After entering his room, Shenyan close the door behind him and proceeded to read through the cultivation manual in his hand. A few minutes after flipping through the book, he found that cultivation manual was too easy— he thought maybe it was because it was a low-level cultivation method, which is why it was so easy to understand.
Shenyan took a deep breath while regulating his breathing and proceeded to sit the lotus position with his legs crossed as the technique indicated that one must sit the lotus position for a better effect although they do not necessarily have to do so.
Shenyan took a deep breath and as he was about recite the cultivation mantra, suddenly a voice resounding inside his head.
[Ding! Detected User Shenyan in contact with a cultivation technique. Initializing Primordial Origin System, please wait…]
The voice disappeared as soon it finish speaking. Shenyan was shocked that he almost screamed— although he was always calm, but when a voice suddenly rang inside your head, anybody will be startled wondering where the voice came from.
He stood up from his bed and ask, "W-Who are you?"
"…"
He received no reply from the voice. At this point, he started thinking that maybe he was going crazy and that is why he was suddenly hearing voices inside his head.
But after pondering about it, he realized that the voice inside his head did not contain any emotion at all although he no idea why he can tell that it has no emotion— he believes that perhaps he was hearing things and thought that there was a voice inside his head.
A few moments after pondering, he decided to start cultivating again since the interruption earlier cause him to almost forget about what he was about to do moments ago.
Just as he sat down as was about to recite the cultivation mantra again, the voice from earlier resounding again.
[Ding! Initialization complete, User Shenyan, congratulations on being chosen by the Primordial Origin System, from this moment onward there will be no limits to the heights that you can reach!] the voice said enthusiastically almost as if it was excited despite the voice not containing any emotion compared to earlier.
The mechanical voice finish speaking as Shenyan despite being startled before, had a daze look on his face as he was certain now that he was not having auditory hallucination like he thought. He then collected his thought before speaking out loud "Like I said, who are you?" he asked.
[User Shenyan, I am Origin, currently you are selected by the Primordial Origin System] mechanical voice replied. This time the voice contains no emotion at all.
"Primordial Origin System, what is that, and why are you calling me 'User'?" Shenyan asked.
[User Shenyan, Primordial Origin System is the name of the System and as for what it is, you are not authorized for this information yet. And you are called a 'User' mainly because currently, you are the only bearer and user of the Primordial Origin System, hence the term 'User'.] the mechanical voice replied.
"I am not authorized, why am I not authorized?"
[…]
The system did not reply as he had thought. He realized that this strange thing seems to hold some secrets that it does not want to say unless he has some 'authority'. So, he decided to forget about it as it has nothing to do with him currently, so he asked about what was most important.
"Why did you choose me, what can I do for you and what can you do for me?" he asked.
[The System only choose you to help you get stronger as you have met the requirement to use the system and as for what the system wants from you, that is to get stronger as fast as you can.] the voice replied as in it resounded Shenyan's head.
As soon as Shenyan heard this, he began to think about various things like why he was chosen and better yet what requirement did he meet but he felt that the system will not answer these kinds of questions as it was proven earlier, thus he let out a deep sigh before speaking "Then how do I get stronger?" he asked.
Although he knew that he could cultivate to get stronger, but this system wanted him to get stronger faster, but does he really have to, if so, how does he get stronger faster? As Shenyan kept thinking about this things the system's reply resounded in his head.
[User Shenyan can get stronger by cultivating using cultivation techniques and practicing combat techniques. Currently, the system detected User Shenyan to be holding a low-level basic cultivation method which can be enhance by the system to improve its capability.] The voice replied.
"E-Enhance? Improve? D-Does this mean you will be able to improve it to work like the original?" Shenyan asked as he was excited by this discovery of the system which seem to be able improve a low-level technique.
[Indeed, please check your data information and see the current statistics that corresponds to your current body and other relevant information.] The voice replied.
Before Shenyan could react, a holographic window appeared in front of his eyes causing him great shocked as his eyes widen, but he soon calms down as he was already getting used to this strange situation after the system initialized so he stared into void to check what was written on the screen in front of him, surprisingly he can read the text despite the characters being different.
…
⟪Name: Shenyan⟫
⟪Race: Human(?)⟫
⟪Bloodline: None(?)⟫
⟪Physique: [Blood Refining Physique] and [???] (sealed)⟫
...
⟪Soul Strength:1000⟫
⟪Physical Strength: 80⟫
⟪Physical Resistance: 55⟫
⟪Mental Strength: 250⟫
⟪Mental Resistance: 500⟫
...
⟪[Spirit Energy Accumulation]: 0/100⟫
⟪[Cultivation Realm]: None⟫
⟪[Skill(s)]: [???]⟫
⟪[Technique(s)]: Basic Breathing Technique (Enhanced)⟫
⟪[???]⟫
⟪[???]⟫
⟪[???]⟫
…
Shenyan was momentarily surprised by the things listed on the screen in front of his eyes. After a while, he regains his composure and read through all the texts shortly after.
After reading through all of them, although he does not understand the purpose of the numbers, he at least understood that they represent something related to the words listed next to it.
Shenyan read through it a couple of times to get himself familiarize with everything and after he was done with that, he immediately noticed something that piqued his interest.
"System? Uh…what is the purpose of 'Spirit Energy Accumulation' and 'Cultivation Realm'?" he asked.
[Ding! The <
"I see" Shenyan nodded after listening to the response given by the system. And he started to think to himself for a while before picking up the cultivation manual and reading through it again— although he had already grasped everything that was in the manual, but he wanted to make sure that he fully understood everything before he started cultivating again.
It was now that he realized what the system meant by 'improve' the cultivation method; a few glances at the book and he realized that the cultivation method in the technique in his head is more profound now compared to what the book stated.
Shenyan took a deep breath after putting the manual away and sat in a lotus position while regulating his breathing rhythm according to how it was started in the cultivation technique in his mind. Soon he began to feel an invisible energy in his surrounding— this energy seems to constantly roam about in his surrounding like it was part of the natural law and foundation of this world.