109: Chapter 109 A Gift of Fate, Blessed with Good Fortune, The Fifth Life!

Darkness, absolute nothingness.

When Su Yu's True Soul awakened once more in this familiar deep sea, the Soul-burning, bone-melting pain of the previous moment was gone, leaving only an ultimate lightness of relief.

The cold, emotionless mechanical prompt echoed right on time in the deepest depths of his Soul.

[Ding!]

[Host's death in the fourth life detected. True Soul has been guided.]

[Beginning settlement of the fourth life—]

[Host Identity: Great Li Human Emperor, Mortal Savior.]

[In your fourth life, you were born into the extreme predicament of a Family Status of one, a mere blood-food livestock reared by demons. Yet, relying on your Heaven-Defying Comprehension Ability, you created the Creation Melting Furnace Art and the Mortal Self-Severing Method in a world filled with Devilish Qi.]

[You hid behind the scenes, weaving a massive web, and awakened billions of Mortals who had been enslaved for tens of thousands of years. Using the blood and bones of Mortals as fuel, you ignited the world-cleansing flame, forcing back the demons and restoring clarity to heaven and earth.]

[You ascended the throne as emperor, using the imperial throne as a furnace and the faith of the populace as fire to pioneer a Human Path cultivation method. Through three hundred years of reign, you enabled the world's common people to live and work in peace, pushing the Human Path Luck to its absolute peak.]

[In the end, facing the Void Refining Realm Lord of the Abyss who crossed over from another Realm, you did not shrink back. Offering yourself as a sacrifice, you fused the wishes of tens of billions of living beings with the remaining Heavenly Dao Origin, slaying a Soul Transformation powerhouse from a higher Realm and completely saving this dying world.]

[You have carved an indelible mark upon this world. You are remembered by all living beings and engraved into the Small World's Heavenly Dao.]

[Final Evaluation: Purple Epic - One Star!]

(Evaluation Ranks from lowest to highest: White, Green, Blue, Purple, Gold, Red, Prismatic)

[Reward Received: 5,000 Fate-Defying Points!]

The cold, mechanical voice gradually faded into the nothingness.

A Purple Epic evaluation!

In his Soul state, Su Yu looked at the evaluation shimmering with a noble purple light on the panel. There was not much surprise on his face; instead, he showed a calm composure that suggested it was exactly as expected.

He had skipped a Rank.

Directly skipping the Blue Rank, he was awarded a Purple Epic rating!

And that terrifying reward of 5,000 Fate-Defying Points!

Facing such an astonishing leap and massive reward, Su Yu smiled faintly in the nothingness.

“As expected.”

As early as the settlement of his third life, when he received a Green Nine-Star rating, he had already completely seen through the core logic of the System's evaluation.

The System's evaluation dimensions had never been purely about combat power values or cultivation Realms.

What it truly valued was the mark left by the True Soul upon the world, and the complete shattering of the preordained shackles of fate!

An Early Stage Nascent Soul Realm cultivation was indeed nothing grand in those vast, boundless high-level cultivation worlds, and might still be considered just mid-tier.

Yet, with a Nascent Soul body, he had slain a Void Refining cultivator!

He had saved the living beings of an entire world, rescuing a dying Heavenly Dao!

Such a feat of forcefully changing a world's destiny against the heavens had carved an indelible mark upon the Laws of heaven and earth!

For such a mythic, epic achievement to receive a 'Purple Epic' evaluation...

...was completely reasonable in Su Yu's eyes!

Just as Su Yu was feeling deeply moved...

[Ding!]

[Special interference detected—]

In the dark nothingness, a very faint yet incredibly warm golden light suddenly lit up.

The golden light carried no hostility; instead, it exuded a sense of familiarity that felt extremely close to Su Yu's Soul.

That was...

The immature Heavenly Dao that he had nurtured for three hundred years in his fourth life, which had lent him its Origin at the final moment!

“Thank you...”

That immature, childlike voice he had heard in the sea of fire once again crossed the barriers of time and space, echoing with extreme etherealness in the depths of his True Soul.

Immediately after, the golden light dissolved into stardust and merged into the System panel.

[Heavenly Dao Blessing has descended.]

[Note: The reincarnated body of this life has received the highest gift from the Heavenly Dao Origin of a Small World. Points allocated to the 'Fortune' attribute will receive a tenfold multiplier effect!]

Looking at this prompt glowing with golden divine light, Su Yu was stunned for a moment, then revealed a smile of relief.

Before his birth in the fourth life, that Heavenly Dao had used a tenfold Comprehension Ability as a wager, betting that he could save the world.

He had done it.

And that reborn, immature Heavenly Dao returned his body-shattering, Void Refining-slaying sword strike with a supreme gift of tenfold Fortune.

“The Heavenly Dao has no favorites; it always aligns with the virtuous.”

Su Yu let out a long, slow sigh in the endless nothingness, his tone carrying the clarity and open-mindedness of someone who had lived through the vicissitudes of four lifetimes.

“I protected all living beings with a Mortal life, and Heaven rewards me with great Fortune.”

Good deeds are rewarded; the Heavenly Dao is perfectly just.

Su Yu reined in his thoughts and turned his gaze to the newly generated initial panel for his fifth life.

[Fifth Life · Innate Panel]

[Fortune]: 36 (+)

[Aptitude]: 54 (+)

[Family Status]: 55 (+)

[Comprehension Ability]: 38 (+)

[State of Mind]: 88

When his gaze swept over the last row, [State of Mind], Su Yu's pupils contracted slightly.

88 points!

One had to know that his accumulated State of Mind over the first three lives was only just over thirty points.

Yet the near-transcendental sacrifice of his fourth life, and his resolute willingness to turn himself into a beacon for all living beings, had actually given his True Soul an unprecedentedly terrifying tempering.

After confirming his State of Mind, Su Yu's gaze returned to the allocatable attributes, and his mind began to race.

5,000 Fate-Defying Points.

This was an unprecedented Fortune.

How he allocated these points would determine his survival in the next life.

First, looking at Family Status.

An innate 55 points.

Deducing from the experience of his previous lives, 50 points was usually a clear watershed.

As long as it exceeded 50 points, it meant his True Soul would be successfully born into the cultivation world, rather than falling into the Realm of a pure, ordinary Mortal.

“It's enough.”

Su Yu decisively skipped the Family Status column.

As long as it wasn't an extreme Hellish scenario like the fourth life, where he was bled and had his marrow extracted right at birth...

With his current State of Mind of over eighty points and the cultivation methods accumulated over four lives, he could revitalize any small Family.

Next was Comprehension Ability: 38 points, utterly average.

On the path of cultivation, Comprehension Ability was naturally of paramount importance.

In his previous life, he had personally experienced the absolute dominance brought by a Heaven-Defying Comprehension Ability.

Ordinarily, facing this barely passing Comprehension Ability, Su Yu would have definitely spent heavily to upgrade it.

But at this moment, looking at the golden prompt of 'tenfold Fortune multiplier' on the System panel, Su Yu rationally suppressed that thought.

In the face of such an incredible tenfold leverage, diverting the precious Fate-Defying Points to Comprehension Ability would be an absolute waste!

Good steel must be used on the blade's edge!

Su Yu's gaze continued downward, landing on the most eye-catching attribute: Aptitude.

54 points.

According to the patterns he had figured out over these lifetimes, 50 points was the minimum passing line for possessing a Spiritual Root.

These 54 points, barely crossing the passing line, would undoubtedly result in a bottom-tier 9th Grade Spiritual Root.

Su Yu couldn't help but sigh helplessly in his heart.

“This Spiritual Root Aptitude really is as difficult to obtain as always.”

According to the common sense of the cultivation world, with this kind of Aptitude, it would be difficult to even break through to the Middle Stage of Qi Refining in this lifetime.

Had it been his previous lives, he might have had a headache over this, meticulously calculating whether to spend Fate-Defying Points to improve his bone structure.

But now?

Not even a single thought of adding points to Aptitude arose.

There was no need, absolutely no need!

Su Yu's eyes were exceptionally clear, because he held a trump card that others could only dream of.

In his fourth life, in that dead land ravaged by Devilish Qi, he had relied on 9,999 points of Comprehension Ability to create the Heaven-Defying divine techniques Creation Melting Furnace Art and Heaven-Swallowing Yuan-Transformation Technique!

In his previous life, under such harsh conditions where there wasn't even a single breath of clean air, he was still able to use his body as a furnace to forcefully temper his Spiritual Root Aptitude in reverse, raising it grade by grade.

What if he changed the environment?

What if, in his fifth life, he was born into a normal cultivation world with pure Spiritual Qi and no pollution?

He could completely repeat his old trick, tempering this Ninth-Grade Poor Talent all the way to the first grade!

Since he could use a Cultivation Technique to improve his constitution for free, spending any Fate-Defying Points on Aptitude would be a massive loss!

Immediately after, Su Yu turned his gaze to the attribute he had long yearned to add points to: Fortune!

The exchange rate for Fortune was an expensive 10:1.

Dumping all 5,000 Fate-Defying Points in would only yield 500 points.

But with the tenfold multiplier bestowed by the Heavenly Dao!

500 points multiplied by ten would be a whopping 5,000 points of Fortune!

Combined with his innate 36 points, his final Fortune would reach a terrifying 5,036 points!

What did 5,036 points of Fortune even mean?

That probably meant literally picking up money just by walking out the door, or falling off a cliff only to find a Secret Manual?!

When Luck accumulated to such a terrifying magnitude...

...it was no longer called Luck.

It was destiny itself, favoring him without any bottom line!

Even if he stood completely still, Opportunities and Fortunes would probably line up to feed themselves into his mouth!

Looking at the panel, a trace of unprecedented madness and determination flashed in Su Yu's eyes.

In his previous life, he had played the savior, exhausting himself to the bone.

In this life, he was going to win effortlessly!

“System, allocate all five thousand Fate-Defying Points to Fortune!”

A gambler goes all the way, leaving not a single scrap!

[Point allocation complete. Host's initial panel for the fifth life has been generated.]

[Fifth Life · Final Panel]

[Fortune]: 5036 (Innate 36 + Allocated 5000)

[Aptitude]: 54 (Innate 54 + Allocated 0)

[Family Status]: 55 (Innate 55 + Allocated 0)

[Comprehension Ability]: 38 (Innate 38 + Allocated 0)

[State of Mind]: 88

[Panel locked. True Soul guidance beginning.]

As the guiding beam from the depths of the nothingness descended once more, Su Yu closed his eyes.

In his first life, he was a legend of Mortal martial arts.

In his second life, he was a patient, scheming rabid dog of a collateral branch.

In his third life, he was a pragmatic, stability-seeking Golden Core Old Ancestor.

In his fourth life, he was a Mortal Emperor who burned himself out.

And in this fifth life...

“Let me see what it feels like to be a chosen one of heaven, a child of destiny blessed with boundless Fortune.”

His consciousness sank into Reincarnation once more.