Chapter-3 A Renegade

Ryan entered that space and felt that it was devoid of profound energy. The only thing there was a golden scroll floating with some words on top of it:

"HEATHENS WAY"

Ryan was overjoyed and thought, "This must be at least a top level earth grade or even low level heaven grade cultivation technique, my life is set."

"You brat! Dare compare me with a trash heaven grade cultivation technique. Do you want to die?" A grating voice sounded from the scroll.

"Motherf*, how did this thing know what I was thinking? and why can a cultivation technique talk?" Ryan screamed loudly.

"Are you stupid? I told you not to call me a cultivation technique. Brat! This scroll is not a mere cultivation technique that submits to heaven's will. This is the way of the heathens, a completely different path where you can rise to the true peak. Your future won't be controlled by anyone, unlike the others, who are heaven's slaves. You would be able to rob your fate from heavens and forge ahead with your own destiny. At that time, you could challenge the whole world. Even the heavens itself won't be your match. Some ignorant bumpkin like you won't understand the true worth of this." The voice spoke with a dominating pride, which looked down on everyone.

"Jiji, you are definitely delusional and speaking difficult words which makes no sense. How am I controlled by anyone? I don't even care about who heavens is, I just want to get super strong and live a long long time and get many women for my pleasure. As long as it doesn't stop me from doing what I want, why would I make the heavens my enemy, I don't want to die so soon." Although Ryan wanted to get powerful enough that he could ignore the rules, he could do that without pissing off the heavens. It's not like heavens would stop him from cucking men and stealing women. Ryan knew enough about this world to know that it was normal for that to happen. Some Emperors even had more than 100 wives and concubines.

"Hehe you think you are not controlled and can even get strong and live a long time?! Truly ignorance is bliss. Since your soul is so strong, then let me guess that you are originally not from this universal axis and reincarnated from a different one?" The voice said mockingly. Ryan was startled, because this was a secret nobody knew. "Looking at your appearance, I can gather that I am correct. The laws of heaven which govern this world do not allow reincarnation. So the moment your soul was transported to this world, you became an intruder to them. You are an existence which heavens do not allow, so you are destined to die at the moment of your first tribulation. Even absorbing the profound energy from the surroundings would be an impossible task. You would only have to rely on spiritual treasures of heaven and earth to cultivate. You are a Renegade in heaven's eyes."

"Stupid bastard assh*le heavens! Mannnn I can't catch a break. Is that why grandfather always made me train my body? Did he know something?" Ryan pondered why only he was tortured by his grandfather. Otherwise who would be so cruel to start training a boy of 5 years age? "Wait a second, this jiji anyway sounds a bit sinister and could be trying to fool me. Try to act calm like the main characters of novels are in any situation." Thinking that Ryan tried to make a calm face but it only made him look worse. He looked like someone trying to hold back tears while smiling.

"Ughh Why did I have to come across such a stupid successor? Did you forget I can listen to your thoughts? sigh* If I hadn't been stuck here for a million years here I would have waited for someone better. I don't have much time before I dissipate. I have to find a host to rest my soul. You would do" the voice lamented. "Brat you don't know but I was a top expert when I was alive, I wont lower myself to lie to someone who is still green."

"If you were really a top expert, then why are you miserably stuck here in a scroll?" Ryan scoffed. "Jiji I am not one you can underestimate."

"Motherf*, if that snake of a friend and that bitch lover of mine had not stabbed me in the back, you think I would die. Once I gain my strength back I will definitely torture that f*cker to death and sell that bitch to the most famous brothel." This was the first time that voice had cursed. It sounded full of anguish and hatred. Then it focused on Ryan again. "You think you have a choice, I can easily force you to assimilate with the heathens way. I explained it you before since I wanted you to understand its worth. But since you continue to be foolish I can only force my way. You will thank me later"

With that the scroll immediately flew right in between Ryan's eyebrows. His body started glowing with a golden aura. The golden scroll's soul appeared inside Ryan's soul sea and was immediately impressed by his vast and immeasurable strength of the soul. Ryan felt a sharp pain and tried to fight against it but he still didn't know how to use his soul because he didn't have a spirit. He let out a howl of agony unwilling to surrender. He remembered the words he said to himself after being reborn in his new life. "This life I would be unrestrained and bow to no one."

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His blood started boiling and beating as if it wanted to break out his body. Roars of thousands of dragons and screeches of devils started reverberating from his blood as if they were furious. A sinister black vein pattern started spreading out on his body and covered his left eye which changed its color to black. Half his body looked as if it had transformed into a devil. Suddenly, a humongous and majestic dragon manifested in Ryan's soul sea. It had huge scales which were constantly flickering in and out of existence. If Ryan were able to see this, he would connect this dragon's body features as similar to the white noise screen he used to get on television when the antenna was broken.

ROARR

The dragon roared and emitted an invisible aura which immediately suppressed the scroll making its bright golden halo dim. When the silhouette of the scroll's soul felt the aura, it was so shocked that it forgot to fight back. "How? How is this possible? A dragon born from the primeval origin. Chaos dragon? They shouldn't exist anymore. They were banished." Before the voice could think anymore, the dragon slashed its claw at the scroll which immediately sealed the scroll in a fold of the soul sea.

Ryan had lost his consciousness the moment the chaos dragon appeared in his soul sea. Some changes were happening in his body, all his blood vessels and meridians were widening. Even the ones leading to his little brother had widened considerably. Additionally, there was something forming on the back deltoids of his left shoulder. It was like someone was slowly burning and tracing a 3 tomoe mark there. The black vein pattern slowly retracted itself into the tattoo mark and disappeared.

When this was finished Ryan woke up with a stinging pain on his shoulder. He tried to recall what happened. Before losing consciousness he only saw a silhouette of the golden scroll and then just heard a dragon roar. He checked his soul sea and found that the scroll was floating in a corner with chains latched to it. He knew that something in his body reacted which stopped the scroll from assimilating with him. He even tried to call out the jiji there but no reply came. "Looks like I killed him somehow. That bastard tried to take over my innocent virgin body. Serves him right" If the scroll's soul had heard this it would have spat metaphorical mouthful of blood. Since it never tried to take over his body.

"I have to get back to home quickly or others might start to worry" With that he go out of that empty void. As soon as he got out the space, it collapsed and water poured into that area returning it to normal. Ryan swam out of the lake and saw that sun was still rising and that he could still make it in time for the training.

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1 Jiji: people call an old man or even dirty old man with disrespect

2 white noise image: tv static "https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/sections/creative-nonfiction/white-noise-black-screen"

3 tomoe mark: you can search sasuke's curse mark to know what it looks like