2 Meeting The Powerful Sage Mo

"What do you think you're doing inside my body?" Suddenly an old man's voice asked.

Hearing the old man's voice, Linley was shocked and wondered where the voice came from. Maybe he was talking to himself? The voice sounded too real to be fake. This had to be real. Thinking about the old man's words that the child's body was now his, Linley became worried. Maybe he was dreaming? He muttered to himself in his heart; Clearly this is the voice of a delusional old man speaking to a delusional boy. How can my body belong to someone else? "This is my body, not yours, old man." 

"Yours? Do you know how long I've kept this body for myself? No, I don't think so. This was long before the universe ever thought of creating you. So that makes this body mine, isn't that right?"

His fear gradually disappeared. Linley couldn't help but laugh. - Before I was created? Well, old man, you see, I am not as old as you, and this body is young. This means that I am the rightful owner of my body. Besides, where are you talking about?

The old man suddenly sighed. "Oh, Is that so? You have no idea what's going on here, do you? Well, since I'm idly incapacitated here, I've got nothing but time to listen to your blabbering."

"Blabbering? Old man, don't make me angry."

"Hmm? So, what will you do when you get angry?"

"I'm still thinking about it, old man. How about that?"

"How about I just pinch you to death right now?"

"We're just catching fun, old man. No need to pinch me to death. How can you even think of hurting me, a child?"

"But you're not a child, are you?"

Seriously, old man. Why are you inside my body? Who really are you?"

"Who am I? Let me tell you something, child. I'm as old as the forgotten lore. Even my name is so old that many couldn't remember it. There's no need to recall it since it's been so long when it was last mentioned. Anyway, you can call me Mighty Sage.

Mighty Sage. Linley couldn't help but smile in her heart. It might all have been a hallucination. On the other hand, it might be real as things were pointing out. So he thought, if he could exist in this world, what would be the possibility of the old one actually existing under its present circumstances? Slowly, he said. "How is this even possible? You even forgot your own name. You must be really old, probably older than the universe."

"Huh?" Sage Mo, couldn't help but scolded. "I'm trying to talk to you about important issues, but you're making fun of me? How about I slap your head off your shoulders?"

Linley suddenly stuck out his tongue using his own imagination. He just needed to think about it, since this old man could see his thoughts. "You're the one that said you've forgotten your own name, not me, old man."

"When did I ever tell you that? I said since they last mentioned my name. Are you deliberately looking for death?"

"Of course not, old man. I already died once. I don't want to repeat that. I just forgot you've mentioned that part." After a long silence, Linley's voice was heard. "I wonder how old you are, great sage?"

Sage Mo thought for a moment and suddenly said: "How old am I? Hmm, well, I can tell you that I have been in this world for over fifty thousand years, probably around hundred thousand years."

"Gracious God!" Linley suddenly felt dizzy. Hundred thousand years? It was too funny to be true. What kind of world did he dream of? If someone happens to pop out after Hundred thousand years, wouldn't that person be regarded as an immortal?

But Linley knows that this type of immortality was only possible in a fantasy world of immortal heroes. Ancient beings with power of immortality in fantasy could live for hundreds of thousands of years!

This could only mean one thing: he was now in a fantasy world of immortals.

"Hehehe, now you know I can beat you to death. Hehehe" Sage Mo couldn't stop himself from laughing and said. "Don't be surprised, little one! I'm afraid there is no second person on this Sacred Spirit continent who could live for twenty thousand years. A spiritual master who can be compared to this old man may not be born yet!"

Linley couldn't help thinking about the black line in his mind. Secretly, he thought: This old man could know what I'm thinking about at anytime since I no longer have any privacy. Won't I become a lunatic sooner, rather than later?

"Hehehe, a lunatic? That's too extreme, child." Sage Mo suddenly laughed and said. "You know what? You don't have to worry too much about that. I can slip into your sea of ​​awareness without you knowing at all. So you don't have anything to worry about, but of course I'll know what you do and think, but no harm will come to you at all."

Linley's mind calmed a bit, and he sighed. "If I may ask the Sage, since your otherworldly powers are so vast, what happened to your physical body? Why is your consciousness the only thing that exists? And what is this inheritance that you're talking about?"

Sage Mo fell into a deep thought after hearing this. A while after, he released a soft breath and said. "This is the will of the heavens."

"But you're an immortal, aren't you?"

"It's true that there was no one like me in this realm. After practicing martial arts and cultivation techniques for thousands of years, I eventually stood at the top, and could contend with the heavens. But I was not a god."

"Are immortals not gods?" Linley was shocked.

"No. Immortals must survive the tribulations to become gods. And to survive this tribulations, they need the divine inheritance. I have traveled all over the realm, but I couldn't find the inheritance of any god." He sighed before continuing. "Now that I think about it, I believe the heavens didn't want me to become a god."

After Sage Mo recounted his ordeals, Linley finally understood the situation.

All the cultivators in this world were called spirit masters. And the highest level any spirit master could reach was the ninth-level spirit immortal.

Only if a cultivator found the inheritance of a god, would he break through to the tenth level and become a god.

When Sage Mo cultivated to the late spirit immortal stage, he began to search for the inheritance of the gods. It was a pity that he had been unsuccessful for thousands of years! During this period, his cultivation base made an unexpected breakthrough, and he condensed his spiritual consciousness.

Surprised, Sage Mo was happy that he was on his way to become a god, but he didn't want to suffer the tribulations. How could it be a mere formality to condense an awareness and become a god without an inheritance? He had questioned himself.

A cultivator must go through the stages of tribulations to become a god.

Although Sage Mo cultivation base was unprecedentedly strong, he knew he couldn't face what was coming alone. Without the inheritance, he would simply die after undergoing the first nine tribulations.

So he dug deep into the profound secrets of heavens, and discovered the mystery of a sacred body. A body he could preserve for himself to save his own soul, even if he failed the tribulations.

Immediately, he had begun the search for a sacred body as his reincarnation body, in order to continue life after his rebirth.

When he was about to suffer the ninth tribulation, he discovered a sacred body.

This body was the same occupied by Linley later on.

Sage Mo could have given up his physical body and send his divine consciousness into the sacred body before it was even formed, but he was rreally reluctant to lose his years of cultivation.

Hence, he decided to try the fortune of his fate, and face the power of these nine divine trials. If he could survive it, then he wouldn't need the new body anymore. He would also be able to keep his thousands of years of cultivation.

Unfortunately, he underestimated the power of the tribulations. After he resisted the layers of impact of the heavenly nine trials, he became complacent.

The last strike of the Divine Tribulations almost disintegrated his soul. But fortunately for him, he made a quick retreat in advance.

Just as his body was being shattered by the lightning bolts, his consciousness managed to slip out, and attached itself to the body of the baby found. Unfortunately, it was occupied by another soul moment before the arrival of his own spirit.

That was the time that Linley felt a sudden bump on his mind after his reincarnation.