Cao Ling

Inside an extremely large cave.

"This should be enough for me to take notice," mumbled Xu Yue as hundreds of formations suddenly appeared inside and outside of the cave.

Sadly, Xu Yue did not have much understanding of formations, as such she could only use a lot of formation flags if not this cave would really become nearly unconquerable.

After admiring her work for a few seconds, Xu Yue's stone body suddenly arrived in the middle of all the formations.

"That Heaven Scrying Temple really did not cheapen out on materials," mumbled Xu Yue as she touched the side of the coffin in front of her.

Then, mere moments later she sat in it before the coffin closed over her on it's own.

After a while, Xu Yue closed her eyes, her soul exited the stone body.

...

Feeling herself be whole once again, a smile appeared on Xu Yue's face, even though splitting her soul did not do any damage to it because of it's great quality, Xu Yue still did not like it, preferring to be as whole as possible.

After making sure nothing had gone extremely wrong, Xu Yue closed her eyes.

...

'It' was scared, even though It could not see anything, It could feel both it's brethren and the terrifying giants towering above it being destroyed.

'It' suddenly began shaking because of the pain as something grazed it, completely annihilating all of it's brethren on one of its sides.

As the danger seemed to have stopped, 'It' stopped moving as well, not that it was not scared, but rather it could no longer move it's tiny body.

Suddenly, 'It' could no longer feel it's remaining brethren, who had survived the onslaught, but sadly, even if it was not injured, it could not move as it was just a blade of grass.

"A blade of grass?" thought it as for the first time in its existence, it has thought.

Suddenly, something strange happened, the injuries, which the blade of grass did not know if it could actually recover from disappeared.

"Injuries," thought the blade of grass as strange knowledge kept appearing in it's tiny mind.

"Comfortable," thought the blade of grass as the word for what it was feeling emerged in it's mind.

"Word," thought the blade of grass as before it could do anything, it knew another word.

But suddenly, something happened.

"Pain pain pain pain," thought the blade of grass as too much information entered it's tiny mind at once.

"Death," thought the blade of grass, as suddenly, it knew which state it was currently approaching.

Before the blade of grass could think about anything else, something else happened.

"Comfortable Qi," thought the blade of grass as suddenly a gentle Qi healed it's mind once again.

"Qi?" thought the blade of grass as suddenly, memories of something called a cultivation technique appeared in it's mind.

...

"Sun," thought the blade of grass, as suddenly, it disappeared from next to that gentle being and appeared next to it's brethren.

"Sad," thought the blade of grass, but still, it then left that emotion behind, as it started basking in the sun.

Nobody noticed the fact that in a peacefull corner of the wood region, an extra blade of grass had appeared.

...

After basking in the sun for an unknown amount of time, the meaning of another word appeared in it's mind.

"Annoying," thought the blade of grass.

[Host, the Grass Growing System is only here for your benefit]

"Annoying,"

[Host, the Grass Growin-]

"Annoying,"

[Hos-]

"Annoying"

A peacefull silence then ensued in the mind of the blade of grass.

"Peacefull," thought the blade of grass as it continued basking in the sun.

...

[Host, Do you like the sun?]

"The sun," thought the blade of grass as a bunch of the new words appeared in it's mind.

"Like."

[If you get my help, you will be able to bask in the sun as much as you want.]

Suddenly, happiness began radiating from the blade of grass.

"Like System," thought the blade of grass, as it was easily bribed by a shameless system.

...

That day, nobody noticed that an extremely small amount of spiritual energy was being absorbed by a tiny blade of grass.

...

"Why no sun? You lie?" asked the blade of grass, after being nourished by spiritual energy with the help of both it's cultivation technique and the system, it had managed to become quite a bit smarter.

[Host needs to wait a while longer]

Sadly for the blade of grass, it did not know that the System will continue to say this very same sentence for the next one hundred years.

...

Twelve years later,

For the past twelve years, spiritual energy had been accumulating inside of the blade of grass, suddenly, the size of the grass grew by two inches, but let this not fool you, the inner transformation of the grass was immense.

[Host, I did it for your own good]

Hearing what the system had to say, the blade of grass let out a snort.

"You dare say this after tricking an innocent blade of grass all this time," thought the blade of grass as the desire to beat up the system suddenly emerged in it's mind.

After becoming a tier two monster, the intelligence of the blade of grass grew by leaps and bounds, and it's innate memories, which were restricted by it's fragile soul were fully mastered by it.

Suddenly, a voice more mechanical compared to the usual system voice appeared in the mind of the blade of grass.

[Host intelligence has reached the threshold, System Shop Opened]

As the blade of grass looked at the system shop for a moment, a smile appeared on it's soul form, while it's tiny body also slightly shook

"Very well system, miss Cao Ling had forgiven you," arrogantly said Cao Ling towards the system.

Hearing what name the grass spirit had chosen for herself, the system wanted to erupt into laughter, but even so, it's stoic persona persisted.

[Detected host dislike towards System has reached 0, spirit stone rewarded]

An awkward silence ensued the moment the system's other more mechanical voice sounded once again