7 Cultivate

The soul is inspecting the seal, as Vita was inspecting the soul itself. The seal wasn't that large, it is square-shaped, 3 meters by 3 meters. "There is a cracked spot. It looks deliberate." said the soul. "I saw that as well, maybe the one who made this made it so that a portion of the soul comes out," Vita said as she touched the cracked spot.

"Well, there is only one way to find out right?" Says the soul as he pushes his hand into the seal with the cracked spot. "DON'T!!"

Screamed Vita, but she was too late. The soul felt he was sucked into it and everything went black.

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When the soul entered the seal, he wasn't looking at it from outside like all other Impact points, the soul is looking from the inside.

In the beginning, there was only primordial chaos around. Chaos cycles upon chaos cycles passed until that primordial chaos gained consciousness. That simple consciousness had nothing to do it just is. It started to gather primordial chaos as it has nothing to do. It doesn't even think, it just does it. After gathering it for a year, the gathered amount looked like a black hole. The consciousness was learning though. Looking at the black hole, it created another one, looking exactly like it, in under a second. He doesn't know what it is even after creating it. It tried to combine them. It clashed the two black holes together. As it exploded the consciousness fell asleep.

After an uncountable number of years later. The consciousness began to stir once more. In front of it, there are glowing white things, round things that have different colors on them. It even saw a creature that is so long that it couldn't see the head nor the end of it.

The most eye-catching for the consciousness, however, is the beautiful flowing mist. Inside of this river-like mist are balls of light, seemingly riding the mist. A ball of light sometimes goes out of the river and sometimes a ball of light rides the river from the round thing the consciousness saw.

It went to the round thing, directly from where it saw the wild ball of light came from. It even dragged the ball of light with it.

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Someone's POV

A few moments before his soul entered the stream.

'I guess this is the end. I tried my best. I'm so sorry my love, I couldn't return to you.' Thought Razzeroth. He is a demonkin with a lean but toned body. His skin is grayish with a tribal tattoo that covers his right arm to his chest, then extends to his back. Horns above his eyebrows that go to the side of his head, the tips pointing upwards. His pitch-black pupils are dilated, because of the pain. He is inside a forest with a big part of his stomach missing. A few meters away from him, a wolf-type beast is on the ground with a hole on its side. A chunk of his flesh still between the teeth of the beast.

He was in the forest because he was searching for a medicine to give his wife. She was sick with a disease that will kill her according to the local doctor. The sunlit-lily is the only flower that can save her. It can be found in a pond at the middle of the forbidden forest. The forest was riddled with beasts that has cultivation levels up to Primal Daoist levels. [1]

He was attacked by a shadow hunter. A black wolf that enters the shadows to travel. A shadow hunter is usually a meter long, but as they advance in cultivation, they grow in size. The one in front of him is 3 meters long. This one is even at the wanxiang adept level, the same as him. He should've seen the shadow hunter, as he was a practitioner of the dao of destiny. However, because Razzeroth wants to save his wife, he didn't care what beasts may appear, as long as he can find the sunlit-lily.

The shadow hunter jumped up from his own shadow. He was surprised, to say the least, but he deflected it. They had a few exchanges. He used an art that gave his punch a piercing power that struct the wolf on its neck. The part that was hit now has a fist size hole on it. After the hit made contact to its neck, the wolf aimed a swipe at Razzeroth's leg. The swipe did a deep cut that took a bit of his flesh. One of the gashes is opened enough to see bones.

They separated and began to look at each other's eyes. The wolf-beast has white eyes that contradict its black fur. Razzeroth readies his arm as he uses his taiji-force to strengthen it. He also starts to use his dao of destiny to see the possible ways the wolf will attack. The wolf's body starts to exhume aura that is also as black as its fur. The white eyes are now turning red. The two of them are now aiming to end their battle. A loud growl coming from the wolf's mouth, muscles tensing, it charged.

Razzeroth also charged with his arms glowing. Using his dao of destiny, he saw how the wolf enters the shadow and almost seemingly teleported, and exits behind him aiming its mouth at his side. Razzeroth still went with his charged and waited for the opportune time to counter-attack. The wolf enters a shadow and teleports behind him, aiming its mouth at him. Razzeroth suddenly turns around. He aimed a punch and pierced the side of the wolf. The punch went through the wolf's lung and heart. The wolf then bit Razzeroth's side. The bite went through his skin like butter. With a pull from its mouth and the momentum of its charge, it took half of Razzeroth's stomach. Razzeroth looks at his stomach and fell backward onto the ground. The wolf still landed on its feet, but it still fell on its side, as it has now a pierced lung and heart.

As Razzeroth dies, his soul flew away. But instead of joining the river of souls like the stories has said, a black mist is dragging it back to him.

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The black mist arrived where the ball of light came from. On the ground, he saw the body of a man. The black mist just looks back and forth between the body and the ball of light. It tried to push the ball of light into the body, but it feels like the ball of light can't enter the body.

The black mist is confused, so instead, it copied the man on the ground. Another Razzeroth is now standing, but it also has a part of his stomach missing. The new Razzeroth then tried to put the soul into himself, and it did.

The black mist saw Razzeroth's full memories. From his birth, to how he was orphaned because of poverty. As he sees the memories, he looks at his stomach and heals himself using black mists. He also began to learn the language, cultures, a few geographies that Razzeroth knows. But what impacted him the most is Razzeroth's personality.

Razzeroth was, above all else, kind. Even with nothing left, he still tries to help everyone that needs help, even now, he helps the orphanage that took care of him. He also saw the endless love he had for everyone he loves, his wife, the mother at the orphanage and his comrade in arms that he lost in a hunt. He wanted to emulate Razzeroth's personality because he feels the love that returns for him, but one of them is a bit weird. 'I'll ask him later' the mist-man thought.

But that wasn't all the mist-man saw inside, he saw what people use to fight, to kill and to defend. Cultivation. He saw a path that Razzeroth was going through. The path that the people call, the dao.

As he looks through with it, he starts thinking for himself, 'Can I cultivate too?' He sits in a meditating pose and started cultivating.

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[1] I used the Desolate Era's naming of cultivation, maybe a bit of its description as well, but I will add my own twists to it. You'll see.