When system cheat becomes rampant!

"Old master, there's no need for this."

Xiang Beifei leapt down from the tree and immediately helped Chang Furong to his feet.

He respected Chang Furong from the bottom of his heart, even though he was only an early-stage martial artist who had just opened his meridians.

Throughout Jiuzhou, if a person awakened to an SSR-grade, it was an instant rise to fame! Regardless of the type of system the person had, as long as they carried the SSR-grade label, they could definitely enter the high ranks of the league and become a member of it!

If Chang Furong could truly overcome the mental barriers and act according to the system's tasks, becoming an Evil-accumulating martial artist, killing those who needed to be killed, assaulting women when dictated by tasks... With the protection of his SSR-grade status, Chang Furong could easily commit these heinous acts without hindrance.

Seventy years would be enough for such a person to become one of the strongest masters in the league.

But he refused!

Even though his awakening was the SSR-grade system that everyone envied and desired, even though this system could grant him a supreme status...he still refused to commit evil acts to complete his system's tasks!

This was a man of conscience and principles.

Xiang Beifei sighed silently.

If the "SSR-grade Evil-accumulating System" had awakened in Zhu Xinjue, Liusheng Dong, or Pang Siyi, whom Xiang Beifei had just slain, with their selfish and inhumane natures, they wouldn't have hesitated at all and would definitely have carried out evil deeds as dictated by the system.

Killing and arson would not have made them blink an eye.

These people didn't need to awaken the "Evil-accumulating System"; they were already brimming with evil.

Yet the person who had awakened the "Evil-accumulating System" was always striving to be a good man.

To Xiang Beifei, this was deeply ironic.

How many people abandoned their principles just to complete their system's tasks!

There were very few like Chang Furong who managed to maintain their principles.

The league's "obey the system at all costs" policy was fundamentally flawed.

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"Young Master Xiang..." Chang Furong looked at Xiang Beifei with respect and pleading in his eyes.

"My name is Xiang Beifei, old master can just call me by my name," Xiang Beifei said.

"But you..."

"I am just a junior, no need for these formalities," Xiang Beifei replied.

Chang Furong paused.

After a long moment, he nodded silently.

He knew the character of this young man; they had always been waiting for their leader, watching their leader grow step by step. How could they not understand what kind of person their leader was in everyday life?

"We really have no way out," Chang Furong said painfully, "I just hope to see where the Unrestrained path lies before I die, and I also hope to give myself a chance to choose again."

He had lived for so many years and had never given up his beliefs.

Seeking the Unrestrained path was not only for himself but also to allow more people like him to live with more choices, instead of becoming puppets of the system against their nature.

"We need a leader," Xu Yang said.

Tang and the others also looked at Xiang Beifei with great hope; these people, like Chang Furong, had their own pasts, tied down by the system, deeply hating the harm it brought them.

They might not have reached the point where they could abandon their own SSR systems like Chang Furong, but they also deeply rejected the system.

"It's not that I am unwilling," Xiang Beifei was silent for a moment before saying, "Even if I agree to help you, one day I will leave Jiuzhou for the foreign wilderness, and then you will still lose a leader."

Chang Furong and others were slightly startled.

"Why?" Chang Furong asked urgently.

"Do you still not understand?" Xiang Beifei looked into their faces, at their varied system interfaces, and slowly said, "It's impossible to find Unrestrained in Jiuzhou."

Everyone looked at Xiang Beifei in astonishment.

"But everyone here has a system..."

"It is precisely because everyone here has a system that you cannot escape the bonds of the system," Xiang Beifei said.

A place bound by systems is almost impossible to break free from the systems.

Since Xiang Beifei didn't belong here, he had no system.

Xu Yang fell silent.

They vaguely understood what Xiang Beifei meant.

The two seniors from the Unrestrained with the Heavenly Connection realm had left Jiuzhou to go to the Wilderness beyond, their leader in their hearts, Xiang Tianxing, had also left Jiuzhou to explore that path in the Wilderness beyond...

This was by no means a coincidence; perhaps they were indeed seeking that path in the Wilderness beyond.

If Xiang Beifei were to search for the Unrestrained path, he would definitely leave Jiuzhou as well.

"But you already have an answer in mind, don't you?"

In those aged eyes full of hope, Chang Furong held a steadfast belief that had never wavered.

He still believed that this young man, who could create countless miracles, was the benchmark of leading the Unrestrained, capable of leading them all to achieve Unrestrained.

Xiang Beifei pursed his lips.

He didn't know how to respond to the old man's words.

If there was an answer, he himself, without a system, was already an answer.

But he had no way to clearly explain how that answer came to be.

After a long silence,

Xiang Beifei finally spoke, "I will help you find the answer."

If possible, he would help the old man break free from the "SSR-level Evil-accumulating System", allowing him to become his true self.

"Thank you! Thank you! I will follow all your orders."

Chang Furong bowed deeply to Xiang Beifei.

He knew Xiang Beifei had accepted their request, saving them from aimlessly wandering further. With Xiang Beifei's current capabilities to settle them, it was already a great comfort to them.

"No need."

Xiang Beifei steadied him.

He then turned to look at Pang Siyi, who had been refined by Xiaohei into a spiritual power crystal.

His heart remained silent.

High-level systems had grown accustomed to strengthening themselves by exploiting those of lower levels, with many even treating these lower-level individuals as livestock that could be slaughtered at will.

For the sake of system tasks, they could annihilate their humanity. If anything touched their interests or affected their system tasks, exterminating those innocent lower-level Awakeners didn't seem like a big deal.

Lower-level Awakeners had no voice in this world.

Thus, this world has seen a group of people pursuing Unrestrained.

They dared to resist the system's arrangements, hoping to break the shackles of system hierarchy and the oppression of higher levels over lower levels, they were constantly searching for the path of "Unrestrained," the spirit of "Unrestrained."

Xiang Beifei didn't even know why he should save them, nor why he had agreed to help them.

But he had realized something over these two days.

The true Unrestrained was not the Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage.

It was not Chang Furong, Xu Yang, Old Tang, and others either.

It was he who had no system, who was truly "Unrestrained"!