Dual Cultivation: Omnipotent Villain with Reader System!-Chapter 84: You dare defy me, the Heavenly Dao?

I need this kill this Tianmo before he grows even further. He is a variable that threatens the very equilibrium of the Nine Realms.

Thus, I have sent a mission to all system users to eliminate him, the pawns I have cultivated are useful for this moment.

However, if he is truly the remanifestation of Primordial Black then they might not be useful... What’s more, he already possesses Devil-refining fire and Devil heart. I need to think more logically here.

No, I need to kill him. I need to look at the situation from the Wang Family. I need to utilize all of them. Matter of fact, that Elder Gu can be a fine knife to stab Tianmo.

Since, he is self-invested and only thinks for himself, he is easy to use, I just need to give him the resources he needs, and he will do the rest.

I, the Heavenly Dao, do not need to lift a finger. I only need to provide the opportunity, and the greed of a man will do the rest. It’s a perfect plan.

Perfect! Just as I had expected. Simulating a branch shows exactly what I need to see, what I need to hear, this guy’s greed knows no bounds. Even though Wang Tianmo has started to awaken to who he is, he can still be killed and erased.

Woosh!

Within the green forest, hiding within the trees looking at the weeping wood utter was none other than Elder Gu. This demon!! He dared challenge my authority again and again. Once again, he is trying to test the depth of the sea, killing the wives of system-holders. Once he kills Tianmo, I shall kill him as well, for now, let him enjoy the glory.

[Ding!]

[Heaven-blessed system activated.]

Elder Gu, who was watching the scene froze for a second. He didn’t panic or tremble. He simply looked at the blue screen floating in front of him with the boredom of a man who had just been handed a flyer for a store he was already robbing.

"Heaven-blessed?" Gu scoffed, the sound dry and sharp, like dead leaves crunching underfoot. "Blessed by whom? By the very thing that wants to leash me? What joke is this?"

"Is this the system? I expected something more," he added.

This old man!! Is he trying to enrage me?!

How dare he mock the gift of Heaven?

I am the Heavenly Dao. I am the absolute. I am the one who decides who breathes and who perishes. To reject my system is to reject existence itself.

Instead of being grateful, you dare scoff it off? The AUDACITY!!!

"I know this system is a façade. Behind it, you are there, self-proclaimed Heavenly Dao. Five minutes. I give you five minutes. Speak your thoughts."

PRESUMPTION!!! The sheet audacity? Five minutes?

This mortal speck named Gu... he thinks he can dictate terms to Me? He thinks he can place a time limit on the Absolute?

It is insulting. It is a violation of the natural order.

But I am not petty. I am not a tyrant who strikes out in anger.

If Gu wants to play the role of the equal, I will let him. I will humor him. Because in the end, his arrogance is just another handle I can use to control him. He thinks he is using me, but he is merely the hammer I wield to crush the nail that is Wang Tianmo.

[You are interesting, tell me what you want? Glory? Resources? Women? You just name it, and I shall offer it all. I will offer you as many cultivation resources as you need, I shall forgive your karma, and I shall make you divine. Your only goal is to kill Wang Tianmo.]

"Ooh! Interesting offer... From what I know, all-powerful beings like you can see the future, determine the destiny, pray tell — will I accept your offer or not?"

Ah, mortals and their pathetic ego, thinking they can outsmart the absolute.

He thinks he has found a paradox—a question that cannot be answered. If I say he will accept, he will refuse out of spite. If I say he will refuse, he will accept just to prove me wrong.

He believes this gives him leverage. He believes this makes him the master of the conversation.

How quaint.

[You will accept... You have to, refusing me is simply courting death, I know you are a greedy, self-serving person, I am offering you everything you want, rejecting it is simply stupidity. I know you are smart.]

"Hahaha, quite amusing. I expected better from you, had envisioned you to be unparalleled in wisdom and strength, turns out it be but an empty talk."

Gu’s laughter was not a cackle of madness like a typical villain, nor a wheeze of age. It was the deep, resonant sound of a mountain deciding to remain where it stood, indifferent to the wind trying to move it. He leaned back against the rough bark of the ancient weeping willow, his arms crossed over his chest, eyes closed like a Daoist philosopher.

"You speak of greed as if it is a chain you can yank," Gu continued, his voice cutting through the spiritual transmission with razor clarity. "But you mistake the nature of a man like me. You claim you shall forgive my karma... If there is anyone who can forgive here then it’s me. You robbed me of my future, robbed me of my innocence, robbed me of my childhood. Rejoice. It’s me who forgives your action, your karma."

I... I am being mocked.

Mocked? By a mortal? A mere foundation establishment trash? Impudence!!! It’s a sin.

"From childhood, I questioned about fortune-telling... If the future was already predestined what’s even the point of living? If I am going to die tomorrow, why cultivate today? If I am going to be poor, why work today? Fate and future are never predestined, even if it’s written in stone, the stone shall shatter, I am simply who I am, and I am the one who decides my destiny. This is why you hate me, because I am unbounded by chains, unbound by anything, I act on my own will without any bias thus, you believed I could be trapped with greed."

"When you punished me, robbed me of my cultivation, I knew the answer that the Divine could bleed, and you came to prove to me that, even Heavenly Dao can be defeated. You couldn’t predict me, but I can predict your destiny, your regime, your rule, your authority, it shall all come to an end. I, Gu Cixin, decrown you of ABSOLUTE. The crown is too heavy for your fragile existence. Start counting your days you may not live forever."

[Outrageous!!! In what capacity do you dare decrown me? What is a mortal compared to the absolute? I am offering you a good life yet, your narrow mind fails to see the bigger picture. You are just a speck of dust, your existence is nothing but a fleeting moment. Do you truly think you are someone special? Someone who can challenge the Heavens? You are nothing but a delusional ant.]

In what capacity does he dare utter such nonsense? I am challenged, undefeated, and absolute. I am the Heavenly Dao. I am the law. I am the truth. I am the GOD.

Yet, this speck of dust, this Gu Cixin, he dares to speak to me as if we are equals. How naive unable to see the vastness of the world.

"Ha, you think I would believe your lie? You simply want to use me to kill Young Master Wang because you are unable to punish him like how you punish others who dare challenge your authority. Once I have done it, you will simply discard me."

"The meeting was fruitful, I have learned a lot. My entire life, I have seen you as an enemy, to join hands with you now would be betraying myself. You never once thought what exactly I felt did you? You only saw my action tangibly, you never saw the intangible. You never saw me for who I was, for you to even believe I would join hands with you. I know I will die here, but I am satisfied to learn, someday, somewhere you will be punished as well, you will be judged the same you you judge us, pity, I will never live to see that day."

"Go on, satisfy your childish vanity. Kill me, erase me all in the name of fake justice. I have no regret walking the path I chose to walk. You say I am dust, but I know dust will meet the same end as divine."

This... This... This...

Courting death!!! 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

You pathetic speck of dust. You think your defiance is poetic? You think your refusal makes you a martyr? A fool, a frog at the bottom of well, unable to see the world outside.

Good! Very good! You want to die? I shall kill you.

Zzzz*

The clouds above the forest, once a serene tapestry of white and grey, boiled into a chaotic vortex of violet and black. The air grew heavy, suffocatingly dense with spiritual pressure that pressed down on the earth, flattening the grass and bowing the ancient trees.

This was not a natural storm. It was the wrath of the Absolute.

I, the Heavenly Dao, do not tolerate insolence. I do not tolerate rejection. And I certainly do not tolerate being lectured on the nature of freedom by a mortal who has yet to even shed his mortal coil.

You refuse to kill Tianmo? Heh, the sea is full of fish, if one fish dies, I can catch another. You are not special, Gu Cixin. You are just a stubborn old fool who chose to die for nothing.