destiny eternal calamity

Located in the eastern suburbs of the capital, at the Li family residence.

Li Wei wore a white headscarf and a white robe and mourning clothes from head to toe.

The huge Li family mansion was filled with white lanterns, and the servants were all dressed in white robes, creating a somber atmosphere throughout the entire mansion.

This was all because Li Wei's father, Li Anguo, the head of the Li family, had died.

When Li's father's term as an official was coming to an end, he was on his way back to the capital to report on his duties when he was unfortunately attacked by a powerful demon from the Spirit Bridge Realm. He died at the hands of the demon while still in his prime.

When this news reached the capital, the Li family's world collapsed!

Upon hearing this devastating news, Li Wei suffered a seizure and fell into a coma, remaining unconscious for three whole days.

When he woke up, his mind was filled with countless bizarre and fantastical memories.

It turns out that his previous life was also named Li Wei, and he came from the beautiful blue planet. This time, he encountered a great change, and his mind was greatly shaken, which is why he awakened his innate wisdom.

Li Wei knelt on the prayer mat, looking at his father's memorial tablet in the ancestral hall. After reflecting on his current situation from the perspective of his previous life, he sighed softly.

Li Wei lost his mother to illness when he was young, and his own health has always been poor. In this extraordinary world that reveres martial arts above all else, he has been unable to even reach the most basic level of Body Tempering.

Fortunately, Li Wei's father was no ordinary man; he went out to join the army when Li Wei was young and earned considerable military merits.

Later, Li's father retired from the army and, based on his military merits, obtained a minor official position in the Ministry of Revenue in the capital. With the recommendation of a high-ranking official, he got the opportunity to go out and gain experience.

Originally, once his three-year term was up and he returned to the capital, Li's father could at least have entered one of the Six Ministries and become a powerful fifth-rank official.

Now it's all over.

The Li family mansion located in the eastern suburbs of the capital, along with the twenty or so servants of the Li family, the fourteen or fifteen shops under the Li family's name, some valuable old items in the warehouse whose value is inconvenient to directly quantify, and the three thousand seven hundred taels of silver in the mansion's account, constitute the family fortune left to Li Wei by his father after half a lifetime of hard work.

However, Li Wei may not be able to keep this family fortune.

It's because Li Wei's uncles and aunts are no pushovers.

After Li's father's accident, Li Wei's uncles and aunts, who he rarely interacted with, all set off with their families to the Li family mansion in the capital to attend the funeral. They would all arrive at the mansion in less than two days.

At that time, the once quiet Li family mansion will definitely be bustling with activity!

Now that Li's father is gone, and Li Wei can no longer pursue the path of martial arts.

In this world where martial arts are highly revered, those who cannot follow the path of martial arts are essentially no different from useless people. Moreover, the family fortune left by Li's father is not only not a good thing for Li Wei, who has lost his backing, but will also bring him a lot of trouble.

These uncles and aunts had all received some favors from Li's father, more or less.

When Li's father was still alive, they were at least outwardly polite to Li Wei. But now that Li's father is dead, all that's left is Li Wei, who has no martial arts skills. Will these uncles and aunts still be as polite as before?

Now, Li Wei has the experience of navigating society in his previous life, so he is naturally not as simple and naive as before.

From the fact that his uncles and aunts brought their families to the capital for the funeral, Li Wei could tell that these poor relatives had more than just the intention of attending the funeral; they also wanted to swallow up the family property that Li's father had left him.

"Ugh."

After roughly understanding the current situation, Li Wei sighed softly.

His current situation is not good, and all of this is because in this dynasty world where martial arts are supreme, he cannot cultivate martial arts.

Before long, the old steward, at Li Wei's instruction, went to the accounting office and retrieved two ledgers.

One is the publicly available account book, which lists all of the Li family's publicly disclosed assets.

The other book was a private ledger, which recorded some of the Li family's shady businesses, such as gambling dens.

After reviewing the two account books, Li Wei felt a strange mix of emotions towards his deceased father.

An official of less than the fifth rank was able to amass such a fortune.

For a moment, Li Wei didn't know whether to say that his father was good at managing money or that he was really good at accumulating wealth.

Just now.

A sudden "ding" sounded in Li Wei's mind.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have successfully bound yourself to the 'Get Stronger by Spending Money' system! As long as you spend more money, all difficulties will disappear!]

A system where you can become stronger by spending real money?

After hearing the voice in his mind, Li Wei's expression turned somewhat strange.

Li Wei was extremely familiar with this system, because it was the auxiliary game system he had created in his previous life when he was a corporate slave, working overtime to tailor it specifically for whales who spent a lot of money on private servers.

Its function is also very simple. As the name suggests, as long as you recharge and spend enough money, you can sweep away everything and no difficulty will be a problem. It's very simple and straightforward!

next moment.

A semi-transparent panel appeared before Li Wei's eyes:

[Host: Li Wei]

Age: 18

[Qualification: Dull-witted]

[Technique: None]

[Learnable Techniques: Mountain-Shattering Thunder Hand + (Tier 1 Technique)]

Martial Arts Cultivation: Not Yet Entered

[Recharge Points: 0 (One tael of silver can be exchanged for 1 recharge point)]

[Note: Recharge points can be used to learn cultivation techniques, upgrade technique levels, and advance technique stages...]

The Mountain-Shattering Thunder Hand was a good external martial arts technique that Li Wei's father selected from the army based on his military achievements during his training.

Its grade is a first-order cultivation technique, and the first-order cultivation techniques circulating in the market are worth at least two thousand taels of silver.

The martial arts in this world have nine realms: Body Tempering, Meridian Opening, Qi Sea, Spirit Bridge, Divine Treasury, Dharma Form, Destiny, Void Penetration, and Eternal Calamity.

The cultivation techniques are also divided into nine levels, with the first level being the lowest, where cultivators can only break through to the Body Tempering stage; the ninth level is the highest, where cultivators can break through to the Eternal Tribulation realm. These are all secrets kept by various major lineages.

To embark on the path of martial arts, one must first pass the first hurdle: body tempering.

Body tempering requires strengthening muscles and bones, opening up the dantian, and stimulating qi and blood through medicinal baths and the essence of ferocious beasts. Once a breakthrough is achieved, strength can reach a thousand jin!

Because of his frail health, Li Wei was never able to complete even the first step of strengthening his muscles and bones.

but.

This might have been a problem before.

But now that it's been credited to my account, everything is fine!

Li Wei doesn't care if you grit your teeth and persevere in strengthening your muscles and bones and opening up your dantian; he just spends money to add skill points and that's it!

The cultivation levels of ordinary people are achieved through cultivation, resulting in a superficial realm; but his realm is the result of real system-funded points, solid and deeply rooted!

"Uncle Xu, come with me to the storeroom!"

Uncle Xu was the old steward of the mansion. He had been in the house longer than Li Wei and had always been conscientious in his duties. Li Wei respected this elder very much.

The two soon arrived at the storeroom where many old items from the mansion were stored. There were two large locks on the storeroom door, and the keys were kept by Li Wei and Uncle Xu respectively.

Although Uncle Xu didn't know what the young master was going to do, since Li's father was dead, the young master would be in charge of the family from now on. As a servant, Uncle Xu should just listen to the young master.

The two then opened the storeroom.

Uncle Xu stood guard at the door, while Li Wei went inside to tour the sizable warehouse.