Chapter 3: Heaven's Favorable Omen

  After a simple recall, Wu Yeru roughly understood the world he was in. As for the specifics, it's better to talk about them later. After all, there's a saying that "tomorrow is long" and no one can swallow a fat man in one breath. Speaking of fat men, Wu Yeru secretly measured his own figure, then fell silent.

  The top priority is to first secure a foothold and establish oneself, at the very least one cannot be like Little Fatty who gets dragged out and beaten up for no reason.

  Although Xiao Pangzi was a illegitimate child and had no status in the family, he often suffered from others' cold eyes. Even several servants who relied on their masters' power loved to bully him when they had nothing better to do. However, it's true that no one ordered Xiao Pangzi to do this or that, nor did he need to serve anyone. At mealtimes, he would go to the kitchen to get food. Usually, Xiao Pangzi was idle and carefree. At the end of each month, he could still receive 50 taels of silver as allowance. Although most of the time, this monthly allowance was also consumed by deductions from top to bottom and extortion by other young masters, Xiao Pangzi basically had no place to spend money except for learning some characters from his mother and buying a few miscellaneous books. Over the years, he had saved up over 1,000 taels, which was barely enough to buy a pellet of medicine for cultivation. The main reason why Xiao Pangzi suffered everywhere today was actually because of his own incompetence.

  Thinking of this, Wu Ye Yu shook his head. His past self was really not making progress. He knew that in this world strength was respected, and he had a lot of free time, yet he didn't even try to improve his own strength, not even by a little bit. Maybe it was because of this that Ding Tai Ming Yu instructed him before dying to just live a peaceful life...

  Wu Ye Yu calmed down and began to recall the "Xuan Xu Zhen Jing" that Dantai Mingyu had forced Xiao Pang to memorize before his death. Fortunately, Xiao Pang's mother had been extremely strict in making him remember it, so he remembered it word for word, although a bit stutteringly. Wu Ye Yu himself also had a general understanding of the body's meridians and acupoints due to Old Wu's influence from a young age. Although the names of the acupoints might be different in this other world, combining Xiao Pang's memories still allowed him to roughly analyze some of them. The entry-level incantation was generally not too complicated or cumbersome.

  Wu Yeru's first formal cultivation began in a muddled way, but as soon as he calmed down and focused his mind, the Qi in his body surprisingly started to move like an arm, flowing along several meridians with great care. Every time the Qi flowed through the meridians, it produced a slight tingling and tearing sensation, just like someone was lightly scratching an itch, which felt extremely comfortable, causing Wu Yeru to unknowingly become immersed in it, with a sense of being unable to extricate himself.

  And every time the vital energy runs along the prescribed route and returns to its starting point, it also grows slightly, stimulating Wu Yeran's unceasing operation of his Gongfa. The heavenly spiritual energy from outside the body also enters the body through the pores, transforming into a special kind of vital energy that constantly nourishes and strengthens the body.

  At this time, Wu Ye Yu, who was completely naked, was also undergoing bone marrow washing due to his first practice. Generally speaking, as long as it is the first practice, most people will undergo bone marrow washing, except for those with poor qualifications or pure physical bodies.

  Perhaps because this body was too weak, and the amount of waste it took in was too great, a mysterious black substance began to seep out from its pores, giving off an unpleasant odor. As Wu Ye Yu ran through 749 small heavenly cycles, his plump body became covered in a thick layer of black oil, which stuck to his entire being.

  When Wu Yeyu finished and all the energy returned to his dantian, he immediately discovered this situation, cursed secretly, and jumped back into the small stream, scrubbing hard.

  "Ding! Energy detected within host body, meeting the minimum standard for system activation. Does the host wish to activate this system?"

  On the one hand, Wu Yeyu was delighted with his successful cultivation, but suddenly hearing this voice made him stunned, squatting in the water and turning his neck around, licking his lips with his tongue, carefully considering something.

  "Excuse me, has the host activated this system?" Just as he was stunned, the same voice from earlier spoke up again.

  "Activated!" Wu Yeyu's heart couldn't help but burst with excitement, it turned out that the legend was true! Among the vast crowd of crossers and reborn people, those who have an extraordinary aura that defies heaven will receive a welfare gift, hehehehe! The ancients were indeed not deceiving me!!!

  "My dad is the king of character!"

  "Laozi's aura is unmatched!"

  …

  After being unable to control herself and going crazy for a while, Wu Yeru slowly calmed down. Although previously Wu Yeru had also appeared calm and collected, without any loss of composure or excessive behavior, in fact all of that was just an act put on for her own sake. Since her previous life had been mixed up poorly and no one gave her face, she would first give herself some face.

  Although I had high hopes for a better life when I first arrived in this strange land, and wished to become the main character, wasn't there even a hint of fear and worry? In the end, it was all because I didn't have enough confidence. After all, Wu Ye Yu hadn't lived many years in his past life, and he wasn't even an adult yet. As for this so-called "confidence", apart from one's innate personality, experience also plays a big part, right? So how much experience could a teenager possibly have? That's basically just wishful thinking. But now...

  "Ding! System startup complete. Due to the first-time startup, the system rewards the host with a storage space, 10,000 energy points, and one lottery chance. The storage space expands as the host's own strength increases. Initial space is 10 cubic meters. The host will have three free inquiry opportunities."

  "Huh? Is this cat's place going to charge us for asking questions from now on?" Wu Yeyu muttered to himself in a low voice.

  "Yes, to help the host develop good habits of independence and self-reliance, from now on, every time the host asks or inquires about something, this system will deduct a certain number of energy points based on the difficulty of the question. The first question has been answered."

  …

  Is this considered the first one? Wu Ye was secretly annoyed, this broken system is too stingy, just a few questions, since they were all given away, why not give more.

  "So who created you then? And how did I get here? Is it related to you?" Wu Ye Yu asked quickly, with a hint of cleverness, wanting to see if it counted as one question.

  "Who created this system? The host's permissions are insufficient, and I won't answer. The second question has been answered. As for space traversal, it was because the host happened to be hit by this system and bound to its soul, releasing too much energy at the time (Note: This is free since it was caused by this system)."

  "Damn it...!" Wu Ye Yu said, originally the young master crossed over to say that in the end it was still you who caused it, how could I not feel even a bit of remorse from you, damn!

  "Last one! Cough, how do I get the energy points?" Wu Yeyu felt that it was better to clarify things, just thinking of cheating and getting caught, luckily another question was free, otherwise tsk tsk! In the future, if there's anything else, just spend some points.

  "In theory, any object with energy and stable energy within the system can be absorbed and converted into energy points. Absorbing energy will consume a certain amount of spiritual power from the host. The third question has been answered, please host quickly upgrade your strength to obtain more permissions for this system! Host has one lottery chance, does host want to participate in the lottery?"

  "Hmm, it can absorb everything, maybe I can take advantage of it later, lottery!"

  As soon as Wu Ye's voice fell, a large round tray appeared in front of him, with all sorts of items on it, roughly over a hundred kinds. There were even martial arts manuals like the Nine Yin True Classics, the Indestructible Body, and the Drunken Immortal's Moon-Viewing Steps. Although he still didn't know what level these things would be in this world, they shouldn't be bad since they came from the system, right? Hmm, and there was an egg too... something to eat? A pet? Whoa! A left-handed revolver! An energy cannon! And a manual razor... This really did cover everything. Hopefully his luck wouldn't be too bad.

  Only the pointer in the middle of the dial began to rotate, and after tens of seconds, it started to slow down gradually.

  "Hmm, that egg is gone, energy cannon! Ah~ it's quite cool too, my Nine Yin Scripture is also gone! Wipe! Vajra Unbreakable Body!"

  As the pointer slowed down, several mediocre martial arts manuals had already passed by. "Alas, how can one know whether losing a horse is not a blessing? Who knows if there won't be something better?" Wu Yeyu muttered to himself with his chin in his hand.

  The left wheel gun is gone, Wu Yeyu is very calm, now the pointer is almost slowly moving forward, huh, luck shouldn't be that bad, right?

  Wu Yeru's expression was tense, with beads of water on his forehead that could have been either sweat or creek water. He stared fixedly at the pointer in front of him, his two index fingers rubbing wildly against his temples as he muttered to himself, hoping to transmit his thoughts to the pointer and make it move even a little bit.

  Finally, the razor is gone! Who the hell brought this crappy thing up? My body is only 10 years old! I haven't even grown a beard yet, and even if I do in the future, there are plenty of ways to deal with it, don't need this stupid razor!

  After a moment of wild thinking, the pointer finally stopped moving, but it was pointing at a cluster of blue light, and I don't know what it is. However, from the soft glow it emits, hmm ~ pure and gentle, full of vitality and energy, it's simply the source of life! This... shouldn't be cheap stuff, right? Wu Ye Yu thought to himself, not very confidently.

  "Ding! Congratulations, host, you have acquired the primary Water Force. Please explore its specific effects on your own. Also, this system is only visible to the host, and since we have already bound our souls, future communication can be done through mere thoughts. To encourage the host to work hard and improve their strength, the system will periodically release random tasks with random rewards. Failure to complete these tasks will result in a deduction of energy points. Please prepare yourself! Open the character attribute panel to freely view your own attributes."

  "Random tasks? Well, at least it's some motivation. Hmm, hopefully there won't be any too weird tasks later." Wu Yeyu said, stroking his chin.

  At this time, the big wheel of lottery disappeared, leaving only a blue light floating in the air. As soon as he reached out to grab it, Wu Yeru felt a refreshing and cool sensation as soon as he touched the blue light. After the blue light entered his hand, his whole body was filled with a refreshing and cool feeling, and knowledge about mastering primary water power appeared in Wu Yeru's mind.

  After a while, Wu Ye Yu came back to his senses and had some understanding of the blue light just now. This initial water force was actually a very powerful thing, not only could it initially control the water element, such as disguise, but also transform the water element at will, solid, gas and liquid, gather water elements in a small range and other auxiliary functions. If you want to use it for attack, basically there won't be much effect at this stage, but it's versatile, at least in the future Wu Ye Yu wants to take a bath, he can control the surrounding water to slowly rotate, peel off dirty water and exclude foreign objects, without even moving his hands.

  Of course, these all have a scope of effect. In theory, primary mastery of the water element can actually control the water elements within 100 meters. But knowing is one thing, doing it is another matter altogether. Wu Ye tried it out and roughly found that he could now control the water around him within about 5 meters, but it wasn't very proficient yet. He had just thought to control the flow of water into a snake shape, but instead it became a tangled mess of knots, and the water was still constantly dripping down. Just as he was about to make further adjustments, the tangled mess in front of him suddenly scattered with a "whoosh".

  "Hmm, looks like I still need to practice more in the future, hehehe, after all, it's better than nothing! Humph! When I travel to the desert in the future, at least I can drink a mouthful of pure water and even wash up in the morning. Compared to those who can only use water sparingly, I'm happier than you guys!" Wu Ye Yu felt a sense of self-satisfaction as he controlled the water around him to scrub himself clean, and soon he was spotless. With a swagger, he walked onto the shore with his hands behind his back, looking like a big shot. His calm eyes, slightly raised corners of his mouth, and an air of confidence and nonchalance made it seem like he was a high-ranking official on a rural inspection tour...

  Putting on his own dried clothes, Wu Ye Yu slightly tied up his long hair with a bandana and felt pretty good about himself. However, he suddenly felt a bit hungry, which was understandable since he hadn't eaten anything since being beaten yesterday. It was already after noon, and considering the kitchen's management and his usual status, those lowly servants probably wouldn't leave any food for him. He'd have to take care of it himself!