His parents reached 100 years old. His mother went dead peacefully in her sleep. Han Chen spent a year with his father. In a night, he felt something in his heart, moving in to his father's room, he saw him sitting by himself, unusually healthy. But Han Chen can see, his body rapidly aging, his soul degrading and about to leave his body. He sat quietly by his side.
" Son, I will soon accompany your mother.
I,..I died once.... Now, my mind is telling me it's time. I only feel joyful..."
Extending the frail hand to stroke my hair. " ..."
His hands lost their power. So does his body. Seeing the passing soul zooming out of plane of existence.
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" I saved your lives ones. I gave you the life you would have had. But not the life I could give you... It's my heart's desire and I do not feel guilty. Infact I feel my role in this world is almost over." He recovered the puppets given them to safeguard.
He completed the burial ceremony and returned.
When he first returned to earth as a Nascent soul realm, he began to sense a faint rejection from the plane. Over the few years, as he had great strides in refining his nascent soul to peak of beginner stages. He began to feel it more and more.
The children we adopted began to lead the bussiness to prosper. Both of them are now near peak of grandmaster stages. I went to meet my wife. We look like 60 year olds on the outside. Infact she was the one who said, she wanted to enjoy this old life act. Her parents left her 10 years before due to old age...
" Dharma cannot be passed onto anyone just for sympathy. The cause and effect, you will have to bear it yourself... As much as you want them to prolong life, it's impossible for me to allow it. I can't nurture them always. They would be in for a world that's far more cruel if they follow our path. It's the life they wish for, and the life they had... " It was my response back then.
" We are alone now. " She said.
" No we are together. Somethings are better to let go. We are not here for salvation of others, but ourselves. I have reborn as you know to resolve my grudges...I have rejected the pain of my last life. Saved the parents from an untimely death. Saved the love of my life.."
" Prepare yourselves. Let's call Wei Chen and An Lan and their family here. Have a nice dinner. We will leave our mortal possessions to them. Let's cultivate inside my small world from then."
And that we did.
Looking at ourselves transforming back to our true form as newly weds, Yue was filled with emotions. The passing of time hasn't placed any scars on our bodies. She is now Golden core 2nd stage.
Coming to the spirit bead, the merging of small world didn't happen. It turns out the transfer of immortal runes placed over to make the bead ethereal and untraceable will loosen their characteristic. It's a main no no, for me.
Now the spiritual energy inside both my inner worlds rapidly increased over the years. We both resumed cultivation. After 20 years, I have reached Nascent soul great completion. The soul undergone the transformation into silver king soul. The spiritual sense which reached 21000kms, jumped into 35000 kms. The resolution of discovery reached molecular level and manipulation also reached the same level.
The lifting capacity reached, 480000 tonnes. After the integration of new silver king soul, it reached 500000 tonnes mark. The power of spiritual will crossed 10 Mega tonnes mark. His law manipulation penetrated 8th layer control officially by passing the world laws of earth.
"It's time to ascend. Yue Lan, remain inside spirit bead small world."
Putting on a defensive weapon clothes similar to Taoist robe, I returned to the earth. The plain is clearly rejecting me. I suppressed the law energy fluctuations and appearing outside in the void. I let my spiritual body expand to near stellar level corresponding to the energy scale. But no heavenly bodies got disturbed.
For the first time, I revealed myself. Looking at the tiny speck of planet and its 2 billion inhabitants. I felt nothing. The power is still low, I can't even the budge the speck of dust even with my spirit will, it's a quintillion times more massive.
Expanding my consciousness, I used void steps, the space infront myself formed a void corridoor instantly teleporting to other location. It was none other than locations of isolated resource planets mankind has found. Using space law directly transferred a pulsar and many other planets into inner world.
"The condensation of matter from elemental transformation takes very long and energy consuming. This will be necessary to accelerate the process."
After consuming about 10 of stars and a multitude of planets. The space of 100 million kilometres inside filled.
The laws governing planetary and stellar behavior stopped inside the Dantian world. Transforming into pure elements and got recondensed forming an island of earth, solar fire, gigantic ocean and much more, which happened as he was collecting one after another.
Finally, he accepted the rejection, the space rules collapsed forming a tunnel, trusting my immortal clothes for protection, the Ascension happened.
...
In an unknown place, in an unknown space in void, the tunnel closed leaving behind the sleeping Han Chen. Yeah, he simply fell asleep in the Ascension tunnel. But he did put on a mask for himself, to cover himself. The mask was special, no one can remove it unless the host willed. 3 days later, he wake up. Looking at nothingness allaround, he didn't panic. Instead he carefully sensed the cosmic laws present and law of space to understand the general direction of movement of the disruptor, otherwise known as boackholes. Its quite nearby. Void corridoor again formed stepping into it and finding a galactic center and finding billions of stellar objects, he remembered the system.
Scanning went for a while. He finally saw a system prompt saying:
Angeline ingrassia
Race : human
Cultivation : warrior demi-god ( golden core )
Age: 21 years
Favorability: 0
Status: <...>
He knew he picked up the direction. Activating the void corridor, he exited in another field. Looking at the battle field of spaceships and junk all around, and a large planet nearly size of Jupiter, where human and beast shaped intelligent beings are present and fighting each other.
Looking at the gigantic celestial body in the size of a human, both beasts and humans felt, they were insignificant and stopped the war. Looking at the body floating in void. It went near him palm.
"Thank you girl who lead me here." Law of life and law of death operated in a very high level making her wake up. He read her memory like an open book regarding the history of the world. Returning her to ground, he disappeared all together and re appeared in a small corner of the alley, in the safe zones of human population. Transformed into a helpless looking woman and some shiny jewellery on her. Only a minute or two passed the gangster looking ones came to introduce.
Seeing their lustful look, with a thought they all got knocked down unconscious.Collecting the good looking dress from them and all the money, he did a thorough cleaning spell. Changed into new clothes. Seeing them, like this , he simply burnt everyone of their clothes to nothingness and left them there naked.
With the money, and his intellect he fully figured out the language in less than a minute.Found the money was sufficient to buy clothes for him and his wife. And he went and bought few pairs of dresses for him. All were more western stye, he left the place.
Meanswhile, over at the battlefield of human race, Angeline Ingrassia woke up. She was considered as the strongest warrior God of the past and future. The beast warriors did sacrifice a lot to kill her.
Over 9 of them formed a special pattern to trap her and kill. Even so, she ultimately over used her god core and it broken, rendering her powerless and nearly dead floating in space."... Now, everything is back to the way it was."
She suppressed the rest of the battles by her and the fights were over for the time being.
...
It's been a year in 'Erundralis', the planet they are in, since Han Chen and Yue Lan wandering around. They were introduced as a citizen of faraway village, and they couldn't bring out any other identifications. So, they were classified as adventures. The silent instrument which can measure people's energy level stopped at its maximum, which was warrior king for both of them. So, they were treated as A rank adventures.
With this, they raise from Class 1 civilians to class 3 civilians directly. They bought a home, using money from defeating some bandits and people who tried to rob them, adventure style.
The meat of beasts in this world is rich with qi and blood energy unlike in the past.So, these two were living there life. There was a planet next door to them, it is known as Astralyth. The world is rich with what they call mana, an extremely diluted spiritual energy. With mainly fire, ice, water, void and gold qi attributes he sensed so far. Astralyth is however different, the mana concentration is very high, comparable to cultivation environment for golden core stages, but it was an uninhabited planet except for some incredible plant species.
The humans who reached warrior king and above here, can actually request going up. And they need to go to the space elevator and reach spaceships to goto Astralyth. The people in Erundralis have slaves. They will be branded with a magic mark, which will make it impossible for them to resist. There are still treatment difference. The beastmen are different styles. Beasts, beastmen, demi humans, Elves, humans. This is how the treat ment goes. Humans have the highest privileges among slaves.
We also bought one. It was an Elven princess. Well the contract didn't say her identity but system did it. Her name is Sylvia Velanthis. I am pretty sure this was for the local protagonist. We treated her just like a worker. Food was shared. An her monthly expenses were given 10 copper coins each.
Now that there is a spiritual energy here, it was easier to arrange attack and defense formation in the house. It was connected to her incase, we were in small world or travel around. My consciousness covered the entire planet, so we visited the scenic spots in every place just in a year.
A month after, she was bought, a young guy came in shouting, he will save her attracting the neighbours. Before he can flee, he was fixed on place. We three entered together and met with him.
"...So, who might you excellency be?"
" I am Carl Evarius. C rank adventurer. If you know what's good for you. You better leave her to me. Tell them don't worry, I will protect you. Release me from this pattern device."
" Who is he? Do you know him?" I asked Sylvia.
" Replying to Master, this person came to me when I was a captive and promised to buy me and grant me freedom. He was looking for the money needed." She replied.
" So, you wanted to go with him?" I asked her. She shook her head. " See young man the person involved doesn't need your help. You should go.."
" It was obvious, she was forced by you...." Looking at him still spouting nonsense. I waved my hand. His mana circuits all cut off. He fell unconscious. And disappeared directly into slave cage arranged few kilometres in the slave market. The one inside still not branded is now released outside free.
" Well, he is in good hands now." Let's go back. Life continued. Asking Sylvia to handle the money obtained from slaying a dragon. We went to fry it ourselves and it for a long time. Sylvia also got a share. We both returned to small world.
" The world rules here allows until void shattering realm"
The transformation god realm has 9 tribulations referring to the 9 sub realms. Over the course of a month, he guided his Nascent Soul to resonate with the Dao, absorbing celestial energies and anchoring the spiritual body to universal principles.
The Nascent Soul dissolves within the spiritual body, spreading its essence across every fiber of the cultivator's being. This is a painful yet enlightening process, as the physical and spiritual merge into one.The body and soul temper themselves in divine flames, erasing impurities and forging a form capable of enduring divine might.
With the fusion complete, the cultivator condenses a Divine Domain within their spirit. This domain is a reflection of their Dao, a realm where their power is absolute.
The cultivator's consciousness expands infinitely, perceiving the cosmos as an extension of their being.
"From the Nascent Soul, awaken the divine spark.
Through trials of fire and frost, reshape the eternal self.
Break the mortal limits, forge the spirit into divinity.
In the infinite heavens, find the path of transformation.
Merge soul and essence to form the Divine Core.
Let the spirit ascend, shaping the Godly Frame.
Unite with universal laws, becoming a beacon of power.
Draw the energy of creation, refining the body anew.
Transcend the earthly bonds, stepping into Godhood.
In the balance of chaos and order, achieve perfection.
Through divine will, reshape the cosmos within.
From the void to divinity, the God Transformation is complete."
His consciousness expanded from from kms to lightyears in range. As universal laws merges with spiritual consciousness, it was enhanced beyond limits. Similarily, the fusion of Nascent soul with spiritual vessel, is practically unheard of before, since the difficulty of condensing one is so high that it's practically impossible below immortal realm.
This also meant physical power skyrocketed from 25000 tonnes to a million tonnes. Adding the cultivation to the mix, it skyrocketed to 10 million tonnes ore more. It's still no where near the mass of a planet. His spirit will strengthened 100 times more, which is 1 giga tonnes. Its range increased considerably to over 100000 kms, but no where near the spiritual consciousness. The divine domain formed merged with consciousness extending the previous domain small in size to reach the same range as his consciousness.
" The difference between God transformation realm and nascent soul is as high as nascent soul to a mortal"
The transformation took 2 months to complete. Yue Lan reached Golden Core 4th layer. Returning back to our home, we saw Sylvia singing herself while cleaning the room.
" Hey Sylvie!"
" Master you are back. Nothing major happened during these times."
" Hmm, you have any news outside?"
" Master, the person you taught a lession before, Carl Evarius, was somehow related to the young lady of noble house of Thaloryn. I heard news of her making a fuss out of it."
" Hmm, protagonists are endless trouble" just a casual sweep with his consciousness, found all news for him. "Ah well, I may have punished him a little too hard."
Just like that, after a few months, after we went out to capture /enslave duke dragon making trouble to western town, the dragon who some my energy level surrendered himself and after admonishing it for a while, we solved the trouble and returned home with Sylvia only to find some official waiting for us. Infact it's only due to our adventure rank S level, they were waiting or they would just enter forcefully and seize items.
" Hello Sir, madam. We are from TIA investigating agency of this kingdom, we received an info regarding a person ' Carl Evarius ' reported missing. He was last found here having some quarrel with yourself, as reported by others.
Worry not, unless he is dead, considering your adventure rank, the kingdom offers no liability to your crimes nor acts. So please report to us anything you want to say ? " The leading adventure who is similar to a mid rank Foundation building realm, probably another S level person respectfully mentioned.
I did a divine sense check and found the guy.
".. Well. I saw him in the market near the brothel. I can accompany you."
" Oh thank you sir." Then we three went with them to women's rakes' parlor where wealthy woman and noble woman come to see certain entertaining activities. Entering inside seeing the variety of performances and finally spotted the guy. He was chained as a slave of an old fat women.
He also saw us. " You! " Pointing at us, he wanted to shout in anger but the magic mark activated halting in the middle. The agency taken him and his owner away. Meanwhile, we returned after seeing the performance and drinking few drinks.
" Do you know, it was pretty cruel.." Yue Lan said. " Yeah, it kind of is.. but you don't have to worry. That guy is blessed by luck. He will soon come to trouble us again. Won't it be more entertaining.?" I replied.
" Okay, .....That scene earlier was pretty wild... think we could handle that? I never thought I'd be into that, but now I'm kind of curious." She replied.
There was no blushing involved, since we are old married couples now. " I think we should add our own twist to that, what do you think? Come to think of it, let's talk about yourself. You have been using that cultivation technique that I made about 50 years ago. It's better to change now. Your realm probably will regress but combat power will increase. You can give this a try. It's ceiling power level is very high, so.."
< Celestial Serenity Embrace >
< This technique has some connections with mine. So, it will raise your realm similar to mine if you practise it with myself sort of like couple cultivation method.>
Sylvie, followed behind with smile on her face. Looking at her, I said " Come to think about it, we would leave here sooner or later, Sylvie has a life span of 1200 years same as other noble elves.. We will soon part ways. Yue, do you want to keep her? "
" You didn't help your parents, but why help her? "
" Oh you jealous..?" Looking at her no kidding look. I said:
" Yeah, I have been tending to the Alchemic medicine plant farm you have arranged. It's better to have a full time attender. Oh and she could be helpful in our future situations."