"Ding, detection of the Chosen One, system activation conditions met."
"Ding, system successfully activated."
Abruptly, just as Su Yun and the Xiao family's two individuals approached within a meter of each other, a mechanical and rigid notification sound rang in Su Yun's mind.
"System?" Su Yun was momentarily stunned, then ecstatic.
After six years in the Dou Qi Continent, the essential golden finger for transmigrators had finally arrived.
Soon after, a mysterious feeling entered Su Yun's brain. He closed his eyes, contemplating it carefully. A flash of understanding passed through his mind.
This was the system conveying information to him.
In no time, Su Yun opened his eyes again.
The information wasn't extensive, just a simple introduction to the system's functions. With his experience from two lifetimes, his soul was decent enough to digest it without difficulty.
"This function seems a bit rudimentary..." However, if used well, it could be quite effective.
Su Yun thought to himself.
By the time the system activated, Su Yun had already passed the two figures from the Xiao family and was heading in the opposite direction.
"Wait, the Chosen One?" A gleam flickered in Su Yun's eyes. "Xiao Yan?"
Su Yun turned to look at the boy among the two children and silently invoked, "Scan!"
"Ding, scanning in progress."
"Scan successful."
Subsequently, a display of information, visible only to Su Yun, floated in the air.
Name: Xiao Yan
Gender: Male
Cultivation: Third Stage of Dou Qi
Techniques: None
Skills: None
Items: Mysterious Ring
"As expected, it's Xiao Yan."
Su Yun understood. In the Dou Qi Continent, only Xiao Yan was worthy of being called the Chosen One.
If he had known that he needed to encounter the so-called Chosen One to activate the system, he would have definitely tried to make contact with Xiao Yan!
However, it wasn't too late now.
As for the little girl beside him, Su Yun didn't need the system to tell him who she was.
"But it doesn't have much to do with me anyway." Su Yun shook his head, showing no intention of sucking up to anyone.
Before he had the system, and even more so now.
Although the system was somewhat disappointing, with his foresight and intuition, even without becoming a fighter in a year, a Dou Emperor in three, or a Dou Di in ten, he still had confidence in thriving in the Dou Qi Continent.
Although Su Yun seemed to have many thoughts and worries, in reality, it was just a blink of an eye.
Su Yun turned his head and continued walking forward, but suddenly paused.
"If I remember correctly, in the original story, Xiao Yan's mother passed away when he was four years old."
"Which means, the ring is already in Xiao Yan's possession."
After realizing this, Su Yun's hands trembled slightly, and his eyes burned with uncontainable excitement.
He immediately turned around, his eyes glowing green as he stared directly at Xiao Yan's hands.
"System, scan that ring!" Su Yun commanded in his mind.
"Ding, scan failed."
"The scanned item is beyond the scanning range."
The system's notification rang in Su Yun's mind, dampening his excitement by a few degrees.
He took a few deep breaths, trying to calm himself as much as possible.
Su Yun approached Xiao Yan and his companions. After estimating that the distance was close enough, he continued to speak to the system, "Scan that ring."
"Ding, scan successful."
"Detection of a dormant soul entity."
"Continue, scan that soul entity," Su Yun continued.
"Ding, scanning in progress."
"Ding, scan successful."
Name: Yao Chen
Gender: Male
Cultivation: Peak of Dou Zun
Status: Peak Eighth-Rank Alchemist
Techniques: Advanced Earth-Ranked "Burning Sky Flame Technique"...
Skills: Low-Level Earth-Ranked "Flame Parting Devouring Wave Ruler"...
Items: Bone Spirit Cold Fire, Profound Heavy Ruler, Black Magic Cauldron, Bone Flame Ring...
"Scan Yao Chen's memories."
While giving commands to the system in his mind, Su Yun's eyes lit up once again with fervor.
"Ding, detecting Yao Chen in a dormant state, initiating scan."
"Ding, scan complete."
"Retrieve!"
"Ding, retrieval successful, Yao Chen's memories have been stored in the system's repository."
A suppressed smile appeared at the corner of Su Yun's mouth.
Suppressing the urge to burst into laughter on the spot, he immediately turned around and left, ignoring the puzzled expressions of Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er, as he briskly walked away.
"Xiao Yan, do you know that person?" Xiao Xun'er asked Xiao Yan.
"No, I don't." Xiao Yan shook his head, his heart filled with the same confusion as Xiao Xun'er.
The gaze from Su Yun just now had made him somewhat uneasy.
He had never met this boy who looked like a porcelain doll, despite his shabby attire.
"Anyway, let's hurry back. We've been out for a long time," Xiao Yan said to Xiao Xun'er.
Xiao Yan didn't pay much attention to Su Yun's strange behavior.
An unfamiliar stranger, just a trivial incident.
"Yeah."
...
Back at home, Su Yun locked the door tightly, threw the food aside, and sat on the bed, immersing his mind in the system.
Sure enough, in the empty system repository, the first guest arrived—a grayish-white gas mass.
"So this is Yao Chen's lifelong memories?"
"The first pot of gold!" Su Yun exclaimed.
Shifting his attention from Yao Chen's memories back to the system, he realized its functions were very simple, even crude.
There were only three.
Scan, retrieve, integrate.
These functions were quite straightforward, as the names implied.
Scanning allowed Su Yun to see information within a one-meter radius around him.
Retrieve could bring dead objects, temporarily unconscious beings, or unresisting creatures into the system's storage space, based on what was scanned.
And integration, Su Yun was about to try.
Carefully pondering the usage and conditions for integrating this function, Su Yun went out again, approaching each stall in the market, using the scanning function meticulously, and selecting carefully.
"Ding, scanned... "
"Ding, scanned... "
"Ding, scanned... "
Su Yun patiently waited.
"Ding, scanned Bone-Cleansing Flower."
Upon hearing this, Su Yun's heart stirred. He glanced inconspicuously at the stall owner.
"How much is this Bone-Cleansing Flower?"
"This item is a hundred gold coins."
Feasible! Seeing that the stall owner wasn't paying attention, Su Yun's heart moved. Retrieve!
Su Yun glanced at the system's repository. The Bone-Cleansing Flower was now lying peacefully there. He immediately left the scene of the crime.
Once successful, Su Yun complied with the law, acquiring what he needed from other stalls—herbs and magic cores.
Being cautious, Su Yun only took one item from each stall.
In such a vast market, it was common for stall owners to occasionally lose one or two items.
Returning home once again, he closed all doors and windows, ensuring there was no one around. Su Yun began to count his gains.
Three intact Purple Leaf Orchids, two Bone-Cleansing Flowers, one first-grade wood-type magic core, and one second-grade magic core.
A sly smile flashed across Su Yun's lips. There was only one step left.
(End of Chapter)