1 Chapter 01. Punishment

Dark! Tonight the entire universe is pitch black. Lightning flashes that continue to strike as the only light that adorns the night sky, its booming and deafening sound is a lullaby for all living things, storms, and rain dance freely on almost all land on earth, seawater experiences great shocks.

The mountains spewed out their contents, the moon and all the stars in the universe were dim, no one dared to show their light. Dark! Tonight the entire dark universe witnessed the wrath of God.

In the realm of the Gods, in the sky palace to be exact, a rare occurrence occurred. All the Gods and Goddesses gathered, watching the Goddess of life receive punishment from the God of the entire universe as well as the God who held the supreme throne.

"RULES REMAIN RULES!!" A voice echoed all over again, at the same time, lightning struck the body of a woman who was in the center of the sky palace grounds. Her body drooped weakly, her hands and feet were chained, her sweat was dripping and filling every curve of her body. The dress she was wearing still looked intact, but her spirit and soul were eroded every time the divine lightning indulged her body.

Her lips kept screaming for forgiveness. But what can she do, everything has happened. Due to her fascination with the life of the middle world, she broke the rules of the sky palace and left the upper world. Regret always comes at the end, there is nothing left but the death penalty for her.

The lightning continued to strike until the gleam of light that emanated from the body of the Goddess of life slowly dimmed and dissipated, leaving behind a pile of flesh without a soul and spirit. Witnessing this, all the Gods and Goddesses who were present were silent with sweat dripping down their bodies. This event is a big lesson for them.

In this world, there are three lives, the life of the underworld, the life of the middle world, and the life of the upper world. Everything runs on its axis. The life of the underworld is the life of devils, the middle world is inhabited by humans, and the upper world is the life of gods and goddesses.

Every life has its own rules and systems.

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Middle World

Every living human is endowed with spiritual power from God. Spirit power was a power that would awaken when one was ten years old. Spirit power has five levels. Each level has three sections, namely low, medium and peak.

The five levels were Spirit User, Spirit Master, Spirit Grandmaster, Mage, and Sage.

Spirit users have pink spirit power, usually, those with this power are just ordinary people who have a hard time increasing spirit power. Their spirit power can only be used to help them in their daily life. Many people are stuck at this level until they die.

Spirit masters have green spirit power, Spirit Grandmasters have yellow spirit power, Mages have red Spirit power, and Sages have Black Spirit power.

Each level of spirit power had a very significant difference just like the earth and the sky, and could only be increased through the cultivation process.

It's been three days, life on earth has broken. The sun and moon are very reluctant to appear, dark, storms occur everywhere and manage to destroy everything they achieve. This is a great disaster for all humanity.

However, all of that did not affect the mood of the people in the mist sect. The chaos that ensued was nothing compared to everyone's worry in anticipation of the birth of the sect leader's first child.

Yellow light filled the mist sect's night sky, it came from the spiritual power of the elders protecting several buildings within the sect.

The mist sect was one of the sects of the top three sects in the Barak Kingdom, the Neverlay Empire. The Neverlay Empire was one of the empires located on the mainland of the Central Continent.

Tension set in, everyone was waiting for the tiny figure they had been waiting for. Until finally a cry was heard, breaking everyone's worries. Including Xiao Jun, the sect leader.

"Young Master is born, Young Master is born, Young Master is born…" shouted an elder who was in the room. By using his spirit power, his voice managed to be heard in everyone's ears. A scream that brings joy to everyone.

"The baby is a girl, sir," said a physician.

"Is that true?" Xiao Jun immediately approached the baby, and it turned out to be right. Their child is a girl. This was beyond his expectations. A sigh escaped from between his lips.

"Give me," he said, then smiled. So what if it's a girl? It's still his daughter, his biological daughter.

"Ahh…" another scream of pain rang out.

"Congratulations sir, it looks like you are going to have twins," said the physician again and then returned to assist the delivery of the two women, and only a few minutes later, the second baby girl was born, the baby has died, along with her mother who died too.

After that birth, the storm and all the disasters that filled the land gradually subsided.

This was both good and sad news for all members of the mist sect, especially Xiao Jun.

"Come out, announce this news to the others," Xiao Jun said to the physician in the room, his breath sounding weak, his voice shaking with sobs.

"O-okay, Master."

After the physician disappeared behind the door, he asked the elder who was also in the room to come out and leave him alone, Xiao-Jun approached his two daughters.

"If it's like this, I'd rather you weren't born into this world," he muttered then shifted and lay down next to his wife and hugged her tightly.

Only a few minutes and his eyelids were swollen from crying, his gaze never left his wife's face, his tears continued to flow without stopping until he unconsciously fell asleep.

At the same time, a ray of light that was so blindingly dazzling appeared in the room, several figures with faint shapes appeared, lined up neatly with their gazes focused on one of the baby girls.

"ACCEPT AND ENJOY YOUR PUNISHMENT ON EARTH."

"LIVE YOUR LIFE AS A HUMAN, YOUR POWER WILL APPEAR SLOWLY WHEN YOUR AGE REACHES 15 YEARS OLD."

"TRY TO SURVIVE. WE WILL WAIT FOR YOU."

Instantly a trident-shaped mark lit up on the baby's forehead. A sign that only the Gods and Goddess possessed. But it only lasted a few seconds, the light slowly dimmed and the trident mark slowly disappeared.

At the same time, the baby suddenly cried very loudly and managed to wake Xiao Jun up.

In just one night, news of the birth of twin daughters accompanied by sad news spread quickly.

Time flew by so fast, the chaos that had occurred everywhere due to the natural disaster was now slowly improving and several cities in the Barak Kingdom were starting to recover, as were the top three sects.

All the buildings that were previously hit by the storm are now back on their feet, the royal city and palace have also returned to their original state. Everyone returned to their normal activities. Not only in the barracks empire but also in the neighboring kingdoms throughout the Neverlay empire.