Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 489

Chapter 487: Angry at His Lack of Fighting

After being flung away, the idler Jiang Li gasped for air, his heart still pounding with fear.

For a moment, a fleeting moment, he thought he was going to die.

“Look at you now. Lazy, incompetent, doing nothing, with nothing but power.”

“Besides the system, what else do you have?”

“The system can be given to anyone, even Jiang Yixing, and yet Jiang Yixing was able to rise above and become the Emperor. So what is there to be proud of?”

“Everything you have was given by the system.”

“And your identity as a time traveler? What’s the point of that? After you travel through time, can you use your pre-travel knowledge to change the Nine Provinces in any way?”

“You’re a human being, a living, breathing individual with an independent personality, not a puppet of the system!”

“If the system has bad intentions towards you, how will you resist?”

Jiang Li was furious at their lack of fighting spirit.

The idler Jiang Li was unconvinced: “How could the system have bad intentions towards me? When I traveled through time, I was only in the middle stage of Qi training. What value could the system have in exploiting me?” Jiang

Li replied coldly: “Now I have.”

The idler Jiang Li was struck by lightning.

Jiang Li wanted to say something more, but seeing the bewildered look in Idle Jiang Li’s eyes, he knew he hadn’t yet grasped the problem. No matter

how much he spoke, it was useless.

“You were useless when you traveled through time. I’m sure the system can forgive you. But what happened after you reached the Mahayana stage, after you stopped completing the system’s tasks? Look at all the crap you’ve done.”

“You think you’ve broken free from the system’s control, but in reality, your character has been ruined by it.”

“No point in talking anymore. Just take care of yourself.”

Jiang Li didn’t want to talk to Idle Jiang Li anymore; it was a waste of words.

He looked at the Pure Heart Saint and the others who harbored admiration for Idle Jiang Li and sighed inwardly.

From their earlier conversation, he learned that the Pure Heart Saint was captured by demonic cultivators after her first descent from the mountain, and that Idle Jiang Li had rescued her.

This was similar to his own experience, the difference being the aftermath. He treated the Pure Heart Saint as a simple friend, while Idle Jiang Li treated her as his girlfriend.

Then there’s Yu Yin. During an expedition into a secret realm, Yu Yin was poisoned by the Hehuan Poison. Idle Jiang Li offered himself as an antidote, leading to a complex relationship between the two.

Yu Yin initially sought to distance herself from Idle Jiang Li, but subsequent system missions, especially the special mission “The Path of the Human Emperor,” often brought them together. As

their encounters increased, and with Idle Jiang Li being the man who took Yu Yin’s virginity, Yu Yin gradually fell for him.

The relationships between other female cultivators and Idle Jiang Li followed similar paths. As an outsider, Jiang Li couldn’t tell how much of this was manipulated by the system and how much was due to Idle Jiang Li’s fickle nature. He suspected Jiang Li couldn’t explain it either.

The thought that some relationships between men and women were calculated by the system filled Jiang Li with an uneasy feeling.

Jiang Li broke free from his dream and returned to Jiuzhou.

…

After Jiang Li left, Yu Yin and the others rushed to check on Idle Jiang Li’s injuries.

Jiang Li’s attacks were so swift that they didn’t even have time to react before he had already defeated Idle Jiang Li and left the dream.

“Jiang Li, how are you?” Saintess Jingxin looked at him with heartache.

The other women shared a similar feeling, except Yu Yin, who frowned slightly and asked, “Why did he grab you by the neck? What did you say?”

Jiang Li, the idler, looked at the women’s worried and distressed expressions, and Yu Yin’s calm yet slightly worried expression, and wanted to tell them about the system.

However, just as he was about to speak, he thought not of the system’s punishment, but of what the women would think of him.

His meetings with the women were all arranged by the system; they formed the foundation of their relationships. Would they feel betrayed and leave him?

Jiang Li, the idler, dared not dwell on it. He finally began to understand what Jiang Li had said.

Everything he had was given to him by the system. He seemed to no longer be doing the system’s tasks, no longer under its control, but in reality, he could no longer break free from its shackles.

“Nothing, we just had a small disagreement. You all can go back. I need some peace and quiet.”

The women, noticing Jiang Li’s troubled state, didn’t offer any words of help and support. Instead, they obediently left, returning to reality.

Idle Jiang Li began to ponder how to break free from the system’s constraints.

“What is this?” Jiang Li suddenly felt two massive formations appear in his mind.

“Could this be… the Great Nine Provinces Protective Array? And what about the other formation constructed from spiritual plants?”

Jiang Li knew it was something the other party had left for him.

Two formations had been silently implanted in his mind, and Jiang Li couldn’t imagine the magnitude of the difference in strength between them.

Just as Jiang Li continued to ponder his life, his dream trembled violently, and a figure resembling the previous one appeared.

Unlike Jiang Li, this figure wore a black robe and a defiant expression.

“Where is Human Emperor Jiang Li? I challenge you.”

The First Emperor reentered the dream. He believed that becoming stronger wasn’t just about increasing cultivation, but more about accumulating combat experience. And

when it came to gaining combat experience, what was faster than fighting another version of himself ?

After all, in a dream, no matter how severely injured he was, he couldn’t die.

The First Emperor had already made up his mind: through countless defeats and countless battles, he would continue to grow, ultimately surpassing Human Emperor Jiang Li!

He not only wants to become the strongest in their world, but also the strongest in all parallel worlds!

“Are you Jiang Li too?” The First Emperor saw the idle Jiang Li with a lazy look on his face, not like a strong man.

No, you can’t think that way. When he first met the Human Emperor Jiang Li, he also thought he was easy to bully, but ended up getting beaten.

Maybe this Jiang Li is the same.

“It doesn’t matter, let’s fight.” The First Emperor said nothing, and fought first and talked later.

“Why so weak?”

…

Idle Jiang Li’s eyes snapped open, his expression akin to a drowning man pulled ashore, a look of relief.

He was covered in wounds, a reflection of reality from his dream.

In the dream, he’d been brutally beaten by Jiang Li, a man of comparable strength but far superior combat awareness, leaving him resentful.

If he’d been beaten by Jiang Li, the difference in cultivation could be explained, but being beaten by the First Emperor…

“How much do I need to improve?”

Idle Jiang Li flew towards Mount Xumi, intending to ask the Xumi Buddha.

Although Xumi Buddha was the leader of the Shenzang Sect and responsible for the deaths of nine million people in Tianyuan Imperial City, Idle Jiang Li, mindful of Xumi Buddha’s contributions to his own development, a sort of mentor, and his numerous battles against the extraterritorial demons, held him accountable. Feeling their merits balanced their demerits, he spared his life, allowing him to continue as the master of Mount Xumi, but only to keep him from spreading the news of the Shenzang Sect.

The rest of the Shenzang Cult members were uprooted by the idle Jiang Li, leaving no one alive.

“Old Buddha, what on earth is going on with the parallel world?”

My head hurts. Today’s update

(End of this chapter)