Deeply Injuring Luo Yang!
[Congratulations to the host for stealing a chance from the Protagonist—"Xie Tian", and receiving the Heavenly Art—"Piercing Heaven's Sword"!!]
"Great! Still, this inheritance is a bit weak; after all, I only broke through three minor realms." Luo Yang sighed faintly.
"However, this sword art is going to be very useful..." He grinned as he kept the heavenly art on the system's inventory.
With a wide grin, he left the inheritance place, and just as he did so, he was met with a beautiful woman.
"Holy Son..." She uttered as she approached him in small steps.
Her lips curled into a smile of relief, while her eyes sparkled like deep stars.
'Chang Xia... Xie Tian's previous maid, she even has a Water Yin Body. What a great find...' Luo Yang grinned inwardly as he looked at her.
The Water Yin Body is quite rare and it works as well as a normal Yin body, so for Luo Yang, she is just a cultivation furnace.
[Chang Xia's favorability has increased by 3 and you will be receiving 1500 Villain Points!!]
"How many times must I remind you not to address me as Holy Son?" Luo Yang sighed affectionately, patting her head gently.
"Aren't we just friends?" he added with a warm smile.
Chang Xia's cheeks flushed slightly at his words and smile, her gaze dropping in shy embarrassment.
"Y-yeah... B-brother Yang..." she stammered with a low voice.
And at her words, Luo Yang nodded in satisfaction.
[Chang Xia's favorability has increased by 1 and you will be receiving 500 Villain Points!!]
'Mute the notifications.'
[Done.]
"Alright... let's now get out of here. We've already got everything that we needed from here." He smiled as he grabbed Chang Xia's soft hand, walked towards the exit portal, and entered it.
Back in the cave with the cyan-colored crystals, Chang Xia pointed out the spiritual crystal vein.
"Um... Hol—B-brother Yang, should we also take this spiritual crystal vein?" She asked, looking at him with hopeful eyes.
For someone as low-status as her, this spiritual crystal vein was a fortune! It could feed a family of more than one thousand people for decades!
"Sure..." He nodded.
However, as he said so, he felt something strange, as if a needle was slowly poking into his heart.
'System... is there something strange here?'
[The System is currently updating...]
'Damn it.'
"Elder Yu." He called out simply.
And at that moment, a crackle on the space appeared and an old man came out with his head bowed.
"Do you need anything, Holy Son?" He said respectfully.
"See if there's anything strange around here." He ordered.
Elder Yu nodded at his words and quickly expanded his spiritual awareness, trying to see if there was anything strange in the cave.
But to his surprise, there wasn't really anything...
"I can't find anything, Holy Son." He bowed his head and uttered.
"I see... You can go now." Luo Yang waved his hand and Elder Yu disappeared from his sight.
'Weird... what is this strange feeling?'
He glanced over at Chang Xia and noticed her humming a soft tune as she carefully gathered the roots of the crystal vein.
"Ah, let's just let it be." he thought to himself, his smile returning as he walked over to her.
He helped her take the crystal vein while flirting a bit to see her cute reactions, and after they were done, it was time to finally leave the place.
"Holy... Brother Yang..." She tugged his sleeves shyly as both of them were at the entrance of the cave.
"What's up?" he asked, smiling warmly at her bashful expression.
"Huff..."
Taking a deep breath, Chang Xia suddenly turned to Luo Yang and put her hands around his neck before tiptoeing...
Her lips moved towards his; however, before they could actually kiss each other, a spacial crack suddenly appeared...
"HOLY SON! BE CAREFUL!" He spoke loudly as he quickly tried to raise a barrier to protect Luo Yang.
And at that time, the three of them heard a soft voice...
"Bang...!"
— KAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!
The entire cave exploded directly on the side that they were standing on!
The cave crumbled as giant rocks fell on the barrier, which Elder Yu had finally raised a few seconds after the explosion.
"H-Holy Son, are you alright!?" Elder Yu quickly asked as the cave finally finished crumbling and the smoke from the explosion had disappeared.
"Argh...!!!" Elder Yu heard a faint groan.
He quickly looked at the place where the groan had come from and saw Luo Yang, who had lost an entire leg and had deep scratches all over his body.
"Holy Son!" He exclaimed and quickly took out a pill, which Luo Yang ate, and his injuries quickly healed.
Except for his lost leg, which he would need a body reconstruction elixir for... however, for his status, that was extremely cheap.
"W-where is Chang Xia?" Luo Yang mumbled as he looked around.
—Thud...!
At that moment, he heard the movement of something falling on the ground, as his eyes widened in shock and his body started trembling...
Before him... Chang Xia's head slowly rolled on the ground until it reached the place where he was lying.
"Fuck..." He clutched his fist tightly as he screamed in the loudest voice that he could ever manage...
"WHOEVER THIS IS, I SWEAR BY THE HEAVENS THAT I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU AND GIVE YOU THE MOST PAINFUL DEATH EVER!!!"
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[That was...]
"Exquisitely executed?"
[Indeed. I did not think you could predict with such accuracy where Chang Xia would kiss...try to kiss Luo Yang.]
"Ah~, it was really quite refreshing."
[...Psychopath.]
"Anyway, could you give me my rewards right away?" Long Yu smiled as he looked at the panel.
[...Calculating...]
[Deeply injured a high-tier protagonist...]
[Killed a mid-tier heroine with an extremely strong fate...]
[Calculations Done.]
[You've absorbed a total of 19.737 Luck Points!
[Your Protagonist Halo has been upgraded to Level 3!]
[The Protagonist "Luo Yang" has lost 12% of his total fortune. His system has also been weakened, and its evolution has been terminated.]
[The system will be upgrading...]
[Time Left: 1 day.]
Seeing the notifications, Long Yu smiled widely and direction opened the protagonist's halo panel.
Even if the system was updating, he could still access some of its functions.
[Protagonist Halo]
Level: 3 (65%)
Luck Points: 16.250/25.000
Additional Fortunes:
— Peach Blossom [✯✯✯✯✯✩]: This fortune is associated with having encounters with highly-fated women.
— Devilish Charm [✯✩]: This fortune allows the user's words to be more convincing, it can potentially make the target's IQ drop temporarily. Only works with women stronger than the user.
▶ Special Tendency: The host is likely to be loved by highly dangerous individuals. As a result, all of the fortunes you will receive are associated with dangerous individuals.
[End]
"Um... it's almost the same as before. Except that now I have another fortune that is quite broken, but at the same time useless..."
"Like... why does it only work with women? And they need to be stronger than me? Does my own Halo want me to become some kind of sugar baby?"
"Anyway, since my Halo has reached Level 3, that means that I'll be able to unlock 5% of my original perks."
"I just need to wait for my system to update..." Long Yu stretched his body as he walked from the cave where Luo Yang was.
The system had reminded him of the auction that would happen, however, he didn't have any money...
"I should find a way to make money... and fast. Only have an entire week for it." Immediately, he started thinking of a few methods.
He didn't have any high-level technique to sell, after all, he was still stacking the system's rewards.
And now that the system is going to be upgraded, they are going to be even better than before.
After the first update, the system stated that rewards could potentially reach even the Profound and Mysterious grades.
Therefore, it should now be possible for them to reach the Earth and Heaven grade, or even the Divine grade.
"Mhm..."
"Now that I think about it..."
"Isnt't Shen Huiying going to participate in that auction...?"
Suddenly, Long Yu's lips curled into a faint yet sinister smile.
"It's time to put my new fortune into use..."