"Hello Ken, I'm God. I've watched over you throughout your life, even if you couldn't feel it. You had a tough life, child. For your endurance, I've decided to gift you with a wish for your next life. What would you choose?"
The mories of Leo's instructions on what to do when he was offered a wish instantly surfaced in Ken's mind, and he knew what to do.
"I wish to have an unlimited number of wishes granted."
"Haha, dear child, It doesn't work like that. You can only wish for one thing."
"That was my one wish."
"Eh look, it's against the rules. But you do have a point - after such a hard life, it'd be unfair to fix only one of your problems. How about that; I will give you all the basics in addition to your main wish."
"What are the basics?"
"Your intelligence will rise, and you will have a handso face and a nice voice. How's that?"
"Sounds good, but what about my health? I also want a strong body and a strong brain that can endure my mory."
"Hmm that's not possible in your world… ok, I have an idea. I will send you to a world of cultivation, like the ones described in novels. Additionally, I will grant you a healthy body to buy you more ti. As long as you can advance in the cultivation world before you turn 25, you can have a strong body and brain to support your mory."
"Hmm… will it be easy to advance? What if I can't advance? I'm not that smart."
He made a sad face at God, making God feel guilty for their ss up when distributing his stats.
"Uh, I will give you a great talent in cultivation. This way it won't be a problem. And you can use your wish to get better opportunities to advance and get stronger more easily. How does that sound?"
Ken thought for a mont and found it reasonable. Leo never described this situation, so he was unsure what to do. But since most of the wishes Leo told him to ask for were included, he thought it was probably ok. There was only one more thing Leo ntioned he should ask for.
"What about my environnt? It'd be bad if I died as a baby due to external threats before even having the chance to grow up."
"Fine, I will make you the son of an elder in a sect. This way you will be relatively safe and have access to so resources. Don't push it anymore, those are my limits. The next thing you ask for will be your wish, even if you an it to be just another minor addition."
God started feeling like he was taking a loss here and decided to use his authority as the god between the two and put an end to it. He swore to himself to never do the sa mistake again; kids these days knew their rights too well.
Ken was ready for that mont and recited the wish Leo told him word for word.
"I wish to have the highest intelligence possible, an intelligence that would allow to perceive and thoroughly understand to the fullest everything I see, even if I see it only superficially and only once, including strong points, weak points, and how to overco them."
God's taphorical skin paled when he heard it. That was too much!
"Wait, wait. Didn't you read novels? Didn't you watch donghua? You should ask for a system to help you advance faster and quantify everything to simple amounts! You should ask for a grandpa who can escort you, defend you, and teach you!"
God quickly tried to change his mind. But Leo already warned him that the genie might find his wish hard to grant and try to make him wish for sothing else. In that case, according to Leo, it ant his wish was truly amazing and he should just stick with it to the end.
"I want what I said."
"Okay, I will increase your intelligence to be a few tis above normal. That should do the trick, right?"
God tried to make him agree to sothing that sounded similar, but Ken didn't change his wording. Genies and lawyers were dangerous with their words; he still rembered the story about the man who asked the genie to make his private mber reach the floor.
"I wish to have the highest intelligence possible, an intelligence that would allow to perceive and thoroughly understand to the fullest everything I see, even if I see it only superficially and only once, including strong points, weak points, and how to overco them."
God sighed and had to oblige with Ken's request. In their exasperation, they decided on three last acts of revenge.
First, instead of sending him to the top sect of the entire cultivation world as he previously planned, God sent Ken to a third-rate sect of the mortal plane.
The second decision was to send him as a fetus, to make him go through a few months of boredom before he can be born, and then go through another decade of being treated as a kid while being 19 years old.
Last but not least, probably the worst one yet, was not cleaning his mory from all the traumas and abuse he went through in his last life. God let him rember how his family said they'd be better off without him. The monts in which other kids have bullied him and beaten him. The monts of his failures. Anything hurtful stayed with him, and there was plenty.
"Hmph, that's your punishnt for extorting more than you should. Living your life or dying will be up to you, I've repaid my debt. Since you've kept your mories, you have only six years to start your cultivation journey and advance to the next rank before your brain collapses. Good luck."
Ken's soul was sent to the womb of a newly impregnated woman and started developing a new body slowly. God's promises made huge changes in his genes, making them far better than they should've been.
His brain was enhanced over and over again to grant him the perfect mory and perfect intelligence. His body kept on getting stronger and healthier as promised, his looks improved, and his vocal cords were developing.
However, it wasn't all roses. He spent 9 months in the darkness, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. From ti to ti, he'd feel his mother's body rock up and down or back and forth, but luckily, he was cocooned in a defensive mbrane that protected him from any intrusive liquids and unwelcod guests.
He had nothing to do during those months except for reliving the past. This ti his intelligence was much higher, so as he relived his past, it was the sa as going through 19 years of life with the sa experiences as the forr him.
He was starting to get angrier and angrier as he questioned the reasons the other kids and his family mbers treated him this way. Was it his fault for being born that way? Couldn't they just deal with their own business if they didn't want to interact with him?
This went on for 9 months until he finally saw a light above his head. Or under. He wasn't sure what to call it since his head was facing downward. To his anxiety, won in this world gave birth standing, and he could imagine himself falling face down and going back to the god he t earlier.
He could hear the voices of a man he assud to be his father, the screams of his mother, and the voice of two other won. He couldn't help but feel a slight fear they might not catch him in ti when he is out.
To his horror, he suddenly saw the floor coming closer at a scary speed and stopping only when he felt dangerously close to it.
'Oh no, she just changed to a squatting position.'
He sighed in relief. The birth process was over a few hours later and he was finally out. He rembered reading in his past life that it should be much more, but he figured it's probably a benefit of being a cultivator mom. Who knew how strong she could push?
As soon as he saw the light, he suddenly felt the urge to cry. It didn't have anything to do with being a baby, or at least that's what he believed.
It was because he was enveloped in darkness for 9 months, suffering from his previous life endlessly. The nightmare was finally over; now that he was out, he could just focus on external stimuli and distract himself from the past.
He started crying loudly, albeit with no tears due to the undeveloped glands. To everyone's happiness, the baby seed healthy and beautiful.
"Congratulations, Elder i, you have given birth to a healthy son!"
The two midwives and the man said together.
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