1: Chapter 1 System Upgrade, Establishing a Sect

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Xuanhuang World.

South of the Southern Wilderness, the Ten Thousand Mountains.

Peaks layered upon peaks, rising and falling like waves.

Countless strange peaks rose from the ground, piercing the firmament, tearing the sea of clouds into wisps.

Standing on the peak, one felt as if they were beyond the heavens, with the surging clouds almost within reach.

Atop these Ten Thousand Mountains, above the sea of clouds, only one solitary peak stood transcendently.

At the summit, an ancient temple stood quietly; its eaves were broken, and its stone steps were mottled.

It appeared and disappeared within the swirling mist, revealing a desolation eroded by the passage of time.

Inside the hall, a young man in white reclined on an old lounge chair.

He was in a relaxed posture, his fingertips lightly tapping the armrest while he hummed an off-tune melody:

"The little one is clear and quiet, leisure is by my side..."

His voice was clear and melodious, carrying a hint of laziness as it echoed lingeringly through the empty and desolate dilapidated hall.

It intertwined with the whistling mountain wind outside the hall, creating a strange sense of tranquility.

[ Ding, today's check-in complete. Received bailing fruit * 100. ]

Hearing the System prompt resonate in his mind, the young man in white casually took out a bailing fruit and began to munch on it.

Having already entered the Mahayana Realm, the bailing fruit was now almost useless to him.

However, its sweet taste could still satisfy his appetite.

The young man in white was named Jiang Changge. A hundred years ago, he had Transmigration-ed into this cultivation world where the strong preyed on the weak, landing right atop this mountain.

And, just like other transmigrators, he had activated the System.

Thus, Jiang Changge had spent the past hundred years living a life of daily check-ins.

Although Jiang Changge had relied on the System's rewards to reach the Early Stage of the Mahayana Realm.

He could have easily descended the mountain to travel the world.

But he knew very well that in the cultivation world, there were only three types of people: ants, Fellow Daoist, and Senior.

Although he stood at the pinnacle of this world in the Early Stage of the Mahayana Realm.

He was still not an invincible existence.

If he went out to travel and, with terrible luck, ran into some old monster at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage...

Jiang Changge didn't want to end up as roadkill.

With the System, it was better to just stay low-key and develop here in the sparsely populated Ten Thousand Mountains.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to only emerge once he was truly invincible?

According to the information provided by the System, Jiang Changge knew that the Xuanhuang World was vast and boundless, filled with countless Sects and clans.

As for the Southern Wilderness where Jiang Changge was located, although the Spiritual Qi was the thinnest compared to the other four regions, there were still powerhouses at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.

If he accidentally provoked someone he shouldn't, he probably wouldn't even know how he died.

Soon, Jiang Changge finished eating the bailing fruit and looked at the System panel.

[ System upgrading, progress 97%. ]

Three days ago marked his one-hundredth year since Transmigration.

On that very day, in addition to the usual automatic check-in, the System had begun to upgrade on its own.

"It looks like it will finish soon. I just wonder what features it will have after the upgrade," Jiang Changge muttered to himself.

For the past hundred years, the System had no other functions besides the daily automatic check-in.

However, he had obtained many Heaven And Earth Treasure, Magical Artifact, Dao talismans, and ancient formations through check-ins.

Aside from the bailing fruit, everything else was a top-tier treasure, basically all of Heaven Rank.

The levels of all items in the Xuanhuang World were divided into: Heaven, Earth, Xuan, and Yellow, and further subdivided into Early, Middle, and Advanced stages.

Jiang Changge had dozens of Heaven Rank Advanced Cultivation Technique, which would cause top factions outside to fight over them.

However, he couldn't Cultivate Heaven Rank Cultivation Technique because he couldn't comprehend them.

However, among these rewards, there were over a dozen Cultivation Technique that didn't display any grade but looked very ancient.

Among them was a Cultivation Technique with a worn cover, faintly bearing the characters for "Creation."

Only with this Cultivation Technique could Jiang Changge comprehend its mysteries and step onto the path of cultivation.

He later concluded that the best thing isn't necessarily the most suitable for oneself, but the one that suits oneself is definitely the best.

[ Ding, progress 100%. System upgrade successful. Current version is System 2.0. ]

[ This System has been upgraded to the Strongest Sect System, aiming to assist the host in building the strongest Sect in the heavens. Please recruit Disciples and build the Sect. ]

[ If you encounter someone with destiny, you will trigger an apprentice-recruitment reward! ]

[ Ding, detected the ruins of the ancient Kunlun Sect. Do you wish to use this as the Foundation to build the Sect? ]

Hearing the voice in his mind, Jiang Changge was stunned. Didn't it say before that he could become stronger by checking in and getting rewards?

Now that the upgrade was finished, why was it making him build a Sect? After lying flat for a hundred years, was it time to start working?

"System, can I still check in after the upgrade?" Jiang Changge asked in his heart.

[ Of course. The host can not only continue to check in, but every time the host checks in for the first time in a Forbidden Ground, ruins, or Secret Realm, you will receive a hundredfold critical hit. ]

Seeing that the System not only retained the check-in feature but also added the chance for a hundredfold critical hit.

Jiang Changge breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he could continue to stay low-key and develop, it would be fine.

Then, Jiang Changge looked at the dilapidated hall that had been there since he Transmigration-ed. Presumably, this was the Kunlun Sect ruins mentioned by the System.

"System, establish Kunlun Sect!" Jiang Changge shouted.

As his words fell, a ray of rosy light flashed. The originally dilapidated hall had recovered its former magnificent Aura.

The entire hall was like an ancient deity sleeping within the Chaos.

The dao rhyme surrounding it was like a solidified galaxy, intertwining with the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to form a translucent light curtain.

The spiritual mist for a hundred miles outside the hall surged toward it like a tide, and a pillar of black and white airflow shot into the sky.

It was just like the breath of a deity awakening, causing the surrounding Spiritual Qi to vibrate and resonate.

When Jiang Changge arrived outside the hall, he was shocked to find that the surrounding environment had changed.

The Ten Thousand Mountains that were originally visible were gone.

In their place were several immortal peaks, lingering with dao rhyme and filled with Spiritual Qi.

A vast spiritual spring wound its way past the foot of each immortal mountain.

The steaming Spiritual Qi was like mist and dew, nourishing all the spiritual plants on the mountains.

The one where Jiang Changge stood was still the highest peak.

As the main peak of the Kunlun Sect, it stood quietly amidst the clouds.

The scene before him left Jiang Changge stunned in place.

[ This place is a Small World newly opened based on the ruins of the ancient Kunlun Sect. The original dilapidated hall no longer exists; in its place is the Kunlun Mountain Gate. ]

"System, you really are something," Jiang Changge took a deep breath and muttered.

He had originally thought that the so-called "establishing the Kunlun Sect" would just be redecorating the old hall.

He hadn't expected it to actually open up an independent world and reshape the universe.

[ System products are guaranteed to be of the highest quality. ]

And with the System obscuring the heavenly secrets, the astonishing phenomenon of changing the world just now had not alarmed any factions in the Southern Wilderness.

Otherwise, the peace Jiang Changge desired would likely have been shattered in an instant by countless prying eyes.

Although he felt some nostalgia for the dilapidated hall where he had lived for so long, who wouldn't want to live better?

As for opening the mountain gate and recruiting Disciples, he would leave that for later.

Afterward, Jiang Changge returned to the hall to lie down, leisurely eating spiritual fruits and humming a little tune.

How happy! How wonderful!

[ Realm: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Soul Transformation, Void Refining, Body Integration, Mahayana, Tribulation Transcendence Stage... ]