Chapter 298: Chapter 300: New World – Tide, Life with Five Defects and Three Shortcomings
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“Don’t say two people are both surnamed Ji, it’s quite fated, huh?” After Qin Muye made a snide comment, he conscripted Ji Shan over.
“But I’ve got to figure out a way to make some money, a small amount would do.”
“Tidal World? It couldn’t be the recovery of Spiritual Energy, could it? But it’s not impossible.”
“From a literal point of view, does this world’s energy environment operate on a cyclical basis?”
“In college, I studied psychology, still an orphan, looks like this ‘orphan’ status really fits the bill.”
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“Wait a second, does this mean Ji Wuming thought he was providing psychological counseling, but was actually fortune telling, and that’s how he calculated his own demise??? ”
“Being single meant he had no girlfriend, thankfully he didn’t, otherwise he couldn’t afford it.”
“Damn~ No wonder this guy’s business is booming. You’re plagued with both congenital and other deficiencies. In any world with even a hint of the supernatural, fortune-telling is incredibly accurate.”
“Still got to figure out an explanation for Ji Shan’s origin, someone like me can’t adopt, I don’t meet the requirements.”
“Also, due to a lack of prosperity in my fate, I lose out on everything. I’m destitute but not to the point of death.”
“Ji Shan is the Child of Destiny, with him around I should be able to get by a little better… right?”
“Although the start was a bit of a pitfall and I have some sort of calamity to face, raising a child isn’t bad, what with modern society and all.”
“Lacking in both prosperity and good fortune, orphaned at a young age, and fated to be a bachelor all my life… And these congenital and other deficiencies don’t count as being solitary? How could I possibly have offspring without a wife… oh, I could adopt.” Qin Muye sneered.
“Bad luck for you, I at least lack prosperity and good fortune. You must have lacked that along with longevity. You’ve used up your longevity, haven’t you? How else would it have been my turn?”
“Let me think, my identity this time is a fortune teller under a bridge called Ji Wuming. This name is significant. Good thing I didn’t meet anyone with the last name Lv; otherwise I’d have been pronounced dead on the spot.”
“Thank God for the Super Space-Time Transmission Channel, leading straight to the warehouse. They’ve also prepared all sorts of resources for me. Otherwise, I wouldn’t afford to support anyone with my destitute appearance.” Qin Muye never thought about opposing temporary Skills; he was acknowledged to lack fortune and prosperity, so he saw no need to struggle.
“Or, maybe the Simulator would work?”
“Because my fate lacks prosperity, every time I went to take the related exams, various reasons caused me to miss out or fail, and hence, I can’t start a proper psychological clinic… ”
“Another modern world, still devoid of energy, but it seems different from the Dead Silence World?”
“And just look at me, am I not disabled enough? I feel like I could apply for disability benefits with my current appearance.” Qin Muye sneered again, feeling that he was about to lose control of his “human skin,” and who knows when his facade might rupture.
“I have an amplification in terms of cultivation and perception, so it looks like once I’m beaten down, I can indeed experience a qualitative change.” Qin Muye did a quick test and, despite the pitfall nature of his fate, it did possess special effects.
“This time is better, putting aside the probability of being a supporting character or a background role, which is now zero, things are finally looking up.”
“If spiritual energy were to recover, would I have to add points to a parchment? After all, I already possess the concept of merit. Wouldn’t it be somewhat out of place if I lacked a parchment?”
[The evaluation will be based on the calamity you dispel, with the evaluation affecting the final reward.]
[Accumulate 10 points of merit and dispel a calamity to be rewarded with: Lord Skill·Magic Enhancement.]
[Magic Enhancement: Increase the Magic Value Limit for all your troops and heroes (Rank × 1%).]
[You have gained the temporary Skill: Five Deficiencies and Three Lacks.]
[You have gained the Main Character Identity.]
[You used a Random Dungeon Scroll. This time the instance world is: No. 8935 Tidal World.]
[Five Deficiencies and Three Lacks: widower, bachelor, solitary, orphan, disabled. You have the widower and orphan. You lack prosperity and fortune. How about considering beating yourself up to see? Maybe fulfilling all five will lead to unexpected benefits…]
[Randomizing your identity, the ratio this time is: Main Character (100%), Supporting Character (0%), Extra (0%).]
[Main Quest Issued]
After all, being so young and telling fortunes under a bridge, he’s the only one in the area doing that, and he goes every day, gets unluckier by the day, becoming more popular as he becomes more unlucky.
Don’t be fooled by his appearance; underneath the human skin, he’s completely unrelated to humans.
Of course, this Ji Wuming wasn’t really telling fortunes, he was giving psychological consultations, but he did it under the guise of fortune-telling.
Then he stood in front of the mirror, using the “Five Elements Divine Number” leftover in his mind to calculate his own fate.
What’s more important is that this unlucky lot has now been inherited by Qin Muye.
Another way to put it would be that demand exceeds supply, otherwise Ji Wuming wouldn’t have been able to live so long if there was truly nothing at all; without Qin Muye, Ji Wuming would probably just live in poverty, unless he really had a shortage of life span.
The five deficiencies and three lacks on Ji Wuming are skills, but if they were on Ji Wuming, they would definitely be something akin to destiny.
Just like the prince on the white horse might always encounter stories but inherently has the charisma of a prince, the wipeout engine causes a wipeout around him yet gives him a sharp historical perception. Now, these five deficiencies and three lacks are the same; they bring him enhancements in his cultivation.
With his regeneration ability, not to mention being maimed, even if he were to be blended into pieces in a mixer and then reshaped, he could still recover.
The origin doesn’t really matter; a baby couldn’t possibly have too many problems, at most it would just require an investigation.
Adoption isn’t something you can just do by visiting an orphanage, spending some money, and then taking someone away; it involves a variety of complex procedures and reviews.
That’s right, Ji Shan is now a hero under Qin Muye, though he is a baby with a level of 0. However, after Qin Muye fed him twice, he joined automatically, without even a notification from “Lord Era,” suggesting he fully recognized himself on his own.
In fact, Qin Muye suspected that if it weren’t for his “Eternal Body” talent that removed his lifespan limit, perhaps he would lack in fortune, prosperity, and longevity all together.
After recalling part of the true unlucky Ji Wuming’s memories, Qin Muye couldn’t help feeling a bit helpless because other unlucky folks might have offended him, leading to their misfortune, but this guy was genuinely unlucky.
Qin Muye looked at his tiny rental room, and due to the five deficiencies and three lacks, everything his former self did was unsuccessful, even though his fortune-telling business was good, he still couldn’t save any money.
Qin Muye was sure that the five deficiencies and three lacks were pitfalls meant for the main character, but surely they had corresponding talents meant to come with them, unfortunately not given to him.
Qin Muye also wasn’t certain, but because his lifespan wasn’t lacking, it meant he wasn’t someone who would die young, thus he didn’t need to worry about Ji Shan sacrificing him right at the start.
Qin Muye suddenly realized, in his memories, that Ji Wuming was giving psychological therapy, but he was using real fortune-telling texts.
Qin Muye suddenly came to realize this fact; this stuff is standard for protagonists in stories where spiritual energy is recovering.
Qin Muye, with a face full of black lines, thought, “Is this the main character treatment? Even the villains aren’t this miserable.”
If Qin Muye initiates the process, he won’t end up in dog-blood dramas where he’s mistaken for a human trafficker, because he is rather well-known in this area.
Lack doesn’t mean not having; it means despite hard work, living is still tight. Like embarking on the path of cultivation, it doesn’t mean that you can’t get resources; rather, it could mean that all the resources are being funneled into a bottomless pit, such as needing various resources because the cultivation technique is too powerful.
So, getting crippled is unlikely; it would be more straightforward to aim for a kill.
Therefore, quite a few people around were familiar with Ji Wuming.
His main task is to accumulate 10 points of merit and to avert a major disaster. Now that he even has merits, what’s impossible if the fortune-telling turns out to be real?
He can fully believe how strong a temporary skill given by the main character identity can be, without a doubt, it’s rule level, probably the kind that would cause even Heavenly Net to suffer misfortune if it encountered it.
If he really dares to rush into cooperating, the outcome would definitely be terrible misfortune, possibly even persecution.
Like for Ji Wuming, rent and utilities are a hefty sum, plus various extra expenses, and there might even be losses of money, which is why his life is so miserable.
Don’t even think about collaborating with the upper echelon; without blessings and prosperity, forget about power and wealth.
Perhaps it’s simply because an infant doesn’t have these notions.
One is emptiness, the other is annihilation.
In Qin Muye’s perception, the world feels to him like the dry seabed after the tide has receded, not like the energy-silent world transformed from the World of Shadows.
This world must be at least rank 5 at the baseline, with no upper limit.
As for being widowed, that term is used for females; the male equivalent is “widower.”
As for the idea of crippling himself and then surviving as one of the five deficiencies, Qin Muye thinks it’s not achievable in the short term.
The loyalty level is also 100, probably due to being too naive.