The system's interface blazed to life, crimson notifications cascading like digital blood across his vision.
[CONGRATULATIONS! SON OF HEAVEN ELIMINATION COMPLETE]
[ULTIMATE REWARDS CALCULATED:]
[- Villain Points Earned: 500,000 (Used by the system to maintain upgrades and functionality.) ]
[- Fate Value Extracted: Lin Feng's Complete Heavenly Mandate - 750,000 Destiny Points]
[- Evil Points Accumulated: 1,000,000 (Used to purchase items from the shop.) ]
[- Supreme Cultivation Vessel Unlocked - Heavenly Demon Perfected Form]
[- World Seed (Grade: Primordial) - Capable of Creating Pocket Dimensions]
[- Sync Seed (Soul-Link Technology) - Enables consciousness transfer]
[- Lin Feng's Complete Memory Archive - Including Past Life Knowledge]
[- Forbidden Technique Mastery - All Seven Realms of Dark Arts]
[- System Upgrade Possible as per Host's chosen Path]
The Heavenly Demon's eyes gleamed as the rewards flooded through him, but his expression remained cold. These were just tools. What he needed was something far more profound.
Looking toward the system window, he stood and stretched his hand forward. Space itself responded to his will.
A vortex began forming, reality bending and twisting like heated metal. His crimson eyes closed as energy rippled outward in waves that made the very fabric of existence tremble.
The space around his outstretched palm started to tear, slowly at first, then with increasing violence.
Given his strength at the peak Great Vehicle realm, he possessed complete authority over time-space manipulation. With Lin Feng's memories now serving as the fundamental code for world creation, he began tearing through the void itself.
[Host, what are you doing?] came the system's voice, but there was something different about it now. Something... concerned?
"System," he said without opening his eyes, his voice strained from the immense power expenditure, "use the world seed and create a world based on the memories I have."
The system flickered—actually flickered, like a damaged screen. That crack from earlier seemed to have awakened something within its consciousness, breaking the mere assumption that it was above heaven's influence.
[Host... can you elaborate?]
The Heavenly Demon's eyes snapped open. For the first time since he'd possessed this system, it was speaking to him not as a machine, but with something resembling... emotion? The same complex feelings he'd glimpsed in Lin Feng's memories.
"I have knowledge," he said, his voice carrying a weight that made the palace walls tremble, "but I don't have its expression. The experience of what these memories contain in truth."
His fingers dug deeper into the spatial tear, blood beginning to seep from his fingertips as the strain mounted.
"To experience them, I need to take birth and live a life ignorant of this will. To create a new consciousness—a consciousness that is different from what this story has imbued in me."
The words hung heavy in the air. The Heavenly Demon's current personality, his arrogance, his methods, even his desires—all of it had been crafted by heaven to maximize the plot's effectiveness.
Every aspect of his being was designed to make him the perfect stepping stone, to act exactly as this world's narrative demanded.
He wouldn't be that puppet any longer.
"But I cannot change this consciousness directly," he continued, his voice growing more strained as the dimensional rift widened. "To change it, I need impressions. Those memories I have are not strong enough to rewrite what I am. I need something purely mine—a life lived, to know what this love exactly is. These stories, these novels... I need to experience them from the inside."
[Understanding achieved,] the system responded, and for the first time, its voice carried genuine comprehension. [Initiating world seed merger.]
The world seed materialized—a swirling orb of pure creative energy that contained the power to birth entire universes.
The Heavenly Demon grasped it and hurled it through the dimensional tear.
The rift immediately sealed itself as the seed took root in the void, beginning to form a new reality in the small space between dimensions.
He closed the portal and looked down at his trembling hand.
Even with his absolute authority at this realm level, the power required was beyond what his current form could safely channel.
This body had limits—and that bottleneck would constrain any consciousness he designed for himself.
A limit placed by this world story narrative to bind him down... though now he has evil points through purchasing resources he can break free from it, but also a vision that sees beyond just mere breakthrough.
This flesh bore the sword marks of countless battles, the spiritual scars of the Heavenly Demon's path. It was tainted by heaven's design. He needed something pure. Something untouched.
"System, manifest the body."
[Supreme Cultivation Vessel materializing...]
Light coalesced before him, taking the shape of a perfect humanoid form. It was tall, graceful, with features that suggested nobility and strength without the cruel edges that marked his current face.
This body was unmarked by battle, unmarked by heaven's influence—a blank slate for a new kind of existence.
"System, analyze the world I've created and choose a family that will provide the maximum range of emotions I lack."
[Analyzing emotional deficiencies... Processing available family structures in created world...]
[Analysis complete: Target emotions identified - Love, familial bonds, intellectual curiosity, modern medical knowledge, compassion, friendship, sacrifice for others...]
[Optimal family selected: Medical professionals with strong moral foundations and deep emotional connections. Father: Human physician. Mother: Veterinarian. Only child dynamic will maximize parental investment and emotional development.]
[Family placement confirmed in created world designated as 'Earth-Prime Variant 1.']
The Heavenly Demon's lips curved into something that might have been a smile. Technically, he was now the god of that world. But as his body began to tremble more violently from the sheer strain of cosmic-level creation, he knew his time in this form was ending.
He retrieved the sync seed—a crystalline object that pulsed with soul-binding energy.
"Sync seed, link my soul with that body."
The seed dissolved into pure light, flowing between his current form and the perfected vessel before him.
He felt his consciousness begin to stretch, preparing to bridge the gap between forms, between worlds.
But first, preparation.
"System," the Heavenly Demon commanded, his voice cutting through the dimensional static still crackling around them. "Use all evil points I have to purchase elixirs and resources."
[PROCESSING REQUEST...]
[WARNING: Total expenditure will consume 1,000,000 Evil Points. Confirm purchase?]
"Do it."
[CONFIRMED. Initiating mass acquisition...]
The air around him exploded with materialization energy as the system drained every single evil point without hesitation. Hundreds of thousands of spiritual plants, elixirs, and cultivation resources burst into existence, flooding his system inventory with treasures that would make entire sects weep with envy.
[PURCHASED: 847,392 High-Grade Thousand-Year Elixirs]
[PURCHASED: 23,847 Supreme Cultivation Pills]
[PURCHASED: 156,839 Legendary Spiritual Herbs]
[EVIL POINTS: 1,000,000 → 0]
The cost was astronomical, but the Heavenly Demon's expression remained unchanged as his entire fortune evaporated. These weren't just purchases—they were investments in breaking the very foundations of this world's narrative.
"Now," he continued, his crimson eyes burning with purpose, "use the destiny points. Find the strongest Fated Encounter in this dimension."
[ANALYZING DESTINY CURRENTS... SCANNING FOR PRIME OPPORTUNITIES...]
[COST: 375,000 Destiny Points. PROCESSING...]
Half of his destiny points vanished in an instant, the cosmic energy being consumed to pierce through the veils of fate itself.
[FATED ENCOUNTER LOCATED: Ancient Prime Dragon Corpse - Tian Long the Purifier]
[LOCATION: Death Valley - Epicenter of Continental Corruption]
[WARNING: Mortality rate for Peak Great Vehicle Realm cultivators: 99.97%]
The Heavenly Demon's lips curved into a cold smile. "Death Valley."
How amusing. Throughout this entire lower realm, his divine senses had scoured every mountain, every hidden valley, every secret grotto. But that place—that cursed deathtrap where even Void Returning masters feared to tread—had remained beyond his investigation.
The stronger a cultivator was, the faster they died there. It was the ultimate cosmic joke: power becoming weakness, strength becoming vulnerability.
"Indeed a Strange Plot Armor... now this doesn't even feel amusing."