Chapter 440: Heart to Heart Talk with the Devil (2/2)
[”You saved so many people, Miaomiao.”]
”…”
Although Miaomiao was praised, his face turned pale, imagining the scenario that he had failed to kill Xie Tian and ended up feeding him EXP instead.
He was horrified by the alternate scenario!
[”Again, I know that we don't have a good start. But have faith in me. I did everything for the sake of greater good, even though my methods can be considered dubious.”]
Miaomiao shook off the other thoughts. He sighed and slowly nodded.
”I trust you.”
[Macho Joshua wiped the tears on his cheek. The friendship between you and the Devil is so beautiful.]
[The Devil's face flushed in anger and embarrassment, ”SHUT IT!”]
”HAHAHAHA!”
Miaomiao was caught off guard by Joshua. He couldn't help it.
”Anyway, what's your name, exactly? I don't want to keep calling you Devil.”
[”I'll tell you when we can meet in person. For now, get stronger, a lot stronger than you are now! Abuse and exploit your system. Your primary goal is to become the strongest mortal of that world and kill Ling Tianlong.”]
[”Once Ling Tianlong is dead, everything will become easier, A LOT easier than the tutorial quests that I had rigged them for you.”]
”You'd better not be lying. I don't want to hear that this shit is all for entertainment again. I want to see no machinery, puppeteering, or indirect manipulation of my fate this time.”
[”Sorry about that. I needed to motivate you, or you would have been lazing around, spreading STD to every woman like a horny rabbit instead of cultivating back then. You were pretty much a scum of society that I had to intervene.”]
The Devil's words somehow stabbed Miaomiao's black heart.
He was right. Miaomiao had planned to stay away from the worldly affair and enjoy his slow life as a dual-cultivator!
[”But to be honest, I didn't think you would actually succeed! It was fun watching you struggle like a lab rat. Congrats for living through that shit!”]
”SON OF A...!!”
Sometimes, Miaomiao didn't know if the Devil was sincere, or he was just messing up with him.
Still, he managed to extract a lot of information from this conversation. He felt like what he had done so far wasn't in vain.
”Okay, you know what? Let our past interactions become water under the bridge. Let's work together from now on, but I won't be your vessel or your apostle. I'll kill protagonists for you. In turn, you watch my back and keep those nasty evil gods from me and my family, okay?”
[”That was what I and Joshua have been doing. Why do you think that Kishin Douji, Samsara, and Yuan Hua haven't descended to your planet and killed you yet? I and Joshua here have been working hard, you know?”]
[Joshua proudly nods as he reminisces of the rough skirmishes against Kishin Douji and Yuan Hua's goons in the Heaven Realms and Immortal Realms.]
[Joshua suggests that you should focus on getting stronger as quickly as possible as anything can happen in the future.]
”Will do. Thank you, Joshua.”
It was funny. In the past, Dion always complained that he needed Jesus because of his personality. Now, he got the Devil and JESUS on his side.
[”That will be all. If you want to know more that badly, why don't you just cultivate the time-and-space technique of Cernun's mural?”]
”But won't that cripple my soul and my cultivation?”
[”It definitely will. But if you want to take a shortcut, you have to pay the price. But if you want to take it steady, stay clear from the incomplete time-and-space technique until you have all the dragon balls, you hear?”]
”Okay...”
…
10 minutes later
Even though the Devil, Joshua, and Miaomiao had ended the conversation, they hadn't resumed the live streaming yet.
Joshua postponed the live stream schedule, but Miaomiao hadn't realized it. The latter's mind was occupied by something else.
Currently, Miaomiao stared at the second piece of time-and-space mural, which Hopea had given him.
This piece was supposed to be under Cernun's protection, but Miaomiao was now its owner.
Miaomiao grumbled, hesitated if he should practice the incomplete time-and-space technique.
There were six of the seven intel that Miaomiao had learned from all four pieces of the mural, Lu Fengxian's memory, and Ling Tianlong's ability.
The first piece of Xie Tian contained the secret of time reversal.
Sun Wu's mural contained the power of time distortion, similar to the Isolation Training Space, which twisted the time flow.
Nero's time and space mural had the secret of teleportation and spatial travel. It appeared to have the same foundation as spatial ring, which distorted the spatial size. However, it was more profound as it could be applied to living beings while spatial rings couldn't.
Lu Fengxian's copied record of time-and-space mural contained the secret of time freezing ability. It reminded Miaomiao of a JOJO villain and a certain maid from the Scarlet Devil Mansion of a game series.
As for Ling Tianlong's piece, Miaomiao suspected that it involved the gravity law.
And lastly, the most interesting piece, aka Cernun's mural, seemed to contain nothing but a stabilizer technique at a glance. However, it hid a secret of precognition, foresight, prophecy, or fortune-telling-related ability.
After all, Cernun seemed to be able to see the future!
Miaomiao's eyes became bloodshot, hesitated if he should open the Pandora Box and learn the incomplete technique. He might have to sacrifice a portion of his power or injure his soul in the process, but the information of the future event might be worth the investment.
High Risk, High Reward!
But Miaomiao didn't want to take risks!
Before Miaomiao was tempted to learn the technique, he put the mural piece away. He slapped his face to stop his stupid brain from ordering him to do something reckless.
There was another way to learn this skill. The answer lied with his OP system.
The Isolation Training Space Clones!
Or, if Miaomiao couldn't find an opponent with a foresight ability, he could gamble his luck with the skill fusion menu until the right skill would show up!
Miaomiao had not forgotten. He could manipulate the skill fusion result once a year!
As long as he could pinpoint the right combination, he would learn this ability without taking the risk of sacrificing his power!
He took a deep breath and smiled. For once, he was proud of his intelligence and his wisdom.
When one was lost, all they had to do was to look back at the beginning of their journey! All Miaomiao's early power came from the system skills, and the system might be the answer!
Ding
[Seeing you graduating from being a stupid donkey, the Devil is moved to tears.]
”Shaddap! I'm always a genius!”
[Macho Joshua and the Devil are laughing hysterically.]