Chapter 2: Super Lottery
Ding Shuang immediately became interested and closed her eyes, preparing to study the system. Suddenly, a panel appeared in front of Ding Shuang, displaying her information.
Name: Ding Shuang
Gender: Male
Level: LV5 (0/50000)
Crossing Point: 0
Transcendence Level: F
Mastery of the technique: None
Skills mastered: None
Possessions: None
Possesses divine artifact: None
Possesses no special trait.
Reward: One Super Lottery Draw
Ding Shuang stared at the blank control panel and asked the system, “There’s nothing here. What does ‘level’ mean? What’s ‘transmigration level’?”
“Since the host has only completed one special mission, you are only entitled to one Super Lottery. Your level represents your strength; a level of 5 means you are currently an ordinary person. Your transmigration level represents the level of the sub-worlds you can transmigrate to; currently, you can only transmigrate to the lowest level, F-class sub-worlds.”
“Secondary worlds have levels? How are they divided?”
“The secondary world is classified according to the differences between it and the real world. The closer it is to the real world, the lower its level; the greater the difference between it and the real world, the higher its level.”
“Holy crap! Doesn’t that mean there aren’t many worlds we can travel to?”
“Please do not judge the number of traversable secondary worlds based on your own understanding. The number of works in the real world is enormous.”
“Okay, I’m annoyed, but you’re fucking right. Now you can give me the task, right?”
“The task requires the host to trigger it before it can be issued. You cannot trigger the task while lying naked on the sofa. However, the host has one chance to win a super lottery, which you can use now.”
“You fucking… never mind, why bother arguing with someone from the same system as you. Let’s try our luck with the lottery. I’ve never won anything in my life, and this time will probably be the same. After that, I’ll go out and buy a pack of cigarettes, and see if I can trigger a quest.” Ding Shuang wasn’t trying to sabotage him; he genuinely had an unlucky streak, always failing to draw the characters he wanted in card games, which led him to quit card games and save a lot of money.
“Okay, host, you have chosen to use the Super Lottery. The Super Spin Wheel is now activated.” A colorful spinning wheel appeared before Ding Shuang’s eyes, resembling the roulette wheel of a poorly made web game. Ding Shuang didn’t bother to look closely at the prizes on the wheel and simply pulled the joystick. The wheel spun rapidly. Ding Shuang habitually closed his eyes, listening to the cheap lottery sound effects, and felt the wheel slowly come to a stop.
Suddenly, a celebratory cannon salute rang out, followed by the system’s voice: “Congratulations, host, you have won the grand prize! You have been transported to an SSS-level secondary world. As this is your first time winning the grand prize, we are selecting a world for you based on your knowledge. Matching successful. Transmigration initiation!”
“Holy crap!” Ding Shuang hadn’t even recovered from the joy of winning the grand prize when suddenly everything went black. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in an unfamiliar room. Looking at the antique-style objects around him, Ding Shuang immediately felt an urge to curse.
“Welcome to the world of ‘Battle Through the Heavens’. Your current identity is Xiao Yan, the third young master of the Xiao family. The panel is synchronizing with the secondary world. Synchronization complete.”
“Holy crap! Did I say I was going to transmigrate? This stupid system just sent me here? What if Fei Fei finds out I’m gone? She’ll be worried sick!”
“Host, please don’t get excited. After you travel to the secondary world, time in the real world does not flow. No matter how long you stay in the secondary world, when you return to the real world, you will find that you have only been gone for 1 minute.”
“Then how am I supposed to leave here?” Ding Shuang had been working in society for many years and always considered his escape route. Before figuring out how to enter and exit the secondary world, the sudden transmigration was extremely difficult for him to adapt to.
“Because the host has no way to travel to another world, he/she cannot leave this secondary world.”
“Fuck you! Are you fucking trying to rip me off?!” Ding Shuang instantly exploded! She’d come here but couldn’t leave; was she destined to live in this world forever? Would she never see Feifei and Rongbing again? What was the difference between this and dying from carbon monoxide poisoning?
“Host, please don’t get excited. After you travel to a secondary world, there will be an ultimate mission. Once you complete the ultimate mission, you will automatically return to the real world without needing any travel points. At the same time, missions will also be triggered in the secondary world, and these missions will also reward you with travel points.”
Ding Shuang really didn’t want to talk to the system anymore. Was every system this terrible?
“The host has now calmed down. The ultimate mission is now issued. Since this is the host’s first time entering a secondary world, the ultimate mission is as follows: Complete the storyline and become the Flame Emperor. Upon first entering a secondary world, items will be distributed according to the secondary world’s level. This secondary world has been detected as an SSS-level world, and the following items are distributed: one Infinite Space Backpack (artifact), two top-tier cultivation techniques, the temporary trait “Golden,” and three uses of the one-time hypnosis skill. Mission rewards include 10,000 experience points, 10,000 travel points, three super lottery draws, and one secondary world clone. From now on, you can freely travel through this secondary world without needing travel points. Penalty for mission failure: Annihilation!”
“It’s bound to happen,” Ding Shuang snorted coldly. He knew none of these systems were good; they were always trying to eliminate people. Wasn’t there a system that didn’t risk its life? Ding Shuang thought for a moment, and it seemed there really was—a small, auxiliary system that didn’t issue tasks and didn’t seem to be so dangerous. He’d try to acquire one of those systems sometime.
“By the way, System, if I die in this world, does that mean I’m really dead?” Ding Shuang asked, knowing the system’s nature.
“Yes, host. If you die in a secondary world, then you are truly dead.”
Okay, they’re all the same. Were all those authors who wrote system novels parasitized by systems? Or were they all from the same batch of systems? Ding Shuang didn’t think too much about it and opened the panel to take a look.
Name: Xiao Yan (Ding Shuang)
Gender: Male
Rank: Fighter
Crossing Point: 0
Transcendence Level: F
Mastering the techniques:
Desire Emperor’s Heart Codex: Level 1 (0/10)
The Art of Seducing Women: Level 1 (0/5)
Mastering skills:
One-time hypnosis ×3
Possessions: None
Possessing a divine artifact:
Infinite Space Backpack
Possesses the following traits:
Wealthy (Valid only in the world of “Battle Through the Heavens”)
Rewards: None
Leaving this level world requires 100,000 travel points. Since this is the host’s first time traveling, leaving this level world for the first time only requires 10,000 travel points.
A Dou Zhe? Ding Shuang was a little confused. What time period had he transmigrated to? Was it when Xiao Yan was a child or when Yao Lao woke up and became a Dou Zhe again? Since Ding Shuang was looking at the panel and couldn’t see his own body, he had only been busy complaining about the system when he first entered this world and hadn’t paid attention to his physical condition, so he didn’t know where the plot of “Battle Through the Heavens” was at.
Ding Shuang thought for a moment. Although leaving would only require 1000 travel points, he currently had 0, making it impossible to leave. He decided to continue researching his cultivation techniques and skills to see if there was anything special about them. Just as Ding Shuang was about to study his cultivation techniques, someone knocked on the door outside, and a woman’s voice came from outside, “Cousin Xiao Yan, it’s lunchtime. Let’s go to the martial arts arena for a test after we eat.”
Ding Shuang stopped studying his cultivation technique and got up to open the door. The woman outside looked to be around 18 years old. While not exceptionally beautiful, she possessed a subtle allure—the kind of woman who was both innocent and seductive in real-world terms. Ding Shuang was taken aback. Who was this woman? It had been ten years since he last read *Battle Through the Heavens*. Ding Shuang could only recall the general plot; some details were impossible to remember.
In that instant of hesitation, the system’s electronic voice announced, “Host’s memory fusion with Xiao Yan is complete.” Ding Shuang instantly recognized the woman’s identity—Xiao Mei—and said, “Cousin Mei’er, let’s go together.”
Xiao Mei felt a little dazed, sensing that her cousin Xiao Yan seemed different today, somewhat unfamiliar. However, she didn’t dwell on it, as it was one of the few times she had managed to invite him to dinner. Xiao Mei considered taking his arm, but glancing at Ding Shuang, who was walking straight towards the family canteen without looking to either side, she decided against it.
There’s always a delay in memory synchronization during each transmigration; it only just finished. Ding Shuang flipped through Xiao Yan’s memories as she walked towards the cafeteria with Xiao Mei. As Ding Shuang looked through them, she felt something was off about the timeline. Xiao Yan was 16 years old this year, had just become a Dou Zhe yesterday, and was hailed as a family genius; Yao Lao hadn’t even awakened yet. Ding Shuang glanced at Xiao Mei beside her. Xiao Mei was 15 years old, but looked like she was 18. It seemed people in this world developed early. But a 16-year-old Dou Zhe couldn’t be called a genius, could he? This was too far from the original plot.
“System, why is this world somewhat different from the world in the novels I remember? What’s going on?” Ding Shuang asked the system in his mind.
“Here’s the thing, host. When you first travel to a secondary world, the secondary world will collide with the real world. The collision will cause some deviations in the secondary world, but it will not have any impact on the main storyline.”
Ding Shuang was somewhat confused. Even with this deviation, wouldn’t it affect the main plot? This didn’t seem to fit the butterfly effect at all. After getting his food at the cafeteria, Ding Shuang continued studying Xiao Yan’s memories while eating. He discovered that the main deviation in this world was time; everything had been pushed back a few years. This meant that Yao Lao hadn’t awakened yet, and soon he would be demoted from a Dou Zhe to a third-stage Dou Qi.
During the meal, Ding Shuang finished studying Xiao Yan’s memories and went to the martial arts arena with Xiao Mei for the test. Unfortunately, they wouldn’t see the stunningly beautiful Xiao Xun’er today, as she was out and about; she had left the day before yesterday, and Ding Shuang guessed she might have gone to inherit the strange fire. Upon arriving at the arena, the clan members were all waiting for the test to begin. The test started, and the clan elders called out the names of the disciples to come up and take the test.
“Next, Xiao Mei!”
Upon hearing her name called, Xiao Mei said to Ding Shuang beside her, “Cousin Xiao Yan, it’s my turn. I’m going up now.”
Ding Shuang nodded and said, “Keep it up, you can definitely do it.”
Xiao Mei quickly stepped forward and touched the testing stone tablet with her small hand, and the stone tablet lit up.
“Battle Aura, Level Four!”
Xiao Mei proudly raised her cheeks. Reaching the fourth level of Dou Qi at the age of 15, although not as good as her monstrous cousin Xiao Yan, she could still be considered a promising talent within the clan.
Ding Shuang gave Xiao Mei on the stage a thumbs-up in appreciation. Xiao Mei’s face flushed with excitement when she saw it. She thought to herself, “Oh my god! Cousin Xiao Yan praised me! I’m so happy.” Xiao Mei ran to Ding Shuang’s side and stood there quietly without saying a word.
Ding Shuang knew this little girl was just too excited. According to Xiao Yan’s memories, someone who could reach Xiao Mei’s level at 15 in Wutan City could be considered a key talent for the family’s cultivation. Ding Shuang didn’t say anything, letting Xiao Mei continue to be excited for a while. Finally, it was time for the last person, Ding Shuang’s test.
“The last one is Young Master Xiao Yan.”
Xiao Yan’s displayed talent for cultivation within the family astonished everyone, even earning the respect of the family elders. Ding Shuang strode onto the stage and touched the testing stone with one hand. A few breaths later, the testing stone emitted a dazzling light unlike anything he had ever seen before.
“A Dou Zhe? Young Master Xiao Yan has actually reached the Dou Zhe level!” The entire Xiao family was shocked! A 16-year-old Dou Zhe! The youngest Dou Zhe in the family’s history of over a hundred years! Young Master Xiao Yan’s talent is terrifying!
Ding Shuang ignored the discussions among her clansmen in the training ground and left with Xiao Mei.
