Chapter 136

Chapter 136: System Interface? No, Xiaotao’s New Ability

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Lin Muyu walked into the space and looked at Xiaotao, who was smiling, asking with a laugh.

“Xiaotao, what new ability did you awaken this time?”

As she spoke, she turned to look at Xiaomu who was still fast asleep on the bed, quickly walked over, and pulled this sleepy wooden block from the bed, pretending to be angry as she shouted:

“Xiaomu, stop sleeping! The sun is already shining on your butt, wake up!”

Actually, before this, Lin Muyu had advised Xiaomu more than once not to always sleep all day long.

But Xiaomu always lazily said that sleeping was her way of cultivation.

She was originally transformed from a rootless piece of wood, without the root system of ordinary plants, unable to absorb nutrients from the soil.

She could only rely on absorbing spiritual energy from the air and sunlight to cultivate, and when sleeping, her efficiency in absorbing spiritual energy was at its highest.

What made Lin Muyu even more helpless was that Xiaotao actually agreed with Xiaomu’s explanation.

Whenever she thought about this, she couldn’t help but feel sorry for Xiaotao.

Before meeting her, with Xiaomu sleeping all day, wouldn’t Xiaotao have been all alone? Well, not alone as a person, but alone as an artifact?

Just as Lin Muyu was lost in her thoughts, Xiaotao suddenly let out an exclamation, her voice full of disbelief:

“Master… I, I think I feel like my grade has changed?”

Xiaomu was also completely awakened by this exclamation. She rubbed her sleepy eyes, shook her head, and groggily agreed:

“What’s wrong? I think… my grade has changed too.”

“Your grade changed?”

Lin Muyu’s heart tightened, and she quickly asked.

“Let me see what you’ve become.”

As she spoke, she exited the space inside the bead and took out both the bead and the fire poker that Xiaomu had transformed into.

At this sight, Lin Muyu was immediately stunned. Both the bead and fire poker had undergone earth-shaking changes.

The originally smooth and plain-colored bead.

Now had a colorful star mark on its surface that was identical to the one between her eyebrows. The mark glowed with a faint halo and was very beautiful.

The fire poker that Xiaomu had transformed into had an even more astonishing change.

It was no longer the dull, unremarkable wooden stick from before.

Instead, it had become a completely transparent crystal staff. Inside the staff body, faint yet brilliant colorful light flickered, and one could tell at a glance that it was extraordinary.

“This is way too flashy…”

Lin Muyu looked at the two spirit weapons in her hands, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Although they had indeed become countless times more beautiful than before, this beauty came with extremely high recognition, making them too conspicuous.

She had originally planned to have Xiaomu maintain the appearance of a fire poker when going out.

This way, she could lower the enemy’s guard, then deliver a surprise attack!

But now it seemed this plan was completely ruined.

“Master, quickly try my new ability.”

Xiaotao’s delighted voice rang in her mind.

“How do I try it?”

Lin Muyu held the colorful bead that was flowing with light and could serve as a top-tier artwork between her fingertips, turning it over and examining it from all angles, her eyes full of curiosity.

Xiaotao didn’t answer directly.

But the next second, the colorful bead in Lin Muyu’s palm suddenly burst forth with gentle yet dazzling colorful light.

Like a thin veil, it slowly covered Lin Muyu’s pupils.

“Another visual ability?”

Lin Muyu instinctively closed and opened her eyes, her tone carrying a familiar understanding as she murmured softly.

But as soon as she opened her eyes, she took a sharp step back, so startled she nearly bit her own tongue.

The world before her had completely changed. In her field of vision, every object had a line of faint text floating above it, clear yet eerie.

Lin Muyu first focused her gaze back on the colorful bead in her hand. Sure enough, a line of neat text immediately appeared before her eyes:

【Colorful Star – Bead of Shattering Delusions

Name: Lin Xiaotao

Master: Lin Muyu

Age: 5,000 years

Abilities: Storage, Shattering Delusions, Insight, Transform Real to Illusory, Transform Illusory to Real】

Next, she turned to look at Xiaomu’s true form.

But Xiaomu’s information panel had a somewhat uncertain, blurry quality:

【Colorful Star – Crystal Transformation Wood?

Name: Lin Xiaomu

Master: Lin Muyu

Age: 1,200 years

Abilities: Size Manipulation, Light as a Feather (Speculation: Incomplete Transformation, Energy Storage)】

“X-Xiaotao! What the heck is this thing?!”

Lin Muyu’s voice was trembling.

The shock this scene brought her was no less than when she first discovered she had transmigrated, or when she accidentally saved Su Wanqing.

In fact, because it was so bizarre, the impact was even greater.

Especially when she saw the text that looked exactly like system interfaces from novels in her previous life, her heart was pounding wildly.

Could there be some magical existence in this world that she didn’t know about?

“What’s wrong, Master?”

This time it was Xiaotao’s turn to be confused. She didn’t understand why Lin Muyu was reacting so strongly.

“It’s these things before my eyes! What are these floating texts?”

Lin Muyu frantically gestured with her hands, feeling her head buzzing.

It was clearly Xiaotao’s ability, so why did she look like she didn’t know anything about it?

“Oh, you mean this!”

Xiaotao suddenly understood and clapped her hands as she explained.

“The Shattering Delusions ability has been upgraded. It gained the ability to extract item information. I named it ‘Insight’.”

“Just extracting information? But why am I seeing panels?”

Lin Muyu was still frowning, her confusion not diminished in the slightest.

She was very clear that this cultivation world had no concept of system-style mechanics. Even if Xiaotao wanted to display information, using this panel format was too strange.

“Panels? What are panels?”

Xiaotao tilted her head and asked curiously.

“What Master sees is just Insight automatically processing information according to Master’s habits into the most convenient form to understand.”

She paused, then added:

“If Master sees panels, that’s just the ability choosing the most intuitive display method to help Master understand the information clearly.”

“I see…”

Lin Muyu let out a long breath, her tense shoulders finally relaxing.

She really thought this world was hiding something as game-breaking as a system.

After all this fuss, it was just Xiaotao’s ability providing thoughtful packaging.

However, she had to admit this format was indeed intuitive enough to grasp the key points at a glance.

And this “pseudo-system” only had the function of extracting information; it couldn’t issue missions or provide rewards.

Actually, what she feared wasn’t that this world truly had systems, but that the escaped male lead had a system.

After all, the two sides had already completely fallen out.

She focused her gaze back on Xiaomu’s information, pointing at the speculation line and asking:

“By the way Xiaotao, what does this speculation mean?”

“Because Insight can’t completely understand all information.”

Xiaotao patiently explained.

“It can only combine the knowledge that you and I know, plus the object’s appearance and spiritual energy fluctuations, to make comprehensive speculations.”

Once she said this, Lin Muyu immediately understood.

Xiaotao’s information was complete because she understood herself best.

Xiaomu’s information had speculation because after Xiaomu’s evolution, she gained new abilities that both Xiaotao and herself were unaware of.

Naturally, Insight could only make speculations based on existing clues.