“William Clark, why do I feel like you don’t seem tired at all?” When the two of them came back inside after building a snowman, Little Clark was a bit puzzled. Usually, when William Clark went out to buy a ten-pound bag of rice, he’d be panting from exhaustion.

William Clark thought about it himself and realized there really had been a big change. In novels, it’s always written that only people with good natural talent can cultivate faster. Now that he’d eaten the Marrow Cleansing Fruit, did that mean he had good natural talent?

Thinking of this, William Clark laughed to himself. He still didn’t know what that different world was all about, and here he was already letting his imagination run wild.

Who knows what the future holds? Just take it one step at a time. For now, he still needed to keep researching this new system he’d just gotten.

Back inside, William Clark lounged on the sofa, happily playing on his phone. Little Clark glanced over curiously but didn’t see anything: “William Clark, what are you doing?”

“Chatting,” William Clark kept staring at his phone.

“Let me see.” Little Clark grabbed at William Clark’s hand and happened to see that William Clark was sending a WeChat message. The chat window showed three words: Drift Bottle.

Little Clark said disdainfully, “William Clark, you’re actually playing with Drift Bottles!”

William Clark couldn’t be bothered to respond and picked up another drift bottle: Is there a cute chubby guy here?

The other person: Do you want a big brother?

William Clark: Are you a chubby guy?

The other person: Yeah.

William Clark: You’re a chubby guy and you’re not even trying to lose weight, and you still have the mood to pick up bottles here?!

The other person was completely dumbfounded! Are you freaking crazy!?

Meanwhile, William Clark happily checked his income record: Negative emotions from Samuel Foster, +50...

Nice, nice, quite a haul. William Clark was overjoyed—this thing racked up negative emotion points really fast! When it came to scaring people, William Clark might not have any clue, but when it came to making people resentful, he was an absolute expert!

He picked up another drift bottle. The other person immediately asked: “Can’t sleep, does anyone have a video to share?”

William Clark: “I do, a close-up of the chest.”

The other person: “Send it quick, good people will be safe all their lives!”

William Clark searched online for an X-ray of a chest and sent it over.

The other person: ???

“Negative emotions from James Thompson, +20...”

William Clark hugged the domestic phone he’d painfully spent a few hundred yuan on last year and played with it gleefully. Never mind what he could eventually buy or draw with this income—right now, William Clark was just really happy.

It was like his talent finally had a place to shine openly... if you could even call this a talent...

Ever since leaving the orphanage, William Clark had been attending the high school division of Luo City Foreign Language School for two years now. The reason he still didn’t have many friends might be because his personality was a bit unserious and he was prone to making people speechless...

“Negative emotions from Grace, +1...”

Heh, William Clark had to admit, this guy really held a grudge.

He usually didn’t think about how biting his words could be—he was just used to it...

Watching as he was about to reach his all-time high of 700 negative emotion points in one night, William Clark thought about how a Starfruit cost 1000 points. He was curious about what effect the fruit would have, but then he thought, he still didn’t know how to cultivate. He had no idea what this thing was even for, and he didn’t know if it had an expiration date or if it would go bad.

Right now, it seemed like the Marrow Cleansing Fruit was the most useful to him, which meant that the lottery was the most useful.

What exactly could you get from the lottery? Would there be secret manuals and stuff? Thinking of this, William Clark felt a bit fired up inside.

He’d already guessed that what he had was probably different from everyone else’s. After all, when he was searching for his origins, he’d looked up countless materials online, but no one had ever known what the thing around his neck was. It seemed to be a one-of-a-kind item.

And in those video news reports, some said abilities appeared suddenly, some said they appeared after being stimulated.

Some people had even filmed Taoists on mountaintops breathing in clouds and absorbing the essence of the sun and moon. From this, it seemed that everyone gained their abilities in different ways.

But it was clear that some people had already taken the lead. William Clark really wanted to know if his system would give him a cultivation method, so he could take his first step into a new world.

However, if it really was due to the revival of spiritual energy, then even if those people had a head start, it probably wasn’t by much. After all, the abnormal events had only started a few months ago.

Swallowing the Marrow Cleansing Fruit was only half a step forward. Without a cultivation method, it was all for nothing.

Once he’d collected 700 negative emotion points, William Clark sent Little Clark back to her room, then went all in and did seven draws in a row!

William Clark watched the wheel spin with a blank face as he got “Thank you for participating” five times in a row—his face was already pitch black.

Other people got abilities directly. The legends said that after being stimulated, you could awaken powerful abilities—how enviable was that?

Damn it, he was being stimulated too, but it was his own treasured system doing the stimulating! Other people got abilities after being stimulated, but all he got was “Thank you for participating.”