That Smile...

Humans were driven by their own desires and emotions. With any of those, they will be no different than a walking dead man without any goal or joy in this life.

Among the emotions that brightened this life naturally it was love.

Niu Chang smiled foolishly due to his childishness.

'It's not the love that I want but I want to use the love as the core motivation to create the second cultivation technique.'

Laying down comfortably, Niu Chang closed his eyes. The heart was full of warmth of affection and longing.

In the chaotic space of mind with no direction and light.

"World."

Niu Chang commanded for the world to be born out of nothingness, in this space of mind, he is the god.

The primordial void pushed away and the gray and empty image filled Niu Chang's mind.

'Now, what kind of love should I use? Love for a woman? Love for the family? Love for achievement? Love for objects? Or love for myself?'

Various memories from his first life played in Niu Chang's mind.

The chaotic yet easy to discern memories was like an endless sea. Niu Chang watches all of them with great interest, before finally set his eyes on specific memories.

'I choose you.'

In the gray world, Niu Chang created a towering tree.

But different from the previous tree, this was a cherry blossom tree or the sakura tree.

The old sakura tree stands as a testament to the passage of time and enduring the beauty of nature. Its gnarled trunk, weathered and etched with years of growth, tells a story of resilience and wisdom. The branches, once vibrant with youthful energy, now gracefully stretch outward, their delicate pink blossom adorning the tree like delicate whispers of fleeting beauty.

Under the elegant canopy of the blooming sakura tree, a Japanese temple stands in serene harmony with nature. The soft red petals delicately cascade down, creating a picturesque scene of tranquility and beauty. As light flows upon the temple's traditional architecture, enhancing its ethereal allure.

In the front of the temple, bathed in the enchanting ambiance of the sakura tree, stands a shrine maiden, a graceful embodiment of tradition and spiritual devotion. Adorned in a flowing kimono, her steps are light and deliberate, as if in harmony with the delicate dance of falling cherry blossoms. With serene composure, she offers prayers and incantations that her presence is an integral part of the sacred connection between the mortal realm and the divine.

Watching his mind was overtaken by his desire for watching this beautiful scene, Niu Chang was flabbergasted and rooted to his place.

His heart was beating faster when he saw the graceful figure wearing a kimono under the sacred tree.

'Is this love?' He couldn't help but be mesmerized. 'Bah! Love my ass, this is nothing but my fantasy, how can I fall in love with an imaginary character?'

Then he seems to recall something important in his first life about this problem, but he was too distracted to care about it.

His thoughts were rolling like the waves on stormy sea, delivering themselves as to complete this piece of art.

The sakura tree, the temple, and the shrine maiden slowly become more realistic and full of vitality of life.

The lonesome yet holy figure of the shrine maiden moved as if she sensed someone looking at her. She turned her delicate body adored with red and white kimono, her face slowly revealing their brilliance.

Badump. Badump. Badump.

Niu Chang could feel that his heart was beating next to his ears, left and right. The mind was confused with silly thoughts and a strong desire to rush towards this unworldly beauty.

Clank.

As if something was breaking apart in Niu Chang's mind, he was finally able to see part of the shrine maiden's face.

Under the shade of sakura tree, the upper part of her face was blurred leaving only the lower profile.

Under the delicate nose, the bright red lips were beguiling the thought and causing disturbance in the heart.

Among the fleeting sakura petals, the shrine maiden's eyes were looking at Niu Chang. She gently raised her cherry lips slowly.

That previous feeling of something breaking apart was not a fantasy, but the self defense mechanism for the danger.

Niu Chang was fully enchanted by the shrine maiden that he himself was unaware of.

The last bit of rationality in Niu Chang's mind kept roaring and tried their best to wake Niu Chang from his state.

A flash of light filled the world and Niu Chang realized something was wrong, his heart was encroached by something and his determination of supremacy was shaken!

"Danger!"

Niu Chang didn't care about anything because he had a firm belief in his heart, as long as he achieved supremacy, then he could enjoy himself afterwards.

No matter how harsh the world, he would face it with a kind smile and unbreakable determination. No matter how tall the mountain is, no matter how deep the sea is, he alone will pass them without any fear.

But now, his very core of existence was affected by something, trying to replace his obsession with something else.

This was the very first time he felt fear after reincarnating in this world.

Niu Chang couldn't but curse endlessly in his heart. 'What is this? The legendary qi deviation?'

Qi deviation was when the cultivator interrupted in a crucial moment of their cultivation leaving their heart and mind vulnerable to any external disturbance causing imbalance in their control. The qi went uncontrollable due to a confused state of mind.

The mind controls the qi, but sometimes it also works the other way.

So when qi deviation occurs, it only starts a negative loop where the cultivator would only face greater danger the longer they stay in qi deviation state.

With his intensive study on how to beat the world and achieve supremacy in case he is chosen as reincarnator or transmigrator, Niu Chang never cared about small things like qi deviation.

In his words: "Qi deviation? Only stupid people who don't have immortal life and supremacy in their heart can suffer such stupid and ridiculous things."

Niu Chang shifted his gaze, looking towards the gray horizon in the space of his mind, but he felt something tingling around his body.

'No! This is wrong. I need to wake up!"

Opening his eyes like there was no tomorrow, Niu Chang felt the qi in his body was transformed into an enchanting red qi that ran in his body autonomously.

The uncomfortable feeling still lingering in his heart, the image of that face still flashing now and then in his mind.

That bewitching smile was haunting him.

Niu Chang gnashed his teeth to take back the control of qi inside his body. But he was helpless, he was like a single mortal that tried to stop a fifty kilometer tall tsunami.

He could feel his heart slowly give birth to love towards the shrine maiden. His obsession was crying aloud.

The thought in his head was running at full speed, racing against time.

'My cultivation was too shallow, only an incomplete third rate level, if I am able to hold until I exhaust my qi, I will survive!'

'But my heart and mind are slowly being taken over. I need something, an external stimulation to jolt my mind!'

'Pain! I need pain!'

With his life on the line, Niu Chang's mind was very active and he reviewed his condition and the possible solutions in a very short amount of time.

He raised his small hand and slapped himself on the face.

Slap. Slap. Slap.

The sound of skin touching skin at high speed caused the echoing sound to reverbated in the room.

But it was very effective.

'It's not enough! I need more stimulation!'

Niu Chang tried to attack himself on the other place that caused great pain, but he found they still not enough for him to fight against the coercion of the bewitching smile flashing in his mind.

Then he looked down at his crotch, gritted his teeth, and quickly executed his own manhood.

'This should be enough for me to gain experience of this wonderful world. Who would have thought that one day I would need to do this by my own volition?'

Bam.

It was a soft sound, but due to Niu Chang's physique no longer an ordinary mortal body, the power of his attack was enough to break Qin Qing's shabby house.

The surge of pain rushed up from his testicles through the spine and finally stimulated the last bit of consciousness of himself.

'Again!'

Niu Chang roared in his heart, and attacked fiercer than before.

In Niu Chang's mind, his manhood was nothing but worldly possession. As long as he created a certain martial skill to fix them, he didn't have any fear at all to destroy them at this time.

His vision flickered, behind the very short moment of that blankness, the bewitching smile was there.

Niu Chang's qi reached their limit and now pushing his body to its utmost limit to the overconsumption.

His mind was sinking like falling into the deep sea.

He finally won, he survived the corrupting force from that witch's smile.

But even when he successfully survived the calamity brought by his great amount of curiosity. In his last bit of consciousness, he saw that same lady under the shade and red didn't look sad of her failure.

Instead she kept her smile. Unaffected by the smugness of Niu Chang's victory, as if she knew this was not the end but only the beginning.

'Crazy bitch.'