Chapter 5 | The Novel Marked Me for Death, So I Found a Cheat Game Instead

Meanwhile, after returning to his wooden house, Ye Lin impatiently took out the grey storage bag.

Then, with a tap of his index finger, a strand of spiritual energy as thin as a hair was channeled into the storage bag.

Buzz!

The moment it came into contact with a cultivator's spiritual energy, the storage bag instantly flickered with a faint light.

Immediately after, a wondrous space of about dozens of cubic meters appeared before him.

There were quite a few items in the space: a green longsword, dozens of yellow talismans, a bottle of pills, three pale green crystals, and a book.

As an old bookworm, Ye Lin could roughly guess what these things were, but he didn't know the specific grades and functions of these items.

But there was no need to worry. He had the cheat of the player's personal panel. As long as an item belonged to him, the panel would display it in detail.

“Open personal panel!” Without the slightest hesitation, he directly muttered in his heart.

【Ding! Personal panel has been opened.】

【Player: Ye Lin

Dao Name: Tai Cang

Traits: Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness, A Daily Immortal Destiny, Time Walker, Random Replication

Cultivation: Body Tempering Realm, Second Layer

Talent: Low-grade Five Elements Spiritual Root, Low-grade Thunder Spiritual Root, Low-grade Sword Spiritual Root (collectively known as Low-grade Seven-element Miscellaneous Spiritual Root)

Current Identity: Ordinary villager of Great Desolation Village

Luck Value: 1 point (10 points for normal people)

Weapon: Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda (quasi-Dao-grade, equippable at Qi Condensation Stage)

(Function Notes: 1. Killing creatures allows the absorption of vital energy and blood to infinitely nourish the controller. 2. Forms its own world, capable of suppressing and collecting any ownerless object. 3. Automatically protects its master, isolating heavenly secrets and one's own aura. 4. Comes with a thousand-fold time acceleration.)

Items: One Water-attribute Spiritual Root Strengthening Pill, one Thunder-attribute Spiritual Root Strengthening Pill, one low-grade spiritual sword, ten low-grade Fireball Talismans, one bottle of low-grade Qi Gathering Pills, three low-grade spirit stones, one Compendium of Common Cultivation Knowledge, one low-grade storage bag.】

As soon as the personal panel opened, lines of detailed data floated before Ye Lin.

And when he saw the heaven-defying functions of the mysterious black pagoda displayed on the panel, he was so shocked that he was speechless.

When he previously heard that the mysterious black pagoda was a quasi-Dao-grade supreme treasure, he had anticipated that it would surely be extraordinary.

But he had not expected this pagoda to be heaven-defying to this extent. Without exaggeration, any single one of the black pagoda's four abilities was absolutely a cheat-level golden finger.

“Awesome. With this black pagoda, I can really kill monsters to level up. And if I encounter high-level ownerless opportunities in the future, I can also forcibly suppress and take them away.”

“The space inside forms its own world. Using it as a storage space, it's practically inexhaustible.”

“Furthermore, with this black pagoda automatically protecting its master and isolating heavenly secrets and my aura, my safety is even more guaranteed.”

“And the final thousand-fold time acceleration can give me a thousand times more cultivation time than others.”

“With such a supreme treasure in hand, once I step into the Qi Condensation Stage, my cultivation will surely advance by leaps and bounds.”

After being happy for a good while, Ye Lin finally suppressed the excitement in his heart and continued to browse the information of the items in the storage bag.

Perhaps good luck never deigned to spare him a glance; the book he had been longing for was not a cultivation method, but a compendium of common cultivation knowledge, which left him slightly disappointed.

After all, if he obtained a cultivation method earlier, he could break through to the Qi Condensation Stage sooner, and then use his massive cheats to increase his strength.

But at the thought of his single point of luck, he was instantly relieved.

Having a single point of luck and not running into terrible misfortune was already a great blessing. If he still dared to dream that everything would go his way, it would simply be wishful thinking.

But no matter what, the items in this storage bag were still of great help to him.

For example, that spiritual sword and the ten Fireball Talismans could give him more formidable destructive power.

And that bottle of Qi Gathering Pills and the three low-grade spirit stones were basic cultivation resources that could be replicated by the trait 【Random Replication】, which was equivalent to giving him his first pot of gold.

As for the compendium of common cultivation knowledge, it would allow him to quickly understand this world.

“Let's start grinding!”

Without the slightest hesitation, he picked up the compendium of common cultivation knowledge in front of him and read it carefully.

Before he knew it, more than half a shichen had passed.

During this time, immersed in reading, he was like a parched sponge, frantically sucking in the rainwater called knowledge.

Only after reading through the entire compendium did he slowly stop.

“So this world is called the Heavenly Desolation Continent, where immortals and demons stand in great numbers, and the strong are respected.”

“However, because of the continuous invasion of dark creatures over the past thousand years, the myriad races jointly established the Cultivation Alliance.”

“The Cultivation Alliance has also set up cultivation academies of various levels across the continent to train a steady stream of cultivator armies, who are then sent to various abyssal demon caves to fight the dark creatures.”

“And the place where I am currently located is in the southern part of the continent, a remote country named the Tianyuan Dynasty.”

“In this dynasty, cultivation academies send cultivators every year to conduct Spiritual Root testing on citizens who have reached eighteen years of age.”

“Once they possess a Spiritual Root, they must enter the academy to cultivate, and then head to the battlefield to fight against the dark creatures.”

Casually tossing the book in his hand into the storage bag, Ye Lin began to sort through the useful information.

To be honest, the theme of cultivation here was somewhat different from the traditional fantasy novels where sects stood in great numbers, great clans competed, and everyone only pursued ascension to the immortal path.

Here, the greatest purpose of people cultivating was to resist the dark creatures, for the survival of their race, and even more, to return alive from the battlefield.

It could be said that this was the worst of times, because the vast majority of cultivators were nothing more than cannon fodder on the battlefield with no hope of return, and their lives and deaths were not up to them at all.

But it could also be said that this was the best of times, because as long as you were lucky enough and powerful enough, you could use military exploits to exchange for all kinds of awesome natural treasures and secret cultivation manuals.

“That's fine too. Although I have no luck to speak of, I have enough cheats on me.”

“Once I equip the 'Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda' that makes me stronger by killing creatures, even the dangerous abyssal demon caves will become my blessed land.”

Knowing that the cultivation academy would send people to Great Desolation Village to test Spiritual Roots, Ye Lin was in no hurry to leave.

In the following days, he frantically trained in various ways while also farming all kinds of common achievement rewards.

With the trait 【Diligence Compensates for Clumsiness】 which yielded a hundred-fold return on effort, coupled with the blessing of the trait 【A Daily Immortal Destiny】, he was able to dig up at least one hundred-year-old vital energy and blood medicinal herb in the mountains every day.

In the end, although his luck was terrible and each use of 【Random Replication】 only triggered a onefold replication, the doubled herbs combined were still enough for his cultivation.

Therefore, in just a few short days, his cultivation skyrocketed all the way from the second layer of the Body Tempering Realm to the ninth layer of the Body Tempering Realm.

And it was worth mentioning that on the Heavenly Desolation Continent, the cultivation levels from low to high were divided into: Body Tempering, Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Soul Emergence, Soul Separation, Void Return, Body Integration, Tribulation Transmutation, Great Ascension, Feathering, and Immortal Ascension.

Each major realm was further divided into layers one through nine.

Looking across the entire cultivation world, even though the world's geniuses were as numerous as crucian carp crossing a river, Ye Lin's breakthrough speed was absolutely among the very best.

Compared to his frail and exhausted appearance from a few days ago, his spirit and vitality were significantly better after the breakthrough. Not only did his eyes become bright and spirited, but his physical frame also became much sturdier.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Coming to the yard and throwing a flurry of punches, he felt as strong as an ox. Running around the yard a few times with all his might, he felt like he was running like the wind.