The Wicked System: Path of the Devourer Chapter 12 The Truth About Dual Cultivation

"My child... your father is, at his absolute core, the manifestation of ten thousand intensely evil thoughts that have eternally roamed the cosmos. Seeing how much filial piety you possess, your father absolutely does not wish to deliberately force you down a wicked, depraved path... You must consider this extremely carefully. The very instant you successfully fully activate your father... I fear that every single action you undertake from then on will be undeniably, intrinsically evil."

"I have already considered it perfectly clearly, Dad!"

Zhang Wenbin's tone was impossibly resolute and unyielding. "My biological mother and father are already dead. Absolutely no one else on earth cares for me the way you do. If there is a way to successfully resurrect you in the mortal realm, I will absolutely fulfill my filial duties to the bitter end."

"You haven't merely been my Godfather for a day or two. It's been fifteen solid years. This absolutely isn't the first time we've met."

Zhang Wenbin was currently nineteen years old. When he had first bowed his head to that battered wild temple idol and claimed it as his Godfather, he had been four years old. Simple math dictated it had already been a grueling fifteen long years.

The Godfather System clearly hesitated violently. Perhaps any elder—no matter how deeply vicious, cruel, or murderous they were in life—never truly wished to deliberately force their beloved child to permanently walk the Vile Path.

Zhang Wenbin was even more deeply moved by this restraint. "Dad! What exactly is there left to consider?! I already lack both a father and a mother! It's an incredibly rare miracle that I have you desperately protecting me! If I were to lose you too... my life wouldn't hold any actual meaning anymore."

"Ah... my child... drip your blood onto the ring."

Zhang Wenbin didn't exhibit a single shred of hesitation. Whipping out his keys, he violently slashed open his finger, directly heavily dripping his fresh blood directly onto the bone-grey ring. Visible to the naked eye, the very instant his blood made physical contact... exactly like the first time, the space around the ring drastically warped, instantly melting the ring directly back into his physical body.

"My child... your father shall aggressively dedicate every ounce of his omnipotent power to you. Even if harboring inherently uncontrollable, malefic ambitions... we shall absolutely not actively harm you in the slightest."

The intensely emotional, heavily nuanced voice of his Godfather abruptly fell entirely dead and silent. It was immediately, violently replaced by a completely detached, highly emotionless, mechanical voice. It sounded remarkably similar to the obliterated original System, yet inexplicably carried an infinitesimally slight undertone of unmistakable warmth. "Divine Artifact successfully bound to Master. The Wicked System is officially initiating."

"Please select your inaugural Task..."

The precise second the voice ceased, three distinct, floating icons explicitly resembling ancient, tied-up cloth bundles aggressively manifested before him. Zhang Wenbin was suddenly immensely dumbfounded. He surprisingly found himself instantly missing his Godfather's highly expressive, flesh-and-blood voice.

But his mind immediately, sharply refocused. He completely understood that by succeeding at these Tasks, he would rapidly grow significantly stronger, which would directly systematically shatter the heavy shackles binding the old System, and ultimately grant him the power to help his Godfather devour the Ancient Heavenly Demon. An explosive surge of unparalleled motivation surged through his veins.

Zhang Wenbin decisively reached out and selected the bundle on the far right. The ancient cloth wrap slowly unfolded itself:

["Routine Task Initiated: 'To Slaughter Like Hemp'. By any means necessary, forcefully execute a single individual by your own hand within thirty days."]

Zhang Wenbin was completely petrified. Instantaneously, buckets of cold sweat aggressively poured down his back. It’s exactly like Godfather said! A System literally entirely constructed out of tens of thousands of wickedly evil souls operates on a profoundly different metric! Included among the seven emotions and six sensory pleasures is the uncontrollable, feral bloodlust for slaughter! This Task is far too incredibly savage!

["Task successfully claimed. Activating Auxiliary Skill..."]

["Task Skill: Mission Assist..."]

Just as Zhang Wenbin felt his brain was on the verge of experiencing a critical, catastrophic meltdown, his Godfather's raspy, heavily drained voice vaguely echoed deep within the recesses of his mind. "My child... boldly and fearlessly proceed forward and do absolutely anything your deepest, darkest desires compel you to do! The very second you require it, the ten thousand evil souls and million heavily corrupted demons trapped within your father's vessel shall enthusiastically attack on their own volition! They shall universally serve as your most brutally powerful vanguard and ultimate support."

"Dad! What exactly is going on?!" Zhang Wenbin's brain was a thick fog of total confusion. This operated absolutely nothing like any of those trashy "System" web novels he had read online!

"What the hell do you mean 'what's going on'?! The infinitely resentful souls permanently sealed within your father’s body are heavily rebellious, utterly malevolent spirits that aggressively refuse to submit to the Heavenly Court or to the Underworld! How could we possibly willingly obey the pathetic, restraining shackles built by that absolute garbage, trash System?! If we didn't possess at least this basic level of capability, how exactly would I even protect an insolent brat like you?!"

Immediately following this roaring, highly aggressive statement, the System was successfully completely activated, and his Godfather fell temporarily completely silent once again.

However, a literal maelstrom of new, highly advanced information aggressively crammed itself directly into Zhang Wenbin's brain. He instantly entirely comprehended that this 'One Month, One Kill' Task existed purely as a secondary, branching mission explicitly designed to placate the deeply vicious evil souls. However, floating directly above it, the Primary Mainline Quest actually heavily contained two separate, incredibly distinct objectives!

Zhang Wenbin instantaneously entirely deciphered exactly why the Godfather System had hesitated so violently. The issued Tasks were inherently, undeniably wicked and blatantly spat in the face of modern, civilized society. However, Zhang Wenbin was incredibly shocked and delighted to discover that unlike the previous version, failing these Tasks incurred absolutely zero penalties! Correspondingly, the exact nature of the rewards upon completion remained completely shrouded in total mystery.

["Primary Objective 1: Simultaneously subjugate both mother and daughter. Following the successful fellatio imparted by Qin Lan, you must successfully extract fellatio from her biological daughter as well..."]

Sweat... this is insanely fucking evil! It blatantly appears that amidst my Godfather’s collective, there is a massive over-representation of highly degenerate sex fiends!

["Primary Objective 2: Permanently subjugate the Vixen Spirit who previously forcefully possessed your vessel and aggressively devoured your Yang Vitality to heal her wounds. Force her to completely submit beneath your crotch."]

Devoured my Yang?! Zhang Wenbin was highly baffled. What the hell is that supposed to mean?!

"Truthfully, my ability to proudly claim a filial son such as yourself is a direct result of the incredibly fortunate karmic encounter brought upon by that little vixen! The old blind man who read your fortune and directed you to seek me out actually genuinely possessed a modicum of impressive Daoist skill. He knew full well that an ordinary mortal could never successfully bind such a remarkable little vixen... he was honestly entirely out of viable solutions."

The second the voice finally faded, a highly vivid, hyper-realistic memory forcefully materialized in Zhang Wenbin's mind. He inexplicably felt exactly as if he were currently physically seated securely atop the sacrificial altar within the dilapidated wild temple—specifically occupying the precise physical location of the ruined idol.

An incredibly old, entirely blind man, dressed distinctly like a destitute beggar, respectfully walked into the temple holding three heavily burning incense sticks and carrying a meager assortment of offerings. After meticulously placing the offerings on the table, he stepped off to the side, rapidly muttering a complex string of obscure incantations.

A highly unfamiliar pair of parents—whom he intrinsically biologically recognized as his own—anxiously walked in, carrying a small child in their arms. The heavily unconscious young child was meticulously placed onto a large, spread-out square of deep red cloth.

This was a profoundly ancient memory Zhang Wenbin inherently lacked any actual recollection of. He had only ever heard his parents relay the story, specifically because during that entire multi-day period, his infant self had remained in a deeply comatose state.

"My son... observe closely... that is precisely the little vixen..."

As Zhang Wenbin focused intently, the spatial reality around him suddenly aggressively warped. Abruptly, materializing directly upon the back of his deeply comatose infant self, was a miniature, impossibly snow-white fox! It was heavily curled up against his tiny body, appearing to be deeply asleep.

Visible directly to the naked eye, a distinct, incredibly vibrant aura of pale golden light continuously, robustly seeped directly out of his infant body, slowly aggregating and funneling directly into the fox, actively being heavily absorbed by it.

"For these minor, incredibly weak demonic creatures, Pure Yang True Qi functions as an unimaginably miraculous, supreme tonic! They fundamentally completely ignore the worthless Qi produced by average humans... but an individual possessing a profoundly Extreme Yang birth chart such as yourself was the absolute, perfect restorative vessel for a critically injured, minor demonic entity to violently siphon energy from."

Suddenly, the deeply slumbering little fox violently jolted awake! It aggressively snapped its head upward, its emerald green eyes flooding with absolute, unadulterated terror.

In the subsequent microsecond, it entirely vanished. Zhang Wenbin abruptly experienced an aggressively violent shift in perspective, finding himself rocketing high into the air. Directly before him, the previously miniature, poodle-sized white fox had abruptly, violently expanded to a truly colossal size! It was wildly frantically fleeing for its life, vehemently waving nine impossibly massive, blindingly snow-white tails. They were literally a hair's breadth away from physically snatching it.

"You... you dared to call that absolute monstrosity a little fox..."

Zhang Wenbin stared down in absolute cold sweat. Enjoying an unobstructed, top-down perspective, with the tiny rural village houses providing a stark, terrifying sense of scale, he distinctly realized the fox's mammoth body was physically larger than a large passenger sedan.

"A Green-Eyed Nine-Tailed Fox. Even on the fabled mountain of Tushan, they are considered an impossibly rare, highly sought-after breed! It was fighting so desperately for its survival that it was forced to aggressively manifest its true Dharma form. The little thing truly proved to be incredibly agile and heavily cunning... if it had been a single fraction of a second slower, it would have been violently swallowed whole by the Ancient Heavenly Demon."

The Godfather System chuckled wickedly. "What you just witnessed was a directly extracted memory originating from the Great Demon. It had been reduced to a mere, violently suppressed sliver of its divine soul... yet its basal, primal biological instinct had still aggressively demanded it completely devour that little fox!"

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