Chapter 26: Time Comes to Ten Thousand Years Ago

【Congratulations on successfully completing the novice tutorial. From today on, the Mie Changsheng functions will be fully opened to you.】

Gu Jiangming, having just woken up, heard a new voice in his mind.

What?

This was actually just completing the novice tutorial? Could it be any more absurd? Which novice tutorial could be difficult to this extent?

And what about the clearance rewards for this reincarnation?

Where are the clearance rewards?!!

Does it really just have this one "entertainment" function of retaining entries within the reincarnation?

Gu Jiangming scanned it casually and noticed that his 【Mie Changsheng】 had a warehouse function. Clicking it open, he saw that apart from a few cards of other people glowing, there was nothing else.

Just as he had expected.

This 【Mie Changsheng】 was just a toy with not a single bit of use.

There were no so-called reincarnation memory rewards, nor any so-called reincarnation cultivation rewards; it was just a decoration.

Fine, it seems the greatest use of this 【Mie Changsheng】 might just be to take some time to play a few rounds for amusement when one is idle.

The main thing is, Gu Jiangming might not necessarily be as smooth every time as he was yesterday.

To have development in the later stages, the most important thing is the accumulation in the early and middle stages. If the accumulation in the early and middle stages isn't built up, how can one persist until the later stages?

To speak candidly, in this simulation, if it weren't for Gu Jiangming's good luck in stumbling upon a love connection with a longevity species, it would have been extremely difficult for him to reach the later stages.

Thinking of this, Gu Jiangming remembered Jiu Jiu.

"It's a pity that this wife of mine is a virtual character." Gu Jiangming felt a bit regretful thinking of this.

He admitted that he was purely attracted by her appearance at first, but sometimes when he saw a character model he liked, it was very hard to resist.

Perhaps he had just happened to trigger a keyword.

Yin Jiujiu's card appeared gracefully before Gu Jiangming's eyes.

【Yin Jiujiu】

【Identity: Guhuoniao (The ancestor of the ancient divine descendants was Jingwei)】

【Age: 529 years old (Upper limit?)】

【Mana: 100 (Unrivaled in the current world)】

【Knowledge: 78 (Well-read)】

【Charm: 99 (Heavenly Human Appearance)】

【Morality: 60 (Both righteous and evil)】

【Fortune: 92 (Deep Fortune)】

【Bloodline talent not yet awakened】

There were also some values for height and body type.

Actually, there was no need to look at this; just by looking at the card art and the model, one could see that Jiu Jiu had a Heavenly Human Appearance.

And all other information was unknowable.

The information prompted to Gu Jiangming was that in-depth exploration had not yet been conducted.

At this moment, Gu Jiangming also recalled that at the very last moment, he had given all the Merit accumulated over time to his and Jiu Jiu's daughter, Gu Mingyue.

Because at the end, Gu Jiangming sent the disciples away and took on the karma of the Hundred Schools all by himself, recording these grievances on Mount Shu and on Gu Jiangming's own head, so in the end, apart from the Merit the disciples deserved being dispersed, the Merit of Mount Shu was cleared.

Those merits obtained in the name of Mount Shu were all counted toward Gu Jiangming, and the Merit of one person combining the power of a whole sect falling upon his only daughter, the massive Merit accumulated over a hundred years, directly prompted the phenomenon of ancestral power bloodline regression in Gu Mingyue.

But Gu Jiangming himself had not expected that there would actually be the bloodline of Jingwei from the myths within Jiu Jiu's bloodline.

And strictly speaking, Jingwei does not belong to the category of demons, but rather to the rank of deities.

This point was very strange.

If Jingwei existed, then where did the gods of the past go?

This could only prove that in this world within the reincarnation, it had once been glorious.

Judging from all the information, the era he was reincarnated into should be extremely close to the final period.

Even much of the information was questionable; for instance, during the Hundred Demons Night Parade, people of the Demon Race swore that Primordial Great Demons were coming out of the mountains, but in reality, it was just a feint.

At the time, when Gu Jiangming learned from the old Celestial Master that the cause of the drought in Guanzhong might be a Drought Demon, he was truly bluffed by this information from the Demon Race.

He had been cultivating silently, striving to possess the ability to protect himself, but he did not expect that by the time the reincarnation ended, those so-called Primordial Great Demons had not even made a move.

Instead, he himself had become the strongest person in the human world.

If one insisted on describing the difference between his save file and other cultivators, the phrase used to describe Real Person Zhang of Wudang would be the most appropriate.

These cultivators were more like primitive people practicing martial arts in front of Gu Jiangming; Gu Jiangming, by the later stages, was truly seeking the Dao and immortality, conducting development of various esoteric arts.

The things everyone was researching were not even on the same dimension.

But this was not because Gu Jiangming did not want to continue improving; it was that Gu Jiangming's improvement seemed to have reached the ceiling of this era, and he had to achieve some hidden conditions to continue improving.

In favorable rounds, Gu Jiangming would not miss any opportunity for development; he squeezed his potential dry.

Watching his character resting, Gu Jiangming wanted to fiercely take a whip and lash him, telling him to continue cultivating for him!

Think of your wife and child behind you, and think of the enemies that might appear.

Can you really sleep?

Relying on his External Incarnation, he operated the character with high intensity to level up.

Gu Jiangming perfectly interpreted what it meant for someone with more talent than you to work even harder than you, directly causing the cultivators of this world to break down from the internal competition.

There was also a reason for some hidden information here.

Gu Jiangming had learned of the existence of the Drought Demon from the old Celestial Master, and having this sense of oppression in his heart was equivalent to knowing in advance that there was a Primordial Great Demon with strength approaching invincibility waiting for him later.

For Gu Jiangming, time was very tight.

He could not slack off, nor could he just wait for death like this.

The others did not have this sense of oppression.

And the "Pledge with Heaven" that Gu Jiangming held in his hand was actually waiting to be used on the Drought Demon.

He did not expect that these people who came up the mountain would become its first sacrificial victims.

Thinking of this, Gu Jiangming looked at the horizon, which was glowing with a faint light.

He stood up and casually tidied up his things.

"It's time; I must hurry to the yamen to ghostwrite for Assistant Magistrate Li, otherwise, a single penny will stump a hero once again." Gu Jiangming silently activated "Mie Changsheng" in his mind to initiate a new round of Reincarnation for his character.

Then he tapped his finger on the "Custody" button.

That's right, Reincarnation can be put into "Custody"; "Mie Changsheng" does not strictly require players to operate it themselves.

And "Custody" generally follows Gu Jiangming's original personality to perform Reincarnation operations, and will not do things inconsistent with Gu Jiangming's personality.

Having passed the beginner tutorial, it meant the new Reincarnation would only be more difficult; fortunately, each Reincarnation would appear at a fixed timeline, though Gu Jiangming just didn't know if the new Reincarnation would change the timeline.

It would be good to use one Reincarnation opportunity to let his character scout for information and create favorable informational conditions for himself.

When Gu Jiangming activated the "Mie Changsheng" Reincarnation button.

A voice simultaneously sounded in Jiu Jiu's mind.

【A new Reincarnation has begun.】

【Please remember, every Reincarnation is a lifetime of yours.】

【Every end is a brand new beginning to your Reincarnation.】

Jiu Jiu narrowed her eyes slightly.

A new Reincarnation?

What is going on?

Could it be that Reincarnation does not start over from her own life?

Jiu Jiu suddenly discovered that the imagery of this Reincarnation was no longer similar to the previous ones; it seemed... it seemed it was not starting the narrative from her birth.

This is a... brand new Reincarnation.

Then if the past were changed again, wouldn't everything in the present undergo earth-shattering changes once more?

【If... if I change the past, will everything in reality vanish into thin air?】

Jiu Jiu asked herself from the bottom of her heart.

She did not want her story with Gu Jiangming to be broken and fragmented like this.

No!

Jiu Jiu suddenly realized...

If she returned to a suitable time, could she change everything and alter the original fate of Mount Shu?

Thinking of this, the expression on Jiu Jiu's face changed once again.

Or perhaps...

Before Mount Shu was destroyed, she, Jiu Jiu, would resolve all these people who came up the mountain.

But immediately after, Jiu Jiu's pupils shrank slightly.

On her screen...

Another Heaven and Earth appeared.

This was a scene she had never seen before.

The time had come to ten thousand years ago.

Her identity was no longer the demon known as Guhuoniao.

Instead, she had become a descendant of Jingwei from the myths.

(End of this chapter)