Villain : I reincarnated as a Prince! Shouldn't I have a Harem?

The day after the meeting in the Shang Clan,

Before departing for the Xue Mo Tribe,

In the morning, Ashen had woken up fresh and felt great since his system was finished upgrading:

[Ding! Host, Congratulations! System has now upgraded to level 2!]

Ashen was already ready with a plan of action as he called out the status window:

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------STATUS WINDOW------

Name: Fang Ashen

Age: 20 years old.

Villain Points: 39,189,374

Cultivation: Peak(Ninth) Stage of the Core Formation Realm.

Attainment: Sword <Novice>, Space <Novice>, Time <Novice>, Chaos <Novice>

Cultivation Technique: Four Dancing Gods <Novice>

Skills: Martial Fist <lvl 1>, Crescent Moon Swirl <lvl 1>, Void Piercer Thrust <lvl 1>, WindWalk <lvl 1>, Stone Sentinel Barrier <lvl 1>, Shadowmeld <lvl 1>, Phoenix Flame Fist <lvl 1>, Blazing Wings Technique <lvl 1>, Phoenix Rebirth Stance <lvl 1>, Yin Finger Blossom Beam <lvl 1>.

Bloodline: Dormant

Physique: Dormant

1st Spirit: Four-headed Eerie Destruction Draken (4-star) [9-headed devouring Dragon] (dormant)

2nd Spirit: Ruyi Jingu Bang (8-star)

Weaknesses: None

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"System, how much will it cost to increase my attainments to master level?"

Ashen asked with a serious expression. He knew that it wouldn't be possible to advance to the King realm unless he had the mastery level attainment in his path.

But the problem was that he cultivated four paths and that meant four times the villain points expenditure to advance to the king realm.

The system didn't take long as it answered instantly:

[Ding! Host, It takes the following amount of Villain Points to increase your attainment to mastery level-

~ Sword Path - 1 million Villain Points

~ Space - 5 million Villain Points

~ Time - 5 million Villain Points

~ Chaos Path - 7 million Villain Points

]

"What??"

Ashen was shocked to hear the amount of Villain points it cost, The reason was the fact that it got more difficult to raise your attainment as you advanced in the levels.

This meant that increasing your level from novice to master was comparatively easier than raising it from master to Grandmaster.

The ones who had reached the Grandmaster level attainment in their path said this about the comparison of difficulty between the two -

"Raising your mastery from Novice to Master is like lifting a huge boulder while increasing your mastery from Master to Grandmaster is like lifting two Mountains on your two shoulders at the same time while balancing them. It's more than twenty times harder!"

Wait a minute!

If the price for raising my attainment from Novice to Master is this high, then what would the cost of increasing it to Grandmaster be?

Well, at least I can just pay Villain points and increase my attainment, otherwise, normal cultivators have to waste multiple years to raise their attainment!

This is the main reason why King realm experts are normally more than 200 years old, though it is worth it since they have a long lifespan!

Even Feng Xue is more than 120 years old but she is considered a prodigy to advance to the King Realm at such a young age!

Well, it was mainly easier for her with her father's help to reach the King realm, otherwise, rouge or demonic cultivators have to rely on enlightenment and epiphany to increase their attainment.

Sigh... this just shows that no matter how many Villain Points I have, It won't be enough!

There's no time to relax, I should prepare to earn more Villain points!

I'll need to find a Protagonist with a ridiculous amount of luck points to earn more Villain Points off of him.

First, let's just increase my attainment, It wouldn't be helpful to be cultivating four paths when you don't know how to use them.

"System, increase my attainment in all four paths!"

[Ding! Consuming 18 million Villain Points]

~

[Raising attainment of Sword Path]

Ashen sat in the lotus position as his mind was stormed with information that was being absorbed quickly.

He began to see silver-colored figures in his mind that were using a sword, performing basic sword movements like - chop, pierce, scrape, sweep, break, tap, cleave, support, intercept, twist, lift, draw, and sheath.

They were offensive and defensive movements cultivators learn in sword training, however, this wasn't the end.

More information about the sword path began to be ingrained in his brain and body.

He felt like he had been practicing the sword from birth.

The sword's sharpness, its swings, everything began to get ingrained in his consciousness.

After a while, the information stopped invading his mind.

~

[Raising attainment of Space Path]

Soon after this notification, more information began to invade his mind, however, this time this information belonged to the space path.

In his mind, multiple shapes of different dimensions began to manifest.

From a point, it transitioned into a line before it became a triangle, and so on.

Multiple shapes floated in his mind before they were swept by a storm.

At this moment, information about the void began to fill his mind.

Void was a dimensionless space that existed everywhere, however, in a different dimension.

You needed to understand space to enter it or even perceive it, It was a dangerous place with Void Beasts who lived in the void.

Then, information about how to travel through the void began entering his mind.

From perceiving void cracks in space to entering it and traveling a short distance.

However, this information only allowed him to travel up to 10m in an instant, however, he couldn't travel any longer distance than that with the master level mastery.

~

[Raising attainment of Time Path]

Next, Information about Time and its flow began to invade his mind.

Ashen's body remained still, but his mind spiraled into the realm of time itself. Knowledge began flooding into his consciousness, not as linear information but as fragmented moments—past, present, and future blending seamlessly.

In his mind's eye, time unraveled. He saw the flow of rivers reversing, trees regressing to seedlings, and stars exploding only to reform. The perception of time itself warped, becoming a fluid, ever-shifting construct.

He witnessed the timeline of his own life, each moment suspended before him like threads.

These threads were called the threads of time.

Only one thread flowed in this timeline, however, he was able to take a peek into the Time dimension where millions of these threads flowed.

Controlling these threads meant controlling time, however, it was not easy to control them.

They moved at a constant pace and were thick like a tree branch.

Threads of time were transparent and a white liquid constantly flowed in them.

They were similar to a huge pipe which let the water flow in them.

This white liquid was time itself.

Slowing the pace of the liquid will slow time also, similarly accelerating it will also increase the flow of time.

However, It was not easy since to slow it down even a little bit, a huge amount of time qi would be needed.

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(A/N - Thanks for reading. ^..^)