2: Chapter 2 System Mutation, Forced to Take on a Female Version of Xiao Huohuo as an Apprentice

The peak of Xiaoyao Peak was deathly silent, save for the "creak, creak" sound of Lu Chen lying in his rocking chair.

Mo Wentian, the Holy Lord of Yunxiao Holy Land, stood high above the Holy Land, completely numb.

He had lived for over eight hundred years; he had seen Disciples suffer from Qi Deviation, seen Elders blow up their Alchemy furnaces, and seen hostile Holy Lands attack their gates.

But he had never seen anyone take an Immortal Ascension Opportunity that was within reach and slash it to pieces with a single sword strike!

And it was their Yunxiao Holy Land's most promising and youngest Old Ancestor, no less!

Mo Wentian was terrified. But as the chief steward of the Holy Land, he had to go and ask.

Summoning the greatest courage of his life, he flew toward Xiaoyao Peak. Arriving beside the rocking chair, he looked at Lu Chen's leisurely appearance and bowed cautiously.

"Old Ancestor, are you alright?"

Lu Chen didn't even lift his eyelids. He picked up a cup of cold tea from the stone table beside him and took a slow sip. "What could be wrong? I'm just sunbathing."

Mo Wentian observed Lu Chen's complexion and the imperceptible tremble when he lifted the teacup! He understood! He understood everything!

The Old Ancestor shattering the Guiding Immortal Gate must have been because he fought across space with the Immortal blocking his path to the Immortal Realm and suffered heavy injuries!

In front of everyone, he had to claim that he was reluctant to leave the Holy Land, just to stabilize the other powers and keep us from worrying!

After all, Yunxiao Holy Land had been in decline for a thousand years, and for all these years, the Old Ancestor had been the only one holding up the facade.

If news of the Old Ancestor's severe injury were to spread, wouldn't those covetous powers immediately pounce and gnaw Yunxiao Holy Land until not even bones were left?

Old Ancestor... he truly is... I'm crying to death!

Thinking of this, Mo Wentian's eyes turned red, tears welled up, and his voice choked with emotion.

"Old Ancestor! This Disciple understands! Please rest assured, from today on, our Yunxiao Holy Land will close its gates for a hundred years! This Disciple will go and activate the mountain-protecting formation immediately! We will exhaust the entire sect's power to find heaven and earth divine treasures to help you recover!"

Lu Chen nearly spat out his tea. Recover? Recover what the hell? I am perfectly fine, fine enough to kill ten of you with a single punch.

But on second thought, the fact that he refused Ascension was indeed shocking. He couldn't exactly tell them that Ascension meant going to the Immortal Realm to be a miner, and a 996-schedule one with benefits at that.

If he said that, it would likely shake the very Foundation of the entire cultivation world and shatter the dreams of all Cultivators; the Karma would be too great.

Having a fool voluntarily make up a reason for him was convenient. Thus, Lu Chen went along with his words and sighed, feigning profundity.

"Hmm, you have a good heart." "Go, do not disturb my quiet cultivation."

"Yes! This Disciple obeys!" Mo Wentian turned and left.

Watching Mo Wentian's "the warrior goes forth and never returns" back, Lu Chen pursed his lips. "This Holy Lord is older than me, but his brain doesn't seem to work very well."

Just as he was about to continue lying flat, a jarring alarm sounded in his mind, like a computer infected with a virus.

[Warning! Warning! Host has refused to execute the core task "Ascension Sign-in"!] [Detected that the Host violently destroyed the task target "Guiding Immortal Gate"] [System is attempting to reconnect to the Immortal Realm... Reconnection failed!] [Beep! Beep! Beep... System core crashed! Initiating emergency protocols!]

Lu Chen's head ached from the noise, and he frowned irritably. "Shut up!"

As soon as his words fell, the alarm in his mind stopped abruptly. Replacing it was a brand-new loli voice.

[Detected the Host's strong desire to remain in the Mortal Realm!] [Based on the Host's core slacker philosophy of "better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix."] [System is performing underlying logic restructuring... Restructuring complete.] ["Sign-in System" has successfully iterated into "Salted Fish + Disciple Cultivation System (Mortal Realm Magic-Modified Version)" .]

Lu Chen: "?" What the hell is this? Raising a Disciple?

[Ding! Beginner task released!] [Task Content: Please find a person with great Luck within one day and take them as a Disciple.] [Task Reward: Ten years of salted fish lifespan, one Immortal-grade Emperors Fall Divine Flower seed.]

Lu Chen immediately lost interest. Just kidding, how much trouble is taking a Disciple? Raising them from scratch, having to take care of their food, drink, and cultivation—it's more tiring than working.

As for the rewards? He was already at Great Emperor Peak, with a lifespan equal to the heavens; his lifespan was sufficient for the time being. Emperors Fall Divine Flower, he had never even heard of it. "Not doing it." Lu Chen refused decisively.

However, the System seemed determined to make him work. [Ding! Beginner task released! Please find a person... within one day] [Ding! Beginner task released!] [Ding! Ding! Ding!] The demonic notification sound began to loop infinitely in his mind, as annoying as a pop-up ad for a discount cut.

"Damn it! Are you finished yet!" Lu Chen couldn't stand it anymore and sat up from the rocking chair. He finally understood; this broken System was just forcing him to find something to do. "Fine, fine, fine, I'll take one, I'll take one, alright!"

He stood up, grumbling, and his vast Divine Sense, like receding seawater, instantly blanketed the entire Eastern Wasteland. Images of billions of living beings flashed through his mind.

It was like he was scrolling through short videos, quickly swiping past one scene after another, looking for that so-called "person with great Luck."

"This one won't do, too ugly, it will affect the aesthetic of my Xiaoyao Peak." "This one's Aptitude is too poor, it's too much effort to teach." "This one is a man? Get lost!"

Just as Lu Chen was about to lose patience, his Divine Sense locked onto a small city hundreds of thousands of miles away. In the vision of his Divine Sense, a young girl was standing in the center of a mansion's main hall, experiencing a classic engagement-breaking scenario.

Lu Chen's "Void-Illusory Divine Pupils" subconsciously swept over. He saw that above the girl's head, a thick, almost tangible pillar of purple-red Luck soared into the sky.

"Whoa, the Luck is so red it's purple; that's clearly a protagonist template." Lu Chen touched his chin. "Alright, this unlucky person it is."

He was too lazy to fly through the air, feeling it was too tiring, so he simply slashed at the void in front of him. Rip! Space tore open, and a deep fissure appeared out of thin air, with the other side being the sky above that small city.

Lu Chen took a step forward, and his figure instantly disappeared from Xiaoyao Peak. ... Qingyang City, the declining Leng family mansion. Inside the main hall, the atmosphere was depressed to the extreme.

The young girl Leng Qingqiu was wearing a plain, washed-out white dress, her back straight with stubbornness, and her stunningly beautiful face was devoid of any color.

She stared at the arrogant, brocade-clad youth in front of her, her eyes churning with monstrous hatred. 'Su Chen... Everlasting Su Family...' 'I didn't expect that I would actually be Reborn back to this very day!'

Opposite her, the young Revered Master of the Su Family, Su Chen, held a letter of divorce in his hand, his words extremely mean. "Leng Qingqiu, you are a piece of trash who has lost all cultivation, are you worthy of me, Su Chen? Today, I represent the Everlasting Su Family to annul our engagement! If you're sensible, kneel down and accept this letter of divorce!"

As his voice fell, an Elder beside Su Chen released a terrifying pressure, crushing toward Leng Qingqiu like a mountain.

Leng Qingqiu's knees went weak, her bones making an unbearable "creak" sound, and she was about to kneel in public.

Just at this moment of humiliation, a gentle force supported her knees, preventing them from bending any further. Immediately after, a slightly lazy voice drifted down from above everyone's heads.

"Let me see who dares to make my chosen good Disciple kneel?" Everyone looked up in horror. In mid-air, a young man wearing a white inner robe had appeared, looking down at the scene below.

His long hair was casually held up by a wooden hairpin, his eyes half-open and half-closed, looking like he hadn't woken up yet. Lu Chen looked at the stubborn and unyielding girl below and thought to himself:

"Is this my unlucky Disciple?" "She looks quite stunning." "Saint Qi recorded in his 'Records of Reckless Actions' that if a woman cannot see her toes when looking down, she is already a peerless beauty of the world; isn't that exactly my Disciple!"

PS: The protagonist has cultivated to the Great Emperor level; although it relied on the previous System, he has lived for over 400 years! So, it's impossible for him not to have had past lovers. Thus, he has a few past lovers, a fiancée arranged by his Revered Master, and even a child whom the protagonist himself doesn't know about! This is my own setting! Therefore, the protagonist won't be frantically starting a harem in the early stages! It will only be setting up harem characters! After all, having lived for so many years, those thoughts have faded! But his mindset will change later! Because the System changed the rewards to lifespan! And since he isn't Ascending, he has to find something to pass the time, like learning from young people! So, for the first fifty or sixty chapters, the protagonist won't be "eating" (romantically involved), and I've been scolded terribly for it. I'm explaining it here, and I won't bother replying later! You can scold me if you want, I don't care! But since I reply to almost every message, and there is a limit to message replies, I don't want to waste the Opportunity to reply! Thank you for understanding, love you all.