Chapter 109: Samsara Host

Chapter 109: Samsara Host

Word count = 1080 on 11/9/2023 (short chappy today, hope yall enjoy)

Rakshasa is confused as she has never witnessed this since she took her own divine position. "My lord, what is this river of reincarnation?"

"Oh? Right it has been a long time since we have had a proper host for the river. You see, What is known is that the river contains the souls of all beings in the Douluo world. People and beasts die and then they join the river to be purified before they may be reborn. The river had been making due with the samsara wheel to cleanse itself of filth from all the souls but it's not a perfect method which is why it designates a host for itself to serve as a conduit for all the bile it collects." The god of destruction proclaims his knowledge and quickly adds in.

"They seem to lose their personality once the procedure starts but the reason none of us can kill him anymore is due to the river itself, it considers this an affront to the souls it bears and forcefully steals the attackers soul to be purified under the strictest machinations. " The god of destruction ends his words with a frown over the next age of people being more exceptional or at least provide a great change to the douluo continent.

"This is a sign that the next generation of newborn will grow beyond convention as their martial spirit mutates and evolves thanks to the samsara host's efforts."[1] The Asura god pitches in as he observes the situation from a distance. His words still audible for them all to hear.

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In a pure white area, a colorful but featureless figure is found standing very far away from what looks like an altar with a gate past it. The colorful figure gazes around its surroundings and finds an orb within its hand. It can instinctively tell that it must place the orb onto the pedestal before it.

As such it takes the first step and pauses as it experiences the full life of 20 various beasts. The being can naturally observe its own surroundings but it feels more like a passenger to the life that he witnesses all the actions of the original life with no chance to ever influence anything. His own willpower is slowly being degraded by each life he experiences as there are many that are thousands of years long. He experiences the love and hate of all the lives he witnesses and then it suddenly stops and he finds himself back in the white altar hall.

He can only take another step forward and experience the same thing but this time it's humans. He quickly finds himself in the first life being killed as a baby shortly after being born, smothered to death by his own mother. The next he lives a full life and dies of old age. Another he serves a low level bandit in an era of suffering. Various martial spirits while in other lives he has none and can only do what he needs to survive.

Step after step, the figure keeps walking, the original colorful figure has progressively become much more dull and slightly grayscale while still maintaining a small portion of red and black that seems to remain immune from the degradation. The figure has experienced the love, the hate, the suffering and death of hundreds of individuals with each step he takes.

He finally arrives before the altar but it's an intense struggle to even lift it's arm to place the orb in the slot onto the pedestal.

To the outside perspective, a few days have passed since Xue Tie was possessed by the river of reincarnation. Xue Tie's body has grown atrophied quickly over time and weak with the skin originally growing pale but now it suddenly raises a hand and begins to bring it forward but the hand itself starts to lose it's skin, blood and muscles, becoming a bare skeleton hand when it suddenly stops. As if paused. The hand suddenly drops down to the side and the river converges into a cup that holds some sort of liquid that then merges into Xue Tie's chest.

The gods watch in expectation of what is the known result, a samsara host has been born, a simple vessel to contain all the ejected impurities of all dead souls before the cycle of rebirth continues for these souls.

The samsara host suddenly begins to walk forward, hunched over and weak. Due to the direction that Xue Tie originally was, the host passes by the Rakshasa god when it suddenly stops. The goddess in question has a confused expression before she finds a hand on her head that clenches fairly tightly.

"AH" "stupid goddess, pass on your legacy already to Bibi, or i'll wipe out your soul" The pale face of Xue Tie suddenly regains vigor as he cheekily grins at the Rakshasa goddess before pushing her away so hard that she crashes into a stone pillar some distance away, digging halfway through the statues base itself.

Suddenly Xue Tie disappears and the Food God panics but can't move. Why? Well it might have to do with the hand that is stuck inside his chest, caressing his heart but then suddenly retracts out of his chest without doing anything. The food god kneels in pain as their hands hover over their chest.

The bloody hand hovers before the food gods face as Xue Tie says, "Rebirth, false state", the bloody hand soon shakes a bit as the food gods face pales as a strange mist begins to be emitted from the pores on his face that then ends up as a clear orb in his hand, the hand sends the orb into his own chest where it flows into the goblet of reincarnation. A variant form of the river of reincarnation that had been tamed.

Xue Tie straightens his back as he looks around at all the gods before settling on the Asura God.

"YOU, FIGHT ME BITCH" He charges forth at the Asura god.

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[1] For those that might not understand what i'm saying, the original bloodlines connected to the souls are purged, which is the bile, this opens up space for the new bloodlines from the parents, to come together for new/mutated martial spirits and bloodlines which would promote the growth of humans and beasts.