Months later, the consecutive typhoons has ended leaving the forest with a vibrant look from the nourishment of the skies.
This dark forest has been transformed overnight, previously full of death, now radiating with life.
The forest while it looked beautiful, the scenes it witnessed in a specific night hid the darkness that happened within.
In a thick bush of bluesilver grasses, a corpse of a child stuck with an arrow can be noticed due to the growing foul smell and the encirclement of insects.
Due to the predation of insects, the body was riddled with holes with insect eggs be vaguely seen growing upon it.
One of the boy's suddenly eye fell towards the ground, clear of any crimson color made by blood circulating upon it.
It was clear, it was a rotting corpse.
Due to the remote location of the place, where road has been destroyed by previous typhoons and the structure of the soil in here being naturally vulnerable to flood, the original way leading here has been buried; later replaced by a new route to get outside this forest.
The child's pale face opened horrifyingly. Unlike with his previous original blue eyes, one of the eyes stayed normal while his right orb glowed crimson.
An aura full of evil and chaos, that eye was filled with the embodiment of fear and destruction.
Sigh!
A deep bellow resounded from that sigh.
"I awakened months after the time of this vessel's death? How unfortunate."
That voice sounded so deep, dissonant from the child's current physique.
"This body was quickly gathering deathly energy..."
Bodies that are dead and empty of life starts to emit death energy that decomposes the body over time, with the innate life energy that all lives posses returning to the world, the death energy served as a guide for reapers to collect the souls of the dead.
Yet with the intervention of a mysterious character unconsciously, the child's aura of death was concealed...
"Hm? What a rich source of vitality, is this life gold? HIKHIKHIK!"
The creepy laugh grew louder which eventually stopped.
The boy's dead body swiped into air and a black dagger floated in front of "him".
"A remnant soul? Be grateful, you will be the first nourishment for my return!"
Wisps of black air removed itself from the dagger, accompanied by wailing of souls and shrieks.
Relief can be heard from the boy's voice, as if it was "his" first meal after a very long time.
The dagger's original form was revealed, a jade-green knife that suffuse warmth and life.
The "boy" then used the dagger and slashed himself straight to his heart, plunging the dagger.
His crimson eye radiated stronger, and the dagger seemed to melt like ice.
The body's heart was currently purple and almost transparent from the absence of blood, which was replaced by greenish glow after his action.
Urk!
Surprisingly, the death energy wasn't thrown out, with how long of time that has passed since the boy's death, it was natural.
The sudden absorption of life energy contradicted the death energy that resided within the boy's body.
The backlash from the rejection of both energies created an implosion inside the boy's physique— easily destroying the pile of remaining organs, already decomposing bones, and what remains to the boy's rotting flesh.
"What a disaster! I have to balance these energies, urk!"
As an entity that lived for hundreds of years, his comprehension of worldly energies has reached the mortal pinnacle.
Yet even "he" was helpless of the current situation.
Suddenly, a bulb of enlightenment sparked within his mind.
Yin and death.
Yang and life.
While fundamentally different, life and death are interchangeable like yin and yang.
There would be no death if life wasn't initiated at the first place, and vice versa, there would be no life if there wasn't a concept of death.
With these idea in mind, a reckless idea formed in his mind.
In his life, he encountered high-level energies that was on par with the current energies rampaging in "his" body.
"He" thought of one solution;
"The Yin-Yang complement!"
The term Yin Yang Complement meant the complementary relationship between opposites.
Using the life energy gathered in his heart, "he" guided the death energy in the boy's brain, where his spiritual sea resides.
Spiritual sea, like the lower navel dantian, is a storage of energy specifically for spiritual energy.
And "he", was a being that stands at the pinnacle of spiritual energy; unlike the warm and gentle force of life, death energy was more destructive and corrosive, and only with his powerful soul can he suppress such wild kind of energy.
Hours passed until the integration was completed.
It's only after the process succeeded did "he" breathed in relief.
Closing his eyes, he scanned his internal spiritual sea.
The view of this internal world was filled with the aura of death, the skies was filled with gray clouds and solemnity, while the black "sea", which was boundless as an ocean was a far-reaching darkness that hides within mystery and silence in it's depth.
Touching his chest, abundant life force radiated from his body, replenishing his body.
The pale body filled with death was replaced with the aura of life; his destroyed organs was regenerated, his being was revitalized.
His height grew in correlation, his previously malnourished three foot body increased into four, he looks like a normal boy right now.
The boy stood upright, and his evil gaze surrounded the forest.
He still has one eye; strangely, the other eye can't be regenerated for unknown reasons.
His hair did not go back to its previous black color but stayed white, he was identical to the white-haired yaksha of the legends paired with his crimson eye.
"Hmm, a remnant spirit of resentment?"
His one eye twitched in annoyance, the original soul was a slippery eel, to think that it wasn't completely dead.
"Give me back my body, I want revenge!"
The "boy" smiled, albeit in a wretched way, and replied.
"Give it back? Who do you think you are, HKHKHKHK!"
The boy's crimson eye radiated and the number of pupils increased, from one to two, to three, until it became uncountable.
"Disappear!"
Shriek resounded as the remnant resentment of the original boy was assaulted.
Surprisingly, it did not do anything.
"Hm? Maybe because he was the original owner, but right now, I'm in charge, just disappear pest!"
Murmurs can be heard as the blob of resentment whispered.
"Revenge, revenge, revenge, revenge!"
The ultimatum of the resentment was set, it quietly disappeared but a mark can be seen in the eyelid of his lost eye appearing.
"Shit, soul vow! Bastard!"
The boy was full of anger, yet he can't do anything.
He was branded.
It was a sufficient seal that would make him do anything in line with the brand's bidding.
"Revenge!"
"Vengeance, if that's what you want, spreading havoc is one of my specialities, HIKHIKHIK!"
The boy creepily laughed, and then took a serious turn.
"I'm the Evil Emperor and here I am, doing an errand for a human kid? How the mighty have fallen! I swear that dragon bastard would be smiling until his sleep!"
Remembering some dark memories, he gritted his teeth.
"Just wait, you black loach, I'll devour your snake soul!"
Today, one of the strongest entities of the Douluo Planet, the Evil Emperor, the second-strongest soul beast of the land soul beast, and the overlord of the Evildemon Forest, awakened at the body of a human child.