After an exhausting and a rewarding expedition, Liu Yan finally reached the legacy location. He took a total of five months to reach the location a large gap from his initial estimate of three months. It was not that he was slow or because of dangers he was moving cautiously, just that after he came to know that those weird glyphs were really the treasures buried and resources which were naturally formed, greed took over him.
Not even leaving the scraps for scavengers Liu Yan finally felt satisfied from looting. The treasures if bought out can be sold for a very high price. If that was not enough the natural resource which he took…or rather uprooted from the very core of their formation so that they cannot be formed again or would take many years—these resources can be used as raw materials in variety of products.
"That mysterious moss was really good not only it smells nice but heals and makes the skin smoother. Because of its healing effect I am still alive now, or else I might bleed to death and by corpse would be eaten by those disgusting animals. But it feels too wasteful to use it as for healing. If it was made into a beauty cream I feel like all those cougars would come running for it."
These resources have been forming from the start of the world so the quantity in which Liu Yan gathered them was astonishing. Few of them which were common on many spots weigh total of tonnes in double digits.
"If not for the pocket space I got from the looted burials there would be not enough space to keep the resources on me. Even if the Empire's technology can create the pocket space, it is not large as the ones I got from the burials."
While thinking all the things he experienced in the last five months, Liu Yan walked into the cave. The cave was not anything special just like any normal cave but the blue gemstones embedded in the walls of the cave gave it a very exotic feeling.
After walking a few minutes Liu Yan reached end of the cave which contained an alter, with a pillar in the middle.
The pillar had an imprint of thumb to place on it. Liu Yan walked towards it and place the thumb of his right finger on the imprint. A sharp needle quickly pricked on his thumb.
"Ah."
Just as quickly the needle came it also vanished into the pillar. While Liu Yan was recovering from what happened, a loud rumbling sound echoed which drew his attention.
It looked like the alter had eaten up the pillar and now is probably in the process of digestion. Liu Yan was about to back out from this strange situation, a white flickering lights materialized out of nowhere which quickly merged to form a shadow.
"So finally someone with my blood came. Too many idiots came wandering and wasted my time."
The protagonist of novel Very Pure; Very Ambiguous Liu Lei has shown up but in soul form. Liu Lei looked towards Liu Yan who was startled from sudden arrival of Liu Lei's soul.
"Descendant tell me your name."
Liu Yan finally composed himself while inwardly thinking 'This is Liu Lei, seems like I need to use my newbie acting skills to highest to prevent any inconsistencies.'
"Ancestor my name is Liu Yan, thirteenth prince of Bright Flame Empire which you established."
Liu Lei frowned for a moment after which he said "Thirteenth Prince?!…that doesn't matter. Why is my bloodline in you so thin? How many years has been passed after I left for the God's Domain?"
"A more than thousand year, just after ancestor left the few aliens who were not happy with the status quo rebelled, it started with some minor skirmish but quickly escalated into war. Thanks to life saving measures left by ancestors your subordinates and wives handled the situation and the humans side won the war. We are still the powerful force in the Bright Flame World." Replied Liu Yan with pride.
After hearing the summary of events happened in the last thousand years, Liu Lei was filled with sadness, guilt and regret. Looking at the face…technically soul face of Liu Lei, Liu Yan secretly filled with disdain 'This is what happens when protagonist becomes impulsive, who said to run to help his Brother Yama without knowing the circumstances. Let this be lesson to the future me otherwise I would also meet a similar end.'
"Seems like I failed to keep my promise to them." Liu Lei recovered after few minutes, oblivious to Liu Yan's contempt towards him. "Anyway what happened has happened."
After seeing that Liu Lei has gotten over himself, he said "Ancestor is the thing about obtaining your legacy true?"
"Hmm…My legacy should be given to my descendant which was why the bloodline testing pillar was built. If you are here for legacy then you have to be disappointed, only someone with high concentration of my bloodline can inherit my powers and to inherit my knowledge you need to have strong soul. Without my bloodline having strong soul is impossible. So you who has very thin concentration of my bloodline, it is out of question to obtain my legacy. Let someone with high traces of my bloodline come to me."
Just as Liu Lei was preparing to send Liu Yan out of cave, Liu Yan hurriedly called out.
"Ancestor wait, please check my soul before making any conclusions. I believe I have strong enough soul to overpower even the top mental master of Bright Flame World." Liu Yan was not spouting any non-sense, and it was definitely not baseless. After going his memory Liu Yan came to know that, he was a uncommon child because the mother of previous Liu Yan was of alien race. As a offspring of alien and human with Liu Lei's bloodline, Liu Yan is more than just special in terms of soul.
There is no one who can compete him with his understanding of concepts and memorizing skills. It is even said that he was eidetic memory and unparalleled comprehension. However because of different being of breed and son of a concubine with low status, he was constantly shunned. And Liu Yan being smart did not revealed his skills or else he would not be alive till now.
"Hmm…" After listening to Liu Yan, Liu Lei half-heartedly check his soul without raising his expectations so that not to get disappointed.
"What is this?!…How can such soul exists! So mysterious!" Liu Lei was dumbstruck and somewhat afraid after seeing Liu Yan's soul. Not only Liu Yan's soul was purely black with small white spots which filled Liu Lei with dread. It felt that if he covered his senses over the white spots all of his being will be swallowed up.
Liu Yan was anxious after seeing the horrid look on Liu Lei's face, he quickly asked "Ancestor is there any problem, what's wrong in my soul?"
Liu Lei composed himself inwardly saying 'Wrong my ass, if something wrong in your soul all the souls in existence should probably die of shame. It is even more powerful than me when I was at my peak. But it is really to unusual how can a human have such a powerful soul…wait human?' After once again carefully scrutinizing Liu Yan, he seemed to have found something queer.
"Boy tell me how come you have blood of an alien in you?"
Meanwhile Liu Yan who was getting goosebumps after seeing the abnormal look on his ancestor, quickly said, "Ancestor my mother is an alien, whereas my father is mainline descendant of yours."
'An progeny of alien and human, how it is possible that you are still alive…nonetheless that doesn't matter to me. It might be due to his uncanny soul, if not for his powerful soul I would have possible eaten him up to revive myself.' Liu Lei thought secretly 'Seems like that plan is a failure, if any other of my descendant was present here I would have been taken over his body by now…it looks like I need to give up and meet my wives in afterlife. I wonder who took over the position of King of Underworld after Brother Yama was sealed up with me'.
"Very well that explains much. Anyway now that you have a strong soul, using the energy of you of your soul you can train your body to make it powerful enough to inherit my powers."
Concurrently Liu Yan was getting increasingly excited of inheriting the supernatural powers, Liu Lei continued, "But the problem it that after inheriting you will die."
"…"
"…"
Both looked at each other's faces and blankly stared, only a single voice was heard.
"Ehh…"