Chapter 473: Fallen and Emergence of Protagonists
'The winner of the second game is the first person who has picked the right tile the fastest. And the winner is…'
While Zhou Gongjin was mocking Ling Tianlong, the mysterious voice announced the winner of the second game.
'Lai Wen!'
Although the fight caught the attention of spectating cultivators, they paid more importance to find the winner of this game. Brocell, Liu Xuande, Guan Yunchang, Yan Liang, and others looked around, searching for the winner by the name [Lai Wen].
As they kept looking around, they noticed that some of Miaomiao's wives were glancing at a certain woman at the edge of the platform.
Lai Wen was a short woman with ample bust and dyed blond hair. Her twin tail hairstyle, cute face, and smooth skin resembled a first-year high-schooler.
Miaomiao used to nickname Lai Wen as "Jail Bait" since she looked like a loli character in the DOA game series. In the past, he often summoned her along with Ju Shoufen to enjoy a certain kink when he was bored of the big girls.
Lai Wen was one of the succubi, and she always hung around her best friends, namely Kong Xifeng, Shen Niu, and Fan Xiu.
These four women never stood out like Jiang Lan, Tang Ting, or Ju Chen. They also didn't have a godly background like Fang Meirong or Sun Yun.
In short, they were lucky women, who had been riding on Miaomiao's tailcoat for years. They kept a low profile, avoiding every potential conflict with the other wives to survive.
But now, one of them broke the taboo. Lai Wen got lucky as the tile that she had been standing on was the yellow duck toy tile from the start.
She never moved from her spot. Therefore, she was the first to claim her tile.
"That little girl!?"
"Is she one of Mao Miaomiao's women as well!?"
"I'm so envious! How did he find so many pretty women!? I want a little girl like that as well!"
Even the old 6th-stage cultivators from Liu Biao's side couldn't help but admire Lai Wen's cute face and her youthful appearance. They wished to have her as their wife or their granddaughter in secret.
Uriel also gazed at Lai Wen.
"What kind of reward will you choose? A divine pill? The token? An artifact? Or a godly cultivation method?"
Lai Wen hesitated. She looked at her best friends in a distance and asked them with her eyes.
The three succubi gave her a thumbs up. They sent their voice transmission and encouraged her to pick a cultivation method so that everybody could learn it together.
Lai Wen nodded in agreement. She turned to Uriel.
"A divine-grade cultivation method!"
"Haha! How ambitious! Alright, you can have it."
Instead of handing out a book, scroll, or a jade slip, Uriel came down and touched Lai Wen's forehead with his fingertip.
The flow of memory entered Lai Wen's mind. Her eyes were blank as her brain processed the new information.
While transferring a cultivation method for the girl, Uriel noticed something odd about Lai Wen.
Normally, a mortal would have been tensed, and their muscles would have contracted during the process. Yet, Lai Wen seemed relaxed, too relaxed!
It was as if she was used to absorbing new memory!
'She is adapted to being brainwashed and handling memory injection! Miaomiao, you dick-brain bastard! Did you erase her memory and rewrite it so many times that she is used to it!?'
Uriel misunderstood Miaomiao. The latter had barely touched Lai Wen's memory and traits since she was more obedient than the other women.
On the contrary, Lai Wen was a master at brainwashing others. She practiced Xu Chu's arts, and she could easily turn any male cultivator into her slave. Yet, she never used her power in front of others.
Xu Chu's techniques required high cognitive ability, memory, and processing power as it required the practitioners to multitask. Unless one had practiced their brain and processing power to a certain extent, they would never be able to use the ultimate succubus brainwashing gas.
Nobody realized that Lai Wen and other succubi's IQ had surpassed their sisters.
Unbeknownst to Lai Wen's abilities, Uriel pitied the girl. He decided to give Lai Wen something extra.
He added something else into her dantian while he was transferring the cultivation method. But what he did would trouble Miaomiao in the future.
…
After smoothly comprehending the cultivation method, Lai Wen suppressed her grin. She closed her left eye on a habit while she processed the new information.
'Oh? That easy? I should test it a bit…'
Because of her concentration, she didn't pay attention to small orb energy, which entered her unborn nascent soul.
The Heavenly Fate Fragment from Uriel merged with her nascent soul embryo!
Lai Wen circulated her Life Essence, using Uriel's method.
Then, her first plot armor activated.
SWUA
"Ah."
Lai Wen widened her eyes and covered her mouth with both hands.
She accidentally severed her former life's karma with an invisible dao blade. After cutting the old connections, her physique, dantian, Qi, and soul were strengthened.
Moreover, she could sense a new form of Qi in her dantian.
She could use Soul Qi, and her dantian transformed into Soul Dantian!
Songs of Dao entered her mind, and her body underwent an evolution. Her cells aged a year, and her body grew taller.
Lai Wen accidentally advanced to the 8th-stage by using a method that didn't exist on Heavenly Goose Planet!
'Umm. I didn't mean to breakthrough. Can I regress back a realm? Rather, how the heck did my strength jumped from the 6th to the 8th-stage!?'
Despite the monologue, Lai Wen secretly touched her jade phone and sent a group text to her three best friends.
"Instant 8th-stage, bitches! EZ!"
…
While many cultivators' attention was on Lai Wen, the punishment befell on the failure contestants.
RUMBLE
56 golems of Brocell, which had stood on the wrong tiles, started crumbling as their cores were destroyed.
As for Ling Tianlong, who was the only cultivator who didn't pay attention to the tiles, he could no longer sense his dantian.
It was as if that his dantian never existed!
"!!!"
The death Qi inside his body left him, and his flesh was slowly withered.
Ling Tianlong suddenly aged by several decades! He turned into an old man, and he kept growing older!
Zhou Gongjin laughed at Ling Tianlong, enjoying the torture that the protagonist had been suffering.
"Do me a favor, Ling Tianlong. Keep on struggling. Savor the despair for me!"
"Bastard! What have I ever done to you!? Why are you interfering with my fight!?"
Despite being in a sorry state, Ling Tianlong's eyes and pupils still contained hope and emotion. He glared at Zhou Gongjin and cursed him.
He was confused. From Zhou Gongjin's words, it appeared that this beautiful man had a grudge against him. However, Ling Tianlong didn't remember offending this person.
Suddenly, Miaomiao charged at Zhou Gongjin and Ling Tianlong. He bypassed the beautiful guy and seized Ling Tianlong's neck.
"Sorry to interrupt your conversation, but your ass is mine!"
…
Devil's Request: Hunt a Reincarnated Protagonist
Target Information
Name: Ling Tianlong
Role: Protagonist
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Story Type: Reincarnated Immortal's Vengeance
Traits: Vengeful, Madness, Self-Centered, Ruthless
Sponsor: None
Cheat Factors
Immortal Experience
Life Experience
Gifted in Sword Dao
Power of Death (Evolvable)
Life Qi and Life Essence Immunity
Difficulty: Level 18
Overall Strength
Level 12 Foundation
Level 13 Growth Speed
Level 12 Plot Armor
Level 15 Luck
Character Description
This fallen reincarnated immortal has officially joined the dark side due to the recent conflict and your underhanded tricks. Ling Tianlong's current primary goal is to kill you and your entire family, including every human, demon, beastmen, and demi-human on Heavenly Goose Planet!
Ling Tianlong's heart and soul have been completely corrupted after he received a new body from the Taotie King. Even if you have the greatest talker with a golden tongue, it's too late to persuade this guy. As such, he cannot negotiate, be recruited, or be reasoned with.
Analysis
Despite being a perfect-type protagonist, his charisma and halo have already been destroyed due to his corruption. He tends to make simple mistakes and fall to any antagonist's scheme because of his carelessness.
However, Ling Tianlong still inherits his previous skills, firm foundation, and combat experience from when he was an immortal. With the combined experience that he had gained from fighting you, his current combat potential is comparable to a copied clone with 150% potential difficulty.
Because of his growth and his grudge against you, his plot armor strength is progressively getting stronger as time goes by, and he will keep growing more powerful as long as you leave him alone.
The same goes with his Luck and Heavenly Fate Core. Because the storyline has been altered due to your interference, he now treats you as his nemesis, turning you into the main antagonist in his story. As such, his plot armor and luck will always react to your presence and help Ling Tianlong overcome your trickeries, schemes, and any ordeal that is caused by you!
Fortunately, his plot armor and luck don't work against other protagonists, who are not supposed to be a part of his story. Moreover, if he becomes an antagonist in another protagonist's story, his power, luck, and fate will be weakened to the point that he would reduce to an ordinary filler character. You might be able to exploit this loophole to defeat Ling Tianlong.
Complete Condition: Fulfill one of these criteria
Kill Ling Tianlong
Obtain Ling Tianlong's Heavenly Fate Core
Quest Rewards
A Piece of Time-and-Space Mural
One Free City Building or City Upgrade
One Free Isolation Training Space Building, Unlock Unique New Buildings
Five hundred 2nd-grade Soul Stones.
Note: There is no failure condition or penalty due to Macho Joshua's Restrictions and Protection.
…
The quest descriptions, status, and rewards had been updated after Zhou Gongjin had picked a fight with Ling Tianlong, and Miaomiao received the update notification warning from the system.
The increase in Ling Tianlong's plot armor level and luck level was disgusting and shocking. Moreover, his entity became a bane of Miaomiao's existence since Ling Tianlong was always protected by his protagonist's halo whenever he met Miaomiao.
It was not fair!
Still, Miaomiao's lucky star was Zhou Gongjin. It seemed that the newcomer was indeed a protagonist, and Ling Tianlong was an antagonist in Gongjin's story.
Miaomiao couldn't afford to miss this chance. He needed to exploit Zhou Gongjin's presence to kill Ling Tianlong now!
'You have already been crippled. What kind of plot armor will you use to stop me now!?'
Since Holy Flame of Life and Elemental Qi, fueled by Life Essence, didn't work, Miaomiao chose the roundabout method to complete the quest.
Vampiric Touch!
Instead of trying to harm Ling Tianlong, Miaomiao attempted to extract the Heavenly Fate Crystal from him.
As long as Ling Tianlong lost his fate crystal, he would be reduced to a side character!
Moreover, Ling Tianlong's precious plot armor would become Miaomiao's, just like Xie Tian's plot armor!
"HAHAHAHAHA!! DIEEEEEE!!"
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
Despite being weak, Ling Tianlong's loud scream deafened the void space. His voice echoed as if he had died a thousand times in one second.
Remnant of Ling Tianlong's Death Qi and Qi from his nascent soul was absorbed into Miaomiao's dantian. Then, it was sealed in his soul dantian since Death Qi was incompatible with Life Essence.
"STOPPPPP!!!"
Ling Cao bellowed and charged at Miaomiao, trying to protect his nephew. At the same time, cultivators from Mount Hua Sect also rushed in to save their comrade.
Zhou Gongjin snapped back to his sense. He frowned for a moment. Then, he decided to join in the fray.
However, Zhou Gongjin didn't choose to interrupt Miaomiao. Instead, he decided to protect him!
After all, Zhou Gongjin and Miaomiao had the same enemy.
An enemy of my enemy is my ally!
KRAAAAA
Zhou Gongjin roared and merged his nascent soul with his physique. He transformed into a 5-meter-tall white tiger with saber teeth and four dark feather wings.
The four wings flapped, and a billion ticks scattered through the wind, forming a domain of blood-sucking parasites.
The parasite domain enveloped Miaomiao as well. Fortunately, Zhou Gongjin was considerate enough to leave him alone. The ticks ignored Miaomiao and Ling Tianlong, allowing them to continue their businesses.
As for the interferers, they also summoned their domains to ward off the ticks.
Because of that, Ling Cao and Mouth Hua people failed to reach Miaomiao in time!
Zhou Gongjin winked at Miaomiao, gesturing him to finish their foe.
Miaomiao slightly nodded and turned to Ling Tianlong, who was still struggling to keep his Heavenly Fate Core in his body even though he couldn't control anything relating to Qi and mysterious forces.
After five breathes, Miaomiao sensed that he had finally popped a big zit from Ling Tianlong's belly. The latter also felt that something important to him was flying away.
"NOOOOOOOOO!!"
Miaomiao grinned. He absorbed the small transparent orb into his palm.
Ding
[Congratulations! You have completed a quest, Devil's Request: Hunt a Reincarnated Protagonist!]
[Quest Rewards will be given to you after you have made it out from this void space.]
As Miaomiao had planned, he managed to complete the quest by using the second option.
Stealing Ling Tianlong's Heavenly Fate Crystal was the way to go!
Now, there should be no other protagonist other than Zhuo Gongjin, who might end up as one of Miaomiao's allies in the future.
Miaomiao was relieved as he could focus on killing Liu Xuande for extra rewards. After this, he should be able to enjoy the period of peace, so he could cultivate without worries.
"It's over, baby. Now, what else should I be extracting from you before I kill you?"
Miaomiao planned to absorb Ling Tianlong's Dragon Bloodline or Taotie King Bloodline. As greedy as he was, he wanted everything that Ling Tianlong possessed.
Because of Miaomiao's playful and greedy attitude, Uriel lost his cool. He bellowed in frustration.
"MIAOMIAO, KILL LING TIANLONG, NOW!!"
"Huh?"
Surprised and shocked, Miaomiao looked up.
The next second, Miaomiao blamed himself for being an idiot once again.
The tile under his feet turned red.
The white and red tiles had been refreshed! And now, he was the one that activated the new game!
'Mao Miaomiao has stepped on a red tile. Now, I shall begin the third game.'
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