"Although I am now only a novice disciple, at least I have become a disciple of Sleeping Dragon Sect, and I believe that in the future, I will become an outer disciple and even an inner disciple as long as I work hard!"
Qin Yi braced himself and walked toward the door.
He was originally not from this world. He came from Earth.
He was not a Sleeping Dragon Sect's disciple either. When he crossed, he was a ten-year-old orphan that lived with his a-year-old younger brother in a simple house that their late parents left behind.
However, they are not completely poor, alone, and no one to depend on. Qin Yi and his younger brother still have an aunt who wields the most considerable authority in the town next to the mayor since she is the mayor's wife.
Therefore, although they are orphans, their lives were no less comfortable than any children of prominent families, and nobody has the guts to cause them trouble.
A year after Qin Yi crossed over this ancient world, he met a mysterious man who came to his door and asked him to take care of a baby.
At first, he wanted to turn down the mysterious man's request because his house is not sort of an orphanage or something. However, the mysterious man brought a lot of gold as payment for taking care of the baby. How could he refuse it?!
Even though his life is free from poverty, there is nothing wrong with receiving more money, right?
Regardless of the world, the temptation of money is hard to resist.
Moreover, isn't it just taking care of a baby? He has been taking care of his younger brother since crossing, adding another baby was not a problem for him.
He was unsure whether it was a curse or a blessing because he has an unbelievable affinity with babies for an unknown reason ever since then.
On his way home from the market, Qin Yi found an abandoned baby girl on the street. He could not bear to see her, so he brought the baby girl home.
Later, the rumours about his benevolent act became known to many people, and some people wanted to send the parentless babies to his house.
Qin Yi wants to refuse their intention decisively, but again money, oh money...
He feels ashamed by his real motive. Therefore, he swore to take care of the babies well and never unfairly treat them.
Five years later, Qin Yi has already received ten abandoned children and unconsciously developed his house into a kind of orphanage.
However, in this world, no one knows the term orphanage. Perhaps, only Qin Yi was familiar with this term, and he was also the only one who built an orphanage in this world.
Therefore, he only dared to develop it in a low-key manner and named it Little Stars Orphanage.
At the same time, a long disappeared mysterious man appears once again. Qin Yi thought that man wants to take his baby away, but he was wrong.
The mysterious man only wanted to observe the baby from afar and had no intention of making any approaches.
Sometimes he wondered, why would that guy leave his baby to someone else in the first place if he could not even give it up completely.
However, it was not Qin Yi's turn to worry about it, and it was not like his business or anything.
He got paid, and the mysterious man did not seem to have any evil intentions toward him. So, he just let nature take its course.
Before the mysterious man left once again, he left a letter for Qin Yi, and it was a recommendation letter.
——And thanks to that recommendation letter, he somehow managed to enter Sleeping Dragon Sect very smoothly.
Five years ago, when he knew that he crossed into a different world, he was very excited, confuse, and a bit afraid.
Qin Yi thought he had come to a world where people could move mountains and split seas as he read in various novels. However, after living for five years and not having the slightest supernatural incident around him, he began to doubt his fantasies about this world.
He doubted that perhaps he was just crossed to another ordinary world, a backward world, a world where the internet and cell phones did not even exist.
It was a merely dull world!
Then, why did 'God' even insert him into this world?
To fill the number?
An accident?
Or just for fun?
Whenever Qin Yi recalled this matter, he always wanted to cry but have no tears to shed.
However, after receiving the recommendation letter from the mysterious man, he finally regained his long-lost spirit and hoped for his new life in this world.
He was excited and nervous at the same time; what if… what if this is another prank like when "God" forcibly crossed him into this world? But he couldn't help but curious.
Therefore, to answer his curiosity, he decided to bolster himself and made up his mind to go there even though if what awaited him was only an empty hope. At most, he just needs to go back and live comfortably and take care of the children at the orphanage.
A year later, after Qin Yi finished arranging everything in the orphanage, he immediately set off and embark on the journey to the place the mysterious man had written down in the recommendation letter.
He was not completely worried regarding his younger brother and the children in the orphanage since his aunt promised him to take care of them in his place.
So long there is still his aunt, no one will dare to look for trouble at the orphanage. Because of that, he could feel relieved to leave them for a while.
He promised to send a letter to his younger brother every year and come home as soon as possible.
***
The Sacred Continent was divided into four major regions:
The eastern region was called Azure Dragon Region.
The northern region was called the White Tiger Region.
The southern region was called Black Tortoise Region.
The western region was called Vermillion Bird Region.
Each region seemed to have no end and was separated by Endless River.
Azure Dragon Region was known as the Land of Ten Thousand Sects. It was a land ruled by countless sects, and Sleeping Dragon Sect is standing erect as one of the great sects in Azure Dragon Domain.
Sleeping Dragon Sect had a profound background, and even though it has declined in recent years, it remained still in the top 50 of great sects list.
Qin Yi had successfully entered Sleeping Dragon Sect through the back door.
Typically, with his recommendation letter, he could enter the outer sect or even the inner sect easily. However, since his martial aptitude was only low-grade aptitude, he was assigned to the Novices' Quarter and became a novice disciple instead.
As Qin Yi walked to the door, he saw dozens of novice disciples in grey robes. He walked over and stood somewhere behind the group.
"Alright."
"Since you became a novice disciple of Sleeping Dragon Sect. From now on, you are isolated from the mortal world and will work peacefully as an unofficial disciple."
At this time, a man with a long face and sharp eyes spoke. He is the Deacon who charged in the Novices' Quarter.
"As a novice disciple, your job is to stay in this place for a maximum of five years. Your food is covered by the sect, and all you need to do is keep the Novices' Quarter clean, chop wood to warm yourselves, wash your own clothes, and the last one is to cultivate yourself. Basically, everything you do is for yourself."
"In the five years you have cultivated in the Novices' Quarter, if any of you manage to step into the first Stage of Qi Condensation, you will be immediately admitted to the outer sect. The sooner the better."
"However, if you are still unable to step into the first Stage of Qi Condensation within five years, the sect will have no other choice but to kick you out and will never again give you the opportunity to cultivate in this sect."
"Living as a novice disciple is going to be tough. However, do not be discouraged; every powerhouse needs to experience hardship. These minor hardships are nothing in the path of becoming a great cultivator."
The Deacon finished his encouragement and paused, then continued:
"Alright, that's all I can say. Spread out now and do your best to pull yourself together in this place!"
The novice disciples then left one after another.
Qin Yi also took a broom and walked towards the closest building.
All he needed to do was keep this place clean. Fortunately, he was not alone: otherwise, he would have died from exhaustion.
After all, Novices' Quarter is too huge for himself to clean.
Qin Yi turned his head towards the outer sect gate, which was not too far from his sight.
It was close but out of reach.
He was silent for a moment, then muttered: "I swear, I will enter there and become an official disciple of the Sleeping Dragon Sect!"
The flame ignited inside his heart as the spirit keep reminds him to work hard.
He snapped out and began his work.
Time passed as the sky began to close the curtains.
Soon, Qin Yi returned to his wooden house.
At the same time, the Deacon started to distributed cultivation handbooks for novice disciples. Though, it was only the basic cultivation technique in the sect. However, it is still better than nothing.
Qin Yi's house.
"You can practice cultivation in your time off. If you manage to reach the First Stage of Qi Condensation, then you will be promoted to the outer sect." The Deacon flicked his wide sleeve.
After that, a small booklet, upon the cover of three characters, wrote: "Qi Condensation Manual."
As soon as Qin Yi laid eyes on the characters, he began to breathe hard.
This small booklet is a legendary cultivation manual!
A small booklet that can turn an ordinary human into a legendary cultivator!
He was about to receive it, but he was interrupted by a sudden mechanical voice that resounded in his ears.
[Detected, the Host meets the activation requirements…]
[The system is now being activated…]
[Activation is successful, the Host can now start the extraction.]
"System?"
"Extraction?"
Qin Yi's pupils slightly shrunk.
Legendary Golden Finger!
It has been six years since he crossed over this world, and his Golden Finger finally arrived!
Qin Yi's thoughts quickly moved. He tentatively asked: "Ugh... What does extraction mean?"
[Host can perform extraction on anything in the world. Whenever the Host performed the extraction, the Host will gain everything from the target.]
The mechanical voice sounded in Qin Yi's ear.
"I can perform the extraction on anything?"
Qin Yi muttered to himself. It was a bit unbelievable to hear.
"What?" The Deacon frowned.
"Ugh, nothing, Sir." Qin Yi scratching his nose embarrassedly and hurriedly makes an excuse, "I was too excited after receiving the cultivation manual for the first time."
The Deacon nodded as if he understood Qin Yi's current mood. He is just quite dissatisfied with Qin Yi's attitude for not properly listen to his explanation.
Forget it. This boy could only blame himself if his cultivation goes wrong!
The Deacon flicked his sleeve and left.
Upon watching the deacon figure disappeared, the original Qin Yi's respectful face broke into a smile.
This novel is under re-work.
Qin Yi's expression flashed with joy.
Initially, he thought he would rely on hard work and perseverance to climb out of zero to hero.
However, he was not sure how long will it take.
By relying on his martial aptitude alone, he did not have the confidence to reach the First Stage Qi Condensation in such a short amount of time. Perhaps around a year, two years, or even five years that he could become one.
But now, with the golden finger, it would be another story!
"System, perform the extraction on the Deacon!"
Qin Yi settled down and muttered silently in his heart.
He was looking forward to what the system could produce for him. Unfortunately, what happened the next is greatly disappointed him.
[The extraction failed!]
[Note: The target is out of the extraction range.]
[Note: The extraction range is within five meters from the Host.]
Qin Yi is at a loss. He suffered failures on the first try.
Who should he blame? After all, he is still unfamiliar with the work of the system.
"Forget it! It's not like I unable to perform the extraction on the Deacon again next time."
Qin Yi stood in front of his room for a while. Then he pushed the door open and went straight inside.
He lit an oil lamp and sat on the bed. With that, he began to study the system.
When he was about to question the system, a blue translucent UI suddenly pop out in front of him as if the system had already understood its Host's intention.
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Name: Qin Yi
Age: 17
Martial Aptitude: Low-Grade
Cultivation Base: None (The First Stage of Qi Condensation (0/1000)
Spiritual Mind: 20
Cultivation Point: 0
Mastery Point: 0
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"Well… this is like a game."
Qin Yi was surprised as he muttered lowly after he saw the UI.
As a person from the Earth, he is very familiar with this kind of interface.
Although Qin Yi could not remember how he died, he still remembers that he has hobbies gaming and reading various genres of novels, including game-based genre novels. Therefore, he was not very surprised regarding this UI.
Going through below, he finally saw the introduction of the system.
「Basic Introduction:
The Extraction System exists to assist the Host in the journey of cultivation. It can perform extraction on anything in the world. Whenever the Host performs the extraction, the Host will gain everything from the target.
Basic Functions:
Casual Extraction: This mode allows the system to extract and re-create everything (except for living or intelligent beings) that belongs to the target, but the target will not suffer any losses. The Host can perform this mode on anyone and in any situation.
Extreme Extraction: This mode allows the system to extract the actual object from the target, and the target will suffer an apparent loss. After using this mode, all functions of the Extraction System will be disabled for a month.
[Note: Please be cautious when using this mode!]
Requirements and limitations:
- The system can only extract targets that are in the same cultivation realm as the Host. Beyond that will result in failure.
- The system can only extract targets within five meters of the Host. Beyond that will result in failure.
- The system can repeatedly perform the extraction on the same target, but the thing to be obtained will be different. It depends on what the target has in each moment.
- The system prefers to extract the object that contains spiritual energy or something extraordinary. However, the Host's command takes precedence. 」
"Hiss…" Qin Yi sucked in cold air, "This is cheating!"
This broken system can extract someone's belongings without their knowledge. Not to mention, If he used extreme extraction on an enemy, they would end up naked before him.
"Such a formidable system. I wonder, what did I deserve to receive this system? Did I save the universe in my previous life? No, wait, I'm just ordinary human being in the previous life, or perhaps in my previous of previous life."
Qin Yi continued to scroll the text below...
「As the system owner, the Host was allowed to check your personal information through the UI. According to the UI's features:
Name: Host's name.
[Note: It cannot be changed]
Aptitude: Not every human being is born with the aptitude to practice martial arts. Those with aptitude could practice martial arts and become cultivators, whereas those with no aptitude could only spend their lifetime as mortals with limited lifespans.
[Note: The current Host's aptitude is low-grade aptitude. It can increase by extracting targets who have higher aptitude grades.]
Cultivation Base: It displays the cultivation stage of the Host. It can increase by using a certain amount of Cultivation Points.
[Note: Each stage requires a certain amount of Cultivation Points. The higher the stage, the greater the number of Cultivation Points needed.]
[Note: The Host's cultivation would never encounter a bottleneck, as long as the Host has sufficient Cultivation Points, and Host can breakthrough to the higher realm smoothly. Good for you, Host.]
Qin Yi, "…"
Thanks, I guess?
He continued to scroll down.
Spiritual Mind: Energy that is born in people with above-average minds. It is also an essential requirement for people who wants to acquire a secondary profession.
[Note: Further information can be obtained from the professionals.]
Cultivation Point: Conversion point of strands of qi extracted from the target that accumulated within a day. The Host can use it to promote the cultivation base or convert it into Mastery Point.
[Note: Cultivation Points can only be extracted once a day from the target, but they can be repeated on a different day.]
Mastery Point: Points that can increase martial arts mastery. It can be obtained by converting Cultivation Points to Mastery Points.]
[Note: With the current aptitude of Hosts, the conversion ratio of Cultivation Points to Mastery Points is 1000: 1, which is meant that 1000 Cultivation Points equivalent to 1 Mastery Point.] 」
After reading through the entire system's introduction and its functions, Qin Yi more or less understands how it works.
The next thing he needed to do was conduct an actual experiment. However, taking the system's preferences into account, it seemed like he could only wait for the Deacon to come to the Novices' Quarter because the current novice disciples were not worthy of being extracted.
***
The next day, Qin Yi executed his task as usual.
He wants to extract some fortunes from the Deacon, but he did not see the Deacon for a whole day.
Moreover, he has no reason to meet the Deacon. On the other hand, the Deacon also had no reason to spend his precious time meeting insignificant people like Qin Yi.
Such dilemma.
He tried to extract his fellow novice disciples but to no avail as they had not even managed to gather spiritual energy yet. Besides, they are too poor to the point they have nothing worth to be extracted by the system.
As a novice disciple, the only thing they earn from this place is daily food and cultivation technique obtained on the first day they arrived in the Novices' Quarter.
A week later, a long awaiting Deacon appeared in Novices' Quarter to supervise the novice disciples' work.
This time, Qin Yi will not as ignorant as the last time.
He went over to Deacon, but he was also trying to lower his presence as much as possible.
Apart from supervising the novice disciples' work, Deacon is occasionally giving pointer and answer the Novice Disciples' doubts related to cultivation. He was generous in this regard; even Qin Yi grew a bit of respect toward him.
After confirming the Deacon was within extraction range, he silently gave the command to the system.
"System, perform casual extraction on the Deacon!"
And the next moment…
[Extraction completed!]
[Obtained 10 Cultivation Points]
Qin Yi frowned as he did not know whether 10 Cultivation Points are a big or small number since this is the first time he performed the extraction.
Never mind, at least he earned Cultivation Points.
In the next second, other notifications popping out sequentially in front of him, which startled him a bit.
[Obtained 20 Qi Strengthening Pills. Grade: Rank 1]
[Obtained 5 Detoxification Pills. Grade: Rank 1]
[Obtained 100 Spirit stones. Grade: Low-grade]
[Obtained cultivation technique "Qi Condensation Manual". Grade: Human]
[Obtained cultivation technique "Wind Force". Grade: Human]
[Obtained martial skill "Ten Illusionary Hands". Grade: Human]
[Obtained movement skill "Flowing Cloud Step ". Grade: Human]
[Obtained Artefact "storage pouch". Grade: Normal.]
[Obtained Merit Card]
[Note: System will automatically store the extraction objects in the storage system. The Host can retrieve it anytime.]
"Dang, so rich! This poor-and-thin-looking Deacon unexpectedly has a lot of possession on his body!"
"Well, he is the Deacon after all, nothing surprising. Instead, it would be strange if he is as poor as novice disciples."
Thinking about this, he began to fantasy how much he could earn from the outer disciples or even legendary inner disciples…
"Cough, forget it. Everything needs a process."
Nonetheless, he found out that the system has its storage.
With the existence of the storage system, he can finally feel relieved. No matter how much treasure Qin Yi possessed, people would never notice it.
Qin Yi is in no rush to open the storage system.
He will wait until his work session is over. By then, the Deacon should also have returned to his quarter.
Neither Deacon nor novice disciple noticed Qin Yi's stealthy behavior as if things were going as usual.
However, when he was about to turn around, his face bumped into someone else face and made both of their noses turn red slightly.
"Ouch…"
"Sorry, are you alright?"
Qin Yi hastily asked.
After all, it was his fault for having turned around so suddenly.
"It is fine, it's fine."
Qin Yi looked at the young man that he bumped into. He is not particularly handsome but quite a good-looking fellow.
"Please forgive me, fellow disciple. I had an urge and wanted to go to the toilet but who would have thought that someone else was behind me. If you do not mind, please tell me your name. I will apologize to you properly later."
"No, no, there is no need…" The young man hurriedly waves his hands and smiles, "However, I can tell you my name. My name is Lin Tian. Since we are the same fellow novice disciple, there is no need for politeness between us."
Qin Yi raised his right eyebrow, 'Lin Tian? I seem to have heard that name from someone's mouth...'
He called that name over and over in his head, alas nothing comes up to his mind.
'Perhaps it is just misrecognition? Should I use the system to check anything useful from this fellow?'
After pondering for a while, he finally made up his mind.
'System, use casual extraction on him!'
As soon as Qin Yi's order came out, the system immediately executed it.
[Extraction completed!]
[Obtained medium-grade aptitude.]
[Note: Host obtained a medium-grade aptitude, do you want to replace your low-grade aptitude with a medium-grade aptitude?]
"This…"
Qin Yi was taken aback for a moment before he excitedly responded to the system's option.
'Yes!'
Which stupid cultivator would not want their aptitude to upgrade?
What an unexpected gain.
Sometimes, something unexpected will always happen unexpectedly around you.
Well, it happened to Qin Yi this time.
'Wait, Lin Tian... medium-grade aptitude...'
Qin Yi suddenly remembered something.
It's him!
Lin Tian, the novice disciple who possessed medium-grade aptitude. He once heard his name from other novice disciple's mouths.
Qin Yi once thought of extracting aptitude from that fellow, but because the two of them were assigned in different quarters, he had no other choice to postpone the plan.
Never crossed in his mind that they will meet in this place.
It seems that even medium-grade aptitude does not want to miss out on the Deacon's preaching.
Regardless, now that he got what he wanted, it was time to back off.
"Brother, I will go first. I will greet you later~."
With this, Qin Yi left without Lin Tian's consent, but he heard a faint voice from that fellow.
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