Chapter 8: 5.The Return Of The System, No Hope

(In Elder Bu's Mansion, Bu Cai's Room)

(Bu Cai POV)

Upon regaining consciousness, I am greeted with the scene of my mother and father looking at me with concerned expressions covering their faces.

My mother has reddened eyes obviously indicating that she has cried.

My father is looking nervous whilst the doctor takes my pulse

The doctor is an old man with a grey beard and a face resembling a combination of 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Grandpa' and a 'Wise Grandpa'.

The old man is in fact the elder of the medicine hall and is well-versed in both medicine and poison.

He says in a serene voice,

"Everything is normal with his pulse and their is nothing wrong with him, that this old man can infer by checking his internal organs."

"It may have been a simple headache or a sudden shock as there is no signs of an attack either."

"There is nothing to worry about anymore Elder Bu and Elder Lu."

After hearing this they both stepped forward and Said,

"Thank you Elder Lao for checking on our son it is very appreciated"

Elder Lao then gave a small smile and said,

"It's only a small thing for this Old man no need to make it out as a big deal."

"I have to take my leave now due to having previous obligations."

He then cupped his fists, and my mother and father also did so, and disappeared.

My father then approached me and said with a huge smile on his face,"Thank the heavens you are fine Cai'er; You have been unconscious for five hours and really worried your mother and I."

My mother had already went to give him a hug as if to affirm what he said.

Bu Cai responded," I'm sorry for worrying you mother and father, I feel completely fine now."

After a few minutes of talking and Bu Cai reassuring them that everything was fine, they left as they had responsibilities as sect elders.

Watching them as they left Bu Cai couldn't help but feel warm in his heart, he had never had anyone be this concerned about him and he would be lying if he didn't like this feeling.

Just as Bu Cai was about to close his eyes to rest a bit longer he heard a somewhat familiar sound in his head,

{*Ding*}

{System connection established with Host}

[Hello Host]

After understanding who it was.

Bu Cai shot up from his resting position and felt the urge to scream in excitement, but held it back to not alert the servants.

He quickly replied in his head,

"Oh dear System it is not only great to see you, but in fact absolutely magnificent, you can't even begin to comprehend the nervousness i have felt from being unable to have contact with you."

"Where have you been?"

The System replied,

[Responding to Host, the System has been waiting for you to be able to reach the age to were you can withstand the pain of the incorporation of the system as if i integrated when you were just a new born. You would have become brain dead in this body which is not optimal.]

"I see. So would this have to happen all the time?"asked Bu Cai inquisitively.

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The system replied,

[Yes Host, without reaching a certain age the host will be unable to use the system and it's functions in the universe chosen. This process of pain will repeat each time you reach the conditions to unlock the system.]

Slightly annoyed by the fact that this pain will happen again.

He shifted the topic to most important question,

"What can you do?"

He asked this with anticipation, as he really needed it be something game-changing that to allow him to neutralise Pest Tian or at least quell his nervousness a bit.

Bu Cai has been immensely nervous over the past 3 years as, no matter how much he thought about it, he could not find a way to send Long Tian on his way to the cycle of Reincarnation.

In the past year, he had been praying to the system for help, as would a devout priest pray to god (A fuck ton of times).

As although he was unresigned and did not want to give up, he knew this was essentially impossible.

The System replied,

[Responding to Host, the System is Auxillary Support (WARNING: Host should not rely too much on the system as it is YOUR job to kill the Fortuned Ones and you must be the one to adapt and refine yourself to be able to stand against them. The System is only for support).]

[The System's Functions are-]

[Identify]

This allows the Host to identify ANY Object or material in existence and get a description of them.

The depth of the description and whether you can or cannot see what material it is, is linked to your power level (in this universe's terms would be cultivation level) in the universe and the Rank of the Object (E.g. A Pheonix feather would be an S-Rank and will require a higher cultivation to identify whereas a plain rock would be F-Rank or unranked due to it being insignificant hence easy to Identify).

[Analyse]

This is the living being counterpart to [Identify] as it will allow the Host to see the background or ANYTHING about the person which Host would like to know as long as there is a large enough power level difference (In this universe it would be difference in cultivation) or if the person is VERY Unique* then you would be unable to.

[Status]

This simply lets host see his condition and cultivation level as well as, passively gives the Host photographic memory, and allows Host to not have skills Deteriorate over time**.

Bu Cai, seeing these three abilities feels that they are incredibly versatile and useful skills but can't help but also be a bit dissatisfied.

As although they are incredibly good, it still won't allow him to best Long Tian.

Perhaps you could say he is being greedy but this desire for an opportunity comes from the fact that he wants to stay with his first parents he has ever had and therefore would hate to die*** before he even reaches adulthood (In Ancient Chinese Culture, 20 Years old is adulthood for males and 15 years old is adulthood for females).

Due to now understanding that it will still be impossible he will at least try his best to maximise the chances.

Even if he fails (Although it would leave a bad taste in his mouth knowing that he will lose both his newly acquired parents and system credit) he can just treat it as practice and experience for the next ones.

With these thoughts in mind, he then proceeds to will the system to open his [Status]...

 

(*These People will appear later on and will be, or be connected to, incredibly 'Profound' Individuals)

(**To Clear this up, it basically means that if he reaches a certain level of experience in a skill he will remain as skilled as he was in his peak regardless of how long ago it was that he had last done it, For Example-

-Let's say, Bu Cai used to be able to play Basketball to an NBA Top-Tier Professional's level (call it [Basketball lvl 100]) in his old world and then focuses on cultivation and shit for 400,000 years and doesn't touch Basketball, if he suddenly decides to play it again he will still be playing at a [Basketball lvl 100] standard without issues.

The main downfall to this is that if his body cannot keep up with the requirements of the skill he will not be able to perform it to It's maximum potential.

Hopefully this cleared things up for people who didn't understand what I meant)

(***One of the criteria of failing a 'Mission' or 'Plot' is to be unable to kill him due to the desparity or die along the way and hence he has understood that he will fail if he allows Long Tian to gain an Immortal Master in the village as it will then be truly impossible to defeat him.)

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