Niu Chang was laying down on the entire time while having seizures and moaning like boneless noodle. Everytime he wanted to calm his mind and woke up from such shameful display, he was helpless.

Then he remembered the saying that if you can’t stop it then enjoy it.

With that, Niu Chang fully accepted the baptism in his body.

Now without any limitation, he sounded like a crazy person. Sometimes moaning, sometimes giggling, and sometimes he said incohenrent words.

Fifteen minutes passed.

Niu Chang finally stopped receiving the endless supply of pure energy from the void, his body slowed their transformation before finally come into an end.

With his eyes facing the sky, it was already past afternoon and soon the night would come. Niu Chang’s mind was empty and he began to question everything.

Was his life on the correct path?

Was his choice correct?

Before he fully woke up after the empty state of mind, Niu Chang unconsciously redirected his focus towards cultivation.

What martial skill will he need the most for the present?

How to fully dig out the qi utilization potential and many more.

Without him realizing it, his clear minded state abruptly stopped not long after. Niu Chang sat up and wiped away the drool around his mouth, he was frowning.

‘Did… I just have post-nut clarity?’

Niu Chang laughed to himself, he stood up and cleaned the dirt on his clothes.

Looking back at the sky, he was sure that when he arrived at the Yellow Soil Village it would already be night.

‘Let’s hurry up.’ With that in mind, he hastened his steps.

Organizing the scattered thoughts while he was in a clear minded state, Niu Chang received a good sum of ideas to ponder on for two more days.

Now he just needs a good and quiet place to test his idea then a true martial skill that utilizes qi will be registered in his system.

When Niu Chang saw his village from afar, he was happy. The sky wasn’t darkened yet, at best the red sun was casting a long shadow on the ground.

It was thanks to his cultivation level that he was faster than his initial estimation.

About his cultivation level, the newly cultivated physical body reached the first cycle of destruction and creation.

The Impossible Idea was truly profound even Niu Chang as its creator was still full of questions as to what he can and can’t do.

The more he tested his theories to the limit of his Impossible Idea the more he realized that he became a walking experiments subject waiting to be dissect.

But he still has a grasp as to what he has achieved so far.

First level or the first cycle provided a strong overall increase of Niu Chang’s physical attributes. Strength, endurance, agility, and vitality were abundant than before.

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If Niu Chang wanted to compare his present body with something else, it would be when he received ten buff stacks from the system when he faced ten ordinary bandits.

Roughly his strength equal to ten men compressed together inside his tiny body, but different from the ten stack from the system, his strength was refined and compressed as a single entity.

The system only provided a crude power boost not properly adjusted according to the host’s body. It's like increasing quantity to crush quality.

Like comparing a sand castle without any proper construction facing a well built house. The sand castle only won by its virtue of quantity, smashing the well built house with its weight alone.

Then the next improvement was a new dormant energy in Niu Chang’s body. This energy was different from vitality and lifeforce, as it was purely generated because of his Impossible Idea.

Niu Chang tried many methods, but he was unable to do anything with this new energy. This made him really disappointed and angry, what was the thing that he hated the most?

That was when the author made the main character gain something like a powerful weapon or technique, but the main character was unable to discover anything, only for it to play a crucial role to escape a life and death situation.

Everytime Niu Chang encountered this kind of trope he really wanted to tear down the fourth wall and slap the main character on the back of their head and order them to properly study this mystery.

But facing the same condition, Niu Chang was feeling uncomfortable. ‘Damnit, I want to see how far you can hide from me? This Lord will strip all your secrets off and use you to my heart content.’

As for now, Niu Chang only labeled this energy as innate energy. The reason came from the stories he read before emphasizing that body cultivation always brought the concept of turning postnatal state into innate state.

When achieving an innate state, the cultivator will have a new energy which is called innate energy.

Niu Chang had a few guesses in his heart, but these guesses came from many body cultivation methods that he fused into the Impossible Idea which he no longer can tell which is which.

The result of fusion brought out a miraculous result and Niu Chang actually got innate energy faster than he previously deduced.

In his proposed theory, he should achieve this feat when his body cultivation level reaches the first qualitative change.

There were still many things to explore but the time was too short.

Walking past the village entrance, Niu Chang directly went to his old and broken house.

While walking, he saw the village still the same. Weak body, thin and ugly clothes, wrinkled face due to being under the sun all day.

Reaching his house, Niu Chang suddenly saw his neighbor waving at him.

A woman in her late thirties, when she saw Niu Chang walking toward her, she let out a sigh of relief.

Niu Chang with his placid face stood not far from the low fence. Before he could ask a question the woman already started talking.

“Niu Chang, I never know you will survive and come back. Did you have a bad time outside?” She then took a glance at the sack carried by Niu Chang, but she couldn’t see the content.

“Whatever happens to you on the outside of the village that is all your problem, but in the village we need to help each other. You can’t use your house now since esteemed guests were using them.”

Pausing for a moment to watch Niu Chang’s reaction, the woman then continued. “It looks like you're pretty good, now go back where you came from and look somewhere else to sleep in.”

The woman didn’t chase Niu Chang away with a hand gesture, but her eyes were looking down on the dull face of Niu Chang.

If it was in the past where Niu Chang still needed time to gather his strength, he would silently agree to it. But now, he has some means thanks to his golden finger, he chose to be more participating in his surroundings.

“I see,” standing on the same spot, without showing any emotions he asked. “Can you tell me what this is all about? Why did the esteemed guests come to our village?”

The woman sneered, “what do you want to know? Just lift your foot and walk away.”

Niu Chang sighed in his heart. The three years playing dumb on the outside really made a good result. Now everyone in the village took him as a soft persimmon.

But there was no fluctuation in his heart, he was too tired to care about a mere villager in the middle of nowhere.

‘I already thought about this problem. Why does the life of the main characters in the stories seem more enticing? And why didn't I experience it at all in the two days after my system activated?’

‘The answer was very clear.’ Niu Chang looked at the woman in front of him, ‘trash talk and stupid people is needed to brighten up this long journey.’

Niu Chang turns around and looks for a friendlier villager to ask about this problem. He didn’t act rashly like entering his house and waiting for those so-called esteemed guests to arrive.

Then a story developed from them talking and underestimating each other then a fight broke out and the winner naturally Niu Chang with his cheat.

‘But sadly, there is no guarantee that such a thing will happen. What if the enemy is some old monster who disguised themselves?’

Niu Chang has some acquaintance in this village that he was rather close to, after asking two of them and getting the same answers. Niu Chang finally understands what happened in his village.

‘A demonic beast trace was found in the forest near the village. The third son of Li family found a big snake scale and reported this to his parents. Then after discussion, the village sent someone to the Yellow Village asking for help.’

‘The finding of the demon snake scale happened in the morning and the village sent the messenger not long after, but the helper was already here. A wandering martial artist?’

Niu Chang guessed the identity of people who occupied his house, but he couldn’t understand. ‘Why are they choosing my house instead of a better house of another villager?’

The demonic beast was the term used by mortals to address the animal that evolved and stepped on the cultivation path.

The big snake scale proved it was a snake demon, but according to the villager. It was as big as the palm of an adult, certainly it was not a newly promoted demon snake but an old and strong one.

For mortals, the demonic beast was a nightmare, but for martial artists they were walking treasure troves. Every part of the demonic beast body was precious treasure for them, the blood and flesh could be used as a supplement to increase their cultivation, the skin could be used as decoration and many more.

Everytime news of the demonic beast appeared, countless martial artists would swarm in to get their hands on it.

After learning the ins and outs of the event, Niu Chang wandered around the village looking for a place to sleep in.

But after thinking about it, he recalled the ownerless house in the village should be full of dust and need a lot of time to clean them. Niu Chang didn’t want to waste his precious time just to clean a house.

Although he couldn’t use violence to take over the villagers’ house, he could pay them for staying for a night or two.

Niu Chang found his answer and without any hesitation walked towards the house he had thought of.

In front of an ordinary broken house, Niu Chang knocked on the door.

The knocking sound was weak but enough to announce his present to the owner.not long after Niu Chang heard footsteps from the inside.

The door opened, a nineteen years old girl appeared. She looked straight but only found a bundle of hair, then lowered her vision to finally find Niu Chang in front of her.

“Oh, it’s you. The orphan from…” The girl tried to recall something but found nothing then gave up. “What do you want?”

She looks rather impatient, but she didn’t directly slam the door to chase away Niu Chang.

Looking at the teenage girl, Niu Chang recalled information about her.

Qin Qing, an orphan, and her parents died in the previous winter.

There was not much information about Qin Qing, but the fact she has some connection with one fateful encounter of Niu Chang, was enough to raise her status from mob into npc.

That was not the only reason why Niu Chang chose her, Qin Qing was only a teenager and thus her life should be harder than the rest of the villagers, so she should need money the most.

Niu Chang could look for a better place, but human greed was endless. If he showed them a glimpse of what was inside his sack, they would accept Niu Chang and then they either kill him or falsely accuse Niu Chang was stealing from them.

With that in mind, the weak and in-need of money Qin Qing seems the best option for Niu Chang.

“Can I rest at your place tonight?” Niu Chang asked.

But Qin Qing's face contorted then turned dark.

Niu Chang suddenly realized his words were too ambiguous, then he quickly added an explanation. “My house was taken by the martial artists from the outside and now I am homeless, can I stay at your place until they leave?”

Only then Qin Qing let go of her anger, “why don’t you say so early?!”

She shouted with the last bit of her anger then slowly calmed down. “I understand, but why me? I heard you have a good neighbor, the uncle…”

When she tried to remember about Niu Chang’s information, she abruptly stopped her mouth. She recalled that uncle was found dead not far from their village yesterday.

Then Qin Qing looked at the small child in front of her, an absurd idea arose in her mind. ‘It’s not possible for him.’