Opportunities (V)

"Well now..."

"What path should I really take?" Long Yu spoke to himself as he looked at the sea of dead bodies.

In the cultivation world, there are a lot of paths—more specifically, three thousand paths, or daos.

Amongst them all, the most noticeable are definitely the weapon-related paths and element-related paths.

Honestly, the best thing would be going for all of them.

However, for someone like Long Yu, who has an ancient type of cultivation called Gu cultivation, there were only a few choices.

Engulfing/Devouring Path.

Blood Path.

Darkness Path/Demon Path.

Withering Path.

Killing Path.

Those four options are currently the most suitable for Gu cultivation, since Gu's favourite food is blood or spiritual Qi.

Fortunately, all of those paths are high-level laws. 

Each path or dao has a grade, which are: low-level (Minor Dao), high-level (Grand Dao), supreme-level (Heavenly Dao), and finally Primal Chaos itself.

The supreme-level are mainly laws like Pure Yang, Pure Yin, Space, Time, Void, Death, Life, Immortality, Samsara (Reincarnation), etc.

While the Primal Chaos grade are the laws related to the concept of beginning, like Primordial Chaos, Yin-Yang, Order, Creation and finally Destruction.

Strangely, Yin-Yang is one of the strongest daos, but doesn't that mean that dual cultivators can follow one of the strongest daos?

Not really.

The dual cultivators work by absorbing Yin or Yang energy from their partner; however, they cannot have both of those energies in their own bodies.

So, they are not suitable for the Yin-Yang path.

If anything, they can follow the Pure Yang or Pure Yin path; however, comprehending one of those... is still extremely difficult.

Even those in the higher heavens cannot comprehend a bit of it.

Because of that, why is Long Yu even thinking about doing something that will probably take years for him to comprehend?

Those are basically end-game powers!

It's not because of his system or because of his protagonist Halo, or anything like that.

It's simply because of his own body.

Gu cultivation is something that wasn't supposed to exist. Even a low-level Gu would be impossible to find in the entire Nine Heavens.

As for the reason he found it in a sword monument?

Attraction.

Each Gu has a different kind of personality, but all of them have something in common.

They are all greedy for beautiful things.

And Long Yu, being the most handsome person in the entire universe, that can even make men change their sexuality...

They would directly jump into him.

"Sigh... If I take the demon path and absorb all of those bodies... my cultivation would directly skyrocket. But the impurity of their Qi would directly ruin my perfect foundation."

"If I had a demon body..." Long Yu furrowed his eyebrows.

"Gu cultivation is really good but also very annoying. I can even follow the Three-Thousand Path and cultivate all of them..."

"However, finding a cultivation technique related to the Three Thousand Path... I shouldn't dream that much."

"If only I had a useful system that would give me a newbie pack that contained a Chaos Sacred Body..."

[...]

"Transcendental Spiritual Veins... a direct boost to my cultivation. A technique like the Chaos Sutra... Mhm... If I only had some of those systems..." Long Yu shook his head.

[...]

[Those systems are bullshit. If they had something like a Chaos Sutra, they would directly use it.]

[The Chaos Sutra can even make a system transform into a human.]

"Did I ask?"

[...]

"Besides, didn't Luo Shengxue directly receive a Chaos Sacred Body along with a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon God bloodline?"

[...]

"She even has a Heavenly Flame and is a 6th-tier alchemist."

[Host... I already upgraded myself. You're rewards are going to be much better!]

"Oh, really? Are they perhaps at the immortal-level?"

[...]

"Didn't think so."

[Alright. I'm fucking done with your bullshit. If you are so fucking annoyed for having a useless system like me, why don't you simply unbind me!?]

"Will I get my full protagonist halo and talents if I do so?"

[Yes. But, you'll lose m—]

"How can I unbind?" Long Yu directly spoke.

With such a useless system, he would definitely prefer having his full talents and protagonist halo.

[Sigh... You can't. The Heavenly Dao bond me to you.]

[If I die, you die.]

"Then why didn't you even propose that...?"

[...]

"Oh... I understand now... You fucking think that I'm one of those protagonists who fucking need a system for everything they do?"

"Let me fucking tell you the truth. If I didn't have you as a system, I'd fucking turn directly into a demon."

"In Luo Yang's book, there is something called, "Universe Swallowing Celestial Art," which is a Primal Chaos-level technique. And only a demon would be able to cultivate it."

"But, since you were here, I thought of taking things slowly for now and only getting that technique if I really needed it."

"And now that I have Gu cultivation, the chances of me wanting that technique just increased, especially when you're a FUCKING useless system that wasn't even able to control the powers that were given to you."

[...]

"Now, if you're stuck with me. Be fucking obedient and tell me what I need to know, and not something that is completely irrelevant to me."

[...Alright.]

[You should take the Destruction Path as your "main" law. Then, as the subsidiary paths, you should take the Time, Death, Void, Samsara and finally, the low-level Ice Dao as a beginning law.]

"...Explain."

[You already have a Path deeply planted on your soul, which is called "Singularity". That same Path is like a parasite, and can absorb everything he wants by simply looking at them.]

[You just need to awaken it. Because of that, Destruction should definitely be your main law, since it's power that directly "destroys" something, even the law itself.]

[For example, "Omnicide", the ability to kill all life in existence. If you use Destruction to kill Life, you would get that same ability.]

[So, basically, you'll cultivate all the Three Thousand Laws because of the "Singularity" imprinted on you, while having Destruction destroy the laws to get overpowered abilities.]

[However, the one that you'll keep are those that I mentioned before: Time, Death, Void, Samsara and Ice.]

[Before you ask something like, "why not use space instead of void?". Void is much more powerful than Space. People simply don't know that.]

[While Space grants you very strong powers, like space travel, freezing space itself, Void will be much more useful.]

[Oh... I almost forgot about one. The second main law that you are going to cultivate and focus deeply is Karma.]

[...Satisfied?]

"Very." Long Yu nodded in satisfaction.

The system had finally turned out to be quite useful.

"Now... what? Should I absorb the blood of those corpses?" He asked as his eyes fell into the sea of blood.

[No. Not now. Fortunately for you, I've received a special space after being upgraded.]

[Perhaps in the future, I'm not going to be a mere "sign-in" system.]

[Do I have your permission to put all those corpses in that same space?]

"Yes."

After saying those words, the sea of blood in front of Long Yu instantly vanished, along with the blood.

[To cultivate the Law of Destruction, one must be below 100 years old, something that is pretty impossible for those immortals in the Upper Heavens.]

[However... you, a "singularity," are the perfect person to do it.]

[But, we'll start with the basics. Destruction, like I mentioned before, is the concept of destroying things, no matter what they are.]

[Now... imagine yourself in a completely empty world. In this world, the only thing that exists is vast field of water that you are currently stepping in.]

[Are you imagining it...?]

"....."

Seeing that Long Yu didn't seen anything, the system simply continued, knowing that he had already gotten into his "dreamland".

[Listen now... This is going to be a very difficult thing. Because the best thing to start with the Law of Destruction is destroying some kind of seal.]

[So... you're going to try and forcefully destroy one of your seals.]

[Imagine that purple chains are all wrapped around your own body, limiting your ability to move, talk, hear,...]

As the system's words resounded on Long Yu's ears, he immediately felt a faint weight on his body.

His eyes slowly opened, and he saw himself in the world that the system had described, with a lot of purple chains wrapped around his own body.

Clang!

As the system mentioned the word "see," a purple chain quickly wrapped itself around Long Yu's eyes.

With that, Long Yu just followed the system's words.

[Now... that you are feeling all of the nine chains... Focus more on your vision. You want to see the world, and its beautiful landscapes...]

"........"

[You can't see them, right?]

[So, simply destroy what keeps you from seeing them.]

Clutch...

As if the system's words were a trigger, Long Yu's body started shining with a deep black aura.

Long Yu's body was engulfed in the aura, which then moved to the chain encircling his eyes.

Crack...!

Slowly, the purple chain started breaking as Long Yu's breath started getting ragged.

He could feel an otherworldly aura spreading through his body, and at that same time, he could feel a rejuvenating feeling.

Break...!!!

The chain finally broke, and Long Yu's eyes opened.

[...The first step for the Law of Destruction is done. That means, to get further into the Law of Destruction, you need to go to the 2nd Heaven.]

[Take one chain at the time.]

[Also, before you think that it was easy... You were only able to realize a bit of it because of the seals on your body.]

[They were made by the Heavenly Dao's power. And it's the main reason you can cultivate the Law of Destruction so soon.]

"I understand..." Long Yu mumbled as he reopened his eyes.

Now, he wasn't in the dreamland anymore.

"Ah... I never expected that your mistake would turn me stronger. Well... people say that mistakes makes you stronger..."

"I guess that is true..." Long Yu sighed.

[Oh... also, did you notice now?]

"You mean... those strange energies in the air?"

[Yeah... Your eyes can be considered an Immortal Treasure and you can see things that people cannot.]

[So, make sure to use a veil for your eyes from now on.]

"Alright..." Long Yu teared off a part of his clothes, and then covered his eyes with that piece.

"Woah... I can see through it?"

[Yes. That is your original eye power... it can do things that nobody would think off. If you put it to the test, it's even stronger than Ancient Dual Pupils.]

[You just cannot use its full power because of your low cultivation.]

[Now, you should leave the secret realm. It's about to end anyway, and you already go the biggest opportunity here.]

"Oh, yeah..."

"I'll leave now..."