Chapter 2: 2 Heroic Heroines!

【Congratulations to the Host for completing Task One, the reward has been issued to the System Warehouse! The Host has gained 10 Heroic Couple Points and 2 Strategy Value!】

【Congratulations to the Host for completing Task Two, the reward has been issued to the System Warehouse! The Host has gained 25 Heroic Couple Points and 3 Strategy Value!】

【Congratulations to the Host, your initiative in taking the Binding Companion as a Personal Disciple has made the other party extremely moved, Strategy Value increased by 5 points!】

【Congratulations to the Host for completing a system-issued task for the first time, the Couple Black Market is now open. The Host may consume the corresponding Heroic Couple Points to exchange for various items and props in the Black Market...】

【Tip: Heroic Couple Points can also be used to increase Cultivation Points. Specific usage method: Add Heroic Couple Points to Cultivation Points to experience a cultivation speed akin to a divine enlightenment!】

【The methods to obtain Heroic Couple Points are as follows: The Host should strive to complete system tasks, or actively engage in friendly interactions with the Binding Companion to earn Heroic Couple Points!】

【Tip: The completion rate of some tasks is determined by the feedback and feelings of the Binding Companion. The more comfortable the Binding Companion feels during the task process, the higher the completion rate, and vice versa!】

【Tip: If the Binding Companion is made to feel uneasy or even repulsed, there is a possibility that corresponding Heroic Couple Points and Strategy Value will be deducted!】

【Note: All props and items in the Couple Black Market can only be used by the two Xia Lu, and cannot be provided to anyone other than the two Xia Lu. Please be aware!】

【Note: The types of items in the Couple Black Market include, but are not limited to, props for increasing strength, maintaining youth and beauty, medicine for injuries and illnesses, Martial Arts manuals, and Xia Lu romantic interests. Please explore the specific items in the Black Market yourself.】

【Tip: The Host only needs to use their intent to drive it, and the Black Market will open.】

Following Ning Mu's departure from the main hall.

Liu Qingmei immediately frowned, the voice that suddenly rang out in her mind making her alert once again.

But looking around, apart from herself, the empty hall had no one else, and only then did she realize the existence of the system.

What was even more depressing was that this voice had actually turned into Ning Mu's!

Doesn't this mean there will be a Ning Mu chattering in her ear every day from now on? With a helpless sigh, Liu Qingmei supported her forehead with her hand.

Those jade-white, delicate fingertips kneaded the space between her brows.

Before her eyes, her own Xia-Lu A System interface was clearly visible.

Xia-Lu A System Binding Host: Liu Qingmei Age: 38

Cultivation Points: Sitting Reflection Realm 【Grandmaster】 (2000/51200) + Martial Arts: Willow Leaf Sword Technique (Perfect) +, Water-Question Sword Art (Great Success) +, Movement Technique · Jade Spring Fish Leap (Small Success) +...

Current Task: None

Binding Companion: Ning Mu

Strategy Value: 10 (The higher the Strategy Value, the higher the Heroic Couple Points rewarded for completing tasks and interactions. Strategy Value is mainly derived from intimate interactions, with a small amount from the perfection of task completion) Heroic Couple Points: 35 Couple Black Market: Opened

Warehouse: Huan Yang Dan Sui Pian X10 (Can be synthesized)

Seeing the Huan Yang Dan Sui Pian in the warehouse, the previously worried Liu Qingmei was instantly delighted, a flash of surprise appearing in her peach-blossom eyes, and she immediately asked silently with her intent: "How do I synthesize it?"

【Tip: Do you need to synthesize the Huan Yang Dan Sui Pian into a complete Returning Yang Pill?】

"Yes!"

Liu Qingmei clenched her fists slightly in excitement and nodded without hesitation.

【Synthesizing... Please wait!】

【Huan Yang Dan Sui Pian X10 have disappeared, you have obtained a complete Returning Yang Pill!】

【Tip: Silently recite 'extract', and the Returning Yang Pill will be extracted into the Host's hand. This item is a task reward item and can be provided to others besides the two Xia Lu.】

Looking at the medicinal pill that appeared in her hand, Liu Qingmei did not immediately take it to Ye Bufan to consume.

Medicine and martial arts are inseparable.

She first felt the vigorous medicinal power within the pill, and after confirming that it was truly a good medicine, she scraped off a few crumbs from it and put them into a teacup, brewing them with tea.

Afterwards, she called over a sturdy servant to test the medicine.

After the servant swallowed it, she patiently waited for half an hour, and only after confirming there was no toxicity did she take the pill and walk excitedly toward Ye Bufan's sickroom.

Back courtyard, Qiyun Tower.

Led by a maid from the back manor, Ning Mu changed his residence and moved into Qiyun Tower.

This was a courtyard that had been vacant for a long time, with a three-story pavilion, five handymen in the courtyard, and five maids, a standard configuration for a junior of a collateral branch of the Ye Family.

Sitting in the main hall of the new courtyard.

Ning Mu opened his Main System to take a look.

Xia Lu Zhu Xitong

Name: Ning Mu

Age: 18

Gender: Male Height: 181 Cultivation Points: + None

Martial Arts: None Cultivation Points: 50 Warehouse: Frost-Proud Saber Technique (Martial Arts) X1, Wind-Snow Cold Crow (Wuji · Saber type) X1 Couple Black Market: Not opened Number One Sub-System...

Possessing the Main System, he could clearly see the various data of the Sub-system owners.

A Grandmaster-level martial artist, truly worthy of being the Manor Mistress of Cangjian Villa!

With this level of strength, looking across the entire martial arts world, it probably wouldn't be inferior to anyone, right? Ning Mu, who had not been in this world for long, did not know the situation either and could only estimate in his heart.

A few days ago.

He had originally been holding a beautiful maiden and swearing oaths, never expecting the oath to be fulfilled; he was truly struck by lightning, and when he woke up, he was lying in the stables.

In this world, he had suffered from hunger and cold since he was a child, and during a drought, his father had used his last breath to sell him to Cangjian Villa as a slave.

For the next dozen years or so, he had followed Lao Zhangtou in the stables, making a living by raising and washing horses.

Until the memory and soul from the other world merged.

After these days of understanding.

He knew a thing or two about this world.

This world is vast and boundless, treacherous and unpredictable.

The imperial court and the martial arts world rely on each other and check each other.

There are True Persons of the Buddha Gate who raise swords to stir the green duckweed, blocking the river with a single sword; there are Arhats of the Buddha Gate whose breath is like thunder, holding up the sky with a single finger; there are strong men of great strength who can pull up mountains, lifting cauldrons to resist peaks; and there are elegant sword immortals who ride swords across the sky, exceptionally graceful.

There are thousand-year-old great demons that take human form to bewitch all living beings.

There are also demonic sect ancestors who have lived for a thousand years, stirring up human catastrophes and suppressing countless righteous heroes so they cannot recover.

Nowadays, this bond connecting the imperial court and the Jianghu has become increasingly thin, with the possibility of collapsing at any moment.

The Jianghu is in turmoil, and the imperial court is uneasy.

Natural disasters run rampant, and man-made calamities rage.

This is an era where a single spark can start a prairie fire, and pythons and sparrows can even swallow dragons! However, the heavens have not treated him too poorly.

He studied this Xia Lu system for a long time before he figured it out.

The first target is the wife of the Cangjian Villa Villa Master, the daughter of the current Head of the Family of the renowned Jianghu Liu Family, Liu Qingmei.

The reason for binding to her is that Liu Qingmei is one of the top heroines in the entire Jiangnan region; if she had not married the Cangjian Villa Villa Master Ye Bufan, there would likely be no shortage of legends about this noble-born swordswoman in the Jianghu today.

Looking at the Cultivation Points he had just earned from Liu Qingmei, Ning Mu did not hesitate and added them to his cultivation.

【Notification: Congratulations to the Host for increasing Cultivation Points by 50, breaking through the first layer of Martial Dao, and reaching the Opening Aperture Realm!】

【Notification: Congratulations to the Host for reaching the Opening Aperture Realm; the Xia Lu Black Market is now open!】

【Notification: You may convert Cultivation Points into Black Market points to purchase Black Market items!】

Cultivation: Opening Aperture Realm (0/200)

Next.

He took out the rewards from the system storage.

【Do you wish to learn the Martial Arts 'Frost-Defying Saber Technique'?】

"Learn!"

Does that even need to be asked?

Immediately, Ning Mu felt streams of powerful knowledge appearing in his mind, as if he had been enlightened by a master.

Looking at the famous saber 'Wind-Snow Cold Crow' in his hand, Ning Mu sighed and put it away with some regret.

Such a precious famous saber is not something he can display at his current level.

He walked into the courtyard, found a bamboo stick, and began to practice the saber technique he had just learned! 【You have practiced the Earth-Tier Martial Arts Frost-Defying Saber Technique; saber technique proficiency +1, current proficiency level: Beginner, please keep working hard!】

Cultivation: Opening Aperture Realm (1/200) + Martial Arts: Frost-Defying Saber Technique (Beginner 1/100) + Ning Mu's eyes lit up.

He hurriedly practiced it a second time.

A third time...

However, starting from the second time, after completing two consecutive practices, neither proficiency nor cultivation increased! It seems.

It mainly still depends on the system! In his past life, he was someone who clung to the legs of wealthy women.

How does it feel like in this world rich with the flavor of martial arts, he still cannot escape the fate of being a kept man? Ning Mu raised an eyebrow.

He opened the System Interface, searching for what kind of task he should issue to Liu Qingmei...

(End of chapter)