Chapter 1: I Never Intended to Compete, Yet Witnessed the Suffering of All Beings

"What kind of villains are they? They randomly start fights, arrange the levels to send them to their deaths, and play a good hand poorly."

"They start with small targets and end up involving the entire sect. Even Meng Bai wouldn't dare to act this way."

"The protagonist barbecues invincibly, and the supporting characters eat their tongues. The little sister throws herself at him, divine beasts accompany him on outings, there's a treasure auction on a cliff, and mysterious techniques consume multiples of their power."

"It's unbearable to watch. With these personalities, if it were me, I could probably kill hundreds of them... That's an exaggeration, but dozens shouldn't be a problem."

Huang Quan angrily closed the tears flowing from the MeowMeowHead app and let out a sigh.

Finding a good novel nowadays is not easy. Opening the library, out of ten novels on the homepage, five of them had titles like "Starting from Death, I was Sent to an Intense Crematorium and Edited with Guo Jia, Only to Regret It Later."

What's the matter? Is cremation too expensive? Having a popular face is still within the acceptable range, barely "sincere enough."

What's with the titles that are popular among internet celebrities? One person starts it, and the entire site follows the trend, without considering whether it suits their own writing style and level. They desperately try to fit in, afraid of falling behind the trend.

Seeing too many of these has caused aesthetic fatigue and physical rejection. It's necessary to infiltrate the author group and denounce these scoundrels. He has always been a man of action.

Without hesitation, he entered the author group. He entered the group using a stolen group number, xxx1ooo.

Instant approval? Let him see what these scoundrels are up to! The chat records were scrolling quickly. The discussions about the plot seemed quite active, those damn pigeons.

Could it be that he generalized and wrongly accused the pigeon's nest? But... why are the posted images large and white?

Oh? It turns out two drivers are having a showdown on Mount Akina, displaying exceptional driving skills. Each wheel leaves a mark on their faces, but they don't feel a thing.

Someone with good intentions posted a caption alongside the picture: "Did the car hit them? [jpg]"

As he continued to watch, he gradually forgot his original intention and became an honored passenger. Every day, he would shout, "The car's here!" in the group, reminding those heretical authors discussing the plot not to forget that this is a serious driving group.

The LV100 badge with the dragon king emblem hanging behind is the best proof. Gradually, he realized that his behavior was wrong. Could he not feel remorse and regret? Doing these unreasonable things all day long, can he truly justify it to his conscience? How can he just read and not contribute?!

Huang Quan deeply reflected on his mistakes, pondered for a moment, and secretly opened a folder named "Learning Materials." At the same time, a pop-up advertisement appeared in the bottom left corner. While downloading license plates, there are always some ignorant "passengers" who insist on getting in the car together. Old drivers are used to this phenomenon.

Without hesitation, he moved the mouse and clicked on the bright red "OK" in the top right corner, not even pausing for a moment.

[Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly live? Do you want to experience the hardships of the protagonist firsthand?]

[yes/YES]

In the top right corner was a red OK button. As Huang Quan prepared to forcefully slap his carefully selected wheels onto the faces of his fellow group members, he clicked "send."

His vision distorted, and his retinas abruptly connected to unfamiliar scenes, forming lines of floating text.

[Contract signed.]

[Unknown anomaly.]

[Analyzing anomaly...]

[Anomaly: Resistance/Rationality.]

[Searching for a satisfactory alternative...]

[Handing over...]

[Please stay in this place and do not move...]

"Buy me oranges? Okay, I'll eat two, and the rest are yours. Hurry up with the time travel; I've long wanted to start over in this life..."

Before he could continue complaining, the scene in front of him shattered like a shooting star, radiating light and heat in an instant.

Instinctively following human nature, he subconsciously closed his eyes. Countless dark chaos transformed into a surging torrent, devouring his remaining consciousness.

...

[Unknown junior, greetings.]

[I have found a suitable match...]

[...Miracle.]

[You also possess a radiant heart like mine; I am not alone in my path!]

[I had no intention to vie for supremacy, yet I witnessed the suffering of all living beings.]

[Under the heavens, everything follows an order.]

[Only the child of destiny can transcend control.]

[Heaven nurtures all things without contention, and all things nurture humanity.]

[No single being can repay the heavens with anything.]

[They defy the heavens with every word and act, but what does heaven owe them?]

[They indulge in self-interest, greedily seeking countless cultivation resources, only to pursue the ridiculous notion of being 'invincible at the same level.' In the end, they reach the peak, ascend to the higher realms, and leave behind desolation as if locusts had passed through.]

[Little do they know that the resources they consume are enough to cultivate hundreds of powerful individuals like them to protect the world.]

[They claim to walk the path of righteousness, yet they forbid harm to their own families with their words while personally exterminating entire sects and destroying cities. Countless innocent people die in vain, and they ascend to high ground, condemning the 'sinners' who died innocently.]

[The dead cannot speak to refute them, allowing them to distort right and wrong at will.]

[I sense the boundless resentment of countless lost souls and living beings.]

[Finally, I decided to intervene, despite being unable to enter those worlds as an exception.]

[With one stroke of self-sacrifice, I sent forth a fragment of myself in the name of a great emperor.]

[Unable to kill them, unable to sever karma, unable to see through the ages, no matter how I acted, they would always escape death, or someone would sacrifice their life to clear a path for their escape.]

[Each time we meet again, their strength multiplies, and we end up trapped in such pointless cycles.]

[After exhausting all attempts over countless millennia, I finally adhered to the principle that short pain is better than prolonged suffering.]

[I resolutely tore through the weakest world barrier, condensing the will of heaven into a single stroke, severing the destiny of an 'ordinary child of destiny' in their mortal period, plucking them from the river of time, extinguishing their soul and erasing all traces of their existence.]

[And then...]

[They were reborn...]

[I...]

[Without reason, I subvert the river of time, reversing established causality.]

[They are like immortal legends from storytelling.]

[They cannot defy my true form!]

[I intended to gave up on killing them.]

[But I did not give up.]

[Flattery, cultivation, sealing.]

[Useless, useless, useless. Any effort is futile!]

[As long as they sense any purpose, they will detect it, dissolve it, and the inability to kill them will only make them stronger, more greedy, and more demanding.]

[I was on the brink of despair...]

[Fortunately, I didn't give up. I finally found you.]

[I hear your voice.]

["It's really unbearable. With these protagonist personalities, if it were me, I could probably kill several hundred of them... I may be exaggerating, but dozens shouldn't be a problem."]

[You have the confidence to rival them.]

[You have the spirit to face hundreds alone.]

[Just like... how I used to be.]

[Compared to the cruel reality, I prefer your innocent thoughts. I really like them.]

[Go ahead and give it a try! If you fail, so be it. You don't need to worry about what comes after. I can protect your soul for half a lifetime.]

[May you have prosperous martial luck!]

...

[I really like your innocent thoughts. I hope they can become reality...]