And A Beginning

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"...Haa!"

Azmodeus awakened in a cold sweat as he looked around him and found that he somehow made his way back into the shed that he stayed in while living in the Yang Sect.

"What happened?? I'm not dead??" He asked with a bewildered expression.

One second, he was on the ground with a gaping hole in his chest, and the next, he found himself on his thatch bed with the same rundown shed shielding him away from the world.

"Did I not die??"

He tried to figure out what happened during that period of time while brooding over the last sequence of events that occurred for him.

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A few seconds passed by as he eventually gave up on mulling over it and surmised that it was likely just a nightmare.

After reaching that conclusion, he got up from his creaky bed.

Upon getting up, he noticed that he felt a little bit shorter than usual.

However, after a moment, he passed it off as nothing much and heads over to an austere dresser that held his only set of clothes.

He proceeded to put on the same pair of ragged brown and gray sect robes he wore every day as a Trial Disciple of the Yang Sect.

Let alone multiple pairs, he wasn't even allotted the robes with a single bamboo stick on them that the Entry Disciples wore…

On that note, there were no bamboo sticks on his robes, which made him the only bambooless Trial Disciple in the entire sect.

Nonetheless, he grumbled over this fact for a second before he walked outside of his thatch hut and headed in the direction of a chicken coop, which was where he began his day by collecting eggs from the coop.

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Azmodeus went to collect the eggs with a loose bamboo-laced basket; however, when he touched an egg, something completely unexplainable happened...

[Ding!]

[Host has achieved the only prerequisite to activating the Infinite Evolution System]

[The Activation Process will commence when the countdown from five ends… 5… 4…]

"!!!"

He started to freak out after hearing a robotic female voice ring out in his head, as some weird translucent screens bombarded his vision.

He immediately ran away from the chicken coop in confusion, attempting to find someone to help him; however, he didn't even make it a few steps before the robotic female voice sounded out once again.

[3… 2… 1… 0…]

[Activation process for the Infinite Evolution System will start now.]

[Host will be knocked out cold until the Activation Process and subsequent Assimilation Process are completed.]

[Approximate wake-up date: 30 Minutes]

[Until then, host…]

"Wha-!?" Azmodeus wasn't even able to finish his exclamation as he fell face first to the ground, disbelief etched across his face.

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Thirty minutes passed by, and Azmodeus abruptly woke up with the same cold sweat that he had not too long ago.

"!!!"

"What the hell is going on as of late!? And where is that mysterious voice!?" He asked himself while scanning the lush green surroundings, attempting to locate the existence of any women nearby.

However, after a few seconds of scrutinizing his immediate vicinity, he saw nothing besides a few startled animals.

And just as he was about to sum it up to him going crazy and this all being some kind of insane dream, he noticed that his cultivation base had somehow reverted back to the first stage of the Body Refinement Realm, 'The Strength Training Stage'.

And not only that, but he had failed to notice that this entire time, his body was far younger than it was before, as his hands and his appearance in a puddle reflection were exactly as they were when he turned twelve years old and had just awakened his Rank 1 Trash Spiritual Root, Crystallized Embryo.

Nevertheless, despite the weird oddities centered around his body and cultivation realm, the robotic female voice once again rang out in his head.

[Ding!]

[You have acquired +0.001 Evolution Essence after touching a Mortal Chicken egg and cloning an atom of its existence before integrating it into your own.]

[You have obtained enough Evolution Essence to progress in your cultivation!]

[Ding!]

[Your cultivation has advanced from the 'Strength Training Stage of the Body Refinement Realm' to the 'Flesh Training Stage of the Body Refinement Realm']

[Ding!]

[As a bonus for your first use of the system, you have gained 0.1 points in the Strength, Defense, Speed, and Qi stats for assimilating a part of the existence of a chicken egg.]

[Ding!]

[Your overall combat strength has increased from the 'Lowest Levels of the Strength Training Body Refinement Realm' to the 'Early Stages of the Flesh Refining Realm']

[Ding!]

[Your cultivation realm has increased by the same amount due to the Body Refinement Realms first few minor realms being based on the strength of your body, which is to say that your combat strength and realm will be the same until you begin coming into contact with Qi and discrepancies start occurring.]

[Ding!]

[You have gained 0.1 stat points in the 'Cultivation Talent' category!]

[Your previous '0.01' stat in the 'Cultivation Talent' category has been increased to '0.1' through a roundup.]

[Ding!]

[You have absorbed the Evolution Essence of a chicken egg and have gained the ability to fart eggs out of your anus as a form of attack.]

[Ding!]

[You have gained the Low Common Rank Skill 'Egg Fart']

[P.S. This skill doesn't increase your overall combat strength by any amount.]

[Ding!]

[You have the option to assimilate the DNA of a chicken's egg.]

[If you choose to Assimilate the DNA, you have two options, and since the Infinite Evolution System has already taken the liberty to choose the 'Absorb the stats and exclude the Racial Qualities' option to fully acclimate the system to your existence, the 'Assimilate the Racial Qualities and exclude the Stats' option will be deemed null and void.]

[Ding!]

[Do note that this will be the only time that the host can acquire Evolution Essence from an existence that has not been killed.]

[To further gain more Evolution Essence, the host will need to kill and kill until no being in existence is able to stand in your way on the path to Infinite Evolution.]

[Good Luck, Host.]

The cold robotic female voice unleashed a number of comments and transparent blue screens, as Azmodeus was left in utter shock over the recent series of events.

"Seriously! What the hell is going on here-!?" However, before he could finish his sentence, a wave of power washed over him, as he could feel not only his power increasing but also his cultivation talent!

"I'm back at the Flesh Training Realm in strength!? And what's with my talent improving!?" He questioned while clenching and unclenching his fists.

His strength had more than doubled from 50 kg of physical strength, which indicated that he was in the Flesh Refining Realm with 100 kg of physical strength!

Not only that, but his strength had been refined to its absolute peak, and he could also feel that his flesh was refined by quite a sizable amount in the Flesh Refining Realm!

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