Age 1: Your birth brings joy to the Zhang family. The Zhang family enjoys longevity, and every child is seen as the hope for the family's future. However, your parents are worried; they discover you are physically weak and that the family bloodline is thin, fearing you might not live past ten years.】

【Age 3: The Zhang family carries a heavy mission. Even as a child, you are forced by the elders to learn various skills. At this time, your shortcomings gradually surface; you realize your progress is much slower than your peers, feeling the pain of being at the bottom. You begin to feel lost and think of giving up.】

【Age 6: Unfortunately, tragedy strikes; you lose your last family - your parents - during a mission. The elders in the family remain tight-lipped about it, as if it is an unspeakable secret. With no family to care for you, you hear more taunts around you. You attempt to change this situation, but it is far from easy.】

【Age 18: After twelve years of ridicule and mockery, your skin has grown thick as a city wall. You embarrassingly follow Zhang Haike and his sister to Fang Ye. Halfway, you are knocked out by a bandit's sleeping potion, and after being rescued, you stumble along, obediently guarding the entrance to a ruin named Zhangjiabao, not even daring to look inside.】

【Age 20: You no longer boast about the experience of going out with the new clan leader because fewer and fewer Zhang family members remain around you. Even Zhang Nian, who mocks you, has left, leaving you with no one to confide in. You feel immense loneliness and remember the clan leader entering the Zhang family's ancient building. You want to follow him but can't find him.】

【Age 35: You travel alone, falling in love with a girl and marrying her. During this time, you feel as if everything in the past fades away, and even the Zhang family’s sense of mission diminishes with the lifting of the heavenly mandate.】

【Age 100: Zhang family members have long lives. After experiencing the death of your loved ones multiple times, you awaken to the realization that the Zhang family's longevity is a curse! You do not deserve to enjoy the beauty of the world.】

【Age 120: You hear that the clan members have gathered in Nileis and decide to return to the Zhang family's embrace. But upon arrival, you find all your family members dead in a massacre. When you see the executioner Zhang Nian, you want to avenge your clan members, but your skills remain pathetic. Zhang Nian does not kill you because you pose no threat at all. He glances at you with the same disdain as during the Fang Ye event a hundred years ago, calling you a waste and a disgrace to the Zhang family.】

【In the following days, you wander around Nileis City like a ghost. You constantly think about revenge but cannot even find a weapon...

Feeling frustrated upon reading this text, Zhang Qiming thinks to himself, this is going to be my life? This experience is worse than being born in a lowly place and spending my life screwing in screws!

As he reflects, Zhang Qiming notices the text flicker a few times, and it continues:

【The humiliation of a lifetime leads you to enlightenment. As a direct descendant of the family, you understand your mission and decide to fight against the world like the clan leader!】

【If the mountain doesn’t come to you, you will go to the mountain!】

【Reverse System Task Released!】

【Make any member of the small team notice you differently.】

【Reward: Purified Qilin Bloodline】

Zhang Qiming's heart races upon seeing this task, which should have been released a hundred years later. He suddenly realizes: it's now a hundred years in the past! Did my crossing change the original timeline?

Just as Zhang Qiming contemplates this, Zhang Haixing, part of the small team, suddenly exclaims, “Ah! Something's wrong! Everyone, be alert!”

As Zhang Haike, the brother of Zhang Haixing, becomes immediately vigilant, Zhang Haixing quickly urges everyone to relax, feeling a bit embarrassed. "It's nothing! Don’t panic! I just... I just had a bug crawl on me."

She points at a hideous green bug crawling on her shoulder, its body full of sharp spikes, looking extremely disgusting.

“Tch, you’re making a fuss over just a bug?” Zhang Jiuri, the tough guy, remarks, while Zhang Haixing glares at him. Even Zhang Nian murmurs, "Are you alright?"

Zhang Haike looks reproachfully at Zhang Haixing, saying, “This shouldn’t happen again. Fang Ye is already perilous enough, and Zhangjiabao is just ahead; we mustn’t have any more mishaps.”

Zhangjiabao, also called "Jiufang City," is their destination for this expedition, rumored to have once been a stronghold for the Zhang family, filled with dangerous traps but also treasure.

“I... I didn’t mean to!” Zhang Haixing says, feeling wronged. After all, she is a girl, and even her brother is scolding her.

“Let’s move,” Zhang Haike orders. The team continues forward.

However, as they walk through the forest, they frequently encounter those ugly, hanging bugs. This makes Zhang Haixing feel extremely disgusted; though the bugs are not aggressive, being a girl, she naturally has an aversion to such things.

Unknowingly, she falls behind. Just then, Zhang Qiming calls out to her, “Hey!”

“What?” Zhang Haixing turns around, glaring.

To catch up with the small team, Zhang Qiming is using all his strength. He breathlessly says, “Here... take this.”

Zhang Haixing looks at the herbs in Zhang Qiming's hand in surprise. “What is this?”

Zhang Haixing sniffs the herbs; they smell somewhat like mugwort but have an unfamiliar triangular leaf shape.

“I just picked this. I noticed that those green bugs avoid this herb, so I thought if you tied it to your shoulder, you wouldn’t have to awkwardly dodge the bugs.”

To demonstrate, Zhang Qiming awkwardly sticks the herbs on his head and deliberately approaches a green bug.

At that moment, something magical happens—the green bug actually turns away and avoids him!

Zhang Haixing’s eyes light up; this is a timely help! Zhang Qiming’s discovery has solved a big problem for her. “How did you find this out?”

Zhang Haixing, intrigued, takes the herbs. It’s the first time she smiles at someone other than her brother.

Zhang Qiming feels a bit embarrassed and stumbles over his words. “I... I was afraid of dying and asked the elders about survival skills in Fang Ye. They said that within seven steps of a poisonous creature, there must be an antidote. I figured this ugly bug counts as a poisonous creature, so I paid attention and discovered that this herb could drive it away. I brought it for you.”

“Afraid of dying?” Zhang Haixing is a bit surprised. The Zhang family members carry a mission and have long since dismissed the concept of life and death.

“Even though I’m afraid, I remembered what the elders said. It seems you’re not completely useless! Keep it up; I owe you one for this herb,” she says.

Just as Zhang Haixing finishes speaking, the system's voice suddenly appears in Zhang Qiming's ear.

【You have gained Zhang Haixing's recognition; task completed!】

【Reward "Purified Qilin Bloodline" has been issued!】

At that moment, Zhang Qiming's heart beats wildly, and he hears that "thump" sound. Then, a power like a volcano erupting surges from his bloodline!