Cultivation: After Taking a Wife, My System Excels at Comparisons

Xiao Lin had metal, fire, and earth spiritual roots, but only mediocre natural talent, so he wasn't entitled to family stipends.

He faced a choice of paths within the family:

1. Marry and have children. If he fathered a child with spiritual roots, he could receive a family stipend.

2. Become an apprentice alchemist or artifact crafter at a sect or market, and earn cultivation resources himself.

Xiao Lin decisively chose to marry his childhood sweetheart, only to discover that the System's assessment of his first eighteen years was that he'd achieved nothing.

But when compared with his peers, he was miles ahead.

"Ding! Congratulations, Host. In your comparison with Xiao Yuchen, you married first. Victory! Reward: randomly copy one spell the other person has mastered at the perfected level."

"Ding! Congratulations, Host. In your comparison with Third Elder Xiao Hongfeng, who never had a child in his life, you had a child first. Victory! Reward: successfully copy a superior-grade fire spiritual root talent."