From his throne room, Hu Jiaren sat cross legged listening to holographic images of various human leaders reporting to the emperor of humanity. Gongsun Xuanyuan had a face that spoke of great anticipation when he declared their plans moving forward.

Ten thousand years have passed since Hu Jiaren's last humiliation. During this time, he made what he deemed the smart choice and stayed home pretending to be weak. He waited until the last minute until some powerful demon or an angry human expert arrived. Then he'd kill them in one move shocking his audience.

The amazement points gained was reinvested into his own cultivation, leading to shocking growth. He was a Great Unity Golden Immortal now, among the elites. But he knew he was still an ant compared to the saints.

Unknown to him, the Yellow Emperor has been sending him those demons and humans specifically for him to grow strong. Each time, just strong enough for Jiaren to confidently one shot. He was one of the many secret weapons invested into by Xuanyuan after all.

Till this day, Hu Jiaren still thought his system was a secret, and that his clicking motions was unnoticed. He didn't even realized that as he was browsing his menus, others in the meeting were giving him annoyed glances.

"Marquise Hu," one human expert called to him. "Pay attention."

A silent Xuanyuan stared at Hu Jiaren through his hologram, creeping him out. "As I was saying, we have news that the Eastern Emperor Taiyi will descend to the four continents soon. We know he's here to force the Four Ancestral Divinitie into a surrender, if not an execution.

"It's likely the latter swing as ancient powerhouses are making appearances again. Loath as I am to admit, the Three Sovereigns sent word to me in warning about sightings of Xingtian again. The Nine Infants Grand Sage has come out of retirement and rejoined the ten demonic grand sages. Word is that a Phoenix of astronomical power appeared in the Starty Skies. A universe wide battle between the two are about to begin.

"We will of course use this to our benefit. The Eastern Emperor is urgent in wanting a demonic victory over Earthly Divinities. He's leaving his court open. If we conquer the Solar Star, the Lunar Star will follow based on past trends. Once I sit upon the Starry Skies I can accord to activate the compiled karmic luck of the human race and ascend all of us into the rulers of the cosmos."

In Xuanyuan's hand, a seal depicting the character for 'heaven,' and 'emperor' appeared. Not a treasure, but an embodiment of humanity's karmic luck.

"The Heavenly Dao doesn't care for Eastern Emperor Taiyi. It'll favour us for sure," he concluded. "The Three Realms are partially kept stable by the Four Symbols Divine Beasts and mother Nuwa's five element stone acting as the center.

"I have deduced a formation allowing for a similar pentagram that can reshape existence as we know it. With myself and the luck of humanity acting as the center, four distinct human emperors will be elevated, shouldering the burden with me as the rulers of heaven and earth."

It was an extremely ambitious, as well as opportunistic plan. Taking advantage of the chaos, the human race would swoop in and use their immense karmic luck to forcibly evict the demons as the rulers of the Starry Skies. Then his own Five Coloured Emperor formation will stack itself over the Four Symbols formation. Heavenly Dao has seen no reason to oppose this and likely would support it given its favoritism.

Various praises to the wisdom of Xuanyuan were given. Even Hu Jiaren nodded his head, he'd even cheer if he didn't realize that Xuanyuan would force him to the front lines.

"Emperor father," Zhuanxu said from his hologram. "Are we going to inform little sister and elder brother?"

Xuanyuan took a deep breath knowing this question would arise. Better to let someone of his family bring it up. "Shaohao and Heng'e are dear to us but has strayed too close to our enemies. I fear for their loyalties knowing who they'd tied themselves to. Prepare yourself Zhuanxu, I wish for you to take up the red coloured position."

The Five Coloured Emperors formation was intended for people Xuanyuan personally raised, knew he could trust, and uncompromised by foreign malefactors. His own son Zhuanxu, great grandson Ku, Ku's son Yao, and Yao's grandson Shun.

If Hu Jiaren payed more attention to the human race's politics, he'd have realized that the mythological Five Emperors were all present.

As soon as the assembly ended, Hu Jiaren worked to invest his points into his own cultivation. He needed to break through to not be under Xuanyuan's hold anymore. But bridging the gap between Great Unity Golden Immortal and Saint to Be was difficult.

He didn't even understand how Xuanyuan could be that strong to begin with. Didn't novels say he was just some dude at the True Immortal realm who was only protected by heaven? And wasn't the realm after Great Unity supposed to be Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal?

Ultimately, he thought nothing of it. None of this reality mattered as long as he was the strongest. He'd rewrite reality as much as he wants with the strength beyond a saint.

Sending his attendants and concubines away, Hu Jiaren began cultivating. At his stage, he was meant to pick a law and train with it until it manifested as a Dao fruit. He could master other laws, and they'd all be merged into his main law, perfecting it even more.

In this regard, the system was the best tool ever. He didn't need to meditate or do anything complex, just invest points and the system would gather laws for him.

"Still not there huh."

This sentence was not said by him. From the shadows, Haotian walked out with a disappointed look. "I afforded you ten thousand years and you still could not get yourself submerged in that Dao."

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"Shut the fuck up idiot," Hu Jiaren instinctively bit back. "I'm trying to sense laws here. Don't you know cultivation is hard?

Haotian chuckled at the irony of his words. The system user was being spoonfed every day and still didn't reach Saint to Be. As a result, the Dao belonging to the six eared macaque could not manifest, and thus his connection to it was still surface level.

"You were born from that Dao's vision of reality. When it comes to immortal cultivation, your system automatically chooses it as a default for you. But who could've guessed that you were too full of yourself to be influenced by it."

"The fuck are you…eh?" Hu Jiaren finally noticed the person who was not supposed to be there. Haotian chuckled again at his lack of vigilance. At the end of the day, he was too used to already knowing an enemy was targeting him, and preemptively bolstering himself.

These past few thousand years, Xuanyuan figured out how to cultivate Hu Jiaren step by step. Sending a criminal within his power to instantly defeat but had a high enough reputation. Haotian had also taken advantage of this, directing certain individuals he was not fond of that way too.

In one second, Hu Jiaren was about to punch Haotian. The next second, Haotian launched Hu Jiaren out of his own palace with a slap.

"Aaaarrrrgggghhhh!"

Unused to pain, Hu Jiaren tumbled out, scraping across bricks and soil. His own subjects, who mostly ruled themselves gasped at their distant overlord's sudden fall.

"Pathetic, at least the monkey back then could fight," Haotian said with disdain floating down.

"Shut up weakling," Hu Jiaren manifested an elegant sword, the perfect weapon as described in his favourite novels. What seemed to be alternate realities depriving different events into his sword as he went to cut Haotian.

"Only a shadow of his Dao." Haotian almost felt ashamed on Liu Er'a behalf as he tore the sword strike down. Subsequently, he grabbed Hu Jiaren by his throat.

The man screamed, struggling to comprehend how Haotian got through him so easily. He quickly used the system's scan function only to be met by an 'error'.

Thinking fast, he activated. Multiple trump cards at once. His armor explodes into piercing tentacles, formation circles around his shoulder shot out poisonous gas, his hair formed into divine tigers to attack etc etc.

Over a million miscellaneous Daoist arts struck Haotian's body making him let go.

"Ha idiot." Hu Jiaren thought it was sheer idiocy. But at least was a win for him. Yet he suddenly found it strange how no points was recieved. "Uh amazement system?"

"Do you feel it?" Haotian's voice rang out. "This Dao that was your hated enemy. You are so close to reaching this world again, do you see me?"

Hu Jiaren found himself in a distorted world. He saw Haotian and reached for him, but no matter how much he tried he couldn't reach. He starred at his arm, only to freak out at it being trillions of light years away. He turned right, and was greeted by the sight of his own city. Flinching back, he smashed face first into a boulder that was supposed to be a distance away.

"What…what's going on? Stop it!!!" But Haotian was not paying attention to his words, only the abstract lines of Dao essence pulsating.

"Come on, you know me." Haotian sighed feeling disgusted all over. "Hey Jiaren, why is it so hard for your Dao to manifest? Perhaps I can…"

Hu Jiaren felt deeply unwell. He was a mighty cultivator destined to dominate the heavens. He was…he was just coming home from soccer practice when he…

He was an all powerful cultivator who bullied the Three Pure Ones and was worshipped as the one true…after trying to step into the cultivation word, he died of starvation on some mountain.

He was the greatest cultivator alive with countless wives, who destroyed all his enemies with a single touch. He was pissed, sitting at home staring at a game over screen.

Haotian's hold on Hu Jiaren in the physical world was extremely tight. His arms were outstretched, as if pulling the system user apart. His very existence, Haotian was using his own mind to rewrite.

All immortals on Haotian's scale can rewrite reality to varying degrees. In this instance, Haotian was changing Hu Jiaren's entire existence. Each time he felt stronger and stronger pushback from the unseen force behind him.

The system, the manifestation of Liu Er's Dao. The cosmological constant that could affect the Three Realms which Hu Jiaren interpreted as the amazement system. Now, this constant was being threatened.

Reality itself was trying to disagree. Each pushback was astronomically stronger than the rest. Each time coming closer to a genuine actualization of the Dao.

Haotian smiled, his prey was nearing. He rewrote Hu Jiaren again.

"No…gah Nathan stop….Yu Ming Fairy wonder…not the…" Hu Jiaren's face overlapped with another time and time again. "You…the Emp…the emperor will…"

When he was finally let go, he hit the ground with a confused aching feeling. Glaring up, he yelled at Haotian, except something began distorting his speech.

"Cocksucker, you fight me and think no one noticed. The Yellow Empe…em…e….pme…ororor….co…coco….co"

Hu Jiaren couldn't control his mouth. A terrified feeling overcame him. Instinctively, he knew something bad was going to happen to him. He knew he'd stop being himself if he allowed it. So he tried to fight.

But how can he?

"COOWNER!!!"

Haotian sighed in relief for the first time. In that single instance, the mark on Hu Jiaren back burned bright with a strong signal. A Dao fruit was partially trying to manifest. In that same instance, Haotian grabbed hold of the most arrogant Dao in all existence.

In the next instance, through a path of abstract concepts, past a celestial river where true souls drifted, through a sea of clouds pulsating with tribulation lightning. Reality faded away for both of them. Now in a blank void, Haotian loosened the line of energy in his grip. It was fading in the first place, its powdery form retreating back to an expansive star with no defined shape.

It was not necessarily an ever changing structure. Rather, it was a mix of numerous concepts that resulted in an undefined structure. That was the accumulation of every deceased cultivator who actualized their Dao, including the Three Thousand Daos of the Chaos Godfiends.

It was not a scene Hu Jiaren could fully comprehend. The Dao Laws of the Three Realms still exerted the pressure their deceased creators once held. A crushing monsoon that should've annihilated him trillions of times over. It was only through the existence of a single Dao that his stability was maintained.

Falling to his ass, Hu Jiaren should've been terrified, or at the very least go completely brain dead at the sight around him. Instead, he was twitching from the complete manifestation of Liu Er's Dao in the form of his law.

"I apologize for using such underhanded methods to get here," Haotian said looking up. "You have always ignored me for very valid reasons. I truly apologize for my intrusion.

Far above him, surrounded by a long bloody scaled body. An orb surrounded by clouds shifted until something that reassembled a pupil constricted upon Haotian's form.

"Greetings, oh Heavenly Dao."

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