HELP! These Girls Wants To Kill Me-Chapter 251

"The place where we are right now is called the outer city." The woman gently steering the boat spoke in a low voice, introducing the city to the girl beside her.

"Mmm..." Yang Ze, who had come out of the hut, was sitting just beside the woman, curiously looking at his surroundings. Everywhere he saw, though there were numerous boats in the streams around him, almost all of them were standing still. Perhaps waiting for the rain to stop completely.

Only Yang Ze’s boat was steering forward in the direction of the mountain.

"Women from all kinds of lives gather in this place. As long as one has enough money and is not on the kingdom’s blacklist, one can live here as long as one wants."

"Everything below the mountain." Speaking till here, she pointed her finger around her, moving in a circular direction, giving Yang Ze a rough idea about the size of the outer city. "Everything below and around the mountain that is inside the walls comes under the outer city."

"The mountain, however..." The woman’s voice trembled for a moment as she took a deep breath. "Everything on the mountain is a part of the Inner City."

"I see." Yang Ze simply gave her a nod before asking a simple question.

"What’s the difference between them?" From the looks of it, the so-called outer city he was seeing currently was more prosperous than Yuyang City. And from his current position, he could clearly see the inner city, but didn’t see any difference other than it being on the mountain and having large wooden bridges connecting the mountains with each other.

"The difference is pretty stark." The woman was expecting this question. God knows how many times she had repeated this sentence.

"Inner circle is a part of the Imperial Palace."

"You can say that the mountain is the Imperial Palace. Every single person living there belongs to the royal family."

"HUH!?" Yang Ze’s eyes narrowed into slits as he couldn’t help but take another look at the mountains in front of him. For a moment, even he was baffled by the ridiculous words he just heard.

The mountain in front of him had almost hundreds, if not thousands buildings neatly arranged. It was almost three times the size of Yuyang City.

And for it all to be a part of the royal family!?

Yang Ze’s mind couldn’t comprehend the ridiculousness of the situation.

"Do you mean they are all royals?" He couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow, wondering if this woman was exaggerating. After all, what kind of royal family would have so many members?

"Yes and no." The woman couldn’t help but let out a smile when she heard the young girl’s surprised voice.

"They are more like... how do you say it..." The woman thought the suitable word before speaking out.

"Servants."

"Yes... That’s what they all are."

"They all work for the royal family. And as long as they are alive, they will always be a part of the royal family."

"I see..." Yang Ze couldn’t help but nod in response, finally having some basic understanding of the imperial city.

"If you..." The woman wanted to say something but stopped mid-way, not daring to complete her sentence.

"What is it?" Yang Ze’s curiosity was piqued. He had a feeling that the woman wanted to tell him something important, but was afraid of speaking out loud. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

"You..." The woman took a quick glance around and, after making sure that no one else was present there except the two of them, spoke in a muffled voice.

"If you are thinking about joining the Royal family, then I suggest you give up."

"Huh!?" Her words left Yang Ze stunned, who couldn’t help but cast a confused glance, wondering what she meant by those words.

As if sensing his confusion, the woman took a sharp breath, glanced around her once again and whispered in his ear.

"I have heard rumours that joining the royal family is like throwing your life away."

"There are also rumours that they use human sacrifices and carry on vile acts against men and children."

"Gulp." Listening to her words, Yang Ze couldn’t help but swallow a mouthful of saliva. The more he heard about the royal family, the more he felt like he was walking in a devil’s trap. One mistake and his fate would be miserable, especially if someone discovers the fact that he is, in fact, a man and has such a heaven-defying physique.

But thinking about his illusion and how he was at the peak of Vein expansion, he couldn’t help but puff his chest. With his set of skills, he was perhaps the strongest person in this entire Imperial city.

After all, only the Major Sects have people in the realm of Core Condensation and above.

"I will keep it in mind." Yang Ze neither agreed nor disagreed with her. He merely gave her a half-hearted answer. As for what he was going to do... he needed to come up with a suitable plan.

"Good." The woman let out a mouthful of turbid air as she focused back on steering the boat, as for whether the young girl beside her took her suggestion seriously or not... she could only leave it to fate.

After this brief exchange of theirs, the boat plunged into an eerie silence. Though the woman constantly introduced Yang Ze to the numerous things around them, he could feel that the previous enthusiasm she had when she first received the gold had greatly diminished.

She then took the boat around for a long time, introducing Yang Ze to the entire outer city.

It wasn’t until almost two hours passed that the boat finally stopped at the very edge of the mountain, just in front of a huge wooden mechanism.

"We are here." Taking one last look at the young lass, the woman couldn’t help but reach out to touch her head gently as she rubbed it for a moment before coming back to her senses.

"I..." with a wry smile, the woman just turned around and left the place, leaving behind the figure of a petite girl who simply stood there in silence with a visible frustration on her face.

"Forget it." After looking at the departing boat that soon disappeared under the gentle rain, Yang Ze shook his head before focusing on the giant wooden mechanism in front of him.

At a glance, it looked like a giant wooden wheel that people back on earth used to grind their grains.

But here, not only was the size of the wheel absolutely huge, but it also had large flat platforms attached to it.

Using the force of the water streams, it constantly rotated, with its platform working as modern ’lifts’, letting people go up effortlessly.

"Wow." This was the first time Yang Ze saw the technology of this world. Though it was simple and crude, it did the job perfectly. Honestly speaking, he was even a bit surprised, wondering who came up with such a thought in this world of cultivation where people could easily climb a mountain.

"Your token, please." Before he knew it, Yang Ze was already standing in front of the wheel with a guard stopping him in his tracks.

Yang Ze didn’t say a word but simply took out his badge.

The woman took a quick glance at it before letting him go, stopping the women behind him and taking money from those with weekly and monthly passes.

"Well... at least it is convenient." Yang Ze didn’t think too much about it and simply hopped on the platform.

He watched as the outer city underneath him disappeared in fog as he finally reached his destination...

The inner city.

And the moment Yang Ze stepped on the mountain, the long-lost system announcement popped in front of him.

[Special Location Detected.]

[Do you want to use your sign-in?]

"HUH!?" Yang Ze didn’t even have time to pay attention to his surroundings. At the moment, his eyes were stuck on the row of text that popped in front of him.

"This... this..." Yang Ze’s breathing almost stopped, and his eyes widened in surprise. God knows how long it’s been since he saw this familiar screen.

For a moment, his heart almost leapt out of his chest in excitement as his lips curled up in a smile.

But this happiness of his didn’t last long before he realised the rewards he had gotten from this damned thing.

His physique... the upgrade version of his physique that brought him even more trouble, and then the ’eternal youth’... Each one was more baffling than the other.

For a moment, Yang Ze’s figure froze, and his eyes stared at the screen, wondering if he should use his sign-in or not.

Every time he used it, he would get something ridiculous.

But at the same time, he couldn’t just ignore it. The feeling of using a special sign-in was akin to opening blind boxes in the game... even if he didn’t know the reward, just the feeling was extremely thrilling and addictive.

"Damn it... what do I have to lose?"

"At most, I will just get another function on my physique."

Gritting his teeth, Yang Ze swiftly made a decision. God knows when he would get another chance to use his special sign-in. And what if he got something truly precious?

The more he thought about that, the greater the itch in his heart got. In the end, he simply gritted his teeth and spoke in a soft, feeble voice.

"Sign in."

The moment Yang Ze used his sign-in, the screen in front of him trembled violently, as if it was going to shatter the next moment.

"What the..." Before Yang Ze even had time to react, the screen in front of him blurred as a new row of text appeared.

[Congratulations on successful sign-in]

[The system will upgrade now.]

"....."

"....."

"HUUUH!?" Yang Ze almost exclaimed out loud. It took a moment for him to register what just happened, and in the very next moment, his breathing hastened.

He knew just how powerful his system was.

He could use it daily to get powerful talents and treasures.

And now that he found out it was going to upgrade... he couldn’t help but take in a sharp breath.

Suppressing the raging emotions in his heart, he focused on the next row of text in front of him that appeared out of thin air.

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[Upgrade successful.]

[Sign-in function removed.]

[Now you can directly copy a talent.]

[The copied talent could be upgraded to any rank you wish.]

[Daily sign-in limit has been removed, and the cooldown is now based on the upgrade function.]

[The lowest grade of any talent will be Gold.]

[Upgrading to Gold Rank requires a month’s cooldown.]

[Upgrading to Red Rank requires six months’ cooldown.]

[Supreme Dao Body has acquired the trait, ’favourable’.]

[Those in the same realm or lower realm than you will now feel a sense of goodwill towards you.]

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"....."

"....."

"WHAT THE HELL?"

It took a moment for Yang Ze to react, and the moment he saw the dense row of text in front of him, he almost screamed at the top of his lungs.

The changes were massive... beyond anything that he had expected.

When he used this special sign-in, he was expecting something like a treasure, a cultivation technique, a martial skill or just an addition to his supreme dao physique.

But who would have thought that it would upgrade his cheat instead?

And when he saw that the daily sign-in was removed, he almost fainted in anger.

But after reading the entire row of text, he couldn’t help but draw in a sharp breath.

"This... this..." Yang Ze felt his throat dry as he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, still in disbelief over what he was seeing.

It took a moment for him to come back to his senses as he walked for a while and sat under a tree, reading the row of text again and again.

Even though he had lost his daily sign-in function, he had gained a much more practical ability.

’Every talent that he copies would automatically be promoted to golden rank.’

He knew better than anyone just how difficult it was to get a golden talent.

To get a gold talent, he needed to find someone with a Purple talent, and that was akin to finding a needle in a haystack. Other than the few women like Cang Yue, Lin Yue and Xiao Ruolan, he hadn’t met a single person with a purple talent.

Forget about purple talent; the number of people with blue talent could be counted on his fingers.

If he were to keep on searching, god knows just how long it was going to take him to find someone with a purple talent, much less gold.

As for the monthly limit of one, he didn’t think too much about it. After all, he normally doesn’t use his daily sign-in. The last time he used his sign-in function was almost two weeks ago.

Instead of wandering around aimlessly and hoping to find a suitable talent to sign in, it was much better to get a golden talent.

And as for how heaven-defying the golden talents were... he knew better than anyone.

Taking a deep breath, Yang Ze calmed the turmoil in his heart as he focused on the panel in front of him before muttering to himself in a low voice.

"Can I use it to upgrade my existing talents?" The moment this thought came to his mind, a screen popped in front of him, answering this question of his...