Without giving me enough time to respond, two of those giant eyes shot straight into my own, disappearing like an illusion.
"…!"
I stood there bewildered.
I had never heard of anything magical like this.
A chilling yet gentle sensation appeared, like a drop of cold water falling between my eyebrows.
That coldness gradually turned warmer and warmer as time passed.
Then came an intense headache.
It felt as though countless needles were piercing straight through my brain.
"…"
I was terrified.
I tried to shout, but no sound came out when I opened my mouth.
No, I wasn't capable of making any sound at all right now.
My vision went blank.
All the colors of the world were stripped away, leaving nothing but black and white.
Gasp!
I took a heavy breath and tightly shut my eyes, afraid that I might lose my eyesight forever.
The itching sensation in my eyes grew more intense with every passing moment.
Fear consumed me.
I didn't even dare to wipe or touch my eyes as tears streamed down uncontrollably from the unbearable itch.
Suddenly, a strange noise echoed in my mind.
It was nothing like anything I had ever heard before, countless murmuring chants layered together.
In the next instant, I saw countless black figures kneeling before me from a lofty, elevated viewpoint.
It felt as though I was gazing upon sinners I was about to judge, my eyes cold and calculating.
Beside me stood two enormous stone pillars, reciting voices of judgment in an unknown language.
Following that, illusions of countless beings appeared before my eyes, humans, animals, and other creatures I had never seen or even heard of.
All of them were bound by innumerable threads attached to their bodies, one end wrapped around them while the other stretched endlessly into the sky.
I couldn't see where those threads ended.
The vision slowly shifted farther and farther away from those mystical beings.
Countless worlds flashed past in the blink of an eye, until it finally settled on a far less grand world.
The scene zoomed in, focusing on a specific place.
A village.
At the eastern side of the village stood a solitary house, surrounded by a small flower garden.
Inside the house, in the corner of one room, a child sat on the bed, eyes tightly closed, body trembling as he took deep breaths.
'This is… me?!'
[Ding! Heavenly Ledger Eye successfully bound with host.]
[Ding! Due to the Heavenly Ledger Eye, information on the status interface is undergoing an update.]
[Heavenly Ledger Eye discerning the value of the host…]
I heard the system's voice but had no time to react or read carefully.
Countless streams of information I had never possessed before flooded into my mind one after another.
Details of the house I was currently living in.
The furniture.
The wooden bed beneath me.
The clothes my mother had left behind.
The jewelry, my mother's jade hairpin, my father's silver bracelet, a pair of small jade earrings, and the wedding jade pendant.
The eighteen taels of silver and three strings of copper coins hidden inside a clay jar beneath the floorboards, something I had never known about before.
The merchant ledger containing records of debts owed to my father.
The warehouse near the village entrance along the road leading to Qinghe City.
And finally, the two mu of fertile farmland located near the Qinghe River.
One by one, every tiny detail about all of them appeared in my mind.
Their values and uses were directly imprinted into my still-young head.
I also noticed something that made my blood boil, some of the jewelry had already been taken by Aunt Zhao Lianhua!
When the hell did this happen?!
Yesterday was my parents' funeral, and she had already taken some of my mother's valuable items without informing me?!
Rage surged through me, but before I could snap completely, a system notification rang out:
[Host's current net value has been determined to be 122 taels of silver and 568 copper coins… Status information has been updated!]
122 taels of silver.
I took a deep breath after reading it.
It was an enormous sum!
I never imagined my parents had left me with such a fortune.
An ordinary farming family of five could live safely for three months on just one tael of silver, yet I possessed more than a hundred times that amount.
I knew most of the value came from the house, the furnishings, the warehouse, and the land, but even the cash my parents left behind amounted to more than eighteen taels of silver, along with hundreds of copper coins hidden inside the house itself.
I also came to understand the power of the Heavenly Ledger Eyes.
With a single glance, they could discern the true value of anything, whether an object or a living being.
While I was still reeling from the shock of how much money I could use, the red crystal hovering beside the golden scroll suddenly shone with brilliant light.
The crystal was about the size of an adult's fist.
A bad feeling rose in my heart.
I had barely been able to endure the pain from the first gift, I needed time to prepare myself for next.
"W–wait-"
But before I could utter another word, the second round of suffering began.
Just like before, it shot straight into my forehead.
The sensation was similar, but unlike the previous gift, no detailed images appeared.
Instead, I felt as though I was standing in the middle of an empty void, no sound, no light, nothing but endless numbers moving ceaselessly around me.
Countless calculations unfolded in my mind as rows of numbers began shifting rapidly.
Mathematical problems that once baffled me now felt laughably simple.
Everything became calculable, lifespans, food, animals, land, air, particles.
Numbers connected to everything poured into my consciousness one after another.
Thankfully, this time there was no piercing headache, only dizziness from the sheer volume of calculations and predictions flooding my mind.
The process ended when the system's voice echoed again:
[Law Stone successfully used… Host's mental strength permanently improved… Fraction of the Dao of Precise Calculation comprehended!]
I no longer had the strength to struggle as I watched the final item, the golden scroll, sink into my forehead.
This time, the information I received was related directly to the system itself.
I learned the fundamentals of how the system operated, how lending worked, how fate value could be converted into a valuable commodity when debtors refused to repay, and how penalties, fines, and interest percentages were calculated.
I also understood how to determine the appropriate interest range for each person, depending on their profession, character, and total assets.
I didn't know how much time had passed, but I remained seated on the bed, unmoving, blankly processing the flood of knowledge.
The three core functions of the system, bond, investment, and donation, were laid bare before me.
Every answer I needed appeared directly within my mind.