Chapter 64: Future Self
Leaning lightly against the long bench, Fang Can dismissed his attendants and looked at Yuan Dang before him.
"Explain yourself. Are you reborn from the future, a transmigrator, or a reincarnated soul?"
"I was reborn from two years in the future," Yuan Dang said after a moment’s hesitation.
"You’re lying." Fang Can narrowed his eyes. "My intuition is telling me you’re lying. It seems your recent experience wasn’t enough to clear your head. Do I need to call a few more people over to help you cool down?"
Yuan Dang’s body stiffened for a moment before he completely resigned himself to his fate. "Alright, I was reborn from seven years in the future. Before I was reborn, I was a Martial Artist at the Third Turn of the Heaven-Ascending Road."
"As for you, based on what others said, I can only judge that your power at that time was around the Sixth Layer of the Heaven-Ascending Road."
"You... reached the Third Turn of the Heaven-Ascending Road after just seven years?"
Although Fang Can felt he wasn’t lying, he was still speechless. "Is your innate talent that good?"
"It was because of the Cultivation Technique you created three years from now, ’Everyone Can Cultivate.’ It’s a technique that allows even a Martial Artist of average talent to move past the Profound Gate and onto the Heaven-Ascending Road within a single year."
Fang Can nodded in understanding and waved his hand for him to continue.
"In my past life, you didn’t stay at the Lieyang Martial Arts Hall. You left immediately and were subsequently hunted by the entire martial world..."
Yuan Dang briefly summarized Fang Can’s experiences from the previous life, causing an increasingly strange expression to appear on Fang Can’s face as he listened.
’So much for my luck turning around. Why was my life so miserable in Yuan Dang’s memories?’
Filled with doubt, Fang Can looked at Yuan Dang. "Is that ’Fang Celestial Emperor’ you mentioned really me? And why would I gather all the beauties in the world just for pleasure?"
"According to the gossip..." Yuan Dang said hesitantly.
"On the tenth day after your location was exposed, because of your unparalleled talent as a ’human cauldron,’ you had nowhere left to run and were apparently forcibly abducted by the Sect Leader of the Pure Heart Sect."
"The Pure Heart Sect? What’s that?" Fang Can asked curiously.
"Like Jiejian Mountain, it’s a sect composed entirely of women, but its reputation is the complete opposite. That’s because the Pure Heart Sect’s ’Great Joy Bodhisattva Heart Sutra’ is a top-tier Replenishing Skill."
’I get it. It’s a Joyful Union Sect.’
Fang Can felt a chill run down his spine, already anticipating his own fate as described by the other man.
"According to popular rumors, it only took you seven days to drain the current leader of the Pure Heart Sect until she fell into a coma."
"Huh? Didn’t you get that backward?" Fang Can interrupted.
"No. No one knows how you did it. They only know that when you walked out of the Joyful Union Sect, you had already stepped into the Heaven-Ascending Road Realm. It’s just that... your form was no longer human." Yuan Dang’s lips curled into a grin, revealing a set of ghastly white teeth.
"What do you mean?"
"If you can consider a flesh-and-blood polymer covered in dozens of one-meter-long black tentacles, with no limbs and a constantly shifting shape, to be human... then I suppose you were still human."
’I become a tentacle monster in the future?’ Fang Can’s mouth twitched.
"According to the records in the Yongle Encyclopedia, your legacy was called the ’Grieving Wind Demon Body,’ and it allowed you to continuously increase your power through replenishment."
"And the first sect you ’replenished’ was the Pure Heart Sect. Every single Disciple inside became fodder for your cultivation, swallowed whole into your body to be damned for all eternity."
Listening to Yuan Dang’s tale, even Fang Can found it all a bit surreal. ’My future self was way too twisted.’
"That’s not right," Fang Can suddenly frowned. "If my future self had already fallen to demonic ways and was going to rape the entire world, why would he release ’Everyone Can Cultivate’ and create more trouble for himself?"
"Because compared to replenishing ordinary people, directly replenishing Martial Dao masters at the Heaven-Ascending Road level yields far greater progress," Yuan Dang explained.
However, he subconsciously recalled a rumor that had circulated in his previous life.
It was said that Fang Celestial Emperor was actually a clean freak and had little interest in women with... physiological needs.
After reaching the Heaven-Ascending Road, most Martial Artists had bodies free of impurities; even their sweat was as clear and translucent as ice crystals.
Therefore, Fang Can had created ’Everyone Can Cultivate’ simply to ’replenish’ clean women.
Of course, although this rumor was widespread, Yuan Dang didn’t believe it. The reason was just too absurd to be convincing.
In the pitch-black basement, Fang Can listened quietly to Yuan Dang’s story. An hour passed before Fang Can finally walked out.
Yuan Dang was not killed. Sensing that he might still have some value, Fang Can had men continue to stand guard over him.
The contents of the ’Everyone Can Cultivate’ Cultivation Technique, as described by Yuan Dang, surfaced in Fang Can’s mind.
With just a thought, a panel in Fang Can’s mind showed the manifestation time for this Cultivation Technique.
Cultivation Technique Manifestation: [Everyone Can Cultivate]
Manifestation Progress: 1% → 2% → 3%...
--Estimated Time: Two Minutes--
According to Yuan Dang, the technique was designed to allow low-aptitude Martial Artists to quickly develop a sense of qi and shed their mortal bodies.
This ’Everyone Can Cultivate’ technique had its power, difficulty, effects, and so on, all weakened to the absolute minimum.
One only needed to reach the Profound Gate Fifth Layer to attempt the ultimate leap into the Heaven-Ascending Road Realm, making them the weakest among their peers.
But in theory, even the weakest Heaven-Ascending Road Martial Artist could still dominate the strongest Transcendent Body Martial Artist, so over ninety percent of Martial Artists with no other hope chose to practice this Cultivation Technique.
’A fast-track technique like this is useless to me, but it’s more than enough for raising subordinates. After all, an ordinary Martial Artist can reach the Heaven-Ascending Road in just one year?’ Fang Can mused internally.
’Still, my ’past life’ was pretty damn miserable. Even though I became invincible, it sounds like my mental state was far from normal.’
’But since history has already changed, there’s no way I’ll turn into the kind of super perverted, lecherous demon he described.’ At this moment, Fang Can thought with utter confidence.
Just as he was lost in thought, the main gate was smashed open with a loud BOOM.
A giant of a man, two-point-two meters tall and holding a large saber, roared, "Who is Fang Can! Get out here and die!"
The thunderous voice echoed throughout the Hu Lie Martial Arts Hall, followed by the crushing pressure of a Heart Image.
Fang Can’s already foul mood was disturbed. His brow furrowed instantly, and he withstood the man’s Heart Image, pushing back with his own mental pressure.
"Didn’t you see the stone tablet at the entrance?"
Fang Can slowly approached him. "Do not damage the premises. Do not call upon us during rest hours..."
"You’re Fang Can? Why are you so scrawny?" The man looked down at the one-point-eight-meter-tall youth and laughed mockingly.
"I saw that stone tablet of yours, alright. But I’m fucking illiterate, so its rules don’t apply to me."
Looking at the proud illiterate before him, Fang Can also grew annoyed, his tone turning cold.
"In that case, you can prepare to die."
In an instant, Fang Can’s eyes turned blood-red as his right fist shot out like a meteor.
"BOOM!"
With a tremendous roar, Fang Can’s right fist embedded itself solidly in the man’s cheek.
His punch was so fast the man couldn’t even block it.
Under the terrifying force, the giant’s cheek, which was as hard as refined steel, caved in inch by inch until Fang Can’s entire fist was buried in his head.
"SPLAT!"
In that instant, the immense power directly shattered the giant’s face, causing his head to burst apart like a watermelon.
A fan-shaped spray of red, white, and pink splattered across the main gate.