Cannon fodder Cheating System (BL)
- Thread starter cheriii
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- #83
yeah, the friend was actually a spy for the half-bro, that's how half-bro knew about mc's money limit regarding that piece of land. they were betting on mc bidding again since it didn't overstep that limit. but since mc knew the whole story, he trapped them ^^
yeah, it was QX who sent them, but QX is kinda stupid, so he would never think of doing this (he would forget MC more likely) if not for the half-bro always bringing up his sad childhood. so QX is just a dog that gets instigated by half-bro every time. that's also the reason why i don't pity the half-bro. everything that the owner suffered from stem from half-bro's and the father's machinations. QX was just handy and available to do the dirty jobs.
yeah, it was QX who sent them, but QX is kinda stupid, so he would never think of doing this (he would forget MC more likely) if not for the half-bro always bringing up his sad childhood. so QX is just a dog that gets instigated by half-bro every time. that's also the reason why i don't pity the half-bro. everything that the owner suffered from stem from half-bro's and the father's machinations. QX was just handy and available to do the dirty jobs.
- #87
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- #89
MC wakes up in an empty college classroom. He picks up his backpack and is about to leave when a group of "friends" come in, one of them asking to borrow money for his dad's hospital bills. This time MC instinctively recognizes him as the Antagonist (just like he is able to recognize ML when he sees him), and so immediately refuses. The other kids try to speak up for the Antagonist, but MC doesn't even bother to be friendly about the rejection. He also demands to see the hospital paperwork before he'll consider giving money, because he suspects that the story is false.
After getting rid of the other kids, MC goes home and reviews his backstory. He's a rich second generation, with both parents dead and living by himself. His original body is a very independent person, and had a few friends who were more acquaintances than true friends. When Antagonist showed up at the school, he was a white lotus who easily got those 'friends' to revolve around him instead, and drove original MC out of the circle.
It would've been a harmless schoolyard thing, but in a few more days, there would be a day of black sun, followed by zombie apocalypse. Original MC had access to several high security warehouses of medical resources that belonged to his family, and used that to maintain status/living. Antagonist got a gang to attack one of these places to take the resources by force, but the security measures were able to hold them off, and let original MC get away with his resources. Later on, people started to develop powers. Both original MC and Antagonist got powers and clashed several times at mostly even scores. In the end, they fought and killed each other. At that point, Antagonist was reborn to 10 days before the black sun. He planned to used the fake story about his dad being in the hospital to get a lot of money from MC, and then use that to buy resources such as guns. Then he planned to lure MC out somewhere and kill him. Thus when the apocalypse starts, he can take his time in seizing MC's assets for his benefit.
Of course, now that the new MC is here, he's also essentially reborn, in that he knows what happened in both the original timeline, and what would've happened in the current timeline. He immediately sends new orders to the managers of his family's companies to prep for what's to come. Then uses the system to find a selection of the best available ex-military bodyguards and hires them. He then moves the resources that are in the less secure warehouses to more secure and hidden locations, and also makes additional purchases of armaments from the black market. Finally, he moves out of his house to a more defensible estate outside the city, and fortifies it.
In these days, MC doesn't both going to classes. So Antagonist finally shows up to MC's house along with his lackey. MC has been waiting for just this. He remote controls the house to let them in. There's no one in the house of course, but there's a cellphone suspiciously placed on the front table, which Antagonist picks up. MC had placed an explosive in it, which he activates and blows up the Antagonist's hand.
When the apocalypse finally comes, MC is ready. He implies to his bodyguards that he has the ability to see the future (which is sorta true). He hands out the weapons he had altered in the days before hand, and tells the bodyguards the best way to handle zombies. Then they drive out to a high tech medical facility where the government has been performing research on the phenomenons that had been occurring even before the day of black sun. He hacks the system and retrieves the only high level zombie core in existence at the moment. Soon afterwards, Antagonist also arrives for the same goal. They fight but MC wins because he has professional backup rather than some college kids. He also takes the medical researcher the Antagonist had kidnapped to open the security when he leaves, though not before he makes Antagonist beg for his life.
Back at base, MC uses the system to activate his superpowers, and then absorbs the zombie core to boost it. He plans to hole up in the base until the bodyguards start developing powers. But a few days later, he's informed that the base has been surrounded by the military. With his new powers, he immediately finds Antagonist in one of the cars.
MC first shows off his altered guns and his superpowers, forcing the military forces to back off. He then drives out with his bodyguards to talk to the military leader. Having seen MC's ability, the military leader is of course willing to throw Antagonist under the bus in order to get MC's allegiance and resources. Antagonist attacks him, and MC shows off his powers again and crushes his hopes.
Then a helicopter shows up, along with more military cars. The leader of this military group is ML, from the main military zone (the previous military group Antagonist came with had split off and established independence from the main group). Given the choice, MC obviously picks to go with ML, though not before playfully making ML promise him to always personally cater to whatever he wants in the future.
Once they arrived at ML's military zone, MC feels secure enough to wipe his hands of all the hard work. He tells ML where all of his stockpiled resources are located and the security passwords, then just leaves the military and his body guards to do the rest. All of this plus ML's care of course allows him to maintain a high status in the zone. MC lives next door to ML in the same suite, and he also tells ML that he has reborn knowledge, which he passed off to his bodyguards as precognition. They start having sex, but gets interrupted by new orders for the ML. Before he leaves, ML tells him that the other military zone that Antagonist was with has been forcefully reabsorbed back into the main military force, and it's possible that Antagonist has been moved to the current zone with the other refugees.
In this era before people have not yet naturally developed superpowers, and as a refugee absorbed from a rival zone, Antagonist and his friends are put to work at menial labor. There are guards posted everywhere, enforcing martial law, though everyone in the zone knows MC gets special treatment because of his ability and status. So MC sets up a lawn chair and an umbrella stand nearby where Antagonist is slaving away and just lounges around savoring their resentment.
ML gets back and they finally have sex. Later on, ML shows up where MC is lounging around the Antagonist, and pulls him away. Antagonist guesses relationship and is filled with jealousy.
When ML has to leave again, MC warns him to be careful, because it's close to the time powers start naturally showing up, and there is a period of time when they show up when they will be unstable for the user. ML's group returns some time after powers start showing up, but he was injured in the mission. The military got all the people with healing related powers to try and heal him, which includes Antagonist, but it turned out that ML's body rejected his ability. MC can have his powers be of any function due to the system, so he shows up next and is able to heal ML. MC finds out that ML got injured because their mission was attacked by a large group of zombies led by a zombie king. He is surprised because there were only 5 zombie kings in existence.
Antagonist fainted due to the effects of the power rejection and seeing MC succeed where he failed again. When he wakes up, he finds that his healing power is gone, possibly due to the severe rejection / power backlash he received. He decides he can't take remaining in this zone anymore. However, none of his friends are willing to leave with him into unknown danger. So in the end he leaves by himself.
Meanwhile, MC is distracted by MLs recovery and then more sex. During his time unconscious, ML vaguely recalls a feeling that he has been long separated by vast distance and span of time from MC. Even when they're together during sex, he still feels as if he's still desperately waiting for reunion. So much that he uncontrollably whispers "I miss you; come back soon".
Soon afterwards, MC predicts that the time for the second super zombie core to appear is at hand. He accompanies ML on the mission this time, to an ancient tomb. He's also certain that Antagonist knows of this too, and is likely to show up as well. Sure enough, when they forcefully enter the tomb, they see a zombie king and the Antagonist, who appears to have joined forces with the opposing species, becoming a kind of half-zombie state. They fight verbally and physically, and the ML+MC duo of course wins and destroys the opposition. MC feels a little conflicted over the Antagonist's death, but only because he kinda wanted him to suffer further.
With 2 zombie kings dead, there's only 3 left. Afterwards, given the population has powers, regular zombies would no longer be a threat to humanity. MC finds that he's now suddenly sleeping for longer and longer periods of time, and that it's hard to remain awake or be roused to wake outside of when he's needed to fight. He realizes this started from when Antagonist died and he subconsciously realized that his overall mission in this life is more or less completed, and that the narcolepsy is caused by his soul trying to leave this world and return to the system. Sure enough, after killing the last zombie king, he falls asleep in his lover's lap, and wakes up in the system.
MC is immediately sent onto the next world after returning to the system. He wakes up in an ancient style bed, feeling hung over. He sets the system to cure his hangover, and notes a few additional functions are available which indicates he's in a cultivation world. Then, a servant comes in and tells him he needs to hurry or he'll be late to receive the guests from Prayer Sun Isle. MC dresses and goes to the main hall, where it appears a large family had gathered. Based on his body's instincts, he finds his spot to stand, noting that two people showed signs of surprise that he showed up. He guesses that one of them is his half-brother, and the other is his half-brother's mom, and that his original self was probably not voluntarily in a drunken stupor when he arrived.
The guests arrive on flying swords, apparently here to pick new disciples from the youths of the family. To this they open two caskets. From one emerges a piece of white jade which floats across to the MC. From the other emerges 4 pieces of lesser jade which flies over to 4 other youths. They're told a boat will come by the next morning to pick them up.
During the dinner party afterwards, MC silent observes the family. He notes that everyone seems to cater to his stepmother, implying that it was due to her connections that the people from Sun Prayer Isle visited the family. The woman also calls MC up, asking to see the jade piece. MC knows she's up to no good. But as soon as she touches the jade, her hand gets severely burned. She accuses MC of doing causing the burn. MC protests that he just got the thing and couldn't have done anything to it. Someone else trying to suck up to the stepmother suggests that MC is too rebellious to be allowed to go to Sun Prayer Isle tomorrow. However, a voice suddenly comes down from the heavens, announcing that the jade pieces will burn anyone not chosen with divine fire, and that if the chosen youths do not show up the next day, the entire family will be executed. The stepmother faints, and MC takes the chance to leave.
He finally gets a chance to review the backstory of the setting. His father was a member of a large and highly placed family at their level in the setting. He was happily married to MC's mother, and both were considered the fairest man and woman of their time. However, because of his appearance, his dad caught the fancy of the daughter of Lan Daonian, the head of Crane Call City, which was at a high level of cultivation. The woman used the secret cultivation techniques and manuals to lure MC's dad to her place often, and then used drugs to have relations with him. After a few times, his dad had guessed what was going on, but his greed for the cultivation secrets was too much and he kept coming back. Then finally the girl got pregnant, and used that to get her parents to secretly kill off MC's mom, and force MC's dad to marry her. Because of her backing, this stepmother and her son (Antagonist) has most of the actual power in the family. MC had been bullied all the time, and nearly died a few times if not for his dad secretly aiding him.
This stepmother has an elder sister who is a one of the disciples of the grandmaster of Prayer Sun Isle, who is at the highest level of cultivation for this world-plane. Originally, she convinced this sister to take in the Antagonist as her disciple, after which he would return as a major power of his own and easily kill off the MC. However now the situation is different, not only that 5 people were picked instead of just one, but the chosen are said to be candidates and not direct disciples. MC can't find any way how his recent appearance could have changed the original plot so much, and then decides that the change must have come from the ML, in which case, his lover is most likely waiting for him on the Isle.
The next morning, MC doesn't bother to pack anything with him when he goes to the boat. There, he's led to a private room of his own, very regally decorated. He tries a fruit from the bowl on the table and finds that it's all rare fruits that boost spiritual abilities. For the next few days he sticks to his room, eating all of these magical fruits and pastries, before the Antagonist and the other 3 youths break into the room to continue their bullying campaign. Antagonist is immediately jealous because MC's room is fancier than his. MC however is now more powerful due to all the fruits he's eaten, and literally kicks Antagonist across the room. Then the boat supervisor shows up. Antagonist brings out how his aunt is the disciple of the master of the Isle and how he should get the better room. The supervisor however tells them that everyone on the Isle needs to follow the rules, and then sweeps the four youths out of the room, giving orders they are to be taken to isolation chambers to learn the rules of Prayer Sun Isle.
After they get to the Isle, they exit the boat into the middle of a blizzard. MC is confused because this is not how he imagined the blessed isle to look like. A single sedan is waiting at the dock, and MC alone is allowed into the sedan, while everyone else gets to walk through the blizzard. Antagonist protests, but again, he's told to suck it up.
When the sedan chair arrives at its destination, MC is in front of a palace. He's taken to a large indoors bathing pool. While bathing and enjoying the scenery outside the window, he several times feels as if he's being watched. Then suddenly, a man appears in front of him (ML), and calls him by his true name (not the name of his current host). When asked who he is, he says that his current form is called Bai Guang (grandmaster of the Prayer Sun Isle), but his true name is Shang Wang. The latter name immediately causes MC to become dizzy, as if it's something that he should remember but is unable to. ML tells him not to think about it if it hurts; he'll remember when everything is over and he's return to return. MC is still confused. ML tells him that he's been waiting for a long time. Then they kiss and proceed to the bed...
Meanwhile, Antagonist and company finally makes it to a palace, and he meets his aunt. He attempts to complain to her, but she's unsympathetic, and tells them they either follow the rules or that they'll be punished/killed, and even she can't help them because her master's rules are absolute.
MC wakes up to his lover looking somewhat conflicted by his side, and now answering by his current world's name. Apparently his two identities are separate awareness. Most of the time Bai Guang is in charge, but occasionally Shang Wang will take over the body to perform some actions (probably anything to do with paving the way for MC). They don't have memory of what the other does, but use the white jade piece that chose MC to leave messages for their other self. MC really wants to talk more with Shang Wang because that identity probably has all the answers he's looking for, but Bai Guang tells him he can't just call the other out (he also gets jealous of himself, lol).
Anyway, ML only intended to have ten disciples, but the first disciple spot has actually been left open this entire time, saved for when MC shows up. ML intends to have MC reach immortal status in one year, and then publicly take up that spot. MC is a little skeptical that his cultivation can be taken to that level so fast, but ML has everything prepared, including the primary method, which is of course dual cultivation. MC feels a little awkward about it because it kinda feels like cheating even though he understands they're the same being.
After a few months, MC is on one of his once a month rare breaks, and visits the orchards for some rare fruits that are just about to become ripe. On the way, he sees Antagonist & co. among the other candidates doing menial labor working the soil. Likewise, they recognize MC's voice. On the way back, MC recalls how Antagonist once humiliated his original self with some magic fruits, he repays the favor and humiliates him right back.
Anyway, once the year is up, MC has successfully achieved the immortality level of cultivation. A huge ceremony and banquet is held to inform the world of his new status. Among the invitees are people from MC's family and his stepmom's family. Antagonist of course takes the chance to complain to his mom, and his mom complains her sister, but said sister isn't close to her and rebuffs her, telling her that the rules are set by Bai Guang and MC is staying at his palace, so there's nothing anyone can do about it.
After the ceremony, ML calls Lan Daonian (Antagonist's grandfather) to his hall and pretty much assigns him the job of using the Purification Palace in his city to purify a Demonic Orb. LDN is shocked because he knows doing this will pretty much also destroy the Purification Palace, which is one of the foundations of his city's power and his family's cultivation. LDN has no choice but to agree. ML says he will send MC along with another disciple (the Antagonist's aunt) to deliver the orb.
Back in the palace, ML tells the MC to have fun but also to be careful, because that family has an ancestor who had ascended. Even though ML is confident he can beat that ancestor, it would likely be a pyrrhic victory. However, they still have a trump card with ML's other self. He gives the white jade piece back to MC so he can track MC through it. The next day, the group heads out to CCC. Among the attendants sent with MC is also the Antagonist and co., allowing MC to further humiliate his foe in front of the stepmother, and also to provoke the stepmother to make a fool of herself and get punished by her sister & father. Her husband is even more unsympathetic, having never loved her. He does try and talk to MC, but MC rejects the audience, making it clear that he still doesn't forgive his father for being the root cause of his mother's death.
When they get to CCC, MC releases the Demonic Orb into the Purification Palace, and also orders Antagonist & friends to go inside and guard it. Everyone knows that doing so has the possibility of ruining their cultivation potential, but no one can protest the order. After a few days, the parents of the other youths start begging MC to let their kids out. Because those youths were merely the Antagonist's accomplices and not his main target, MC allows them to be let out and taken home.
The stepmother also demands her son to be taken out too, but MC straightforwardly tells her he means to torment and kill everyone involved in his mother's death, including her and her son. The stepmother attacks him, but bounces off his defenses, and then she's pierced through the heart by her husband, who just wants to end it all. With her last breath, she also kills him as well. MC is surprised by this result, and sends his father's body home for burial. He also guesses that he's close to provoking LDN to attack, and thus sends away his fellow disciple because he recognizes that she's unlike the rest of the Nan family, and doesn't want her to feel conflicted when he takes his revenge.
LDN demands that the Antagonist be released for his mom's funeral rites. MC refuses, since his mom didn't even get funeral rites. LDN calls out the Lan family immortal ancestor. Before MC can even respond, ML also arrives to insult and fight the Lan ancestor. Not able to catch up to them, MC looks over at LDN, but before he can start a fight with his other target, some fellow disciples of his master show up and immediately start attacking LDN instead. Soon afterwards, ML returns with the dead body of his foe.
MC complains about how he "trained" all this time and didn't get to do any fighting so how's he supposed to take revenge? ML pats him on the head and tells him he can kill the Antagonist and finish his vengeance. MC, however, decides to take him back to the Isle for further torment, because he realized that if he kills the Antagonist now, he's likely to immediately leave the current world early like the previous two incarnations.
Back on the Isle, MC explains the whole repeating worlds thing to ML and how he suspects that killing the Antagonist will cause him to move onto another world, where ML won't remember him and they'll start over again. He also has lots of questions that he'd like to get answered by ML's other self first. So he's decided to wait until the Shang Wang shows up again before deciding what to do with Antagonist.
It's after another year before Shang Wang shows up, but the first thing he does, before MC even wakes up, is to go off and kill the Antagonist. MC demands to know why. He tells him that this is the last incarnation, and that MC doesn't need to incarnate further, but will be returning home to him after this. He also explains that Bai Guang, like all the previous incarnations of MC's lover, are all parts of his soul (so he has all their memories too).
Before MC can ask anything more he blacks out and finds him back in the system. Then the system world starts spinning, and and he goes dizzy and falls unconscious there as well.
After getting rid of the other kids, MC goes home and reviews his backstory. He's a rich second generation, with both parents dead and living by himself. His original body is a very independent person, and had a few friends who were more acquaintances than true friends. When Antagonist showed up at the school, he was a white lotus who easily got those 'friends' to revolve around him instead, and drove original MC out of the circle.
It would've been a harmless schoolyard thing, but in a few more days, there would be a day of black sun, followed by zombie apocalypse. Original MC had access to several high security warehouses of medical resources that belonged to his family, and used that to maintain status/living. Antagonist got a gang to attack one of these places to take the resources by force, but the security measures were able to hold them off, and let original MC get away with his resources. Later on, people started to develop powers. Both original MC and Antagonist got powers and clashed several times at mostly even scores. In the end, they fought and killed each other. At that point, Antagonist was reborn to 10 days before the black sun. He planned to used the fake story about his dad being in the hospital to get a lot of money from MC, and then use that to buy resources such as guns. Then he planned to lure MC out somewhere and kill him. Thus when the apocalypse starts, he can take his time in seizing MC's assets for his benefit.
Of course, now that the new MC is here, he's also essentially reborn, in that he knows what happened in both the original timeline, and what would've happened in the current timeline. He immediately sends new orders to the managers of his family's companies to prep for what's to come. Then uses the system to find a selection of the best available ex-military bodyguards and hires them. He then moves the resources that are in the less secure warehouses to more secure and hidden locations, and also makes additional purchases of armaments from the black market. Finally, he moves out of his house to a more defensible estate outside the city, and fortifies it.
In these days, MC doesn't both going to classes. So Antagonist finally shows up to MC's house along with his lackey. MC has been waiting for just this. He remote controls the house to let them in. There's no one in the house of course, but there's a cellphone suspiciously placed on the front table, which Antagonist picks up. MC had placed an explosive in it, which he activates and blows up the Antagonist's hand.
When the apocalypse finally comes, MC is ready. He implies to his bodyguards that he has the ability to see the future (which is sorta true). He hands out the weapons he had altered in the days before hand, and tells the bodyguards the best way to handle zombies. Then they drive out to a high tech medical facility where the government has been performing research on the phenomenons that had been occurring even before the day of black sun. He hacks the system and retrieves the only high level zombie core in existence at the moment. Soon afterwards, Antagonist also arrives for the same goal. They fight but MC wins because he has professional backup rather than some college kids. He also takes the medical researcher the Antagonist had kidnapped to open the security when he leaves, though not before he makes Antagonist beg for his life.
Back at base, MC uses the system to activate his superpowers, and then absorbs the zombie core to boost it. He plans to hole up in the base until the bodyguards start developing powers. But a few days later, he's informed that the base has been surrounded by the military. With his new powers, he immediately finds Antagonist in one of the cars.
MC first shows off his altered guns and his superpowers, forcing the military forces to back off. He then drives out with his bodyguards to talk to the military leader. Having seen MC's ability, the military leader is of course willing to throw Antagonist under the bus in order to get MC's allegiance and resources. Antagonist attacks him, and MC shows off his powers again and crushes his hopes.
Then a helicopter shows up, along with more military cars. The leader of this military group is ML, from the main military zone (the previous military group Antagonist came with had split off and established independence from the main group). Given the choice, MC obviously picks to go with ML, though not before playfully making ML promise him to always personally cater to whatever he wants in the future.
Once they arrived at ML's military zone, MC feels secure enough to wipe his hands of all the hard work. He tells ML where all of his stockpiled resources are located and the security passwords, then just leaves the military and his body guards to do the rest. All of this plus ML's care of course allows him to maintain a high status in the zone. MC lives next door to ML in the same suite, and he also tells ML that he has reborn knowledge, which he passed off to his bodyguards as precognition. They start having sex, but gets interrupted by new orders for the ML. Before he leaves, ML tells him that the other military zone that Antagonist was with has been forcefully reabsorbed back into the main military force, and it's possible that Antagonist has been moved to the current zone with the other refugees.
In this era before people have not yet naturally developed superpowers, and as a refugee absorbed from a rival zone, Antagonist and his friends are put to work at menial labor. There are guards posted everywhere, enforcing martial law, though everyone in the zone knows MC gets special treatment because of his ability and status. So MC sets up a lawn chair and an umbrella stand nearby where Antagonist is slaving away and just lounges around savoring their resentment.
ML gets back and they finally have sex. Later on, ML shows up where MC is lounging around the Antagonist, and pulls him away. Antagonist guesses relationship and is filled with jealousy.
When ML has to leave again, MC warns him to be careful, because it's close to the time powers start naturally showing up, and there is a period of time when they show up when they will be unstable for the user. ML's group returns some time after powers start showing up, but he was injured in the mission. The military got all the people with healing related powers to try and heal him, which includes Antagonist, but it turned out that ML's body rejected his ability. MC can have his powers be of any function due to the system, so he shows up next and is able to heal ML. MC finds out that ML got injured because their mission was attacked by a large group of zombies led by a zombie king. He is surprised because there were only 5 zombie kings in existence.
Antagonist fainted due to the effects of the power rejection and seeing MC succeed where he failed again. When he wakes up, he finds that his healing power is gone, possibly due to the severe rejection / power backlash he received. He decides he can't take remaining in this zone anymore. However, none of his friends are willing to leave with him into unknown danger. So in the end he leaves by himself.
Meanwhile, MC is distracted by MLs recovery and then more sex. During his time unconscious, ML vaguely recalls a feeling that he has been long separated by vast distance and span of time from MC. Even when they're together during sex, he still feels as if he's still desperately waiting for reunion. So much that he uncontrollably whispers "I miss you; come back soon".
Soon afterwards, MC predicts that the time for the second super zombie core to appear is at hand. He accompanies ML on the mission this time, to an ancient tomb. He's also certain that Antagonist knows of this too, and is likely to show up as well. Sure enough, when they forcefully enter the tomb, they see a zombie king and the Antagonist, who appears to have joined forces with the opposing species, becoming a kind of half-zombie state. They fight verbally and physically, and the ML+MC duo of course wins and destroys the opposition. MC feels a little conflicted over the Antagonist's death, but only because he kinda wanted him to suffer further.
With 2 zombie kings dead, there's only 3 left. Afterwards, given the population has powers, regular zombies would no longer be a threat to humanity. MC finds that he's now suddenly sleeping for longer and longer periods of time, and that it's hard to remain awake or be roused to wake outside of when he's needed to fight. He realizes this started from when Antagonist died and he subconsciously realized that his overall mission in this life is more or less completed, and that the narcolepsy is caused by his soul trying to leave this world and return to the system. Sure enough, after killing the last zombie king, he falls asleep in his lover's lap, and wakes up in the system.
MC is immediately sent onto the next world after returning to the system. He wakes up in an ancient style bed, feeling hung over. He sets the system to cure his hangover, and notes a few additional functions are available which indicates he's in a cultivation world. Then, a servant comes in and tells him he needs to hurry or he'll be late to receive the guests from Prayer Sun Isle. MC dresses and goes to the main hall, where it appears a large family had gathered. Based on his body's instincts, he finds his spot to stand, noting that two people showed signs of surprise that he showed up. He guesses that one of them is his half-brother, and the other is his half-brother's mom, and that his original self was probably not voluntarily in a drunken stupor when he arrived.
The guests arrive on flying swords, apparently here to pick new disciples from the youths of the family. To this they open two caskets. From one emerges a piece of white jade which floats across to the MC. From the other emerges 4 pieces of lesser jade which flies over to 4 other youths. They're told a boat will come by the next morning to pick them up.
During the dinner party afterwards, MC silent observes the family. He notes that everyone seems to cater to his stepmother, implying that it was due to her connections that the people from Sun Prayer Isle visited the family. The woman also calls MC up, asking to see the jade piece. MC knows she's up to no good. But as soon as she touches the jade, her hand gets severely burned. She accuses MC of doing causing the burn. MC protests that he just got the thing and couldn't have done anything to it. Someone else trying to suck up to the stepmother suggests that MC is too rebellious to be allowed to go to Sun Prayer Isle tomorrow. However, a voice suddenly comes down from the heavens, announcing that the jade pieces will burn anyone not chosen with divine fire, and that if the chosen youths do not show up the next day, the entire family will be executed. The stepmother faints, and MC takes the chance to leave.
He finally gets a chance to review the backstory of the setting. His father was a member of a large and highly placed family at their level in the setting. He was happily married to MC's mother, and both were considered the fairest man and woman of their time. However, because of his appearance, his dad caught the fancy of the daughter of Lan Daonian, the head of Crane Call City, which was at a high level of cultivation. The woman used the secret cultivation techniques and manuals to lure MC's dad to her place often, and then used drugs to have relations with him. After a few times, his dad had guessed what was going on, but his greed for the cultivation secrets was too much and he kept coming back. Then finally the girl got pregnant, and used that to get her parents to secretly kill off MC's mom, and force MC's dad to marry her. Because of her backing, this stepmother and her son (Antagonist) has most of the actual power in the family. MC had been bullied all the time, and nearly died a few times if not for his dad secretly aiding him.
This stepmother has an elder sister who is a one of the disciples of the grandmaster of Prayer Sun Isle, who is at the highest level of cultivation for this world-plane. Originally, she convinced this sister to take in the Antagonist as her disciple, after which he would return as a major power of his own and easily kill off the MC. However now the situation is different, not only that 5 people were picked instead of just one, but the chosen are said to be candidates and not direct disciples. MC can't find any way how his recent appearance could have changed the original plot so much, and then decides that the change must have come from the ML, in which case, his lover is most likely waiting for him on the Isle.
The next morning, MC doesn't bother to pack anything with him when he goes to the boat. There, he's led to a private room of his own, very regally decorated. He tries a fruit from the bowl on the table and finds that it's all rare fruits that boost spiritual abilities. For the next few days he sticks to his room, eating all of these magical fruits and pastries, before the Antagonist and the other 3 youths break into the room to continue their bullying campaign. Antagonist is immediately jealous because MC's room is fancier than his. MC however is now more powerful due to all the fruits he's eaten, and literally kicks Antagonist across the room. Then the boat supervisor shows up. Antagonist brings out how his aunt is the disciple of the master of the Isle and how he should get the better room. The supervisor however tells them that everyone on the Isle needs to follow the rules, and then sweeps the four youths out of the room, giving orders they are to be taken to isolation chambers to learn the rules of Prayer Sun Isle.
After they get to the Isle, they exit the boat into the middle of a blizzard. MC is confused because this is not how he imagined the blessed isle to look like. A single sedan is waiting at the dock, and MC alone is allowed into the sedan, while everyone else gets to walk through the blizzard. Antagonist protests, but again, he's told to suck it up.
When the sedan chair arrives at its destination, MC is in front of a palace. He's taken to a large indoors bathing pool. While bathing and enjoying the scenery outside the window, he several times feels as if he's being watched. Then suddenly, a man appears in front of him (ML), and calls him by his true name (not the name of his current host). When asked who he is, he says that his current form is called Bai Guang (grandmaster of the Prayer Sun Isle), but his true name is Shang Wang. The latter name immediately causes MC to become dizzy, as if it's something that he should remember but is unable to. ML tells him not to think about it if it hurts; he'll remember when everything is over and he's return to return. MC is still confused. ML tells him that he's been waiting for a long time. Then they kiss and proceed to the bed...
Meanwhile, Antagonist and company finally makes it to a palace, and he meets his aunt. He attempts to complain to her, but she's unsympathetic, and tells them they either follow the rules or that they'll be punished/killed, and even she can't help them because her master's rules are absolute.
MC wakes up to his lover looking somewhat conflicted by his side, and now answering by his current world's name. Apparently his two identities are separate awareness. Most of the time Bai Guang is in charge, but occasionally Shang Wang will take over the body to perform some actions (probably anything to do with paving the way for MC). They don't have memory of what the other does, but use the white jade piece that chose MC to leave messages for their other self. MC really wants to talk more with Shang Wang because that identity probably has all the answers he's looking for, but Bai Guang tells him he can't just call the other out (he also gets jealous of himself, lol).
Anyway, ML only intended to have ten disciples, but the first disciple spot has actually been left open this entire time, saved for when MC shows up. ML intends to have MC reach immortal status in one year, and then publicly take up that spot. MC is a little skeptical that his cultivation can be taken to that level so fast, but ML has everything prepared, including the primary method, which is of course dual cultivation. MC feels a little awkward about it because it kinda feels like cheating even though he understands they're the same being.
After a few months, MC is on one of his once a month rare breaks, and visits the orchards for some rare fruits that are just about to become ripe. On the way, he sees Antagonist & co. among the other candidates doing menial labor working the soil. Likewise, they recognize MC's voice. On the way back, MC recalls how Antagonist once humiliated his original self with some magic fruits, he repays the favor and humiliates him right back.
Anyway, once the year is up, MC has successfully achieved the immortality level of cultivation. A huge ceremony and banquet is held to inform the world of his new status. Among the invitees are people from MC's family and his stepmom's family. Antagonist of course takes the chance to complain to his mom, and his mom complains her sister, but said sister isn't close to her and rebuffs her, telling her that the rules are set by Bai Guang and MC is staying at his palace, so there's nothing anyone can do about it.
After the ceremony, ML calls Lan Daonian (Antagonist's grandfather) to his hall and pretty much assigns him the job of using the Purification Palace in his city to purify a Demonic Orb. LDN is shocked because he knows doing this will pretty much also destroy the Purification Palace, which is one of the foundations of his city's power and his family's cultivation. LDN has no choice but to agree. ML says he will send MC along with another disciple (the Antagonist's aunt) to deliver the orb.
Back in the palace, ML tells the MC to have fun but also to be careful, because that family has an ancestor who had ascended. Even though ML is confident he can beat that ancestor, it would likely be a pyrrhic victory. However, they still have a trump card with ML's other self. He gives the white jade piece back to MC so he can track MC through it. The next day, the group heads out to CCC. Among the attendants sent with MC is also the Antagonist and co., allowing MC to further humiliate his foe in front of the stepmother, and also to provoke the stepmother to make a fool of herself and get punished by her sister & father. Her husband is even more unsympathetic, having never loved her. He does try and talk to MC, but MC rejects the audience, making it clear that he still doesn't forgive his father for being the root cause of his mother's death.
When they get to CCC, MC releases the Demonic Orb into the Purification Palace, and also orders Antagonist & friends to go inside and guard it. Everyone knows that doing so has the possibility of ruining their cultivation potential, but no one can protest the order. After a few days, the parents of the other youths start begging MC to let their kids out. Because those youths were merely the Antagonist's accomplices and not his main target, MC allows them to be let out and taken home.
The stepmother also demands her son to be taken out too, but MC straightforwardly tells her he means to torment and kill everyone involved in his mother's death, including her and her son. The stepmother attacks him, but bounces off his defenses, and then she's pierced through the heart by her husband, who just wants to end it all. With her last breath, she also kills him as well. MC is surprised by this result, and sends his father's body home for burial. He also guesses that he's close to provoking LDN to attack, and thus sends away his fellow disciple because he recognizes that she's unlike the rest of the Nan family, and doesn't want her to feel conflicted when he takes his revenge.
LDN demands that the Antagonist be released for his mom's funeral rites. MC refuses, since his mom didn't even get funeral rites. LDN calls out the Lan family immortal ancestor. Before MC can even respond, ML also arrives to insult and fight the Lan ancestor. Not able to catch up to them, MC looks over at LDN, but before he can start a fight with his other target, some fellow disciples of his master show up and immediately start attacking LDN instead. Soon afterwards, ML returns with the dead body of his foe.
MC complains about how he "trained" all this time and didn't get to do any fighting so how's he supposed to take revenge? ML pats him on the head and tells him he can kill the Antagonist and finish his vengeance. MC, however, decides to take him back to the Isle for further torment, because he realized that if he kills the Antagonist now, he's likely to immediately leave the current world early like the previous two incarnations.
Back on the Isle, MC explains the whole repeating worlds thing to ML and how he suspects that killing the Antagonist will cause him to move onto another world, where ML won't remember him and they'll start over again. He also has lots of questions that he'd like to get answered by ML's other self first. So he's decided to wait until the Shang Wang shows up again before deciding what to do with Antagonist.
It's after another year before Shang Wang shows up, but the first thing he does, before MC even wakes up, is to go off and kill the Antagonist. MC demands to know why. He tells him that this is the last incarnation, and that MC doesn't need to incarnate further, but will be returning home to him after this. He also explains that Bai Guang, like all the previous incarnations of MC's lover, are all parts of his soul (so he has all their memories too).
Before MC can ask anything more he blacks out and finds him back in the system. Then the system world starts spinning, and and he goes dizzy and falls unconscious there as well.