A System for Snatching the Protagonist's Opportunities? But I'm Huo Yuhao
Chapter 2

Worldline Correction: Huo Yuhao's Fortuitous Encounters Will Gradually Gain Memories of the Future

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Boom!

In an instant, a vast flood of information poured into the depths of Huo Yuhao's mind like a waterfall plunging three thousand feet.

Combat techniques for duels between Soul Masters, the core theories of Martial Souls, the Body Sect's Second Awakening, blueprints for all kinds of Soul Tools, and much, much more gradually grew clear before Huo Yuhao's eyes.

It was as though he had truly put them into practice himself.

It all seemed so real.

But when he actually tried to recall those battle scenes, they became blurry again, leaving Huo Yuhao to piece them together with what he had read in the original story and mull them over.

Suddenly, a screen full of red exclamation marks popped up in the depths of Huo Yuhao's mind.

Dazzling red light filled his Sea of Consciousness.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who had fallen into a deep sleep in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, immediately woke up, but his eyes had become utterly vacant.

Even the little gray bead that had been floating beside the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm stopped hovering, and its gray,tranquil presence vanished into thin air at that moment.

Noticing this, Huo Yuhao frowned. He immediately felt that there was more to this than met the eye.

[Warning! Warning! Warning!] [The host has seized Huo Yuhao's great opportunity to defy the heavens and change his fate: the significant status of protagonist and child of destiny.] [Huo Yuhao cannot defy the heavens and change his fate and complete the revenge-and-harem wish-fulfillment storyline.] [The plane consciousness has detected the existence of the system and the host.] [The worldline is being corrected!] [Warning! Beings and opportunities of vital importance to Huo Yuhao, such as the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux, will gain memories of the future under certain circumstances.] [Once they gain memories of the future, they will become the greatest obstacles to the host's efforts to seize Huo Yuhao's opportunities.] [The system will do everything in its power to prevent this from happening.]

Warning after warning sounded in Huo Yuhao's mind.

Huo Yuhao, who had thought some major, world-ending event had occurred, merely twitched the corner of his mouth.

That's it?

That's it?

That's it!

He had thought it was some life-or-death matter, like being erased.

And now it was telling him this was all?

What did it mean for people of vital importance to Huo Yuhao to recover their memories?

It meant the plane consciousness had personally chewed his food to mush and fed it to him.

Before long, another "ding" sounded in Huo Yuhao's mind.

[The system failed to prevent it. The difficulty of snatching Huo Yuhao's opportunities will increase to SSSSSS+.] [The rewards the host receives for each opportunity seized from Huo Yuhao will be doubled!]

Huo Yuhao was almost certain now that the system he possessed was a dumbass.

He had never seen a system that dumb.

The difficulty had increased to 6S+, and the reward would double every time he seized an opportunity.

Holy crap.

Huo Yuhao couldn't imagine how satisfying that would be.

But then... his thoughts took a turn.

Did Huo Yuhao joining the Tang Sect and obtaining things like the Mysterious Heaven Skill and the Tang Sect's Hundred Separations of Hidden Weapons count as one of his major opportunities?

Fair was fair: the Mysterious Heaven Skill was definitely one of the best cultivation techniques in this world, and the Purple Demon Eye from the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record was an even better match for his Martial Soul, the Spirit Eyes.

Then, if he joined the Tang Sect along the original route and obtained the Mysterious Heaven Skill and the Tang Sect's Hundred Separations of Hidden Weapons, would the reward he received from the system be the complete version-no, possibly an advanced version-of the Mysterious Heaven Skill?

A version of the Mysterious Heaven Skill stronger than Little Scumbag's and thirty thousand years ahead of his time.

Just then, something else seemed to occur to Huo Yuhao.

Perhaps he could obtain the Mysterious Heaven Skill and the Hundred Separations of Hidden Weapon without joining the Tang Sect.

In the original story, the Tang Sect had already been in decline for years by this point, and its members had been wiped out a few years earlier, leaving only Tang Ya, its sole daughter.

He found it hard to believe that after so much time, there wouldn't be any incomplete copies of the Mysterious Heaven Skill on the market.

Even if he obtained only an incomplete copy of the Mysterious Heaven Skill, he could still obtain an advanced version of the cultivation technique from the system.

It was really worth a try.

Once Huo Yuhao had decided what route to take next, the red electronic warnings around him vanished completely, as though they had never appeared.

Huo Yuhao slowly raised his eyes and looked at the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux in his Sea of Consciousness.

At that moment, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm came back to his senses, his vacant eyes regaining their former sparkle. A chill also spread around him, making Huo Yuhao shiver involuntarily.

Electrolux, floating in the air, also resumed pulsing.

But the moment the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm looked at Huo Yuhao, his expression changed noticeably.

The unfamiliarity of their first meeting gave way to unexpected delight and excitement.

How could that feeling be described...?

It was like someone who had grown up sharing the same pair of pants with you suddenly dying before your eyes, and then you gained the power to bring them back to life.

At that moment, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was filled with a jumble of emotions.

He had never expected to gain memories of the future.

The future Huo Yuhao had fulfilled his hopes and become a new god of the Douluo Continent.

Under the watchful eyes of the million-year soul beast, Huo Yuhao had inherited a legendary godhood, the one best suited to him: the God of Emotion.

This should have moved the million-year-old giant silkworm to tears, but no matter how he tried, he couldn't feel happy.

He had witnessed with his own eyes how, because of Tang San, Huo Yuhao had embarked on a difficult, bloody path, forced to choose between two people for love-no, between three.

By the later stages, he couldn't even hold a single opinion of his own, and his constant declarations at the beginning that he would avenge his mother had become nothing more than pretty words.

Of the people who had originally hurt Huo Yuhao, only the duchess had paid the price she deserved, but she had died of illness rather than at Huo Yuhao's own hands. Her death was no different from any other death.

The rest of those who had hurt Huo Yuhao had instead received an abundance of rewards and positions beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Because of Tang San, even Electrolux, the teacher who had accompanied Huo Yuhao as he grew, had vanished from this world.

Was it worth it? It absolutely wasn't!

In the distant future, Huo Yuhao had fulfilled his dream and become a true god. This time, he, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, would never let Huo Yuhao follow the same old path.

Electrolux, beside him, had also gained memories of the future.

However, his power had not yet fully recovered, so he could not assume human form.

He had never imagined that his future self would meet such a tragic end.

But he did not regret taking Huo Yuhao as his disciple.

His future self had told Huo Yuhao not to dwell on thoughts of revenge, which had led to Huo Yuhao failing to make those who had hurt him pay the price they deserved.

This time, he would caution Huo Yuhao that revenge was fine, but he must not lose himself in its pursuit.

Those who had hurt him deserved to be struck back twice as hard!

Seeing the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's evasive gaze and the drowsiness returning to his eyes, Huo Yuhao was fairly certain that they had gained memories of the future.

He glanced at the two of them and left his Sea of Consciousness.

Outside.

Bei Bei and Tang Ya, who had just arrived before Huo Yuhao, experienced exactly the same thing as the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux.

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