Grandpa

"Too easy!" Jack smiled. With this, at least theoretically, through the power of Grandpa, he gained access to the substance soul realm's powers for a few minutes each day. But, unfortunately for him, things are not that easy; even though he can summon the Grandpa anytime he wants, Jack cannot force Grandpa to do anything.

Every time he merges with another system, he gains the complete ability of the other one; the other cheat is called 'Granpa in the ring', which has advantages and disadvantages.

Grandpas can help in everything; they know all kinds of powerful techniques, can use their wisdom to help in everything from love affairs to war strategy, can act as a friend, and even come out and help directly. But they also have disadvantages; in the later stages, grandpas may fall behind in cultivation and lose their usefulness; also, they are by no means obligated to always help the transmigrator; in fact, some unlucky transmigrators were killed by their evil grandpa.

This grandpa liked the transmigrator; even though Jack captured him, his memory is intact; if Jack took him out, he would most likely attack Jack with all of his strength.

Fortunately, Jack has a way of taking control of the grandpa, but that takes a few years.

The reason his system was able to swallow Grandpa so easily was simply because of how cheats, in general, work. Rachel's systems tend to merge; this is why transmigrators cannot be true friends—their interests are in direct conflict; to become stronger, they must consume the other party's cheat.

Jack knew a lot about the systems; Whoever has the stronger system can directly swallow the other party's system, but there is a catch. Simply put, there is a cooldown between swallows. Jack can no longer swallow any other system until the cooldown runs out; also, the difference in system strength has to be considerable; if they are close, the swallowing would fail.

The system's power is more important for transmigrators than the cultivation base. After all, if one's system is powerful, they can easily defeat their opponents. But cultivation base is still important. Just now, if the transmigrator's strength was at the divine soul level, Jack may have been able to steal his system but probably would have been killed afterward.

"It probably takes around ten years for me to use the system's power to at least temporarily control Grandpa," he thought. Ten years is short, maybe because the combination of the two systems he had was more powerful than the average system.

Snapping his fingers, the transmigrator in front of him, who was just staring at him with confusion, exploded into a mist of blood.

"Temporary Task completed – reward: 25 years of cultivation practice." Seeing the system prompt, Jack smiled and snapped again. With one snap, the whole village was reduced to an ice world, directly killing everyone in the village.

Jack doesn't enjoy killing people; still, he prefers if this matter remains a secret. There are ways to read the memory of the dead, but those are very advanced techniques, which Jack simply doesn't believe the government officials would bother to use.

After all, only 200 'worthless' mortals died; they are like grass, growing continuously, so who would bother to investigate it? If incident like these happened consistently and wiped out millions of mortals, then the Icefall sect and Viscount John Brown might care. A small village being wiped out, however, is not eye-catching.

…

Years went by, and the year Jack was waiting for finally arrived. This year, he has to meet Master Daoist Stormy, the mild tempted supreme elder of the great Brown dynasty. After searching for years, they didn't discover anything, so Daoist Stormy ordered them to invite Jack to Brown City.

Brown City is so far away that it still takes over 2,000 years to get there, even with a nascent soul cultivation base. Jack can use 'As Far as Heavens' and teleport there in a moment, but that would trigger a massive tribulation, maybe as strong as the substance soul realm or even higher. Jack doesn't know the exact formula to calculate the level of tribulation, but it should be at least the substance soul realm.

Fortunately, Master Daoist Stormy sent a teleportation token along with the letter. The token was a treasure at the level of the void soul; one can travel to the designated location using the token. Anyone can use it, even mortals, with no consumption.

Jack wanted to put everything down and go there, but he didn't. First, he looked at the sect to make sure things were going well.

After the purge last time, he appointed the local bunch who defended him to the important positions in the sect.

He also plans on another round of purge in a few years. To do so, he has to place himself in a weak situation and provoke idiotic and disloyal disciples into rebelling; anyone who takes the bait would be killed.

This strategy of purging the disloyal has paid off, at least so far. The higher-ups of this generation are all extremely loyal. Even though Jack wasn't present, they never made the smallest problem. It also may be because of the punishments that scared them off. In any case, it is a fact that they have been behaving well.

Faith left a while ago, and Amber returned from the previous headquarters. She became the sect leader, while Faith took over as leader of the previous headquarters.

As the sect master, Amber was granted total autonomy; Jack didn't bother interfering in anything. But even at full power, Amber doesn't have that much practical power because now they have many powerful rival forces.

The mortal talents are mostly controlled by the Brown dynasty; the Heavens Way sect's only source of talent is the land in the former continent where Faith was sent.

The immortal affairs are regulated mostly by the Icefall sect, while immortal resources, auctions, markets, and cities are mostly controlled by the Brown dynasty. Mortal cities are also controlled by the Brown dynasty. Amber has power within the sect and not much beyond that.

Jack is sure that no one will attack them for now, so he turns around and activates the token.

…

The observer, who was sent here to the sect to 'watch over' it, saw Jack disappear after stroking a token. After reporting it, he gathered his stuff and returned to the Sky City. As a divine soul cultivator, he earned many contribution points fulfilling this task.

Now, Jack, the leader of heaven's way left to meet Daoist master Stormy, so there is no need to watch heaven's way after this.

…

Looking at the red moon in the sky, John Brown looked at Master Pink, his other substance soul.

"Are we really the same person? I feel like I am so much smarter!" said master pink, while shaking his head at John.

"Hey, other me! How can you even ask this question? Of course, we are the same person! We need at least ten substance souls, but we struggle to keep it together before the third substance soul!" John felt disappointed in himself.

"Let's go our separate ways!" Master Pink suggested.

"We are bound together! Our luck is the same! We cannot go our separate ways!" John said.

"What if only one of us survives?" asked Master Pink.

"In that case, the issue gets solved." Said John.

"Why am I asking questions from you?" Master Pink wondered; he has felt more and more distance from John lately.

Noticing that things were going downhill, John said to his other substance soul, "But we have Lucy! She is the link connecting us!"

Master Pink remembered her beautiful face and nodded. Indeed, Lucy is their link.

After Master Pink left after a few minutes to have some fun with Lucy.

With a panicked face; John also left the room and directly went to the library to find books regarding this. if it wasn't for Lucy, Master Pink might have completely split from him.

…

Daoist Stormy was the supreme elder who governed the dynasty; she lived in Brown City. At this time, a certain teleportation station in Brown City suddenly lit up, and a handsome man emerged. It was Jack.

Looking around, Jack was not surprised. But anyone else would have been very astonished. Brown City, the capital of such a vast dynasty, was very ordinary; one could not tell its difference from an ordinary city. But again, Jack wrote these, so he knew the inside story.

Brown City was, without a doubt, the most advanced and powerful city in the nearby territory.

It was not ordinary at all; it was a city with over 100 underground floors, each floor as vast as the total surface area of smaller planets. Yet, even though most of the city was underground, nobody living there had any idea about it. It was the most amazing thing because even multiple soul realm cultivators were kept in the dark; only void soul and soul transformation cultivators knew about the inside story of the city.

The reason for this design was to both preserve its traditional looks and to avoid a massive sprawling city. Around 20% of all mortals of the entire continent lived in the city. These mortals were off books, not part of the talent-sharing deals with the four great sects. The leaders of the four great sects knew about Brown City but couldn't ask for talent sharing from the population in the city. After all, the Brown dynasty entirely controlled Brown City, so the sects had no leverage.

A man in a blue robe, which had red stripes, came and bowed, then said, "Daoist Master is summoning your honor!"

The man in blue-red cloth had the cultivation base of a soul substance, but still, in the face of someone his master accepted as a guest, he didn't dare act arrogant in the slightest.

Jack nodded and followed the man.

After only one minute, they reached a normal outdoor restaurant. Mortals were walking around, not knowing that someone was seated not far from them, who was one of the strongest beings on the continent.

Jack went forward, bowed, and respectfully sat on the other side.

The restaurant's server came and brought food.

Looking at it, Jack realized it was ordinary mortal food with nothing special about it. Thinking about Master Stormy's personality, he secretly smiled.

According to his setting, Master Stormy was the most approachable soul transformation cultivator on the continent and the surrounding area.

She was quite kind, at the very least, providing for a prosperous life at least for mortals living in the city.

Lifting her spoon, she didn't say anything. Instead, she filled her spoon and put it in her mouth. The food was mostly liquid, so they didn't use chopsticks and forks and used spoons.

Jack also took his spoon and ate.

After slowly eating, she finally wiped her lips and said, "Master Jack, may I ask a question?"

Jack said, "Of course, senior!"

She said, "Did you like the soup or the boiled vegetables?"

Jack said, "I liked the vegetables better!"

She was taken aback; it was unexpected for her.

She said, "How is it possible? The vegetable one was just awful; I barely ate it! Even after millions of years, I still think eating boiled vegetables is one of the worst experiences."

"Yes, Your Majesty, it may at first taste bad, but it is healthier than soup. I can change my taste if necessary if it is good for my health," he said; of course, as a nascent soul, he didn't even need food.

"You can change your taste? Well, maybe people like you didn't have an established taste to begin with."

Jack didn't say anything.

Master Immortal Stormy said, "Let's talk about your taste in cultivation techniques!" She smiled and winked at him.