Genius Warlock - Chapter 373

As a man who had lived for 20 something years and had always considered himself as a straight man, he woke up one day and found himself possessed by a stupid and cute system. Moreover, it was a gong-shou cultivating system?! Let’s see how a shou with raised hackles evolves into a (pseudo)queen shou, incidentally with a story of a hidden loyal dog gong.

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"There is a thin line between poison and medicine, and I shall make you dance on it!"

“When I opened my eyes, I found myself as a character in a game. It was bewildering, but I thought it was worth a try. That was until I saw the skill given to me. It was [Opening Eyes], with no abilities whatsoever.”The story starts with the MC playing a game that is “Very Difficult”, so difficult, in fact, that no one has ever managed to kill the last boss. After 18 years of playing and, having the best attempt be at 30% of the last boss’s HP, he decides to try out a character that he never used.This character was the Slit-Eyed character. It had garbage stats and garbage traits. But, since the MC had ran out of options with every other character, he was trying to see if he could find any secrets with this new character. So he puts in his name ‘Zero’ and presses play… Only to find himself inside the game, as the Slit-Eyed character.

Modern Earth was suddenly thrust into an era of hyper-artificial intelligence and realistic, human-like machines called Androids by a woman who went by the name Maria Evernight.Within a short decade, this unfathomable woman spread the influence of her behemoth enterprise; Evernight Group International, across the known globe, forever propelling the human civilization into an era of technology that could only be described as otherworldly.This woman patiently groomed her son into the most fearsome CEO of the most influential existence on the face of this little blue planet, planning to slowly transition total control of the globe to her son.She planned to keep him entertained by the mundane life among mortals while keeping him in the dark about his past and heavy, predestined responsibilities. Alas, who would have expected that the rural blue planet in the middle of nowhere among the sea of stars would be discovered by immortal cultivators?Before people could adapt to the new world of futuristic technology, the world of cultivation took them by storm. Many young and old of the people yearned for power and immortality, and Maria’s son, Leonardo Evernight, was no exception.Perhaps it was as the heavens preordained, but Leonardo picks up the path to power.However, after stepping onto this path, he found out that his mother didn’t have many years left of her age, throwing his mental state into disorder as the path to power was a path of no retreat, only advancement.With a heavy heart of responsibility, Leonardo left the comfort of his little blue planet for a future unknown…