Ding… unlocking host's consciousness… integrity stable… divine soul compatible…
The moment Zhang Wei's eyelids fluttered open, a sharp wave of dizziness slapped his senses like a frying pan to the face. His vision blurred, then cleared to reveal… blood.
Everywhere.
Walls. Ceiling. Floor. Furniture. Even the poor jade figurine he kept from his childhood in the corner had a red splotch dripping down its face like tears.
"WHAT THE...?!" Zhang Wei yelped, jolting up from his bed.
Only to realize, he was stark naked.
His eyes widened like saucers as he looked down at his completely exposed body. He instinctively reached for something anything to cover himself but all he found was the blood-soaked bedsheet clinging to his side like an awkward ex trying to rekindle romance.
"System! SYSTEM! WHO THE HELL GOT SLAUGHTERED IN MY ROOM?!" Zhang Wei shouted, scrambling like a panicked crab.
The System's voice came with an eerie calm, "Host, it was you."
Zhang Wei's jaw dropped. "ME?!"
"Yes. You."
He turned pale. "Was I assassinated by twenty ninjas and an elite hit squad? Was there a cult sacrifice here?"
System sighed dramatically. "Host, it was due to the divine bloodline pill and sage legacy. A process you agreed to. Your entire body was... let's say... remodeled. Clothes didn't survive the transformation. Congratulations."
Zhang Wei's meme face activated the classic squinty-eyed, confused manhua expression of disbelief.
"Wait… YOU said my clothes where destoyed making me naked and you didnt replaced them?! Are you some pervert System?! HUH?!"
System responded with a digital sigh and a similar Chinese meme face emoji: (⊙︿⊙)
"Pervert? ME?! Host, this is a righteous, pure, and extremely handsome system! I'm not like those scandalous LGBTQ+ alignment-type systems from dimension 86!"
Zhang Wei, now with narrowed eyes and an expression that screamed "Disgusted Emperor Meme," hissed, "So you were watching me naked all the time?!"
"Bleeeghhh! Don't flatter yourself, Host! Your body before remodeling looked like a steamed bun that got stepped on by a cow. Even my core circuits crashed looking at it."
Zhang Wei gasped. "You… You really are toxic!"
"I'm just honest."
He pouted. "Then don't look at me now either!"
"Too late. Already burned into my core memory… Unfortunately."
"I hate you."
"Aww, host. Don't be mad. Want to see the transformation replay?"
"…You recorded that?!"
"Of course. I'm always on record. It's one of my core functions."
"YOU STALKING PERVERT! What if I was watching… educational content?!" Zhang Wei exclaimed dramatically, covering his body with a curtain like a Victorian maiden.
"I auto-skip unnecessary footage unless it involves life-threatening stupidity which in your case, is frequent."
Zhang Wei gave a long sigh like an old monk disappointed in humanity. "Just… show me the damn replay."
Suddenly, a holographic screen materialized in front of him. The room dimmed, and Zhang Wei began to watch a nightmare he didn't know he lived through.
His eyes widened as he saw himself twitching violently, every vein on his head bulging like inflated snakes ready to explode. His face turned crimson, sweat poured like a waterfall, and the system constantly channeled energies into his divine consciousness to prevent brain damage.
Then came the real horror.
The pill.
The screen flickered as divine light exploded from his core, so intense it turned the entire screen white for a moment.
Zhang Wei saw how the moment the pill burst in his qi center, it released enough energy to nuke a Building. His room should have been vaporized but instead, a golden sphere covered the entire house. It blocked the energy, suppressed the signature, and muffled the spiritual shockwave that could have elevated a normal cultivator to Golden Core Realm in a single breath.
His eyes trembled as he saw his muscles melt off his body, blood vessels popping like sausages on a hot stove. Bones snapped like dry twigs, turned to dust, and vanished. Organs disappeared one by one until only his heart and brain were protected in a floating ball of light.
If not for the System…
"I would've been brain dead. Or worse. I might have become one of those main characters in romance novels who have amnesia and act like puppies around every girl," Zhang Wei muttered, horrified.
He continued watching. The System, with mechanical precision, rebuilt his entire body. Bones harder than diamonds, muscles dense as volcanic steel, qi vessels wide enough to contain rivers of spiritual energy. And then… a face. His new face. It wasn't the same Zhang Wei. It was an evolved, impossibly handsome, alpha-dominant, ultimate peak manhua male kind of face.
Zhang Wei sat there silently for a long moment.
Then slowly got up, then reaches for a mirror and see his new handsome face which was had some similar facial features as of his but it was new Sigma Male type, Like those of the worthy heroes and MCs from the manhuas, it was a face more than enough to be listed as the most handsome face in the world not like his old one which was like a steamed bun that got stepped on by a cow. But the new face was recognizable that it was none other than Zhang Wei itself.
Then he turned toward the system,
And gave a deep, respectful bow.
"Thank you, System. I owe you my life. My sanity. My body… and My Handsome Face."
System blushed. "H-Host… Don't be like this. You're making me flustered…"
"System blushes.exe has stopped working," it added awkwardly, trying to hide a glitchy emoji.
Zhang Wei chuckled, genuinely grateful now. "Alright, System. Jokes aside. Show me my Attribute Panel."
System cleared its metaphorical throat.
Ding! Loading Attribute Panel…
A golden screen rose before him, divine runes glowing at its edges, values updating in real-time. His pupils shrank.
"What… the… hell?!"