Jeremy
14 years old.
I write the final entry on my paper, finishing the Reverend Insanity CYOA!
Unlike most people I didn't write it for myself, I wrote it for my brother, Jeffrey!
He's been really into this novel lately and managed to get me into it as well. I thought it would be neat to give this to him, med school has been stressing him a lot these days. Hopefully this will brighten his spirits.
He's not home yet, so I just play COD on my PS4 till he comes back. Man am I glad that we just finished school, I can play videogames all day now!
When he comes home it's eleven PM, if i wasn't in vacation mom would've gotten really angry that I stayed up this late.
He's probably going to go to sleep immediately, so I just whisper a 'be right back, gotta pee' in my mic and quietly ambush him at the stairs.
When I find him he is about to begin climbing upstairs to his room. His somewhat unkept stubble and short hair are a part of him at this point.
I hand him the CYOA, he takes it and tries to ruin my haircut, which I masterfully dodge. "Make sure to read it before you go back to bed! Maybe you'll actually get Isekai'd to your favorite novel if you do!"
He laughs. "Hopefully not, I'd probably just end up as bear food."
I shake my head. "Nah, I made you a pretty good build, you'll just need to be lucky."
He nods. "I'm a bit too tired to do anything more now, I'll read it on the bus tomorrow. Make sure you don't stay up too late aight?"
Dad is usually the first to wake up, around 7 AM, so I'll have to go to sleep at around 5 AM if I don't wanna get caught. "Sure! I'll play a few more games and then go to bed."
My brother sighs loudly. "I'll go to sleep now, take care."
I nod. "Will do!"
Jeffrey POV
I wake up feeling unusually well and refreshed. Opening my eyes reveals a wooden roof. Turning my head reveals that I'm not in my room.
There's a paper on my chest, I take it and begin reading.
'1000 points start! + 400 extra for my brother 😀
Alternative timeline: You are born as Gu Yue Fang Yuan; the Fang Yuan we know will never transmigrate to the Gu world. The world will be as it was when set in motion in chapter 1 of Reverend Insanity. Will Spectral Soul resurrect and dominate the five regions and two heavens? Will you destroy Fate Gu? You do not have Spring Autumn Cicada, but almost every other benefit from this character creator. Skip choosing race, location, and appearance section. +300CP
Innate Traits:
Eidetic memory:You gain perfect eidetic memory. However, you may still forget things if you wish. This effect isn't from wisdom path Dao marks, but your natural human path Dao marks imitating wisdom path. -50CP
Innate strength:You gain innate strength at birth. As a baby, you can break a grown man's fingers if you aren't careful. As an adult, you will have the strength of many men. This effect isn't from strength path Dao marks, but your natural human path Dao marks imitating the strength path. -50CP
Transhumanist:Human Path Dao Marks inscribe into you. You can no longer lose your sense of self or humanity and gain extreme resistance to anything that affects the mind. This allows permanent transformation into a beast, immersion in dream realms, or other experiences (or anything else really). -200 CP
Luck:
Nemesis luck: During all stages of your cultivation, you will find a mortal enemy. At rank 1, another rank 1 will want to kill you for some unlikely reason. If you kill your nemesis or become a whole rank stronger than them, another will appear after a year's delay. A nemesis will always be unusually strong for their rank. +250CP
Peach-blossom luck*: You will have very good luck with the opposite sex. They are more receptive to your advances and more prepared to help you. Less effective on those above your rank but still noticeable.* -50CP
Platinum Luck: You are more likely to stumble upon commercial opportunities, especially auctions. Buy low, sell high. -100CP
Dog Shit Luck:Your luck is greatly improved, as if by rank 6 Dog Shit Luck. -200CP
Fortune Rivalling Heaven: In addition to enjoying immense, Ma Hong Yun tier good fortune, you naturally have a greater understanding of luck and gain attainment in luck path 2x faster. -400CP
Soul:
Ten million man soul:Only a soul path immortal would have a soul foundation this great. At this level, the interference from the soul path Dao marks on your soul would be detrimental to cultivating other paths. That is unless you have a way to get around this Dao mark interference. You naturally have a greater understanding of Soul and gain attainment in Soul path 2x faster. -100CP
Grab bag 5 (-100)
Gu professor: You always know if an immortal Gu exists or not.
Otherworldly Dao: Choose what otherworldly Dao mark your soul comes with. (Luck)
Change Will: You can change an ideal of yourself to better fit the Gu world. (Be more ruthless, otherwise you'd probably die. Ignore strangers and focus on true friends and allies)
Instant success: Gu worms that carve Dao marks on the user, like Black Boar Gu, Iron Bone Gu, etc., will have their full effects shown immediately and painlessly upon use, and they won't need primeval essence to activate.
Secret manuals: As shown by Red Lotus Demon Venerable's past, Gu cultivation isn't the only cultivation system to exist in this world. There are secret manuals that mortals who haven't or couldn't awaken their aperture can use to produce supernatural effects. However, such cultivation is very minor compared to Gu Cultivation. You gain 3 secret manuals.
Perks:
Small Dream Immortal Venerable: You have master attainment in every path, providing uncanny and accurate intuitions about everything in the Gu world. You no longer have any restrictions on how many times you can buy grandmaster and great grandmaster attainment, and the price of buying attainment is halved. -150CP
Vital Gu Extension: Choose any Gu worm (except SAC). You acquire the capability to possess an additional Vital Gu worm. This Gu becomes your Vital Gu worm, accompanying your soul and manifesting when you first open your aperture at rank 1. It progressively advances in rank alongside you, reaching up to rank 9 automatically. -150 CP (-350 for this cuz second rank 5) (Dog shit luck gu)
Dao Carver: You now gain twice as many Dao marks from any source as you otherwise would. Heaven's Will doesn't take into account the existence or effect of this perk when sending you tribulations as an immortal. This perk affects any Dao marks you may gain from any perks. You now possess the cultivation prospects of a peak rank 8 expert or even a pseudo-venerable. -300 CP
Second Aperture: You can awaken your second aperture at a time of your choosing. The second aperture functions as if created by rank 6 Second Aperture Gu, meaning it has no restriction on which rank it can rise to. -100 CP
Great era inheritance: You gain a rank 6 immortal inheritance that guides you from rank 1 to the peak of rank 6. The inheritance will be 500 years ahead of its time and contain Gu recipes and killer moves that are centuries ahead of its time. You may choose the inheritance to be a path of the great era like weapon path, pill path, etc. -150CP (Blood path)
Anti-Divination: You possess a rank 9 perpetual killer move, and you can choose the path it pertains to. Only a rank 9 wisdom path immortal equipped with a rank 9 Gu will have the ability to deduce information about you. Whenever someone attempts to make deductions about you, they either fail or receive an obfuscated answer. You have the flexibility to toggle this killer move on or off. If you wish for Heaven's Will to send you tribulations, you can disable the killer move. -300 CP
Vital Gu: When you pass the immortal ascension, your vital Gu, along with 2 other Gu, are guaranteed to advance with you to rank 6. You can also further refine a rank 6 immortal Gu for each path you have great grandmaster attainment in. -150CP
Superior Gu Set: You may pick 10 Gu worms, and they will appear in your aperture when you choose. If the Gu worm you have chosen can be refined to a higher rank, you can do so instantly at no cost when you wish, but not to a rank higher than 5. Furthermore, these 10 Gu worms do not need to be fed. You can buy this perk twice. -100 CP
Immortal Recipes: You can choose 10 Gu worms, and you will obtain the rank 1 recipes, and the rank 2, etc., all the way to rank 9 for each Gu you choose. In other words, you will receive the recipe for the lowest possible rank that the Gu worm can be and up. The recipes will only contain materials that can all be found in the current era, with the higher-ranked recipes being a possible exception. They may contain very exotic or necessarily extinct, but still existing, materials. -100 CP
Inheritance:
Heaven Refining: All your Dao marks are non-conflicting. -500 CP
Missions:
David and Goliath: As a mortal, defeat a cultivator 3 ranks above you, or defeat a rank 6 immortal, or as an immortal, defeat a Gu Immortal one rank above you. +150 CP
Problem? KILL!: Destroy a super force. You don't have to kill all the members of that force, although it would be a good idea. You simply have to make it so that the super force doesn't exist anymore. +150 CP
Founding Ancestor: Create a super force, it may be a clan, sect, or other. The force has to nurture at least one immortal besides yourself. +150 CP
Traditional: Create an inheritance and a suitable inheritance ground. Describe what the trials and requirements there are to get your inheritance. +100
Drawbacks:
No Spoilers: You cannot share the contents of Reverend Insanity with anyone. +50 CP
Like a Mistress: Gu worms you own need three times as much food to be properly fed. +150 CP
Enemy – Shadow Sect: Shadow Sect will try to kill you. They'll discover you only after you draw attention to yourself or become an immortal. Initially, they'll work indirectly by having Zombie Alliance or Defy go after you, escalating if you prove unexpectedly powerful or compromise their plans. +200 CP
Enemy – Heavenly Court: After you become immortal, Heavenly Court will eventually conclude you are an enemy of heaven's will. Their wisdom path great experts will eventually track you down and make well-calculated assassination attempts. As with Shadow Sect, HC has many other priorities and will only react quickly and aggressively if you draw a lot of attention to yourself. +200
Dont worry bro! Youre gonna have lots and lots of fun being lucky :D'
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There is a very easy way to test whether im being fucked with. I rub my hand on my face, finding a distinct lack of any form of facial hair. I also have long hair now.
Let's keep calm for a bit.
I can't tell if I actually have any of the benefits of this CYOA yet, since I don't feel anything close to having an aperture or anything related to cultivation, which means that I'm probably somewhat early timewise. Fang yuan managed to live to five hundred in his first life, and that's without having some wish fulfillment CYOA dumped on him, so I have some good chances.
On the other hand I can also find myself in a pot being refined into rank 1 otherworldly luck gu.
Reverend Insanity is one of those xianxia where dog eat dog is the norm. Hell, it's the poster child for the trope of immoral cultivators using everyone and everything around them as cultivation resources.
Unlike most cultivation novels you don't turn yourself into superman, in this universe Gu cultivation is the norm. Here cultivators use mystical insects that have supernatural effects, meaning that almost everyone is usually about as tough as a normal human regardless of cultivation rank.
That means that even a rank 6 Gu Immortal, an existence that can wipe out all the clans in Qing Mao mountain, the location that I am in right now, without even lifting a finger is still vulnerable to getting their head bashed in my a large rock. Most of them probably have some countermeasures against that kind of thing if I actually think about it. I shou-
A swift knock on the door interrupts my thoughts, before it is unceremoniously opened by a pretty looking girl. The pretty girl smiles at me and gestures for me to come outside. "早安,方媛!來,我幫你洗漱一下 😏"
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Fuck me.
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AN: This is probably gonna be more comedy than grimdark, since anyone with the broken benefits of a CYOA probably isn't gonna get bumfucked immediately.
Here's a link to it: The Expanded Reverend Insanity CYOA : r/ReverendInsanity
The polyglot perk gave me the idea for him to not actually know the language, that's gonna be fun.
You don't need to have read Reverend Insanity for this, I'll try to explain things as the novel goes on.