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🔥 What Happened in the Six Months?
The world had been quiet, but inside Tianzun, it was anything but. For six months, Tianzun had walked a fine line between mastery and collapse.
It started subtly—a failed pill refinement, the ingredients rejecting his fire.
Then came the duals: he won each, but with strange delay. His control was perfect, yet something deeper was stirring inside him. Yoru once remarked, "You fight like your soul's looking elsewhere."
It was true.
During a herb-gathering trip in the outer ridge of the Xiao Clan territory, Tianzun stumbled upon a wild child being chased by a beast. He saved her. But when she looked up at him, he saw his old eyes reflected in hers—cold, calculating, empty.
That night, something cracked.
For the first time since reincarnation, Tianzun sat beneath the moon and wept. Not loudly. But a single tear slid down his cheek as he whispered:
> "Why was I brought back… if not to live differently?"
And that began the transformation.
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💫 Post-Breakthrough: Da Dou Shi – The World Changes
As Tianzun's aura stabilized, the system interface trembled before him, reshaping itself into a cleaner, deeper interface.
🌀 System Notification 🌀
🔓 Cultivation Level: Da Dou Shi – 1 Star 🔓 Unlocked: Artificial Intelligence System Core 🔓 Unlocked: Legendary Starter Pack 🔓 Unlocked: AI-Linked Memory Tracking 🔓 Unlocked: System Personality Interface
A golden sigil unfolded across his consciousness like a blooming lotus.
> [Initializing System AI Personality Core... Activated.]
A warm, crystalline voice echoed in his soul-sea:
> "Greetings, Host. Designation: Tianzun. System Core AI activated. Personality Node: Custom – Balance of Logic and Humor. I am your integrated guidance intellect—designation: Solace."
Tianzun blinked.
"Solace?"
> "You named me subconsciously during emotional synchronization in cultivation. A remnant word from your prior life. Shall I change it?"
"No," Tianzun murmured. "It's fine."
Then, a deeper question.
"Why me?" he asked.
> "You were selected not because you were good. But because you were incomplete."
> "A soul that had everything… yet understood nothing. Death didn't end your legacy. It reset it."
> "You have been given one chance to write a legacy worthy of power."
Tianzun fell silent. Then slowly asked:
"…Can I go back?"
> "To Earth?" Solace responded with a curious pause. "Only one path leads there: completion of SSS-Rank Mission – [Convergence of Fates: World Key Fragment Restoration]."
> "Mission Status: Locked until Sect Ascension Tier 4."
Tianzun exhaled slowly.
> "Then that's the path."
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💎 The Legendary Starter Pack – Finally Opened
Tianzun accessed the long-delayed reward panel.
[Legendary Starter Pack – Open?]
He looked toward Ling Yuan.
"Did you… choose what's inside?"
Ling Yuan nodded. "I used all my privileges. Normally only five items allowed. I risked backlash and added three more. One of them... is the technique...
Tianzun's hand hovered over the panel.
> "Then you already know what I'm choosing."
He opened it.
✨ Legendary Pack Contents ✨
1. 🔥 Heaven-Devouring Flame Scripture (Cultivation Technique)
2. đź’° 1 trillion celestial shards (system currency)
3. 🌱 Seed of emperor flame x1
4. 🩸 Vein-Carving blood Body Refinement Beads x3 (increase the power and quantity of blood line in body)
5. 🛡 Immortal Bone Core (Enhances spiritual resistance permanently)
6. đź“š Secret Technique Blueprint: [Pulse Vein Array: Tier-5 Barrier Skill]
7. đź—ˇ Weapon material: "Black material" (Bound-to-user, evolution possible)
8. 🧠Soul Memory Scroll – Tier Unknown
9. 🧾 Summoning cards– x20 (Bound Character: Unknown Fate Interloper)
x19 cards left (yoru,used Huang class card)
10. 🏛 Sect Formation Sigil: Tian Shuan (Growth-Linked)
11. 🏬 Premium Store access card x1 (One time use)
He scrolled to the first item.
> "Ling Yuan," he said, "this technique… I have to restart my cultivation?"
Ling Yuan nodded. "It rewrites your foundation. You'll keep your battle instincts, your soul force, and shards—but not cultivation base. You'll start from Dou Zhi Qi. Slowly. Purely. No shortcuts. And no Celestial Shard speed-ups."
Tianzun grinned.
> "So be it. This time, I don't run toward power—I walk with it."
> "And I walk with my master beside me."
Ling Yuan was silent for a beat.
Then: "You tease like a brat."
"And you teach like a mother hen."
They both chuckled.
then,
Tianzun looked at the other items, eyes thoughtful.
The Soul Memory Scroll... the Summoning cards...
He turned to Ling Yuan.
"These… you chose them all?"
Ling Yuan gave a slow nod.
"One day, you'll understand why. And one day… you'll choose for someone else."
Tianzun stared at the night sky.
> "Then let's begin... again."
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End of Chapter 39