Shock value is the foundation of his existence.

Every time he shows off, he collects a wave of shock and conveniently gains some extra merit points.

This is the system function that matches his temperament the best.

It's just that as his power increased, the merit points needed became more and more enormous.

Every time he put effort into showing off, the people around him only gave him tens to hundreds of billions of merit points, which gradually became just a drop in the bucket.

Now that he's leveled up the "plane," it's foreseeable that there will be a bunch of people stronger than him.

By then, he could harvest a ton of merit points through shock value again.

Just the thought of it makes him feel great!

However, the next words from the system struck like a bolt from the blue.

"The shock value function will be canceled."

"What?"

Brother Cheng exploded on the spot.

"What did you say?"

"How could you cancel a function like shock value that's perfect for showing off? What's your game plan?"

"Are you out of your mind?"

"Are you even qualified to be a system? Isn't it about what the host needs?"

"I'm giving your service a 0-star review!"

"I'm not upgrading, I refuse to upgrade!"

In Brother Cheng's eyes, the system was just a tool.

He had no realization that the system was a father figure, so he just berated the system like it was nothing.

And yet, the system didn't blow a fuse.

There were no threats like "If the host doesn't cooperate, we'll find someone else," or "The host will drop dead on the spot."

It seemed it had no way to deal with him and could only endure his antics.

After a long silence, the system continued without any emotion: "The shock value function will be upgraded to a reputation value function."

"What's reputation value?"

"Once the upgrade is complete, the host will naturally come to know."

The system was truly helpless.

Think back to the first task it assigned to Brother Cheng—to unify the Three Realms.

But Brother Cheng didn't take it seriously at all.

He just cared about showing off everywhere.

When there was no one to show off to, he would probably just lie down and be too lazy to move a muscle.

He had no intention of unifying any realm.

Doing something like that was too tiring, and what could he possibly gain?

In his eyes, system tasks were nothing more than farts—he'd complete them if he wanted, or ignore them if he didn't.

The only stage he ever completed was inadvertently unifying the Thousand Spirit Domain in the lower realm years ago.

Although he later indirectly unified the Demon Realm, he barely completed a tenth of the progress needed to unify the Immortal Realm, and didn't achieve any significant feats.

The system had initially introduced the shock value system with great fanfare, hoping to motivate him to conquer and subdue everything in sight.

Yet, he only used it to show off, with no ambition or desire for conquest.

At this rate, unifying the Three Realms was unattainable—not in this lifetime.

Even if Brother Cheng truly became invincible in the world, it would all be for nothing.

So this time, the system could only switch to a reputation value system to stimulate his motivation once again.

Brother Cheng had no idea about the system's "well-meaning intentions."

He was already thinking about something else.

"Will this upgrade take a long time again?"

"Not long," the system replied succinctly.

Brother Cheng didn't believe it; in the eyes of the system, even a hundred billion years might be short.

"Give me a straight answer, how long exactly? Don't tell me another billion years!"

Truth be told, a billion years isn't all that long for those at the Quasi-Emperor level or above.

Besides, Brother Cheng didn't have any urgent matters to deal with right now.

He was just worried it would delay his ability to show off.

"Ten million years."

Pff!

"Is that also considered 'not long'?"

Brother Cheng roared on the spot.

"Good thing I asked ahead of time; otherwise, who knows how another ten million years might've gone by while I was asleep, you pitfall system!"

"You seem to be all about digging pits to trap me!"

"Why does the upgrade take so long? Can't it just go ding and be done? I'm seriously suspecting you're taking this chance to slack off and rest!"

The system remained silent, too lazy to respond to this nonsense.

In the end, Sect Leader Jiang chose to go through the upgrade.

There was no other choice; without upgrading the system, he wouldn't be able to show off smoothly in the True Ice Realm.

So the system promptly went dark, beginning the reboot.

At the same time, Sect Leader Jiang himself automatically fell into slumber.

To him, this didn't even count as a dream.

When he woke up, the system was already upgraded.

He eagerly opened the system panel, and all the previous skills were still there, without any changes.

Except the earliest points that had become merit points were now automatically converted to Immortal Yuan Points—it was just the same old soup in a different bowl.

10 billion merit points equaled 1 Immortal Yuan Point.

His over 5630 billion merit points turned into 563 Immortal Yuan Points. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

The system mall had a slew of new treasures.

Tier Ten Immortal Artifacts and Eleventh Grade Immortal Pills were prominently listed, though they didn't mean much to Brother Cheng now.

Because they were too expensive.

Aside from that, there was also a whole new series of heavenly and earthly treasures and various materials.

He discovered that this system update wasn't just for the True Ice Realm.

It probably included three thousand different worlds.

Judging by the variety of new materials and cultivation and martial techniques, it seemed to include all sorts of attributes, with the ice attribute being just a small category.

After a careful look around, Brother Cheng finally turned his attention to the all-important "reputation value function."

Opening the panel for this function, he found a series of instructions.

Reputation is a very broad concept, but the system still thoughtfully provided score estimates for various external situations.

The recognition, admiration, shock, worship, and submission from those around the host could all contribute different amounts of reputation value.

Among these, submission provided the highest reputation value.

Seeing that shock could still contribute to reputation value, Brother Cheng felt relieved.

His old profession of showing off was still viable.

And those admiration and worship could still be earned through showing off as well.

In fact, this was going to be more convenient than before.

"System, you should've said so earlier! You nearly gave my poor little heart a scare, thinking my ultimate skills had no place to shine."

Having gained a rough understanding of the new system, Brother Cheng confidently soared into the sky.

He had no particular direction or clue at the moment, so he boldly unleashed a divine soul scatter, launching an indiscriminate carpet divine consciousness scan.

In fact, this sort of thing was very taboo.

Some strong people could easily sense when someone was peeping at them, which would ignite their strong hostility.

Ordinary people wouldn't dare do this; even when probing the surroundings, they'd cautiously extend a divine thought tendril and avoid the strong while slowly exploring.

But clearly, Brother Cheng was not in the ordinary class during school.

He made a big fuss, as if afraid others wouldn't know he had arrived.

Even though this True Ice Realm was at a higher level, which somewhat suppressed his divine soul, allowing it to extend only to a range of a billion miles,

But within this billion-mile range, countless cultivators were alarmed.

Countless people looked up to the sky, and many strong persons flew into the air, charging towards his direction with murderous intent.

On the other side, Sect Leader Jiang finally withdrew his divine techniques.

His expression was a bit peculiar.

"This world, could it really be just a mountain?"