"Mane, I miss the old version system now…like it's still there, but this background shit is getting annoying.!
Adrian said as he waved his little hands in a fit of childish rage as he sat upon a tree with his legs flinging to and fro.
"Master Shin," A grape-tinted-haired lady called out from beneath the tree with a welcoming impression as she called out to Adrian.
"Shin, what's that bastard doing here? He is meant to be on an adventure with that time-stalker- lady…! Oh, fuck, you mean me!!! Well—Do you need anything?"
Adrian asked, looking down at the creature of the female species.
"I wanted to ask if 'you' needed anything!"
"Oh!"
"Yeah, so– do you need anything, Young Master-"
"Fuck off!"
"I-"
"Can't you see I am having a moment, Jesus Christ, no sense of decency, I will ask for something when I need something… I don't need your half-assed attempts at my money." Adrian ranted as he threw a book at the pinkyan with his two hands gripping it.
[paff!]
The book landed on the soil as the Mistress of Purple dodged out of the way matrix style.
"•_•
"I am used to your tricks, Shin-"
"Oh, for god's sake, call me Adrian Hao, at least that way. I would understand. I refuse to take a generic protagonist name. It is beyond me!!"
Adrian said while standing on the branch and exiting his sitting position as he strolled to a purple fruit on the tree with balanced efforts.
"Beyond?"
"Yes, their eyes are so high up even I can't see them!"
…
"I hate you- I mean, you are so wise, Young Master Shin-Adrian. Your omnipotence has no bounds!"
The lassie said with a scowl that changed to a warm-hearted complex-
"Don't pretend, even I know you are a snake!"
Adrian said as he plucked the fruit from the tree with a tug and stared at it for a few moments, analyzing its frame before throwing it to his acquaintance and saying, "Eat that, please!"
"•__•"
"Is there a problem? I thought you wanted to make yourself useful? Be useful!!"
"No, sir-Wait! Isn't this the main component of the nine heavens toxin pill! Why is it even here?" she said with a baffled completion and more confusion on why Shin wanted her to consume such a thing.
"Oh, you know that? Well, would you look at that! You aren't just a dumb broad with more looks than brains!"
Adrian said while picking more fruits with a pleased look as he silently hummed a song.
[Bang!]
A pink-luminous bolt blasted a branch near his cranium and dissolved it upon collision, causing him to shake with a halt as his eyes widened.
"-_-, what was that?"
"Oh, sorry, Adrian! There was a fly by your head, but I got it though—and maybe there won't be such 'flies' in the future!" The periwinkle woman said with her hands outstretched and a pink smoke radiating menacingly in a smooth shifting from her palms.
"Ahh, I see! It must have been a very big fly…! A big-big one." Adrian said with an awkward laugh that resembled a cry from a failing businessman as a drop of glittering sweat flowed down his chubby face.
"Yes, no need to thank me, Adrian Hao."
"…ok, Gu Qin!"
"Ha ha, wait…! How do you know my real name?" Gu-qin said in shock and caution as an amethyst ball of energy materialized on her palms with an eye-catching speed, with her eyes malevolently gleaming with rose-tinted light whilst staring at Adrian with a questioning gaze.
"I simply found it! It's that simple. Your name is not that special."
Adrian said with a lazy utterance as his eyelids got heavier and his movements as sloppy as a sloth. He yawned with a babyish smile as he climbed down the tree.
"I do not believe you!"
"Who?"
"I do not belie-"
"Cares?"
Adrian said as he got down the tree and walked away, not paying attention to the raging hulk like Gu Qin and also screaming, "If you dare strike at me! The Peng Clan won't let you go!!!"
Gu Qin reacted accordingly. It was like a basin of cold water dropped down her face as all the mystical lavender-colored effects on her vanished like a blockbuster movie that ran out of funds.
Adrian laughed at the reaction as he walked to the top of a waterfall and glimpsed down. In front of him was the rest of the team, swimming by in the water with water dryad playing with them as they had a water battle.
"The fun is down there and not with you… Mrs. I break up with men and make them go broke– Suck on my nonexistent testicle!" said Adrian while jumping down into the raging river.
"Markooooooo!!!"
[Bang!]
…
"Of course, no one says polo! I hate all of you…" Adrian said as he swam up with his hands clamped together. He placed his back on the water and glided rotationally.
"Rawr!"
BB swam towards him and splashed him with the sparkling water, causing him to spiral his hands frantically and spray a lot of water.
"Pu gu pftt re!" Adrian mumbled as he tried to get his swimming posture back on track.
"It's on!" Adrian said with a smirk as he did a few hand signs.
Suddenly, Adrian got dragged into his mindscape, adorned with a red colored tai-chi symbol on the ground and a massive blue screen with a large screen titled.
〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰
Talent model Omni: 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥
Effect: All the passive talents get merged into comprehension skills.
Side effects: loss of passive skill for an unknown amount of time.
〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰
"I will so regret this, but I do not care. Hopefully, there's no danger in the future that BB can't handle." Adrian thought as the scenery around him transformed into water.
Adrian now swam at the deepest reaches of his mental sea with no end in sight as an infinite buoyant forced him to the rocky surface.
"Peaceful, healing, and serene, on one end, is the sea… and surging, destructive and violent on the other, is also the sea, contradictory yet comprehensive— flexible and rigid all the same"
Adrian sat in a lotus position with a bright cyan-shaded writing embellished on his forehead
"The darkest existence yet the brightest presense , safe to transverse yet the dwelling of out of this world beasts. Many to one, all to many! Unstoppable yet conquerable...!"
Adrian paused for a couple of seconds with the radiant symbol on his head dimming till it turned dark in this deep sea.
Abruptly, it glowed back once more with a flash, immensely stronger than the previous one, and completely brightened the raven-black underwater geography to a region of stellar proportions.
" {ふ̵̰̫̦̠̾̈́͘⃝̵̭̮̮̭̮̓̐̏͝ ̷̠̜̦̟͗̿̈́͆͐́ホ̵̨̧̺͖̙̼̲̥̪͋͂̿ͅ⃝̸̳̓̄̊̏͝ ̴̖̦̻͔̜̰̜̈́̊̓̌͐͗͒̽̀̚ぷ̵̧̨͓̠̦̰̭͓̿͋̐́̆̂̍̍̕͠ͅ⃝̴̺̭̗̔̃͑̄̑̊̕ Dao Of Water}!"
A trio of massive blue shining kanjis appeared in the sea with ferocious disposition, ominously revolving around Adrian as he gradually opened his eyes to the real world.
His hands moved through different seals out of his mind as he clumsily uttered a few words.
"Tiger, Hare, Serpent, Horse, Ram…Rat!"
Adrian's finger art stopped after speaking Rat as he said, "Water-Magic: Water dragon jut- martial arts!"
Numerous azure-coloured animated dragons formed at his back twirling around each other like an undead hydra as bloodthirsty intent illuminated its gold orbs that emitted destructive lighting.
BB swam away quickly, and the other two blue/red side-character cultivators put qi into their legs and ran out with unrestrained fear on their mug. Even the water spirits evaporated into the air on command as they darted out their home like a resident escaping from rent.
"Art is a blast!! Katsuuuu!"
[Boom!]
A monumental wave of sky excompassing water rose to the top of the waterfall, drenching the woodland nearby and topping down the mighty trees whilst heavily withering the steel like rocks to dust.
Gu Qin, who previously had a tint of anger, lost it all as she fearfully gazed at this scene only a foundation-level expert should be able to perform.
"Huh—hee…ra– How is this…even fai-possible?" Gu Qin stuttered as she traversed the sky as a result of the force from the torrent of sparkling blue liquid.
[Crackle!]
As if the heavens didn't think the situation was enough. A thundercloud started to form above Adrian, who floated on the river with his abs facing the sky as he awkwardly said,
"Heaven Chan, can you postpone my tribulations didn't mean to"
[Crakle!!!]
"Oh wow! Is that how it's gonna be?!]
[Crackle!!!]
"In that case… WE'VE CALLED IN A LIGHTING--!!!"
[BOOM!!]