Chapter 2: The Door to Truth, Ascending the Steps to Divinity!

Before Lu Yu’s eyes appeared a silver, eerie key.

The bit of the key was overrun with mysterious silver vines that seemed to have sprouted out of nowhere, merging into the void and causing a circle of purple ripples.

The handle of the key, however, was curved, much like the hooked handle of an umbrella, and in its center, numerous runes converged, outlining an eye resembling a nebula, a nebulous eye that seemed alive, ceaselessly squirming and looking around!

Despite its searching gaze, it dared not peer at the endlessly chaotic-shrouded figure with a thousand hands, as if even glancing at it was taboo.

Although a strange eye had grown on the key, Lu Yu recognized it…

This was the Silver Key he had bought in his previous life, also known as the Stairway to Divinity or the Key of Truth, among other names.

The orphanage where he lived, having allocated more funds to care for the children, could only be described as having rudimentary infrastructure.

The greatest source of entertainment was a collection of fairy tale and mythology books gathered by the head of the orphanage, and Lu Yu’s favorite were those vast and holy myths; yet what he truly admired were not the high and mighty gods, but the bizarre and powerful monsters and artifacts.

As an adult, Lu Yu who could earn his own money, even more enjoyed collecting these oddities and figurines.

Among them, the Silver Key was something he purchased at a roadside stall; the owner claimed it was the legendary key that could open the Door to Truth and grant the secrets of ascension to godhood, all for the price of just 9999 to take home.

However, Lu Yu didn’t buy the sales pitch; he simply thought the key looked cool and bargained it down to 99.

He even ordered a book related to it online, intending to learn about this obscure legend.

But before he could receive his order,

He was transported to another world.

“I’ve wielded this key in the air before—could it be that this action opened the Door to Truth?” Lu Yu pondered.

The emergence of the Silver Key proved it was the culprit of his transmigration, but… he hadn’t encountered the so-called secrets of divinity!

Could it be like Pinduoduo where one must gather thousands of people to participate?

As he mulled over this, the Silver Key trembled slightly, and a surge of information flowed into Lu Yu’s mind. After sorting it out, he finally understood the whole story.

The Silver Key he bought for 99 in his previous life was indeed genuine, and it had opened the legendary Door to Truth, allowing him to enter it.

However, his mortal body simply couldn’t contain that vast and mysterious high-dimensional knowledge, resulting in a—quite literally—head-splitting experience.

Bang.

His head exploded!

But his soul didn’t perish; instead, it arrived in this beast-taming world, carrying along the Silver Key and the items he acquired from behind the door.

With this realization, Lu Yu discovered that his original talent, the “Eye of Truth,” had been replaced by a new one.

[Door’s Master (Incomplete): As the holder of the Key of Truth, you will receive the Eye of Truth (incomplete), which allows you to see all information and weaknesses of things. The cost is the consumption of your own spiritual power. Your every action conforms to the truth, receiving the blessing of the Door to Truth, enhancing talents in crafting extraordinary equipment, magical potions, secret cuisine, divination, etc., and all will receive an additional fifty percent success rate. Crafting magical potions and secret cuisine of good quality or higher will spawn extra effects; the higher the quality, the stronger the effect. And any extraordinary side effects only require you to bear one percent of the original.] (Quality levels are ordinary, good, excellent, perfect, supreme.)

After binding the Silver Key, the spiritual energy Lu Yu expended using the “Eye of Truth” became one-tenth of what it used to be, and the target expanded from pets to all things.

And these were merely the effects in its incomplete state!

If he could restore it to completion, it would transform into a fragment of the omnipotent authority, leaving no secrets hidden from his eyes.

And the final stage of omniscience is stepping into omnipotence—ascending the long steps to divinity.

Regarding why it’s incomplete, Lu Yu had a hunch that it was related to his transmigration, but his memories after entering the Door to Truth were temporarily sealed due to the involvement of too much high-dimensional information.

He would have to wait until he grew stronger before these memories could be unlocked one by one.

Besides the Eye of Truth, the accompanying effects were also terrifying, boosting talent and success rates for support vocations by fifty percent.

It’s worth noting that this is an additional attribute that enhances the individual’s own success rate, affecting all extraordinary support vocations.

With such a buff, Lu Yu’s support vocational talents could be said to be fully enhanced.

For example, when he prepares food for taming beasts, as long as the quality is deemed good or higher by the Eye of Truth, it will spawn a variety of special effects.

Such effects include attribute enhancements, accelerated learning buffs, and more.

By continuously feeding them, one could endlessly buff their beasts with attributes and accelerate their growth to rocket speeds.

The reduction of side effects is like a bug; for instance, predicting the future can backfire severely—what would cost others a hundred years of life, Lu Yu would only need a year. This also applies to curses, forbidden spells, and so on.

It’s all about exchanging the smallest price for the greatest benefit.

In other words, the current Lu Yu, possessing the Key to Truth, is a part of the truth itself.

As Lu Yu attempted to examine the items he had brought back from behind the door, he found nothing; then, with a thought, a stream of chaotic energy condensed into text before his eyes.

[Tip: Contract your first beast.]

[Unlock: Secret Cuisine Heritage.]

[Description: Use the mystic as fire, devour the taboo.]

It wasn’t a so-called system but more like the Key of Truth using a mission format, easier for him to comprehend, to tell him how to gain more abilities, hinting at inheritances as well as some relics from his past self.

“It’s also about time to contract my first beast!”