After the spiritual energy was restored: Goddess girlfriends came knocking.

"return."

The moment the two words fell, Lin Chu's consciousness seemed to be gripped by an invisible hand and pulled downwards.

The surroundings were a blur; nothing could be seen or heard.

Then a suffocating feeling suddenly gripped his throat, like drowning, his chest was squeezed by an invisible force, and he couldn't breathe.

……

Blue Star, inside the study.

Lin Chu suddenly opened her eyes.

He lay on the ground, panting heavily.

My whole body aches.

It took him a long time to sit up and look around.

study.

Spirit Gathering Array.

The view outside the window is of Shenzhen at night.

Everything was exactly the same as before entering the Book of Myriad Realms.

The water-based spirit stones in the Spirit Gathering Array are arranged according to the Bagua (Eight Trigrams) orientation.

The glass of water on the desk, which wasn't finished before the retreat, is still half full.

Lin Chu stared at the half-full glass of water, her eyes glazed over for several minutes.

The shock of this shift in time and space left him momentarily stunned.

It feels like I had a very, very long dream, a dream where I lived a whole lifetime, and when I woke up I realized only one night had passed.

He slowly stood up and picked up his phone.

Exactly 24 hours have passed.

The information on the phone is still from before the login.

Cangyao sent a little fish cheering emoji.

Watching the little fish struggling desperately on the screen, Lin Chu couldn't help but chuckle.

Put your phone down.

It was obvious that his memories of this life had not been sealed by the system, and he even had all the details of his first life in Qinghe Village very clear.

I raised my hand and felt my body.

Spiritual energy surged from the dantian and flowed along the meridians, reaching the Nascent Soul stage.

After thinking for a while, Lin Chu understood.

This time, he entered in his original form, and naturally, he returned in his original form after the death of the second incarnation.

In the last few years of his life in the Xuan Tian Realm, his cultivation remained stuck at the Nascent Soul stage without any progress. The aftereffects of the Burning Lamp Illuminating the Night Technique burning out completely eroded his foundation, leaving it riddled with holes.

But upon re-examining his internal condition, he found his foundation intact and his dantian full.

However, all merits and good fortune are gone.

Lin Chu frowned.

Logically speaking, the merits and good fortune he accumulated in the following ten years should have reached a rather large amount.

Why can't I sense anything at all now?

Lin Chu himself didn't realize that the moment he frowned, he was a completely different person from before he entered.

That air of authority, born from long-held high positions and decisive power, has unconsciously seeped into his very bones.

In his first life, he served as an official in the Vast Domain. Although he held a high position, he was ultimately a civil official and a mortal.

This time in the Demon Realm, he personally led a group of people out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He was the city lord who built Chang'an City with a single sword and a single blade. He was a being who could determine the rise and fall of a clan with a single word and overthrow a dynasty with a single rage.

He was not yet aware of this change in his aura.

He gathered his thoughts, focused his mind, and summoned the Book of Myriad Realms.

The pages of the book slowly unfolded in the depths of my consciousness.

Golden light surged from between the pages of the book, pulling Lin Chu into the system space.

"System, why is all the merit and luck within me gone?"

A system voice sounded.

"The host's merits and fortune are the fortune of the Xuan Tian Realm and cannot be taken out."

"All of it has been used to repair the host's depleted essence and lifespan caused by using the 'Burning Lamp to Illuminate the Night' technique."

Lin Chu nodded, there was nothing wrong with it.

Soon, the system voice sounded again.

"Second life mission in progress."

Golden light shimmered on the pages, and lines of text emerged.

"Task 1: Cultivation. Reach the Nascent Soul Realm or above in this life. The higher the realm, the richer the rewards."

"Completion Status: Exceeded"

"As a human, the host was born in the Myriad Demon Realm, the most unfavorable place for human survival among the four realms of the Xuan Tian Realm. In this desperate situation, at the age of twenty-one, you cultivated to the peak of the Integration Stage, only a step away from the Great Ascension Stage. You used the Refining Void to sever the Integration Stage, and the Integration Stage to shake the Great Ascension Stage. This has not been seen in the Myriad Demon Realm for ten thousand years. In just over ten years, the host has completed a path that ordinary cultivators cannot reach in their entire lives."

As Lin Chu looked at these words, the corners of her mouth slowly curled up.

It would be a lie to say I'm not proud.

The text on the page went dark, and when it lit up again, it showed the rewards screen.

Reward 1: [The Torch of Humanity]

The Humanitarian Flame Technique combines the advantages of the Righteous Qi Cultivation Technique and the Lighting Lamp Illuminates the Night Technique. It has the foundation of the Righteous Qi Cultivation Technique, which uses popular support to transform fortune, and the Lighting Lamp Illuminates the Night Technique, which burns merits to exchange for explosive combat power.

Its most core characteristic is that "the flame never dies out".

As long as there are still people who remember Lin Chu, this spark will never truly go out.

Even if it burns out completely, it will quietly reignite and coalesce again over time.

Lin Chu's eyes widened.

He knew better than anyone the aftereffects of the Burning Lamp Illumination Technique from that battle in the valley.

If it weren't for Chen Jingyuan's pill, he wouldn't have survived even the last ten years.

Now, the Humanitarian Torch Relay has filled this biggest gap.

Does that mean we can unleash our full power at will from now on?

Keep reading.

Reward Two: [Chaotic Immortal Artifact Embryo]

The Chaos Immortal Artifact Embryo was born in the chaos at the beginning of the Spirit Realm and possesses unlimited evolutionary potential.

After recognizing the host's essence and consciousness, it will hatch on its own.

Its incubation time is uncertain. It possesses an innate spirit and is a natal immortal artifact that can be bound to the host's soul. It evolves as the host's cultivation grows and cannot be taken away or used by others.

Extra Bonus: [Holy Word]

The advanced version of officialdom no longer requires consuming luck to write words, but instead uses one's own spiritual power as a guide, doubling its power. Words become law, and the words spoken become techniques.

The power depends on the host's realm; the higher the realm, the heavier the power of the Heavenly Dao carried by each word.

If one cultivates to the peak, a single word can determine the rise and fall of mountains and rivers, and a single word can sever the cycle of life and death.

Lin Chu took a deep breath.

Official skills can be of great help to me, but to maximize their effectiveness, I still need to rely on luck.

Luck is a consumable resource; it diminishes with each use, and its activation time is relatively long.

Therefore, it can generally only be used to assist in sword techniques.

However, the Holy Word spell can be directly driven by spiritual power, and the words become law, making it even more powerful than before. This means that as long as the spiritual power is not exhausted, it can be used indefinitely.

Lin Chu's lips were barely concealing a smile.

"Mission Two: Establish a race and lead the human race of the Myriad Demon Realm to seize a territory from the demon race that can accommodate more than one million people to settle permanently, has the conditions for self-sufficiency, and can resist the attacks of the demon race's regular army."

"Completion Status: Exceeded"

"The host started from a dilapidated Blood Flag City, defeated countless powerful enemies, and eventually built Chang'an into the number one city in the Ten Thousand Demon Domain."

"At its peak, it housed nearly ten million humans. The preaching stele burned day and night, and countless names were engraved on the monument of heroes. Furthermore, based on this city, it completely changed the survival pattern of humans in the Demon Realm, transforming them from livestock regarded as 'two-legged sheep' by the demons to being able to stand on equal footing with various forces. The flame of humanity, starting from Chang'an, spread across thousands of miles."

Reward 1: [Amulet for All People]

Automatically triggered when subjected to a fatal attack, the amulet shatters and transforms into the power of all people to protect the holder, blocking the attack and randomly teleporting the holder to a safe location. Once triggered, the amulet cannot be repaired.

Reward Two: [Monument to the Preacher]

It can analyze any cultivation technique, enabling the host to comprehend it more quickly, and it can also accelerate the host's comprehension and analysis of the laws of heaven and earth.

The more complex the laws, the more obvious the analytical advantages of the Preaching Monument become.

Extra Reward: [Enlightenment Seed]

The Enlightenment Seed is a relic of a fallen immortal emperor in the spirit realm.

After merging with the sea of ​​consciousness, it becomes easier to break through cultivation bottlenecks and to more quickly discern the flaws in the laws of surgical techniques during combat.

[Hidden Effect: The Immortal Seed contains a wisp of the legacy of a fallen Immortal Emperor, which will automatically unseal when the host's cultivation reaches the corresponding realm.]

After digesting all of this, Lin Chu remained in a daze for quite a while.

Six rewards, each one more outrageous than the last.

It starts at the level of an immortal.

There is even the legacy of the Immortal Emperor.

As far as I know, even those at the peak of Mahayana cultivation who have survived the Heavenly Tribulation and ascended to the Spirit Realm are only Earth Immortals.

Above the Earthly Immortals are the Celestial Immortals, and above the Celestial Immortals are the True Immortals.

Only true immortals can be considered immortals in the real sense.

The Celestial Emperor is the true pinnacle of existence in the Spirit Realm, a supreme powerhouse who rules over a region.

This can no longer be described as "generous".

"This is like giving someone a complete team to become an immortal," Lin Chu murmured.

After gathering my thoughts, I carefully put away all the rewards.

Before the excitement had fully subsided, the system's voice sounded again.

"The host's completion rate in this world has far exceeded expectations, triggering an additional reward."

"Additional Reward: Once you enter the Book of Myriad Realms, you may pause or exit at any time until the timeline of the Myriad Realms is aligned with the timeline of Earth."

Lin Chu's eyes suddenly lit up.

Pause or exit at any time.

In other words, when I enter the Book of Myriad Realms again, I won't have to live until I die in one go?

Being able to return to Earth at any time? That level of freedom is on a completely different level.

This function is more practical than any cultivation technique or magic weapon.

"Settlement complete, all rewards have been distributed."

The system sound disappeared, and the pages of the book slowly closed.

Lin Chu stood in the Myriad Realms Book space, watching the small book emitting a faint golden light fall silent, and then withdrew.

Looking out the window at the night sky, I took a deep breath, my heart pounding with emotion, a thousand thoughts surging within me.