Chapter 383: Chapter 382: System Self-Check

As the system prompt sound marking the end of the deathmatch faded, a young man with delicate features returned from the Death Arena to the refuge.

He looked at the unfamiliar living room and stood up to stretch, his joints cracking loudly.

"This so-called deathmatch really is real."

He calmed himself and sensed his surroundings, his expression becoming somewhat grim: "It’s actually the Land of No Spirits? Such a world depleted of spiritual energy, just maintaining my realm is difficult, let alone restoring cultivation."

The young man frowned as he walked into the bedroom and turned on the computer: "Use the internet to understand the situation?"

Initially, his actions were clumsy like a beginner’s, but he soon became skilled, browsing information online like an ordinary person.

...

[Ding!]

[Sixth deathmatch concluded, beginning return.]

[Settling results—]

[Settlement complete.]

[Death Fighter final rank: 1]

[Total score for Death Fighter: 246 (Double points applied)]

[Top ten rewards issued]

[First place reward issued]

[Performance in this deathmatch: Unbelievable]

[Performance meets standards; you may permanently retain one ability acquired in this deathmatch]

[Details of rewards can be viewed on the data panel.]

...

In the room, Lv Bai slowly opened his eyes.

A strong sense of emptiness was uncontainable within him.

There’s no way around it; the power gained in the Death Arena can’t be brought back to the real world.

Compared to previous deathmatches, returning from the Cultivation World this time, Lv Bai clearly felt the seemingly omnipotent power within him get stripped away instantly.

This stark contrast even made Lv Bai feel somewhat wistful.

"In the Death Arena, no matter how strong I am, it’s fake, not real, so I shouldn’t indulge in it."

Lv Bai let out a long sigh, adjusted his mood, and began to review the gains from this round of the deathmatch.

[Death Arena ID: 92****8743]

[Username: Smart Murphy]

[Equipped main title: Innocent Smile (Four Stars)] (Click to view equippable titles)

[Equipped secondary titles: Mad Slaughter (Four Stars), Ultimate Killing Demon (Four Stars)]

[Talent: 137.2+24.6 (1 point can be converted to 0.1 talent, currently being converted, estimated time: seven days)]

[Abilities: ?, ?, Flash Time, All Ink, Spiritual Time House (Click to choose)]

[Evaluation: Difficult to evaluate, such existence is unreasonable, system self-check in progress...]

Lv Bai didn’t rush to check abilities or titles as usual.

Instead, his attention was drawn to the evaluation section, which he rarely looked at before.

In his impression, the evaluation in the last section of the personal interface was always the Deathmatch System flattering him in different ways.

Unexpectedly, after this deathmatch, the evaluation turned into "unreasonable" and mentioned some kind of self-check.

Lv Bai thoughtfully rubbed his chin.

From his understanding, the Deathmatch System itself lacks self-awareness, functioning more like a predetermined rigid program.

"So does it have a bug detection feature as well?"

Though this unexpected occurrence arose, Lv Bai wasn’t too concerned.

Ultimately, abilities like [Load] and [Restore] shouldn’t logically be under the Death Fighter’s control and are expected to be part of the Deathmatch System’s underlying logic.

From an authority standpoint, this underlying logic is definitely not inferior to the system’s self-check, similar to how no doctor begins treatment by chopping off the patient’s head.

Lv Bai was indeed curious about what the Deathmatch System would eventually diagnose.

He shook his head, casting aside scattered thoughts, refocusing on his gains from this round of deathmatch.

The ability retention was a given.

Among the three options, they all seemed quite ordinary, so he simply chose to retain the unique Color Level ability — [Iron Fist Breaks Wind].

Once the retained ability was chosen, Lv Bai casually clicked on the titles section.

Regarding titles, he viewed them more as "better not wasted."

Since, strictly speaking, he felt little direct benefit from the titles.

After all, they are passive effects and hard to quantify specifically.

[Compassion (One-Star): The wearer is more likely to receive requests from others.] (Top ten reward, generated based on deathmatch style, equippable)

[Unparalleled National Hero (Three Stars): Slightly enhances management ability when equipped.] (First place reward, randomly drawn from the pool of titles below three stars, equippable)

Lv Bai didn’t dwell on where these titles could be effective, casually throwing them into the title bank as materials for upgrade.

"Time to go home."

He walked out of the Victory Tower without paying attention to colleagues who had also finished the deathmatch, heading straight to the Central District.

It’s worth mentioning that the residence granted to him by the City Council was completed and delivered a week ago.

If no opportunity arose, Lü Ziyi and Lv Qingyan, the siblings, could tolerate staying in the dark.

But since they now had the chance to live in a better place, there was no need to continue squeezing into a pigeonhole like Habitable City.

So, the day after the residential handover, Lv Qingyan started urging Lü Ziyi to move.

Lü Ziyi was after all just a teenage girl, naturally looking forward to settling into a spacious and bright new home, completing the move at lightning speed, leaving Lv Bai puzzled about where they got such strong motivation.

Pursuing a better quality of life is a biological instinct, which Lv Bai understood, not letting the siblings suffer needlessly.

...

"Bro, you got off work early today, huh?"

Lv Qingyan, playing with mud in the yard, saw Lv Bai from afar and eagerly dashed toward him.

Lv Bai’s eyelid twitched, so he stepped back: "Wash your hands first." 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Upon hearing this, Lv Qingyan’s eyes suddenly welled with tears.

He sighed nostalgically: "Bro, you’ve grown up too, finally becoming the person you hated as a child."

"Indeed."

Lv Bai moved around the tearful little kid, casually asking: "Is your sister not home?"

"No, if she were, I wouldn’t dare to play like this."

"Did she say where she went?"

"Who knows, she’s been acting mysterious these days, I suspect she’s thinking about a guy."

"?"

Lv Bai paused for a moment and commented: "You really should go to school."

The City Council was quite generous, granting Lv Bai a residential space of a full two hundred square meters, with an internal building area of nearly one hundred and eighty square meters.

If one were to be a bit unscrupulous, such a large area could easily be used to build a Habitable Tower, squeezing in thousands of people effortlessly.

Lv Bai pushed open the door, changed into slippers, and directly slumped onto the sofa.

Then he picked up his phone to check the poll data of various areas in the current refuge.