How to fool the Newbie System
His mother turned out to be a great demon.
That explained a lot of things including his inability to cultivate and his weak body.
The previous Wen Qi had once asked about his mother, but that simple question made Minister Wen look at him with Boundless love and hatred.
It was a very peculiar expression that scared the shit out of Wen Qi and he dared not ask about the matter again.
But he understood him right before his death.
His mother was a great demon just as strong as Minister Wen and she happened to be a nine-tailed Heavenly Fox.
It was a whole lot of history and scheming, but Minister Wen and his mother fell in love in their rivalry and he came to be.
But his mere existence caused a lot of trouble and made the already tight relationship between demons and humans irreconcilable.
It was a known fact that demons lost half of their cultivation when nurturing their offspring. And the more powerful the demon, the more cultivation they'd lose.
It was all connected to Bloodline and Bloodline powers and it was fine since cultivation could be recovered. But that was a whole other matter in his case.
He was the offspring of a human and a demon, two races that were never meant to get along just fine let alone fall in love and reproduce.
The whole thing was complicated and dangerous for the two races, especially his mother whose cultivation, Bloodline, and lifespan were all sucked up by him.
It was fine if that was all, but the thing that she gave birth to was not even as powerful as one would have been led to believe.
Both parents were talents and powerhouses, but he turned out to be a waste who was too weak to even get it up. It was… unexpected.
The demons did not like that at all.
It was fine if he was incredibly talented and powerful with a heaven-defying bloodline, but that was not the case. And it led to war.
As for his mother, no one knew where the demons took her. Even Prime Minister wen was helpless about this.
His cultivation was high and his standing great, but that did not amount to much in this situation. And it led to the current situation.
Wen Qi was assassinated by the Demon Race. It was unclear what was going on but that was the gist of it.
…
It was actually not that difficult to imagine what was going on and that was what made Wen Qi dazed for a day.
He was an author with a devilish imagination and a mind for schemes and fraud. If news got to Minister Wen that his only son, one borne to him with the blood and life of the love of his life, was killed by demons… Wen Qi could not even imagine what the outcome would be.
Someone like Minister Wen would not get to his position by being a good person.
This was the cultivation world and the rules of the cultivation world were there for all to see. It was stupid to think that he did not have blood and bones supporting his ascension and position.
*Ding. Ding. Ding.*
[How long are you going to ignore me? I am a system, damn it. A SYSTEM!]
"Annoying. It's rude to interrupt my daydreaming. This is the source of my income."
[Ahem. Welcome to the Strongest Sect System. This is your golden finger that will help you create the strongest sect in existence.
You don't have to worry about anything else and all you have to do is be a sect master and lead the sect to the top of the world.
The system will give you all the resources you need, no strings attached. You will also get missions and tasks and rewards and penalties depending on the completion rate.]
[Main Mission: Create the Strongest Sect in Existence.
Main Mission Reward: Strongest Sect in Existence.]
[Side Mission 1: Establish a Sect in 24 hrs.
Reward: Absolute Essence Body. Unlock Bloodline & Bloodline Inheritance.
Penalty: System Unbinds, Host Perishes.]
[You still have 6 hours left before the mission ends.]
"I am not doing it. You can issue the penalties right away."
[Err…]
[If you don't do the mission, you are going to lose the system and die for real.]
"So what? You should get on with it."
[…]
"What are you waiting for? It's just death, as for losing the system, who wanted you to begin with?"
[…]
[You know what the system is used for, right? You, as an author, ought to know how broken a system can be. I can make you the strongest being in existence.]
"Stronger than you? Stronger than the one that created you?"
[…]
"Alright, let's not make things difficult for each other. You must be a newbie system, right?"
[No. I have had 7 hosts before you.]
Wen Qi could hear the pride and defiance in the system's voice. But that was not much. He was an author previously and all this was to be expected.
"What happened to those hosts?"
[…. They died.]
It was almost a whisper and had it not been in his mind, he would have missed it.
"You killed 7 hosts and you plan to tell me what to do. What is the difference between dying now and dying later? Might as well do it now while I don't have much attachments to this world."
[That… I can't do it.]
"Then why do it? And don't tell me that it's motivation and BS like that. Are you trying to control me? Are you those parasitic systems that devour the host after they grow up?"
[There are systems that can do that? But the rules say that systems are not allowed to harm their hosts.]
"What's up with newbies nowadays? You don't even know this?"
[It's… it's… not in the database. How would I know? Why do you know?]
"That's not important. What is important is that you are a newbie with zero records and all your hosts have died. Why should I listen to you?"
[…]
"Just listen to me from now on."
[But that is against SOP.]
"Say, what is your objective?"
[To assist you in making the Strongest Sect in Existence.]
"Exactly. You are to assist me. Assist. Not order me around. Much less issue threats here and there."
[But… but…]
"But nothing. How about this? Listen to me for a year. If you feel that you can do a better job than me by the end of the year, I promise to follow you obediently, you won't hear a word from me."
[…. Okay.]
Wen Qi could hear the struggle behind the voice but that was to be expected, he just had to prove himself to convince others.