‘Hey Ysla, where do you I should use my stat points?’ Fu Chen sat on the bed of his new house and asked. But, he didn’t get any response.

“Ysla! Ysla!” Fu Chen tried to shout and ask for a response. But, he didn’t get any response.

“Status! System! Ysla! What is going on? Why aren’t you replying?” Fu Chen continued to shout but never got any reply. He didn’t find any response. He tried to calm down.

He walked out of his room and as he walked out, he saw people looking at him with disdain and disgrace.

He didn’t understand. They were looking at him the same before he got the system.

‘Was it all a dream?’ Fu Chen asked himself but suddenly, he saw a figure in front of him. It was Xue Le but she was held by another man.

“Hey, who are you?” Fu Chen looked at the man on the white silhouette and shouted. He was wrapping his arm around Xue Le and walking away from him.

“Hey, stop! I said stop!” Fu Chen released his powers and slammed a fist but when he tried to hit, he felt weak. There was not a single trace of power left in his body.

“Le, do you know this guy?” The man holding Xue Le asked as he turned around but Fu Chen still couldn’t see his face. It was blurry for some reason.

“Nah! He is just some random trash. Ignore him.” Unlike him, Xue Le’s face was very clear. She was looking at Fu Chen with disdain and cruelty.

“Xue Le, what are you saying? I am your lover, Fu Chen. Why are you doing this?” Fu Chen saw nothing but darkness in front of his eyes. He tried to convince her but she kept a cold look on her face.

Pah!

Xue Le raised her hand and slapped Fu Chen.

“Go away, trash! You are just trash without that system of yours. Humph! I have forgotten about it a long time ago. I don’t even know why I bothered to like you. If I had known that you are just trash without that system, I wouldn’t have talked to you.”

When Fu Chen heard those words, he started crying. Tears fell down his eyes. Those words were too painful to hear. Yeah, he knew this more than anyone else but he didn’t want to accept it.

He still believed that hard work can result in a good future.

But, soon, he wiped away his tears and shook his head.

“No, this is not Xue Le. You are not Xue Le. Even if I had no system, Xue Le never looked at me with those eyes. She only felt pity for me. You are not Xue Le. Where is this? Where am I?”

“What are you talking about? This is your life.”

“You are Fu Chen, a trash without the system.”

“You will never become a cultivator.”

“Without the system, you will always remain at the bottom.”

“Without the system, you can’t project your family.”

“Chen, never come back home! You are not just a deadweight for us.”

“Chen, we have given birth to a girl who has a hundred times better talent than you. We don’t want to acknowledge you as our child. So, never return!”

“This is not your home.”

Words afterwords, sentences after sentences, just kept appearing in his mind.

“No, no, this is not true. This is not true. You are not my parents. She is not Xue Le. This is not true.”

“Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha” In the middle of the night, Fu Chen suddenly jolted up and started breathing heavily. His face was covered in sweat and he was trembling.

“What happened? Did you have the nightmare?” Xue Le also got up as she looked at him with a worried expression. She turned on the lamp next to her and his condition became much clearer to her.

“Xue Le!” Fu Chen turned his head and saw Xue Le who had concern on her face, completely opposite to what he saw before. He started trembling as he remembered everything clearly.

“Fu Chen, it’s just a dream. No matter what it was, it was just a dream.” Xue Le pulled his head into her embrace and tried to calm him down.

Fu Chen closed his eyes and tried to calm down but as he closes his eyes, he remembered those words.

“You are trash without the system.”

At this moment, he opened his eyes and asked himself.

‘One day, if the system leaves me, will I remain as trash, a person without any talent for cultivation. Would she still love me as she does now? Wasn’t her love influenced by the system as well?’

At this moment, Fu Chen for the first time in his life felt betrayed and lost. Up until now, he has never lost the spark of cultivation in his eyes but at this moment, all of that spark was gone. He had nothing but gloominess in his eyes.

‘What should I do? Am I really going to remain as trash if the system leaves me?’

Fu Chen asked himself once again. But at this moment, something came to his mind, something that his father told him when he was just ten.

‘Remember Chen, you might face a lot of difficulties in the future. Sometimes, you might break into tears. Sometimes you might doubt yourself. Sometimes you might curse yourself and us because of what you don’t have.’

‘But, if you don’t have something, then you got no choice but to chase it. For the people who are born without talent, you got only one thing to do. Chase the talent, find it, and make it yours.’

‘Whether it is small or big, talent is something to nurture. Just because you have talent doesn’t make you strong, just because you don’t have talent doesn’t make you weak.’

‘It’s all your mind. Don’t use it in a way to confine yourself! Use it to become a dragon and soar in the endless sky. Whenever you face any difficulties, don’t use your emotions, use your brain.’

When those words rang in his mind once again, he asked himself.

‘What can I do?’

Unlike before, this time he had an answer.

‘I can sleep.’

Fu Chen slowly separated himself from her embrace and said “Thank you, Xue! Let’s sleep!”

Xue Le still was worried. She looked at him and asked, “Are you going to be okay?”

“Don’t worry, I will be fine. But if I don’t sleep properly then I might not be able to use my full strength tomorrow.” Fu Chen lays his head on the pillow and finally closes his eyes.

Xue Le gave him one big stare before getting back to sleep.

‘I might be nothing without the system for now. But, I won’t remain like this forever. I will find a way. I will find the talent that isn’t related to the system. And, I will start relying less on the system, as if it never existed.’

Fu Chen had already made up his mind to rely less on the system. It’s not because he believes that the dream would come true. It’s simply because he doesn’t want to lose Xue Le whether the system remains with him or not.

He doesn’t want to lose his parents either. He has no plan for anyone close in his life. And, if he remains as trash in case the system ever leaves him, he will lose everyone.

So, his goal is to be better without the help of the system as much as can and only use the system when he knows he can’t succeed.

………

It was the next day and Fu Chen woke up a little late. His body was tired because of several things that happened yesterday from his body improvement due to the fox bloodline awakening to the pressure he had to bear during the night.

All of these events made him truly exhausted. After waking up, he had breakfast that he never had before with Xue Le and finally left the mansion. He was quite surprised when Xue Le came with him.

But, this also put a little bit of pressure on him because everyone’s eyes were on him. Although they haven’t heard about him staying at her mansion, just walking together even after so many rumors made more people believe in it.

Xue Le had a completely normal expression but he was panicking a lot. Because this was the first time he had been in highlight. Although the rumors made him a hot topic, they never walked together after the third day.

Now, everyone had their eyes on him. Some were glaring at him while some were just calmly watching his movement and observing him. These are the type of people who don’t believe in rumors and want to know everything by themselves.

“Don’t think too much about their opinion or their gazes. Your mind should be focused on the next battle.” Xue Le leaned closer to him and whispered.

“Whoa! They are really together.”

Suddenly, one of the disciples shouted when he saw Xue Le leaning very close to him.