In a rather peaceful clearing in the middle of the east continent, in a secluded location of grass and rock formations. A six eared small monkey stood on its hind legs. Its adorable face was turned into an annoyed frown and its hands were stretched out towards the heavens.
This was the Six Eared Macaque, an innate god born from heaven and earth utilising one fourth of the Chaos Demon Ape's remnants. He was one of four divine monkeys that were rumoured to eventually be born into the world. Six Eared Macaque, Liu Er was merely the first.
But he was not mere primitive creature. No, he was a modern man from twenty first century earth who transmigrated into the primitive world of Chinese legends. Someone who thought he knew the ins and outs of the primitive setting.
He was born with an amazing physique and superb talent for cultivation. There was just one problem.
"System! System! I summon thee, activate!"
He had no fucking clue how to cultivate.
Liu Er wasn't a mortal creature or even an immortal. He was a Golden Immortal at birth, a superior being in control of their own lives. According to Liu Er's knowledge, he should be refining True Qi continuously and reach the Da Luo Jin Xian realm wherein he would open the three splendours. Or was it called the Fairy Wonderland realm? He wasn't too clear.
Afterwards, he would comprehend one of three thousand intact Dao laws and reach the Hunyuan Da Luo Jin Xian. No need for that pathetic Saint of Heaven nonsense. Everyone knows that Hunyuan Da Luo Jin Xian was the way to go.
But reality turned out a little differently.
For starters, he could understand all three thousand Dao laws at a single glance. Now one would think that's a good thing that would benefit his cultivation. But in reality these three thousand laws were where merely the functions of the universe that could enlighten lesser mortals intro Immortals.
Hence these Daos could only help a True Immortal break into Profound and Heavenly Immortal. Afterwards Immortals must seek their own way.
Another difference was that Liu Er already possessed all three of his flower crowns. The splendours of Qi, Essence, and Spirit were fully condensed and present.
Liu Er had no reference for this. He'd read as many honghuang novels as he could find when he was alive. This matched non of the cultivation they showed.
Now ordinarily, innate gods had instinctual knowledge towards heaven and earth. They could tap into inherited knowledge and enlighten themselves as to their next move if such information was inherited at birth.
This was how Da Hai despite being half human was able to navigate the early days of the primitive world. Enough instinct remained for him to do so and occasionally take over.
But Liu Er had non of it.
For whatever reason, when Liu Er transmigrated, he was %100 pure human in mentality.
In actuality, he did have inherited knowledge from Demon Ape. But because he had non of the instinct, he didn't know how nor was he aware he even had any.
So he chose the next logical option for a man like him.
"Come on, SYSTEM WHERE ARE YOU?" He screamed to high heaven.
"LOOK, I BRING A SACRIFICE. I LIU ER HEREBY SACRIFICE MY CHAOS GODFIEND INHERITANCE FROM DEMON APE FOR SYSTEM REWARD!"
He cried out desperately. The small monkey was becoming increasingly agitated. One of the many easy systems was the sacrifice system. It was depicted that every sacrifice will reward the user with rewards based on rarity.
But for some stupid reason the system just won't activate.
"God damn it system," Liu Er spat. "I'm sacrificing my foundation here. Where's my reward?"
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Liu Er remained standing for two hours before he gave up. It would appear that he did not possess that particular system. But there were others he hadn't tried yet.
Liu Er scratched his chin for a system he could try. He immediately sat down on a rock. He then grabbed another slab of stone and another sharp piece of rock and got carving.
He didn't know how to use any of his powers aside from brute force but that didn't matter for now. He had a list to make.
A few hours later he held up a stone tablet.
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"Heavens above, I Liu Er have made a list of the top ten beauties in the world. Each rank shall receive a reward," he proclaimed secretly giddy at his genius.
The list was a system in which the system will give out rewards based on your written list. In turn you too will get rewards for making the list.
Sure he could attract some outrage for this, 'beauties list', but he could get a bunch of goodies from it.
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"Heavens above, I Liu Er have made a list of the top one hundred talents in the world," Liu Er proclaimed again after a day of silence.
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"Fucking useless system," he screamed throwing the tablets he made onto the ground. He stomped his foot in rage cratering the environment. If he were in a populated area he could've easily killed a lot of unsuspecting people.
Liu Er was feeling depressed after both easy systems failed on him. But he refused to believe systems wouldn't come to him. He transmigrated, it was what was supposed to happen.
He then had an idea.
"Sign in," he proclaimed pointing down. "Sign in grassy plain."
He was met in silence once more. Hence Liu Er looked around and saw a mountain in the distance.
In a single summersault, he lept to the peak of the mountain and pointed down again.
"Sign in mystical mountain," he proclaimed.
He was trying to invoke a sign in system. He almost kicked himself for not trying this one first. Sign in systems were the number one hacks system in the world. Doing literally nothing and getting profit, who wouldn't want that?
With each sign in, Liu Er could hide and get tons of goodies even if the location he was signing in from was not that good. Sign in systems were busted like that.
"Come on, sign in already. Where are my dailies?"
After another hour of waiting, Liu Er collapsed the mountain in a fit of frustration. He killed thirty four thousand spiritual animals living on that mountain.
Liu Er wandered back to the field and then had another idea. If easy systems didn't work he could try a harder one.
A week later, Six Ear farm was complete. It was only a field of dirt with some seeds planted but it looked like a farm.
"I have a farm set up. System activate!" He exclaimed.
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The result was expected. Liu Er destroyed the farm in a fit of rage and ran off.
"Wait a second, I might have a dangerous astonishment system," he wondered. These were systems that required the user to mess with people purposefully and wow them with your own superiority. Systems that required you to piss others off to buy points to buy goodies.
So Liu Er quickly made way for the closest village he could find. He proceeded to insult every person in the village only to meet with no result.
So he tried a harem catching system.
"You assholes, you dare strike me?" He spat towards the villagers.
"You fiend, first you insult my wife, my friend, and my parents. Then you try to rape my wife and my daughter?" The man he was facing roared to attack. "After we greeted you with kindness and offered you shelter? DIE!"
Liu Er had an extremely bad mood at this point. He threw a punch with his body.
Now one must understand, Liu Er's body was a Golden Immortal's. A body inherited from Chaos Demon Ape. His physical strength was much higher than normal Golden Immortals. As such he easily tore the entire village and the surroundings to shreds.
"Humph," he snorted walking away. He did not believe he was in the wrong. He was only trying to activate his system and these people had ruthlessly attacked him. They were only courting death.
"Well if a astonishment system didn't work. Maybe my system is time gated?" Liu Er mused wondering into a cave. He sat down in the cave and caved in the entrance.
"I'll just wait a few eras until like say journey to the west. Yeah that's when systems usually activate. Maybe even investiture of the gods. You never know."
He sat down and tried to meditate, trying to see if he can figure out how cultivation works. After all, the primitive world is very dangerous, he decided to hide until the systems conditions are met. There aren't any, system doesn't exist
A week later…
"God this is so boring."