Chapter 1: The Yang Family's Trash

  In Yang Tian's small courtyard.

  "It's impossible, it's impossible, how could he possibly get the first place in the family trial? This is impossible." When Yang Tian heard that Yang Lui got the first place in the family trial, he couldn't accept it no matter what. The first place in the family trial wasn't something that could be easily obtained. Yang Tian Lei and Yang Tian Feng were both Martial Kings, but Yang Lui getting the first place meant what? It meant that Yang Lui had already broken through to the Martial King realm! How could he bear this?"

  "Master, this is true. Third Master indeed got the first place in the trial. The madam told me to tell you that from now on, don't conflict with him again, or the madam won't be lenient."

  "I..." Yang Tian's anger was still simmering, but he could do nothing about it. Yang Lui had taken the first place in the family trial, which meant that his position within the family would rise, and he would become an important object of cultivation for the family. If anyone wanted to strike him down or harm him, the consequences would be unpredictable.

  …………

  Yang Lei arrived at Dongfang Caiyu's courtyard.

  "And your wife?"

  "Third Master, please come in, Madam has been waiting for a long time." said servant girl Xiao Zhi.

  As he entered the house, Dongfang Caiyu was checking the accounts and looked up when she saw Yang Lei come in.

  "Here, sit."

  "Madam."

  "You can call me Mother." Dongfang Caiyu smiled and said to Yang Yue.

  Yang Lei remained silent, but in his heart he understood that she was trying to win him over. If it were the old Yang Lei, he might have agreed, but not now.

  "Since you're not willing, I won't force it. After all, you are the son of my husband." Dongfang Caixiu put down the account in her hand, "You got first place in the family trial this time, I'm very happy, and I believe your father will be too when he finds out."

  "Madam, if you called me here just to say these things, then it's not necessary." Yang Lei spoke up.

  Seeing Yang Lei's tone, Dongfang Caiyu was slightly dissatisfied, but she wouldn't show it on her face.

  "I know we've wronged you, been too neglectful of your well-being, and let you suffer a lot. This is our fault, but after all, we did raise you, so I hope from now on you won't forget that you're a member of the Weiwu Wangfu and can lend us a hand when it counts." Dongfang Caoyu sighed, knowing that Yang Luei had been hurt too deeply before this, enduring humiliation and hardship for so many years, probably all for this moment.

  "If that day really comes, I will."

  As she watched Yang Lei's receding back, Dongfang Caiyu couldn't help but let out a soft sigh.

  …………

  "Ding, system upgrade successful."

  Long-awaited, the system finally upgraded successfully again, lasting forty-eight hours.

  "Ding! Congratulations, player, for ranking first in the assessment. Rewards: 500,000 experience points, 5,000 credits, 5,000 credits, 10 Body Tempering Pills, and 1 Spirit Nourishing Pill."

  This reward is no longer attractive to Yang Lei, who has exploded the Holy Beast and greatly increased his experience points and score. This reward is dispensable.

  Tempering Body Dan and Nourishing Spirit Dan have no use for me anymore, my cultivation has already broken through the Martial King realm, plus I've also cultivated the second volume of Iron Cloth Shirt, so these two things are completely ineffective. Of course, this dan medicine can be given to my second sister Yang Yue or Xiao Yu, but since it's still some time before I go to Xuanji Gate, by then I'll be able to refine these dan medicines myself, so giving them to Yang Yue now is the best option.

  After the system upgrade, what functions are there, Yang Lei is not in a hurry, now he most wants to see that drop of divine beast blood and the crazy devil fist method.

  Appraisal technique.

  Divine Beast's Blood, a drop of essence left by the ancient Divine Beast, containing immense energy that allows Demonic Beasts to have the possibility of advancing to Divine Beast.

  Yang Lei was overjoyed to see the properties, this drop of divine beast blood, if used by Bai Suzhen, could make her even stronger and possibly break through the 9th level and enter the 10th level, becoming a divine beast. What a wonderful thing it would be to have a divine beast protecting him, what place in the Zhongwu Continent couldn't he go to?

  Mad Devil Fist Style

  The 7th rank of the Earth Stage, after mastering it, can be unleashed like a mad demon, with immense power. The final secret move can burn one's own life force to increase cultivation by several times.

  This martial art is completely useless to Yang Lei, although it's a 7th-grade martial art, Yang Lei doesn't need it at all. Of course, if he uses it to exchange for points, it would be a waste. He already has over a million points, enough to splurge, and this one book of Crazy Demon Fist wouldn't exchange for much. Use it for gambling? That's also not a bad choice.

  After reading all of this, Yang Lei then checked what changes there were after the system upgrade.

  Upon closer inspection, nothing has changed in each item, and the only change is that a classification system has been added. That is the synthesis system.

  This synthesis system was a huge surprise for Yang Lei. Synthesis wasn't just limited to synthesizing weapons, but also magic spells. This was simply against the heavens.

  Synthetic system:

  Can be used to synthesize success laws or weapons, any yellow-level success law or weapon has a synthesis success rate of 50%, Xuan-level success law or weapon has a synthesis success rate of 25%, Di-level success law or weapon has a synthesis success rate of 12.5%, Tian-level success law or weapon has a synthesis success rate of 6.25%.

  Once a skill or weapon is synthesized, its level will be upgraded and it will possess the attributes of both, but if synthesis fails, both will disappear.

  This gamble has a high degree of randomness, and if you're unlucky, it's very difficult. Of course, Yang Wei is clear that synthesizing some lower-level skills and equipment can still work.

  In Yang Lei's view, this synthetic weapon equipment is nothing to worry about. What's important is the synthesis of kung fu skills. Those very low-level kung fu skills aren't expensive, and he can collect many of them, then slowly synthesize them. He wonders what it would be like if he were to use countless low-level kung fu skills to synthesize a high-level one. This fills Yang Lei with endless anticipation.

  Try it out and see how things go.

  Yang Lei then exchanged for two volumes of Huang Jie's first-class skills.

  One is Tan Tui and the other is Wu Bu Quan.

  "Ding, are you sure you want to merge the Pop Leg and Five-Step Fist? Note that if the merge fails, both skills will disappear and the player will be unable to learn them again."

  "Synthesis." Of course, choose synthesis, this is what one uses to test the waters.

  "Ding, synthesis successful! Congratulations, player, you have obtained a new skill. Please name it."

  "Five Steps Fist."

  "Ding, Wu Bu Quan naming successful."

  Once successful, Yang Lei was quite delighted. He opened the properties of this five-step fist and found that this new five-step fist, which was composed of two yellow first-class martial arts, had actually been promoted from yellow first-class to yellow fifth-class, such a big leap, it made Yang Lei so surprised that he couldn't help but feel excited.

  From Huang Jie first rank to Huang Jie fifth rank, it's a promotion of one grade, and the power has increased by more than double.

  Yang Lei then exchanged for a Huang Jie Wu Pin's Gong Fa Liu Yang Quan.

  "Ding, is it synthesized from Wu Xing Quan and Liu Yang Quan?"

  Synthesis.

  "Ding, synthesis failed, Gongfa Wubuquan and Liuyangquan disappeared."

  Failed, but Yang Lei did not lose hope, after all, the failure rate reached fifty percent.

  Of course, for some advanced skills, Yang Lei was reluctant to synthesize them, after all, the consumption was too great and the success rate was too low. He would collect more lower-level skills to synthesize later.

  After failing, Yang Lei didn't plan on synthesizing a new technique either. After all, his current technique was still suitable and didn't need to be synthesized.

  Let's take a look at what new things can be exchanged in the exchange system.

  First look at the exchangeable skills.

  Due to the breakthrough of one million points, many advanced skills have emerged that can be exchanged. The highest level of skill that can be exchanged requires 5 million points. It's the Pure Yang Art, Yang Lei took a look, this Pure Yang Art is the practice method of Lü Dongbin, one of the legendary Eight Immortals.

  Although it made Yang Lei a little envious, 5 million points was something he couldn't afford to spend.

  Of course, the next thing that can be exchanged is the Xiāo Móu Jīng. This requires 1 million points, and the Xiāo Móu Jīng can change one's innate qualities. However, it's too expensive, 1 million points are hard to come by. But this technique can change one's root bone, which is something I really need. After thinking about it, I gave up in the end. With 1 million points, I could spend 500,000 and exchange for a Dragon Blood.

  Continue reading.

  Ice Heart Technique, this technique requires exchange.

  But what made Yang Lei different was that the Ice Heart Technique should have only required 20,000 points before, but now it had changed to 100,000 points. This made Yang Lei involuntarily rub his eyes and take a closer look, and indeed, he hadn't misread it - it really did say 100,000 points. And then there was the Little Li Flying Knife, the secret recipe for which had also increased in price, from its original 60,000 to an astonishing 250,000 now.

  And most of the other exchangeable items have also increased in points value, let's take a look at Dragon Blood again. One portion of Dragon Blood requires improving one's qualifications, busy opening it to take a look, fortunately, compared to before, it only added ten million, now it needs sixty million, which is a relief.

  Cursing in my heart, this system is too black, it actually raised the price, these days everything raises prices, inflation rises, even the exchange value of things needed also rises.

  But there's no way around it, the system is tyrannical. If I didn't have the system, I wouldn't be able to achieve what I am today.

  Exchange some dragon blood first, and improve the quality of the roots. Yang Lei had heard before that the cultivation in the Void Illusion Cave is related to the quality of the roots. The better the quality of the roots, the longer one can persist inside, and the greater the benefits gained. Yang Lei was clear that his own roots were only five-star, too weak, and must be improved. Now, what's most suitable for rapidly improving the roots is dragon blood.

  "Ding, will the player exchange for dragon blood?"

  Exchange.

  "Ding, congratulations player on obtaining a vial of Dragon's Blood."

  Got dragon blood, consumed 600,000 points value, and was knocked down by more than half of the points, which is still very painful. However, in order to gain greater benefits in the Empty Fantasy Cave, this is necessary.

  Dragon Blood

  A drop of dragon's essence can change a practitioner's physique after being applied all over the body, extremely precious.

  Earth Dragon, it's actually an Earth Dragon. Logically speaking, this Earth Dragon should be considered a low-level dragon clan. If the Earth Dragon has such benefits, what about higher-level dragon clans? If you can get their essence blood, wouldn't that be even more awesome? However, Yang Lei still had some self-awareness, thinking of going to fight dragons himself was no different from seeking death. Of course, it could also be exchanged, but this one drop of low-level Earth Dragon blood required 6 million points, so how many points would higher-level dragon blood require? It's likely that it wouldn't be less than several tens of millions of points.

  After exchanging the dragon blood, I also exchanged the Ice Heart Technique. This technique is very helpful for calming the mind and repelling demonic thoughts, so it's necessary to exchange it. The Empty Illusion Cave has an "illusion" character in its name, so it's likely that illusions will appear inside. Having a copy of the Ice Heart Technique can be very helpful.

  He exchanged a Dragon Blood and a Skill, which instantly reduced Yang Lei's accumulated points by 700,000. The consumption was indeed astonishing. As for the other Small Li Flying Knife skill, although Yang Lei liked it and wanted it, it wasn't necessary at this time. After all, that also required 250,000 points, so he didn't exchange it.

  In addition, there is also the "Baoyu Liuhua Needle", which must be exchanged. The price of Baoyu Liuhua Needle has now become 30,000 points, and although these 30,000 points can be paid, Yang Lei also wants to exchange it, as its price suddenly rose from 10,000 points to 30,000 points.

  The prices of these things have all gone up, but the power doesn't seem to be increasing much, which is also one of Yang Lei's annoyances. Prices are skyrocketing and inflation is rising, but salaries aren't going up - this is a helpless reality.