Killing Xianxia Protagonists With An AI System In Another World!

To start with, cultivation basically means the systematic upgrade of physical 'Essence', spiritual 'Qi' and mental 'Spirit'. Cultivation works by absorbing a type of energy from the outer world and transforming it in the inner world of the self until it reaches a state where the absorbed energy harmonizes with the body. Once one has cultivated to a certain threshold, it is possible to transcend to immortality.

To reach the threshold before immortal transcendence, there are basically four steps:

1) Refining Essence, Transforming Qi

2) Refining Qi, Transforming Spirit

3) Refining Spirit, Returning Void

4) Refining Void, Fusing Dao

First Step – Refining Essence, Transforming Qi! One needs to train their physical body externally and internally until one can sense the innate 'Qi' within the self. After that, the cultivation of qi begins!

Second Step – Refining Qi, Transforming Spirit! The cultivation of qi reaches the limit and so, spiritual strengthening is the next path! At this level, one begins gaining insights into the Heavenly Daos, leading on to the path of casting Dao Domain!

Third Step – Refining Spirit, Returning Void! The realm of Void is far beyond gaining insight into the Dao and casting a Dao Domain. The Void is… hard to define. It could mean the 'Emptiness' that appears in the mind during meditation, the principle of wu wei or inaction, a vacuum in space…

Fourth Step – Refining Void, Fusing Dao! This realm is basically beyond description. Reaching it has the prerequisite of great insight and understanding of both the Void and the Dao. At this realm, one reaches threshold before immortal transcendence!

These four steps do not come together to form the cultivation system. Rather than that, they can be called the underpinning system that govern cultivation as a whole.

Now, we come to cultivation systems. I have knowledge of around a thousand cultivation systems and I am capable of cultivating about a hundred, but we'll begin with the most important of them: Immortal Dao Cultivation System. For the human race, this is the best cultivation system as a whole.

It has nine levels to line the path before immortality – Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Divine Transformation, Void Refining, Heavenly Tribulation, Integration and Great Ascension!

Qi Refining is aligned to the First Step – Refining Essence, Transforming Qi!

Foundation Establishment and Golden Core are aligned to the Second Step – Refining Qi, Transforming Spirit!

Nascent Soul, Divine Transformation and Void Refining are aligned to the Third Step – Refining Spirit, Returning Void!

My current cultivation realm is Golden Core. In my past life, the breakthrough to Nascent Soul was impossible. So to enter the Third Step – Refining Spirit, Returning Void… I switched to another cultivation system and began cultivating the Totem.

The Totem Cultivation System hails from a foreign world – the Western Barbarian World the invading world whose assault resulted in an apocalyptic end to the past era. At that time, the dominant cultivation system of this world was the Martial God Cultivation Path. Unfortunately, that world and era was completely destroyed and currently the Martial God Cultivation Path is a sorry remnant, the cultivators of which are incapable of even going beyond the 1st Step, the Houtian Realm…

Sorry for the divergence. Anyway, they require a copious amount of rituals and such, but totems are capable of refining the essence, qi and spirit together and have a versatile system of shamanic magic. I cultivated Totems, finally reaching the equivalent of Peak Nascent Soul. After that, for entering Divine Transformation, I stepped onto the Dream Cultivation path…

That was a horrible mistake. Dream Cultivation requires a strong mind, as its very basis is to refine strength from Heart Demons, founded on strength of self-belief and self-identity.

Say, for example, if the Dream Cultivator falls to a Heart Demon, believing that the world he is experiencing is just another dream… his belief will turn to truth and his cultivation will shatter, returning him to a mortal.

In the end, the Dream System nearly shattered my psyche and I was forced to go to great lengths to patch it up. It was the cause of my cultivation base being so fucked up that I somehow ascended to True Immortal while skipping Heavenly Tribulation. In the end, in my brief time as a True Immortal I was a shadow of myself, an existence holding the memories of the person called <<<TRUE NAME SEALED>>> while not being him.

The technique I used for reincarnation has successfully retrograded my personality to the time I defeated Yang Yi. The memories after that point are all clear, yet somehow faded – I can remember those memories yet I cannot remember myself experiencing them.

That's why I was planning on recording my memories in a treasured jade slip of sorts before sealing them away… but having you, a System, record them is better on all counts.

Well, then, let's talk about other cultivation systems in the meantime.

Martial God Cultivation Path is the remnant system of the past era. As you would expect, it is physical martial art based and focused on refining a Golden Body. I have a few complete techniques based on cultivating it, and my predecessor has cultivated the Houtian Realm to completion… But it is nearly impossible to cultivate in this current era. Useless.

Technological Immortal Cultivation System… I have heavily researched it and well, it allows refining of high level technological weapons and support systems with low resources plus is very versatile at all sorts of things. Unfortunately, the resources needed to start cultivating are impossible to find in the current world… and there is a high possibility of having a genetic breakdown with a strain of super-cancer if I even get started…

Yet another system is the Soul Devourer Path. Having transmigrated and fused with the predecessor Shu Yidan's soul, I can start upon it. It has an array of soul destruction focused shamanic techniques. But it requires devouring souls of cultivators… souls that can fight back. Also, devouring souls can bring up personality problems like multiple personality disorder. Finally, soul devouring arouses the anger of the world and all kinds of misfortune come forth. I am pretty sure my misfortunate karma with Yang Yi began due to my act of devouring the predecessor Shu Yidan's soul to start with…

System, if you successfully help me enter Nascent Soul cultivation, I'll take Totems as a side path. The next thing to do would be getting a ritual started that will help exorcise the predecessor Shu Yidan's soul remnants to reincarnate, reducing the world's anger at my act of Soul Devouring… or maybe I could get a quest for that?

Oh, I can? Nice. Anyway, I'll have to help you fix those messages later. As a AI, you should at least be capable of speech like a human.

Oh, even if I don't look like it, I am a person of the Technological Immortal Alliance after all! I can certainly tune up AIs! Actually, if I were to go back to Earth, I would be capable of programming 7th Generation computers with the technological baseline of 2020 and become the forefather of 8th and 9th generation computers!

…Actually, before entering the cycle of reincarnation, I made sure to stock up with all kinds of vital information to survive in any world I'd be reborn in. Modern Earth, the Medieval Ages, the Prehistoric Era… Be it Western Fantasy worlds of knights and sorcerers or Shamanic Barbarian worlds of eastern devilry, I have enough knowledge to rise high on the totem pole!

Actually, if I have prepared to be reborn in Infinity genre as well! Be it anime worlds, movie worlds, television series… I'll definitely make it!! I can survive in the God's Dimension of a Terror Infinity based world-link system as well!!!

But reincarnating back to the body of Shu Yidan in the timeline I experienced is definitely the best!

Oh, I digressed again. Where were we? Oh, we were going over cultivation systems… Well, System, let's get this started again!