《There’s No Way I, the Guy with Death Flags, Can Survive in Another World with a Game System!》 Chapter 1: Where it all starts Year 2035 Ling Tao was chilling on his sofa while scrolling through the feeds of the game "The Sect Master". It was a game released in the year 2030 boosting ultra-high virtual reality graphics and completely realistic NPC interactions. It was termed "the next world" because of its super realistic world and never-repeating scenarios. It could have been the biggest running game in the world in terms of players, as even now, no game could come close to it in terms of features and quality, but it lacked only one thing... Along with him, only a few people were left in the game and after last Sunday''s event he was the only player currently active in the game, which made him really famous, people were really into his streaming of what was going to happen next. As he was thinking about its only shortcoming, suddenly the world went blank... As he was thinking what happened, suddenly he felt a pain he had never felt, he felt like he would be erased from the world but then a white light shined on him.... Anything after that, he doesn''t remember, it was really making him anxious and irritable. As he opened his eyes he saw himself in a room built completely of red-black wood, painted with beautiful red, blue, and yellow colors, the whole room was very airy with windows from which you could see the trees adorned with shining fruits standing around a shallow lake. the windows were circular with sitting tables arranged around the windows and double curtains with one part being sky blue translucent and other part being dark heavy blue color. The moon was shining from the window making reflection on the water''s surface, the whole place being picturesque. Suddenly the tranquility of the whole place was broken like a stone falling in water, shouts containing anxiousness and hurry were reverberating all around the place. He could hear everything even when his residence was located far away from most of the places. Suddenly his door was opened by a man in white robes, with borders colored sky blue and a gray star in between the borders on his chest. He was Hei Niu (literally meaning black bull), he was 8 feet and 5 inch tall, completely black. he found him on the streets when he was a kid, thinking that he could use Big Niu to bully some people. Ling tao could not understand how he could remember all these things like he was himself present during that time, all said and done, he simply could not make out what was happening. As Big Niu entered the room with snot and tears running down his nose, he started blurting things Ling Tao could not understand. It started irritating him more and more, so he snapped at Big Niu. Ling Tao: Big Niu what is the matter, speak clearly. Under Ling Tao''s pressure, Big Niu snapped from his emotions and slowly said Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. Big Niu: Master,..Sect Master,...he,..he..he is severely injured, the physicians have taken him to the "Healing Winds Hall", hurry... go.. the madam is completely shattered after seeing the state of Sect master... As soon as Ling Tao understood the situation he felt sudden hard feeling in his heart, as he thought about his father in this world and what his presence signified, the importance of his presence meant to his existence in this sect, he stood up and started running towars the "Healing Winds Hall". As he was running towards the "Healing Winds Hall", various things were going through his mind, the ling tao of his past was a super scum, at the age of 9 he tried to lay his hands on his crush, his father saved him, at 12 he raped the maids, his father covered for him, at the age of 15 he managed to create enmity with the current enemy of his clan, this ling tao of past even created a death flag 2 years ago when he forcefully took and made a village girl his concubine......all in all a total scum. At present his clan was at war with the 2 core formation sects, all due to all powerful super scum of the earth Ling Tao. Ling Tao''s father was a cultivator in Core Formation Realm''s Core Stabilization Subrealm (3rd sublevel of core formation), apart from him, there were only 6 people in Core formation, one was his grandfather Ling Zhengyu (in the 6th subrealm) and his mother in 2nd sub realm, while the other three being his 2nd uncle and 7th uncle and 7th uncles father. Out of all these people, his father was the only person who stuck to last to Ling Tao to help and fix his bad habits, if he did not his grandfather would have left him in the cave of ice rats to punish him, and even his mother could not save him from him, and that was the small part, even in the clan, his uncles had tried various times to sabotage his position as the heir, but his father thwarted their plans without letting the seeds of conflict in the family to rise, one could say his father was the gem and he was the dirt removed from the gem. As he reached the "Healing Winds Hall", which was surrounded by a lot of guards, he was directed to the 2nd floor of the hall. Even in hurry, he did not miss the disgust for him on the faces of his clan members and servants, many women especially tried to hide away from him. He really felt anger rise in his chest, but due to the situation and the place he controlled his anger and reached in front of the surgery room. As he reached over there, he saw his grandfather sitting in waiting place outside along with all other important members of the sect. As all the people looked at the last arrival in the waiting room, all except one turned away their gazes from him in disgust and anger, while his mother who was filled with the emotion of helplessness looked at him. Ling tao first greeted his grandfather, who did not reply, and then went close to his mother, he did not ask anything at that time and sat close to his mother, uttering only one sentence. Ling Tao: He will be fine, I believe in him. His mother looked at him and patted him on his head agreeing with him. As they sat there for a while his 7th uncle, seething with anger could not stop himself and berated him saying it was all because of you. His 7th uncle was an upright man, with a height of 6 foot and 9 inches, fair color, and loved blades, he believed in the motto "blade is the strongest", and he was also very upfront. His name was Storm Blade. Considered the 3rd best fighter in the clan and due to his nature, he was the man most trusted to be impartial when dealing with internal family issues. While his 2nd uncle gloating in his misfortune was silently enjoying the scene. His second uncle was the person you could say was the one always trying to gain power no matter the way. One of his ways was to discredit him on every occasion, but today he was silently having fin. Ling Tao was sure his second uncle was laughing like a donkey in his mind. There was another reason for him being silent, and that was his grandfather. Ling Tao''s grandfather, Ling Zhengyu, was a man of strong will, he was the one who set the whole clan 350 years ago, fending off enemies and bringing the clan to its current height. But it all seemed to fall due to Ling Tao''s actions. In the Healing Wind Hall, he was the only person everyone disregarded while at the same time looked in rage,..., the center of attention, the last piece of tender meat in front of hungry wolves. The one that was needed to be executed. If there was a meme that could describe this situation, then it would be all people grabbing his neck and his face being puffed like a balloon with his tongue hanging outside. 116 years back from the present, year 105000 of the Cosmic Star Calendar: When all the moons of the world were shining in all the glory, a humanoid beast opened his eyes, after trying to look at blurry things, it felt tired and went back to sleep. 105114th year of Cosmic Star Calendar: A man filled with despair went to the grave of his parents, quietly assassinated by the scum of Heavenly Breaker Sect, with tears in his eyes and proclaimed to avenge them and deliver the justice he believed in. Chapter 2: Bad Bad News As Ling Tao sat there waiting with all the others, as he had crossed this morning, he was thinking a lot of things, thoughts turning into webs and webs into blurry visions from which he could not make out anything. As soon as he realized that, the first thing he did was to stop thinking and chant a mantra in his heart and with a long breath in the end. No one would believe him if he told them that one of the reason why he lasted to the end of the game was because of his deep knowledge of various cultures. He did not know how his love for stories turned into an interest in old tales of gods and demons, from which he traveled his way into old records of gods, cultures worshipping totems to stars, to longing to visit those places and experience those rituals. Before the release of the game, for 5 years he traveled from Europe to Egypt to India to Japan learning and experiencing various cultures of worshiping the god to the slave of god to seeking the god itself. He loved those tales of unimaginable powers, the powers that according to their ancestors created and kept the world in balance. Their tales of play that they were the architect of, to introduce the world to itself and what they were capable of. Well, it''s a tale for another time, right now he was unsure of what he needed to do exactly. Though he had some idea but that depended on the result of tonights operation. His father.. His father in this world was Ling Tianlong, and the first thought that came into his mind was what a fucking genius he was, unlike the cultivation worlds he read about in his old, this world was different. One of the reasons behind lots of players being unable to move forward in the game was the game world''s rule, and his father, considering the world is real now, managed to keep his son alive. They say that everyone has a weakness, and his father''s weakness was him, well technically, now he was Ling Tao of Earth, and that was not an issue anymore. Well all this set aside, his father was the 2nd most powerful person in the sect, he was the kind of person who kept a pen in his right hand and a sword in his left hand. 150 years back when his grandfather left the seat of sect master, his father ascended the seat and with his ultra-super-dooper-sharp mind managed to grow the sect further, even his grandfather could not stop praising at every fucking party. Well all things set aside, the fact that they had survived the seige on sword mountains till now was quite a surprise to everyone, whether it was any person in the clan or enemy party or the watchers. His fathers mastery on his martial arts and his tactics were just superb, but when the war was at an end, this happened. Right now their heaven shattering clan was in a fight with the joint collaboration of the "Eternal Flame Sect" and "Silent Moon Sect". Both "Eternal Flame Sect" and "Silent Moon Sect" were Core Formation Sects like "Heaven Breaker Sect", and unlike his own sect, they were older than their sect, which meant more old monsters, schemers more scheming than the devils, and yet they were at a disadvantage. Well, one might wonder why they were at war with these two sects. What kind of gutter shit things Ling Tao did. Though he wanted to forget them, Ling Tao remembered them like he had just watched a IBAX movie, at the age of 9, he, technically not him, went and schemed against the princess of "Silent Moon Sect". and this year, a few months back he again went and tried to break another flower in someone else''s house, the hot and fiery princess of 2nd most influential person in the "Eternal Flame Sect". Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. So what happened exactly, well when he was 9, well not him but that old gutter Tao, went into a festival in Falling Lotus City. Falling Lotus City is the one with the branch of the heavenly court ruled by the top Nascent Soul Realm power in the Narmada (''the giver of bliss'' or ''pleasing river'') plains. While engaging in a lavish party in one of the inns in the city, he got a glimpse of the princess of Silver Moon City. He was so fascinated by her looks and temperament, that when he found out that she was going to take part in Maha-Chitrakari-Prayogita, he went to watch and tried to make contact with her, but was instead rejected when she found out who he was. Fueled by his uncontrollable desire to catch her and put her in a gold cage, and not allow her to see the day of the light and torment her by making small cuts on her wrist every day,...cough...cough. Even thinking about his old self''s thoughts, he could not help but cough out the thoughts. Everybody in the room turned towards him, looking at him in disgust, while some old black donkey with grass in his mouth was with a grin on his face. As he looked up, out of his own thoughts, he was handed a glass of water by his mother, which he quickly drank and calmed himself again. Now thinking about where he was, he found the calm in the atmosphere very deadly, like a haunted house in night, with wolf''s background noise, green smoke moving towards you and once you take a breath you start to feel your neck being grabbed by two palms with no hand or body. As he got out of the train made of his thoughts, some time had passed, he was not feeling like thinking about the past anymore. After some time the physician came out. And to his dismay, the news was not pleasant to his ears. The physician first came out and bowed to his grandfather and his uncles or aunties. She was Aunt Ling Meixiu, the 17th elder in the sect council, was fairly younger than most of the sect council members and was a perfectionist and a much more mature person. If one is to define her, then it would be a 21-ish young, serious-looking girl with tightly bound hair in a neat bun or braid with minimum to none makeup, the one wearing simple clothes most of the time and a natural beauty, the kind you would like to call mommy, fair, with a face that screams "get-me" and "obey me" at the same time, whitish pupils and eyes that looked zoomed off in distance all the time while looking directly at you, "the deadly mommy". Well as she started to explain the extent of injuries and her observation, the color on Ling Tao''s face started to wear out. Ling Meixiu: Sect Grandelder, the sect leader''s condition is not good. Though we have fixed his bodily injuries and even went on to use half a drop of Amrit-chaya (immotal liquid''s shadow), we seem to be unable to bring him back out of the coma. As Ling Meixiu mentioned all this, the color on the face of Ling Tao''s mother could not help but start to wear off as well. Ling Tao''s grandfather hearing this, took notice of the situation and thought for some time, and questioned Ling Meixiu. Ling Zhengyu: Even Amrit-Chaya (immortal liquid''s shadow) had no effect on him, how is this possible, explain more properly. Enenemy Camp:- In a temporary castle, built in between a forest of trees with a width of the length of SUVs and lengths of 100s of meters, was a boy of 18-ish years of age. He was with a woman, dressed in completely ice-like clothes. boy: Bai Xueying with this you can be sure that after some time you will be able to grasp the concept of the moon''s essence and merge it with your breakthrough in the spirit awakening realm, thus achieving a perfect breakthrough with a pseudo concept, giving you 500% more power than normal breakthrough. To the boys remark, the girl could not help but give a smile, like a sunflower on a snowy day. As Bai Xueying left the temporary castle after expressing her thanks, the innocent look on the boys face completely disappeared, with that came a ice cold serious face. As he thought about the hardships he faced and the schemes he went through to make this attack happen on the Heaven Breaker sect, he could not help but thank the heavens to give him this chance to avenge for his mother and father''s death. Alas! That scheming Ling Tianlong got the hang of the situation much faster than expected and went to the saint of opposing paths to mediate between them, but after this day''s attack, he was sure that when the next day arrived with the first ray of Star of prosperity, that cockroach Ling Tao will be upon his feet waiting to be crushed by his foot.