10

When the transformation was finally over, Gu Yuan felt extremely tired. But he felt it was a good signal. The last time he felt depressed, but not that time.

He got to his bed and fell asleep immediately.

He never imagined that when he awakened, he would have made a mess out of his bed, it simply couldn't support his body's slight movements.

He got up from the rumble and examined himself, he was comparable to an ordinary eighth layer in raw power. But the most impressive thing was that he felt a huge change in his mental performance.

His thought could speed up to an incredible degree compared to before, and he could understand many aspects of cultivation more easily.

But he was sure his spirit root didn't change, so the reason he was smarter was because of the transformation of his soul.

He spent a few weeks living leisurely, not keeping himself locked in his room. He would go out at night to have fun and flirt with girls, but he was unlucky and never managed to turn into a man from a boy.

He ate delicious food every day thanks to the money he amassed from his previous endeavors.

The only problem was that he didn't possess enough points to upgrade his cultivation base quality again. He needed 3750000 troll points to reach the (10) Morning Star level.

It was a ridiculously huge amount of points, and he knew that being impatient would just mess with his own state of mind, so he first rested and enjoyed life for a while.

With his strength, the only ones who could kill were those at the peak of Body Tempering or those at Qi Refining. But in that gigantic city with millions of residents, they were considered extremely rare to meet.

When he thought he enjoyed enough of life for the moment, he began to make plans again. He made some calculations and knew he needed to troll a huge amount of people to reach his goal.

He didn't like to troll one by one, he wanted to catch all the fish with a single one like last time.

He began to go out at night while disguised to visit his old enemies, the force that he ordered his underlings to attack a few months back.

He thought it was good to use what he had in his hands instead of beginning from zero again.

The leader of that force was in the fourth layer of Body Tempering, so Gu Yuan was confident to control him easily.

He stealthily entered their new headquarters and began to wonder how it would burn if someone accidentally put fire on it.

He shook his head and focused on his goal, entering the leader's room. The man was enjoying himself with three women, but Gu Yuan mercilessly interrupted their love night.

"Who the fuck are you?" the leader was quick to react and punched with all his strength.

Gu Yuan dodged easily and patted his shoulder lightly, but it fractured the enemy's shoulder.

Noticing he was much weaker than his foe, the leader was shameless and directly kotowed, "Please spare me, how did I offend you?"

"You didn't!" Gu Yuan snorted, "I came here because I heard that my half-brother, known as Justice Fist, appeared and attacked you."

"He is your brother?" the leader began to panic.

"Tsk, that piece of trash!" Gu Yuan clenched his teeth and seemed extremely angry, "I want to rip him to shreds!"

"You do?" the leader was shocked and then overjoyed, "Yeah! I too! I want to kill him as well!"

"What!?" Gu Yuan shouted in rage, "How dare you want to kill my brother!?"

"I..I..." the leader began to sweat and swear in his heart, "I'm just kidding, how can I wish such a thing?"

"So you don't take me seriously!?" Gu Yuan grabbed his shoulder and pressed hard, "Do you want to die?"

"Please forgive me! I don't dare not take you seriously, hero!" the leader was on the verge of crying.

"Hmph!" Gu Yuan let him go and said, "I will only let you live because I want to use your force."

"What do you wish me to do?" the leader was relieved and prostrated himself seamlessly.

"Gather your men, we are going to attack the force backing up my half-brother!" Gu Yuan said with bloodshot eyes, "I will personally kill him!"

"Yes, I will do it immediately!" the leader nodded and asked, "What force are we going to attack?"

"It's just a weak force, nothing to worry about," Gu Yuan snorted and waved his hand.

After the leader left the room to arrange his underlings, Gu Yuan began to think about what kind of letter he would write to troll people.

After just a few hours, all underlings were arranged outside the headquarters and began to march towards a neighboring force.

It was indeed a very weak force, they defeated all the enemies with ease but there was no shadow of "Justice Fist."

Gu Yuan said his half-brother must have run away, but he knew to where.

They then proceeded to attack another force, this time it was almost as strong as the force Gu Yuan was using.

Because he was strong enough, Gu Yuan easily defeated the strong people of the defenders and left the rest to his new disposable underlings.

Again, no one saw Justice Fist.

"Don't worry, I found news of my brother from trusted forces, I know very well where he is!" Gu Yuan declared full of confidence.

His underlings had no choice but to obey in front of his overwhelming strength.

The new target for the attack was a much stronger force, with three body tempering cultivators in charge, it was much bigger and stronger than the force Gu Yuan was using.

"Don't worry! I will quickly defeat their bosses and help you kill the rest!" Gu Yuan declared in front of his small army, "Didn't you see my great strength already? I'm invincible, trust me!"

His underlings, confident in his great strength, attacked the stronger foe with ferocity.

Meanwhile, while a blood bath was happening, Gu Yuan was in a critical task, writing his troll letters.

The first letter was for his underlings:

[Thank you, everyone, for helping me kill my villainous half-brother. I spotted him trying to run away, I'm going to kill him first and then go kill the bosses, trust me! I'm true to my word! Even if you are on the brink of defeat, don't give up! The victory is ours to take! Kill and curse all enemies!]

The second letter was for the defending force:

[You bastards! My underlings are more than enough to support your attacks for a while until I finish my goal, we will kill all of you and your families! We will do what I write! I hope you like my gift of fire and death!]

The third letter was for all the forces he already subjugated, or rather, the survivors:

[You guys are pitful to be alive, it's better to just lie down and die. Just thank me for killing so many of you.]

Although Gu Yuan felt the third letter was lacking in content, he didn't have more ideas on what to write, so he settled with that.

He made many copies of the three letters, so they were spread to the largest number of people possible, and began to implement his plan.

Looking outside the window of the room he was hiding and feeling the strong scent of bloodshed thanks to his lies, he clicked his tongue and shook his head.

He comforted himself by thinking of how much evil all those forces did to common people and how they deserved to be punished.

A familiar scene happened in front of the headquarters of the defending force. The cultivators already subdued most of the attackers and looked at their burning HQ.

Yes, Gu Yuan did the same thing to their headquarters, he burned it with flammable liquid while everyone was occupied battling.

Letters began to appear in the hands of many people and everyone felt everything was familiar enough to conclude, that Justice Fist acted again.

To some people, the fact that everything was a made-up lie was worse than the bloodshed, and they felt so strongly offended that they cursed Gu Yuan until their mouths were dry.

Three days later, at his residence, Gu Yuan looked at his gains with a smile.

[Troll points: 4432087]

The main reason he gained so many points was that he trolled many more people than in his last act, it was tens of thousands of victims.

The fame of Justice Fist, the psycho, was spread throughout the whole capital. According to the rumors, he was a man who liked chaos and to do evil for free.

Gu Yuan drank some tea and began to arrange things for his next advancement.

[Attention, the next upgrade will be like no other. Your personality might end up twisted if you are not strong enough.]

"Damn it, do I even have a choice?" Gu Yuan cursed out loud.

[Just live a mediocre life from now on, then you can avoid it.]

"You know I would never do such a thing," Gu Yuan took a deep breath and focused, "If I don't grab such an opportunity to climb to the sky, I would be worse than trash."

Gu Yuan sat cross-legged in the middle of his bedroom and added the full 3750000 troll points.

The (9) great star turned into (10) morning star, and the transformation began.

A vortex of power began to brew around him and the panel's power was surging beyond all times, Gu Yuan felt like a speck of dust being carried by the strong wind.

The transformation wasn't violent, but nonetheless painful. His body wasn't tempered aggressively like before, it was more like a baptism.

His body was being filled with a very pure energy, this energy began to transform his body from the essence instead of just destroying and reforming his body.

The vortex of power began to grow, affecting the surroundings aggressively. Everything the power touched except his body was turned into pure energy, the air was no exception.

While his body transformed in a way, his soul and consciousness experience their own transformation.

Gu Yuan didn't confront multiple clashing personalities like before but was instead thrown into something like a huge starry sky deep into his consciousness.

Time there seemed to have elongated infinitely. Gu Yuan could only observe the stars and celestial phenomena statically, only over long periods could he notice some changes around.

The memories of his own life began to tend to fade away, and he was on the verge of forgetting who he was. If not because of the power of the panel supporting him, he would have been consumed by the time, but the panel forcefully kept his memories alive.

Thousands, tens of thousands... The years passed as if they had no value. Gu Yuan lost interest in his own life and only wanted to see some kind of change in the static starry sky as if to prove something.

[Poor bastard]

"I almost forgot about you..." Gu Yuan muttered while looking at the stars.

[If not because of the panel, you would have already forgotten your own name.]

"Yes? Why did I choose this path by the way?"

[As if I could understand a human's mind...]

"Can I leave this torture room? I want to give up..."

[You can't, and I can't help you either, I need to follow the rules as well.]

"I repent it..."

[Of course, it would be impossible for any normal person with your level of strength to be okay after such a long period.]

"But why is it necessary to be so long?" Gu Yuan asked with a frown, "Isn't it just a small upgrade? I feel it is too exaggerated."

[You don't get it... Do you think the panel is omnipotent? You have to pay some price to subvert the rules of the world, even with the help of the panel.]

"Rules of the world?" Gu Yuan clearly never heard about it.

[It's too early for you to know about it... Just try to not get crazy, there's still some time left before the transformation is over.

[And just so you know. The mystery of the transformation of your soul is not in the long years you experienced, they are just the price you are paying. The thing that is truly transforming your soul is solely the panel's power.]

"Price?" Gu Yuan muttered, "Is it worth it? Such torture..."

Gu Yuan couldn't discern how long it took, but he finally left that lonely and static starry sky and opened his eyes in his room.

He felt a flush of long since ancient memories flooding his mind, being forcefully engraved into his short and middle-term memory.

He began to feel an inversion of values. It was like he was born in the starry sky and spent a long time there, and only then he lived life in that world.

[Welcome back...]

"Yeah..." Gu Yuan took a deep breath and didn't feel as tired as he thought he would feel, "How long it took?... I mean, in this world."

[A couple of hours...]

"What a huge disparity..." Gu Yuan sighed, "How powerful is the panel? How can anything possess such power to bend time to this degree?"

[You don't possess enough authority to know that...]

"Authority..." Gu Yuan looked at his information.

[Name: Gu Yuan

Age: 17

Authority Level: First Layer, Body Tempering Realm (10)

Authority Technique: Firm Mountain Cultivation Technique (Excellent Mastery) (Body Tempering Chapter) (4)

Talents: Wordly Spirit Root (6)

Troll Points: 735420

Remaining lazy time: One year and two months.

...]

"It seems I gained some points while I was at that torture space..." Gu Yuan muttered emotionlessly.

[Do you feel depressed?]

"No, my emotions don't feel empty..." Gu Yuan shook his head, "It's more like the essence of my consciousness changed... As if I stopped being a normal human."

[I get what you mean, but you are still as human as humanly possible.]

"Is that so?" Gu Yuan was slightly surprised and felt his newly gained strength, "So this is the power of an ordinary ninth layer..."

He waved his hand with a fraction of his full force, but it caused a strong wind that knocked away his bed and other things, the walls of his residence almost crumbled.

But before Gu Yuan could feel strong, he remembered the oppressive static starry sky.

"I'm still smaller than a speck of dust..." he muttered melancholically.

[It's good to not be a frog in a well.]

"Not necessarily," Gu Yuan smirked, "All frogs die, being in a well or not, and what is the resulting difference?"

[Feeling philosophic? I don't like this kind of talk, go talk to that bored ascetic of before.]

"The skies scream wisdom and power, how can I not be influenced after observing them for so long?" Gu Yuan shrugged and began to try his new strength in his courtyard.

He punched and kicked aimlessly, seeking to dominate his strength sooner. He did it for days, only stopping to rest and eat.

When he felt he gained a full grasp on his strength, he began to plan to upgrade his other aspects.

But first, he spent some days resting and enjoying life by visiting many interesting places in the capital. He wanted to feel human again.