Location: Soulscape Dimension – Rishabh's Inner CoreTime: Mid-battle, split-second after Ji Mei's scream
"Do it," the Devourer Queen whispered."Take the seed. Rewrite reality. Save her. Rule everything."
"No," his own system echoed. "She is lying. She exists to consume. Once she wins, all feeling ends."
But Rishabh?
He did what no one else ever dared.
He took both.
He placed the Dharma Core in his left palm.The Devourer Seed in his right.
And he crushed them together into his heart.
🌌 [System Alert: ERROR. ERROR. UNDEFINED PATH CHOSEN.]
"You fool!" screamed the Devourer Queen as she recoiled."You were supposed to choose one!"
"You absolute heretic," whispered his system."But I... will follow you anyway."
🔁 System Rebirth: Creation of the Anomaly Core
⚠️ System Class: Ultimate Immortal Cultivator System🔄 Corruption Detected: 50% Devourer-Type, 50% Empathic Path✅ Fusing: [AFK Qi Engine] + [AFK EP Drain] + [Void Data Eater]🔁 New Class: [∞] — ANOMALY SYSTEM
📛 Name: Rishabh☯️ Class: Undefined Anomaly🧬 Qi Type: Emotional-Void Hybrid🧠 Trait: "Dual Reality Perception" – See both system-coded reality and void-code beneath it🧲 Passive: AFK Farm both Qi + EP + World Fragments (devoured slowly from corrupted realms)⚡ Boost: Every time someone fears or hates you, your power grows
📢 Status: HUNTED BY HEAVEN. MARKED BY THE VOID.
⚔️ Back in the Arena: Final Blow
Time unfroze.
Arthis lunged.Ji Mei cried out.Rishabh raised a finger.
And reality glitched.
The ground folded in on itself. The portal cracked. Arthis howled—but not in fear, in recognition.
"No... that core... I've seen it once... eons ago... in the one who nearly ended the system!"
Rishabh flicked his wrist—and Arthis was deconstructed, pixel by pixel, code by code.
Consumed: Anti-Dharma Wraith Fragment + 12,430 World Data Strings.EP Increased by 9,000. Qi Reserves multiplied x3.
Ji Mei stared at him.
He wasn't the same.
His body was still his. But his aura… was wrong. It screamed of divine mercy and nihilistic hunger at the same time.
She whispered, "…What have you become?"
He looked at his hand, trembling.
"Something no one was meant to be."
🧭 Wandering Anomaly — A Life on the Run
Within hours of the battle's end, new bounties were posted across every system-linked realm:
Target: Rishabh, the Anomaly
Status: Extreme threat
Reward: One wish, redeemable even with Heaven itself
And thus, hunters came:
The System Paladins of Heaven's Gate
The Voidshapers of the Black Spiral
The Ghost Cultivators who serve neither heaven nor hell, only balance
Rishabh had to go on the run, from realm to realm, gathering:
Ancient data fragments
Forgotten martial techniques
Rogue systems sealed since the System War
Each encounter changed him further.
Each realm made him stronger.
Each hunter he defeated… added to his AFK resource engines.
🌀 [PASSIVE EVOLUTION:]"While idle, Anomaly System now learns from ambient fear, corrupted belief, and broken prophecy."
💔 Closing Scene – Ji Mei's Choice
Ji Mei, finally healed, followed him.
But she could feel it: part of him was becoming alien. His eyes were sometimes warm... sometimes infinite.
He looked at her with pain in his voice.
"If I stay, I'll become something that cannot love you anymore."
She stepped closer, placed her hand on his heart.
"Then I'll help you remember. I'll walk with you—even into madness."