Level Up in Martial World

Chapter 240: Betting with Life

In a futuristic room adorned with countless mirrors showcasing the lives of many people in their day-to-day activities, like a movie. The only difference was that a typical movie would last at most four hours, while this setup displayed everything they did with minute details.

Two galactic beings were casually seated, monitoring all these occurrences.

"This... He died," the galactic being exclaimed with shock, abruptly standing up.

"What happened?" The other galactic being, seeing the shocked expression, also stood up and looked at the screen where the first one was observing, equally astonished.

"Didn't we check his intelligence before we reincarnated him? How did he die so soon?" he asked, frozen in place upon seeing Lu Zhen's lifeless body on the screen.

"I don't know. He was supposed to have the illusion that he wasn't the protagonist and become a villain instead. We even imprinted this in his head. How did this happen? Even I am shocked."

"Logically, he should have declined Elv's offer after being given such a suspicious proposition..."

"Just what happened to him?"

The two were confused, but they casually shrugged after thinking for some time.

"He can't escape the system anyway; even if he wants to die, he can't die…"

Hahahaha!

The two laughed off casually and pressed a red button.

Bang!

The moment they pressed the button, an alarm resounded throughout the room.

And a red beam passed through the unknown dimension and reached the body of Lu Zhen.

The moment it did, the red light transferred to Lu Zhen's body, focusing on the broken little Lu Zhen with a hole that flickered with red light as well.

Within a second, the flickering red light stopped entirely and slowly started to dim.

After the flickering red light dimmed entirely, the red light that passed through the dimension entered the soul of Lu Zhen, the little Lu Zhen who was palm sized.

The moment it did, the small hole in its chest slowly recovered in a moment's time, and it was entirely back to normal again.

While the red light inside the soul of Lu Zhen grew dimmer and dimmer.

However, it didn't stop with healing the soul only; the remaining red light shone within a bright red light covering the entire soul of Lu Zhen.

As time passed, the little Lu Zhen grew bigger and bigger, and the shine of the red light became smaller.

By the time it became so small that it disappeared, the palm-sized soul of Lu Zhen had grown to the length of an entire arm in a blink of an eye. After the red light disappeared, the soul of Lu Zhen opened its eyes.

The moment it did, Lu Zhen's physical body's heart started to pump, and his brain started to function normally again like an engine. His body started to warm up.

His consciousness gradually returned to him.

Lu Zhen slowly opened his crimson eyes and looked around in confusion.

"Who am I?"

The soul deep inside Lu Zhen's body again flickered with a blinding blue light.

Soon, the memories returned to him.

Lu Zhen sat down in a meditative position and absorbed all the memories.

After integrating the memories, he opened his crimson eyes with a satisfied expression on his face.

While internally smirking.

"Looks like my assumption was correct…" Lu Zhen thought to himself.

He had staked his entire life on this!

And it seemed to be true!

"A higher being is observing me…" he cursed internally as he looked around the place, feeling that something was missing inside of him.

Suddenly, he spotted a blue ball.

"Could it be?" Lu Zhen's eyes widened as he tried to summon his system with a thought, but no prompt came to him.

However, this didn't dishearten him. Instead, he felt satisfied, though externally he looked rather pitiful with a sad expression on his face.

"How could my, cheat, come out of my body?" Lu Zhen shouted out loud with a miserable expression.

He quickly walked up to the ball and looked at it with his crimson gaze.

"Sigh, looks like I underestimated the power of that. I thought I could get through that without a problem, but I didn't know how wrong I was." Lu Zhen muttered with a bitter expression as he wrapped the ball in a piece of cloth and exited the bamboo temple.

"I won't leave until I can get this system." he cursed and walked through the forest. While the system abilities like the skills with adaptation and devour didn't work for him, he still had the plant Qi and his raw body strength.

Surprisingly, Lu Zhen felt like he had improved his strength instead of decreasing.

Everything was much clearer to him, as if he could feel the entire world in its true form. While there wasn't an improvement in both his physical and mental status, somehow Lu Zhen felt like he was stronger.

It was as if his entire life form had levelled up to another stage, allowing him to perceive everything in its true state.

Lu Zhen observed a giant 20-feet bear casually stepping on a giant deer, ready to devour its prey. However, the scene abruptly changed as the bear's cry of pain echoed through the forest, causing it to collapse.

Lu Zhen withdrew his crimson gaze, and instantly, the bear started to move again, waking up from its frozen state and looking around in confusion. To its surprise, it saw a tiny, hairless monkey standing before it.

Upon seeing Lu Zhen, the bear bowed towards him with reverence, repeating the gesture at least nine times. Lu Zhen regarded this scene with a peculiar gaze before continuing on his way.

As Lu Zhen ventured farther into the distance, the bear, now relieved, sighed and licked its tongue, only to find its prey had vanished. Roaring in frustration, the bear cried out in anger and followed the deer's scent, determined to track it down.

However the horror in it's intelligent eyes were still evident even after Lu Zhen left.