Cultivating with a Broken System (and No Talent)

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📘 Cultivating with a Broken System (and No Talent)

Chapter 3 – The Demon With My Voice

Three days had passed since the battle.

My house was still there… but I was not the same person anymore.

No one remembered the girl in blue I saved.

No one knew I had killed a dark cultivator.

Only the system remembered.

And… that voice inside me.

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I had finished reading the forbidden scroll.

It detailed the dark art of the Demon Sect:

Absorbing blood.

Extracting souls from corpses.

Accelerating one's cultivation by feeding on hatred and resentment.

And I… still hesitated.

> "If I study this, I'll grow stronger.

But I'll have to kill people…"

I stood at the edge of a cliff — the one between survival and humanity.

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> "You want power."

A voice echoed inside my head. It wasn't the system. I froze.

> "You want to be respected. To be feared. You want everything, don't you?"

> "Who's there?" I whispered. No answer. No one around me.

> "I am you. The part you've always buried. The voice that screamed every time they spat on you."

> "No… You're lying…"

> "You know I'm right. Just kill. There are evil people everywhere. They deserve death. And you… deserve power."

I clenched my fists. Blood surged through my veins like fire.

Power… it was right there. All I had to do was reach out.

> "But… it's still a life…"

> "They don't deserve to live. No one will cry for them. Kill. Become who you were meant to be."

> "…They'll finally respect me?"

"…No one will step on me again?"

"…I won't die weak like last time?"

> "Who are you?!"

> "I… am YOU."

The voice vanished. As if it had never been there.

I stood alone, heart pounding, hands shaking.

I wasn't sure… Should I do it?

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…Years later.

I sat in a field of corpses.

The stench of blood clung to my skin.

In my hand was a soul scroll taken from the murderer I had just incinerated.

I had grown… used to killing.

Not because I liked it. But because if I didn't… I would die.

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> "You've succeeded."

"I've been waiting for this moment."

> "Who are you?!"

> "I… am YOU."

That voice again. But this time, I didn't flinch.

I smirked.

> "So it's true. I've always been the demon.

But at least this demon only kills those who deserve it."

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📜 System Log:

> [Hidden Title Unlocked: "The One Who Kills for Justice"]

+1 Skill Point

Blood Absorption Spell Lv.1 unlocked

+10% efficiency boost when killing those with heavy guilt

[Moral Boundary Established: Innocents cannot be targeted]

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