My CEO Harem Cultivation System

"I don't think that's a good idea at all," Li Yang said. 

Setsuko glared at him. "You always tell me things lately and yet right now you aren't saying anything at all. What's wrong with you...?" The woman's voice eventually trailed off as she started to connect the pieces. "Why are you here in the first place? Didn't the High Priestess—"

"Tell me to stay in the room? There's not much of a room anymore," Li Yang said. He might have said it with a slight sense of humor, but as he looked at Setsuko covered in mud, dirt and what might have been blood… the reality of things just weighed heavier in his mind.

"What did you say?" Setsuko's eyes widened.

Did he really just think he could get away by not being completely upfront with Setsuko? He grabbed her hand and started pulling her away from their spot. The two of them travelled deeper into the forest. "I need a way out of here if you know a path out. Search for the fastest way out."

Setsuko stared at him and chewed on her lip. "Huh? I'm sorry but—"

Ding!

The System made itself useful for once. 

[ System Assessing Current Whereabouts— ]

[ Searching Current Universal Database… ]

[ Cross-Checking Ancient World Lore ]

[ Location Found! ]

[ Aseroth's Domain ]

A remnant of the world that the God of Darkness Aseroth created in Telriah. Twisted and perilous for those unused to the terrain and those on the current way of Light, it can be a tumultuous path to ascension for those aligned and attuned with the elements.

[ Detecting Levels of Compatibility—

He just wanted the map!

"We're going this way." Li Yang didn't wait any further and urged Setsuko to follow him. He took her down a path that neither of them had exactly seen before but now opened up to his eyes.

It was almost ridiculous that he didn't see this path that was clearly cut out for them. 

While the shadows, dense foliage and other lurking creatures once converged around him and possibly all of the ones that entered this place… it was now starting to part and shrink away and showing a path.

Did the world around him sense the CEO's intention to leave and simply warped according to his whims? Li Yang didn't think about it like that. Instead, he decided it was all thanks to the minimap in front of him. 

This map hovered in the corner of his vision and contained numerous sectors and even other portals available in this current domain. 

Li Yang didn't bother much with the name or anything else but instead directed his attention to the path that the System set out for him.

It was a path back to the Mashiro Temple which was now probably in ruins. Li Yang could only hope that the treasury was easy to find now that this Map was up. The two of them started making their way to the exit.

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There was a certain thing that always seemed to have afflicted the man—misfortune and calamity upon him. It was something that Bao the "Panda" witnessed so far in all of the interactions that it did see.

Even while Bao may have been gone for about a long period of time as brought upon by traveling the entire universe to find him… the people that the CEO got involved with were really always particular.

Bao desired to laugh at it, and yet its perspective may have not meant anything to anyone at all. If there was a certain kinship it may have felt towards the blasted CEO, it was the very same misfortune that fell on them.

Staying invisible and undetected this time, it did its best to hide its presence from Setsuko. 

Bao normally tried to hide from the world and play its role as transmitter to the fullest and when there were occasions of people being able to see it—like Bo Lifen's great-grandmother or Li Yang's own daughter—as long as they were incapable of directly harming it… well, Bao was willing to let it slide.

This person that stuck to Li Yang's side however made Bao extremely cautious. The faint outline of numerous tails that swung behind her back as she ran along with Li Yang made Bao actually feel sweat drip down the fur of its current body.

And you were talking to a being that actually had the balls to steal a goddess' vessel in an attempt to smack down the CEO—the bastard who gave Bao the opportunity to waste its own powers to find him!

So although the CEO might have lived a "boring" life according to him, that was in peace. Bao clearly thought otherwise. And Bao didn't even need to pull up an Akashic Record or another Compendium of all universal events that spun and wove according to this particular individual. 

The mere fact that Li Yang landed himself in a place like this and got involved with a woman that might have been on the cusp to ascending deity ranks far too quickly…

Li Yang was all the person he needed to blame.

There was just something about him that drew catastrophe his way and Bao didn't even need to look back and hear the shrieking of Goddess Aurora. The Goddess pounded and started making her way to the place where she became smaller and weaker in hopes to find this CEO's face and preferably crush it on the ground.

And then a third individual started arriving from out of nowhere too.

—Or also managed to snuck into this nightmare realm by sheer virtue of knowledge.

Bao stared at a certain pink-haired woman and actually deemed her normal this time. Compared to all of the individuals encountered, she was quickly deemed sane and had no particular ties to the fate of the world. 

"Hah, this one is actually a decent person for once. Emphasis on decent and person at the same time." 

[ ???: Who's this pinkette? ]

[ The One Who Slaughters: Goddess Fights! ]

[ Sea Foam: My, my someone has certainly been busy— ]