Chapter 222: The Golden Book from the Imperial Ancestral Temple
Chapter 222: The Golden Book from the Imperial Ancestral Temple
“Only one last corpse remains, then my History Sequence could advance.” Chen Xiyi looked at the advancement conditions and muttered to himself.
[Handle 100 corpses that died unnaturally—such as untimely, wrongful, or unjust deaths—by collecting, making up, and encoffining them. (99/100)]
His Death Notice passive range had already reached 99 meters, and the active ability had become much stronger, though he never actually used it.
He disliked how slow it was. Waiting for the effect to take place was worse than just killing the target with one shot.
Ever since he turned the entire Dongfang Aristocratic Family into his tools, all the resources in Yanzhou were under his control.
Besides conducting experiments, having the Dongfang family keep an eye out for unnatural death corpses was extremely simple for him.
Dirty or dangerous things might be hard to find, but dead bodies were easy. Little by little, the count quickly reached 99.
It was just that the passive range of Death Notice was too small. This time it only added one meter. It was almost full, but only 99 meters.
Still, he thought, it was low level, so it was normal. The difficulty of upgrading wasn’t that high.
Unfortunately, today he wouldn’t be able to level up.
Luckily, Chen Xiyi wasn’t in a hurry. If not today, then tomorrow. If not tomorrow, then the day after.
He didn’t need this upgrade to become stronger, unless he was upgrading from The Immortal to History. In that case, Chen Xiyi would definitely finish that last tiny bit today.
The small boost from Sequence One to Sequence Two wasn’t really something he cared about.
Honestly, he didn’t even care much about the Death Notice skill. After all, for deaths within 99 meters, he didn’t need any notification—Chen Xiyi could judge it by himself with his sharp Five Senses.
The passive was like that, and the active was even more useless. Even after upgrading 98 times and almost reaching full level, the effect was still weak, far less powerful than one shot from him.
He even suspected that if Death Notice had levels, it probably wasn’t at level 99, but rather level 1 with 99% progress. To actually level up, he might need to reach Sequence Two.
The previous upgrades only gave him tiny increases each time.
That’s why Chen Xiyi had little interest and kept putting it off, only doing it when others helped him collect.
The reason was that upgrading the History Sequence gave poor returns. At this stage, it didn’t suit Chen Xiyi to devote effort. Of course, if he didn’t have to put in effort, like now, he didn’t mind.
“Xia Ke and the Itinerant Merchant left one after the other not long ago. I hope Xia Ke will bring me something good, preferably an item with Spirit of Historical Heritage.”
“The Dongfang family’s Golden Crow knife is quite good. Although it’s a kitchen tool, it can be used with Hellish Demon Chef and Heavenly Gourmet Spirit to cook food.”
“If that’s not possible, I’m not picky about other things.”
The Itinerant Merchant probably couldn’t trade for items with Historical Connotation, since the first three worlds were gone. The Adventurer was also a bit doubtful—at most, he could get some Spiritual/Magical Item, since this world didn’t have them in this Time period. So he could only rely on Xia Ke, who traveled through history.
“Boss, the Golden Book you wanted has been found. It’s the law written by the First Emperor, unifying the land with his decree.”
Seeing Chen Xiyi come out of the Funeral Parlor, an assistant quickly walked over, opened a box, and showed the legal text engraved on a gold slip, which had been enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
Now, the Dongfang Aristocratic Family used their power to get it for Chen Xiyi.
Chen Xiyi glanced at it. The Spirituality wasn’t complete—only about 30%. He wasn’t sure if the Spirit of Historical Heritage he had could fill it to completion.
But he still took it.
“I understand. Give it to me.” Chen Xiyi took the whole box and teleported directly back to his Underground Shelter.
His idea was simple: he wanted to try out the bond of the golden book and jade tablets.
But after getting it, he found a small surprise. Based on its background, it might give rise to another Royal Authority.
Like a unified law, and then being enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
It might give Chen Xiyi a pleasant surprise.
Royal Authority had helped him a lot, especially with the map, removing the fog of war. If he got another Spirit specialized in maps, he would be unstoppable.
Unfortunately, the Spirituality was too incomplete. Pushing 30% Spirituality to 100% would require a lot of Spirit of Historical Heritage. If not for the steady source of Mist from his Homestead, Chen Xiyi wouldn’t choose an item with such low complete Spirituality.
He took out one Spirit of Historical Heritage and placed it on the Golden Book, which was immediately Homesteading.
[Incomplete Spiritual Item with Spirit of Historical Heritage: Golden Book from the Imperial Ancestral Temple (1%…)]
A progress bar followed, though it moved slowly. Once the bar finished, it would probably gain +1 Spirituality. He guessed it would go from 30% to 31%.
After all, it only gave +1; it couldn’t fill it all at once.
“It’s just too slow.”
Chen Xiyi watched for a while and estimated it would take 24 hours for the progress bar to complete. That meant it could only absorb one Spirit of Historical Heritage per day. He couldn’t put them all in at once to complete the Spirituality instantly.
“Why does this feel strangely familiar?”
Having to use Spirit of Historical Heritage on the Golden Book every day felt a bit like daily check-ins: check in for two months, get a top-tier Spirit.
“Luckily there’s no first recharge, accumulated spending, or red dots everywhere, or I’d suspect my Home Game was made by the South Pole Penguin next door.”
“But if it were the South Pole Penguin, I’d probably have to pay for every Module.”
Thinking about it, it definitely wasn’t made by the South Pole Penguin; otherwise, Chen Xiyi’s game experience wouldn’t be possible without spending money.
He threw the Golden Book into his Inventory. It didn’t need to be outside to progress.
Calling it a progress bar was more like an item cooldown, just shown as a progress bar.
After dealing with the matter at hand, he looked at the large Underground Shelter, bigger than his Homestead, filled with glass tanks containing nutrient solutions and Clones of Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline Bearers.
Chen Xiyi began his daily work.
As the organization grew, his unnamed group expanded. More people were sent out on missions, and delivering beauties to the Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline Bearers became incredibly fast.
Chen Xiyi also obtained a large number of DNA samples, even large amounts of flesh and tissue.
With many samples, Chen Xiyi cloned them all and extracted their bloodline memories from their brains.
After extraction, he stored them away and kept them alive.
He found that the heritage inside these Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline Bearers wasn’t complete, and he couldn’t dig out other heritages from their bloodlines. The heritage in their blood itself only carried that part of the information; it wasn’t that they only awakened part of it.
So if Chen Xiyi wanted the complete heritage, he had to piece together all the inherited memories from every Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline Bearer.
Of course, these Clones were still useful.
Besides handling bloodline memories, Chen Xiyi was also researching ways to counter the Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline.
He wanted to fight the Protagonist. When his own strength was insufficient, he either had to strengthen himself or weaken the Protagonist.
He was always working on strengthening himself, but weakening the Protagonist required research.
Of course, he had the Sword Realm Projection. If, after weakening the Protagonist, he still couldn’t win, he’d have to throw the Sword Realm Projection and see if it could defeat the Protagonist instantly.
What was awkward was that Chen Xiyi still didn’t know where the Protagonist was.
“Whether it’s Martial Way or Way of Immortality, even other abilities, they all seem fairly normal, except they all have a touch of skills related to harmony or bedroom arts.”
“It might seem like just a little bit, and some might not even notice, but combined with Peach Blossom Luck, it became the core ability.”
“No wonder every Peach Blossom Luck expert had strong kidneys. Before, with too little data, it wasn’t noticeable. Now, looking back, it made sense.”
“The origin of these Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline Bearers was probably someone who practiced both Way of Immortality and Martial Way from a sect of harmony.”
Chen Xiyi sorted through the many inherited memories, constantly reorganizing and summarizing them, piecing together scattered parts of the heritage.
He knew before that the heritage was centered around the Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline. He wasn’t wrong about that, but he guessed wrong about the other two abilities. At first, he thought they were just orthodox Way of Immortality and Martial Way, but they turned out to be types related to harmony and bedroom arts.
“Tsk, the origin of the Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline really knew how to have fun, but it must be said that the origin was probably a jack-of-all-trades type of person.”
Looking at the inherited memories forming divine-level abilities showed how deeply the origin had studied various miscellaneous arts.
Honestly, if not for the fact that all Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline Bearers had the same arrogant, face-slapping personality, Chen Xiyi would have liked to be friends with the origin.
He was sure that the origin of the Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline had the same personality: with males, they either became lackeys or enemies—never friends or brothers.
This type of person was always surrounded by many beauties and would never value males.
Chen Xiyi didn’t think the Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline Bearers’ personalities were acquired; it must be influenced by Peach Blossom Luck.
From this, it was clear that the brilliant origin of Peach Blossom Luck had the same personality.
Friendship was impossible. For example, with Ye Fan, even if Favorability was raised, it would drop automatically, maybe never reaching 4 stars—at most 3 stars. Then, as the number of beauties around him grew, he would gradually forget Chen Xiyi.
In harem-type Protagonist stories, how many male characters in the early stages weren’t villains? Or how many good male characters survived until the end?
Unless you were ugly, fat, single with no women interested, and loyal enough to be a lackey, there was basically no chance of appearing in the middle or late stages.
The Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline Bearers fully demonstrated this: there were almost no males around them, and any that appeared were targets for humiliation.
This wasn’t Chen Xiyi’s imagination; it was supported by big data collected by the System.
Chen Xiyi called this phenomenon the Same-Sex Repulsion in Harem Types.
Plenty of data showed that Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline Bearers weren’t the good friends he hoped for.
Of course, it wasn’t just awkward for males, but also for females. Generally, pretty ones would definitely fall for the Protagonist—this rule was much more absolute than the Same-Sex Repulsion phenomenon. As a result, many scorned husbands appeared.
Eventually, after losing their minds and doing something reckless, the female lead would be disappointed, divorce them, and go into the arms of the Peach Blossom Luck Bloodline Bearer.
After divorce, those who became depressed were considered lucky. Worse off ones faced all kinds of misfortunes; the tragic ones lost limbs or went to prison, and the unluckiest lost their lives.