Chapter 316: Still Finding Who I Am

Surprisingly, Siti and Diana were actually quite serious in dealing with the rift.

I thought they would just hang around and slack off while letting their Guardians do the work for them but they were actually personally leading the expedition to the rift.

When I asked around, apparently they were also quite pissed that the people of that rift took advantage of my kindness for them so they were also personally leading a crusade against the rift themselves.

I thought that was surprising since I didn’t expect them to be angry on my behalf, considering the fact that we’ve only known each other for less than a month or so.

Then Olivia gave me another perspective on the issue where she reminded me that I was, at least to the two Mortal Goddesses, the best fuck they were ever going to get and if I were to die or start getting depressed... They would literally be losing the only person who could sexually satisfy them.

Thus, it made sense for them to be quite vengeful about it.

They’re really getting angry because their sexy time got threatened... Right...

I don’t know how to feel about that so I’m just going to pretend I never heard that.

The good news about it is that I didn’t really have to worry about that rift anymore since they were far more experienced in this than I was.

The bad news is that I now find myself with a lot of free time all of a sudden.

Well... Part of the time was spent researching on the likely gods that I could be the personification of which I have been trying to find for a while now but still had no luck.

At this point, I think I’ve already gone through a few hundred gods by now, both major and minor gods within the Taoism pantheon but none of them seemed to be the correct one for me.

I’m starting to think that I might have even been mistaken about my god I’m personifying as belonging to the Taoist pantheon and just some other pantheon instead who has something related to cultivation.

Only problem was that if that was the case, I wouldn’t even know where else to start. Thus, I decided to just continue with what I’m doing for now since there wasn’t another easier place I could start with instead.

So there I was, in the study room of my penthouse floor looking through the internet to try and figure out what god I could be personifying as when I got an entry request from the lift.

I thought it was Hui Zhen but then I remembered that sister of mine was currently passed out in the living room after eating her snacks. She’s literally sleeping on the job while her clones worked for her.

It might look like she’s slacking off but... She’s actually having one of her bodies rest so that her other clones could benefit from the rest and food she ate with this body so that they can work harder.

I might complain about it and pinch her cheek for it, but I know she’s really a hard worker and she’s just intentionally doing all this to rile me up and pay attention to her.

And yes, I made sure to cover her with a blanket before I came up here.

Looking at my phone screen, I realised it was Dan inside the elevator so I went ahead to approve of his entry and told him to look for me in my study through the elevator’s intercom system.

I didn’t have to wait long before he came strutting in, an easy grin on his face.

"Yo, wassup bro?" He waved, stepping into the study.

"Nothing much... Still trying to figure out what god I was supposed to be."

"Wah, still finding ah? Got any luck or not?"

I shook my head, "I’ve looked through at least a few hundred by now... Nothing so far, not even a peep of a feeling that I might be close to guessing the correct one."

"How does that even work? Do you like... I dunno, just stare at the web page for the god and then you get a bell going off in your head telling you this is the correct one if you find it?"

I shrugged, "I don’t know how it works but... According to Siti and Diana... You have to at least understand the connection between your powers and the god you personify before you awaken. Like Siti realised her god persona was Dewi Sri after she connected the relationship between her power over plants to the goddess being the goddess of rice and life. Then Diana received her awakening when she figured out the Naga’s connection to water and her own water powers."

Dan scratched his head, "I thought it was just a matter of you saying the gods name out loud or something and then you’ll just awaken liao."

"Well... Not exactly... Like I guess... If you figure out the name of the god, you have to draw the connections as well. Most of the time when you figure out the name, you would also at least see some link between the god and your powers subconsciously and that’s what triggers the awakening."

"Wah... So complicated. So that means you can’t even just have a list of all the gods and you just scroll through them to read their names from top to bottom to awaken ah?"

I snorted, "Yeah, it doesn’t work that way unfortunately... I have to at least have some understanding of the god at the very least. That’s why I’m reading up on these web pages about them to learn what they are at least the god of to see if there’s any link to my powers."

"So what you find so far?"

I shrugged, "I’ve tried the Jade Emperor, the three Pure Ones, Laozi, the Eight Immortals, the Four Heavenly Ministers, the Seven Sages of Meishan just to name a few. Heck I even went to try Erlang Sen, Zhong Kui and even Guan Yin but none of them stuck."

He shrugged, "Have you tried Zhu Bajie?"

"Fuck you. And yes, I did. Even Sun Wukong as well."

"Well... You can’t be Sun Wukong since there’s a Mortal God in Shanghai that awakened as Sun Wukong already. I don’t think there can be two of them, right?"

I opened my mouth to confirm his thoughts before snapping my mouth shut and thought about it for a moment.

"Actually... There’s not really a rule that says there can’t be, right? It’s just that there’s so few of us that the possibility of two people awakening the same god is almost impossible given the number of choices... So for all we know, it’s actually a possibility?"

He shrugged again, "I don’t know lah, I’m not the Mortal God here anyway."

I gestured at him, "So what are you doing here? Surely you came up here for something, right?"

"Hmm? No ah. I just bored so I came here to disturb you."

I let out a deep sigh, though I was actually kind of glad for the companionship here since it was getting a little lonely up here by myself.

I pushed myself back from the table and leaned back in the chair, "Yeah, sure sure... You want to help me figure out what god I am though? Maybe you know some stuff..."

He came over to drag the chair in front of my desk over to my side to sit down casually, checking the screen on my computer. On the screen was a page for Tu’Er Shen, the rabbit god.

"What the fuck is that?" He asked.

"One of the gods I was looking at?"

"Isn’t that the god of love and sex or something?"

"Err... Yeah... I thought it might be related since I apparently have... Quite a high libido after gaining these powers too."

"I get that but... Isn’t that the god of sex for men? Like... Specifically sex between men? Are you gay?"

I rolled my eyes and slipped back into my native dialect for a moment, "Fuck lah... I just thought to try every god you know? You never know about this. I’m more surprised you know about him actually. Are you gay?"

"Eh, fuck you, I’m married ok? I only know him because there was that drama my wife got watch one time about this god in particular. That’s all."

"Whatever you say bro."

He shrugged, not bothering to argue further, "Anyway. Why you not looking at the really big ones?"

"Big ones? I literally already checked the Three Pure Ones and even the Jade Emperor. Who else you want me to check? The Buddha?"

"Why not? You got the figure for it."

"Please, you’re bigger in size compared to me."

"What about Guan Gong?"

"Not him either. And I’m sure if it was him, I would have manifested a horse or at least a guandao as a weapon instead of a book. Anyway... There were talks about having me take a visit to People’s Central Republic to see if I have an awakening in any of the temples. So maybe I’ll awaken then..."

"Wah, not bad. We can go on a trip again~"

Well... At least he sees it as a good thing...

"Speaking of which ah..." He continued, giving me a weird smirk. "I heard you met some superheroine ah?"

...

How the heck does he know? Did she post something on her social media page? Or... Is he stalking me?