Vorinath Altharieon was communicating with his system in his mind. He got Cave world, a small realm capable of storing within his Dantian as a reward recently. His sign in system made him from a nobody to whatever he is now. Even though he would preach to others, what he achieved till now is was entirely by his efforts and to rely on themselves, the reality was different.
He has received chaos body talent, divine techniques that even immortals fight for, spiritual stone mountains of supreme quality, knowledge of various laws and avenues. From the moment he received his system, he never asked what is it and what does it want. He simply accepted it and gained everything from it.
But recently after finding out something which was beyond his systems capability he lost the feeling of superiority in being laying low and being content with it. He deduced that the other person is like himself with unknown advantages, and the disappearance of the fateful encounter, system pointed it out as a sign in reward means others have intercepted it.
The elven girl with immaculate bloodline he found under a slave seal which the system recognized, the warrior who was her master. Both of them disappeared. As a same source bloodline, he felt he needed to act, but more on that impulse was because she had a furnace physique. He could make her fall in love with him with his deeds and efforts. He wouldn't force her though, at least he had some conviction of his charisma.
He was frustrated, but careful. He laid low and so does his enemy. Years passed, and with his gold finger now he is a peak tribulation realm expert. Any further he would ascend.
He knew he is far stronger than any other in same realm so he tried to do active measures. Even after releasing the news to tempt them to confront him, nothing happened. He returned to his noble father did things for him. Payed his respects.
Sensing his son reached peak of the world, he was in joy. His status became legitimate. And his achievements were made public. There wasn't any need for keeping guards for him so they were taken back.
After a fortuitous encounter to reverse his bloodline to extreme, he somehow encountered the princess of Empire in an adventure outside and fell in love. Over the last 30 years of their secret affair, their love made a child. The other child is from the maid of his previous house. When he was just a nobody, she treated him well and he after gaining power, loved her back.
Originally he was in a dilemma of leaving behind these ties bounding him to this world. The princess is a peak god transformation realm girl with only 5000 year old, but his maid is only Golden core realm at 200 years of life. They both need many years to reach the peak. He is saving his sign in for over 10 years time to get a cave world or smaller realm as he hoped for to make them accompany him.
As he was happily immersing his consciousness into system space to check the cave world he received, he suddenly felt dread of death and tried to defend quickly. Only to loose powerlessly. The place he was in is none other than his private mansion with many heavenly protection mechanisms arranged, but none whatsoever got activated.
His consciousness was bound and was found in absolute darkness. His system began to report error..echoing in his mind space. His last thoughts were of the enemy he had seen. Human shaped entity exuding energy like a burning fire.
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On the other end, a little while ago:
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Han Chen after returning to spirit world from inner realm, communicated with his system in mind. He finally decided to consume the foreign system he had suspicion on.
Even though his system lost a great deal of energy and couldn't communicate directly, it's possible to awaken for a short while and reply through text shown in his mind.
This time the instructions received, was to make the enemy host unconscious first. If that system doesn't save him it would mean the entity inside is not self conscious and proactive then it would have been easier. If not it's better to keep him within small world first.
Han Chen didn't want to take chances, so with that in mind locking Vorinath's position, he transformed into law energy form and teleported.
He felt some blockages in spatial path but as an entity as powerful as heaven itself, he didn't need to travel through void normally. He is everywhere within his domain.
As a person who had ventured in assassination techniques for a quite a long while in his previous life, it wasn't difficult to strike his neck with absolute precision and strength needed to kill a half immortal but yet this Vorinath elf still persisted for a moment upon attack from millions of layers of spatial bindings before being powerless. World energy formed sealing links over his soul and body making him unconscious.
Outside world is truly deceived by this guy. His combat power can kill any half immortal on this world. Being low key is the way to Dao. Sighing, he took the powerless guy to within his small world the next moment.
The whole process happened in a minuscule fraction of a second that it was gone unnoticed. Within a desolate region of his small world away from the cultivation areas, he left him on the ground.
Upon some consideration he put another seal on his consciousness. 'System do your thing'. He requested as he was still without a way to check if he really possessed a system. Afterall only entities of similar level could mask their system profiling like this guy did.
The familiar energy field he experienced in his past life emnated from his mind into the surrounding covering the unconscious target.
A blinding white light was suddenly teared from the soul the next second. Han Chen could feel the roaring of the tearing soul and consciousness. It was impacting the seal he put, but only shook it a little.
In his past life, his system was pretty much silent other than passive help in increasing comprehension. It's only after million years of existence absorbing avenue of dao, does it's spirit appeared and it unlocked its functions as of now.
Just when Han Chen thought it would be over peacefully, an unexpected change occurred. The extracted system did a final attack on Vorinath's consciousness seal and instantly destroyed it, pulling his consciousness out.
Han Chen activated his domain to suppress the soul consciousness next instant. Missing the escape window, the consciousness of the elven target was bound to system and entered inside him.
Within him, system is absolute, the foreign system which got absorbed got broken down and the space was filled with high level energy of source consciousness. Beside that, the system space was absorbed into him and he got a variety of stuff previous owner left inside.
The consciousness of Vorinath had some spirit will left which offered some defense and was attacking whatever it could target as a last struggle and was without any suspense got devoured by Han Chen's incomparable will power and memories were assimilated.
This guy was a foreign soul, but comes from a place where concepts like cultivation and life level growth exists. He even had some cultivation level before.
Initially being a servant he hadn't achieved anything with knowledge from previous life due to lack of support and resources.
He got reincarnated with sign in system that enabled him to store sign in once a day to once a million years to gain better prizes.
"Ah, this guy had two children from two wives? What should I do with them now?. And also other than targetting my two wives he hadn't done anything truly worse."
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"I have become somewhat soft. " Thinking about his wives subconsciously, he muttered.
" Its best this guy doesn't have any karma with me anymore. It's good that we were, like-minded in following the low profile way to dao, but unfortunately you exposed yourselves to me. It's my habit not giving out villain speech, so sorry for not listening to your last words."
Beneath his feet lay a broken soul and body but he knew it was empty husk for a while. Taking his soul, he devoured the soul's foreign nature and re-transformed it.
Cleared out memories in astral plane and in the biological body about past life, rebirth, system and death, he reattached it back to one.
Initially he thought it would be easier to leave blank memories, but it turns out this guy got a lot of system reward related memories. Seeing nothing could be done.
He effectively preserved the memory of his identity in this life, memory of his children and wives and removed others cleanly tearing out parts of soul with it.
Extracting his bloodline which is now exuding sadness of death of its host due to spirituality, was destroyed of its bloodline memory or inheritance traces.
"It's best to create a new body. " he thought.
The body of tribulation peak layer got destroyed turning into brilliant sources of energy mixing with his inner world. It was a considerable amount.
" Should I just burst some worse ones inside like this? Each one is comparable to years of energy absorption?"
Employing his domain control, he quickly created an elven body with bloodline reattached just like before devoid of previous strength.
Returning to spirit world, the body and soul was reattached and left there. He was like a vegetative person.
It hasn't been long, when a new consciousness suddenly transformed from a higher plane onto him.
Conscious entities can be devoid of any concepts in blank state or with full memories. Memories makes a personality.
The new consciousness would adjust to memory fitting process and display similar habits for anything similar to his past. Later, essentially becomes the other if memory is complete.
Han Chen checked and found out it was a pure one and not any reincarnation, or one carrying a system seed or anything. After assimilating the memories, new Vorinath Althareon woke up.
Now back to being a mortal, he couldn't even see or perceive Han Chen. From the tremor of bloodline his children were already affected previously, and his wives were rushing here.
Han Chen hid behind multiple spatial layers and witnessed their reunion. The elven warrior women who was in a regular golden core quickly found that he has changed very much; weak and powerless than her, devoid of confidence he once shown, but with a confused spirit.
Nevertheless he, but is still her husband. Treating him to rest, she messaged her sister in law, the imperial princess about the news.
She came the next day with her son in disguise. Seeing Han Chen in worse condition for the first time, she faltered at the sight, but still came to him, and checked with her spiritual sense.
She found out that cultivation was gone, soul was in tatters but bloodline still remained. She treated him with spirit nurturing pills which were quite expensive and rare. After seeing body can be re-cultivated they sighed in relief. Luckily their husband retained parts of memories of them otherwise it would have been much more difficult.
But it also made it impossible for her to introduce to her parents and royal court. Looking at her, she plans to delay the process again. Royal family had already planned to marry her to a noble heir, and her lover's strength was her confidence.
May be her husband can re cultivate again in a 100 years? Waking up, he was unable to reply to the reasons for his predicament. He was unable to retrieve any strength. Although originally disheartened at lose of peak cultivation, he started again. Instead of chaotic body, he got a king level spirit body.
Seeing at the people looking for the perpetrator and supporting the poor guy, Han Chen produced a sword in his hand just with a thought.
His sword realm reached the absolute peak of currently established realms. It can cleave anything and everything. The ethereal sword cleaved the space between himself and these people suddenly, certain elusive threads between them broken.
The broken threads were none other than the causality and effect. The threads didn't just cut off but the latent energy just disintegrated the threads going back to themselves.
Now he cannot even be deduced going back in time or even by any immortal. He already did sever these for his women long way back. Now he didn't need to worry about divination by a crazy princess.
The princess being a higher realm felt something amiss as if lost, but others felt nothing.
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