"AHHH! AHH! It hurts, it hurts, I just felt my head explode! Ugh? Where am I? There's really stars there? Hello, is someone hearing me?"
Wang was lost in outer space, unable to do any movement of his own, like paralysed by a foreign force. Strangely, he could see stars and galaxies shining with brim light in the far distance, but all of this seemed to be altered by an ethereal veil obstructing reality.
Unfortunately, he couldn't even start to think about his situation because the next moment an eerie robotic voice sounded in his mind.
[Calculating target compatibility with the system]
[ERROR]
[System establishing a direct link with the target]
[STARTING PROCESS : 1%...13%...49%]
[ERROR]
"Wait, wait, wait! What the hell is happening, where am I?! HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE!"
Then, an excruciating pain assaulted his entire self, and he couldn't help emitting a horrible shriek from the depth of his being.
[Critical ERROR : Target's consciousness is fading]
[EMERGENCY : Repairing mental state, waiting for calculations…]
[SYSTEM SOLUTION : Erasing memories]
[STARTING PROCESS : 1%...26%...]
[ERROR : Overwriting irrelevant data]
"AHHHH! Stop this already! Just kill me please! KILL ME!!"
[CHECKING ANALYSIS : Failed experiment]
"What?! I'm a failure! Even after all this pain you have the guts to tell me this! Son of a **** I'll rip your sh*tty core with my teeth and burn you to death! Then, I will find your maker and make him regret his stupid experiments! ARGHHHH!
[ALERT : SYSTEM IS UNDER ATTACK]
[EMERGENCY FORCEFUL ASSIMILATION PROCESS]
[ERROR]
[CRITICAL ERROR]
[ALERT LEVEL ZERO]
[CALCULATION IN PROGRESS…]
[ERROR]
[ERROR!]
[SYSTEM AUTO REPAIR FUNCTION ACTIVATED : fusion recommended]
[STARTING FUSION…]
"Fusing with a dog' shit system?! PERFECT, I'm dying because of a dog' shit, so you'll be the perfect buddy for me in the afterlife! So let it be! PERMISSION GRANTED!" He shouted with all his remaining forces. Strong waves of energy started to collide in the darkness with loud rumble sounds, his last will was corroding all over the place and even the gloomy system was affected...
[CORRUPTED DATA: Target is trying to overwrite the system's name]
"YEAH That's it, you dog' shit system!" Surge of his will exploded again toward the system!
[CORRUPTED : overwrite]
[FUSING PROGRESS : 86%...99.9%]
[FATAL ERROR : system halted!]
[FUSION STATUS : success!]
[Reinitialisation will start in : 10s...9s...8s...7s...6s...5s...4s...3s...2s...1s…]
"Wait, I was joking! No, no, no! ARGHHH, NOOoOooOo...!"
And then all became void of senses and emotions, Wang wasn't conscious anymore, all had black out the instant when the system had initiated the reinitialisation. But all around him the world was in chaos.
When the fusion had reached its final state, a heavenly tribulation as massive as a whole galaxy started to happen. Gigornous red and purple clouds gathering primal heaven and earth energy were spanning madly, carrying planets and stars in their path.
Their target was a tiny marble dashing through space at lightning speed, but when the first lightning bolt as strong as a qasar ray shot rushed towards it, the strange marble emitted massive energy concentrated in a single point, piercing the fabric of space-time and immediately disappeared from the universe!
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Forest of the Yellow Fish River - River Dragon Kingdom
"Young master! The piggy boy is near, I can smell the odor of his fat sweat in the air!"
The young master of the Akran clan was a slender teenager around sixteen years old, with good looking features above average with black hair arranged in a simple and elegant ponytail flowing behind him. He turned his gaze toward the captain of the guard with a doubt in his mind.
"Are you sure? This matter is of utmost importance to the clan, that pig has to be slaughtered in front of everyone to show how we treat our own failures!"
The captain was a man in his forties who was as muscular as a tree and had a mysterious felin aura around him which was the result of his body cultivator technique in the middle stage of the earth realm.
"Affirmative, young master, my senses cannot be fooled at all by a mere body tempering stage, even if he was a realm higher than mine, I shouldn't have any problem tracking him in normal circumstances."
"Hmff." The young man sneered codly in disdain.
Young master Taidian Akran could be considered a genius, at his age he was at the Qi transformation stage and was already on the verge to form his dantian. In his eyes the captain was just a random trash stuck on the road of cultivation but he couldn't say it out loud.
The man was a valuable asset of the Akran clan even if his potential had already shown its limits.
After all the man was not only a normal cultivator but a body cultivator and even if his poor bloodline power wasn't completely unlocked, he had succeeded keeping his role as the captain of the guard seemingly effortlessly during the last decade, that was not a small matter. .
They advanced further deep in the forest on the tracks of the "pig", they knew that the bastard had left at most two days before them but they still were confident to have filled the major gap they had at the start and that they would catch him the next day at the latest.
The reason why young master Akran had volunteered for this mission was because he had to be sure that the "pig" had died in the Forest of the Yellow Fish River, if not, he knew that his only solution was to kill him himself as a backup plan.
Indeed, the first brother, young master Jindo Akran who was only seventeen, the son of his uncle, was a genius among geniuses and the potential heir of the clan. He was a cultivation maniac already in the middle stage of the Profound Realm.
So Taidian couldn't let him know of his little secret, his own cultivation technique could be said to be relatively unorthodox if not an evil one, and Jindo would probably take this opportunity to report this to the Elders or worse, to their fathers.
Under normal circumstances he could have been only slightly punished if his deeds were to be known. But in fact his girlfriend, who was depleted of her entire energy after he used his new cultivation technique with her, had died unexpectedly
She was not a maidservant but in fact the secret beloved adopted daughter of his own father.
He had been greedy to test his new cultivation technique so he explained all the process to that girl Shian and she did agree to dual cultivate with him. Alas, his technique was flawed and he had committed a series of mistakes till the beginning.
He was truly sad about her death because even if he didn't want to admit it, he really liked this girl pretty much but because he feared his father too much he couldn't promise anything to Shian.
But his father Koudian Akran was one of the three lord of the clan and he had many bastards but he didn't care at all a about them, they were just decorum to his prestige, unfortunately Shian was her beloved adopted daughter and even him the rightful son of his father couldn't rival her status.
So when the outcome was revealed before his own eyes and the state of his girlfriend's corpse, he panicked and didn't know what to do so he hid for the entire night in the wardrobe crying of the deceased girl.
What he didn't expect was the appearance of the 'pig' in the very morning. When he saw Shian the poor bastard had rushed directly on the bed, totally oblivious of his surroundings.
At that time, Taidian had appeared like a ghost behind him and scared the shit out of him. The pig had turned blank and Taidian took the occasion to blame him for the dirty murder of the beautiful girl.
The poor 'pig' was uncontrollable with his emotions and Taidian had needed to knock him unconscious. Then he prepared the perfect evil plan to get rid once for all of this disgusting trash of the Akran Clan.
When he had woken up, Taidian came up with a story, telling the pig that even if he was a bastard, he had always considered him like a real brother but he could only act tyrannically against him to conform like the others. So he told him that he had decided to let him escape in the forest while protecting him from the clan for the time being.
When he recalled what he had done he couldn't help but sneered madly which was seen by the captain but the latter just ignored him.
When they discovered what had happened, his father entered an unthinkable rage and almost destroyed the whole bastards' courtyard.
It took him some time to recover but soon he tasked his clansmen to investigate the culprit. And as a filial son and a young master of the Akran Clan, Taidian explained his doubts toward the "pig" and his relatively carefree attitude with young miss Shian.
The maidservants confirmed that the 'pig' was actually really close with the young miss but that they couldn't ever suspect anything like this between these two young people.
But it was enough for Lord Akran, blinded by his rage and sorrow he sent his most capable subordinate and his own son who had almost volunteered directly. Lord Akran wanted the pig's return to interrogate and execute him as soon as possible.
Taidian and the captain were now off the Yellow Fish River and the scent of the 'pig' seemed to have become more and more potent.
"Young master, I'm pretty sure that the useless trash couldn't have crossed the river, I can detect his tracks downstream, we should be near. But the night will soon fall on us and so I recommend that we take a break. Your safety should be our priority, anyway I doubt the piggy boy could survive more than three days here. We should discover his corpse or what remains of him tomorrow."
Taidian nodded, he didn't want take the risk to cross path with one of the masters of the forest, the white bats, they were magical beast that hunt in swarm of hundreds under the cover of the night and the Akran Clan had state that their king should be at most in the mortal core realm.
Anyway a swarm of hundreds of creatures in the profound realm wasn't something an Earth mid stage could handle single handedly.
They came over a small hill and the captain used the power of his earth qi to dig a cave and set up the camp.
Half an hour later, they could hear loud shrieks in the distance and waves of energy that surged everywhere in the forest.
The captain was cross legged and eyes closed while cultivating and was totally oblivious of this situation, so Taidian could only try to calm down and imitate the veteran.
But suddenly all the sounds stopped for a couple dozen seconds. At this moment the captain and Taidian opened their eyes, their senses in full alert and then before they could comprehend what was the source of the disturbance, a heaven defying thunderblast crashed far deep in the forest of the yellow fish river, then it started raining like a waterfall!