"An...An...Ancestor!"
With his eyes wide opened and his jaw dropped, Taidian was almost speechless and in a daze, but quickly he came back to his senses then he kowtowed immediately.
"Little Taidian Akran pays his respect to Ancestor!" He shouted fervently with a hint of fear and expectation in his voice.
The ancestor of the Akran Clan was a secret existence and even with his position of young master and the son of one of the three heads of the clan he did know only little about this respected person.
When Taidian became ten years old, his father wanted him to pay his respect to the most powerful figure in their family, but at this period the respected Ancestor was secluded in a special ice chamber so he could only watch him from afar.
But that was enough to imprint this elegant old face in his memory for the rest of his life. The Ancestor had a powerful and indescribable aura that made him appear like a god in the eyes of the young boy.
"Haha, you're courteous, rise." He nodded in appreciation.
Taidian hesitated a bit.
"Ancestor…"
"I don't have much time so if you have something you want to tell me say it straightaway." He replied with a hint of curiosity toward the young man in front of him while focusing on a little orb the size of a small pebble that was in the palm of his hand.
~sigh~
Taidian took a deep breath and decided to explain the whole situation, he knew that it was his only chance to tell the truth, so he didn't miss any part of his story, starting with his relationship with Shian, till the mysterious dual cultivation technique given by a rogue cultivator, the death of the girl and his little schemes and lies to dodge the wrath of his father, and of course the betrayal of the captain.
When the teenager has finished his whole story, Dracs laugh internally and couldn't help but say telepathically to the old man "Half dead man Jikoudian Akran, it seems that your clan has fallen deeply in the path of corruption, even in my current state I can say that it wouldn't need a century for the Akran Clan to disappear."
Some hours ago,
the ancestor of the Akran Clan, Jikoudian Akran, had finally crossed the forest of yellow fish river and came to the location of the disturbance that he even had sense in his extreme yin chamber, even for an unparalleled existence like him who was at the Void Spirit Body realm, it was hard to explain such a strange event.
At this time, Dracs saw an old man wearing simple clothes flying at high speed toward his location and he couldn't help but feel a natural fear but also being excited.
He was then reassured to see that the old man couldn't pinpoint his location because of his innate camouflage ability. So after a couple minutes of scanning and calculating, he decided to remove it and show himself to the first person he encountered in this new world.
The old man didn't hesitate to directly take the 'marble' in his hand and he was even more surprised to find that an unfathomable existence lived in it.
At this moment, Dracs had used the many skills in his arsenal in probing the old man and discovered a plethora of useful information. First of all, this man had already a foot in the grave, he was currently burning a portion of his remaining life essence to stay alive and was affected by an extreme cold yin energy.
His senses were so potent that the old man couldn't help frowning when he noticed that the existence had read him so easily and became careful, his first confident demeanor evaporated.
Back in time,
Right at this moment, Dracs and the ancestor of the Akran Clan Jikoudian Akran were exchanging in their mind.
"I can destroy you with a mere thought, tell me a reason not to do it." The ancestor said coldly.
"Ahah, simple. Because I'm right. Don't be so full of yourself, you can't even imagine what I experienced to come here, your cultivation rank doesn't mean anything to me." Dracs answered but in truth he was scared shitless by the old man!"
He was only trying to scam him because the scanner and the system's functions had already deduced that he was in a cultivation world where the heaven and earth energy known mainly as qi was the cumberstone of everything.
[DING : +100 CP gained…]
During this time, Taidian was waiting for a reaction of his Ancestor but the old man had only eyes for the strange thing in his hand so the young man started to sweat profusely, thinking that his story had really made angry the old man, fearing that he was going to be punished heavily for his sins!
For his part, Jikoudian Akran was in a dilemma, but in the end his greed was above his carefulness.
"Speak. What do I gain in letting you live?"
Dracs smiled and put on his best actor face and started laughing like a devil in the mind of the old man.
"Hmf! Watch your foolishness! Seed of Corruption!" He said venomously!
And then he used camouflage and entered the old man's body! But the old ancestor reacted quickly using his void body property to defend against whatever was coming, but even with his unrivalled power of the Void Spirit Body realm, he couldn't sense anything at all!
[Target is resisting the seed of corruption]
[Estimated time for the seed to take root : 24,456 days]
'So powerful! Indeed, it's a problem... But at least I can do it, I just need to scare him a little bit more.' He thought.
"Do you feel it, old Akran? You can struggle all you want, in the end this seed of corruption will end affecting you."
"What are you, what do you want?!" The old ancestor roared furiously, shouting out loud!
Taidian didn't understand why his Ancestor was now so furious but his face became blank, mistakenly thinking that it was because of him he hurriedly prostrated onto the ground, almost breaking his front head in the processus! But he couldn't say anything! The pressure emitted by his Ancestor was terrifying and suffocating!
"Jikoudian Akran, look at the pitiful boy. Give him to me, I think he is really an interesting young fella. He is so much more lively than you in many ways! I can become his master, is my offer sufficient? And also, I can remove my power inside you, but I recommend you to accept it. In this way I can study your state for a long time and maybe find a way to revitalise you in the future."
In fact he had already asked the system if a thing like this was possible and what the system had answered was simple and straight, he only needed sufficient time,energy and to upgrade his database to calculate the feasibility. But it seemed evident that nothing was truly impossible if the conditions were fulfilled.
For his part, Jikoudian Akran was in fact terrified of this unknown existence and even with his plentiful experiences he couldn't find any of his past enemies that were as difficult to deal with. He could only think of it as a strong being way above him in terms of cultivation but he didn't trust it at all, like a true Devil of some sort.
"What guarantee do I have? I'm tempted by your proposition but I'm not a fool to accept it, my gain is so little compared to you." The old man said craftily.
Dracs sighed internally, he knew that this guy was hard to deal with but he was confident in tricking him in merging lies with some truth.
"I'm already inside of you, you can't do nothing about it, don't be overconfident with your pitiful abilities, even in this weak state it was a mere child's play to 'contaminate' you. You lost the opportunity to destroy me because of your greed. I'm a master of corruption, it's only natural for me to sense it." He said.
And it wasn't only words, because of his identity related to corruption, he could sense different kinds of it, for example this old man was consumed by his greed for life so Dracs could see the aura of corruption leaking out of him like clear water. It was not tangible but it was still there.
Also, he sensed that the tiny seed of corruption that he was trying to plant was greedy about that aura but the old man wasn't a fool to let it absorb it. Indeed, the corruption was now part of him and could reduce his remaining time on earth if he were to cut it suddenly from himself, it was unavoidable. So Dracs continued with another subject.
"Are you giving up on your Clan?
The old man hesitated a bit before answering.
"If they disappear, then it's because they are weak. Weaklings are fools while the strongs are rulers, heaven and earth law is fair to everyone so it's just their luck to join the great Dao and be reincarnated."
Dracs was speechless. He needed a couple seconds to find what to say to the old man, so he declared as coldly as he can :
"You are not wrong but also you are far from being right. So you just are becoming more and more useless to me with these passing seconds, decide quickly about my offer, I won't be patient anymore."
At this moment, an eerie feeling invaded the old ancestor and he understood that he didn't have the upper hand on the conversation anymore! Moreover, he was unable to find the location of the 'marble' in his body so he finally decided to give up.
"Alright you convinced me, anyway I'm already a foot in the grave. Not that I trust you but you are right I'm greedy to live, if Senior can give me some hope I'm willing to accept your deal. How should I address Senior from then on?"
Dracs was inwardly jubilant and it took out a lot of pressure at the same time.
"I'm called Dracs!"