Chapter 503 - The System’s Origin

After a loud explosion, three pills the size of dragon-eye fruits appeared in the hollow of Gu Zuo’s palm. The pills seemed like blood jade. On their surfaces were strands of darker-colored lines that exuded a rich bloody qi. If one looked carefully, those lines were similar to vivid and lifelike spirit snakes. It seemed as if they could lunge right off the medicinal pills at any time. The reason why they had this appearance was because, in addition to the bloody qi, the medicinal pills contained powerful poisons.

Gu Zuo could sense the surging power emanating from the pills. This could also be considered a profound-level medicinal pill. Shortly thereafter, he flicked a pill into Gongyi Tianheng’s hand: “Big brother, give it a try!”

Without the slightest hesitation, Tianheng held the pill between his fingers and sent it into his mouth.

Following this, his body, which had already become a little faded, returned to normal at speeds visible to the naked eye — If someone examined Tianheng just now, they would’ve found that he was only somewhat different from an ordinary person. As such, the present Tianheng would be the same as when he returned as an incarnation. Even a Cosmic Realm powerhouse wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference!

Tianheng’s figure flashed, and appeared next to Gu Zuo. After that, he cupped Gu Zuo’s face, and sucked his lips and tongue in a deep kiss. The trailing words of that gentle and charming voice were lost amid the two’s entanglement: “Many thanks…Ah Zuo.”

Gu Zuo raised his head, embraced his dear big brother’s neck, and concentrated on enjoying this kiss.

En, he was really quite accustomed to being suddenly “attacked” and repeatedly kissed like this.

During the subsequent period of time, Gu Zuo didn’t take a single step outside again. He started refining the Blood Poison Pills day and night, using almost all of the blood galls he obtained from the blood swamp.

When Tianheng saw that Gu Zuo was bustling around wholeheartedly for his own sake, the light in his eyes dimmed slightly. Then, he summoned many battle slaves and ordered them to use their own channels to purchase the medicinal ingredients Gu Zuo needed.

Under such formidable efforts, more and more blood galls were converted into medicinal pills. Gu Zuo didn’t forget to send ten Blood Poison Pills and Swamp Blood Pills to the Blood Transformation Palace Master. At the same time, he also received the backing of the palace master who dearly loved his apprentice. This allowed the purchases of the battle slaves to become even smoother.

Without realizing it, a little more than a month had passed.

Looking at the heaps and piles that contained thousands of Blood Poison Pills, Gu Zuo breathed out a sigh of relief.

He wiped away his sweat, and looked at Tianheng: “Big brother, with so many Blood Poison Pills, so long as you swallow one pill, you can replenish all of the energy you consume… This should be enough for big brother to participate in the Prodigy Monument, right?”

Tianheng stretched out a hand, and gathered him into an embrace. In a soft voice, he said: “Of course, this is enough. Ah Zuo, thank you for the trouble.”

Gu Zuo silently smiled: “I’m also using this opportunity to cultivate.”

Refining medicine for his loved one wasn’t considered trouble at all!

The two got intimate for a while.

All of a sudden, Gu Zuo’s expression revealed a hint of subtlety.

It was only natural that Tianheng, whose attention was completely focused on Gu Zuo, noticed it immediately. He reached out, and pressed on his shoulder. He gently asked: “Ah Zuo, what’s wrong?”

Gu Zuo still had a strange expression on his face: “Big brother, do you still remember that I have a system?”

Tianheng raised an eyebrow: “Naturally.”

Following that, Gu Zuo didn’t say anything else. He only tugged on Tianheng’s wrist. The two of them disappeared from their original position, and reappeared inside the Divine Medicine Palace Hall.

The current Divine Medicine Palace Hall had undergone many changes.

First of all, this building, which originally only had one main hall and two side halls, had been enlarged by more than ten times. In addition to these three halls, there were numerous small halls connected to one another nearby. They were joined with long promenades.

After that, there were extremely large medicine gardens in the gaps between each palace building. Within the medicine gardens, there were half-depleted springs. Except for small puddles of water that surrounded the spring eyes, the rest of the springs were completely dried up. Besides the springs, there were medicine plots in each of the medicine gardens. It was just that there weren’t any spirit medicines within these plots of land. With Gu Zuo’s eyesight, he could only tell that these medicine plots originally imitated many different spirit medicine environments, and they should’ve been planted with spirit medicines in the past…

Following this, there was a building specially for refining medicine within the palace complex. The space inside was large, and the furnishings were complete. It was better than what Gu Zuo had prepared for himself. In this medicine refining building, there were even many frame stands with fire apertures underneath. Under normal circumstances, the apertures would’ve contained fire seeds that could erupt at any time.

Finally, there were lots of gigantic openings around the Divine Medicine Palace Hall. Wafting out were plenty of qi emissions that possibly came from qi veins or fire veins. It seemed that these places were once used to store energy ore veins. With the help of these ore veins, the palace complex would’ve been filled with various kinds of ambient qi. This would’ve also allowed the flames within the medicine refining building to surge and the pharmacists to refine medicine as much as they liked.

It could be said that the Divine Medicine Palace Hall had been upgraded again!

But what surprised Gu Zuo was that he didn’t hear any upgrade notifications. There hadn’t been any spontaneous injections of medicinal qi, and there were no changes to the medicinal qi that Gu Zuo had stockpiled.

Thus, there were some questions.

The first question: What happened to the system?

The second question: What was going on?

In the Divine Medicine Palace Hall, Gu Zuo pulled Tianheng’s hand. Meanwhile, he shouted out: “System? System?”

However, the system didn’t respond.

Gu Zuo’s brows furrowed.

If he couldn’t find the system, he couldn’t dispel his doubts…

Tianheng chuckled softly into his ear: “Why doesn’t Ah Zuo sense it for himself?”

Gu Zuo thought about it, and nodded his head.

After that, he concentrated his psychic power, and started an uninterrupted search for the system’s qi emissions.

At first, Gu Zuo was just giving it a try, but unexpectedly, when he really focused all of his energy on spreading his psychic power threads, he discovered a familiar feeling.

For some reason, Gu Zuo thought that this feeling came from the system!

At that moment, Gu Zuo didn’t hesitate, and brought his family’s big brother straight to the system’s location.

A smiling expression slowly formed at the edge of Tianheng’s lips.

Before long, Gu Zuo arrived at a hidden and overshadowed small hall.

Tianheng accompanied him, and the two stood quietly at the doorway for a short while.

Then, Gu Zuo took a deep breath, and pushed the door open.

With regards to the system, the longer he stayed on the Central Continent, the more things he came to understand. In fact, he also had more conjectures in his mind. Perhaps, he could get what he wanted to know today…

In the small hall, there was an altar at the back. And on top of this altar was an indistinct sculpture.

It really was hard to discern. The sculpture’s appearance and figure couldn’t be seen clearly. One couldn’t even tell if it was a man or woman. Yet, it gave others a feeling that it possessed a majestic and boundless life force. People could be sure that this was indeed a statue of a person.

In front of the altar, there was a trestle that looked like a lamp stand. On the trestle, there was a ball of soft, white light.

This white light was alive. It was clear and bright.

Gu Zuo walked forward step by step, and arrived in the front of the white light. After that, he tentatively said to the white light: “…System? You’re the system, right?”

However, at this moment, Tianheng also opened his mouth. His voice carried a type of calm certainty: “Or maybe, we should address you as…the spirit of this emperor weapon?”

Once the two finished speaking, the room became silent.

They were waiting for the “system’s” answer.

Following this, Gu Zuo watched the ball of white light softly quiver several times. Shortly thereafter, an almost emotionless voice sighed from within: “Yes.”

Yes? Yes, what?

It was a system, and it was also the spirit of an emperor weapon?

This time, the white light gave a formal response: “My name is Ling Su. I am the spirit of the emperor weapon known as the Divine Medicine Great Palace. Back then, I used the identity of a system to choose the successor of the Greater Emperor. Now that the Divine Medicine Sacred Body has begun to take shape, you has the capability to receive and pass down this inheritance. You should be able to refine this emperor weapon, become the young lord of my Greater Emperor’s lineage, and become my master.”

Gu Zuo reacted three seconds later: “…You’re saying that you used the system to issue missions to me, and those rewards you gave me were to see whether I could attain the Divine Medicine Sacred Body, refine you, and formally inherit the bloodline abilities of your original master? And now that I succeeded without knowing anything about it, I can refine this emperor weapon?”

The white light, the spirit of the emperor weapon called Ling Su, said: “Precisely.”

Gu Zuo suddenly understood.

So it was like this.

After the system rescued him, he had asked why the issued missions were completely based on his experiences. Moreover, it seemed as though the system had been giving him good things to guide him the entire time. As it turned out, it wasn’t that the system was passing down an inheritance. Rather, it was testing whether he had the ability to pass it down himself.

After going through so much, Gu Zuo certainly didn’t feel that this selection had harmed his self-esteem like a teenager with Eighth-Grader Syndrome. In any case, it was the system who saved his life in the beginning. Later on, when he met big brother, the series of rare books that allowed him to learn his skills were all bestowed by the system. Even when it came to this selection, he was given benefits first, which was completely acceptable.

However, he had many questions in his heart, and wanted to clarify them before anything else.

As a result, Gu Zuo started to ask: “Ling Su, were you always with me, or did you arrive when I was about to die in that traffic accident?”

Ling Su said: “I was always present.”

Gu Zuo continued: “Why were you with me? Did you choose me from the very beginning?”

Ling Su answered: “For the first question, the host’s authority is insufficient. I cannot answer. For the second question, the host met the conditions for being selected.”

Gu Zuo: “…”

This wasn’t even a proper system, and it still said that he didn’t have enough authority?!

T/N: Thanks for the correction, Charysa.

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