What a Rip-Off! He Broke Through to Early-stage Golden Immortal!

"Early-stage Golden Immortal..."

"I didn't want my cultivation to rise this high at all! Sys! Tem! What a rip-off!"

His body was brimming with surging cultivation, and he felt unobstructed from head to toe, yet Lin Yunji felt like crying without tears.

If any other living being had witnessed this scene, their Dao heart would surely have been shaken.

Who could have imagined it? Other living beings painstakingly contemplated the great Dao of heaven and earth and could rejoice for ages over even a small rise in cultivation, let alone a leap like Lin Yunji's, from Early Taiyi Mystic Immortal straight to Early-stage Golden Immortal.

He had broken through an entire major realm!

It would have been one thing if he had merely made such a great leap, but after advancing an entire major realm, he was furious and heartbroken, and even felt he had suffered a monumental injustice...

In fact, Lin Yunji was a transmigrator. Originally a modern man, he had accidentally crossed over into this Primordial World and, through a strange combination of circumstances, landed in the domain of Kunlun Mountain and become a stalk of jade bamboo.

At some unknown point, he had been bound to a mysterious system that called itself the Realm Breakthrough System. From time to time, it gifted him large quantities of cultivation points, and his realm rose with them, like a boat on a rising tide.

In the Primordial World, having this was no different from possessing a tremendous golden finger.

Rapidly growing cultivation was a good thing!

But in the vast Primordial World, once his cultivation surpassed the Hunyun Supreme realm, this great world simply could not contain his Dharma body. He would surely shatter the Heavenly Dao and ascend straight to the Hongmeng World.

Loneliness, desolation, and an end without resolution.

Before Lin Yunji transmigrated, he had suffered an accident and fallen into a vegetative state.

Back then, it had been just like that: all he could see was darkness.

He never wanted to experience the chill and desolation that followed again.

Before falling into a vegetative state, however, he had been healthy and an avid reader of novels. He had read a great many novels about the Primordial World, so he naturally knew about the major events associated with it.

Young and full of vigor back then, he had greatly yearned for the power of the Primordial World.

In this life, the Heavenly Dao had favored him and given him another chance at life. How could he go straight to the Hongmeng World, with its countless unknowns, before he had fully experienced the splendor here?

He was determined to stay in this wonderfully lively Primordial World!

He had to get a good look at the sages and mighty figures from the novels!

The Human Race, the Demon Race, immortals and Law Techniques!

He wanted to experience for himself just how delightful this splendid world was!

That was why Lin Yunji rejected the idea of breaking through realms!

He absolutely, absolutely refused to shatter the barrier and ascend to the Primordial Expanse so soon.

If he could avoid going there forever, so much the better.

Later, through a fortuitous coincidence, Lin Yunji entered Cult Master Tongtian's tutelage and became his final disciple.

He had not become a disciple to study diligently and cultivate earnestly, much less to increase his cultivation and raise his realm.

On the contrary, Lin Yunji had taken a master solely so he could slack off.

That was right!

He simply wanted a title that would let him avoid cultivating openly and legitimately.

That way, with no effort on his own part, even if the system kept giving him gifts, his realm could no longer climb one level after another like a rocket. Though it had not stopped altogether, his cultivation increased slowly.

Besides, in outsiders' eyes, he was Cult Master Tongtian's final disciple. With Cult Master Tongtian's protection, he need not worry about being targeted or offending someone he should not. He could invoke Cult Master Tongtian's name and walk away unscathed.

Yet before he could enjoy that decision for long, things took an unexpected turn.

The damned system seemed determined to oppose him, unable to stand seeing Lin Yunji do nothing and live as a protected young wastrel.

Overnight, it upgraded itself with some kind of idle cultivation function. It even issued random tasks from time to time based on what Lin Yunji did, working hard to help him raise his realm.

Lin Yunji suffered unspeakably from all its antics.

He remembered it clearly!

Once, he had been meditating in Shangde Hall and accidentally fallen asleep. The system had slapped him with a task called "In a dream, unaware I am a guest," and when he woke up, three thousand cultivation points had been added.

After that, even the thought of sleeping filled him with lingering dread. So he had sneaked out in the middle of the night, found a silly roe deer in the mountains, and roasted it. Because he roasted it so well, the system rewarded him with another eight hundred cultivation points.

Afterward, he did not even dare prepare food on a whim and had no choice but to stay obediently by his master's side.

At a morning gathering, he had casually praised his master's outstanding bearing and formidable Law Power, only to be rewarded with another five hundred cultivation points.

So, while the Three Pure Ones and the others were chatting and discussing the Dao, Lin Yunji had slipped down the mountain and lain on a large rock to study the clouds overhead.

Before he knew it, he had fallen asleep.

When he was awakened, he was still apprehensive. What if the system had taken it into its head to recall how well he had slept before and rewarded him with cultivation points on the spot?

Who could have known that instead of being rewarded for sleeping, he would run into a whole pack of wolf demons intent on killing him and robbing him of his treasures? He had casually killed the little demons because they were too noisy, and the system had promptly shoved him into Early-stage Golden Immortal...

Lin Yunji cursed inwardly, wishing he could bring back the wolf demons that had dispersed into the air and kill them a few more times to vent his anger.

But if those wolf demons, whose Daos had perished and bodies had vanished, learned what Lin Yunji was thinking, how would they feel?

"Check attributes."

Lin Yunji cursed inwardly, but he also knew that things had come to this: he really was an Early-stage Golden Immortal now. Brooding over it would not make him spit his cultivation back out, so he simply sat up straight and called out the system.

"Beep!"

As soon as Lin Yunji spoke, an attribute panel appeared in his mind.

Every entry was perfectly clear.

Host: Lin Yunji

Cultivation: Early-stage Golden Immortal (0/10000)

Bloodline: Orange Light Bamboo (Crimson Flame Bamboo, Orange Light Bamboo, Blue Sea Bamboo, Purple Gold Bamboo, Five-Colored Bamboo, Chaos Bamboo, Hongmeng Bamboo)

Treasures owned: Sea-Calming Spirit Pearl - innate mid-grade spirit treasure (gift from Cult Master Tongtian), Five-Colored Casket - Postnatal High-Grade Supreme Treasure (gift from Laozi), Treasure Light Glazed Bottle - Postnatal High-Grade Supreme Treasure (gift from Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi)

Secret Methods and Divine Abilities: "Hongmeng Art" (can cultivate automatically; Law Power grows naturally, and its quality is one hundred times stronger than that of beings in the same realm)

System talent: "Law Treasure Furnace" (can greatly reduce the time needed to refine Law Treasures)

Cultivation points: 1000

Storage space: None

Lin Yunji stared at his attributes, reading them over and over several times before suddenly breathing a sigh of relief.

He discovered that after entering Early-stage Golden Immortal, the cultivation points required for each advancement had increased considerably.

Lin Yunji comforted himself.

He thought of how other living beings would seize any chance to break through with all their might, along with heaven-defying bloodlines and cultivation treasures, while he alone wished he could throw them all away.

Besides, to be more precise...

Cult Master Tongtian had originally agreed to take Lin Yunji as his final disciple because he possessed a cultivation Secret Method: the "Hongmeng Art."

It could make Lin Yunji's Law Power one hundred times stronger than that of beings at the same realm!

Anyone who heard of it would salivate and want it for themselves.

Moreover, his current bloodline realm was quite ordinary, only the second-tier Orange Light Realm.

Even if he could cultivate automatically, presumably he could not grow very quickly... right?

"Luckily, nothing much has changed..."

After checking the attribute panel once more, Lin Yunji could not help muttering.

"Clang!"

Just then, an unexpected change occurred.

It was as though heaven and earth had been struck by a massive hammer. A muffled boom came from deep beneath the earth, while rolling thunder poured forth from the ninth heaven above.

Winds rose and clouds surged; stars appeared and the moon emerged.

At the same time, a terrifying presence enveloped heaven and earth in an instant, and its pressure descended upon the entire Primordial World.

In the space of a breath, countless billions of beings across the Primordial Wilderness looked up at the sky in terror, then fell prostrate to the ground.

As the earth trembled, they were unable to move for a time.

Suddenly, purple qi rose in the eastern sky, stretching for three hundred million li. Celestial music arose, lilting through the air.

Golden light flashed across heaven and earth, auspicious signs descended upon the world, and wondrous phenomena appeared one after another. It was a truly magnificent sight.

Amid this flowing radiance, it seemed as though heaven and earth were preparing for the advent of a supreme being.

Lin Yunji sensed the terrifying pressure the moment it descended. Rather than being frightened, he was somewhat startled.

Sitting on the rock, he raised his head slightly and heard a song coming from the boundless, vast sky.

"High I reclined upon the ninefold clouds, and on a reed cushion attained the true Dao; beyond heaven and earth, dark and yellow, I reign as supreme master; Pangu brought forth the Taiji, from which came the two aspects and four symbols; one Dao passed to three friends, then two teachings split into Chan and Jie; leader of all the Mystic Gate, one breath transformed into Hongjun!"

The song drifted ethereally, seeming both distant and near, its sound profound beyond measure.

"I am Hongjun. Now that I have become a sage, in a hundred years I shall expound the great Dao in the Chaos Purple Treasure High Heaven Hall, beyond the thirty-third heaven. All who are fated may come and listen!"

Unexpectedly, Hongjun had attained the Heavenly Dao, become a sage, and was about to expound the great Dao.