Courtyard House: My Long and Hard Body Makes Me Play with All the Women in the Courtyard

Chapter 1081 will be sealed forever.

"You're forcing us to give up certain abilities!" Su Ting suddenly realized the crux of the matter.

“Indeed.” The figure nodded. “This is not a place of choice for you to escape. It is a crucible for forging reality. Your soul will be forged into a core form. And other possibilities… will be sealed away forever.”

Silence enveloped everyone.

Ji Yan burst out laughing first: "Why are you all so nervous? I thought it was some kind of big test. Let me choose!"

Su Ting glared at him: "What did you say? Don't be impulsive! Figure things out before you decide!"

"What's there to hesitate about?" Ji Yan shrugged. "I just love killing people. Give me a pair of swords, that's all I need. I don't care about anything else. You don't actually want to study those rigid rules of knowledge, do you?"

“I’m not.” Su Ting pursed her lips, her gaze sweeping over the others beside her. “But we must know—once you’ve made a choice, is there really no chance to go back on it?”

“It will come true in one go,” the figure replied. “Once the decision is made, you will no longer be yourself in the fullest sense. Another part of you… will become the energy source of this world.”

Chu Mo grinned: "Hey, isn't this just an upgrade mechanism? It sounds pretty reasonable. Who wants to be a jack-of-all-trades but master of none? How about I choose the Burst Expert?"

"No." The figure's tone was flat. "You choose the name, and the power is given by the system."

"Tsk, they don't give us any freedom at all," Chu Mo muttered, but his eyes became serious.

Chenxi suddenly took a step forward and said softly, "I have something to say. Here, our identities have already been revealed."

Everyone looked at her.

She raised her hand, and a faint glow appeared in her palm—the power she had used in every reincarnation.

“I was a prophet in the past…” she said softly but firmly, “and I want to keep it.”

The figure looked at her silently: "So, the real name you chose is—Gaze at the Sky?"

"Peering into the heavens." Chenxi nodded.

A glint of light appeared, and a faint mark emerged on Chenxi's forehead.

“My identity is confirmed.” She turned to look at the others, her gaze sweeping over them one by one. “But now, it’s up to you to make your choices.”

Ji Yan raised an eyebrow: "Alright, let's have a competition then. We can each choose our own path based on our preferences. Anyway... the five of us are all different. We can't always be a team cobbled together from the same personality, can we?"

“That makes some sense,” Su Ting laughed. “Alright then. No one is allowed to influence anyone else; each person makes their own choice.”

The four exchanged glances and simultaneously stepped into the light tunnels in different directions.

A few minutes later, Ji Yan stood on a rocky platform.

An old badge floats in front of them, with a line of blurry text engraved on it.

He scoffed, "This thing looks like a fragment of some ancient civilization."

A mechanical voice responded:

[Warrior candidate, please define your class.]

“What else could be a profession that involves killing?” Ji Yan held up two swords with both hands. “Let’s call it ‘Slaying Illusions’.”

The badge suddenly burst into light!

Behind him, a stream of black flames emerged, as if hundreds of blades were spinning and dancing in the air.

He then felt changes within his body—his body became lighter and more agile, and his senses became so sharp that he could detect the airflow caused by a butterfly flapping its wings ten kilometers away, but some of the illusion and defensive skills he had previously mastered disappeared.

Chapter 1082 I Like Explosions

[Definition established. Ji Yan—'Slaying Delusion' has been confirmed and cannot be changed. Continue?]

Ji Yan grinned: "Of course."

The platform beneath his feet shattered, and his body was thrown into the air, heading towards a huge golden door in the distance.

Meanwhile, Chu Mo stood on a desolate wasteland littered with bullet casings, facing a giant projection device.

He took a deep breath: "I love explosions, I love the feeling of bullets tearing through the air. What I'm going to do... is be a war executor."

[Definition accepted.]

Suddenly, deafening artillery fire erupted all around. The ground collapsed, and his body was trapped inside a steel warship.

He stood in the center of the bridge, surrounded by countless robotic arms that automatically assembled weapons and armor for him, but only two words remained in his eyes—bombing.

On the other side, a woman in white robes knelt before the altar, her fingertips lightly touching an ice crystal stone tablet.

“I am the last heir to the dragon bloodline,” she murmured. “My true name is… ‘Dragon Guard’.”

Amidst the howling wind, scale-like patterns appeared on her back, and her long silver hair was tinged with a hint of blue.

In the distance, a giant dragon roared, and a corner of the sky cracked open, revealing its colossal body sleeping beneath the heavens.

And the dawn stands beneath the starry sky, its eyes reflecting millions of stars.

Behind her, a runic halo resembling a book appeared, releasing a fragment of fate from a timeline with each rotation.

[The Sky-Gazer].

Su Ting was the last to return to the central area.

Only he and that figure remained in the air.

The figure watched him silently and asked, "Are you ready too?"

Su Ting sneered: "You bunch of idiots always like to act all-knowing, but do you even know why we got to this point?"

The figure remained silent for a long time.

“I know part of it,” he finally answered, “but not all of it.”

“Then, I’ve made my choice.” Su Ting looked up, her eyes resolute. “I don’t want to become what anyone has predetermined for me.”

He said slowly:

"I am the rewriter of destiny."

At that moment, the world suddenly fell silent.

All the identity symbols that were converging suddenly came to a halt.

The figure swayed slightly: "This definition... transcends all conventional understanding."

“But I’ve made my choice.” Su Ting looked at him calmly. “If you can’t even accept this, then you’re just another data fragment trapped in the cycle of reincarnation.”

The figure remained silent for a long time.

Then, he slowly raised his left hand, and a strange light shimmered as his palm opened.

The last soft sigh dissipated with the wind.

"Destiny rewriters...please enter the realm."

The sky explodes!

The five reunited at the center of the world, radiating golden light!

And on that distant, black tower, the fire atop its summit suddenly went out…

The next second, the entire city quietly awoke from the darkness.

And from a window on the top floor, a deep male voice slowly spoke:

"Five outcasts have arrived."

Another gentle female voice responded:

"Interesting...their names are worth noting."

Ji Yan opened his eyes to a desolate yet scorching land. The ground beneath his feet was covered with rubble, and in the distance stood a broken steel skeleton, like an abandoned fortress, a remnant of fire and war.

"This is a battlefield..." he murmured, raising his hand and instantly drawing two short blades from his waist, black flames coiling around them, emitting a hoarse, mournful cry in the wind.

"You really dared to choose that." A familiar voice came from behind.

Chapter 1083 You Came Here

Without turning his head, he said, "Su Ting? You came here? I thought you would choose some boring profession like 'order scholar'."

Su Ting walked slowly, dressed in a long black robe, with a blurry phantom appearing behind him, as if the wheel of fate was whispering.

"I've said it before, I don't want to become the person someone has predetermined for me."

Ji Yan smiled, the tip of his knife flashing slightly. "So what? What can you change now? Fate? The rules? Or our current situation?"

"Let's see what this place is trying to tell us first." Su Ting looked around, his gaze calm yet alert.

Suddenly, a muffled metallic clang came from the distant ruins.

“There’s someone here.” Ji Yan squinted.

“No, it’s some kind of creature.” Su Ting frowned slightly. “They’re waiting for us to come over.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of figures emerged from the collapsed steel wreckage.

They were clad in shattered armor, their eyes burning with a blood-red light, their movements slow and mechanical. Their weapons were serrated double-edged blades, bearing the marks of corrosion.