Living Such a Simple Life

Trouble—such a huge trouble. Thoroughly muddled and given a pounding headache by the system, Er Dongsheng stopped thinking about it and chose option three. Even if it failed, so what? At worst, he would start over from scratch!

Luck was such an illusory thing; who knew when it might drift away from you? For example, Er Dongsheng right now!

It had failed. The fusion had failed! Well, it was not an absolute failure, just somewhat disappointing. It was not nearly as powerful as he had imagined!

These were his current attributes. They were clean and tidy, but compared to the old interface, there was pitifully little left!

Demon True Name: Bakasa-Morag-Andrea-Fire-Er Dongsheng (Locked, not to be revealed)

Secondary True Name: Baal (For propagation, an Abyssal name containing immense might)

Rank: First-Level Demon, Imp Rank (Independent evolution)

Strength: 60

Spirit: 120

Physique: 20 (Fire-attribute physique)

Mastered Skills: Ink Spirit Flame, Basic Body Tempering, Basic Combat Arts, Basic Spellcraft (Lesser Fireball Technique)

Special Skill: Flame Demon God Transformation (Low-grade)

Note: All skills are universally applicable beneath the cosmos and are not suppressed by planes!

Streams of information flooded into his mind. Countless pieces of knowledge spun and scattered through his thoughts. Er Dongsheng rubbed his slightly swollen head and smiled bitterly.

This risky fusion could not really be called a failure. It was simply that the gains had not been as great as he had imagined.

Basic Body Tempering, combined with the knowledge in his memories and that wisp of Heavenly Dao Will, had formed a simple and direct body-tempering art that suited this demon body exceptionally well. It still carried traces of the external martial arts from his previous life, yet some parts were completely different. Basic Body Tempering emphasized tempering cells and bones, continuously raising the power of one's bloodline. Compared with the body-tempering arts he had cultivated before, it was hard to say which was stronger or weaker; it was simply probably better suited to this body.

Basic Combat Arts, meanwhile, had completely integrated the foundational attack methods of his previous life. Centered around fist techniques and combined with the characteristics of all things, it formed a unique set of offensive moves. Built upon speed, ruthlessness, and precision, it pursued efficiency and swift killing, opening wide and closing wide. It could be called a rather comprehensive set of fist techniques, with the force behind every move better suited to the structure of this demon body!

Put simply, if Er Dongsheng's previous moves could bring out thirty percent of this body's potential, then Basic Combat Arts could fully unleash one hundred percent of its power!

As for Basic Spellcraft, it was still the same, almost unchanged. It seemed the Daoist arts from his previous life truly were not accepted by this universe!

Er Dongsheng was actually already very satisfied. Though the miscellaneous skills had dwindled, he had been given a set of martial arts that fit him perfectly. His martial arts had not been lost, and he could continue cultivating them in the future. He no longer had to be like before, utterly unsure of where the road ahead lay!

The system having fewer things did not mean those things had vanished. They had simply fused completely into his body. For example, resistance had already merged wholly with his physique!

The Abyss did not originally have so many messy, miscellaneous things. Those things that had emerged from the subconscious of his previous life all disappeared once the system finished fusing!

"Now, only the last one remains. What exactly is this Game Space?"

"Th-This is way too fucking unfair! What use is this thing now?" Er Dongsheng was speechless as he looked at the system's explanation!

"Because the Game Space fused with the Abyssal Will, it has transformed into a real spatial tunnel. It can evade the Abyss's blockade and travel to other planes!" The system finally delivered information that made Er Dongsheng happy!

But...

"Because there are no spatial coordinates for other planes, the host cannot travel there! The planar passage function has been shut down. To conserve energy, only the most basic functions have been retained!"

Fine. He had thought there was hope of taking a trip to the Sunlight Plane, perhaps seeing those legendary beautiful elf girls and the like. Who would have thought all his hopes would come to nothing!

"Fine, then tell me all these basic functions at once!" Er Dongsheng said listlessly, utterly crushed.

"The Game Space comes with several small training scenarios. When the host is bored, the host may enter them in their true body to train and improve their skills. Every scenario will also randomly generate challenge missions. Upon completion, the host will receive small rewards!"

"Really? I can take a look later." Er Dongsheng's interest rose slightly, but only slightly. If he wanted to fight, there was no shortage of opponents in the Abyss!

"Ah, forget it. No more talking about this. It's boring. I worried over it for so many days for nothing!" Shaking his head and curling his lip, Er Dongsheng stood up from the ground, preparing to go out and see what that little Succubus girl was doing!

He had not played with the little one for several days, and he missed her somewhat!

Hehe, he would absolutely never admit that he had a bit of a creepy-uncle tendency!

Though the result of the fusion was truly somewhat regrettable, there was nothing to be done about it, was there? The road still had to be walked forward!

"Lulu, your creepy uncle—oh no, your dear brother—is out of seclusion! Come welcome me!" A bout of ghostly wailing and wolfish howling rang out from his cultivation cave!

What was the little Succubus girl doing at this moment?

Smack!

"Have you figured it out yet?" Lulu viciously smacked the Lesser Demon Sibya on the head with a ruler!

"How are you so stupid? Lulu learned it so quickly back then!" Little Lulu looked proudly at the utterly depressed Sibya. The little girl held her small head high, incomparably smug!

"Yes, yes, how could Sibya compare with Little Master Lulu? Little Master is so clever and beautiful! You couldn't find another like her in the entire Abyss!" Sibya said with a fawning expression! He now understood Little Lulu's status in Er Dongsheng's heart. It could be said that if he accidentally offended Er Dongsheng, he would probably only receive a small punishment. But if he made the little Succubus unhappy, his fate would likely be incomparably miserable!

Therefore, how to serve Little Master well and make Little Master happy was a question he racked his brains over every single day!

"Little Master, this addition, subtraction, one, two, three—whatever it was called—Little Master, it's really too hard! Sibya is stupid; Sibya can't learn it!" The Lesser Demon said with a miserable face!

"It's not that you're stupid—you really are stupid. Back then, Lulu..."

Suddenly, a bout of ghostly wailing and wolfish howling came from afar...

"Lulu, your dear brother is out of seclusion!"

"Huh?"

"Mm-mm, Brother is out of seclusion!" Upon hearing Er Dongsheng's voice, the little Succubus hurriedly threw away the bamboo switch in her hand and rushed toward the cave. Who cared about the Lesser Demon now!

"Brother, Brother, Lulu is here!"

From now on, everything from his previous life had been cast aside. He was only a Lesser Demon, only a demon with a tiny cheat at his fingertips!

Pain, struggle, survival—Er Dongsheng believed that he would lead his little sister and continue living happily in this damned Abyss, until...

The end of time!

(Some people may not have liked the earlier chapter, so Liunian would like to explain here: that was only a transition, Er Dongsheng casting aside his previous life and stepping lightly into the future! The Game Space is only laying the groundwork for future planar travel; it is not some invincible cheat that dominates heaven and earth. I also rather dislike those heaven-defying cheats, so even the powerful martial arts and Daoist arts from his previous life have been cast aside here. From now on, what he was in his previous life is no longer important. What matters is that he is now only a Lesser Demon struggling to survive in the Abyss!)