The Three Realms' Top Restaurant - chapter 18
The truth starts with the Heaven’s Chosen the Cen Clan gets once every hundred years.
That Heavenly Eye really is a gift from the Heavenly Dao-but it isn’t because the Cen Clan is lucky.
Quite the opposite. The Cen Clan is unlucky, because the Cen Clan was chosen by “It.”
In this world, spiritual energy has swollen and spread. Within the Three Realms, everyone cultivates, and from the moment they’re born, they’re already consuming the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
That spiritual energy nourishes all living beings of the Three Realms, and it also nourishes the Heavenly Dao of this world.
Gradually, the Heavenly Dao “awakened,” changing from a single “eye” that coldly observed the world according to order, into a “person” with private desires.
It believed the entire world belonged to It. If It could obtain a body, then by drawing out all the spiritual power of this small world, It could break free of the restraints of order, flee to a higher world, and become a true god.
For that purpose, It began to probe cautiously.
The Cen Clan became the test subject It selected. Those eyes were a wisp of the Heavenly Dao’s consciousness-using the Heaven’s Chosen as a vessel, the Heavenly Dao peered into the Three Realms and quietly planted its pieces throughout.
By the century in which Cen Wujiu was born, the Heavenly Dao had amassed enough strength-and the Child of Fortune of this world was born as well.
The very nature of a small world’s existence is, in fact, to serve the Child of Fortune.
Once Yun Hua and Nan Puyue ascend, this world’s spiritual energy will gradually wither and dry up, and the Heavenly Dao will have no further chance to descend.
So the Heavenly Dao chose Cen Wujiu as the piece to suppress the Child of Fortune.
Villain and protagonist are born opposed. If Yun Hua and the others don’t die, then the one who dies will be Cen Wujiu-this is a fact written into the Fate Tracks.
So whether he wants to or not, Cen Wujiu must do everything he can to kill Yun Hua and the others.
And when the Child of Fortune dies, the Heavenly Dao can be born into the world amid its destruction, draining this realm completely.
In the original story, because Cen Wujiu had the Heavenly Dao’s malicious intent hidden behind him, Yun Hua and the others were pushed back step by step. In the end, they could only rely on Nan Puyue sacrificing himself to temporarily seize a trace of power that surpassed this world.
Unfortunately, even though they won, once the Child of Fortune died, the Heavenly Dao still obtained the chance to descend-leading to the world’s destruction.
That was the bug the System mentioned.
This world’s Heavenly Dao developed self-awareness-this was the real reason the world was destroyed.
Song Changshan said that because he glimpsed the ending at the terminal point of the Fate Tracks, he originally intended to smother the World-Destroying War in its cradle.
As long as the Annihilation Demon Lord didn’t exist, the necessary condition for the Immortal-Demon War would be missing.
But he hadn’t expected that once “Cen Wujiu” stopped being the villain, the Heavenly Dao would simply fill the gap with new pieces.
The ten Annihilation Demon Lords who were killed were all like that.
“Kill one and two more pop up. Unless I kill everyone under heaven, the Heavenly Dao will always be able to find new pieces.”
As the truth was laid bare, the Heavenly Dao seemed to sense something.
The Blood Moon’s growth silently sped up.
“So the thing inside the Blood Moon is…”
[It’s the body the Heavenly Dao is shaping for itself.]
The System-offline for an entire lifetime-suddenly came back from the dead.
Its electronic voice was still urgent; in that urgency, though, there was a sliver of relief.
[Host Xie E, please destroy the Blood Moon before the Heavenly Dao is born. After the Blood Moon is destroyed, the world-ending crisis will be lifted, and you may claim your reward and return to reality.]
“You came back just to say that? Do I look like someone who can destroy that thing?”
[You can. According to higher-plane simulations, you are the person with the highest success rate for completing this task.]
Then your higher plane is pretty unreliable.
I’d already been knocked dizzy by one bombshell after another. Like a Psyduck, I slowly squatted down, clutching my head.
“I’m just an ordinary cook. The bravest thing I’ve ever done was knock a pervert’s phone out of his hand on a bus when he was secretly taking pictures of a little girl.
“I’ve never even poisoned a mouse to death…”
No, seriously-am I supposed to fight Sukuna?
[You can. Only you are an Outsider beyond the Heavenly Dao’s control.]
My legs were still so weak I couldn’t stand.
[If you don’t become brave, this world will be destroyed. Everyone will die-including the three people behind you.]
I let go of my head.
[Host Xie E, haven’t you always wanted a family? Now you have a family. Can’t you be brave for your family?]
Did the System go offline and cram for some anime-style talk-no-jutsu or something?
[Even that loser Denji could defeat Makima-why can’t you? Look back. You have your own Pochita too.]
Enough! You really did go cram anime while you were gone!
Devi Shapfitri
Lol. The system is a studious one. It “crammed” for a “lifetime” to learn how to coax an otaku–specifically the otaku MC with her familiar “language”–to do its bid. If the “system” actually had an “operator” behind it, I almost wanted to matchmake the MC with him. 😂😂😂😂