old god of manipulation was not what he expectected the old GOM was in simple words be described as arrogant,rapist,big Idiot,super lucky and he himself. no don't be confused it literally means he himself ya he was a version of himself from another dimension.
how that happened let's go on start of old GOM's life
#flashback#
the old GOM also known as xue shan was living in a luxurious house with his parents he was the only child of the king of xue kingdom which was the kingdom in the corner of zuban continent near sea he used to rape beautifull women in kingdom and torturing anyone trying to stop him making many people angry but they can't do anything.
one day someone used top assassin in the kingdom to kill him when he was on a little adventure to some ancient ruin withot letting his parents know he took guards but told them to interfear only if necessary and hide in shadows he was inside the ruin when a trap activated making him fall in a deep lake underground at that time assassin followed him to ruins used poison blade to make sure the guards don't interfear and he dies after taking care of guards he moved in underground using rope when shan tried to find something to hold he was happy but when he saw the assassin hanging by a rope and wearing nothing but black(he was holding assassins hand)he asked
"w-who are!"
before he could finish a thin line was created on his throat cutting in half. blood spikes in air then he starts going down in unknown he knew he is going to die but still tried to stop blood and kick water to be of no use and he continued to go down until his body stopped functioning and he reached the end.
his blood touched ground where a completely black pearl was and near that pearl a skeleton of a man lying there pearl started to suck all the blood in wateras well as skeleton of a man and shoot towards the wound healing it while still inside it slowly moved towards brain and give all life energy remaining in it to shan who floated towards surface then out of the trap he fall in.
it all took 5 minute after assassin cut his throat and assassin already used body disintegration liquid to destroy bodies took the cart shan came riding and moved far away to destroy cart somewhere else meanwhile the boy woke up checked his neck was fine his body was wet he found to have something strange in his soul since shan was a person in cultivation world he was also a cultivator not a genius but good enough to be the son of king his father used many herbs elexiers and pills to make him cultivate faster and he was in 38 level still 22 years old (AN/- I won't go in details about the cultivation system of that world because it's just old memory and not that important) he got in his soul and saw the black pearl he got closer to look at it more closely and touched it he had gained the knowledge that he need to feed blood and flesh to this pearl as well as the energy of his target to make him stronger easily and fast this pearl may seem like a devilish object but it was created by the first god of manipulation to make him strong easily it's the greatest creation of first GOM to manipulate others life and devour every part of target converting it to the user it also stores bloodline drops the purest of blood drops of any being it devours it only stores the purest blood drops so user needs to find more of the same bloodline if the target have weak bloodline and can even merge them if users wants to he just need enough energy unfortunately first GOM dies died billions of years ago so not even his consciousness remain to target shen and take his body.
he looked for his guards and cart find nothing but ashes of his guards and he could see someone taking the cart far away in opposite direction of where he came from he didn't dare run after the cart or shout in fear of being killed by the one riding it with that shen goes inside the ruins to see what else is there of first GOM.
as he made his way he saw some dead bodies which were atleast a few months old he was scared since he never goes anywhere dangerous without his father's permission and stays in kingdom having pleasure raping and torturing others he tried to see if the pearl can absorb the body and used the pearl and it devoured the body gaining a little blue dot in pearl so small that you can't even see it but shan felt his body had gained some power although it was just a little bit but he could feel it he devoured other bodies and used the cloth to put them on a wooden tree branch which may have been used by now dead adventurers to burn and bring the dark ruins back to light.
after he came to his senses and thought about it he realized that there were many traps in there one of which killed the adventurers he can feel they were weaker then him maybe teir Lev was 18 or 19 level or more but that's it he was stronger then them by more then 15 level he moved in the cave with newfound confidence forgetting that they were a group of five and one of them may even be traps specialist and even he died well who can blame him he is just an idiot so with a sword in hand he moved in only to step on a trap activating it again but he moved back on time to be saved from being parsed by another arrow he was scared shitless and was angry he never felt scared before he never knew that feeling but anger he knew anger is something he felt for commoners and he ran in ruins without thinking anymore he tried to stay close to wall in hope of avoiding traps but he again fell on a trap or more like a lucky trap for him he fell in a dark room with nothing but dark he was beyond scared he even dropped the burning torch on his own foot and started crying in pain which didn't come his body wasn't weak enough to be burned easily he didn't know what to do laugh or cry at his own weakness he consoles himself that first GOMs power will make him strongest in the world and took a deep breath to calm down picking up the torch he looked back and again scared shitless with addition of his heart in his mouth there was a dead body hanging by a roap just a cm away from his face he pissed in his pants and breakout in cry for mother and father his face looked disgusting with snot and tears he fell on the flore which had blood stains of dried blood and the disgusting smell of dead registered in mind he used torch to look around and found many dead bodies piled up in the room some are fresh some old some even bones he cries more and more as he looked around the pile of dead bodies.