[Ding! Beginner's Pack activated: 5 free common gacha pulls, Booster activated, 100 credit points]
[Booster: Ranks up the base rank of the pulled items by one]
[Tap to spin 5x ]
Xuan's eyes shone reading them. "Beginners pack even a booster too!"
Xuan stared at the luminous wheel before him with many slots of white and different colors for the rewards.
With some excitement he pressed it.
The luminous wheel spun. It spun faster and faster before, with a clicking sound, It slowed down at one of the white boxes. Again and again, a total of five times.
The screen flashed before him, showing the results.
[Ding! Broken Rusty Axe x1 Acquired (Common)]
[Ding! Booster activated, Reinforced Axe x1 Acquired (Uncommon ✦)]
[Ding! Straw Bundle x3 Acquired (Common)]
[Ding! Booster activated, Twisting Straw Rope x1 Acquired (Uncommon ✦)]
[Ding! Wooden Bucket x1 Acquired (Common)]
[Ding! Booster activated, Sturdy water bucket x1 Acquired (Uncommon ✦)]
[Ding! Jar of Grapes x5 Acquired (Common)]
[Ding! Booster activated, Fermented Grape Wine bottle x2 Acquired (Uncommon ✦)]
[Ding! Old Cloth scraps x2 Acquired (Common)]
[Ding! Booster activated, Sturdy Work Apron x1 Acquired (Uncommon ✦)]
Xuan stared at the items.
"What are these items?" He couldn't help but utter, feeling some disappointment.
He was expecting something more grand. Like a grand technique or something.
Just when he was a little disappointed. Another screen flashed before him, and warmth spread from within his heart.
[Ding! Host has been detected to possess the Heavenly spirit physique. Physique has been awakened completely]
"Heavenly Spirit physique!?" Xuan was shocked seeing it, while a strange warmth settled within his heart.
"This!!" He could feel a small tingling sensation within his heart and abdomen.
It was Qi! The very thing cultivators have! He can become a cultivator now.
[Heavenspirit physique: The physique blessed to the spirit race. Gains profound strength breaking through. But also requires immense resources.]
"More resources, huh?" He clenched his fists. No matter. With the system, he could get whatever he needed.
He focused on the gacha. A screen appears in the next moment.
[Current Gacha Pool: Kai Family Farmhouse
(Common)
A small, humble farmhouse on the outskirts of Yun City. Items here are simple and practical.
"If I'm not wrong, it's like a location based thing."
He's in his home. A farm house that's why the pulls were bad. But what if he changes the location? Like a technique library.
And sure enough the system verified it for him.
[Gacha pool depends on the host's current location, with its base rank determined by the area's items. The rank can be boosted by one tier at double the original credit cost. Credits are earned through quests, discovering new locations, or selling items and materials to the system]
Xuan nodded, reading it.
The items he could get depend on the location he's at. And there are quests and he can sell items to get credit points.
"Simple enough"
With this he can grow stronger and change the fate of his new family now.
He had been an orphan in his past life, but in this life, he had a loving family now.
But before that he stared at his own body.
'I need to fix my body first.'
[Ding! Host triggered the Beginner Quest: Fragile Body, Strong Will]
[Quest: Fragile Body, Strong Will
Your body is too weak to cultivate. Strengthen it.
[Proceed to accept?]
"A quest too! Of course I'm accepting."
"Accept"
[Beginner Quest: Fragile Body, Strong Will accepted. Further details are available on the status window]
Xuan looked at it. Clicking his tongue. He has a system. Of course he would have a status window too.
The word felt foreign to him still as he uttered it.
"Status"
The screen flickered, but what he was expecting to see didn't happen.
[Status window will be unlocked by paying 100 credit points?]
Xuan was dumbfounded reading the message. Really? He needed to pay to see his own status window?.
Then he thought of something. "Wait, is this the reason it's pay to win system?"
100 credit points? Is that all he gained from the beginner pack?! Why give it to him if he's needed to spend it right away?
He could only choose to give in and uttered, "Proceed."
[Ding, you have unlocked the status window.]
The screen flickered and this time showed what he really wanted to see.
——[Status]——
Name: Kai Xuan
Status: Alive
Authority Rank: Bronze <>
Cultivation: Mortal
Physique: Heavenly Spirit Physique (Celestial✦)
Lifespan: 17 / 88 years
Technique: None
Upgraded Location: None
Quests:
• Fragile Body, Strong Will (Accepted)
Gacha Pool: Kai Family Farmhouse (Common✦)
Credit Points: 0
Inventory (5/25):
• Reinforced Axe x1
• Twisting Straw Rope x1
• Sturdy Water Bucket x1
• Fermented Grape Wine x2
• Sturdy Work Apron x1
The very first thing he noticed was the status.
"Alive..?"
Xuan frowned. What did it mean by "status alive"?. Of course he was alive!.
He shrugged, then his eyes moved onto Authority.
[Authority: Bronze Rank (0/50000) Points spend
Authority indicates the System power level. ]
"Power level huh?" He wasn't sure but it meant system can increase his power if he spend 50000 points.
Then his eyes moved on to the physique. Before his eyes shoned.
"Celestial rank?"
Xuan uttered, slower this time. He wasn't clear how many ranks the system had. But surely the word "celestial" is associated with something high.
It's a good thing he would be able to break through fast. His life span was eighty eight years,he wasn't sure how it works. Considering mortals usually live up to sixty or seventy.
As for the upgraded location and technique, he has no idea. Giving another glance, he taped open the thing. The system told him to check the actual quest.
[Quest: Fragile Body, Strong Will (Common): Your body is too weak to cultivate. Strengthen it.
• Chop logs using Reinforced Axe 30x
• Fetch Bucket of water using the Sturdy water bucket 10x
Rewards: 300 credit points, common grade upgrade module.
(Abondonig the quest will require credit points depending on the quest itself. Current credit points to abandoning the quest.
1500 credit points.)
He gave a glance. "It's a quest, alright," he thought, before his eyes stopped at the last line.
"1500 points to abandon the quest.. Is this even worth that much? " he murmured, though he couldn't help but appreciate it was a good thing.
If it was something he truly couldn't handle, he could abandon it.
But it would cost him. Badly.
He turned off the status window and let his head fall back onto the bed, closing his eyes.
He was already tired. All of this, gacha, the awakening,had weighed heavily on his mind.
Training was important, but rest was just as important. So he let himself sink into the comfort of the bed.
---
The sun dipped low, golden light streaking through the windows.
The front door opened quietly. "Xuan, we're home," his parents called.
No answer came. Frowning, his father stepped closer to his room and saw him asleep.
"He's really tired," his father murmured.
"Let him rest. It's been a hard day," his mother added.
They quietly shut the door, letting their son sleep unaware of what he had gone through, or how much he had already changed.