Chapter 44 Consort Yu, a time traveler?

"Ding! The system has another piece of bad news. Does the host wish to hear it?"

Hearing the system mention bad news once again, it was impossible for Li Xiang to say he didn't care at all.

After all, the system had successively compensated him with two large gift packs containing both cultivation techniques and equipment. It was impossible for there to be no catch.

Although the system didn't state it explicitly, Li Xiang could guess with his toes that these two large gift packs must be compensation packages. Would the system give him two large gift packs for no reason otherwise?

It was only dusk, and night hadn't truly fallen yet. Furthermore, Li Xiang was clearly not asleep, so how could he possibly be having such a pipe dream?

"System, tell me the bad news. I am ready."

"Ding! Affected by the power of time and space, the system accidentally summoned a soul from the 21st century of later generations and merged it with a newly balanced character."

Hearing this news, Li Xiang was somewhat surprised. Although a modern person would have some impact, in this historically chaotic era, that influence would be infinitely weakened. Why would the system deliberately send him two large gift packs as compensation?

After all, in Li Xiang's view, a time-traveler in ancient times relied on nothing more than familiarity with history. Surely that time-traveler wouldn't also have a system, or the ability to manufacture guns and cannons?

Thinking of this, Li Xiang tentatively asked, "System, this time-traveler doesn't happen to have a system too, does she?"

"Ding! No."

"System, could this time-traveler know how to manufacture guns and cannons?"

"Ding! Naturally not. The system has long since erased all memories regarding gunpowder and other thermal weapons from the minds of all characters entering this world."

Upon hearing this, Li Xiang realized he truly could not recall any methods related to gunpowder production, even though the knowledge he possessed consisted only of the most basic and primitive manufacturing methods.

With this thought, Li Xiang breathed a sigh of relief. Looked at this way, the time-traveler didn't pose much of a threat after all.

However, the system continued at this moment.

"Ding! The system detects that this soul has merged with the balanced accompanying character Lady Yu, and this fusion is dominated by the soul from the future. Affected by the power of time and space, her five-dimensional attributes have undergone drastic changes. Does the host wish to inspect Lady Yu's current five dimensions?"

"System, can the attributes of accompanying characters be inspected as well?" Li Xiang asked the system curiously.

If the attributes of accompanying characters could also be checked, things would become much more convenient for him in the future.

"Ding! Lady Yu is a special case; the system cannot inspect the attributes of accompanying characters normally."

As expected, the system ruthlessly shattered Li Xiang's fantasy.

"System, begin inspecting Lady Yu's five dimensions."

"Ding! Affected by the power of time and space, Lady Yu's peak five dimensions are: Command 95, Might 95, Intelligence 100, Politics 92, and Charisma 100. Lady Yu has not yet reached her peak; her current five dimensions are: Command 49, Might 68, Intelligence 88, Politics 82, and Charisma 95. Lady Yu's current identity is the fiancée of Shaoyu from the Ji clan, and she is scheduled to marry Xiang Yu when he turns sixteen years of age."

After hearing Lady Yu's statistics, Li Xiang had to admit this truly was bad news.

A strong set of five dimensions for Lady Yu alone would not be terrifying, but combined with Xiang Yu, it became troublesome.

Although Xiang Yu was formidable, flaws in his personality would cause him to fall into a disadvantage in this game called the world. Yet Xiang Yu rarely listened to the advice of others, and among the very few he was willing to listen to happened to be this Lady Yu.

Therefore, this infinitely enhanced Lady Yu would clearly complement Xiang Yu, rectifying his flaws and making up for his mistakes to a certain degree, instantly elevating Xiang Yu's threat level by several tiers.

Meanwhile, in a manor far away in the region of Jingchu, a young woman slowly sat up.

She was dressed in a blue kingfisher-green smoky shirt, a scattered-flower water-mist green-grass pleated skirt, and draped in a pale-blue kingfisher-water thin smoky gauze. Her shoulders looked as if they were carved, her waist was slender as a silk ribbon, her skin was like congealed lard, and her aura was like an orchid in a secluded valley. Her eyes contained spring waters with clear ripples flowing as she glanced around. Atop her head was a drooping bun adorned with a hollowed-out golden hairpin dotted with specks of jade, with tassels falling gracefully over her raven hair. Her fragrant, delicate, and tender face was more stunning than flowers, her fingers resembled trimmed scallion roots, and her lips were like they held cinnabar. Every frown and smile was soul-stirring.

Yet at this moment, this delicate and exquisite beauty tightly furrowed her delicate brows. "Yu Ji, Yu Jiachuan, Lady Yu..."

As it turned out, this woman was named Yu Ji, with the childhood name Jiachuan, and she had been an outstanding student at a college called Shenyang Industrial in modern-day China.

That day, she had happily prepared to return to school after finishing her internship, when she suddenly saw a child of about four or five years old standing right in the middle of the road.

At that moment, a car was driving straight toward him. Without time to think, Yu Ji had rushed forward and shoved the child out of the way, but she herself had plunged into endless darkness.

When she woke up again, she only felt the faint scent of sandalwood filling the air. Beneath her was a soft wooden bed with exquisite and extraordinary carved decorations, and she was covered by a brocade quilt. Turning to the side, an ancient woman's boudoir came into view; a guqin stood in the corner, and the entire room exuded an antique charm.

After a long while, Yu Ji—or rather, Lady Yu, as she should now be called—finally managed to sort through the memories in her mind.

She had realized that she had traveled through time, but instead of the Three Kingdoms era, she had become Lady Yu of the late Qin period. Not only that, but historical figures like Xiang Yu, Xiang Yan, Fan Zeng, and Long Ju had all arrived in this era as well.

Furthermore, she had even searched the names Zhu Yuanzhang and Wanyan Aguda from her own mind.

She could roughly guess that perhaps not only these people existed in this era, but many more who shouldn't be here were also lurking in the shadows. This was an era of historical collapse and chaos.

Realizing that the world was about to descend into chaos, her heart filled with tension. The current era was undoubtedly countless times more dangerous than the actual Three Kingdoms period in history.

Yet, a surge of fighting spirit immediately ignited within her. Since she had already become Lady Yu, and according to her memories, she was soon to be married to Xiang Yu, she was probably destined to be bound to the Western Chu Overlord, Xiang Yu, in the future.

Xiang Yu still possessed immense advantages; he wielded peerless might under heaven, and now he had formidable generals and brilliant strategists at his disposal. Xiang Yu's truly troublesome aspect was likely his personality flaws.

However, Lady Yu immediately remembered that she was probably one of the very few people whose advice Xiang Yu was willing to heed. As long as she constantly admonished and urged him, coupled with the fact that Xiang Yan was still alive, she could infinitely mitigate Xiang Yu's personality shortcomings.

Thinking carefully about it, Lady Yu realized that Xiang Yu still had a very strong chance of success.

Indeed, just as Li Xiang had anticipated, Lady Yu was about to become a complementary presence to Xiang Yu, shoring up his weaknesses.

If everything turned out just as Li Xiang and Lady Yu imagined, the threat posed by Xiang Yu in the future would indeed be vastly different from before, like heaven and earth.