After returning to my room, I pull a chair out and sit on it and open my status.
(Status!)
[Beep!] [Name: Shang Shi | Age: 6 | Body: 0 | Mind: 0] [Vitality: 1.1 | Strength: 1.1| Agility 0.6 | Intelligence 1.2| Dexterity: 0.6](What? Why is my agility below 1? Why is my body 0?)
[Beep!] [You’re fat.](What!?)
[Fatso.](You kept on telling me to eat more! Aren’t you supposed to help me live longer and told me to eat more for my own good?!)
[You were born weak. You needed to eat more. Your mother might have been hurt when she was pregnant with you.](Your mother is weak! My mother is fine! She’s going to live to a ripe old age! Damn it, I’m going to exercise more!)
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The next day, after lunch I decided to start exercising as the system is right. even without looking at my stats, I am already feeling fat and if I want to practice martial arts, I cannot be fat and should have a strong body like my father, so i started to jog around the house.
While jogging, I decided to find out more about the system.
(System what exactly are you? Are you here to help me or just here to toy around with me?) I ask curiously.
[Beep!][The system is a gift from God. The Inheritance System is here to allow you to do what you wanted God to do, which is meddling with people’s lives.] [The system will collect the inheritance and dying wishes of the people you have directly or indirectly caused the death of and transfer their dying wish onto you. The host will need to complete their dying wish in order to attain their inheritance from the system. The system is also able to allow the host to fulfil the wishes of the people around the host and attain their inheritance when the wish is completed.]
(Why did you help me attain mastery of the <Drill Punch> then? I did not cause my father any harm nor fulfil any of his wishes.)
[Beep!] [Your father wish is for you to become a cultivator, and you had satisfied his wish by choosing to join a sect instead of staying at home, therefore you were able to attain his inheritance. You may also view the list of completed wishes.](How does the system decide which wish I should fulfil for other people and decide whose wish I should fulfil?)
[Beep!] [As mentioned before, the system is smarter than you ever will be and will make the best decision for the host so that the host will not draw a wish where he has to commit suicide to fulfil it. You may also view all available wishes of the people around you if you wish to.](View list of Wishes!)
[Beep!] [List of uncompleted wishes:1 – Shang Shi – Get Rich.
2 – Shang Jian Rui – Hope Wife has a safe delivery
3 – Meng Zhi Rou – For Shang Shi to be Healthy]
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(Why is my wish to get rich?! There is no way for me to complete my parent’s wishes! Besides my mother is going to be fine after giving birth so there is no need for me to help in any way! Also, why are the rewards for completing the wishes not listed?)
[Beep!] [The system does not list the wishes of the host; however, this wish is listed because it is the wish from your last life, as you never could earn any money on your own, and so you wished to get rich to provide for your family.] [The rewards for completing the wishes are not listed as they are dependent upon the completion rating of the wish as there are many ways to complete a wish with varying results. Furthermore, as I mentioned before, the list is for revealing the wishes of those around you and not those which you are able to assist with.] [Host, you have only run 900 metres so far, why are you lying on the ground?]“Huff…Huff…Leave me alone…”
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A week later, my father passed me 10 spirit stones and said that it was all he could get from the family. He repeated the way I should practice and that I should not feel too sad about my talent for cultivation.
He also explained that while the rate of qi extraction from the spirit stone determines a person’s talent in cultivation, he also mentioned that when the body cannot hold any more Qi, there will be a feeling of being full and that will be the time to break into the next realm, which is the realm of Qi Flow.
In the realm of Qi Flow, a Qi cycle will be created within the body and it will continuously widen the Qi pathways, which will result in quicker absorption of Qi. Normally without special techniques or external assistance, a person’s absorption of Qi will not increase and his talent will not change until one breaks into the realm of Qi Flow and develops a Qi cycle.
This is where the difference in cultivation talent and techniques start to show, as a person with higher talent will always be ahead of one with lesser talent, and a superior cultivation technique will allow one to improve much faster.
However talent is not as important as it sounds, this is because the differences between cultivation techniques are huge and a superb cultivation technique may allow a person to surpass a genius even if he wasn’t a genius. This is one reason why the cultivators from the immortal sects are able to stand on top of everyone else, as their cultivation techniques are of the superior grade.
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Four months have passed while I did nothing but my best to lose weight, trained my body and practiced the <Drill Punch>skill so I could join the immortal sects. The time needed for me to absorb one spirit stone was about an hour at first, but the time slowly shortened and it only took me around 45 minutes to absorb the last spirit stone. Although I know that my father said that the absorption rate of Qi doesn’t increase significantly before achieving the realm of Qi Flow, but my absorption rate has clearly increased. I tried asking the system why but it just kept on saying I’m dumb.
For the past few days, I’ve been running less and keeping my mother company more as it’s already her ninth month of pregnancy. Although the study of science in this world isn’t very developed, through observation, the people of this world have also noticed that the duration of normal pregnancies is around nine months. While the only people I’ve seen pregnant are the friends of my past life, my mother’s belly looks really big right now. There are no tools or equipment to perform an ultrasound so nobody knows if it’s a boy or a girl. My father too has been coming home from work early in case my mother goes into labour.
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In the dining room, right before we have dinner, one of the servant girls who are bringing the food out from the kitchen suddenly drops the hot plate she was holding on the ground and lets out a scream.
*Piang!!*
“Ah! Madam’s water has broken!”
My father hurriedly stands up and almost flips the kitchen table in his rush.
He quickly says in a panic, “Quick! Go call the midwife! Everyone else will help me bring Zhi Rou to the bedroom!”
Everyone around me starts scurrying around like crazed mice except me, who has no idea what to do. I guess this is one of the disadvantages of living in a huge house. The distance from the dining room to my mother’s bedroom is considerable so it took them around 10 minutes to rush there. Before leaving, one of the servants told me to wait outside my mother’s room if I am concerned as no male can enter the delivery room, so I followed the crowd to the courtyard outside my mother’s bedroom.
After reaching the courtyard outside my mother’s bedroom, I suddenly feel an urge to pray to God for the safe delivery of my sibling and the safety of my mother. I look at the sky and clasp my hands together…
It’s bright?
The sky is clear?
The birds in the area all seem to be flying towards here?
They are flying in a formation and chirping prettily?
But it’s the evening now and I was going to have dinner?
What?
Oh, sh*t.
