The afterlife blew up Gensokyo

There's a saying, isn't there? Even when faced with setbacks, life goes on, no matter what difficulties we encounter... uh...

Scratching his head, Shi Bai took out his phone from his pocket, unlocked it, and quickly scrolled down the storage screen. In no time, he found a short video, clicked to play it, and turned the volume up to the maximum.

A moment later, a powerful sound echoed through the valley.

No matter what difficulties we encounter, we shouldn't be afraid. Face them with a smile; the best way to eliminate fear is to confront it. Persistence is victory. Go for it! You can do it!!!

"If I had known I was going to time travel, I would have downloaded a ton of novels, videos, and movies onto my phone beforehand..."

After muttering something under his breath, Shi Bai decisively jumped down.

Death count – 49.

After a brief dizzying sensation between reality and illusion, before he could even open his eyes, Shi Bai felt himself fall into the icy seawater, and before he knew it, he had swallowed several mouthfuls of cold, salty seawater.

Fortunately, he had previously experienced drowning during a random resurrection, so he wasn't as panicked as he was at the beginning. After some effort, he successfully climbed onto a piece of ice floe floating on the sea.

"Hiss... Is this an icy sea?"

After lying on the ice for a while, Shi Bai sat up and looked around. He then realized that his random resurrection location was on a vast, boundless ice sea.

As far as the eye can see, there are layers upon layers of floating ice floes on the sea, reflecting hundreds of beautiful colors under the sunlight.

The ice floe he was currently on was about the size of a football field, but it was already considered one of the smaller ice floes floating on the sea.

"Oh right, I almost forgot about that... Luckily my phone is waterproof..."

As if he had just remembered something, Shi Bai quickly took out his phone from his pocket, found a good angle on his ice floe, and then decisively took three selfies.

"Am I pretty photogenic?"

Looking at the photos he had taken on his phone, Shi Bai nodded with satisfaction.

"It's a pity there's no internet here, otherwise if we could upload it online, those silly netizens would be so envious... huh?"

Before Shi Bai could finish his sentence, he was somewhat dumbfounded to see a large shadow rapidly rising beneath the ice floe he was currently on.

"Fuck..."

He quickly stood up and rushed towards the ice floe about half a meter away without hesitation. Almost the instant the ice floe he was on broke, he rolled onto the ice floe next to him, splashing cold seawater and broken ice all over him.

It was at this moment that Shi Bai finally saw the full picture of the culprit that had shattered the floating ice.

That was an enormous... whale?

"So whales really can fly... Oh right, let's take a picture."

Lying sprawled on the ice floe, facing the enormous "whale" that had completely leaped out of the sea and was suspended in mid-air, Shi Bai professionally took a series of ten photos with his phone.

Take this professional ethics of remaining calm even when Mount Tai collapses before him as an example. Shi Bai felt that if he could return to his original world, becoming a full-time paparazzi would be no problem at all.

"Alright, with these photos, even if I get crushed to death, it's not a loss... huh?"

Just as the giant "whale" was about to crash down and kill him, Shi Bai, guided by an unseen intuition, grabbed a small, glowing object that was falling along with a piece of broken ice. Then, as usual, everything went black.

When he opened his eyes again, he was already in the safe house, on a pile of leaves that had been prepared beforehand.

"Strange, why did they come straight back?"

Looking at the nets around him, which were exactly the same as when he left that morning, Shi Bai couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

"I remember I was supposed to choose random respawn, so why am I here at the respawn point... huh?"

Before he could finish speaking, Shi Bai noticed the faint glow emanating from his left hand.

When he opened his hand somewhat strangely, the transparent ice crystal that resembled an ice block in his palm had almost completely melted away, and the slightly fluorescent liquid had all merged into his hand.

Just as he was surprised, an interface that only he could see suddenly appeared in front of him, with lines of glowing text appearing on the screen.

[Influx of external ice-attribute energy detected]

[System activated in advance]

[Currently available features: Achievements/Summoning]

[Unique and exclusive talents: Immortality, True Luck]

[Current number of resurrection points that can be bound: 2]

[Current remaining resurrection attempts: ∞]

Current Achievement: 50 Kills

Chapter Four: A Pack of Beijing Instant Noodles for Five Cents

After studying this so-called system interface for a long time, Shi Bai finally managed to barely figure out the system's functions.

The achievement system is a subsystem within this system. Currently, there is only one achievement in this system: "50 kills".

Nothing else.

Shi Bai had originally wanted to find out if there were any other achievements that were easier to achieve, but he found that the so-called achievement system interface did not display any unachieved achievements...

"Forget it, it's really not worth getting worked up over something like this... But since it's an achievement system, there should be rewards, right?"

After muttering something to himself, Shi Bai reached out and tapped the only achievement in the achievement bar: [50 kills].

Before clicking on it, he guessed in his mind that the "50 kills" probably referred to the number of lives he had killed from childhood to the present, and that it might include mosquitoes and flies to achieve the "50 kills" achievement.

If that's the case, Shi Bai plans to find an anthill to farm achievements like "100 kills," "1000 kills," or "10000 kills"...

[50 kills: The number of deaths reaches 50]

"........."

Staring at the tiny, glowing text displayed on the screen, Shi Bai fell silent, his hand holding the phone trembling slightly.

However, after weighing it in his mind for a moment, he finally chose to put down his phone, pick up the stone egg, and smash it hard on the ground.

"Does this so-called '50 kills' achievement just refer to the number of times I've been killed, you bastard?!"

Some things really can't be explained in just a few words.

Shi Bai considered himself to be a fairly resilient person, otherwise he wouldn't have accepted the fact that he had transmigrated so easily, and even more so, he had the audacity to embark on a suicide exploration journey.

But who says immortality is a huge advantage? After death, your status is refreshed, and you are resurrected with full health and mana, which means that you can't even do something as simple as dying.

The thought of someone living alone for millions of years, or even longer, in an era before humanity even existed is enough to drive anyone mad, so he always tried his best to avoid thinking about it.

To put it simply, buddy, I've been under a lot of pressure lately.

Fortunately, he has finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel. Although the system doesn't offer any option to travel back in time, at least he has something to look forward to.

So, although he harbored inexplicable hostility towards this bizarre achievement system that tallied all his deaths, Shi Bai ultimately sat down silently again and opened the achievement system with a blank expression.

Regardless of how absurd his achievement of 50 kills really is, since he achieved it, there should be a corresponding reward.

"Randomly obtain a skill card with a rating of E or lower, with a 99% chance of obtaining a one-time skill card and a 1% chance of obtaining a permanent skill card... And they even publish the probabilities?"

After muttering a complaint under his breath, Shi Bai casually clicked the "acquire" option. When it comes to anything involving probability, as long as the probability isn't zero, it's absolutely 100% for him.

This is the confidence of a universally despised "European Emperor"!

[Reward successfully withdrawn. Obtained E-grade permanent skill card - Appraisal]

[Identification (Level E, Upgradeable): Identify the Target]

—An exceptionally brief introduction.

"Target identification?"

After thinking for a moment, Shi Bai picked up the stone egg and activated his skill on it.

[Under identification...]

[Target level is too high, success rate less than 0.000001%, continue? Failure to identify will have negative consequences.]

【whether】

"Hmm... a 0.000001% chance isn't 0%, is it?"

After a moment's thought, Shi Bai made an exceptionally decisive choice: yes. That's how confident a lucky person can be!

[In the process of identification... Identification successful]

【Name: Dragon Cocoon】

"Uh...that's it?"

After waiting patiently for a while without any other information appearing, Shi Bai couldn't help but feel ashamed.

"I thought I could get detailed information, but all I got was a name... It seems that my level is too low. E-level skills are useless. It's a pity that SSS-level skills don't refresh."

With a sigh of regret, Shi Bai waved his hand and turned off the light screen in front of him.

Although the only conclusion he could come up with was a single, solitary name, it at least solved the mystery of the stone egg he had picked up. He had originally thought it was just a stone that he had picked up thinking it was an egg, but he never expected it to have such a significant origin.

In reality, with his mere E-level skills, he had no way of appraising such high-level items, but when it came to things like luck, he had never been afraid of anyone.

As for the dragon cocoon... he suddenly remembered the azure dragon he had encountered that was soaring in the clouds. Perhaps he could hatch a dragon himself?

"No wonder it wouldn't cook through and I couldn't crack it open. I was hoping to have some fried eggs..."

With some regret, Shi Bai put the dragon cocoon aside and temporarily set the matter aside, then began to study the system's second unlocked function called Summoning.

He didn't have high hopes for the achievement function that the first system opened, but he had high hopes for the summoning function that the second system opened.

Because in any gacha/summoning game, he's the king!!

Well, if possible, he hoped to summon a Saber King.

After studying the summoning function for a while, Shi Bai couldn't help but frown, because this so-called summoning function was not the lottery-style summoning he had imagined, but rather something more similar to the so-called principle of equivalent exchange in Fullmetal Alchemist.

Commonly known as bartering.

With the idea of ​​giving it a try, Shi Bai picked up the ballpoint pen that was useless in this prehistoric world and threw it into the interface in front of him without hesitation.

About five seconds later, a packet of Beijing instant noodles worth 50 cents was spat out.

"Hmm? This summoning function is pretty good."

His eyes lit up, and Shi Bai quickly picked up the packet of Beijing instant noodles from the ground.

During these past few days, the only thing he had eaten was some unknown wild fruit that caused stomach aches. Now, he finally had some normal food, even though it was just a pack of the cheapest Beijing instant noodles that cost only 50 cents. But it was enough to cheer him up.

"Great. This time they're making Beijing instant noodles, next time they might just make roast chicken."

Holding the packet of Beijing instant noodles in his hand, Shi Bai clenched his fist, his face beaming with excitement.

"The time after that, maybe they'll just release a Saber-like character!!"

PS: I've reworked it.

Chapter 5: Personally Blowing Up Gensokyo

A five-cent pack of instant noodles from Beijing was transformed by Shi Bai into a meal costing tens of thousands of yuan.

Because he would be resurrected with full health and strength after death, he hadn't eaten anything good in the few days since he transmigrated. The only egg he found by luck was so hard to crack and break... Of course, it's called a dragon cocoon now.

So even if it was just a five-cent instant noodle from Beijing, he didn't waste a single bit, and he even ate the leftover pepper powder... It's like licking the lid off a yogurt bottle.

"Hmm, I wonder if the items I used for exchange will respawn on my character when I die next time..."

He folded up the plastic bag left over from eating instant noodles and put it in his pocket. He then lay down on the rock he had picked up to use as a pillow, his head resting on his hand, looking thoughtful.

"I don't even know what kind of equivalent exchange this is. My ballpoint pen would cost several yuan if I bought it separately, but I only got a five-cent pack of instant noodles from Beijing... When will I be able to summon the Saber King at this rate?"

—Someone's obsession with Saber seems to run surprisingly deep.

It was only at this moment that Shi Bai began to think carefully about his future life.

The human mind is ultimately too insignificant to withstand the erosion of time; prolonged isolation from society will only lead to its gradual collapse.

To give a prime example, consider Fujiwara no Mokou, a woman from Hourai who was once human but became immortal after consuming the elixir of immortality. For her, eternal life was like a curse she could never escape.

To be honest, Shi Bai wasn't interested in an endlessly long life, nor did he want to end up like a freak like Bug Master. However, for the moment, Shi Bai felt that his most important task was to survive.

"If this world really is the world N years before Gensokyo was established, then I must try my best to live until Gensokyo was established."

Clenching his fist, Shi Bai made a firm decision in his heart.

"And then... he personally blew up Gensokyo!!"

Someone set an exceptionally ambitious goal in their mind.