BTTH: Template System

'Since I set up some foreshadowing to Xiao Yan It's time for me to start doing things of my own.' The reason he introduced Gang Ryong to Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun Er is that, down the line, he decided to drag them into the crazy plots he set. It's just most of the important characters are played and stared by himself and himself only.

'Is this what small-time YouTubers in my past life felt like while doing skits?' Playing all the characters yourself and saying all the important lines to yourself which are written by yourself. 'Okay, enough with depressing thoughts. I have clans that need to be robbed.'

Since he foreshadowed the existence of [Seol Hwi] now I need to add his presence to the world. There is a good reason he turned [Seol Hwi] from [Heavenly Demon Cultivation Simulation], which is he has a system with the skill book mechanism.

This means no matter what technique there is he can learn them as long he possesses the skill book of the said technique. Turning him into a perfect Pot King (Chinese idiom for the people that take the blame, aka scapegoats.) to take the blame for the messes he caused at the early stage of worldbuilding.

Why is the damage caused by the technique used by the supposed good guys? Oh, it's just that [Seol Hwi] copied their technique and used it to cause mayhem.

Xiao Ming, who is still equipped with Gang Ryong's Template, was quietly observing the manor of the Jia Lie Clan. 'Hmm, the Six Eyes shows there is a huge amount of Dou Qi gathered underground. But there are several other places where Dou Qi is gathered, too. Did they split their treasury and hide it in different places?'

That wasn't such a bad idea. He would say that was pretty clever for Xianxia villain. 'This is what they say when not putting all your eggs in the same basket right?' Sadly, it just happened by merging with the template Xiao Ming turned Gojo's Six Eyes into the default ability possessed by not only him but all the other templates, too.

Turning them into sensory geniuses, which isn't really good news for many, many people. After all, when the enemy can easily locate your most prized treasures and can detect your traps miles away, you can only curse your luck.

Xiao Ming or Gang Ryong gently clenches his fist a few times, feeling that the cultivation system of Dou Qi Continent is catching up with Gang Ryong's original cultivation base. Which resulted in more than doubling his overall ability.

He took a deep breath and jumped up from the rooftop he was standing on into the air; he hovered in the air for a few seconds, carefully selecting his target before kicking the air, sending himself towards that direction like a cannonball.

He stopped using the system to suppress the CE temporarily, causing Gang Ryong's faint white Qi to gain a black outline and completely different characteristics than before.

With a loud bang, the roof of the storage that kept some of the treasures hidden shattered into pieces. "W-what?!" Guards let out a surprised cry as they saw inside the dust and smoke screen figure of a person standing. Even though they couldn't identify the figure, two white glowing dots representing his eyes stared at them coldly.

"W-who..." One of the guards, rather the brave one, tried to charge at him, but after the first step, his whole body was paralyzed in fear. The moment he got closer, he saw his future... one that he gets shredded into pieces. The fear was so intense that he started aging at a speed visible to the eyes.

Seeing this creeping scene of a young man in his prime turning into the old man who's about to step into his grave in front of them, other guards flee in fear.

"D-Demon! Somebody save me!"

"Everyone run for your lives! There is a demon attacking the clan!"

"Ah! Evil Spirit! All the Jia Lie Clan's sins come to haunt them in the form of an evil Spirit!"

"Oh heavens please spare me! I won't cheat on my wife every game! I swear I will grow a new leaf from now on so please! Please spare me!"

Some ran away for their lives while some begged mercy from heaven; this happening, Gang Ryong, who took the things he was interested in, opened his palm and concentrated a huge amount of Dou Qi fused with a small amount of Inner Strength, causing it to have a more violent reaction than it should have.

A small black and white energy sphere forms in his hand, rapidly spinning in random directions. It expands and shrinks as if breathing. Gang Ryong drops the sphere the moment it makes contact with a matter. It bursts open with Dou Qi, which violently absorbs the surrounding Dou Qi to endlessly expand, which results in its base not being able to support the rapid expansion and collapsing on itself.

With a bright flash starting from the storage, all surrounding area gets swallowed by a ball of energy. Its shock wave spreads even further, destroying the windows and the doors of the remaining buildings. Smoke remaining from the energy rises to the sky, taking the shape of a mushroom.

"What's going on?! Who dares to attack my Jia Lie Clan?!" The voice of an old raspy voice filled with a furry echoes through the residence of the clan.

Soon, from the manor that belongs to the main family, a man in a fancy suit jumps out, surrounded by yellow Dou Qi, and lands where the storage warehouse exists. "Show yourself! You despicable villain! How dare you attack my Jia Lie Clan?! Will you dare to face me, Jia Lie Bi, head-on?!"

Suddenly, another two houses blew up to pieces. Only then did he realize that the invader was aiming at the places where they kept their most valuable treasures. "Y-you! Thief!"

After discovering the attacker's intention, he quickly rushes towards the clan hall where the underground vault is located. Those resources are the lifeblood of their clan. Once they lose them, the Jia Lie Clan will cease to exist. With no more resources, they couldn't cultivate the next generation, and without the next generation, their clan would have no future.

'Who dares to use such a dishonorable tactic?! Who has such a grudge against us?! Is it the Xiao Clan?! That bastards! They must have detected my plan to siege their territory using Liu Xi to mass produce large amounts of medical pills.'

Once he reached the hall, he was too late. Another huge explosion sent him flying into the air. "Ugh!"

He spats out a mouthful of blood as his eyes bloodshot in madness. His well-developed Da Dou Shi (Dou Grandmaster) senses could feel someone walking towards him. He forces himself to get up as his Dou Qi covers his body materialising strange gold and blue armor. "Today, even if I die, I will take you down with me!"

Jia Lie Clan's Secret Qi Method: Thunder Eagle Claw! Rank: Low Xuan!

He no longer cared about the opponent's strength; now, the only thing on his mind was to stop the thief before he escaped. "Die!" Covered in yellow thunder he dashes towards him speed several times his realm. Lightning around takes the shape of a bird that's extending Its claw to catch the prey.

Gang Ryok pulls his hand while twisting it as Dou Qi and Inner Strength circulate through his meridians. Since coming to the Jia Lie Clan, he has taken a stance for the first time. Just as the bird made of thunder is about to reach him, he launches a powerful palm thrust strike while twisting his hand.

Heavenly Destruction, Shattering Thrust Palm

Strike that's enhanced by both Inner Strength and Dou Qi, causing it to possess tremendous force, easily crushing the thunderbird and Jia Lie Bi inside it with his Dou Qi Armor.

Shockwave passes through him and goes further several hundred meters, easily splitting the land and Shattering everything in its way. While lying on the ground, defeated on his deathbed bed, Jia Lie Bi looks at the figure standing in front of him. Even without the dust screen, his whole figure was shrouded in darkness, only leaving two white dots as Its eyes.

"W-who are you?... why did you attack my Jia Lie Clan?..."

Figure silently looked at him for a few seconds before answering his question; once he answered's voice was cold and distorted as if truly the grim reaper was speaking. But even that would have paled compared to the answer given to him by it. "No reason."

"Devil... you are the devil... you... devil..." With that, Jia Lie Bi meets his end. As for Gang Ryong, already disappeared from there the moment his opponent died.

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