Chapter 1136 - 516: Primordial Dao Bone Scripture (2)

"’Cultivate into Daoist Monarch’ system is being activated for you..."

Xu Ran’s consciousness shook violently.

System?

What is this thing? Could it be a trap within the "High-dimensional Matrix"? A program specifically designed to capture a "virus" like him?

His initial reaction was one of caution and resistance. However, before he could react in any way, a panel composed of countless faint light lines unfolded directly in his consciousness.

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[Host]: Xu Ran (Echo of Will form)

[Status]: On the brink of dispersal (Warning! Risk of fundamental logic overwrite!)

[Current Coordinates]: High-dimensional Matrix · Abandoned Ruins · Taichu Bone Sea · Gen No. 73 Bone Domain

[Current Realm]: None

[Mastered Dao Principles]: Desolation (Source Seed · Dormant state), Wall Breaker’s Will (Remnant)

[Bound Golden Finger]: "Cultivate into Daoist Monarch" system

System Description: This system emerged after the underlying logic of the High-dimensional Matrix was contaminated by the unknown variable (Desolation), producing an adaptive error-correction/evolution program. It aims to provide the host with a feasible path of "existence" in the current environment. Everything acquired requires "cultivation". The Heavenly Dao rewards diligence; hard work is always answered.

[Main Quest (Activated)]: Restructure the Daoist Body, Reemerge in the World.

Quest Description: Existence is the premise of resistance against everything. The host is urged to swiftly detach from the "Echo of Will" form and converge a body capable of bearing your will.

Current Stage Goal: [Bone-Tempering Chapter · Part One]: Fully refine the current dwelling "Nameless Finger Bone" and converge "Dao Origin Finger Bone".

Task Progress: 0.001%

Task Reward: Comprehensive activation of system basic functions, one mysterious beginner’s pack.

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Xu Ran’s consciousness plunged into prolonged silence under the impact of the informational flood.

He understood.

This wasn’t a trap, or rather, it wasn’t just a trap. It was the "cause" he sowed, producing the "effect".

He polluted the matrix’s "Dao" with "Desolation", and the matrix’s "Dao" is absolute rationality and logic. When these two completely opposing forces collided, the matrix’s underlying program tried to "understand" and "correct" him as a bug, thus constructing a whole new set of operational rules for this "variable" in its own way.

This is the origin of the "Cultivate into Daoist Monarch" system!

It is both a "shackle" that monitors and restricts him, and at the same time, the only "cheat" he can rely on in this place of despair.

"Interesting..." From Xu Ran’s will, a chilling smile emerged, "Define my existence as a game that requires ’cultivation’ to continue? Treat me as an account in your program that needs to continually fight monsters and level up?"

"So be it."

"Since you’ve set the rules, I will play you to death within these rules!"

Without any hesitation, Xu Ran immediately devoted all his heart and spirit to the system’s first dispatched task.

[Bone-Tempering Chapter · Part One]: Fully refine the "Nameless Finger Bone".

He no longer blindly used his willpower to strike against the energy within the bone as he did previously. Instead, he followed a hazy energy path given by the system panel, carefully guiding his Desolation’s source aura.

It was a wisp of gray airflow, countless times thinner than a hair strand, separated from Xu Ran’s core consciousness, like the most precise scalpel, beginning to meticulously grind the structure inside the finger bone.

The process was tedious, lengthy, and accompanied by immense pain.

Each grind felt like a dull knife carving into his soul. While the shattered will belonging to the previous owner remaining inside the finger bone instinctively resisted. Though chaotic, that willpower carried a defiant pride, as if roaring, refusing to allow any external entity to occupy its final piece of territory.

"You have fought to death, your defiance, I shall inherit."

Xu Ran’s will directs a cold and determined message to that lingering will.

"Your bones shall become the cornerstone of my rebirth. Should I reach the peak one day, I will fight for justice for you and for all the ’Wall Breakers’ on this bone land against the lofty matrix!"

His will bears the dignity of a former cosmos supreme being and the resolve to sever the dimensional shackles. Under this higher-level will impact, the chaotic remaining will astonishingly calmed down.

It acquiesced.

With internal obstruction gone, the refining process became much smoother.

Xu Ran’s heart spirit remained as still as an ancient well, completely absorbed in this meticulous work.

It felt like he had returned to the years when he first embarked on the path of cultivation, in that long "reset" hometown, just like this, starting from the most trivial realm, step by step, enduring endless tedious days and nights, until he finally reached the peak.

Steadfast, resilient, these were qualities in his bones.

"Task Progress: 0.002%"

"Task Progress: 0.003%"

...

Time, in this deathly silent bone land, is the most meaningless thing.

Perhaps it was a day, or a year, or even ten years.

When the task progress on the system panel finally jumped to [100%], the entire segment of the finger bone suddenly burst forth with a dazzling gray-white radiance!

Boom!

A torrent of extremely pure energy, mingled with countless shattered law fragments, poured violently into Xu Ran’s core consciousness. His weakened soul, as if a parched seed encountering a rain, began to grow robustly and solidly at a visibly fast pace.