When system cheat becomes rampant!

Xiang Qingde asked Xiang Beifei with concern, "How are you doing at school? You are just an N-level Awakener, at that elite university where I heard S-levels dominate, you haven't been bullied, have you?"

"Not at all, the elite students are very polite. They take good care of me since my system talent is low, and they always give way to me in everything they do. We get along very happily," Xiang Beifei said calmly.

"That's good! It's okay if your talent is a bit low, if we just work harder we can definitely catch up," Xiang Qingde encouraged.

Xiang Beifei realized he hadn't told his grandfather about his current level of cultivation. He had been at school this entire semester and had made several trips to the Outer Wilderness because the things he encountered were quite strange. Talking about them would only worry the old man, so he never said too much when they spoke on the phone.

However, he thought it was unnecessary to keep it hidden from the old man all the time, so he asked, "Grandpa, what do you think is my current level of cultivation?"

"No matter what level of cultivation, it doesn't matter. Just study hard and do your best!" Xiang Qingde looked completely unconcerned, indicating that he didn't care about Xiang Beifei's current level.

But he glanced again at Xiang Beifei, clearly itching with curiosity, eager to know about his grandson's current cultivation.

In the beginning, when Xiang Beifei scored first in the original points, he thought Xiang Beifei would definitely apply to the Liberal Arts College of Liangzhou University because, typically, N-level Awakeners with high scores tend to thrive in the literary Dao at elite universities.

Having a diploma from an elite university could do a lot if one masters expertise in a certain area, like making films, sales... Even in fields not related to their systems, as long as they could talk well, they wouldn't starve.

However, Xiang Beifei chose the path of martial Dao.

Xiang Qingde also tried to understand what it meant to choose martial Dao. For martial Dao practitioners, they take a unique path, and their standard of measurement is always one and the same.

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The difficulty for N-levels in martial Dao is imaginable; he didn't want to pressure Xiang Beifei, so he had never asked about it actively, but as a grandfather, he still needed to show concern about these things.

After a long pause, Xiang Qingde sneaked another peek at Xiang Beifei and asked, "You've been practicing for half a year now, you must have reached the mid-stage of Qi-Controlling, right?"

"Mid-stage of Qi-Controlling?"

Xiang Beifei was stunned.

Are your expectations of me so low?

"Ah, not yet? No problem, diligence can make up for the deficiency, diligence can make up for the deficiency," Xiang Qingde hurriedly said.

Xiang Beifei couldn't help but smile ruefully, suddenly remembering those words in his diary. After pondering for a while, he said, "Grandpa, what do you think this level is?"

He flicked his hand, and a surge of Spiritual Power rapidly spun around and then fiercely ignited, forming a fireball in the air which he forcefully condensed. The power of early Meridian Opening was unabashedly displayed.

Xiang Qingde watched the fireball in Xiang Beifei's hands in shock.

Xiang Beifei observed his grandfather's expressions closely.

Could Grandpa feel something?

If he had cultivation before, he should be aware of the power of such a fireball.

"This... this is..."

Xiang Qingde looked at the fireball in astonishment.

— Could he recognize the Spiritual Power?

Xiang Beifei watched him expectantly!

"What level of cultivation is this?" Xiang Qingde exclaimed.

Xiang Beifei: "..."

"Is it the ability to roll fireballs? It looks very impressive."

Xiang Qingde was amazed by the dazzling appearance of the fireball, it looked like fireworks, flashy.

Xiang Beifei was momentarily at a loss for words; he didn't know how to explain.

In this society dominated by the literary Dao, where the alliance laws are relatively complete, one wouldn't normally see people fighting and killing each other in the streets. For non-martial Dao practitioners who see the power of such a fireball, they can only feel it's stronger than themselves but can't determine which level it belongs to.

He carefully watched his grandfather's reaction. His grandfather was not pretending; he was genuinely a bit confused, a naively honest person.

"Grandpa, can't you recognize what this Spiritual Power means?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"Stronger than any I've seen." Xiang Qingde asked expectantly, "Is this the power of mid-stage Qi-Controlling?"

"Early stage of Meridian Opening."

"Oh, just early stage of Meridian Opening! No problem, it's not impressive now, just keep pushing."

Xiang Qingde nodded slightly.

He continued to nibble on the dough stick, with only the slight sound of munching, smack, smack.

Moments later, Xiang Qingde suddenly started, now fully grasping the implication, and looked at Xiang Beifei in shock, asking blankly: "Early stage of Meridian Opening?"

"Yes."

"Is it the early stage of Meridian Opening that you mean?"

"I... I suppose?"

When asked like this by his grandfather, Xiang Beifei was somewhat unsure himself.

Xiang Qingde's eyes widened.

His mind couldn't quite make the turn, and after pondering for a full ten seconds, he said in disbelief, "But... I heard that Xiao Wei, even after studying for a year, hasn't even reached the Meridian Opening phase? She's an S-level!"

"Oh, she's not as serious as I am," Xiang Beifei said.

Xiang Qingde: "..."

He was dazed for a long while, and still didn't quite understand.

"I thought that for N-levels, cultivation was supposed to be very slow..." Xiang Qingde muttered softly.

It wasn't just his assumption, many other people thought the same. Scoring first in the college entrance exam, no matter how shocking, could be accepted because as long as one was willing to study and could memorize the knowledge points, scoring high wasn't hard.

But cultivation wasn't about memorizing knowledge points.

"I inherited Dad's talent," Xiang Beifei thought for a moment, then added, "Maybe I even inherited Grandpa's talents."

"Inherited from me?" Xiang Qingde waved his hand dismissively, "Forget about me, when I awakened the Tianxing Awakening System, I thought I was a golden phoenix flying out of a chicken coop."

After a while, he muttered again, "Could it be another phoenix flew out? Is my coop's feng shui that good?"

Xiang Qingde couldn't help but look up and inspect the living room.

Xiang Beifei was somewhat amused and asked, "Grandpa, do you have any Spiritual Power?"

Xiang Qingde shook his head: "Grandpa's system isn't good, I haven't even touched the threshold."

Those in the literary Dao could also cultivate, but most of the dreadful N-level System Awakeners couldn't step into the Qi-Controlling phase their whole lives, couldn't become Dao cultivators, and thus couldn't feel the existence of Spiritual Power.

Xiang Beifei continued to ask, "What system is Grandpa?"

Xiang Qingde looked at his own system interface, hesitated, and said, "It seems to be a vegetable-selling system..."

"Seems to be?" Xiang Beifei eyeing that blank system interface, slightly frowned, "Why seems to be? Shouldn't what the system is be obvious at a glance?"

Xiang Qingde said, "It's hard to say, maybe because my system is too ordinary, my aptitude too poor, it often just vanishes, and also changes a lot."

Xiang Beifei seemed to catch a crucial point and asked further, "Changes? What do you mean?"

Xiang Qingde hesitated, then said, "It's like that... I don't know how to explain, it seems like a vegetable-selling system, but also seems not."

Xiang Beifei furrowed his brow, "What does that mean? Tell me, I have a solid grasp of the discipline of systems, maybe I can help analyze it."

"Alright, it's just us family here, no harm in telling you," Xiang Qingde didn't put on airs, "When I used to sell vegetables, it occasionally would issue related terms for selling vegetables, but after I started working at Kong Daming's store, it occasionally popped up a task about being a store manager, which was pretty strange."

"But Grandpa's system..."

Xiang Beifei started, then quickly stopped, he almost said that no information was displayed.

That snowflake system panel, he couldn't see anything at all, where could there be tasks?

Xiang Beifei changed the subject, "What did Grandpa just mention about often not seeing what the system is about?"

Xiang Qingde explained, "This is even stranger, my system tasks come and go, sometimes it's just a flash of a few lines of text, often I haven't even had the chance to read them clearly, then they disappear, but seemingly it doesn't matter whether I complete them or not."

"Doesn't matter in what way?"

"Like last time I saw some words about Amaranth, it didn't specify what the reward was, I thought it was asking me to sell Amaranth, but it wasn't the season for Amaranth, I was wondering where to get some, when suddenly a kitchen knife was thrown into my hand."

"Task wasn't completed, yet you still got a reward?" Xiang Beifei exclaimed.

"Yes, I was thrilled that day, I got a kitchen knife for free," Xiang Qingde chuckled happily. Content people are always happy, he was always easygoing.

"Does this happen often?" Xiang Beifei asked.

"Not really, sometimes my system won't issue a single task for months, with no reaction at all, no matter how much I call it. Last month, right? I remember that day it issued a word about being a store manager, I was still thinking about what store manager role it meant, then the system without explanation rewarded me with a brick, and smacked it on my face."

As Xiang Qingde spoke about this, he couldn't help but get irritated, touching his forehead.

Xiang Beifei, looking puzzled, quickly asked, "You were alright?"

"It was fine, just nearly knocked me out, but no serious harm, my bones are sturdy," Xiang Qingde pointed to his head with his finger, signaling to Xiang Beifei not to worry.

Xiang Beifei breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "So your system only shows information when there's a task?"

"Right, no regular pattern, it acts up whenever it likes, huh! Probably my system is the bottommost, I'm used to it, not expecting it to help me do anything," Xiang Qingde seemed resigned.

Xiang Beifei stared at that patch of snowflakes, pondering.

He knew many systems were very bizarre, with inexplicable tasks, especially N-level systems, some tasks might never be achievable for a lifetime, basically blocking one's future.

But no matter the system, a reward had to wait until the task was completed.

Even for someone as quirky as himself, he needed to participate in other people's system tasks to excavate their systems.

But Grandpa's system—what kind of system was that?

The most crucial question was, why was his system a patch of snowflakes?

Since his arrival in this world, he had never seen anyone else's system as snowflakes, even the poorest N-level systems were clearly displayed, only Grandpa's snowflake panel was unique!