Villain Cultivator (Web Novel)

Chapter 615 – Secrets of Mysterious Dao Curse and Love-Hate Stars

Great Dao Sage Realm

An elderly man with long white hair and a white beard had been sitting on a colorless cloud. His thumb touched his fingers, counting fate, karma, and luck.

He slowly opened his eye. Then, he looked up and gazed at the bright starless void.

"Lord Pangu. I'm afraid that you're overdoing it."

A clear laughter voice echoed, "Why? Because I allow my chess piece to use the game system?"

"The Heavenly Dao Curse is too much. If it can affect everybody that competes against that chess piece, won't it affect my chess pieces, too?"

"For that, you don't have to worry. Ma Moxi won't get the curse."

"Oh?" Hongjun stroked his beard and tilted his head, "How does this curse work? Why did it affect your descendent, but it doesn't affect Ma Moxi? Also, your descendent is also a protagonist. Why does the curse work on him?"

"Simple. That curse only affects [Players] with a game system. Ma Moxi and others don't have the game's system, so they will not be affected by the curse. Also, this curse will be implemented as one of the unique abilities of antagonist NPCs to hinder the [Players]'s growth. Regardless of whatever status the [Players] are, the curse will override any buff and perks of Heroes, Protagonists, and Main Characters."

"… That's a biased treatment."

"Antagonists need to be domineering and menacing. Otherwise, those undying [Players] will steamroll the game and end the universe before the schedule."

Hongjun nodded. He let out a sigh of relief as Ma Moxi was out of danger.

Still, Hongjun needed more information about the game so that he could let his chess pieces prepared for the upcoming [Immeasurable Calamity] that they had been preparing.

But Hongjun still had doubts, "Could you teach me how Mao Miaomiao controls his curse?"

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Favorable Impression 1 Star: You can issue basic quests or sell items to the player.

Favorable Impression 2 Stars: You can issue intermediate quests to the player.

Favorable Impression 3 Stars: You can issue advanced quests or sell rare items to the player.

Favorable Impression 4 Stars: You can issue storyline quests to the player.

Favorable Impression 5 Stars: The player may ask you to be their disciple, master, sworn sibling, or dao partner, and you will be forced to accept the request. You also cannot attack the player. However, you will gain 25% of their lifespan and luck. You may also choose to copy one unique skill of the player.

Favorable Impression 6 Stars: The player may ask you to be their adopted son, foster father, or official spouse, and you will be forced to accept the request. However, you will gain 50% of their lifespan and luck. You can also copy all of their skills and receive a 50% share of their future EXP.

Favorable Impression 7 Stars: You become that player's loyal subordinate, and you can no longer refuse their requests regardless of your freewill. In exchange, you can copy all the player's skills, cultivation base, and Daos. Every item in the player's possession can be copied and transferred to your system inventory.

Note: You can freely assign your impression stars to any player whenever they do you a favor or gift you with something.

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Hatred 1 Star: The player can no longer receive any quest or purchase any item from you.

Hatred 2 Stars: Any persisting abnormal statuses on the player is increased by one level.

Hatred 3 Stars: The player can no longer access your territories. If you kill the player, one of their skills will be erased, and their level or dantian planets will be decreased by 2. You will gain 2 blank planets as rewards.

Hatred 4 Stars: Any persisting abnormal statuses on the player is increased by two levels. If you kill the player, two of their skills will be erased, and their level or dantian planets will be decreased by 3. You will gain 3 blank planets as rewards.

Hatred 5 Stars: Your hatred is irreconcilable. Any persisting abnormal statuses on the player is increased by three levels. Unless you are dead, any new and persisting debuff and status effect on the player is permanent. If you kill the player, five of their skills will be erased, and their level or dantian planets will be decreased by 5. You will gain 5 blank planets as rewards.

Hatred 6 Stars: You and the player are sworn enemies. Any persisting abnormal statuses on the player is increased to the max level. If you kill the player, ten of their skills will be erased, and their level or dantian will be decreased by 10. You will gain 10 blank planets as rewards.

Hatred 7 Stars: The player is your nemesis. Both you and the player are plagued by a Heart Demon Debuff, which disables the abilities to level up, learn a new skill, or breakthrough to the next cultivation rank. You and the player receive a debuff status effect, which decreases your status attributes by 50%. If you kill the player, the player's dead character will be permanently deleted, and you will obtain all their game skills, Providence Qi, dantian stars, items in their system inventories, items in their city stashes, and all properties from their game account.

Note

You may increase Hatred Stars up to 4 stars after interacting with players. There is no limit to how many players you have a hostile or friendly relationship with.

Hatred 5 stars can only be assigned to any hostile player that has attacked you or your family member at least once.

Hatred 6 stars can only be assigned to any top-ranked player on the global leaderboard.

Hatred 7 stars can only be assigned to any player that has been undertaking any storyline quest that threatens Heavenly Dao's existence.

After you permanently killed a player, a glabal announcement shall publish your deeds and put a bounty on your head. The bounty will double every time you perma-kill another player.

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Floating next to Miaomiao was the detail of the Impression and Hatred System, which all NPCs of Pangu Online could use.

Miaomiao checked the details and grinned. Now, he had the authority and power to dictate the fates of players while he could reap some profits.

This was the reason why Miaomiao didn't kill Pan Mei right away. It would have been a shame had Miaomiao never used this perk before he killed Pan Mei.

Secondly, the description of the small windows next to him interested him.

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Permanent Kill Count

For every player with 7 hatred stars you killed, you obtain one player's true soul. The true souls can be exchanged for many items from the Heavenly Shop, such as the Heavenly Dao Spirit Stone, which can be used to promote a pseudo-sage to a sage.

Current Kill Count: 0

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Heavenly Dao Curse

Any Pangu Online 2's player that competes against you in any field will suffer this curse. Heavenly Dao Curse can only be removed after the cursed player gives up competing against you.

Restrictions: Only applicable to Pangu Online 2's players.

Effects

Level 1: The cursed player's IQ and intelligence attribute are decreased by 10% when this debuff is active.

Level 2: The cursed player's IQ and intelligence attribute are decreased by 15% when this debuff is active. Necessary EXP to advance to the next level is increased by 200%.

Level 3: The cursed player's IQ and intelligence attribute are decreased by 20% when this debuff is active. Necessary EXP to advance to the next level is increased by 300%.

Level 4: The cursed player's IQ and intelligence attribute are decreased by 25% when this debuff is active. Necessary EXP to advance to the next level is increased by 500%. When fighting against Mao Miaomiao, all healing effects from pills, potions, and skills are reduced by 50%.

Level 5 (Max): The cursed player's IQ and intelligence attribute are decreased by 30% when this debuff is active. Necessary EXP to advance to the next level is increased by 1,000%. When fighting against Mao Miaomiao, the cursed player's HP cannot be recovered by any means.

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'I guess I'm the kryptonite of players. Now, I know why the NPC System sees me as an antagonist.'

Miaomiao grinned. He wondered if perma-killing players would kill their real bodies in the other dimension as well.

At this moment, Miaomiao wishes that he could consult Mu-Nyang about Pangu Online's players and their homeworld. He wondered what Mu-Nyang did in the other dimension to end the game since Miaomiao couldn't read this cathulhu's karma and the memories from the other timelines.

This cathulhu god was more mysterious than Kishin Douji!

He turned his gaze toward the dune and the coiling fire snakes on the bamboo. As Pan Mei was still in a daze and had been staring at his system screen, the mandragora didn't attack them.

Since Pan Mei was still shocked by the debuff level 3, Miaomiao decided to make a move first.

Going all out, Miaomiao pressed the stopwatch and froze everybody's movement and time.

But instead of subduing the mandragora in the dune, Miaomiao kicked the ground and charged at Pan Mei!

"You're an eyesore. Die!"

SOEK

Miaomiao summoned Killer Queen and stabbed Pan Mei's chest with her. The katana punctured through his heart.

Qi and blood of Pan Mei flowed into Killer Queen and Miaomiao. The latter took his time to drain every drop and strand of Providence Qi and Soul Essence Crystals from Pan Mei's dantian space.

The process took time. Miaomiao spent 50,000 seconds, aka 50,000 years of lifespan to empty Pan Mei's dantian.

Sensing that Pan Mei's dantian no longer had any soul essence crystal or element Qi left, Miaomiao added another curse to Pan Mei.

Death Curse!

"Let's see what you're going to do once your lifespan and luck reach zero, gamer. Go back to your saved point!"

SWUA SWUA

Miaomiao chopped Pan Mei to a thousand pieces. Then, he turned around and approached the dune.

He shoved his hand into the dune and grabbed the nearest hard thing. With only one hand, Miaomiao yanked the mandragora out.

The 5-story tall plant came out, but it couldn't scream as the time was still frozen.

Miaomiao gazed at the mandrake in admiration. He thought of ways to tame this mandrake or how he could extract its seed.

Unfortunately, the clock was ticking. Every second, one year of his lifespan was lost.

Since time was precious, Miaomiao pressed the stopwatch to resume the time and manually activated Chrono Domain instead.

As soon as the time domain was active, the mandragora and Pan Mei could momentarily move and sensed the flow of time.

Unfortunately for Pan Mei, he could only see one notification screen before his vision turned black.

<You have been killed by the Antagonist NPC, Mao Miaomiao. The following penalties shall be enforced as you have a hostile relationship with the Antagonist.>

<Three random planets will be removed from your dantian.>

<Your skill, Clear Mind, has been erased.>

<Your skill, Chaos Breathe, has been erased.>

<You will not able to respawn in the next 72 hours.>

Pan Mei's thousand pieces of flesh glitched as if they were digitalized objects.. He vanished from the universe.