SSS Ranked Awakening: I Can Rewind Time! - Chapter 23: The Path Of Doom

Long ago a great calamity struck the earth, destroying much of it and merging what remained with pieces of other worlds.

With these worlds came Aether, a new form of energy that can allow one to transcend the bounds of normal mortality and human limitations.

In a world where humans absorb the essence of aether beasts to gain power, Aiden Hawke joins the class of humans known as arcanists, people who defeat aether beasts and absorb their essence into cores they forge within themselves, and who infuse themselves with the aether that permeates the world around them to increase the power of their body and mind.

However, unlike most, Aiden will find that he holds a unique gift and that his journey as an arcanist will not be so simple.

In one moment, he was walking down the street with his little sister—In the next, he had traveled to the world of One Piece, carrying a system that could extract, record, and fuse genes to cultivate powerful lifeforms.Thus began a leisurely and carefree life in the most chaotic world imaginable.When bored, he’d snatch a bit of heavenly tribute meant for the Celestial Dragons.When curious, he’d raise a few cute kittens and bunnies just for fun.When restless, he’d wander through the territories of the most fearsome powers in the New World.Life is beautiful—so why bother taking anything seriously?

Travel through Hokage to become Terumi Mei’s cousin, and become the second in command of Kirigakure Village! Simulate life with a god-level simulator! Get rewarded for doing evil in the simulator!

【Ding! Life simulation on]

[You were born in a commoner family of Konoha, but you have extremely strong Chakra reserves at birth]

【Seven years old, you started school and helped transfer student Kushina Uzumaki】

[Half a year later, Uzumaki Kushina confessed to you, and you accepted it calmly, but in the end suffered the grudge of Namikaze Minato]

[Three wars broke out! You were sent to the battlefield, but you were repeatedly stumbled by Namikaze Minato, you found the right opportunity to kill him]

[The war ended in your hands, and soon you married Uzumaki Kushina and gave birth to eight children]

[A happy and happy life is over, this simulation is rewarded: fairy body]

After the simulation is over, you ask Yakura to announce to Konoha as Mizukage: “You are going to propose marriage to Konoha Kushina!”

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The world is a sea of bitterness.

The mortal swims in the sea.

The body is the vessel.

The soul is the mortal on the vessel.

The vessel carries the mortal as it sails endlessly towards the other side of the sea.

Does cultivating the body strengthen the vessel enough to reach the other side of this sea of misery?

Or does cultivating the soul give the mortal on the vessel the ability to master swimming?

Cultivating according to the martial path allows one to become an Earthly Immortal.

Cultivating according to the immortal path allows one to become a Divine Immortal.

Which path should be chosen?

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