1 Old Katai
The higher realms are habited by existences that already have transcended the mortality and attained a spiritual elevation, freeing themselves from desires and greed for material goods.
At least, this is how mortals human usually see these beings from the higher realms.
Of course, the truth is not always like this. It's not as if these beings didn't possess greed or desire, it's just that the objects of they desire are much more rarer to be found.
However, in the moment that news about any of these desire objects is known ... the immortals will fall.
KABOOM!
A loud explosion sounded, blood-red rays cut through the sky which was filled with heavy clouds dyed with a deep purple so strong that they made the chest of those who look to them squeeze, just with the pressure they emitted.
In the middle of this chaotic and intimidating sky, hundreds of powerful-looking figures pursued a single person.
He was an old worn-out man with a tired face and drooping eyes, he's seemed to have passed by his best years. Wrinkles and scars, that counted about the difficulties of his journey, decorated his face; but if someone looked closely, deep down in to his drooping eyes, one could see an unwavering determination.
"Old Man Katai, just give up at once and hand over the Time Record." Shouted one of the figures who was chase after him. His voice shaking the sky and earth, even a part of the intimidating clouds that swallowed part of sky moved back away.
"This artifact wouldn't even be useful to a decrepit old man like you, hand over now and don't seek your own death!" Another voice sounded like a mighty roar from a primordial beast.
After these two voices, many other protest voices, equally powerful, began to be heard.
"Hand over katai!"
"You fucking old man!"
"If you know what's good for you, just hand over the time record, don't force our hand."
"Don't make me take your miserable life! "
"KATAAI!"
"You old bastard!"
In the middle of so much threat and hatred shouting, the old man just made a deaf ears as if nothing had anything to do with him and only accelerated even more his escape. He slowly and lazily turned his head back as he stared in disdain at the immense group of pursuers.
"Old man your mother, we all have similar ages your arrogant bastards!" Said old Katai in reply to they protests.
Yes, in fact, the old man who was being pursued had about the same age as all his persecutors.
Don't be fooled into thinking that any of them were still in their golden years just because they appeared to be young or middle-aged.
All who were there lived for, at least, thousands of years.
The higher the stage of cultivation, more slowling is your aging. For those present right here, they didn't even have to worry about getting older, they transcended this mortals concept.
They were all divine, immortal and powerful.
Even though they were of the same generation, old Katai seemed much older than others, as if he already had one foot in the grave. That's because his road in cultivation was full with detours, curves, ups and downs; he spent much of his vitality and youth only to get where he was presently.
Without support, without inheritance, without talent, without resources our luck.
he took decades to achieve what some others have achieved in years, centuries to achieve what some others have done in decades.
He was always at the end of line, the last to arrive and last to serve, but he never abandoned his dreams into the cultivation world, it was almost an obsession for him. Even late, he managed to hit the immortality and his peers, although he was the weakest of them all.
As he lost himself in the memories of his tortuous road on into cultivation, he noticed a few hundred cultivators ahead of him and found himself trapped in a siege made up only of the most powerful specialists in the realms.
Seeing himself surrounded, Katai didn't get in panic, on the contrary, he strangely entered on a state of calm that he had never experienced before.
"Haha ha! So many prominent and powerful persons are chasing me and screaming my name so fervently that I can't help but feel embarrassed, I guess I should feel flattered, correct? HAHA! That's what you want, is not it? "Katai hysterically laughed as he held before everyone present a black oval stone that emitted flashes of lights with various colors, as if it were a rainbow.
The stone seemed as real as it was illusory, its black color seemed almost to absord the soul of all who looked at it, like a black hole, even the space distorted around it; the strangest thing was the flashes of lights that the stone emitted, how could a stone so black and opaque emit such beautiful lights? The multi-colored lights danced on its surface and jumped around it, like a northern Lights
It was so mystical and mysterious that no one dared to believe it was an artifact created by any living being.
Only the heavens themselves could give life to something like that.
"Enough! Enough of your bullshit decrepit old man, immediately give me the time record and I promise to preserve your life!" Said a sturdy brown-skin man wearing an arrogant crystal crown on his head, but if someone look carefully, was possible to notice that the crown was actually a pair of curve horns how creating a beautiful outline of a majestic crown.
"Don't yell your bullshit, stupid barbarian! Old Katai, hand over the time record to me and I assure you that the temple of prosperity will finance all of your future cultivation from now on." Said another cultivator who looks like a Buddhist monk, but even he wasn't able to disguise the gleam of greed in his eyes.
And just like that, began a heated session of offers for the time record that was in Katai's possession.
It is not as if all those experts didn't want simply use force to take the stone away from Katai, but the time record was a very mystical and mysterious artifact.
He hasn't only stored the obscure concepts and truths about the time law, but also links itself to the first person to touch his surface.
Ever since they came to this kingdom fragment, everyone had experience and overcome countless mortal trials to finally find the time record.
In the first three times the record was found, the possessors of the stone entered into bloody and desperate battles, just to die in utter indignation before everyone finally realized that if the owners of the record died the stone would disappear and appear into a totally random place of the kingdom .
Katai, who never had even a single ounce of luck in his entire life, experienced the most insane event he could imagine. After the death of the third owner, the stone appeared directly in his hands.
From a certain perspective, it can't be said that it was unlucky, but it certainly wasn't luck either.
He didn't have enough strength to keep the stone in his possession nor either the skills needed to do this, but, after living by himself in this cruel cultivation world where dog eat dog and hypocrisy and arrogance prevail, him have developed himself into a selfish and extremely stubborn person.
Hand over? It never crossed his mind, not for a second.
And so, he began his desperate escape.
Fearing that next time the stone would fall into the hands of someone more powerful or with a prominent background, the experts decided not to immediately kill that fourth owner and the story unfolded until the present moment.
Katai knew that if he wanted to survive his only choice was to grant and accept some of the offers, or he would surely die today, but he didn't want to concede, not this time, he refused to bow his head; something that was able to change the destiny of any being and place the person at the top of pyramid, shoulder to shoulder along with the greatest existences... Should he willingly give this chance of fate to others? hell no! He would rather die than do this.
everyone might even call him a fool for doing that, but he was tired of always being in the background no matter how high his cultive came or how great the effort he put in, he was always the servant, the footman, the extra.
But not this time...
"Gentlemen, calm down! Please calm down! You all want the time record, don't you?" In the face of all the experts present Katai smiled and, with a extreme fast move, swallowed the time record.
This action left everyone baffled. Swallowing the time record wasn't different from committing suicide, one must know that the stone itself is formed entirely by the concentration of a large amount of primordial energy, swallowing it would cause teh person explode by the extreme excess of energy, not even the soul would escape of this calamity.
