Chapter 22: Helping Her Transform into a Dragon

“Ugh!”

“Gag, gag!”

As Xiao Mo’s consciousness detached from the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes, he felt a wave of nausea and dry heaving, accompanied by dizzying vertigo.

He wanted to vomit, but nothing would come up.

To prevent Wei Xun, who was guarding outside, from discovering his abnormality, Xiao Mo covered his mouth, trying his best not to make a sound.

He knew this was the side effect previously mentioned by the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes.

It took a full incense stick's worth of time before Xiao Mo felt himself gradually improving.

【Settlement of the first life experience complete.】

The voice of the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes echoed in Xiao Mo’s mind.

【In this life experience, the Host lived for a total of fifteen years and one month.】

【The Host brought Jiang Qingyi back to Lingqian Peak and taught her cultivation. At the cost of sacrificing his own foundation and lifespan, the Host cleared Jiang Qingyi's spiritual veins. At the final critical moment, the Host extracted his Innate Sword Bone and returned it to Jiang Qingyi.】

【At the moment of the Host's passing, Jiang Qingyi's highest realm was the Nascent Soul Stage.】

【System Reward Settlement

1. Chaos Human Emperor Bone: This bone originated from the Primordial Chaos era. In ancient times, the Human Emperor could also cultivate, but due to the subsequent change in the laws of heaven and earth, the Human Emperor could no longer cultivate, lest they suffer heavy karmic retribution. By obtaining this bone, even if the Host is an emperor, they can still cultivate, and the Host will not be affected by the karma of being an emperor.

2. Grass Sword Intent: The "Grass Sword Manual" is a sword technique that 'Xiao Mo' obtained within a ruin. This technique is heavily focused on slaughter and can lead to the Great Dao. The "Grass Sword Intent" contains the entirety of the "Grass Sword Manual" technique as well as Xiao Mo's personal insights into it.

3. Breath Concealment Art: By practicing this method, unless one is a cultivator of the Upper Three Realms, they will be unable to detect the Host's cultivation realm.】

【Reward settlement complete. The Book of a Hundred Lifetimes will undergo preparations for the duration of one incense stick. After one incense stick, the Host may experience other lives.】

As the voice of the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes faded, Xiao Mo felt one of his vertebrae burning hot, as if it were being scorched by fire.

“Hiss!”

Xiao Mo gasped in pain, grabbed his pillow, hugged it tightly to his chest, and bit down hard.

Sweat poured from his forehead.

Ten minutes later, the burning pain finally began to subside.

Lying in bed, Xiao Mo panted heavily, his sweat soaking both the quilt and the pillow.

However, Xiao Mo felt as though he had become much lighter.

It was a profound and mysterious sensation.

Previously, Xiao Mo had felt as if his body were bound by various invisible shackles.

But now, those shackles had all been undone.

Xiao Mo guessed that those shackles were karma.

Now that he had obtained the Human Emperor Bone, that karma no longer had any effect on him.

Immediately after, the entire contents of the "Grass Sword Manual" and the "Breath Concealment Art" surfaced in Xiao Mo's mind.

During the life experience, Xiao Mo had already felt that this "Grass Sword Manual" was extraordinary.

Unfortunately, once he left the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes, he would normally forget everything regarding the techniques and cultivation insights learned within it.

Xiao Mo would have had no way to replicate what he learned in the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes in reality.

But now, he possessed the Grass Sword Intent.

The intent contained both the "Grass Sword Manual" and 'Xiao Mo's' own comprehension of it.

It was as if a master were guiding his cultivation, which could greatly prevent him from taking the wrong path.

The only difference was that this "master" was actually himself.

In summary, Xiao Mo was extremely satisfied with this reward.

He even wondered how bountiful his rewards would be if Qingyi reached the Jade Purity Realm.

But Xiao Mo only thought of it briefly.

In his first life, he felt he had truly given his all.

【Preparation for the second life of the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes is complete. Does the Host wish to enter the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes to begin the experience?】

“Yes!”

Xiao Mo did not hesitate.

He was also very curious about what the next "life experience" would be like.

【Please create a name for the Host.】

“Xiao Mo.”

Xiao Mo decisively used his real name.

He simply preferred using his real name online.

【The Host is about to enter the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes to experience a different life. Please prepare yourself.】

Another wave of familiar disorientation followed.

When Xiao Mo regained his senses, he found himself standing inside a dilapidated wooden hut.

He looked at his hands.

“Hmm? I've become a child?”

【Mission Background: Your name is Xiao Mo, an ordinary villager of Honghua Village, aged eleven.

When you were seven years old, your parents passed away, leaving you an orphan.

However, the people of Honghua Village are simple and kind-hearted, and since your parents were helpful during their lifetime and had good relationships with the villagers, the villagers take turns bringing you food.

You grew up on the charity of the village.

After the age of ten, you usually go up the mountain to gather medicinal herbs to exchange for money, or tend cattle for the villagers to repay them for the food they provide.

Although you live in poverty, you are not at risk of starving to death.】

【Mission Distribution

Mission One: You are an ordinary person without a spiritual root and cannot cultivate in this life. However, you are highly talented in reading and scholarship. Please strive to earn official titles and enter the imperial court. The higher your official rank and the greater your fame, the more bountiful the rewards will be.

Mission Two: Today, as you go up the mountain to gather herbs, you may head toward the northern side of the mountain. Near the pond where you frequently graze cattle, there is an injured white snake. This snake possesses spirituality and has encountered a great opportunity—it has obtained a drop of True Dragon Essence Blood.

She has the potential to transform into a dragon.

The transformation into a dragon is divided into five stages: "Snake, Python, Boa, Jiaolong, and Dragon."

Please help her transform into a dragon. For every stage she evolves, the Host will receive increasingly bountiful rewards.】

【Mission Duration: Two lives, two lifetimes.

It takes a thousand years to become a Jiaolong and ten thousand years to transform into a dragon.

To transform from a snake to a dragon normally requires ten thousand years.

Although this snake is exceptionally gifted and has obtained True Dragon Essence Blood, it will still take at least several thousand years.

Therefore, this life experience is divided into two lifetimes. In both, the Host will be an ordinary person unable to cultivate.

This is currently the first lifetime.

The Host will live a second life three thousand years after death to continue helping the creature transform into a dragon.

Once both lifetimes are completed, this life experience will end, and rewards will be settled.】

As the voice of the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes vanished, Xiao Mo carefully digested its words.

It wasn't actually difficult to understand.

The time required for a snake to become a dragon was simply too long. Since he would be an ordinary person in both lives without the ability to cultivate, his lifespan was too short.

Thus, the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes divided this experience into two lives.

After the first life ends, the white snake will be left to settle for three thousand years.

Three thousand years later, he will live a second life to continue helping her transform.

“But here's the problem: even with two lifetimes, if I am an ordinary person in both, what can I actually do to help this white snake?”

Xiao Mo sighed.

“Forget it, I'll just save the white snake first and see what happens.”

Carrying a bamboo basket and holding a hoe and a sickle, Xiao Mo walked out of the courtyard and headed up the mountain.