A Cunning Pervert in the Cultivation World Chapter 554: The Future??? is here.
Previously on A Cunning Pervert in the Cultivation World...
Back in the burning ruins.
Li Feng kept his eyes fixed intently on the spinning numbers of the system window.
His breathing was slightly uneven, and a thin trail of blood still lingered at the corner of his lips.
Despite the catastrophic pressure still pressing down from the False Crown in the distance, all of his attention was locked on the result of this single gamble.
The second number continued to spin at high speed.
Then—
It suddenly stopped.
0
Li Feng’s pupils contracted.
The leading digits now read 01.
But it was not over yet.
The next number spun for only a brief moment before locking into place.
0
Then another.
0
And another.
0
One after another, the digits continued stopping on zero with merciless consistency.
The window in front of him filled with an ever-growing string of zeros.
And ech new number made the air around him feel heavier.
Li Feng’s heart clenched tightly.
His fingers dug into his own fist as he stared at the relentless sequence unfolding before his eyes, unable to look away.
Just as a trace of despair was about to surface in his heart—
...Something unseen began to move around him.
A faint swirl of golden fortune, soft and almost imperceptible, slowly gathered in the air surrounding Li Feng’s body.
It coiled gently like a thin thread of light, brushing past his shoulders and circulating around him in quiet, protective arcs.
To the naked eye, there was nothing there at all.
But Shadow noticed.
Still kneeling in front of him, the tall silent figure suddenly tilted its cracked mask slightly to the side.
Its hidden gaze seemed to follow the invisible golden current swirling around its master.
"~?"
There was a brief pause in its posture, as if it had recognized a familiar presence.
Li Feng, however, remained completely unaware.
His eyes stayed locked on the system window, where the numbers continued their cold and merciless rotation.
More zeros appeared.
One after another.
By the time the sequence stretched into an absurd length, Li Feng already understood with instinctive certainty... this was the final number.
His expression had grown completely dark.
The longer the chain of zeros became, the heavier the weight in his chest settled.
A result like this could only mean something extreme... or something completely useless.
The last digit spun rapidly.
And it was about to land on another 0.
Li Feng’s jaw tightened as he bit down on his lip hard enough to draw blood.
Then—
The number twitched.
...Just slightly.
As if something invisible had interfered at the very last moment.
In the next instant, it locked into place.
1
The final result now stood clearly before his eyes.
1,000,001 years
Li Feng stared at the number in complete, dumbfounded silence.
He wasn’t even sure he would still be alive after such a ridiculous span of time.
"...What—"
Before he could even finish the stunned murmur—
The world froze.
Everything came to an abrupt halt.
The raging flames across the ruined capital stopped mid-flicker.
The rivers of crimson fire being drawn into the False Crown hung suspended in the air like frozen streaks of blood.
Even the colossal beast itself was locked in place, its massive form unmoving against the smoke-filled sky.
Dust, debris, and the very pressure in the atmosphere all fell into absolute stillness.
Yet within that frozen world—
The system continued to flash violently in front of Li Feng’s eyes.
[Error!]
[Error!]
[Error!]
The warnings pulsed rapidly, one after another, as if the system itself was struggling under the weight of the result that had just been generated.
Even so, the process did not stop.
Line after line of analysis text began scrolling across the frozen system interface, far faster than usual.
[Analyzing summoning parameters...]
[Target timeline: 1,000,001 years in the future]
[Attempting to establish connection...]
[Warning: Temporal distance exceeds standard operational limits]
[Warning: Host’s current authority insufficient for stable retrieval]
[Recalculating...]
[Attempting forced execution...]
The floating window in front of Li Feng trembled slightly, the light around it distorting as if space itself was being strained by the attempt.
[Connection established.]
A brief pause followed.
Then new lines of text rapidly appeared.
[Analyzing target existence...]
[Warning: Future Host’s existence level far exceeds current world tolerance]
[Current world structure cannot sustain the Future Host]
[Direct summoning: Failed]
[Searching for alternative execution methods...]
The system interface continued flickering under the strain, error messages still flashing at the edges as countless calculations ran in the background of the frozen world.
[Recalculating...]
[Evaluating partial manifestation...]
[Evaluating residual projection...]
[Evaluating forced descent...]
One by one, the options were rejected.
Then, after a longer pause, a single line of text appeared... cold, clear, and absolute.
[One plausible solution found.]
[Method: Possession.]
With that, the world resumed its movement.
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At the same time,
Shadow remained kneeling in front of Li Feng.
Its cracked mask was tilted slightly upward, silently watching its master’s face.
From the moment Li Feng took out that strange card, his expression had grown darker and heavier with every passing second.
The tension, the blood at the corner of his lips, the barely restrained despair... Shadow had seen it all.
A quiet sense of worry stirred within it.
If it were up to Shadow, it would never have allowed its master to remain here and fight that strange, overwhelming monster.
Escaping with him would have been the far safer choice.
Protecting Li Feng’s life came before anything else.
Just as those thoughts drifted through its mind—
"...?"
Shadow suddenly paused.
The darkened expression on Li Feng’s face... was gone.
In its place was a strange, unnerving calmness.
And those eyes...
They were still Li Feng’s eyes in appearance, yet something within them had clearly changed.
They were so dark... and empty, as if there was no longer any light or hope left inside them.
Before Shadow could even attempt to inquire about its master’s wellbeing—
"Ah... I see. How nostalgic."
Li Feng?? softly murmured as he slowly looked up.
Then a faint sigh escaped his lips... calm, distant, and carrying a trace of something difficult to name.
Then he murmured softly,
"It’s been so long..."
"...since I... felt fresh air."