Your current Emotion Points have reached 1,000. The requirements to activate the system have been met. Activate?
Listening to the prompt by his ear, Lu Ze clenched his fists in excitement.
It was finally here!
Three years ago, his soul had crossed into another world, arriving in this land known as Tianxuan Continent.
Like every other transmigrator, he had a system too.
But activating the system required a condition—obtaining 1,000 Emotion Points.
He had waited a full three years for this day!
"Activate!"
His heart raced, his hands trembled.
Three years!
Do you know how I spent those three years?!
The original owner of this body had been an Outer Disciple of the great cultivation sect, Spirit Cloud Sect. Among cultivators, his aptitude could not even be called mediocre.
His only talent was an astonishing memory; he never forgot anything he had seen.
After much deliberation, he had chosen a way to earn Emotion Points—
Write novels and become a miserable, overworked author.
After all, his only talent was photographic memory, and he could casually reproduce the novels he had read in his previous life.
In his first year, in order to cater to ancient tastes, he had brought out Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Water Margin, publishing them anonymously within the sect.
The response had been decent. Romance of the Three Kingdoms in particular had even been passed around among the Inner Disciples.
Yet for some reason, it had earned fewer than ten Emotion Points.
He had thought that perhaps ancient classics simply had too little power to stir emotions.
In his second year, he changed his approach and copied Battle Through the Heavens and A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality.
Those two books had become wildly popular in the sect and earned him quite a few Spirit Stones.
But strangely, the Emotion Points were still pitifully few, amounting to only a few dozen in total.
By the third year, Lu Ze had simply given up.
He figured this system was just screwing with him.
At this rate, it would take over a hundred years to activate it, and he would never live that long.
Fortunately, two straight years of typing away had let him save up quite a few Spirit Stones. At the very least, he did not need to worry about making a living.
Lu Ze simply started writing whatever came to mind.
Until one day, a short tragic story he had copied unexpectedly brought in a considerable wave of Emotion Points.
Lu Ze suddenly understood—
So the system only wanted negative Emotion Points!
Why the hell didn't you say so sooner?!
What kind of perverted system was this? Why did it enjoy tormenting people?
So Lu Ze copied The Return of the Condor Heroes.
He had just written the chapter about Little Dragon Girl and Yin Zhiping yesterday, and today the Emotion Points had exploded.
Not bad. Very good. Powerful indeed.
Luckily, he had published it anonymously. Otherwise, he might have lived long enough to activate the system but not long enough to enjoy it.
System loading... 55%... 80%... 90%... 99%...
Ding! Demonic Son System loaded successfully!
He was finally about to reach the pinnacle of life...
Wait!
Something seemed off about this system's name??
"D-Demonic Son System?"
Lu Ze rubbed his ears, thinking he had misheard.
That is correct. To obtain such an enormous quantity of negative Emotion Points, Host has demonstrated utter depravity and extinguished all humanity. You are a Demon Path prodigy seen once in ten thousand years, and will surely lead the Demon Path to prosperity!
Pah!
Who the hell is utterly depraved and devoid of humanity?!
I'm a law-abiding citizen, okay?!
Lu Ze's mentality collapsed.
Although Tianxuan Continent had both the Righteous and Demonic paths, the Demon Path was weak.
No, it would be more accurate to say that the gap in strength was enormous.
The Demon Path was completely pinned to the ground and rubbed raw by the Righteous Path!
He had been living perfectly well in Spirit Cloud Sect, only to suddenly be told that he had become a member of the Demon Path?
Lu Ze felt like the sky had fallen.
If others found out, the Enforcement Hall would probably drag him away for execution immediately.
"Then what use are you?"
After thinking for a moment, Lu Ze still asked tentatively.
After all, it was a system. If its functions were powerful enough for him to face the vast Righteous Path alone, then becoming a heinous Demon Path overlord might not be impossible.
Replying to Host: After binding the system, Host may obtain Demonic Value by killing members of the Righteous Path. Demonic Value can be used to improve Host's cultivation.
Lu Ze's brain instantly crashed.
With his aptitude, he would spend his entire life at the bottom of the Cultivation World.
Even after three years of transmigration, he was still only at the third level of Qi Refinement.
What right did he have to kill Righteous cultivators?
"With my current strength, there's no way I can kill a Righteous cultivator... What am I supposed to do?"
Lu Ze sighed.
Replying to Host: So long as you kill approximately 100 Righteous cultivators, you can raise your cultivation to the next realm.
"???"
Lu Ze felt his fists harden.
What if he could not beat a Righteous cultivator?
Use the system.
How did he use the system?
Kill Righteous cultivators.
Damn it, was this an infinite loop?!
"Uh... how about unbinding? You can find another host?"
Lu Ze swallowed, the corners of his mouth twitching.
Better to have no such netherworld system at all!
The system has been successfully bound and cannot be unbound.
"...Whoever designed this system, their whole family must be dead."
"Junior Brother Lu, my Demon-Seeking Compass is broken. Do you have time to help me fix it?"
Just then, an Inner Disciple hurried into Lu Ze's room.
"Senior Brother Ma, are you going out to carry out another demon-slashing mission?"
Lu Ze pushed aside his distracting thoughts and nodded at the newcomer.
"Yeah... I've had great luck lately. I keep getting demon-slashing missions. The brothers are over the moon!"
"It's just a pity Azure Peak Sect got the news too. We fought them fiercely over those few Demon Path cultivators and nearly tore the people apart limb from limb."
"First, we did this to those Demon Path cultivators, this and this..."
"Then we did that, that..."
The Inner Disciple vividly described the miserable fate of the Demon Path cultivators to Lu Ze.
The speaker was glowing with excitement, while the listener's brows were tightly furrowed.
Just look at that.
The moment a member of the Demon Path appeared, the Righteous cultivators acted as though they had found treasure, rushing over one after another to slaughter demons and prove their Dao.
This is the fate of the Demon Path. I should just pretend this system never came...
Lu Ze thought to himself.
The Demon Path's circumstances in this world could only be described as utterly miserable.
At the slightest movement, they would be surrounded and exterminated by the Righteous Path.
"After saying all that, I almost forgot the important matter..."
The Inner Disciple took out a black compass from his robes and placed it before Lu Ze.
"My Demon-Seeking Compass is broken. Today, I couldn't find any trace of the Demon Path no matter what I did. Help me take a look."
Lu Ze accepted the Demon-Seeking Compass and examined it.
Though he was an Outer Disciple, he possessed some talent in artifact forging.
That was mainly thanks to his identity as a game designer in his previous life, which had made him exceptionally sensitive to data and programming.
Coincidentally, in this world, the operational logic behind the functions of various magical artifacts and treasures had much in common with the programming languages of his previous life.
Thus, Lu Ze's performance in artifact forging had been exceptionally outstanding.
Even though his cultivation was poor, the Elder of the Artifact Forging Hall had still made an exception and accepted him as a registered disciple, allowing him to work in the Artifact Forging Hall.
Seeing no obvious problem from the outside, Lu Ze circulated the spiritual energy within his body and sent it into the Demon-Seeking Compass.
Suddenly, the compass needle spun wildly and pointed at Lu Ze.
"..."
Lu Ze's breath caught.
"See? This Demon-Seeking Compass really is badly broken. It's actually pointing at Junior Brother Lu."
The Inner Disciple happily patted Lu Ze on the back.
"Haha, you've become a Demon Path cultivator, yet you're still in our Spirit Cloud Sect. Hahaha..."
"Yes, this Demon-Seeking Compass does indeed have a serious problem. I'll have to fix it properly for you."
"Alright, then I'll be going."
After seeing his senior brother off, Lu Ze's expression turned grave.
This shitty system had turned him into a Demon Path cultivator the instant it bound itself to him.
Once his identity was exposed, he would probably be left without even bones or ashes in an instant.
Spirit Cloud Sect, a great cultivation sect, possesses abundant martial virtue, and its cultivation atmosphere far surpasses that of lesser sects. As an outstanding Demon Path cultivator, you must strike a blow against Spirit Cloud Sect's cultivation fervor. Mission: Make more than thirty percent of Spirit Cloud Sect's disciples unable to cultivate in peace for five days. Mission Reward: Both Righteous and Evil (Outsiders cannot sense your demonic aura)
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