplete.

As for his parents' ages, they were fourth- or fifth-rank martial artists. They were only in their forties, but even if they were eighty, they could still have a child if they wanted one.

The next morning, at dawn.

"Myriad Heavens Simulator, activate."

[Deducting 10,000 yuan. Drawing a world from the myriad heavens...]

"Apocalyptic world drawn: Zombie Planet."

"At age 0, you were born. Your parents were delighted and named you Liu Xing."

"At age 1, you were still nursing."

"At age 5, you started kindergarten."

"At age 6, after just half a year of kindergarten, you faced graduation and became a first-grade student."

"At age 12, you graduated from elementary school. Your grades had always been consistent, and you were delighted. Fortunately, there were nine years of compulsory education. Otherwise, getting into junior high would have been a major hurdle in your life."

"At age 15, you graduated from junior high but failed to get into high school. Those three years hadn't been without their rewards, though. Fighting had become your daily bread, and you often ate your fill."

"At age 16, you went out to work with the auntie next door. You had just entered puberty, and the auntie next door showed you what it meant to be a man."

"At age 20, after working for several years, you were still penniless."

"At age 23, the sky grew dark. With your pockets empty, you slowly came to terms with reality and prepared to marry your new girlfriend. Though she was only 1.5 meters tall and painful to look at, at least she was a virgin when you met her."

"At age 24, a beautiful new coworker invited you to her home to fix her pipes. Her husband wasn't home, and you knew what she meant. Then you went.

The sky grew even darker, and she suddenly turned into a zombie."

You died.

[This simulation has ended. The host may choose one of the following rewards: 1. Thirty-Six Forms of Dongzhen; 2. physique; 3. nothing]

"Looks like the rewards are different after every simulation."

Ning Yue pondered. Deep down, he was somewhat envious of Liu Xing's life experiences.

Young men didn't know how good aunties were, but he had known their charms since he was young.

"Option 2."

Ning Yue chose option 2 without hesitation. He didn't consider the third option, since it offered nothing. The first, the Thirty-Six Forms of Dongzhen, sounded like an immortal cultivation technique.

But it wasn't. He had heard of the Thirty-Six Forms of Dongxuanzi.

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Initial Yang Physique. Fusion in progress...]