Soul space

In a dark void...

There were currently 500 of glowing 'peng tians' sitting around in a circle.

'This is troublesome.' All of them thought at the same time.

One would have been justified for thinking that communicating with clones of yourself would be easy. But when each and everyone of them needed to speak, the same thing kept happening.

"I-I" Two souls spoke at the same time.

"OH-h" Ten souls spoke at the same time.

"WA-a-i-t." Eighty souls spoke at the same time.

"So,-o-oops-y-yougofirst-m-me?" The fact that their speaking rhythm was in sync didn't help either.

Very quickly, chaos ensues.

"WE-I-WH-HA-OT-AN-ED-EK-NO-NO-PA-TH-LISTEN!-SA-MARUJTDCJUFFGYFFHUYFDDFGÌHGDSSFHU-NO-IHAGKFAAJFUKKCVI!!!!!!" All of them screamed out at the top of their lungs.

...

"I think I just heard something, dear." Said Peng Biyu to her husband.

"Hm? I'm not hearing anything though,-woah!" As he narrowly ducked below a kick coming his way.

They were in the mansion's courtyard doing a routine spar, with guards and servants alike watching nervously.

"Are you sure we should still be doing this?" as he parried another blow.

"What? Scared?" Peng Biyu giggled.

"VERY! MUCH! SO!"

She laughed and then said "Come on, is the famed White Demon only this much?"

Even Lin Bu was left helpless from his wife's antics. A squad of the recently deployed yellow wings hiding nearby were already preparing to intervene in case of any mishaps.

"Seriously, if it wasn't for you leading around that young master back then, the Jade Seal accident wouldn't have had to happen in the first place" Said Lin Bu reminiscing about one of her major antics.

"But that's what made you get the approval of my father, wasn't it?" She said, smirking.

"Yeah? Cause he knows that any other men would have already died being with you." As he suddenly made a palm counterstrike back at her belly.

"What?! NO!!" Peng Biyu immediately tried to protect the baby with wild abandon.

Midway through the strike, the palm grabbed onto her hand and pulled her into a tight hug.

"And any other man wouldn't know how cute you are when you're in panic." Lin Bu smirked.

Peng Biyu pouted as she said in a small voice "W-what are you saying, it's embarrassing.."

...

The yellow wings hiding nearby were sweating buckets.

"W-what was that… A palm strike?"

By the time any of them was able to react, the couple was already in a bear hug.

"We're gonna get scolded by the squad leader for this." One of them said pitifully.

"I'm gonna request for a transfer."

"Me too."

...

Inside the dark void..

Progress was being made, each of the 'peng tians' divided into smaller groups.

"Hey, hey, group J, we're group A, map info?"

Formality was instantly thrown out of the window, with everybody stating whatever information they got.

"Y12, you're in greenland county right?"

"You too? Y20?"

"Yeah, I got River Wind City lord's grandson."

"What?! Lucky... I got a scholar"

"I got a farmer"

"You guys are getting parents?"

"Wait... we're all in the womb, how can't you have a..."

Peng Tian starts to realize that he was one of the lucky ones, the luckiest one was a heir to a kingdom, while the worst ones included alot of being sex slave's children.

"Us poor kids must stick together, don't get discouraged by those rich kids."

"Yeah, yeah!"

Even in this kind of situation, factions quickly from.

"Inhuman Faction reporting in!"

"Dark Skinned Faction formed!"

"Working Class Parent Faction Rises!"

"Orphan Faction recruiting applicants!"

"Wait. It's you again..."

...

Nine months later...

'Status'

{

[Status

Name: Pang Tian (host)

Race: Human (96.9999%human/ 3%slime / 0.0001%peng)

Gender: male

Age: 0

Height: 28 cm

Weight: 3.3 kg

Disabilities: Minor Soul Exhaustion(60%Healed)

Unique abilities: Peng bloodline trace(suppressed), Penultimate Asexual Soul Reproduction,

-Body talent

Intermediate Human body(suppressed), Minor Charm(suppressed), Minor Five Element Affinity Innate Body(suppressed), Minor Pain Reduction, Minor Manual Adjustable body, Yin Yang Affinity Innate Body trace(suppressed)

-Overall status

Body strength: weak

Soul strength: below average

Martial might: very weak

Cultivation level: mortal]

}

{Status [New notification]}

[Peng Biyu new body talent: Major Spritual Qi Affinity Innate Body]

Even with the Major Spiritual Qi Affinity Innate Body, the amount of Spiritual qi in Peng Biyu body was limited. Peng Tian had to make the tough call of sacrificing short term gains for the future ones. Creating a suppressed version of a body talent costs less than 1/10th of the real ones, but only when he reaches a sufficient level of Spiritual Qi by himself will he be able to forcefully awaken them.

'It's time.' Peng Tian can already hear the sound coming from outside.

"Push! Push! ahhhh!"

His retinas were bombarded with different colors and figures. It took a bit of time for his infant eyes to get used to the light. The doctor, An Na, in front of him had a not-so-appealing face with long, graying hair on both head and chin.

"So, what's the name for the boy?" Asked An Na.

"I've already decided." Said Peng Biyu, embracing her son.

"He shall be called, Peng Tian"

"Peng Tian, hmm, honest man of the field?" Muttered An Na.

"Yes, I don't need him to accomplish much, I only hope he grows to become an honest man."

An Na nodded. "A good name indeed."

Unknown to them, in the dark void...

Things have changed a bit; it was now called the Soul space, the ground was painted gray with pieces of glowing soul mixed with...other pieces of glowing soul into a liquid, with sections now clearly divided for different types of purposes.

In the section designated as the 'auditorium', many souls were watching the screen showing the perspective of Peng Tian and rioting.

"Why does the last guy gets to keep the name?!"

"This is unfair!"

"Our Dark Skinned Faction will not stand for this!"

"Maybe it was because he got the last portal?"

"What was that one again?"

"It was the three question marks one I think?"

In the process of choosing the portals, the 'Peng Tian' in Greenland county was the last piece of soul to finish reproduction, so he didn't get to choose.

"The fishy looking one?"

No one had chosen the '???' portal because it looked like it was gonna break down at any time, the portal light was even flashing on and off periodically.

Even Peng Tian (The one before having asexual reproduction with himself), thought that he might have to lose a piece of soul going through that portal.

The portals themselves were labelled by profession, there were everythings you can think of, spearmen, swordsmen, blacksmith, beast tamer, alchemist, carpenter, guitarist, pianoist, to slave and other races.

"If I had only known." said one of them. His or rather, her, eyes dimmed.

...

"Fuck." The soul cursed.

In front of him were two swiveling portals, and above them were their respective word tags.

'Female sex slave' and '???'

He was the second to last one to finish the asexual reproduction process, needless to say, he was very upset with the options he got.

'Why did we have to go for all 500, would it have killed us all if like, five of the portals went unchosen? For god's sake.' He could only blame their past self for not thinking this through.

'Welp, I really don't want to die here. I'm sure I can figure something out later. Just have to live first.'

Glancing at the splattering '???' portal on his right side, he steeled himself before jumping into the much safer looking portal in front of him.

He would later find out that he was NOT gonna be able to figure something out later.

But life must go on...

...

High sealand calendar, year 5243. Autumn.

Within River Wind City.

"Young master!!" A maid shouted at him.

"W..w..what is it?" Peng Tian woke up dazed; he was busy receiving 2 pieces of news from the Soul space.

One of them died.

The worst part of it was that they already did their best, too. All 499 souls tried to help, some thought of ways to escape, those that knew how to fight directly assumed control of the body at critical moments, with the rest helping by looking for details that might save them. In the end, all 499 souls got to watch one of their own get brutally murdered on the screen.

The reason for it?

The gap between realms.

All of them have already started cultivating, with many of them already in the 2nd stage of body refining. Unfortunately, the opponent this time was in Qi condensation, even with them practically using every piece of muscle available, they could only watch along the screen as the body gets torn limb from limb.

Another piece of news was the increasing number of people from the Orphan Faction.

Some people were getting abandoned, but most of them joined for the same reason.

Their parents was getting murdered.

Peng Tian's eyes flashes with cold light.

The cultivation world was a dog eat dog world, and just because you're better than the people at your own age, doesn't mean that people older than you won't target you.

'I need to pick up the pace.'

"YOUNG MASTER!!!"

"Oops...sorry"

The maid sighed. The young master was a genius, no doubt about it. Able to walk in a year, speak the language in two. If nothing else, the scholars said that he has the potential to become one of the best scholars in the kingdom. It's just that their young master like to get into a daze regularly; Some even named him the 'Mystical Prince'

"Today's the day for young master's talent examinations, the city lord has sent word for you to go there, please follow me."

As he was led through the hallway, Peng Tian can feel the auras permeating out from the examination hall, each one of them at a realm of strength far surpassing his own.

Unsurprisingly, after the door opened, Peng Tian was met with a lineup of the highest number of masters and grandmasters he had ever seen.

In River Wind City, the city guards were at Qi Condensation, being at Foundation Establishment will allow you to open up a martial school, and Core Formation cultivators were called grandmasters in every county.

Everyone in the hall was at least at the Foundation Establishment, with the front rows being packed to the brim with Grandmasters.

Out of all of them though, one person stood out.

The number one expert of greenland county, Peng Fan.

Right now, he was busy showing off to his friends.

"You see? That's my grandson! Handsome isn't he, definitely got my face in him, let me tell you, he's a prodigy, the scholars have nothing but praises for him, heck! There was even this one time where a scholar almost got into a fight with me to take him away as a disciple..."

Everyone's face twitched.

As if we'll believe that! Putting beside the fact that there's a person willing to fight you of all people, what kind of scholar goes around fighting people for disciples in the first place? Are you sure it was a scholar, not a random street thug?