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Chapter 6 - Memory 1: One Thing and Another.

If a cultivator below the Sixth Stage saw this scene, their legs would become soft like jelly, and their face will show an expression of fear.

It is not strange for Celestial Yan to be mad cause he has some bad memories about the ancient creature.

His anger and hatred towards ancient creatures are deeper than a trench, but the creature that makes him angry is not Joker, yet why is he mad?

The reason is guessed already, Joker is also an ancient creature. His aura looks like humans but the composition is different if you have keen senses, especially a sense that a Celestial has. It was like spotting a difference between both pictures and it is so small that you have to focus on your senses.

Even though Celestial Yan's impression of Joker is not bad and not good either, it can't be denied that Joker is also an ancient creature but as soon he said those words, Celestial Yan immediately remember one thing and his expression back to normal.

Joker looks calm on the outside but on the inside, it was like a storm.

Of course, it ended quickly as Celestial Yan expression came back to normal, at this time, Joker is confused and at the same time doesn't understand why Celestial Yan is mad, is it because he underestimates him while fighting? Some people would mad if their opponent underestimates them, perhaps this was the case.

But if he looks at it from a different angle, which is from Celestial Yan's perspective, it could be because he has anger towards someone that looked familiar as Joker's aura and mistaking him for that person.

No that is impossible since the opposite party is a Ninth Stage Celestial, there is no way such a person would make a mistake like that.

Then what is it? If he could read the senior's mind that will solve the problem, but wouldn't he be mad if Joker does it? Celestial Yan's mind is his privacy and no one is happy if their privacy is being revealed.

Joker's other guess is that because Celestial Yan knew that Joker is an ancient creature that resembles a human but no he is not. His existence is super rare and different from humans.

This thought appears when he remembers that Celestial Yan is a Ninth Stage Celestial, a cultivator that lives more than millions of years, so the chance of him met ancient creatures is higher.

This guess is unthinkable to be thought by Celestial Yan or perhaps it is? And the reason why he is mad at Joker is that he had a grudge towards ancient creatures.

'That's possible!' Joker's eyes lit up arriving at this point.

"Black Jade of the Rising Sun. Do you know Xamoa?" Celestial Yan asked and this is the thing he remembered.

Joker pondered for a bit and said with a calm face behind his mask, thanks to this thing, all the emotions inside him is bottled up and impossible to get out.

His fear, anger, and determination to survive are impossible to make its appearance on Joker's expression, but all of that is felt on his heart and bottled up in there.

"I know them." He nodded and added, "senior, do you have revenge on them?"

Xamoa is an ancient creature that flying around absorbing energy from blood and eat any kind of corpses, such as animals, humans, and even their own relatives that were dead.

This creature is low IQ but could be controlled and they are often used by ancient cultivators as an army to wipe out a huge sect.

There are some with high IQ under strange mutations and it rarely happened.

Celestial Yan shook his head, said: "No, I only wondering if you knew this creature."

Xamoa existed billions of years ago, when creatures on earth still on the water, they already live on land. No one knew how they survive, and most of their existing record is almost gone from history.

They are the ancient of the ancients.

Joker soon realized why Celestial Yan asked him about this creature, it seems there is no need to hide it.

"I see." He paused and continued. "Senior, perhaps I should introduce myself once more. I am Runan, a creature who lives more than billions of years and once rule the universe." He said as he introduced himself once more.

He wanted to hide his true self as much as possible to pursue his goal, to be a normal student, but if he keeps denying Celestial Yan, it would only make things worse.

"Runan..." Celestial Yan muttered and dive into the deep of his mind, searching for something, and said. "Then perhaps you knew someone with the name Cerina?"

'This senior knew someone from the Runan Race? Interesting.' He said to himself with amazement, the Runan Race once rule the universe and reach its golden age, it was also the time when Joker is born.

"Cerina?" Joker tried to recall something by that name and shook his head. "I'm sorry senior, it seems I can't help you. I have been sealed for more than billions of years and my memory is erased as I woke up."

Luckily, he quickly adapted to the new world and remembered what he was when he woke up. He indeed loses some memories but the memories of loved ones still there, deeply carved on his mind.

The reason why he told all of this to him is that he looks like someone that you could trust, his aura said it all. It is warm and bright, you could feel kindness vibe from it and it is comfortable.

"Is that so, then back to the main topic, I want something from the girl. You asked what I wanted from her, is that correct?" He asked.

"Yes." Joker nodded.

"There is a stone that capable of destroying the world on that girl, its power is beyond limitation, it could travel between time and space, worlds, and universes."

A stone that is capable of destroying the world is enough to make normal adult laugh, they probably think the person has a disease called chuunibyou, a common disease to teenagers that watch too many anime, novels, and mangas.

How could he laugh now that he himself had that power and fought a Celestial being? What's more this person seemed to be serious about the stone, should he talk to Elaina to give the senior the stone? Is she going to casually say, Yeah sure!

Anyway, looks like the senior wanted the stone to be in the right hand, to prevent falling to the wrong hands, if not why would he go all the way here from his immortal cave? This is Joker's guess, he read a lot of books about the cultivation genre.

"Then senior wanted the stone so it doesn't fell to the wrong hand?"

"You could say it that way, that stone must be sealed and that thing isn't something you mortals should be played with." His tone is deadly serious and Joker understood that the stone is dangerous yet his gut told him to not gave the stone.

"You heard what he said, Elaina?" He shouted then snaps his finger and the senior confused.

The dust slowly fades as soon Joker snaps his finger, it went to the air as if being controlled, slowly but surely those speck of dust is fading.

Joker and Celestial Yan's hair swaying as up above happened, the senior guess what is happening and smiled.

Joker shares his hearing sense to Elaina so that she could hear the whole conversation, this happened when Joker shoves her. The way it works is complicated so it will be explained sometime later.

After the dust is gone, Elaina said with a serious face.

"Senior, I'm afraid I can't give you the stone, this stone is the only way to search for someone."

Quietness attacked them for a few seconds and then Joker break it.

"Senior, How about we make a deal?" He asked as he approached Celestial Yan. Celestial Yan is interested in those words, he pinches his chin and tilts his head.

"A deal?"

Joker nodded and raises his hand, "Would you like to exchange the stone for the one I held?"

Particles gathered on top of his palm and formed a ruby, white color like a pearl in the middle, and as it spreads, turned into ruby. Its shape is diamond and there is some geometric pattern carved on it. Inside the ruby is a small light ball, it was a trapped soul of high IQ Xamoa, if you form a contract with it, it will become your strongest asset when fighting.

Not only that, it could be used for a bunch of different things, such as turned the soul into the purest energy liquid, allowing the user to increase its lifespan by another 300 years.

Celestial Yan's eyes widen and his heartbeat becomes faster but his face managed to be calm. The ruby in front of him is the one he has been searching for his entire life, he needs it to break through the Tenth Stage and find the way to become immortal.

"Little Friend, how you find one?" He asked curiously and received the stone from Joker, he gave the stone so that the senior could take a good look and decide for himself.

"It's a long story actually but at the current moment, I don't need the ruby. I heard from the seniors I knew that the ruby is a high-quality item for the Ninth Stages but there is no one I knew reached the Ninth Stage." He explained and added, "I have another one if this isn't sufficient."

Joker's lifespan is very long and he got bored that he starts to seek death, such as fought a high IQ Xamoa and.

Particles appeared from the thin air and start to gather on top of his palm then turned into a small scroll, this very scroll is a highly classified document from the Holy City, he stole it out of boredom.

OUT. OF. BOREDOM.

He is the most wanted person at that time and soon after, the Holy City destroyed after the Great War and his existence quickly be forgotten.

Celestial Yan felt a heavenly aura from it, and it was not a counterfeit, there are some methods to counterfeit an aura but you will know it if you have keen senses.

What's in Joker's palm is a piece of information about the Holy City that was destroyed overnight, but wait. If Joker has these two items, how come he is not well known to the world of cultivators? These two items are enough to buy ten huge sects and all of its resources, maybe even more.

Speaking of not well known, when Celestial Yan fought him, he felt like fighting an ordinary human all the time, it is difficult to find the difference to another ordinary human, this could be the reason why he is not well known.

"Little friend, could you perhaps told me how you get this one? I don't mind if it's a long story." Celestial Yan said as he was more interested in that scroll than the ruby with high IQ Xamoa soul's.

It's not like he doesn't need the Xamoa Ruby, it just that for the current era, information about the Holy City is impossible to grasp, but ingredients to increase one's realm is everywhere and Celestial Yan has the time to get one, yes he indeed needs the Xamoa Ruby but a piece of information about the Holy City is like one chance in a lifetime.

"I stole it," Joker said casually but the truth is that he said it with a flat tone.

"You stole it?" Celestial Yan's mouth twitched, it felt like he is lying but no, Celestial Yan's nose could smell someone if it is lying and someone who is not. Celestial Yan hoping what Joker said is a lie but he can't smell it, the smell of a liar.

He is not lying, isn't that mean the person in front of him is older than him? He even not be born at the time, let alone his ancestors, they still in a form of spermatozoa.

Celestial Yan's age is two million years old, then how old is this Black Jade?

"Fellow Daoist Hachidan Black Jade, how old are you?"

Since Celestial Yan is confident that the person in front of him is someone who is at the peak of Eight Stage Hachidan Realm, he decides to call him Hachidan Black Jade instead of Dragon Black Jade.

Joker whose Dao full name is Black Jade of the Rising Sun starts to ponder, it's been sixteen years since he gets out from his seal, so he concluded that his age is sixteen years old, but about his true age.

"If my guess is correct, it should be around 160 million years, but since I just get out from my seal sixteen years ago. I concluded that I am sixteen years old.

Sealed more than 150 million years is the same as erasing your existence, your friends forget about who you are as the passage of time flow, which is the same meaning as death.

If you think of it from another way, he is reborn as soon he is released from his seal and his memory regarding the seal is blurry, but he roughly remembers past experiences, his memory sometimes flashes through his mind.

Along with those flash images, he found out that he is a death seeker.

Unfortunately, in those flash images, memories of why he is sealed never make its appearance, Joker believes that there is some kind of ancient seal that prevents his mind remember the memory related to his seal.

For example, such as that time when he saw a necklace made out of white pearl on a store, and flash images of him stealing one from the Goddess of Beauty and Lust, so he thought to himself, why he wanted to seek death at the time?

The difference between him and him in the past is really vast.

Not only that pearl is different than the others, at the time, the goddess prepared it for a powerful female cultivator as a reward for wiping out Xamoa armies that went berserk but somehow, the pearl is replaced by a fake one that even kids could buy.

As a result, the female cultivator enraged and hunted down the Goddess of Beauty and Lust to this very day, rumors said that the female cultivator went into secluded meditation in a mysterious and secret realm that related to time and at the same time increase her strength.

Some said that it also greatly increased her lifespan.

Well anyway, Celestial Yan's expression is one of those surprised faces, but adding his calm personality, one might have to carefully look at his face to noticed his surprised expression, especially in this nightless moon.

"I've heard about Runan Race from time to time but didn't expect to met one." He laughed and added. "Very well, fellow Daoist Black Jade of the Rising Sun. I will trade the stone for the scroll."

Knowing that the opposite party is a powerful ancient creature, but let's change it to ancient beings instead of an ancient creature, cause Runan Race is similar to Human Race.

Isn't it a bit cruel to treat a similar race as a 'creature' even though they have intelligence just like us?

Well anyway, Joker could protect the stone from falling to the wrong hand, for that reason, Celestial Yan satisfied. Thus willing to carry out the transaction and with this, both parties don't suffer any loss.

Celestial Yan has no regrets to give the stone to Joker, that is why he is willing to carry out the transaction, it was not because of Joker's strength alone that let Celestial Yan chose this decision, it was because his institution told him so, institutions of a Ninth Stage Celestial is like predicting the future that one hundred percent will come true.

Elaina who heard the conversation from afar opened her eyes out of surprise, judging from the conversation, it seems these two items are very valuable and extremely hard to get, but the person he just met willing to sold it for the stone even he doesn't gain anything.

She is happy and muttered, there are still good people out there!

She bows to Joker as an act of gratefulness and shouted, "Thank you!"

Joker then turned his head around and lightly nods.

Without Joker, she probably lost the stone already, she really thankful and owe him a big favor, she must think of a way to repay her debt, if becoming his slave isn't enough then she will find something better.

... Joker.

Joker's eyes went blank. He felt like he just makes a wrong decision, should he take his word back and canceled the transaction? But wait, doing the latter is the same as seeking death.

As Joker's mind wondering if he makes the right decision, he felt an enormous amount of force pulling the fabric of reality.

He is not the only one, as soon as Celestial Yan stored the scroll in his spatial space, he too felt it. He pulled out the sword from his wrist, it was the same sword he used to fight with Joker earlier.

Particles once again appeared out of nowhere and gathered on top of Joker's palm, then changed into a black dagger-like jade.

A few seconds later, a crack appeared not far from the two of them, inside the crack is complete darkness with screams of pain in the background.

Two black hands coming out from it and grab the edges of the crack, using it as a foundation so that it could get out from the dimension, it looks like someone tried their best to not fell into the dark abyss of space from a spaceship after an accident happens on it and make a hole, sucking in everything but the person grab anything that could be a grab, tried it's best to not fell into the dark abyss.

The black hand creature made its appearances after coming out from the dimension with great difficulty, after it let itself out, the space crack behind him is closing like magnets, attracting each other.

The black hand creature makes a sinister smile and opens both hands between his shoulders. "Fresh air! Fresh air! Fresh air! Gyahaha!" Each time he said the word 'Fresh air' his hand is tightly firmed.

"Finally, for more than thousands of years, I able to break through from that hideous place. Gyahaha, no one could stop me now. Hmm?"

This creature has a humanoid form with a black wing-like dragon flapping on its back, it has a horn on its forehead like a unicorn and an eye like cyclops, its body is big and masculine, its skin is red, and only its hand is pitch black.

It also has powerful strength and a tail of a cat swaying side to side. The creature's aura is enough to make an ordinary human lose its life, life is such a fragile thing...

From the looks of it, the creature tries to break through to this world from a demonic dimension and it failed many times but it has finally succeeded. As it laughs with strange laughter, it noticed a strong aura from below.