8 C8
• {Year: 16.6} •
The next day after, Lin Shen finally appeared online in the chat group as The Last Divine Dragon.
Seeing this, many lurking members emerged but none of them spoke. They just didn't know what to say...
The Last Divine Dragon hadn't typed in anything yet, it seemed that he was skimming through the chat history of yesterday. Fearing that he would indeed be beaten by this senior, Thrice Reckless immediately spoke.
[Thrice Reckless Mad Sabre: "Senior Divine Dragon! I apologize for thinking that Divine Dragons would be delicious!"]
Northern River's Loose Cultivator and other 'online' members twitched their mouths. 'Brother Thrice Reckless... Couldn't you word it properly?'
[The Last Divine Dragon: "Oh? So you are saying this lord is not tasty then?"]
[Thrice Reckless Mad Sabre: "No! I meant you must be delicious..."]
The 'online' members stifled their laughter at his ordeal. His death-seeking mouth was indeed very death seeking!
[Thrice Reckless Mad Sabre: "Senior, I beg you to forgive me! 😭"] He beseeched him, not daring to seek death any further.
True Monarch Yellow Mountain saw this and felt this was familiar...
[The Last Divine Dragon: "Very well, this lord shall forgive you... if you cut off your tongue."]
The other members stiffened. Crap! Isn't this Divine Dragon overbearing?!
[The Last Divine Dragon: "Haha! I'm joking! I do have a sense of humor. Oh, before you misunderstand, I'm sixteen years old. Not some old monster."]
They gaped and processed this new information. A sixteen years old Divine Dragon...
[Northern River's Loose Cultivator: "Senior, what is your Stage if you don't mind?"]
[The Last Divine Dragon: "Eh? I'm at Sixth Stage: True Monarch. But I should be nearing Seventh Stage, since my nascent souls are already condensing."]
"..." The 'online' members was silent the whole time and only sent rows of ellipsis. A sixteen years old at True Monarch and he's already nearing Venerable... Wait, nascent souls?
[True Monarch Yellow Mountain: "Nascent souls? As in plural?"]
[The Last Divine Dragon: "Yes. I have four of them. They're currently on their respective lotuses in my spirit ocean."]
[Northern River's Loose Cultivator: "...S-Spirit ocean?"] He all but sputtered out. What the f*ck is a spirit ocean?
[The Last Divine Dragon: "Mhmm. Originally, I thought it would be a spirit lake at first, but it's gotten so large and deep that it can hold Asia continent itself. So, wouldn't it be technically a ocean then?"]
The 'online' members felt their logic of cultivation breaking all by one dragon. A sixteen years old man at Sixth Stage. Four nascent souls with four lotuses. A Spirit Ocean. What else? A super powerful life wheel?
[The Last Divine Dragon: "Ah, I have high school, see ya."] He exclaimed before going offline. Right after, everyone who read those messages was struck with depression...
Why did Heavens send a aberrant to ruthlessly downgrade them...?
The 'online' members slowly went off and went to their dwellings to cry.
• {Year : 17} •
A new year began as Lin Shen excelled through his high school with his three childhood and best friends. The four of them finished high school earlier than expected, but their families didn't mind since they were also proud of them and their accomplishments.
In these 6 months, Lin Shen would often lurk in Nine Provinces Number One Group and sometimes take several missions given just because he was bored. Though most of the missions he took were hard to do, Lin Shen would always finish them easily and ensure best performance in it. However, he never asked for anything but more missions to do instead of rewards. This caused debts to increase, making Lin Shen one of the people to hold a lot of favors in Nine Provinces Number One Group. He also changed his nickname to befit his current cultivation and race, as well as the universe.
Lin Shen wasn't really fond of communicating in phones, rather in person. He felt like it was a coward's way to communicate between cultivators who courted death or hid their true personality, but that was just being him from past life as Heavenly Emperor. Becoming the strongest Heavenly Emperor known ever in a universe would do that to their pride.
Lin Shen's parents also learned of cultivation and sort, at first they didn't really believe in it. But when he said that females would look youthful, Lin Mama immediately underwent the hundred days of foundation building. Lin Papa just need a bit of persuasion, such as 'you'll be able to fly swords and know kung fu'. Lin Shen closed his eyes in shame at how easy convincing them was.
His three true friends was also advancing in their cultivation. Jack became a Third Stage: Battle King which was a proud small accomplishment to his small family of cultivators.
However, Ying Yue easily became Second Stage, being a True Master among mortals. She had only recently become a cultivator yet, within 3 or 4 years, she became Second Stage: True Master. This showed she had a wide future ahead of her, with the man of her dreams.
Unfortunately, Yu Yan was still at First Stage: Beyond Mortal but she didn't mind since there was a long future ahead for her. However, even though she stayed at First Stage, her knowledge of miscellaneous things of cultivation slowly became wide. She now knew alchemy, talismans, and small arrays.
As for him, Lin Shen, his nascent souls was still slowly forming. Since he had four to form, it was even more slower but he did not care since he was already strong enough to defend himself. He also estimated that the nascent souls would take a long while to completely condense together, about 25-50 years. Lin Shen didn't mind this since there were many ways to speed up the condensation.
His spirit ocean was also still enlarging though slightly. He wondered if it was going to become a full blown world of Holy Draconic Spirit Liquid... The island wasn't so small anymore, it grew larger and also had several plants beginning to sprout. Lin Shen was starting to think that he probably accidentally made a small literal world within his body, where living beings could live in...
The Life Sword also grew stronger and radiated heavy pressure as Lin Shen solidified his foundation. It grew sharper and became more divine yet holding a simple image.
…
Lin Shen walked through the hallways of Elementary School of Jiang. He lazily looked around, searching for something at night. He could've easily spread out his spiritual senses to find the target, but he was bored and did not want to finish it easily. He was currently undergoing a mission given by a member of Nine Provinces Number One Group.
The mission tasked him to go to the Elementary School of Jiang and find the 'reason' of disturbances during the night of full moon. Truthfully, several of members in the chat group already knew why it was happening but they refused to take the mission. Lin Shen did not understand why, so he decided to take it just to see why.
"Oh..." He paused when he arrived to the corner at the end of hallway. Lin Shen suddenly shivered in disgust and moved to the corner. "So that's why they did not want to do this."
A large yet feeble-looking monster with several eyes over its head turned to Lin Shen when he turned by the corner. It wailed out ghastly sounds and invoked tremblings over the buildings. It also had several anatomies of mammals all over its body.
(AN : Anatomies of mammals, in other words, p*nis, a*shole, and v*gina of a variety of animals. Yeah, what a disgusting image I just made...)
"So disgusting!" Lin Shen blanched and pointed at it with a flame burning in front of his index finger. "Flame of Purification : Banishment!"
Pure white flame shot toward the monster and flickered, beginning to enlarge. The large disgusting monster wailed out as the flames spread through its body, melting it. However, as it melted, it suddenly spout out several dark souls.
"Eh?" Lin Shen jumped backwards and looked confused at this. Flame of Purification was supposed to be the enemy of evilness, yet it didn't harm the dark souls. It meant that the dark souls held no evil, only mere darkness. "So the deformed monster hunted for pure dark souls... but for what reason?"
He smiled slightly. Since this was new information, it meant that his mission was not ending so easily as expected.
"Alright!" Lin Shen waved his right hand and wrapped all of the pure dark souls into a orb. "You all will be helping me in finding the creator of the deformed monster."
The pure dark souls couldn't even budge away from the orb as they were absorbed into it. They wailed out their curses and begs. Apparently they wanted to leave the world and end their consciousness. Lin Shen merely flashed a 'warm' smile at them.
"Shut the f*ck up, or I'll ensure your end to be the worst."
They instantly felt chilled and stopped resisting. Finally having them in the orbs and contained, Lin Shen skipped to the exit while bringing out his phone to go onto Nine Provinces Number One Group.
[Divine Monarch of Dragons: "Hey! I destroyed the deformed monster, but it spouted out some dark souls, so I'm going to continue the mission."]
Several lurking members widened their eyes out at this. The reason for this was because dark souls were very rare to come by. Pure dark souls were even more rare, so if they knew if it was several pure dark souls, they would've instantly asked if he needed anything to exchange for those.
[Venerable Seventh Path: "Oh? I did not expect for a simple eradication mission to lead to this discovery. Very well, I shall increase the reward upon completion. Please proceed with caution, Divine Monarch."]
The 'online' members read this and twitched their mouths. Venerable Seventh Path never knew that Divine Monarch did not take any rewards and only requested for more difficult missions, which caused a lot of favors building for him. It was also the first time Divine Monarch took a mission from Venerable Seventh Path, who rarely sent out them.
Now that they were reminded of the fact, about Lin Shen building up a lot of favors from others, they silently wondered what kind of requests would he make when the time came.
[Northern River's Loose Cultivator: "Venerable Seventh Path, Divine Monarch doesn't take rewards, he only requests for difficult missions. This is also why Senior has a lot of favors for him to use."] He explained.
[Venerable Seventh Path: "Ah, I see. I apologize about that, Divine Monarch. Next time I have a difficult mission, I will send them to you if you are available."]
[Divine Monarch of Dragons: "No probs. Also, I may not be taking any missions for awhile. I found a small world and want to journey in there to see if there is anything fun in there as well as any legacies left."] He said, to which several 'online' members were surprised at. Small worlds were a rarity to see in Earth, due to the cultivation world being a secret to the public and not everyone in Earth cultivates.
[Northern River's Loose Cultivator: "Senior, may I join your journey? I have been stuck at the peak of my stage, and need some assistance of outside to breakthrough."] Instantly after, his number one rival appeared and was met with angered message.
[Copper Trigrams: "What?! You're at the peak already?! Screw this sh*t, I'm going with you too!"]
[Northern River's Loose Cultivator: "F*ck off! Your entire being will bring doom to us, don't bother coming!"]
[Copper Trigrams: "I have divined your fortune! Oh~! Your fortune for a whole month will be full of Devil's bad luck, haha!"]
[Northern River's Loose Cultivator: "I see... 😏"] This fortune made by Copper Trigrams only furthered his decision in ensuring that he went with Divine Monarch. Why? It was because whenever Copper Trigrams did a divination on anyone, the real result would be the opposite of whatever came out of his mouth or hands.
…
"Heh." Lin Shen shook his head as he put away his phone. He looked at the dark orb that held several pure dark souls in his hand. "Hmm... Pure dark souls with their own consciousness..."
Arriving to outside, he took a detour to the crowded streets. It was crowded because a festival was happening, and Lin Shen liked those. It would let him have a peace of mind, away from thoughts and cultivation matters.
As he took his time walking to the crowded street, he heard laughs and chatters of children with several adults shouting out to them. Lin Shen smiled.
He took a step out of the alley he was in, light brimmed. His silky black hair fluttered with his casual clothes of short shirt and pants. Though he used a disguising technique to hide his golden hair and peerless features, he still looked a handsome and manly male. Several eyes were already attached onto his figure and surprise filled them, after several pictures they turned away. Few young women still leered at his body and face though, showing slight lust in their eyes.
'Hmm?' Lin Shen sensed a familiar presence nearby the crowded street as he walked through. Stalls by stalls, people covered and children enjoyed them. Nearing the familiar presence, he smiled.
The person did not notice yet, since Lin Shen discreetly used a technique that hid his cultivation to a mortal, so she did not recognize him.
"Ying Yue..." Lin Shen called out softly. He was about to approach but shook his head. He still had the mission to do. 'And if I bring the orb near her, it'll definitely react.'
The reason for this was because of Ying Yue's physique. It was also why she cultivated easily. Her physique was considered rare in this universe, but back in his universe, it was considered as uncommon grade. Its name was 'Spiritual Body Physique'. Though its name would give off the feeling of rarity, it wasn't. It was easy to obtain if you had the required ingredients or correct cultivation manual that would change your physique to it. At least 25% of new cultivators would first obtain Spiritual Body Physique because, though small, it still assisted them in their cultivation.
Lin Shen was still surprised to see Spiritual Body Physique in the universe he was reincarnated in. Any uncommon physiques of his past universe, were considered rare or super rare in this universe. Yet, Ying Yue was naturally born with it. However, since she never knew of cultivation until Lin Shen, her natural physique remained unawakened.
Spiritual Body Physique provided the possessor a spirit of their own. The spirit would refine their body and cultivate slowly while the possessor could just do nothing or provide their spirit to speed up their progress. It was basically an assisting bot for cultivators.
The orb held several dark souls, with their own consciousness. This meant that they would easily take over the spirit easily if they met, which was why Spiritual Body Physique would be immediately changed for a better physique when unneeded. They didn't want a dark soul or old fogies' soul following and watching their whole life after all.
Lin Shen looked at Ying Yue who wore her beautiful dress with her friends. She looked like she was waiting for her driver to pick her and her friends up and drive them to a party. He smiled slightly and turned while muttering a sentence to be carried to her ears. "Have fun, Yue'er."
He disappeared with a step, missing Ying Yue's instant reaction. She turned around swiftly and searched, she heard the familiar voice and knew it was Lin Shen. But she could only search in vain, not seeing him. In the end, Ying Yue just sighed and smiled. "Yeah, I will."
…
With a single step, Lin Shen appeared in a abandoned temple. Though abandoned, it still looked well cared. The reason why he came to here instead of anywhere else, was because he felt a cluster of darkness element surging around here. The orb that held pure dark souls nearly cracked just by being in presence of the dirty darkness element. This element was dirty because it was evil.
Lin Shen just brought his index finger. "Flame of Purification : Brillance."
A blink and white flashed all over the temple, causing a surge of dark mist to appear and countless voices wailed out.
"Die! Die! DIE!"
"Just let me sleep forever..."
"Why...? Why?! WHY?!"
"Kill them! Kill everyone for abandoning you! Do it!"
"Die scum! Scums doesn't deserve to live!"
"Murder! You murderer!"
Lin Shen frowned at this and picked his ear. 'Someone's purposely doing this. By doing this, they would be able to convert kind and wouldn't-kill-a-bug people into evil criminals or suicidal...'
Having enough of the voices taunting him, he flashed his golden eyes. "Shut up!"
His deep voice frightened the dark mist into silence. However, they did not receded. It was as if something was trapping them, which was good in a way. That way, none of the mist would escape and try converting one.
"Hmm..." Lin Shen walked to the temple and saw that it was brimming with evil energy. "So it seems that the darkness was provided, while the evil taints the provided darkness."
He scrutinized the temple more accurately, seeing several runes drawn on the different stones.
[Taint]
[Conversion]
[Containment]
[Breeding Amplification]
[Clone : Timed (196)]
[...]
After reading most of them, Lin Shen got the gist of what exactly this place was. A breeding ground. To create more tainted darkness... to create a world of evil. Arriving to the conclusion, he brought out his phone and was glad that he still had the connection.
He got on Nine Provinces Number One Group.
[Divine Monarch of Dragons: "I've found a breeding ground. It's creating tainted darkness and according to what I felt when it tried to convert me... it can easily change several ten thousands people in a month."]
The lurking members immediately watched this with seriousness.
[Venerable Seventh Path: "Are you sure? Where are you right now?"]
[Divine Monarch of Dragons: "Still in the breeding ground. The location's #####. I'll be fine, so I'll wait for you to make decision."]
[Venerable Seventh Path: "I am coming, please be careful and do not succumb to their desires."]
[Northern River's Loose Cultivator: "That's far away from where I am currently, so I apologize for not coming."]
[True Monarch Yellow Mountain: "Apologizes, I am too, far away from the location."]
[Copper Trigrams: "I've tried doing a divination and can not receive a result..."] He sulkily said. He and the others knew why he couldn't properly receive the results. It was because Lin Shen was directly involved.
[Fairy Lychee: "Copper Trigrams! Stop running away from me and take your punishment like a man!"] She all but raged. Apparently Copper Trigrams, with his expertise in disguises, used her appearance while doing divinations wherever he went. This caused a lot of trouble and a bit of bad karma to surge forth towards Lychee whenever she visited where Copper Trigrams went.
[Copper Trigrams: "Ah pui! Why would I dare to?! I am but a woman!"]
[Fairy Lychee: "You...!"] She was truly aggravated with this fortune telling b*stard, so she immediately logged out and flew to wherever Copper Trigrams was. As if sensing this, Copper Trigrams also logged out and ran.
[Cave Snow Wolf: "I am coming as well. My pups and pack will be guarding around the location."] The snow wolf informed. He did not like it when someone was planning to have evil plague tens of thousands people.
[Su Clan's Seven: "This will require grave attention. However, does any of you know who would dare to create such weapon? I shall fight him!"]
[Thrice Reckless Mad Sabre: "Me too! To think such thing was created in our grounds...! Not even the beautiful yet flat fairy back then can beat this anger out of me!"]
[Orange Fish Fairy: "You death seeking b*stard! I'm not flat! I originally intended to enjoy my vacation without much, but now I will find and skin you alive!"]
[Thrice Reckless Mad Sabre has logged off.]
[Orange Fish Fairy has logged off.]
[Several 'online' members: "..."] They twitched their mouths. This Thrice Reckless fella truly was death-seeking daoist!
…
Lin Shen chuckled. He put away his phone and started to stroll around the temple. The dark mist wasn't really affecting him since he was a Divine Dragon, a descendant of Divine beings. Every branches of Divine beings always had a passive of being incapable of becoming evil. To actually become evil would be getting rid of the Divine race of your body and soul.
Lin Shen, for one, was not about to lose this chance of having Divine race.
