The experiences of Hundred Bones Resonating in the illusion scrolled frantically across the system interface.
Those words refreshed at a startling speed, as if someone were holding down the fast-forward button.
Gu Chengming hadn't even reacted yet; he only felt dense information surging toward him like a tide, nearly giving him a dizzying sense of information overload.
He subconsciously wanted to rub his eyes, but found he didn't even have the luxury of movement.
The images on that light screen had already begun.
【Hundred Bones Resonating saw a sea of blood surging all around, with countless broken swords and severed limbs flying everywhere—a terrifying scene it had never witnessed in its life as a cultivation method!】
【Hundred Bones Resonating called out to you anxiously, but there was no response except for the deathly silence of the wind.】
【Finally, in a corner of the mountain of corpses and sea of blood, it discovered a mangled "corpse".】
【Though the face was unrecognizable, that familiar aura and those handsome skeletal contours left no doubt—it was you, Gu Chengming.】
【Hundred Bones Resonating was struck as if by lightning.】
【It eventually recognized reality.】
【Gu Chengming, you are dead.】
Gu Chengming looked at this line of bold, enlarged red text with a face full of dark lines, his mouth unable to stop twitching.
You're the one who's dead.
He wanted to complain, but the plot sent back by Hundred Bones Resonating on the system didn't give him any room to breathe.
【Hundred Bones Resonating thought to itself that this world always seemed to target supreme geniuses like it.】
【Why? Why did the damned heavens have to snatch him away just as it found a golden finger that understood it?】
【It was furious! It was unwilling!】
【But it didn't matter; it would avenge you!】
【Even if it was just a single cultivation method, it would climb to the peak of the immortal path and make all the gods and buddhas in the sky pay the price!】
【It would not forget its promise to you; once it became invincible in the world, it would surely reshape your physical body and reverse Yin and Yang for you!】
Seeing this, Gu Chengming's original urge to complain suddenly faded a bit.
Setting everything else aside, Old Bai's loyalty was truly beyond reproach.
Next, the text on the light screen began to refresh at a dizzying speed, detailing the long years Hundred Bones Resonating experienced in the illusion.
【First Year: Hundred Bones Resonating merged its body with a sword, lurking in the wilderness, breathing the essence of the sun and moon day and night to repair its damaged form.】
【Third Year: It passed by a mortal city just as the "Tianbao Pavilion" was holding an auction. It sensed a piece of primordial essence iron in the pavilion, which was the perfect material for repairing its technique body.】
【At the auction, a profligate young master spoke insolently, mocking it as a piece of scrap metal. Hundred Bones Resonating sneered and said nothing, merely silently memorizing the man's aura.】
【That night, the profligate young master's corpse was found on the street, and the primordial essence iron vanished. Hundred Bones Resonating hid its deeds and fame; such was the cruelty of the cultivation world—killing for treasure was the natural order!】
Gu Chengming's eyelid jumped.
Wait, isn't this the behavior of an orthodox protagonist?
【Tenth Year: Hundred Bones Resonating broke into the "Myriad Beast Mountain Range" and encountered a Rank 5 demonic beast, the "Purple Flame Demon Lion".】
【The demon lion's aura was overwhelming, and it opened its mouth to swallow it. Hundred Bones Resonating remained calm, pulling a freshly grilled fish from its storage space and sprinkling it with special cumin and chili powder.】
【The aroma filled the air, and the demon lion instantly began to drool.】
【Hundred Bones Resonating asked: "Do you want to eat?"】
【For a single bite of grilled fish, the demon lion abandoned its dignity and lowered its noble head. From then on, one technique and one beast ran rampant through the mountain range.】
Gu Chengming massaged his forehead.
【Fiftieth Year: An ancient secret realm opened. Geniuses from all major sects gathered to fight for the legendary "Emperor Sovereign Inheritance".】
【While everyone was fighting until their heads bled, Hundred Bones Resonating took an alternative path and leaped off a cliff!】
【Sure enough, there was a hidden paradise beneath the cliff. A white-haired old man's remnant soul was waiting for a fated person.】
【Hundred Bones Resonating received the transmission of power from the expert, and its cultivation skyrocketed. On the day it emerged from seclusion, the single technique swept through the secret realm, crushing all those so-called sect geniuses and looting all their storage bags.】
【Hundred Bones Resonating looked at the spoils covering the ground and felt a pang of sorrow.】
【It thought to itself: "Gu Chengming, if only you were here for these resources, how wonderful it would be."】
The plot advanced rapidly; Hundred Bones Resonating was practically a cheat-level existence in the illusion.
Whether it was picking up a dusty divine artifact by the roadside or refining a peerless divine pill after a furnace explosion...
It went through every classic trope of a cultivation novel protagonist.
Finally, when the plot reached roughly the "five hundredth year," it finally discovered the mastermind behind the scenes who had "killed" Gu Chengming.
【After extensive investigation, Hundred Bones Resonating finally locked onto a mysterious organization called the "Soul Palace".】
【This organization excelled at manipulating souls and was sinister and ruthless; they were the culprits who created the illusion to kill Gu Chengming!】
Shit! Even the Soul Palace is here.
So, am I Yao Lao?
The text on the light screen became impassioned.
【The day of the final battle, dark clouds pressed down on the city.】
【Hundred Bones Resonating, a lone technique, charged into the Soul Palace's headquarters.】
【That battle caused the heavens to collapse and the earth to rend, turning the sun and moon dark. Hundred Bones Resonating unleashed everything it had learned in its life, crushing the Soul Palace's sect-protecting array to pieces!】
【Gu Chengming, look! This is the fate of those who harmed you!】
【The master of the Soul Palace begged for mercy in terror, willing to offer all his treasures.】
【Hundred Bones Resonating said it didn't want treasures; it only wanted him dead!】
【(At this point, the Soul Palace was annihilated.)】
【At that moment, a rain of blood fell from the sky. Hundred Bones Resonating floated above the ruins, weeping like rain.】
【"Gu Chengming, I have avenged you!"】
Gu Chengming: "..."
Old Bai, although the way you avenged me was very tragic, why can't I feel moved at all?
【After the revenge, Hundred Bones Resonating did not stop. It continued to cultivate, wanting to fulfill its final promise—to reshape your physical body.】
【One thousand years, ten thousand years.】
【It traveled across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths searching for divine medicine; it broke into the Netherworld to flip through the Book of Life and Death.】
【Unfortunately, it was simply too difficult, too difficult.】
【Even though it had become a Supreme Technique Emperor, even though it bore the Heavenly Abyss on its back and supported the Hundred Bones Divine Palace with one hand, carrying all living beings and being invincible in the world, it still could not achieve resurrection.】
Can you please stop? If you keep this up any longer, you're going to get sued for plagiarism.
【Thus, Hundred Bones Resonating changed its approach and went into seclusion to comprehend the laws of time. This sitting lasted for a hundred thousand years.】
【Seas turned into mulberry fields, and ages passed. One day, that ancient longsword suddenly vibrated, and a power of law surpassing heaven and earth erupted.】
【It wanted to return to the moment Gu Chengming died; even if it meant its Dao foundation would shatter, it would bring you back to life!】
【With a great shout from Hundred Bones Resonating, it burned a hundred thousand years of cultivation, turning it into that supreme sword strike that slashed toward a certain node in the void!】
With a crack, the illusion broke!
In the outside world.
For the crowd, only dozens of breaths had passed.
The plaza was still filled with an eerie silence as thousands of disciples remained adrift in the illusion.
Occasionally, someone would emit a murmur like a sleep-muttering, or their facial muscles would twitch uncontrollably, adding a subtle atmosphere to the dead silence.
On the observation deck, the gazes of several elders fell upon Gu Chengming, waiting for the result.
Zhao Wuji held a hand seal, his expression originally quite relaxed.
However, at that very moment.
Zhao Wuji's eyes suddenly widened, and his originally stable aura became momentarily turbulent.
He hadn't suffered a backlash; after all, this was just an illusion, not a soul collision.
But he felt an earth-shattering killing intent coming from the other end of the Spirit Induction Art.
That killing intent was mixed with desolation, madness, and an arrogance that viewed all things in heaven and earth as straw dogs!
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It was Zhao Wuji's turn for a question mark to pop up over his head.
Wait, Gu Chengming, what on earth did you experience in that illusion?
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