Chapter 1: Only by Topping Up Can You Become Stronger, Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon
Transmigrator's Third Rule: Only by topping up can you become stronger.
Douluo Continent, southwest of the Heaven Dou Empire, Fasno Province. Nuoding City.
As the junction of the two great empires, Heaven Dou and Star Luo, Nuoding City was located in a remote area and was completely unremarkable. But in the future, because of a small village outside the city—Holy Spirit Village, Nuoding City would become famous throughout the continent.
At dawn, the sky had just turned bright.
In the west of Nuoding City, inside a rather elegant house, stood a young boy who was only five or six years old.
The boy had a fair complexion and eyes like stars. Although he was very young, he was exceptionally handsome.
Coupled with a brocade purple robe, he appeared even more bright and pure like jade, full of noble air.
At this time, this peerlessly handsome young boy was opening a heavy black box.
Click, click...
With the opening of the box lid, instantly, golden light filled the room!
Gold Soul Coins! A full ten thousand Gold Soul Coins!
On the Douluo Continent, currency was divided into three types: gold, silver, and copper, with gold being the most expensive. One Gold Soul Coin was enough for an ordinary family to live on for several months.
And ten thousand Gold Soul Coins was comparable to a huge sum of hundreds of millions of yuan on Earth!
However, facing such a huge sum of money, this handsome boy was completely unmoved. He just extended his left hand and aimed it at the box full of Gold Soul Coins, saying in a deep voice: "System, start."
Boom!
Intense light emerged from the boy's palm. Those ten thousand Gold Soul Coins instantly turned into a golden torrent and were sucked into his palm.
"Ding... System activating, please wait..."
The long-lost crisp voice finally sounded in the boy's mind.
His name was Zhou Chen, a transmigrator, and his Gold Finger was the system.
The full name of this system was the Multiverse Top-Up System.
As the name suggested, to use this system, one must top up. To be precise, one must recharge Golden Yuan Points.
And to obtain Golden Yuan Points, one needed to sacrifice gold products, such as Gold Soul Coins. 1 Golden Yuan Point = 1 Gold Soul Coin.
However, for six years, the Top-Up System had been in a dormant state and was completely useless. And to activate the dormant system, one had to recharge ten thousand Golden Yuan Points!
This posed a difficult problem for Zhou Chen.
Six years ago, when he had just transmigrated, he had regressed into a baby because of the turbulence of time. He spent two years just drinking milk, let alone making money.
Fortunately, as a transmigrator who had received higher education, Zhou Chen did not lack ways to make money. In these few years, he used all his skills and finally accumulated these ten thousand Gold Soul Coins!
"Ding... Activated. This system is at your service immediately. Host, please collect gold products as soon as possible to obtain Golden Yuan Points."
Before the voice faded, the next second, a pale golden light screen appeared in front of Zhou Chen's eyes. This was an attribute panel similar to those in games, displaying the data of the system itself:
[Multiverse Top-Up System]
Level: 1
Experience: 10,000/100,000 (Multiplier: 10)
This represented that the current system was Level 1. To upgrade to Level 2, it required 100,000 Golden Yuan Points, which was 100,000 Gold Soul Coins.
To upgrade to Level 3, that would be 1 million... By this logic, upgrading to the highest Level 9 would require one trillion Gold Soul Coins!
One must know that the tax revenue collected by the two great empires, Heaven Dou and Star Luo, was less than 100 million Gold Soul Coins annually.
One trillion Gold Soul Coins? Even if one razed the entire Douluo Plane to the ground, one probably could not gather that much!
However, this was all a matter for the future.
Zhou Chen continued to look at the bottom of the panel, only to see a roulette wheel slowly rotating.
And on the roulette wheel, there were five types of icons: [Pills], [Cultivation Methods], [Bloodlines], [Items], and [Divine Abilities].
Of these five icons, only the [Pills] icon was lit, while the other four were dim and lusterless.
"System, explain." Zhou Chen raised his eyebrows and asked.
"Ding... Random lottery function activated. Since this system is only Level 1, only the [Pills] category is open... Each lottery draw requires a recharge of 10,000 Golden Yuan Points!"
"Ten thousand for one draw?"
Zhou Chen was confused at first, then angry, and finally... accepted it.
He had no choice but to accept it. A person standing under the eaves has to bow his head. He still had to rely on this dog system to reach the peak of life, so he could not offend it now.
Seeing that Zhou Chen was somewhat dissatisfied, the system did not want to anger this host, so it threw out the sweet date prepared long ago:
"Ding... The system is activated for the first time. A free [Cultivation Method] gift pack is issued. Please check and receive."
The next moment, a pillar of light reaching through heaven and earth descended from the sky, directly blasting a big hole in the roof and landing in front of Zhou Chen.
Within the pillar of light, a golden paper was floating!
"What cultivation method is this?"
Seeing the system giving him benefits, Zhou Chen's expression immediately turned from cloudy to sunny, and his tone became gentle.
"This is a cultivation method with an endless history and countless titles!"
The originally indifferent system suddenly became sensational: "It was once the Foundation Establishment Chapter of Cultivation; it was also called the Wheel and Sea Volume of the Dao Scripture; Xia Yu relied on it to open mountains and control water, revering it as the Mountain and River Strategy; Fuxi relied on it to propagate the world, bestowing the name Four Symbols, Five Elements, and Eight Trigrams Central Wu Earth Thick Virtue Art!"
"These names might be too unfamiliar, but it has a name that you, Host, are definitely familiar with!"
"What?"
"Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon!"
"What did you say?"
Zhou Chen was stunned for a moment, then his face suddenly turned red. He twisted shyly and whispered: "Isn't this the kind of... dual cultivation technique practiced by men and women together? It is said that the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, ascended by day relying on this scripture."
System: "??!"
The system did not expect Zhou Chen to unexpectedly spout such lewd words. He could even drive fast on this broken road; for a moment, it was speechless.
After a long silence, the system suddenly sighed: "Sigh, Host, your level is too high. This system cannot keep up with your train of thought. See for yourself."
Saying that, the floating golden paper fell into Zhou Chen's hands, instantly making his hands sink.
So heavy!
Such a thin piece of paper actually weighed more than gold and stone.
Trying his best to hold the golden paper, Zhou Chen squinted at it, only to see densely packed ancient characters engraved on the paper. Every ancient character was like a shining star, bright and resplendent.
With a thought, the virtual light screen appeared before his eyes again:
[Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon]
Origin: [Primordial Universe]
Producer: [Fuxi, Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady]
Product Effect: Can make one shed their mortal body and exchange bones, casting the foundation of the Great Dao.
Cultivation Method Levels: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, Mahayana, True Immortal...
Such powerful effects made Zhou Chen unable to look away for a while.
"Host, the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon is very difficult to learn. With your talent, I am afraid it will be difficult even to enter the door. Only through this system's direct transmission of power can you initially enter the door and break through to the Qi Refining Stage." Seeing Zhou Chen's immersed appearance, the system could not help but remind him.
"Then why don't you start quickly?" Hearing this, Zhou Chen put down the golden paper and urged.
"Ding... Cultivation method is being interpreted..."
"Energy debugging in progress..."
"Start!"
The next second, the pillar of light reaching through heaven and earth descended from the sky again, directly shrouding Zhou Chen and making his whole person suspend in the air.
Then, on the golden paper recording the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, the star-like ancient characters all came alive and continuously poured into Zhou Chen's body.
A type of mysterious and abstruse energy began to combine with the cells in his body. It moved along the meridians, heading straight for the Dantian Sea of Qi below the navel.
At this time, Zhou Chen was radiating golden light, and his whole body became glittering and translucent.
At the same time, that golden paper carrying the scriptures also turned into a small golden sword engraved with mountains, rivers, grass, trees, sun, moon, and stars amidst a patch of golden light!
"Buzz!"
The small golden sword trembled and emitted a clear sword cry. Immediately, it quietly submerged into the space between Zhou Chen's eyebrows and disappeared.
One minute later, the pillar of light gradually vanished, and Zhou Chen also slowly descended from mid-air.
Opening his eyes, Zhou Chen only felt his divine light was bright, and his body was filled with mysterious energy. He clenched his small white fist, feeling that punching a fat pig to death with one punch would absolutely not be a problem!
(End of this chapter)