BEFORE III

In his world, the only one who called him Xiao Ren was the love of his life, Ren Xinye. She was also is half-sister. Her death had hurt him the most because it was exactly a day after they accepted their feelings for each other despite their brother-sister relationship that she had died.

Ren Xinye, who had now possessed the Immortal's body slowly let go of her lovely brother's hand and wiped his tear before leaving the Immortal's body who glanced slightly at Ren Qian before leaving to sit on her throne.

She then said, "Take him to the past, Qian Dan"

Immortal of Death rarely spoke, let alone call another immortal by his name. Naturally, she was referring to the Immortal of Time by his actual name.

He frowned but there was nothing he could do. Although he didn't like being called by his real name in front of outsiders, he could not voice it out because he was weaker than the Immortal of Death in terms of prowess and combat skills.

Power determined all in the cultivation world.

"Very well then, Young lad, step into this portal and you will be able to see the memory of the past that you wish to see. Mind you, you should not try to manipulate anything of the past as it could affect your future", Qian Dan said, finally revealing himself as an extremely short bald old man and opening a portal with a flick of his hand.

This was the true power of an Immortal, breaking the barriers of time with just a hand flick.

Ren Qian got up and slowly walked into the portal. However, a wormhole suddenly appeared within the portal and a powerful suction force sucked him in.

The God quickly reacted and shot out a beam of formless energy towards the wormhole, attempting to stop the wormhole from closing. He succeeded but only for a second and a body was thrown out immediately the closing of the wormhole paused.

The Immortal of Death quickly caught the body and to her horror, it was his dead body.

Immediately, she disappeared, and everyone knew where she was going. Since her realm connected the living and the dead, all the souls of the dead went through her realm before reaching the underworld.

The middle-aged God looked at the remaining eleven Immortals and shouted agitatedly, "Why the heck are you all sitting here? Get the hell out of my dimension", and with that, he threw them all out.

The eleven Immortals looked at each other. Some did not understand the severity of the matter so the Tree Immortal 'kindly' explained it to them.

"You fools. That ball was not light, it was condensed formless energy. That lad's abilities are at par with the old man's"

With that, he began flying towards his island and so did the others, this time all of them understood how important Ren Qian was and they knew they had to find him at all costs.

Meanwhile, in the dimension, blood sprayed out of the middle-aged man's mouth.

He knew what the wormhole was. It was the Soul Suction Tool. Only high rank Celestials could unleash its full power this way. It had three different formations within. The first was a Soul Severing Formation, which separated the soul from the host body, the second was a Void Trapping Formation and the final one was the Teleportation Formation which could even take someone to the end of the world.

Because he attempted to stop the tool, he had battled with the Celestial's energy. Naturally, he had incurred injuries. The Immortal of Death appeared in the dimension and this made the middle-aged man frown. He had closed the entry point of the dimension so how was she able to enter so easily.

"Here.", she said and flicked a pill towards him.

"You think a measly pill can heal my injuries?", he said angrily.

"Soul Convergence Pill", she said calmly.

Shock could be seen on the man's face.

This pill was the legendary pill that could resurrect a person with a weak cultivation rank and could awaken special body constitution and even increase soul strngth.

'Just how did she get her hand on this?', the man thought "Wu Kong, are you taking the pill or not", the Immortal of Death said, although her voice was calm, you would see the slight disturbance in spiritual energy around her.

The middle-aged man immediately swallowed the pill, feeling a burst of spiritual energy about a quarter of his total spiritual root energy, he immediately circulated it all around his internal organs and he immediately felt energized.

"A Celestial's doing. His soul is not in my realm or the Underworld.", she said, turning to look at the handsome 'sleeping' man on the floor.

"Preserve his body while I find out how to bring his soul back", she turned to Wu Kong and said, before disappearing completely.

Wu Kong stared at the young 28-year-old man's dead body and sighed before shooting a beam of light that wrapped around the body and elevated it, making it hang in the air. The body lit up with a warm glow all around it, looking healthy and supple.

After seeing the preservation process was complete, he sat on his throne, thinking to himself why a Celestial would involve himself in the matters of the Upper Heavens.

Meanwhile, a confused Ren Qian found himself in a void but he could feel himself falling through the seemingly endless void. He suddenly heard,

"How dare you use this method to make a soul traverse to another world? Are you crazy?"

Then, another voice said, "I do what I want. No one can stop me, just like now. Now I've given you one more problem to deal with".

Whoever was talking ended with bouts of laughter, and that was the last thing he heard before reaching an extremely bright and blinding light, blacking out completely.