Prologue

Under the sky and heaven, nothing was impossible for humans. They could conquer demons, gods, and lead the three realms – god’s realm, demon’s realm, and human’s realm.

In an unknown time and space, an old man with deep wrinkles all over his face laughed hysterically. His eyes shone brightly as a spectacular display of millions of colorful lights danced in front of him. Tears brimmed over and fell on his cheek. “After a hundred years of sweat and blood, I finally achieved what I lived for,” he murmured softly. “All living things are controlled by karma. Every one of them is tied by karma and will be its slave even after their death!”

Years ago, using millions of modern machines coupled with his unusually great intelligence, he succeeded in capturing his thread of karma and following it to the highest dimension – the dimension of karma, where the fates of gods, demons, humans, and all living things were controlled.

The old man suddenly fell to his knees and choked up some blood. His body, already so old, trembled, unable to follow his will. A tear rolled down his face. “Ye Xiu… I did it… I will find you soon…”

“My body, please be under my command a little longer. I will let you sleep as much as you want later. Just a little longer…”

Squashing all his might and enduring the pain of his old bones, he managed to raise himself to his feet. His eyes shone at the dancing light. He had spent his lifetime on these experiments for one purpose: to steal the Book of Karma that recorded everything under the heavens.

In his spacious laboratory, millions of machines processed in parallel. Uncontrollable light and energy ran amok, causing sparks to fly everywhere. In the core of the violent energy was an illusion of a book. The Illusionary book shook violently, trying to break through the shield energy wrapping tightly around it. The old man hurried after the book and grabbed it tightly, his hands trembling hard. At the same time, the sky changed rapidly outside the laboratory’s building. Within a radius of 50 kilometers from the laboratory, gigantic dark clouds emerged, followed by thousands of lightning bolts flashing brutally from cloud to cloud, all racing towards one direction – the sky immediately above the laboratory’s building. Then, thousands of lightning bolts combined into one of the largest bolts ever seen, transforming into a rainbow color before shooting at the Book of Karma with a deafening roar.

Heaven would never allow something like that to be born.

The old man knew it. He rushed to open the Book of Karma and shouted at the same time, “Take me to YE XIU!!!”

The gigantic lightning blasted the laboratory's roof away in a millisecond, destroying everything in its path to the old man and the book. In milliseconds, the opened Book of Karma dazzled with a bright light and sucked the old man into its pages like a space rift.

The old man felt himself flying into the wormhole of dimensions at bullet speed, hitting multilayers of very bright light. He flashed through billions of stars floating in a warm voided space. Suddenly, everything froze – the lights, the stars, the movement.

“Human! You broke the law! You are worthy of death a thousand times. Since I am benevolent, I will spare you this time. But… Ehmm…” The voice rang around the voided space awesomely.

“Human! You must conquer all three realms – the human’s realm, god’s realm, and demon’s realm – in 100 years! THEN, will I grant you your wish!” The voice echoed from all directions. “If you fail, your spirit will die, and you won’t ever get reincarnated. Even the soul of Ye Xiu will die with you forever…”

“Who are you!” The old man became angry. “If you dare touch Ye Xiu, I will kill you!!!”

“Hahahaha…. kill me…. hahaha very funny. I am Alpha and Omega!!! I am Your Creator, Your One and Only God! I am The True Source of Everything!”

The old man was perplexed by the response and doubtfully asked, “God?”

“Human! Do you know the Ten Commands?”

“No, what are they?”

“Listen to these commands and put them in your heart. First command, ‘I am your God! Listen to Me and never doubt Me!’” said the voice ringing awesomely in all directions in space.

The old man’s brows furrowed. That didn’t answer his doubt at all. “And the second command?”

“Second command; If you ever doubt God, please look at the First command!”

The old man felt something was amiss here and doubtfully asked again, “And the third one?”

“Third command; If you ever doubt, and doubt again about God, please refer to the second command!”

“…”

“Fourth command; If you ever doubt, doubt, and doubt again about God, please refer to the third…”

“Alright, I got it! The next commands will be more ‘doubt’ and ‘refer to’, right?”

“Wrong! You arrogant guy! The tenth command is different!”

“So, what is it?”

“The tenth command: No matter how much you doubt God, even if you have no faith in God, God will never stop believing in you and loving you!”

The old man was dumbfounded and doubtfully asked again. “Do YOU love me? God…?”

“Yes, but since you doubted me again, you must be punished! Your mission will be made harder! In 100 years, you have to conquer one thousand beauties.”

“Conquer?” He didn’t really get the meaning of conquer.

“In the countries far away, there are many deserted lands and forests, and in the middle of these places, there are many lonely dungeons.”

“Conquer a dungeon? Or beauties?” The old man scratched his head.

“Do you know the toughest dungeon that God ever created?”

“What is it, God?”

“A woman’s heart!”

“…”

“Some may be easy to conquer, but some stubbornly lock their hearts in cold and god-killing dungeons. It is your job to conquer their heart’s dungeon, open their locked hearts, make them feel your warmth, let them know the greatest things about love, feel the joy of life in happiness, and above all, make them love ME and have faith in ME!”

“Okay, I got it: make them love me and have faith in me…”

A long silence before a thundering roar was heard. “Not you! But in Me…”

“I got it, God. Make one thousand beauties open their hearts to me, not You but me!”

“You! Ignorant human, I have enough of you! If you can’t finish these two missions in 100 years, hmmm… never think about meeting Ye Xiu again!”

“You dare…”

Suddenly darkness came and engulfed everything.