Chapter 4 - Awakening in a new body
A particular disciple that had been killed along with a few others in the most brutalizing manner possible by members of some sects, suddenly became enveloped with intense colorful light when a soul that was encompassed by twelve layers of dazzling lights, abruptly appeared before it and merged with it.
Then a second later, a green-colored cocoon of Life Origin Energy suddenly manifested around the lifeless body and fully enwrapped it.
Once this cocoon surfaced and engulfed the corpse, it instantly caused large towering trees and tall green grasses within eighty thousand feet of that region to suddenly materialize, terribly shocking the large crowds of people found there.
Also, it caused tens of millions of beautifully-colored flowers to instantly sprout within that region and totally decorate it, since every inch of space became embellished with flowers that continuously emitted fragrant scents that entirely saturated the atmosphere.
The region simply became a miniature flowery world with enormous luxuriant trees found everywhere.
As for the cultivators and mortals residing in that region, they became filled with explosive youthful energy and life, with the festering external and hidden internal injuries that some of them sustained in the past from certain injurious activities completely disappearing without a trace.
So, in that fashion, thousands of extremely aged people who were already one foot in the grave, immediately became young again.
They became so young that they looked as though they just entered their twenties, producing the thought in virtually everyone of them that their ages were reversed by that softly-shining, body and soul-encompassing green light that had suddenly appeared and permeated the atmosphere.
Therefore, as soon as the pulsing green cocoon that enwrapped that body appeared, the severed arms, lacerated legs, the horrifying slashes covering the entire flesh, its broken skull, crushed bones, and mushed internal organs, all began to regenerate at a shocking visible rate.
Then a moment later, the devastated body had become brand new and was full of life and surging vitality once again.
After a couple of seconds, the eyelids began to tremble before it finally opened to reveal a pair of eyes that shone with extreme coldness, anger and gave off a fierce killing intent that will cause chills to move down one's spine endlessly.
"Gao Xue, I will obliterate you, you lowlife bastard!!" Sun Kang who did not have time to check his new body or look around him to study his new environment, suddenly screamed out from within the cave with immeasurable anger in his heart.
Only after shouting did he calm to look around him in great surprise.
"Huh? How did I get here?" Sun Kang asked with curiosity filling the depth of his eyes.
"Besides, I think I should be dead." He said as he easily recalled the frightening, insanely powerful attack that Gao Xue abruptly launched at him with the help of a certain pagoda-shaped treasure which instantly turned his powerful body to dust that scattered everywhere on the floor of a particular legacy-bestowing altar.
"So, my soul actually survived that attack?" Sun Kang asked with his eyes beginning to shine.
He then began to look at the body that his soul newly possessed and discovered that it was so fragile and useless when compared to his own tremendously fortified and toughened body that had reached the Paramount Law Venerable stage in just Body Cultivation.
Also, he found out that the rapidly declining cultivation base of the body was really low if compared to his that had reached the final layer of Ancestral Law God stage, which made him an expert that was feared and revered by most cultivators that abounded in Major Planets; planets second to Grand Planets where near-infinitely powerful entities called False Divinities or Pseudo-Deities inhabited and exercised their boundless overbearing power and astronomical tyrannical mights over all living things.
After looking at the body for some time, he sighed and shook his head dejectedly.
"Assuming I was a second late in using that Vessel Translocation Talisman from that ancient expert's inheritance which drove my soul to this body, I definitely would have been truly exterminated. Aiiii!" Sun Kang said and shook his head before sighing dejectedly.
Now, he could be said to have basically lost the vastly strong body and phenomenal cultivation foundation that he had been building and nurturing for thousands of years.
And now that the shocking news of his sudden death will be circulated around the planet that he inhabited, many people that truly cared for him will start to grieve and mourn his sorrowful death.
However, in the next second, his previously sadness-filled gaze became sharp and steely as they became filled with great determination and an incomparably tough resolve.
"I definitely have to ascend back to the Blessed Tyrant Planet very soon and go fight that scheming vile bastard, Gao Xue once again. And this time, for his transgression towards me, I will make him experience something far worse than death. I promise him."
"However, that is just one of the less important setbacks in my journey, as my journey to become an unquestionable zenith-level expert in this world will continue, irregardless of anything and everything that will be thrown at me."
"I will stop at nothing, I mean nothing till I get there and be able to single-handedly rule over the great multitudes of gods and the seas of fearsome majestic beings." Sun Kang said with a piercing gaze of unbounded determination in his glittering eyes, and an indestructible resolve in his rock-solid heart.
As he thought this, the physical characteristics of his fragile new body began to change and heighten rapidly. And it was all because of a tiny sliver of transcendent warring intent that exuded from his soul when he produced that heaven-piercing determination and resolve within himself.
This warring intent, amongst other intents that could exude from deep within his soul, was something that he self-created many years ago to improve the talents and body constitutions of those far lower in cultivation rank to him.
The moment Sun Kang felt his new body getting physically stronger, and immediately realizing what was happening in the next instant, he abruptly sealed up that part of his soul domain, or he could cause great and irreversible damages to the souls of ordinary people inhabiting this planet if his soul power leaked out in the slightest.
He then looked at his radiantly shining soul with an anticipatory gaze and saw that it was still intact, except that it had fallen in rank from the Ancestral Soul Emperor stage, which corresponded to his previous Ancestral Law God cultivation stage, to the Paramount Soul Venerable stage, a stage that was three ranks lower to the Ancestral Soul Emperor stage.
Although this still gave him a great edge, since his soul was still really powerful. However, it was totally useless as he couldn't use it in this world that consisted of eighty to ninety percent mortals.
Or, once a sliver of his vast and overwhelming soul aura emanated from him, and the souls of all the mortals in this world were instantly wiped out, Clouds of Divine Judgement will immediately appear in the sky with the unconquerable Will of the Heavens and Earth to fully destroy him.
And that's definitely a situation he wouldn't want to find himself in, as raging overbearing strikes that were fully capable of effortlessly shattering thousands of constellations of planet-sized stars focused upon him alone, will absolutely kill him in this weak body, and would greatly injure him even if he was at the Ancestral Law God stage.
The Divine Judgement Cloud simply existed to checkmate the unwanton killing of mortals in worlds spread across the Cultivation Universe.
He then exhaled in relief since undulating waves of his grandiose soul power hadn't leaked out from him.
Few seconds later, he began to look around him to know what kind of environment he was in.
After looking around for a while as he carefully studied the environment that he found himself in, he thoughtfully mentioned to himself, "I guess the person with this body was killed, causing my soul to be moved into his body by the magical force present in that talisman to become its new owner."