37: Chapter 37: Adding Points, Preparing for the Third Life!

Consciousness sank into absolute darkness.

In the depths of that familiar void.

A cold, emotionless mechanical prompt sounded right on time in the depths of Su Yu's true spirit.

[Ding!]

[Host's second life has ended naturally; true spirit has been retrieved.]

[Beginning settlement for the second life—]

[Host Identity: Founder of the Qianlong Su Family.]

[In your second life, you were born into a lowly, insignificant family at the very bottom of the cultivation world, possessing the most inferior 9th Grade Spiritual Root.]

[Faced with the exploitation of the main branch and the contempt of your kin, you were extremely forbearing, hiding your sharp edges. With worldly slickness and cold rationality, you frantically absorbed resources from the cracks.]

[When the family was on the verge of destruction, not only did you escape unscathed, you also seized the opportunity to annex the remaining foundation of the main branch.]

[You established Hidden Dragon Manor, balancing cultivators and mortals, taking in many wives and concubines, and regarding the propagation of your bloodline as the highest law.]

[As a practitioner in the Qi Refining Stage, you killed a pseudo-foundation establishment cultivator across ranks. Although you ultimately missed the path to Foundation Establishment, you assisted your second son in achieving Human Dao Foundation Establishment and successfully seized Qingmu Market.]

[Over a century, you transformed a negligible branch of exiles into a Foundation Establishment family that dominated the region.]

[Final Evaluation: Green Excellent · Three Stars!]

(Evaluation ranks from lowest to highest: White, Green, Blue, Purple, Gold, Red, Color)

[Reward obtained: 300 Fate-Defying Points!]

The cold mechanical voice echoed in the depths of his soul.

In the void, Su Yu looked at the evaluation on the panel and felt slightly surprised.

It wasn't that he thought it was low, but rather that he felt it was high.

He originally thought he would get at most a Green One-Star.

After all, he hadn't even crossed the threshold of Foundation Establishment by the end; when he died, he was still in the Qi Refining Stage.

In the vast cultivation world, the boundary between the Qi Refining Stage and mortal ants is not very distinct.

But seeing the system's final settlement remarks, Su Yu felt relieved.

The dimension of the evaluation was clearly not limited to personal cultivation level.

Starting as a piece of trash with a Ninth-Grade Poor Talent, he had forcibly created a Foundation Establishment family from ruins, deeply rooting his bloodline in the cultivation world.

This achievement of founding and inheritance supported the Green Three-Star evaluation.

Three hundred Fate-Defying Points.

This was several times more than the settlement of his first life.

Immediately after, the panel for the third life was generated.

[The host's innate initial panel for the third life has been generated. Please view it and invest by adding points.]

Accompanying the prompt, a shimmering attribute panel appeared before Su Yu.

[Third Life · Innate Panel]

[Fortune]: 1 (+)

[Aptitude]: 61 (+)

[Family Background]: 88 (+)

[Comprehension Ability]: 22 (+)

[State of Mind]: 13

Looking at the data on the panel, Su Yu was slightly surprised.

An innate Fortune of 1 point—doesn't that mean having no luck at all?

Fortunately, he could add points.

Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to imagine how unlucky he would be.

And the innate Aptitude as high as 61 points made Su Yu's heart tremble slightly.

You must know, in his second life, he poured all his assets into adding points, and his final Aptitude was only 51 points, barely managing to scrape by with the most inferior 9th Grade Spiritual Root.

But in this life, the innate Aptitude alone reached 61 points!

Besides that, the "Family Background" initial attribute, which was as high as 88 points, made Su Yu feel very surprised.

The system rules clearly stated that the true spirit would reincarnate among one's own bloodline descendants.

He had secretly investigated this during his second life.

The Great Xia Dynasty had not been destroyed; it had even flourished and thrived.

But that vast land was a place completely devoid of spiritual energy.

There was not a shred of spiritual energy in the world, and no trace of cultivators, which was the reason he had never heard of immortal traces while being a martial arts legend in his first life.

Therefore, the location of his reincarnation in this life was, nine times out of ten, still the Qianlong Su Family he had personally founded.

Thinking of this, Su Yu pulled a smile in the void.

It must be said, this was a perfect, god-tier start.

If he were truly born into the Qianlong Su Family, and if his second son, Su Yuan, were still alive.

As long as he stood up and revealed his identity, speaking of the secrets that only the father and son knew, wouldn't the entire Su Family treat him like an ancestor and worship him?

However, this thought only flashed by.

Living another life, there were many variables; whether or not to reveal his identity would depend on the specific situation after he was born.

After all, a hundred years had already passed during his second reincarnation.

Things in the third life were really hard to say.

Putting away his distracting thoughts, Su Yu focused his attention back on adding points.

Three hundred Fate-Defying Points could be considered a very rich foundation.

He remembered clearly the pain of his meridians snapping when he forcefully swallowed the authentic foundation establishment pill in his previous life.

The hardware limit of the Ninth-Grade Poor Talent was the only reason he failed to achieve Foundation Establishment.

In this life, Aptitude must be maxed out.

As for Fortune.

The 5 points of Fortune in his previous life allowed him to pick up the Marrow Cleansing Spirit Lotus and Earth Heart Spirit Milk for free, and even made Su Hao bring the authentic foundation establishment pill to him voluntarily.

This kind of serendipity that turned danger into safety and misfortune into good fortune in the dark had infinite wonderful uses.

If he had enough points, he had even thought about adding everything to Fortune to see what it would be like after this attribute, which involved fate and karma, was maxed out.

But rationality suppressed this impulse.

The exchange ratio for Fortune was ten to one, which was too expensive, and without Aptitude as a base, the physical body could not withstand even the best opportunities.

The idea of adding everything to Fortune should be left for the next life to test.

Su Yu settled his mind and made the allocation.

Three hundred Fate-Defying Points, used up directly.

The exchange ratio for Fortune was ten to one, so he took out forty points and exchanged them for four points of Fortune.

Then he allocated twenty points to Comprehension Ability.

The remaining two hundred and forty points were, without reservation, poured entirely into Aptitude.

[Adding points complete. The host's initial panel for the third life has been generated.]

[Third Life · Final Panel]

[Fortune]: 5 (Innate 1 + Added 4)

[Aptitude]: 301 (Innate 61 + Added 240)

[Family Background]: 88 (Innate 88 + Added 0)

[Comprehension Ability]: 42 (Innate 22 + Added 20)

[State of Mind]: 13

Looking at the final panel, Su Yu calmly closed his eyes.

[Panel locked; true spirit retrieval beginning.]

In the depths of the void, a gentle beam of light descended, enveloping his soul.

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