[The demon race of the Hongyu has a transcendent cultivation system that allows them to take human form at the fourth realm, transforming themselves into a near-human shape.]

Despite its somewhat artificial appearance, the human population in the Azure Domain is still considerable, and it has not been discovered in the short term.

Then, it encountered the Kitahara couple, who were traveling abroad.

[You've already pushed Bei Chenguang to the fourth realm of the Bai Shou system. Although it's an extremely weak fourth realm, and even with his Sacred Body, he's still weaker than a newly promoted Pseudo-King, he can still sense that the wolf demon's aura is off.]

The wolf demon makes its move.

Jiang Yueli is dead.

It attacked too quickly, and its strength was too great; Bei Chenguang was simply unable to stop it.

He was utterly powerless against the wolf demon; had it not been for a supreme being arriving nearby, he too would have died under the wolf demon's claws.

Yun Shou: "..."

Upon hearing of this, you rushed to the scene and found Bei Chenguang kneeling before the grave.

He looked up at you.

"Father Yun, what do you think this extraordinary ability can achieve?"

【you:"……"】

"It can make people stronger, allow them to fly and traverse the earth, and grant them immortality... There should be even more, more things it can do."

【you:"……"】

"The cultivation method you taught me is different from that of the martial artists in the Azure Domain. Its advantage is that it is quick to learn, but it lacks the ability of a Celestial to control vital energy and the supernatural powers of a Supreme Being..."

"So there must be other cultivation methods in this world, methods that can grant more abilities, methods that can change the world, methods that can..."

"Brought back to life!"

You can tell from his eyes that he has made up his mind to do something.

He wants to cultivate, he wants to reach the pinnacle of cultivation, he wants to resurrect Jiang Yueli!

[You know, he can't resurrect Jiang Yueli. There's no such thing as an underworld in this universe. Unless Bei Chenguang encounters some kind of Dao Lord of Life and Death, there's no hope.]

However, he doesn't need to grow to that level. As long as his perseverance can sustain him to become an immortal and a plaything for Bai He to harvest, that's enough. That's the endpoint that fate has set for him.

You now have only two choices: either tell him the truth about being the chosen one, or cripple him, cut off all possibilities of action and imprison him forever, or brainwash him, or kill him... In short, completely destroy him as a person, so that destiny can no longer see any hope in him and will leave him.

You can't do it.

[You reduced his true nature, turning this wonderful son who had helped you in numerous simulations—a person who should have shone brightly—into mediocrity. You convinced yourself to do this by saying, "He prefers spending his daily life with Jiang Yueli."]

[He now wants to become strong enough to resurrect Jiang Yueli; that's his only desire. Yet you want to cripple him and stop him from doing so?]

Or perhaps we could brainwash him and destroy his personality?

[Or perhaps the truth will be revealed: You can never resurrect her. Her death was used by Bai He to provoke your ascension to immortality, to be trampled upon. You might as well forget Jiang Yueli; perhaps you can live peacefully until Bai He leaves...]

You really can't do it.

So you actually only have one choice left.

[Deceive him with kind words, encourage him, and tell him that as long as he cultivates to the peak, he can definitely revive Jiang Yueli.]

However, with his current 0.35 times his original essence, even with abundant luck, achieving immortality would require a million times more suffering than before, and he might not even succeed.

To help him reduce the cost and allow this adopted son you value to ascend to immortality more easily, you need to restore his essence, and raise it even higher.

[If you don't add the essence, then fate might truly abandon him, and he will die in his struggle.]

[If you add the essence—then perfect, he is destined to become an immortal!]

"Baihe, I'll fuck your mother!"

You finally couldn't hold back and burst into a tirade.

This is an open conspiracy, a conspiracy guided by fate.

[That Qi calculation accurately predicted that you would choose the second option based on your personality, so it made everything happen this way, successfully putting Bei Chenguang's fate back on track and giving him another chance to advance to True Immortal.]

[This is a targeted approach. If you were the kind of person who was absolutely ruthless, fate would take a different turn. For example, it could cause Bei Chenguang to be noticed and taken away for research by a passing sixth or even seventh realm cultivator due to his low inherent nature. By the time you realize what's happening, he won't even know where he is now.]

[Or, after you slap Beichenguang to death and there's no chance he can become an immortal, that destiny can simply be transferred to another person. It won't suffer any loss, and you can't attack the "true form" of that destiny anyway.]

"It's all because I wasn't ruthless enough... Because if I had reduced Bei Chenguang's true nature and then ignored him, then if I had delayed for another two or three thousand years, the Qi might have realized that no matter how much Bei Chenguang tried to salvage the situation, he wouldn't have any hope of becoming an immortal in time. At that time, he could have lived a good life with Jiang Yueli."

"But precisely because I remained in the Azure Domain during this period, the flow of fortune had enough time to influence worldly affairs, causing Jiang Yueli's misfortune, thereby prompting me to restore Beichenguang's essence."

"Bai He, I'll fuck your grandpa!"

You swore again.

Then he looked down at the young man kneeling before the grave.

"Then I will help you reach the pinnacle."

[In 2941, the Battle Qi Dao Seal was formed.]

The duration of future foresight has been increased to 13 hours. This seems to be fixed as a basic reward, regardless of the nature of the knowledge gained or the extent of system overhaul; it always adds a fixed one hour each time.

The maximum number of times a character can descend remains at 11.

[Essentially, the rate can be adjusted from 90% to 93% each time, confirming that these improvements are indeed related to the quality of the Dao Seal; last time it was only 1%.]

However, the level of improvement is not determined by the number of Dao Seals, because the improvement becomes increasingly difficult at higher levels.

[The other two remain unchanged: an individual's one-time increase or decrease is still limited to 9%, and your natural increase is still only 10% per year, but you can use the Return to Truth method to increase it to 20% twice.]

[Your overall strength is now 6522 times greater.]

[Standard combat strength: 2.92e10 Thorns; Mech mode: 1.75e12 Thorns; Maximum strength: 3.6e15 Thorns.]

"Because the recently rebuilt Third Heaven is so weak, his normal strength is less than half stronger than when he was at the Tenth Heaven..."

Yun Shou recalled that when Twelve was condensing the Manipulation Dao Seal, the mecha mode already had 1.2e12 thorns, and now it has only increased by 5.5e11 thorns.

"But the strongest state is about three times the original due to the addition of a descent."

"Sure enough, the sixty times that of the mecha bloodline is outrageous, saving me a lot of time to rebuild my skills."