Chapter 266 – Unforgiven (VII)

Chapter 266

Unforgiven (VII)

It seemed as soon as the beast drew its last breath, the white haze began to dissipate.

It revealed a scorched little square with only two signs of life anywhere: one being the kid we were expecting, and the other being a flower we were not.

We approached cautiously and slowly, though the kid was fast asleep. Better safe than sorry, as it were.

[–Creator’s Eyes used]

[Target: Xing Feng]

[Age: 10]

[Talent: Mortal]

[Cultivation Realm: None]

[Cultivation Arts: None]

[…]

[Traits]

[Lucky (Rare) — has somewhat unnatural luck]

[Quiet (Common) — a naturally withdrawn countenance]

[…]

[Assessing Suitability…]

[No special physiques or bloodlines discovered]

[…]

[Recommendation: a completely ordinary mortal with less than stellar talent for cultivation. Their somewhat lucky disposition, however, has ties with the nature of existence itself. Host is recommended to remold the target’s lackluster talents and take him in]

[…]

[Final assessment: a blank slate seedling with no prior exposure to any manner of Qi. Silently perfect for forging a unique Physique and grafting an unnatural set of Roots]

… hmm.

What?

No, seriously.

WHAT?

All this… for a literally slightly lucky kid?!

Where is my monster?! Where is the heaven-defying talent that can one day become an Emperor?! What is this absolutely ordinary kid doing here?! And how the hell is he even here?!

Wow.

Just… wow.

Supremely wow.

So much anticipation, so many expectations, and it’s a dud.

… this world really did change me. I just thought of a completely innocent kid as a dud. Hey, at least it’s not a psychopath, and–wait, the system is telling me to take him in and remold him.

Oh!

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Is it finally the time?

I’ve been packing two rather neat tools in my spatial rings for a while, with nowhere to use them. The custom Jade-tier implant that grants someone the Martial Body physique and the more recent Talent Imbuement, which turns an ordinary person with no discernable talent for cultivation into a Heaven-tier one.

Is that what it’s implying? That I should blow both of them on this one kid?

… just because they’re lucky?

To be fair, the only person I’ve ever inspected that had the remotely similar description was likely Long Tao, under the ‘Heavenly Chosen’ mantle, where it indicated the world favors him in the outcomes.

It’s all intangible, at least to me, but though I just assumed that other kids also had something similar, the system never explicitly said that they did.

This kid, even if it’s just ‘Lucky’, I suppose it’s rare enough of a trait that it warrants investing? I don’t know.

Regardless, I may as well use them–it’s not like I was saving them for anything special or particular. There was also my ability to put one of my Disciples into the state of Enlightenment that I got a while back and hadn’t used (partly because I don’t really have a good explanation for it, and partly because I didn’t know what it specifically entailed), so I can use the newcomer to test it.

Hooh.

All kinds of things are spilling out of me today, like a tidal torrent that I’ve forgotten to dam up.

“He’s waking up,” Dai Xiu warned.

“Don’t crowd him,” I warned. “Give him space.”

The kid slowly woke up, yawned, stretched, and stood up, practically ignoring us as he went over to the flower, crouching next to it, and mumbling something.

After a little while, he started seemingly looking for something, his expression turning strange as he couldn’t find it.

“Uh, Mr. Ghosts, did you see anyone drop some food here?”

Ghosts? There are Ghosts here?!!

–no, wait, you idiot! He means us, clearly! Oh, thank God I kept my mouth shut, or I would have never lived to hear the end of it.