"I am ready to state my wishes, but can you give me a hint of which world I am going to ?"
I asked.
He replied " That's for you to decide..and before you ask , you will need to be reborn in first world no transmigration, you will unlock some conceptual powers like realm travel or multiverse travel when you reach certain power levels within the first world since limiting you to just a single world won't be fun.
There is no body customization and system stuff that you think of ... but you can get artifacts, both conceptual and physical, your 4 wishes can be descriptive about what you want. And no it cannot be too overpowered as reality manipulation or concept negation as it ignores my intention of enjoying the growth process"
" I wish to go to Tales of Demons and Gods novel world, to be born in glory city in an aristocratic family near Nie Li's family 13 years before the reincarnation of Main character in the second timeline and please include my profile as a random guy in first timeline or just give MC a small memory of my presence in first timeline as someone ordinary. "
He didn't even nod. Well is my choice bad? I thought to myself. God just waited for my wishes.
" My first wish is about my body. It is to have a adaptive and progressive evolution based perfect human physique that is capable of gaining biological abilities just through contact with DNA, or whatever genetic stuff it might be in foreign world and body is intrinsically capable of translating energy in any form to the one I prefer and if only I will it and biological abilities will not be replicated by cloning or other scientific or magical process unless I want it to be."
"Perfect human body you say..ok. As I observe, it is more than one wish but i won't object since you phrase it as an aspect of physical body and add to that conceptual ability of negating any duplication of information about it and energy translation? I am limiting it to only preserve or store energy levels by conversion and not manipulate externally initially."
God replied.
" My second wish is to have Library of heavens path but it will have an added function of gradually merging and essentially indistinguishable with my consciousness or soul by gradually increasing my comprehension and wisdom much like those fictions with ' heaven defying understanding "
" It will be a restricted in some ways. You are now aiming for your consciousness. But I won't be adding any more aspect abilities of whatever you wishes after this. Just say it directly. Continue." he said.
"My third wish is to have the ability to duplicate any concept or artifact I obtain or near me as I wish independent of any changes to those."
"You can, but you will have a domain with a radius of minimum 1 meter around you which will grow as per your life level, within which only, you can manifest this wish and also the amount of artifacts will initially be limited to 3 items in possession; usage of energy can be restored using the first wish of energy conversion"
" My final wish is to shield me from divination, soul seizure, psychic power attack , sensing some unnatural energy inside me, causality events and luck backlash from heavenly Dao or similar entities from labeling me a foreign entity. oh and shield me from someone going back in time to replace or kill me. etc"
"Well you seem like you have done your research before? I didn't want to look into the details of your entire life before. You imagined saying this one day? Everything is so specific. I am beginning to wonder whether I will have the journey I mentioned before. Anyways, It's your life from now on. Done."
He waved to me saying a final " good luck" and my vision and thinking went blank.
***
An unknown amount of time has passed.
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On the colossal St. Ancestral Mountain range, sunlight shined through the gap between the mountains into the deep canyons. On the hillside beside the valley, some snow remained.
Even though it's already the early summer, the snow has yet to melt. The cold here is exceptionally long. The roars of beasts can occasionally be heard.
On the surface of the valley stood a magnificent city.
The world outside of the St. Ancestral Mountains has been occupied by the beasts. The people living in the mountain range have not contacted the outside world for hundreds of years.
The people who live in the city are unsure of the situation of the outside world. It's been recorded that at the most glorious period of mankind, having thousands of Legend rank Fighters and Demon Spiritualists, the humans established many empires in the vast continent, but those empires have been wiped out.
The city, due to being stealthily located geographically, was well preserved from the Age of Darkness. They would occasionally encounter attacks from powerful Snow Wind Beasts within the St. Ancestral Mountains, however, after going through numerous devastating conflicts, the city was be rebuilt again and again.
These motley walls were an indomitable monument.
This city is called Glory City, and it is a symbol of hope for humanity.
<< Tian kui Family, Patriarch Chi feng's family mansion >>
A soul, unknown to anyone emerged out of thin air suddenly phased into the unborn child of Tian kui patriarch. The consciousness merged with the child and unknown changes activated within the child's body and it went dormant.
***
... Time passes and that soul is born.
The new name I have in this life is Chi Tao. Well quiet a coincidence to cultivation concepts. Everyone just calls me Tao.
Its been 6 months. A very frustrating 6 months.
Initially I couldn't think properly as a lifetime worth of memory inside the astral soul is being injected to a child's brain, but it went okay by some days.
I mostly have to lay and sleep on the crib arranged for me even though I could crawl by myself by the end of 2nd month and walk on 2 legs by end of 5th month but I only do that when I am by myself.
I still shit and piss myself, but fortunately very recently I gain control of this process somewhat and by making some baby noises, the maids and my mother did help me in taking care of myself.
Having mother's milk is also another peculiar experience. Though it soon changes to some maid later. Well just like a newborn, even with all the thinking of an adult not a single vulgarity crept to my mind. Imagining expectation and experiencing one is so different.
Time slowly passed.
Recently I made them aware of my crawling and staggered walking ability.
Another month I began to address my parents by mama and dada but in the new language i recently know of which they are taking to.
I began my speech and waking by end of 10 months and they start to call me little genius or whatever. I only need to force some baby laugh and widening eyes and the people will move on.
I decide to enjoy being a child once again after the initial frustrations had gone. People are there for you to meet your needs, they will care for you. Only now I thought of my previous life's parents, during the unexpected situations of meeting god claiming as myself, reincarnating , being a baby.
Now that I think about it, God won't be stingy and would care for my parent's health after I am gone right since he mentioned being myself. In all my exhilaration on being granted a new life my mind was not at all going in that direction.
I enjoyed being with similar aged children around me. They are adorable and dumb at the same time. It gives you a sense of superiority. Knowingly or unknowingly, I am their big brother. I didn't train intentionally during these 5 years. The adaptable and evolving physique is gradually developing to it's full potential, I think.
By the rate of progress, instantaneous adaptations will be available only 12 or 13. The biological waste I generate is less and less each month as the body optimizes maximum utilization of chemical energy from the food.
I am grateful to my parents but attachment to them is noticeably lesser as I age, compared to my previous life partly due to my mature mind and partly since the secrets and ideas of mine from modern age is better not conveyed to them. So I chose non-interference in their actions which may lead to complicated questioning situations.
I think they also noticed my maturity and attributed it to my genius thinking. I am the patriarch's son, so I get better nutritional diet and even some low energy demon beast meat.
My family name is Tian kui, having 2 gold rank demon spiritualist and we are under Hong yue noble family. Our family is having medicinal plants sales for alchemy, farming, hunting demon beasts, and even mining near mountain ranges although some of the activities were done in collaboration with some other aristocratic families.
Now I am 6 years old. I used LoHP on every person and artifacts I came across and learned many things. There are multitudes of flaws in the cultivation practises, clan people using just with the limited knowledge my mom conveyed to me. I don't want to be truly heartless and will consider pointing out some flaws when the canon starts. I am too young for this shit .
A one year training on simple pushups, pull-ups and squats and simple practices made me somewhat strong. I am near half of an adults strength which means I can pull two of the similarly aged children on each hand simultaneously without any effort, while my peers could hardly pick 10kg equivalent. I also made it while being secretive otherwise these brats will sell me out.
I also met Nie Li, a simple guy with orange hair. He is also dumb and has zero arrogance other than mentioning about his parents. Especially since there is no systematic learning program for children, they probably won't be able to even read till now.
I changed my strategy of being playful. I started visiting clan's library under the guise of child's curiosity. Guards let me in for my status. Took a weeks time to manually touch each book while continuing to pretend to search for books and read some of the techniques, martial arts, alchemic books and forging and everything in between. All in all I have 250 different books lying in my LoHP space.
It massively changed the flaw recognition in LoHP.