The yurt was silent, save for the rhythmic breathing of the two women sprawled across my chest and flank. But inside my skull, a storm was raging.
It was not a storm of chaos, but of terrifying clarity and order.
The Ecstatic Thought Gu was humming in my brain, a biological engine fueled by the raw pleasure of the last few hours. Every touch, every gasp, every spike of dopamine had been harvested, refined, and transmuted into Joyful Thoughts.
Unlike some standard thoughts ,which were like heavy stones, laborious to move or hard to collide and merge,the Joyful Thoughts were light. They were buoyant, playful, and fast. They moved through my brain with zero resistance, colliding and fusing at speeds that should be impossible for a mortal brain. The miracle of the Gu world never stops surprising and amazing people.
I closed my eyes. It was time for a complete analysis of my situation and what I could do using the thoughts created.
First Subject: Condition and Total Situation at Hand.
Goal: Priority Creation for Using the Thoughts Created to the Best It Could Be.
My consciousness sank into the sea of pink and gold thoughts. I wasn't just thinking; I was running simulations. The Joyful Thoughts acted as a lubricant for deduction, allowing me to access memories of The Legends of Ren Zu, the novel called Reverend Insanity, and the future history of the Gu World, my whole life situation, the inheritance knowledge—what is the priority of them in this thought process, which one is more important first? I seemed to remember everything with perfect clarity, something better than the photographic memory of my past life.
First of all, an analysis of the details I knew and are important, and what has caused my current situation.
The identity of this body I reincarnated in is absolutely amazing. I am Ju Yang. In the original timeline, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable was a native of the Gu World's Northern Plains region. The only detail on him before he became an immortal is that his greatest opportunity was the Imperial Court Blessed Land, meaning there were more opportunities, and that signifies the absurd amount of luck he had. And as it seems now, I have that luck. He founded the path of Luck to exploit the cracks in Fate, or in other words, the control over uncertainty, that was the essence of Luck Path or what was told.
But I am an Otherworldly Demon. And in essence, I should be targeted by Fate Gu and Heaven's Will no matter how originally my body was fated to be the Venerable.
Technically, Heaven's Will should be trying to kill me right now. It should be sending tribulations to erase the thing it senses as a virus or something like that. Yet, Dog Shit Luck Gu was helping me, meaning luck was still on my side, meaning Fate and Heaven's Will didn't take notice of me. But why? Know yourself and know your enemy; don't be afraid of a thousand battles—that's what the powerful strategists of the past of my world believed, and the same is correct in this world.
The Joyful Thoughts spun, colliding with the memory of a certain part of the original novel I read before the part mentioned of Red Lotus Demon Venerable. That's when an idea struck.
What I knew was Fate Gu was damaged. Fate. Red Lotus damaged it a million years ago from the beginning of the novel using love gu , but now I'm three or two hundred thousand years before the birth of Fang Yuan, and as far as I know, the Heavenly Court is trying hard to reduce the ?(help what path was that?)? Path dao marks left on Fate Gu, but it seems it's still too soon, as before me an Otherworldly Demon became a Venerable without someone of his level protecting him by using something like Deceiving Heaven's Secrets. Probably as much as I know. And that means the Heavenly Will's absolute net has holes—at least so much that it didn't notice me before Thieving Heaven used the secret inheritance left in his will on me.it can also be the weakening caused by Thieving Heaven's breaking world boundary cousing heavens will to hibernate for a while cousing this situation as he himself was as little as it could be suppressed and had his talent lowered.
I am not just slipping through the holes in the net now; I am filling the mold of "Giant Sun" so perfectly with the help of Thieving Heaven that Fate assumes I am the correct Ju Yang in the fate of this world. As long as I act like the arrogant, harem-seeking Northern Plains conqueror in most cases and don't show Heaven's Will absolute disobedience, Fate will protect me because it needs Giant Sun to establish the bloodline rule for the next era, and the help Giant Sun will provide to humanity through Luck—I think that's why it raised him in that path also, turning me against Otherworldly Demons by pitting me and Thieving Heaven's inheritance so I hate what it hates. Truly a marvelous wisdom that damn woman Star Constellation completely gave wisdom to Heaven's Will through her fusion with it.
But now there is a great problem in that absolutely wise plan and scheme of theirs.
I smiled in the dark. I am wearing the skin of a fated Venerable, using absolute resources and help to grow to what they could never imagine. I am the poison pretending to be the cure.
But that's for the future. Now the immediate situations: solving and gaining the greatest amount of opportunity is important. What's the best course of action, though?
First, my cultivation level is too low. With the battle merit of defeating the battle commander of the defense force, Hei Ziyu, and not being content with that and taking her under my control—while the price being me losing all my wolves, or in other words, my whole battle power created with great investment—and helping the victory on the frontline by causing disruption in the battle situation. The tribe must compensate me greatly in the name of reward, or at least the same amount so the tribe population doesn't lose interest in helping the tribe and making them interested in making progress. The reward I choose should be enough for me to choose a Rank 2 Red Iron Relic Gu in the treasury and still have enough to get ten Rank 2 Gu or two or three Rank 3 Gu, which I will decide after seeing the full treasury and thinking over it again. I'm not far from breaking through Rank 2 middle stage. After the breakthrough, I will use the Relic Gu I get and then the one I found and had Yue Yin exchange with the one in the treasury. In this way, I will be a Rank 2 peak stage Gu Master in no time.
As for the path I will walk in the future, no matter what, according to what I know, probably Heaven's Will will at least force me to Luck Path Supreme Grandmaster in the end. Any other path should be developed and used secretly, like what Spectral Soul will do, but to do that there are a lot of requirements I should prepare later. Also, I personally should be more than enough to create the Blood Path far better than what was introduced in the original novel, but that will disrupt too much as it concerns Fang Yuan, and he was the one destroying Fate Gu. Before Fate Gu is destroyed, I should be cautious in what choices I make so Heaven's Will doesn't doubt me when it's power increases again . I readhat I did. To Spectral souls absoulute perfect plan using what it hated the most.
I could temporarily use Strength Path as I have strength of a quasi-Great Strength True Martial Physique in Rank 3 for battles, and maybe I can increase it in the future by refining higher levels of Blood Resonance Gu with the help of Hei Ziyu. It's an effortless and powerful path till a better path is gifted by Heaven's Will to me if it decides, as it would definitely do. Also, meanwhile, I can start refining the Gu in the Joyous Wind's Inheritance to complete the Gu set he compiled. After it's complete, I can move to that path if no better choice is offered, and in the meantime, I should try increasing my Luck Path Gu worms ,methods and level of attainment if possible. Blood Path is good but not needed immediately unless I can create a perfect cloning method to let it do that without receiving much attention from Heaven's Will like blood sea ancestor did. Also, my Refinement Path attainment should not be left behind, as Fang Yuan showed how important and strategic it could be. The same goes for Formation and Painting Path. A non-conflicting dao mark path is essential, as the original Ju Yang seems to have failed in reaching it although he has tried hard. He learned Painting Path, Blood Path, Wisdom Path, Luck Path, and more, and increased his Human Path attainment, but he couldn't increase a path like Yin-Yang Path. He dreamt of making it a path like Painting Path or Transformation Path of Reckless Savage—all-inclusive and non-conflicting with other dao marks.
But the idea was not bad, and I know a lot of future knowledge, and I will have a lot of time to try it if not impossible.