Origin Court: Accepting Disciples With A System

When Yang Lujia heard the plight of the Life Controller Beasts, he felt that they were quite pitiful. He wondered whether he should help them or assist the City Life Healer in subduing all these beasts or whether it would be a good idea to snatch one of their kins' Token of Life.

However, Yang Lujia naturally knew that the greed of a human knew no bounds. Therefore, he felt like he should investigate first. Whether or not the Life Ancestor of the Life Controller Beasts was the one he should revive, he must still find out the truth.

It seemed like there was something more than meets the eye.

When Yang Lujia left the vicinity of the Life Controller Beasts, he found out that the mysterious energy absorption of his life force also ceased. It was like it was only a natural thing for the Life Controller Beasts to plunder the life force of every other living beings—but they were not allowed to steal the life force of what their other kin had absorbed. Otherwise, they would have already experienced a bloodbath and their population wouldn't be as many as they currently were.

Yang Lujia went back to the city.

This time, however, he secretly made his way to the city and looked at every person in the city. He was astonished that, even mortals, had a Token of Life with them. It was just like their identification card. Without this, others might become unwelcoming towards them.

As he strolled around the streets, he found out that the city seemed to be very simple—the people here had no demeanor or bearing of a cultivator who had already gone through several ups and downs. Instead, they were filled with smiles and everything was very serene.

To Yang Lujia, however, who had quite lived in the world of cultivation, this was something he found strange.

"What was the reason for the City Life Healer to even risk his life fighting the strongest of the Life Controller Beasts just to get their Tokens of Life? What's inside those tokens?"

Even Yang Lujia, who was very strong, did not detect anything malicious. That was because, in this realm created by his father, he could only see the rules of life going around. Even the students within the city used the rules of life to fight—sometimes even draining the life force of their opponents. However, if that were the case, there should be a problem.

Yang Lujia soon found out that there was no lack of medicine in this city when it came to preserving one's life. It seemed like fights among students were not forbidden—only limited. After all, this concerned their life force. If their opponents absorbed much of their life force, it might result in a backlash on the former or irreparable damage to the latter.

"Hello, sir. What are these pills called?" Yang Lujia was naturally curious about the layout and the contents of the pills or pellets he had encountered so far.

He was currently inside the Life Pellet Manor.

Yang Lujia could tell that they were all high-grade pellets. However, he was not entirely sure of their effects until he'd try it himself or let others become his guinea pig. Nevertheless, he still wanted to know their names and their effects.

Among other professions that he could do, refining pills or pellets or elixirs was something that did not cross his mind when he went to do the others. He could set up array formations like butter or defeat his enemies with just a flick of his finger—too overpowered—but he could not refine even one pill.

That was because Yang Lujia was very reliant on the system's rewards since the beginning of time—to say the most. After all, he would stuff these pills or pellets like candies or drink elixirs like wine. To anyone who would hear his story, they would probably think he was truly a bizarre existence.

"Haha! Young man, this one here is called the Heaven Returning Pill!" the old man at the counter exclaimed as he happily entered Yang Lujia. "This Heaven Returning Pill is very important to cultivators. It could replenish the life force the cultivators had been robbed of by their competitors or rivals. This Heaven Returning Pill had an outstanding effect rivaling a human-rank pellet!"

"Oh?" Yang Lujia was quite ignorant of the matter of pills, pellets, or elixirs. He would only eat or chew them like candies or gums or drink like they're water or wine. Thus, he was quite surprised by the specific contents and uses of a single pellet.

Moreover, he had never seen this kind of pellet that Fortuniel had given him.

If Fortuniel would hear his thoughts, the former would have already lashed him out for being too naïve. Of course, there was already a countless number of Heaven Returning Pills in the rewards Yang Lujia had received from the former. He was just oblivious to this fact and had only eaten, chewed, or drank any of these medications as though they were just snacks he prepared for himself.

After all, pills, pellets, and elixirs themselves had several tastes—but they only had one thing in common—they were naturally very delicious—some even sweet or salty enough to satisfy your cravings.

This was why Yang Lujia seemed to be addicted to them.

Even when Yang Lujia began sniffing the pills and pellets, his long-dead appetite had been stimulated, and promised himself that he should buy at least one pill from the shop.

Seeing that Yang Lujia seems to be interested in the pills and pellets he was displaying, the old man became even more passionate than ever before. "Young man, it seems like you're taking a liking to this one's refined pills!"

Yang Lujia did not reply for a while but nodded afterward. "Senior, how much is one of these? I mean, how much each?"

"They're pretty cheap, young man! Although the Heaven Returning Pills were very high-grade pills, they were still only pills, so they could be sold at a low price. One of them only costs 1,000 inferior-grade spirit stones!"

"They actually cost so much," Yang Lujia muttered in a low voice that the old man failed to hear.

"Come again, young man?" the old man asked, his eyes filled with innocence.

Yang Lujia felt like the old man wasn't scamming him or anything. Like what he observed while strolling, the people here seemed to be amiable and were in a peaceful state. However, this, in itself, signified that there must be something wrong with this realm.

After all, cultivators were naturally greedy. They would grab every opportunity to acquire more resources as much as they could to increase their strength. Moreover, the most ordinary cultivator here was the Mahayana Emperor. He even said a kid, who seemed to be fourteen years old, actually had so much power inside of him—it was like a beast was ready to pounce out from that kid's body.

His gaze was even abnormally mysterious.

However, the moment his gaze shifted to Yang Lujia's, the young kid stiffened as though the coldness reached their heart. He instantly had the instincts that, despite Yang Lujia's dashing looks, he must be some kind of expert they had never seen before.

Seeing the kid up close, he was astonished. The kid actually possessed a special body. It was just it wasn't able to provoke Yang Lujia's system, Fortuniel. Otherwise, Yang Lujia would have long turned his back away from this or even accept a disciple at most—one that was highly talented!

"Nothing, senior," Yang Lujia said as he shook his head. "Anyway, I'm going to buy two sets of this in one box, senior. Would that be feasible and fast enough?"

"T-Two sets…" the old man stuttered. "Young man, you mustn't!"

Witnessing the panicking face of the old man, Yang Lujia was astonished as he chewed on the pill and found that it was extremely refreshing to the body. He even ate five at the same time, which frightened the old man. This was simply inconceivable!

He had never seen anyone like Yang Lujia before!

"Yes, senior?" Yang Lujia was stumped. He only realized when he was called out after he ate five pills like candies. He then looked at the old man with an apologetic gaze. "I apologize, elder! For acting on my accord! I didn't think my habit of eating pills or pellets like cabbage!"

"Although its effects can be said to be mediocre, it was very affordable for those whose money had yet to be replenished by their job pays," Yang Lujia commented. "I'm not very well-versed with pills, senior. I apologize again for saying anything bad about you. They weren't without truth. I wasn't scolding you either. I was just exasperated."

However, the old man still looked at Yang Lujia with a grave expression. "Did you really think that pill could be refined in your body for a day? Young man, you mustn't waste your talents for something very mediocre like this!"

"I have a thing with alchemy or recording medicine! Although eating five of them was very much to the point that they could explode their dantian, but it wouldn't be a problem with—"

"Intruder! Intruder! Intruder Alert!"

Yang Lujia was startled and was forced to stop as he looked around solemnly.

"What the hell is going on?"