Shadow Hack - Chapter 6

Shadow Hack
Shadow Hack
Author: Great Lord of Cloudland
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Chapter 1: Mysterious Shadow
Translator: Mercurial_ Editor: TheRealSeal

[Do you want to understand the meaning of your life? Do you really want to be alive?] 46
Within a small warm room, just as Li Yunmu had turned on his computer, this line suddenly popped up in front of him. 5
“Huh…..”
Isn’t this the marketing strategy for that game ‘Darkness of Mankind’? Countless people have already milked it previously. Now, which idiot wants to use this to attract people’s attention? 7
Li Yunmu clearly knew that regardless of whether he chooses yes or no, the result would be the same, that he would be falling into the trap of another person. 1
Perhaps the computer would exit to some promotion link of the game or perhaps some trojan horse would enter the computer, causing it to crash. 5
Moreover, Li Yunmu was an extremely bored person. He neither wants to know the meaning of life nor worries about what was meant by really being alive. In any case, as an ordinary person born in an ordinary place, there was no need for him to learn the meaning of life. 25
Speaking frankly, with his family, his genes, his background, his heritage, he was basically bound to be an ordinary person from the moment he was born. 6
Without any unexpected accidents, his later generations were also doomed to be ordinary, unless some miracle occurred! 6
“Since you have worked so hard for this master, I will play with you a little.” 3
Thus, even if Li Yunmu knew that he shouldn’t be fooled, the most important thing was…..he was senselessly bored, so he lightly clicked on it. As soon as he clicked on it, the scene on his computer screen quickly changed. 6
[Do you want to obtain the skills to surpass others? Do you want to realize the true essence of life? Do you want to stand at the peak of this cosmos? If you want to, then drop your blood to bind this system…..] 9
When the outdated, broken, small loudspeaker of the computer said this in its enticing voice as always, Li Yunmu almost puffed blood on his computer screen. 2
“Lying bastard, who is trying to prank me, does he believe that I have no brain?” 2
This time, Li Yunmu’s excitement was stirred up.
“Interesting, interesting, this has some creativity, this has taken mischievousness to new heights, but who will be so foolish as to really cut their fingertip and drop blood on the computer display?” 6
But regardless of whatever was said, Li Yunmu’s next movement fully reflected how ‘busy’ he was. He was so extraordinarily free that being free had also become a pain in his ass. 6
He laughed mischievously and lightly peeled open the wound on his thumb, which seemed fine after observing it carefully. This small wound had been cut in the morning while slicing a fruit and it still had some semi-condensed blood. 3
Immediately without thinking, he raised the thumb’s wound and lightly pressed it on the strange icon that had appeared on the screen. The outcome was seen within a flash, his whole screen was filled with golden lights.
[Congratulations, you have successfully bound the Supreme Shadow Hack System, you are currently the only binder of the system.] 12
[Ding, detecting a huge disparity between world’s information and system’s data, the system cannot provide a map for practising, the system will import the real world map and update the data.]
[Magic Beast Abyss, Barbarian Ox Cave, Devil Spirit’s Well, Nine Dragon Slope, Deep Tiger Gorge, Moonlight City, Witch Subduing Pagoda, Restricted Area of Hell, Heavenly Sanctuary, Ancient Road, Beyond The Heavens Sword Mound……and so on, the hack map is now deleted, the system has begun to enter the information based on the current world data and produce an all-new map… Please be patient.] 7
“Oh?” 2
This slightly stunned Li Yunmu, what Supreme Shadow Hack System? What the hell is this? This seems like a cheating software to level up, wasn’t it supposed to be outdated?
Nowadays, who still plays such a game where one increases one’s levels on computer? If his financial situation had been any better, he would have already purchased the Dimension Helmet and entered the virtual world to pass the time. 6
Could it be that this broken computer was a genuine product of the dark era? Once he thought of this, Li Yunmu’s heart burst with joy!
He had just bought this computer yesterday from the ‘Antique Street’. It was just an outdated product, so the price he had to pay was also only 13 Fourth-Dimensional coins. 16
But Li Yunmu clearly knew that even though it seemed like a genuine antique, in reality, it was just some cheap imitation made by some dishonest dealer. After all, if it really was an old product from dark era then why would it be sold for some measly Fourth-Dimensional coins?
A genuine computer from the dark era would certainly have a starting price of Fifth-Dimensional coins, how could such a commoner like himself have the qualifications to access the Alliance’s Fifth-Dimensional coins? 9
After few minutes, a ‘ding’ sound came from the system, transmitting a commanding notification which caused Li Yunmu to become serious:
[System had been upgraded, does host wants to use Shadow Hack and level up?]
“Yes.”
Li Yunmu was full of expectations, he excitedly observed for a moment. Soon after, he decided on a training location and clicked on it to confirm.
[You have selected a high-level region, the “Forbidden Countryside Region” as the training location. Since you have selected a high-grade map, with your low-level strength comparable to dregs, there is no doubt that you will get rekt, so the system proposes that you choose a low-level region “District Garden” as a training location, do you wish to accept it?] 17
Just as the computer beeped, Li Yunmu was thoroughly dumbfounded, this hack map area can really take away someone’s life, wasn’t it supposed to just be a prank from the beginning? You gotta be kidding me!
“District Garden?”
What is this, could it be that this District Garden also has some monster in it? While regretting that he even couldn’t pick the choice that he desired, he callously clicked on it to confirm.
[Supreme Shadow activated, training location is “District Garden”, monster bots classification—- Grade One ant, Grade One flea, Grade Two ladybug, Grade Three caterpillar, Grade Three moth, Grade Three honey bee, Grade Three butterfly, Grade Five spider. Warning: Avoid dimensional and mutant insects as much as possible…..] 7
*Pop*
Li Yunmu looked at the warning which had popped up on the screen and was once again almost on the verge of puffing blood: 5
“This, this is the game of the dark era’s elders? The monsters are all ants, honey bees, this kind of insects?”
It had to be said that at this moment, Li Yunmu felt quite sorrowful for the elders from the Darkness Era, the quality of their entertainment was quite worrying. 3
But in the next moment, he cried out in fear when under his attentive gaze, his shadow suddenly came to life.
Materialization?
Yes, the shadow formed from light had suddenly come alive, it then shrunk to the size of one centimeter. Under Li Yunmu’s shocked gaze, this little shadow started to walk slowly, gradually speeding up……. 3
*Xiu* 3
Then it ran out of the bedroom, not getting obstructed when passing through the room, then the hallway. After it crossed thirty-six floors, it finally arrived at the district garden downstairs; it went under the grass and immediately began to look for monsters, at this moment, a series of characters and sounds began to appear on computer screen. 5
[Automatically entered hack map…. automatically began to search for monsters…..found Grade One ant…. Super Shadow Monster Killing Mode, engaged…..] 3
At this point, Li Yunmu’s figure became lifeless!
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Chapter 2: Flux Energy Awakens 2
Translator: Mercurial_ Editor: TheRealSeal

Unbelievable! Even if he was stupid, at this moment, he clearly realized that he had stumbled upon some kind of miracle.
“Oh my god, is this game supposed to be like this? This is not a dream, is this real ahh……”
Li Yunmu’s widely opened eyes were fixed on the screen, where the shadow could be seen among the grass, encountering an “enormous” ant. The shadow raised its fist and attacked it ferociously. 2
[You have attacked the ant with your full strength, causing it 7 points of damage, but because your strength is too weak, it could only cause a minor injury to the ant.] 2
[Your leg has kicked the ant’s head, because of attacking its weak point, the ant has suffered 26 points of damage, causing serious damage to the ant.]
[The ant has begun its counterattack after entering a near-death state. Lifting its pincers, it crushed your right arm, resulting in you losing most of your military strength.] 5
[You bellowed in pain and launched a kick. Because you were extremely angry, this kick has caused ‘furious strike’, causing the ant 19 points of damage, the ant has been killed by you.] 4
[Congratulations, you have successfully killed the ant. You have gained 1 experience point and 1 ability point, but you have also caught the attention of the ant colony, beware of their revenge.] 7
“Damn!”
Li Yunmu was astonished.
The ant was dead! It had really been killed by his shadow!
It must be known that this was only one ant from the real world. Even though it was minute, it was still a life, was this really only a hack system, only a software? 2
Li Yunmu was filled with excitement and suspicion.
But regardless of whatever he felt, the hack system still continued its work. Not long had passed, when the shadow in the dense “grass forest”, encountered yet another ant. However, this time there were no surprises and the shadow which had already lost its right arm got killed immediately by the second ant.
When the shadow was crushed, it transformed into countless black dots and passed through all obstructions from the lawn downstairs as it returned back inside Li Yunmu’s body.
Another message popped up on the screen:
[Shadow has died. After ten minutes, your shadow will resurrect and continue to advance automatically in the hack system. You still have two more chances of resurrection for today, please cherish them.]
[Reminder, the system has detected some kind of strength inside your body, do you want to use your current experience points to awaken it?] 1
“Yes.”
Li Yunmu didn’t think too much about it. He was already dizzy from the big meat pie that had fallen into his lap, so he subconsciously agreed. Within an instant, he sensed a kind of warmth in his body, traces of heat collected in his chest from his four limbs and hundreds of bones, a kind of strength seemed to come forth from deep inside. 3
“How is it possible? Is this flux energy? This sensation seems like the first sign of flux energy awakening!” 1
Ahh flux energy, an ordinary person would forever remain unfamiliar with these words, because these words represent strength in current new dimension era. 1
It represents the wide gap between ordinary people and those who have this innate talent. However, this wide gap was like a great wall which ordinary people could never ever scale over. 6
It was rumored that in the year 2020 AD, a huge shooting star had crashed into the earth from outer space. 63
This shooting star from the space was precisely the one known as “Dimensional Shooting Star” to the later generations. It was responsible for the transformation to humankind to the current new age. 2
At that time, when the Dimensional Shooting Star crashed into the earth, in a flash, the earth’s entire continental structure was shattered. A large number of countries and countless people perished because of it. 10
Of the earth’s entire population of 7.6 billion at that time, only several hundred million had survived. The rest were wiped out in a flash. 18
But that was only the beginning of bad things to come. Within three days after the Dimensional Stone had descended, large amounts of mighty higher dimensional energy spread over the entire earth, filling each and every nook and cranny of the earth.
Once the dimensional energy appeared, its influence did not only stop at people. Animals, insects, plants, fishes, even including the entire human race, all of them started to evolve. 1
In just one night, all the wild animals transformed and became more formidable. Humanity’s machine guns and artillery shells couldn’t rival them anymore. The human race was no longer the most dominant race on earth.
In less than three months, most of humanity’s armies were destroyed. The entire human race sunk into great despair because of the threat of annihilation and it could only depend on the troops stationed in the major cities to defend them till death. This was humanity’s first time losing the territories outside of major cities. Vast stretches of land turned into the backyard of mutant beasts and dimensional beasts. 14
That year would be famously known as the first year of dark ages to the later generations. From then on, humanity’s era entered into the abyss. 1
After the continental structure shattered, only six continents remained. Humanity kept struggling at death’s door for the first three years of the dark ages. When the first of humankind finally experienced the three year long evolution and began to awaken the flux energy, only then did a ray of hope dawned on humanity. 16
From then on, the human race turned into a civilization which placed flux energy cultivation above all else, compared to science and technology from before. After 227 years of great efforts by the elders, humanity once again regained the position of earth’s master. They fought with dimensional beasts and mutant beasts and managed to reclaim more stretches of land for survival, finally establishing the new dimensional age, bidding farewell to the dark ages. 3
At the same time, on one day, the six continents formally established a grand alliance, known as the Humankind Alliance. The continents were the Central Continent, Northern Ocean Continent, Southern Pole Continent, Holy Continent, Desolate Continent and Higher Dimensional Continent. These continents constituted humanity’s remanent forces. 6
The Central Continent was where Li Yunmu was currently living. It was formed from the majority of the former Chinese nationals and several countries at the periphery of Asia. In terms of influence among the six continents, it was considered the most formidable. 30
Next in the Alliance was the Holy Continent, which was dominated by the Vatican authority of religion from before the dark ages. Formed by gathering several powers from Western Europe, its strength was only second to the Central Continent. It was rumored that this Holy Continent, that was formed on the firm belief in religion, also had another mysterious power apart from flux energy. 3
Next in terms of strength were the Desolate Continent and the Higher Dimensional Continent, which had the weakest influence in the Alliance. Especially the Higher Dimensional Continent, it was the most severely impacted continent when the Dimensional Shooting Stars crashed into the earth. Even today, the Higher Dimensional Continent still produces a constant stream of large numbers of dimensional monsters. As for the people of this continent, rather than saying they were a force of humanity, it would not be wrong to say they were just leading an ignoble existence. 2
Thus, in the new dimensional age, the genuine forces of humanity were only the four continents, the Central Continent, Northern Ocean Continent, Southern Pole Continent and Holy Continent. But if you must include the pathetic survivors of Higher Dimensional Continent and Desolate Continent, then that would make up the six continents in the Alliance. 5
Naturally, the bitter historical experiences of these continents all digressed from one another.
But it cannot be denied that flux energy was very significant for humanity as it provided humanity formidable strength. Therefore, only the people who could use flux energy were considered genuinely superior existence.
These people who could use flux energy would receive the best treatment in every continent. They had the best lives, the most spacious houses. They enjoyed the best which humanity had to offer, enjoying the least contaminated food and were at the top of humanity’s hierarchy. Everything they got was simply not something that an ordinary people could hope to receive. 1
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Chapter 3: Opportunity For Advancement
Translator: Mercurial_ Editor: TheRealSeal

“Flux energy, do I really have the hope of awakening the flux energy?”
Signs of tears appeared in his eye at this moment.
Without flux energy, he would have forever remained an ordinary, inferior person. His future generations would also remain ordinary and the cycle would continue. Every commoner wanted to break free from this cycle, but the chances of being able to succeed were almost zero.
However, it wasn’t like there were absolutely no chances. For every one thousand people, if there were two or three who managed to awaken flux energy, it would have already been considered as a very high percentage and a great fortune.
Apart from this, if one has immense wealth or manages to get the assistance of someone influential, then that person could obtain a dimensional crystal, which was priced extremely high, and use its power to try to awaken flux energy. However, if the awakening fails, then the cycle of inferiority would continue again.
Only those, whose previous generations or parents have awakened the formidable flux energy, were the truly fortunate ones, the proud sons and daughters of heaven. They were the only ones who enjoyed the strongest innate bloodline genes carrying flux energy and so it was easiest for them to awaken it. Although this was a great benefit, it had no relation to Li Yunmu, not even a speck of relation. 1
Because both his parents as well as his previous generations were all ordinary people. Fortunately, the heavens were not unjust and didn’t caused them to rot in the lowest rung of society feeling hopelessness and despair. Since the higher dimensional force was present everywhere in the world, everyone was born with a flux energy seed within their body. 4
As long as they experience some miracle or their family possesses sufficient wealth, then there was a faint chance of being able to change their fate and provide hope to their family’s descendants. And now, Li Yunmu had the opportunity to cash in on that chance.
He had only gained 1 experience point and the result was that the threshold of awakening was shaken, but since it was only 1 experience point, the threshold was loosened a little and he hasn’t awakened completely yet. Presently, he could only loosen the threshold by that much, but what if he obtained even more experience points, what happens then?
10 points, 100 points….
While Li Yunmu was getting more and more excited, from outside his room, the sound of his mom’s voice penetrated into the room:
“You brat, the meal is on the table, what time do you think it already is and you still have the mood to play games.”
“Coming coming.”
Li Yunmu excitedly replied, agreeing in a loud voice; not long after, within a comfortable small dining hall, the table was filled with three meat and two vegetable dishes and one soup.
“So sumptuous? What’s the occasion today?”
Li Yunmu didn’t wash his hand before quickly grabbing a sweet and sour pork chop and shoved it in his mouth. He loudly said in unclear voice:
“So good, so good.” 1
Three meat and two vegetable dishes, this was quite normal in families that were wealthy, but normally, ordinary families didn’t dare to be so extravagant. Although in the dimensional age the land under human’s control was much greater compared to the dark ages, in the countryside areas, vast stretches of land were still occupied by variation beasts and dimensional beasts.
Thus, such a sumptuous evening meal would have cost at least 30 Fourth-Dimensional coins. At the slums, this amount was sufficient for the poor people to survive for a whole month; even in an ordinary household, three meat and two vegetable dishes were still considered quite extravagant.
“Naturally it is a happy occasion. Just now, your father sent a news that a few days ago, he was formally appointed as the camp captain when the camp isn’t moving.” 5
His mom, He Jie, said unable to contain her happiness.
“Good news, this is really great news.”
Li Yunmu’s brows rose because of excitement, great news was coming in wave after wave. Today was simply the most fortunate day of his life.
Until today, his father had been the deputy in the squad, but now, after being promoted, he would be a person with real, genuine authority. Although he cannot be compared to a government official, but within the army, he would have great authority.
“Good, but let’s not speak of your dad’s matter for now. The important thing is your exams which happened a few days ago, how did they go?”
He Jie wasn’t that easy to deal with, changing the subject, she inquired about his high school exams from a few days ago.
“Hey, mom, can’t we leave this disappointing matter for another time, it’s not like you don’t know how your son would perform, yet you still ask how it went, why not just let nature take its course.”
Li Yunmu’s mood dampened after hearing about his exams, he didn’t want to talk about the matters of exams as he didn’t expect anything from them.
In this new age, an ordinary person has three routes that they could take.
The first route was following the same structure of society as was done before the dark ages. From primary school to middle school then going on to higher education. Normally, the lowest rung people would undergo education in a primary school for five years since it was free.
Afterwards, they would go out into the real world and seek a livelihood. Because of the tuition fee for middle school, these poor people couldn’t afford it, so their knowledge was limited and they could only take on the lowest and hardship filled jobs like janitors and other jobs like that.
For those people whose family’s condition was slightly better, they would continue to middle school. Those who graduate from middle school formed the most basic layer of the society. After their graduation, their lives were somewhat better than those unskilled laborers and they were accepted in the service industry and so on.
And finally, were people like Li Yunmu, whose background was slightly well to do. They had even more choices and could continue on to higher education after graduating from middle school. They would generally take up jobs in logistics related to the army and government. Regardless of the income they get, their positions were more honorable compared to the previous two. 2
But those who walk this road were bound to not have many accomplishments in future, all of them would have to work as dispensable civilian jobs within the city, with no great achievements, they could only take on the lowest rung jobs in society.
Originally, with Li Yunmu’s talent, in the future, at most he would be working as a logistics worker within the army and government, but now, he was clear that perhaps with the Super Shadow Hack System, he could possibly change his destiny.
The second route was to study in a military school to become ordinary soldiers. The treatment and salary of frontline soldiers were pretty good, but the probability of dying and losing one’s life was equally great. In today’s world, with variation beasts and dimensional beasts running amuck in the wild, not just one person, but the whole unit might have bad luck and get wiped out completely.
His dad, Li Zhongmin, had indeed walked this road. In addition, because he had produced a trace of flux energy, he could be considered to have taken the first step of flux energy awakening. Therefore, his dad entered the War God troops and his position was raised even higher compared to normal soldiers.
The third route was becoming a follower of a fluxer, taking the road of becoming a subordinate. Their treatment was even better compared to government soldiers and their position developed according to their master’s circumstances. They can even receive assistance from the fluxer and obtain dimensional crystals, thus greatly increasing the probability of awakening and turning into a genuine flux disciple.
However, there was a rigid condition that the person must attain at least half threshold of complete awakening. Otherwise, which fluxer would take a loser as a follower. Thus, Li Yunmu didn’t think about it, until now, he wouldn’t even dare to think about becoming a follower of a fluxer. 2
Naturally, there was a fourth route, but this path could only be said to be an extravagant hope for the common people, that was to genuinely awaken flux energy.
As for the routes that Li Yunmu could walk, he had two options, one was to become ordinary logistics staff, the other was to use his dad’s connection and enter the army and become a soldier.
He was not very good at former, he didn’t have sufficient assurance for latter, after all, it’s not like everyone who desires to enter the army can get into the army. With the intense competition and Li Yunmu’s family background, he didn’t have complete assurance.
“I knew this would happen. Fortunately, your father and I both didn’t have any great expectations for you. These few years, we have saved some money. Tomorrow, I will make a call to your father, asking him to use this money to create better relations with his old comrades and ask them for help.” 5
His mother lightly sighed, but soon smiled again:
“Good, your path has already been arranged for you. Now, if your grades are not good then they are not good, eat quickly or the food will get cold.” 5
“That’s great!”
Li Yunmu vaguely replied with his mouth filled, but a trace of emotions stirred in his heart. Perhaps he can’t compare with those proud sons and daughters of heavens, but he was already really fortunate to be born in this family in this age.
He silently swore to return to his room as soon as possible and seize every moment to kill waves of ants and caterpillars, maybe he could absorb even more experience, maybe he could even completely awaken his flux energy after gaining more experience. Even if he could only reach half awakening, then he could at least become a follower of a formidable person, which was also good. 2
However, at this moment, He Jie’s stellarcomm lit up. By the time, his mother completed her call, the expressions on her face had turned bad.
“Mom, what happened?”
Li Yunmu asked anxiously.
This era’s calling were quite costly. Ordinary families can use the stellarcomms for communication, but this time his mom had accepted the call, surely it must have been from his dad.
For both mother and son, their biggest fear was receiving Li Zhongmin’s message, not for any other reason, fearing that he may have met with some accident.
As someone who was stationed at the frontlines every day of the year, every year, he would have to face several attacks by dimensional beasts or variation beasts, they would be fortunate if they only had to face a small tide of beasts, but all of them dreaded to encounter an irresistible tide of formidable beasts, which could possibly annihilate the whole unit.
“There’s no problem, thank god that your father survived. Son, your father had been attacked by a tide of beasts; now, he has a little trouble, so I will have to go and see him at Heavenly Cloud City hospital. The distance to Heavenly Cloud City is quite far from here, so take care of yourself.”
His mother said with slightly red eyes. She quickly ate her dinner and left soon after packing some light clothes.
Li Yunmu’s mouth was wide open, he wanted to say that he would go with her, but after thinking of the cost of taking train to Heavenly Cloud city, he couldn’t voice his thoughts
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Chapter 4: Dimensional Box 2
Translator: Mercurial_ Editor: TheRealSeal

Li Yunmu didn’t know how to return to the room. After hearing that his dad has met with an accident, his mind was completely distracted, he couldn’t even enjoy the sumptuous evening meal.
Chasing after his mom to the outside, he only managed to get one piece of information. His father’s camp had been attacked by dimensional beasts and his father, who had been celebrating his promotion, had managed to survive, but at the cost of both his legs. 12
Furthermore, somehow, even more bad luck had fallen on him. Because the whole camp of soldiers had been annihilated without a single survivor. He had acted in a manner unfitting of his role as the camp’s captain and had chosen to run away to save his life. Now, the military seemed to want him to take responsibility and judged that he didn’t act as the captain by choosing to flee instead of fighting. 6
Regarding this matter, Li Yunmu wasn’t entirely convinced. His father had always been a sincere and brave man, so how could he have behaved like this. After thinking about the point that all the soldiers in the camp had died, maybe this time, his dad was only being pushed out to take responsibility and become a scapegoat.
Even if Li Yunmu knew that he wasn’t reliable, after this day, for the first time, he realized that he was weak and powerless. 2
Until now, within this small family of three, Li Zhongmin was the most reliable person. But after losing both his legs and his job, he was now also under investigation for the suspicion of fleeing alone. Li Yunmu, who was contently passing his days with his small family, instantly felt the reality around him collapsing. 2
Slums?
With his father losing his job and income, let alone using his relations to make Li Yunmu enter the army, even being able to live in a city was going to be an issue.
Once he thought of the life in the slums, recalling those starved faces, thirsty, numb, desperate expressions, Li Yunmu shook his head resolutely.
Both his dad and mom were old, they certainly couldn’t withstand this loss.
In one night, Li Yunmu seemed to have matured greatly, maybe before today, he could still pass his days without any ambitions, but now….he can’t.
Now that his father had lost his both legs, he must become his family’s backbone and must support them. His gaze fell upon that old desktop. 2
“System, I hope you are still reliable.” 2
He faintly sighed as a trace of hope appeared in his eyes. Although right now he couldn’t go to Heavenly Cloud City to see his dad, he knew that right now, he must become stronger.
[Ding, the Super Shadow Hack has started, do you still intend to choose the District Garden as the training location?]
“Yes.”
He loosely said. Everything that was happening in front of his eyes was definitely mystical but certainly not a dream. Li Yunmu’s heart, which had been tightened whole day, finally relaxed.
As soon as he pressed enter, his shadow seemed to have been activated. The shadow automatically walked down his building and entered the little garden, stepping forward into those tall and mighty grass woods. This time, Li Yunmu had made his resolution, he must personally control the shadow and kill those ‘monsters’.
“System, can I control the shadow manually?”
[If you want to control this hack manually, choose the option ‘Manual Hacking’.] 1
The system displayed these instructions almost immediately. Li Yunmu analysed this for some time before he realized something.
Accurately speaking, the controls of the Super Shadow Hack System were very simple. Altogether, there were three adjustments that could be made. The first was to determine the training location from the map.
After the map had been synchronized with the real world, the present system’s training locations were actual real world locations. This District Garden training location was just the small lawn downstairs, the nearest and most rudimentary training location.
The second adjustment was the choice to use either Automatic Hacking or Manual Hacking, as well as setting up the hacking time, the unit of time was in hours.
The third adjustment was the ability to control which monsters were targeted for leveling after choosing a good training location, as well as avoiding formidable monsters that he doesn’t dare to provoke.
Higher levels of adjustments were only found in Automatic Hacking mode. Even if Li Yunmu, a person from new age, had never played with this kind of simple software before, just by sweeping his eyes over them once, he understood all the bits and pieces of the system. 2
The instant he selected Manual Hacking, his whole world immediately transformed.
“What? My consciousness had surprisingly descended into the shadow?”
Shocked, Li Yunmu surprisingly discovered that now he could control the shadow as if it was himself.
The shadow had already shrunk to the size of one centimeter. When he controlled the shadow to raise its head, all he saw in front of him was a dense stretch of large grass forest.
It was clear that this grass was originally only five centimeters tall, but now that his consciousness had descended into the shadow, that huge grass forest seemed to be omnipresent. Standing in this environment, the shadow seemed to be constricted and felt claustrophobic.
“System, my consciousness has left my body, will I die?”
Li Yunmu couldn’t help but feel anxious.
[Be relieved, as long as your consciousness returns to your body within one day, this hack controls won’t cause any damage to you.] 4
The system’s voice aptly sounded in his mind.
After obtaining the assurance from the mystical system, Li Yunmu finally laid down the concerns in his heart and began to control the movements of his shadow.
“Ohh? Why do I feel like I am in danger?” 4
Shaking his head, he removed any extra thoughts and rushed into the depths of grass forests with a fierce howl. 2
This time, he was very lucky. Within few minutes, he very quickly found an ant in a thin grass patch. Taking advantage of the fact that the ant still hasn’t turned hostile towards him, Li Yunmu quickly rushed towards the ant and ferociously punched it.
[Ding, using the strength stored within you, as well as the strength gained because of your momentum from running, you have landed a furious strike on the ant’s head. You have attacked the ant’s weak point, resulting in your damage being doubled. Because you had gained additional strength with your momentum, it explosively increased the damage dealt to the ant. This attack has dealt 29 points of damage to the ant.] 1
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“Awesome! This broken game can also be played like this?”
Stored strength, additional strength, weak point attack, furious strike, this was similar to the game ‘Dead House’ of the new age. Although he had only played it once, he could work out a lot of tips from it.
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It was clear that Manual Hacking provided him much greater control compared to Automatic Hacking. At this moment, Li Yunmu resembled that of a genuine game character, whose aim was to kill monsters. And when compared to virtual reality games, it seemed much more realistic. 1
After landing one punch on the ant, he immediately evaded ant’s vision and moved to its blind spot. 2
Hei, this time, he wasn’t following the movements of the Automatic Hacking, which didn’t have any wisdom. Why would he remain in front of the ant and allow it to attack him with its pincers.
The instant that he dodged was the instant that this unlucky ant suffered from its tragic fate.
“I will destroy your anus!” 22
The instant he reached behind the ant, Li Yunmu raised his foot and ruthlessly kicked that ant’s big buttocks. 4
The kick’s full force crashed into the ant!
The kick caused 13 points of damage to the ant. Clearly, the attack power of a leg was much stronger compared to that of a fist. Even though this was just an ordinary kick, the damage it caused was quite impressive.
One kick wasn’t enough to take it down, but it caused the ant to stumble forward before stopping.
[Ding, you have kicked the ant with all your might dealing 13 points of damage to the ant and made its body unstable which stunned the ant for two seconds.]
“Stun?”
He had once again discovered another little trick. Moreover, it seems like he could control this trick.
“Interesting.”
Li Yunmu smiled faintly as he learned to control it. This time. he seized the ant’s anus and kicked it. 1
“Again!”
This kick precisely landed on that ant’s buttocks.
[You have kicked ant’s vital part, dealing triple the damage. You have dealt 36 points of damage to the ant and killed the ant, gaining 1 experience point and 1 ability point.] 4
[Ding, you have killed the ant and a dimensional box dropped from the ant’s body.]
“Cool, that’s fantastic!”
Hearing the system’s message, Li Yunmu couldn’t help but clench his fists tightly.
This was not some dream, just by killing a Grade One ant, he had obtained 1 experience point, but what was this ability point that he had gotten? Being a person from new age, he had never heard of anything called ability points; moreover what was this box that was lying on the ground?
Dimensional box? What kind of thing was this? 3
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Chapter 5: Ancient Battle Skill
Translator: Mercurial_ Editor: TheRealSeal

[Congratulations, you have obtained an A Grade cultivation method “Admiralty Cover”. Do you want to practice it?] 2
Li Yunmu opened the dimensional box without any concern and immediately, this information flashed in his mind.
“Admiralty Cover? A Grade cultivation method? What was that?”
As an ordinary person, the only things that he had heard of were flux energy, ultra flux energy, sacred flux energy and things of that nature. 1
He had only heard of flux energy battle skills which were produced by using a higher dimensional force like flux energy, but what was this cultivation method? He had never heard of it before but when he took out his stellarcomm and searched for it online, he was astonished.
“Cultivation method, ancient martial arts used by people of the dark ages at their peak, known as cultivation method…..”
Li Yunmu kept on mumbling this, completely dumbstruck.
Once he checked this news, he was greatly astonished. Weren’t the flux energy battle skills based off cultivation method?
Why was every piece of information about the history of the dark ages that was discovered within ruins on the countryside considered priceless? Moreover, whenever they were auctioned, why were they all sold for Fifth-Dimensional coins?
That was because all the formidable high-levelled fluxers all try to find even the tiniest trace of ancient martial arts from the hard disks of computers from the dark ages.
Even if there was a tiny bit of hope, all those fluxers that were considered unexcelled would rush in like a duck, plundering every last bit of information. This was because all the formidable battle skills used by fluxers had been derived from the ancient martial arts left behind from the dark ages.
Thus, this term ‘cultivation method’ was known to people of the new age as ‘ancient martial arts’, which were considered supreme in the eyes of those people with power.
And now? By using the Super Shadow Hack System to casually get rid of an ant, he had obtained an ancient martial art? Moreover, it was only an A Grade cultivation method as determined by the system? 7
At this instant, Li Yunmu took a deep breath. Only now did he realize that he had brought some kind of godly object from the Antique Street. 1
Indeed, describing it as a godly object wasn’t wrong at all.
“Not good, I must keep this a secret till death, otherwise, if information about it got leaked to others, then…” 8
Li Yunmu didn’t dare to think about what would happen next, but this outcome was definitely not something he could support. Even if it was some other formidable fluxer, he also wouldn’t be able to bear the disastrous consequences.
[Reminder, do you want to practice the Admiralty Cover cultivation method?]
“Yes.”
Li Yunmu snapped to attention, after taking a deep breath, he forced himself to calm down.
[Cultivating Admiralty Cover requires 1 ability point. 1 ability point has been deducted. You have successfully learned the first level of Admiralty Cover and your defense has been substantially enhanced.]
Next second, Li Yunmu had sensed a warm feeling coming from his inner core. From inside to outside, in an instant, it spread to the other parts of his body, overflowing with a trace of faint golden light. 1
Deep within his brain, a load of information was pouring in.
[Admiralty Cover, this is the first Fourth-Dimensional ancient martial art created by humanity, for every level that you upgrade it, it will increase your damage resistance. For every ten levels that it is upgraded, you will acquire a miraculous attribute.]
[You have grasped the first level of Admiralty Cover, causing the damage you receive to be reduced by 30 percent, to reach the next level of Admiralty Cover, you require 20 ability points.] 2
…
Information kept on pouring slowly into his brain, but Li Yunmu’s heart couldn’t calm down for a long time. An ancient martial art, I learned one that easily? The whole process only consumed 1 ability point? So ability points has such a great use!
At this moment, Li Yunmu discovered that on the surface of his shadow, there was a golden layer of protective armour.
“Hide.”
He thought within his heart without saying anything aloud.
In the next instant, the layer of golden protective cover, which was enveloping his body like the shell of a hen’s egg, gradually hid within his skin. However, for some unknown reason, with just that one thin layer of protective cover, Li Yunmu felt a lot safer inside the grass forests. Reducing the total damage received by 30 percent was quite unprecedented.
Li Yunmu quickly realized the profoundness of an A Grade ancient martial art. When he continued to hunt down monsters, he made a big mistake that resulted in the ant that he encountered biting him fiercely on the arm.
Originally, it would have been ripped apart due to the formidable power in the ant’s pincers. But this time, because of that layer of resistance, Li Yunmu’s hand was surprisingly able to support it.
“Formidable, formidable indeed…”
Even if Li Yunmu didn’t have much experience, he was able to realize what this meant. The Admiralty Cover defensive cultivation method was much more powerful compared to the flux energy battle skills. Was this power really only from the first, most basic level of this cultivation method?
At that moment, Li Yunmu became even more excited, the next level only required 20 ability points? That meant killing nineteen more ants would be enough? 2
He continued hunting down monsters. Li Yunmu forgot about time, forgot about everything else. He threw all of his mind into fighting monsters. As time passed, he became more and more skilled. Gradually, he could even face the combined assault of two ants at one time.
“Kill, kill, kill, I must gain even more experience and ability points! For our future, so that we don’t have to move to slums…” 8
While he was indulged in killing monsters, time passed quickly. After some time, night had arrived, but the shadow seemed to possess night vision. Even within the grass of the District Garden, Li Yunmu’s visibility wasn’t affected at all.
However, as the night advanced, the number of monsters within the grass also increased, they also became increasingly stronger.
Grade Three caterpillar, Grade Four grasshopper, Grade Five spider, Grade Seven lizard, Grade Ten frog….Li Yunmu had never expected that those small lives, which he could casually crush by stepping on them, would become so frightening. 6
Although he cautiously avoided those he could not defeat, he had finally suffered a loss. After he had killed forty six Grade One ants, seventeen Grade One fleas, five Grade Two ladybugs, three different types of Grade Two earthworms, he was finally eaten by a Grade Seven lizard which suddenly appeared from within the grass. 6
When he came to his senses, he was already back in his body. Li Yunmu closed his eyes and analysed for a long time, only after thinking over his weak points and deficiency did he then lightly release a breath of impure air. 1
Seemingly, it would be better if he used the hack during the day until he becomes more powerful……the neighbourhood garden’s lawn becomes exponentially more dangerous at night. 2
“System, calculate the amount of experience and ability points received this time.”
After summarizing his merits and flaws during the fights, now was the time to reap the harvests; Li Yunmu couldn’t suppress his excitement, the harvests were indeed enormous.
[Ding, in this life, the host has managed to obtain a total of 79 experience points and 79 ability points…….the existence of some kind of unawakened force in your body was detected, as well as the Admiralty Cover cultivation method, do you desire to use the experience and ability points to assist in its awakening and the advancement of this cultivation method?] 1
“Yes.”
This time, Li Yunmu didn’t have any hesitation. In next instant, he sensed a warm sensation coming from his stomach and dantian simultaneously. He thought that his life for the past dozen years was simply a waste. This sensation of obtaining strength little by little was truly exciting. 1
[Reminder, the flux energy seed inside your body had been further strengthened and your Admiralty Cover had also been upgraded by two levels, your damage resistance had been increased to 32 percent….] 1