Chapter 154: System

Klein, who was currently resolving the Witch Sect Revival Plan in Backlund, felt his body stiffen abruptly; a maddening sense of being watched welled up, along with a faint feeling of danger.

Ever since he broke through to become a Saint, stepped onto Sequence 2, and then advanced to Sequence 1 with the Sequence 1 materials Jiang Xuan gave him, he had never experienced this kind of crisis sensation of being spied upon.

He could merely sense that above Source Castle a figure sitting cross-legged would always appear faintly; it was as if he had been watching him continuously from the very beginning.

Klein knew that was the gaze from the Floating Life Xuanhuang Heavenly Venerate; he was waiting for the moment Klein advanced to Sequence 0 "Fool".

This time there was no Amon forcing him to advance; instead he himself became hesitant, always waiting for Jiang Xuan to bring him news.

But this sensation of being watched was completely different from the Heavenly Venerate's spying; this gaze held more curiosity and lacked that aggressive desire.

Klein raised his hand and snapped his fingers; accompanied by faint firelight he arrived at a washroom in some unknown nook and cranny, and his consciousness instantly arrived above the Gray Mist.

Grey Mist it was still eternal... no, it changed again!!

Originally he had already grown accustomed to that bright moon above the Gray Mist; now that bright moon suddenly blazed into a sun? The entire Tarot Club location was fully illuminated.

That sun was like an eye, divided into inner and outer rings; the outer ring emitted dazzling light and scorching heat, while the inner ring appeared dark and deep — even the outer ring's blinding radiance could not envelop that darkness.

That faint sensation of being watched came precisely from this brilliantly shining sun!

"Qian Sui! Is it you?" Klein sent a strand of consciousness into that Great Sun, asking cautiously.

The next second, the Great Sun abruptly burst with light; the surrounding Gray Mist was pushed back several hundred meters, and the entire space became vast and empty.

Jiang Xuan's consciousness projection instantly appeared above the Gray Mist.

"I'm asking you! Who am I?" Jiang Xuan's gaze revealed curiosity toward this place and a clear "foolishness".

Klein's body retreated several steps violently, staring at Jiang Xuan with shock-filled eyes.

He had pinned his hope of avoiding possession on Qian Sui; who could have imagined Qian Sui had lost his memory?

"Qian Sui! You are..." Klein's voice abruptly stuck in his throat; from start to finish he did not know who Jiang Xuan was, only because Jiang Xuan could see through his identity and had provided him and the Tarot Club with too much help did he gradually come to trust Jiang Xuan.

Jiang Xuan frowned; merely by staring at Jiang Xuan he could faintly glimpse the other's experiences, but because of a partial ability of the Concealment Authority they appeared fragmented and incoherent.

Even so, he completely saw every scene where the other had interacted with himself.

"Have I always been this willful?" Jiang Xuan couldn't help but complain about himself.

He never considered himself a person of this world, nor even a person of the Zhetian World; therefore, no matter which world he was in, his state of mind was never very stable, like an Immortal wandering through the world, carrying a transcendent and unworldly temperament.

On the contrary, after losing his memory now, that temperament was completely gone; looking back at his former self, there was indeed a kind of proud aloofness.

Klein stood quietly to the side, not daring to speak.

Originally he already felt his Sequence 1 could help Qian Sui; now sensing the pressure of his soul, that feeling of dominating all and knowing everything — just being glanced at once, he knew he was still far, far behind Qian Sui.

Jiang Xuan raised his head to look at Source Castle standing eternally above the Gray Mist; endless Gray Mist drifted out from Source Castle, and countless Gray Mist surged into Source Castle from all around.

"Concealment Authority, Space Authority, and Loophole?" Jiang Xuan lowered his head to look at himself, counting on his fingers the Authorities he possessed:

Knowledge, Creation, Sun, Pollution; the Authorities of Storm and Mutation had already been obtained by other True Gods, but he still had a full four Authorities!

Four versus three, the advantage is mine!

Jiang Xuan reached toward distant Source Castle and gently grasped; the entire Gray Mist Space violently surged; the originally wandering Gray Mist, as if provoked, instantly raged and rolled, the power of Concealment striving to resist Jiang Xuan's grasp.

Faintly, a will above Source Castle slowly awakened, staring at Jiang Xuan's palm.

Seeing he actually could not grab Source Castle, Jiang Xuan grew somewhat angry; the Great Sun atop his head, like a giant eye, instantly blazed; black flames rushed out from the center of that Great Sun, transforming into Black Flame Dragons that slowly devoured the Gray Mist.

Klein trembled on his seat above the Gray Mist.

He dared not move! Absolutely dared not move!

In this battle between Gray Mist and Black Flame Dragons, he had a premonition: as long as he brushed against it, his consciousness would be utterly annihilated!

Just then, the will within the Gray Mist seemed to grow angry; Source Castle actually descended actively; the moment it landed behind Klein, a fluctuation surging from Source Castle flashed past and rushed straight into Klein's body.

The mark left by the Heavenly Venerate had already perceived that Jiang Xuan had basically obtained everything of God; it was not something a single strand of his consciousness could resolve now.

The only Method is... Klein!

Countless chaotic, jumbled consciousnesses wrapped in Black Mist surged into Klein's body; this was the mark the Heavenly Venerate had laid down in Source Castle.

The mark itself had no consciousness; it only retained the remnants of the vast majority of the Heavenly Venerate's memories, yet it could control the Gray Mist.

Originally this mark would only be imprinted into his body when Klein chose to advance to Sequence 0, but now forced by Jiang Xuan it could only act in advance.

Klein only felt his soul as if about to explode; he was Zhou Mingrui, also Klein, and now the supreme Heavenly Venerate, originally one of the Three Pillars under this Star Sky.

The weight of the Heavenly Venerate's memories was truly too enormous, gradually diluting the memories uniquely belonging to Klein.

What he was experiencing now was not much different from when Jiang Xuan fused with the Chaos Sea; merely Jiang Xuan was diluted by vast Rule Authorities, while Klein was diluted by the Heavenly Venerate's memories.

Klein did not give up; the whole person sat cross-legged, hands loosely embracing Yuan Yang, gradually beginning to circulate the Refining Spirit technique Jiang Xuan gave him.

Simultaneously, the starlight shining in the sky grew even more dazzling, merely obscured by the Great Sun atop Jiang Xuan's head.

Every star believed in Klein, that Black and Yellow God who governed Luck, serving as the anchor maintaining Klein's own will!

The will opposing Jiang Xuan burrowed into Klein's body; Jiang Xuan finally arrived before the dilapidated Source Castle; on that massive stone gate missing half its piece, gray-glowing runes were drawn; though many were missing, they still emitted faint light.

Jiang Xuan reached out wanting to push open Source Castle's Gate, but his palm passed through like an illusory bubble shadow, utterly unable to touch Source Castle standing in the Void.

The Fire Dragons could still devour the Gray Mist unscrupulously, yet could not attack the more obvious Source Castle, as if it were in another layer.

Ultimately he was not Source Castle's current master; now besides the Heavenly Venerate, only Klein could touch Source Castle.

Just at this moment, Jiang Xuan felt his body suddenly develop some situation; his consciousness instantly withdrew back into the body beneath the Hollow.

In his consciousness, an ancient, simple Xuanhuang Treasure Mirror appeared dreamlike and illusory, emitting faint hazy light that gradually enveloped his consciousness.

"Ten Thousand Worlds Absorption!"

Before Jiang Xuan could figure out what this thing was, a crisp sound rang in his ear:

"Ding! Congratulations on successfully absorbing the Ten Thousand Worlds Fame System!"

"This system can help the Host quickly gain fame, becoming the rising star of the Myriad Realms! The more resounding your title, the more people who know you, the more rewards and system support you will obtain!"

"Detected that Host's main consciousness is incomplete; the system will help the Host recover memories anew!"

Along with that wooden voice ending, Jiang Xuan's memories began to trace back: devouring the Chaos Sea, withstanding the Innate Dao Diagram, riding the Nine Dragons Express, traversing the Zhetian World...

In just a few seconds, Jiang Xuan opened his eyes again; that transcendent and unworldly feeling emerged from within his body once more, his face bearing a faint smile and confidence.

"I almost completely lost consciousness!" Jiang Xuan shook his head with lingering fear; when facing the unknown, one must always be extremely cautious.

Looking at the illusory and simple panel before him, Jiang Xuan felt some surprise.

I didn't expect the Myriad Realms to actually have a system? But this system looks like a shoddy, hastily made product no matter how you look at it.

There are only two simple data statistics and one option.

Host's current World Fame: 2 million

Loyal Fan Count: 72 people

Below the two data statistics is a Shop option.

Jiang Xuan had no time to check what was inside the Shop at this moment; he stepped out, and his body instantly appeared on the God-Abandoned Land.

The God-Abandoned Land at this time had begun to return to normal; those strange, mutated creatures were almost all hiding underground, and the darkness shrouding the sky was dissipating with time. It seemed it wouldn't be long before this continent returned to normal.

Jiang Xuan, appearing in the sky, raised his head to look at the endless Star Sky.

Right now Klein was confronting the consciousness of the Heavenly Venerable, so the Source Castle would briefly lose control, causing the Gray Fog to dissipate into the Void.

What Jiang Xuan had to do was seize that momentary opportunity.

Now!

Jiang Xuan, possessing the Authority of Knowledge and Rules, could now see through the addresses of all Divine Kingdoms in the sky and their corresponding True Gods with just a glance.

Soon he locked onto a location in the Void; the gray mist flashed briefly between the space there and the Spirit World.

The next second Jiang Xuan instantly appeared in this Void, staring at the Void before him; the Eight Trigrams Furnace rotated at his Dantian, and the clear, transparent liquid at its bottom faintly emitted a profound and hidden power.

Source Quality and Authority both possess a merging nature; the greater the proportion, the more they crave to gather all Source Quality and Authority. This was also the reason for the great war between the Heavenly Venerable and God back then.

Now sensing the power from the Chaos Sea, that Gray Fog could no longer hold back and finally emerged from the hidden interstices between the Void and the Spirit World, slowly approaching the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

The Void and Spirit World themselves have no interstices; this is a mistaken interstice achieved through the "Error" Authority. If it did not actively emerge, no one could ever find it.

In the instant the gray mist representing Hidden appeared, Jiang Xuan's main body had already disappeared from Yuan Di, appearing with his physical body at the door of the Source Castle.

The Source Castle stands amidst the Eternal Hidden Mist, supported by the hidden Gray Fog in this indescribable place.

In the Gray Fog, Klein's consciousness sat in meditation here, resisting the Heavenly Venerable's erosion by relying on the Anchor and the Refining Spirit technique.

The light of Yin and Yang flowed in Jiang Xuan's eyes; after merging with the Authority of Knowledge, all information about the Source Castle was laid bare.

The Source Castle is the symbol of Mystery, Time, Fate, and Spirit World Domination. Merging with it requires the other party to reach Sequence Zero in one of the three Sequences.

Jiang Xuan had already refined the "Error" Uniqueness. Although it cannot be considered a fusion of this world's system, it is already enough!

The "Error" Domain appeared, wrapping the entire Source Castle within the Domain. The surrounding mist suddenly became quiet, as if it had forgotten to resist.

It was only now that he felt the Source Castle's rejection of him! That rejection where, once a master is recognized, one can never recognize another master.

Jiang Xuan lowered his head to look at Klein sitting in meditation beneath the Gray Fog.

It wasn't that he wanted to kill Klein. If he killed Klein, the Heavenly Venerable's consciousness would also follow the Source Castle in recognizing him as master, forcing him to bear it. He didn't want any more chaotic nonsense added to his memories; these two times had already scared him enough.

"Klein! How are you?" Jiang Xuan's figure descended upon the Gray Fog, looking at Klein's soul as he asked.

Klein raised his head with difficulty; quietness and madness coexisted in his eyes as he looked at Jiang Xuan teasingly.

"You want my Source Castle? You already have the Chaos Sea, so you can't covet the Source Castle! If the four Pillars fall asleep or do not split, all things will eventually head toward destruction! Even if you gather the Source Quality of the four Pillars, you cannot escape!"

The next second, Klein's eyes became urgent: "Qian Sui! I can't hold on much longer! Those Anchors are too few!"

This time Klein had not made too many preparations. After all, there was a big shot backing him, and he hadn't expected that before he was ready to break through to Sequence Zero, the Heavenly Venerable would forcibly possess him.

Jiang Xuan narrowed his eyes: "The only way now is for you to sever all contact with the Source Castle. That way, the Heavenly Venerable's mark will be greatly weakened. While ensuring your own safety, you will still have some energy left to absorb some of the Heavenly Venerable's memories!"

Klein nodded in agreement upon hearing this: "You're dreaming! This Source Castle is mine! I will not sever my connection with the Source Castle!"

The next second, Klein's soul shadow disappeared above the Gray Fog, and the entire Gray Fog suddenly became quiet.

Originally, there was a passage in this space specifically used to guide Klein's consciousness, but now this passage maintained by the Gray Fog disappeared instantly. The Tarot Club members also instantly could not feel the presence of the Tarot Club meeting and could not contact the supreme "Fool" Mr.

Klein completely severed his connection with the Source Castle, and the surrounding space once again fell into silence and Hidden.

Jiang Xuan perceived the surrounding space situation and let out a breath of relief.

Fortunately, he had come in this time. If Klein had severed the connection first, Jiang Xuan would never find the location of the Source Castle in this lifetime; it was simply hidden too deeply!

The next second, the Eight Trigrams Furnace soared into the sky, and huge black fire dragons instantly spread in all directions, devouring the surrounding Gray Fog.

This was almost becoming a traditional skill of the Eight Trigrams Furnace!

Looking at the ownerless Source Castle, a kind of indescribable greed and desire surged in Jiang Xuan's heart!

At this moment, he urgently wanted to merge with the Source Castle!

(Chapter End)