Prologue 2

Little Jack ran out of the space room in anger. Elder Jeston could only look back and shake his head.

"The Shepherd family is one that can never be bullied but there is nothing wrong with wanting to take power, with power comes trouble, makes no sense worrying about something you can't control," Jeston thought.

Little Jack ran all the way to his shack where he lived. Little Jacks parents have long died.

His mother died giving birth to him and his father suffered from gene regression. Little Jack always lived on his own and the family took care of him.

"I'm going to get strong enough, the family can be weak on their own! I will be the genius the family is waiting for" Little Jack proclaimed in his shack.

He started to pack up his meagre belongings and headed on his journey to becoming strong.

Little Jack went missing after leaving a note saying "I will decome the famly gnius, bo not worry adout me I will de dack".

The note was a little hard to read because of his spelling and bad grammar but it didn't take a mastermind to figure out what he was trying to say.

It then came to light about what Elder Jeston revealed to him the secrets of the family. He was punished and stripped of his position as Elder.

Following this, there were countless search parties launched to find little jack but to no avail.

Unknown to them, Little Jack was taken in by a man in black clothing.

Little Jack was attacked by beasts as soon as he dug under the family defences. The man in black clothing acted as his mentor. The man in the black clothing never spoke, he just used his hands to gesture.

Jack trained under the man for years. 27 years later Jack was finally ready to finally go back to his family. The day had come for him to finally go back to his family. He just obtained his perfect gene and finally reached the Houtian. He was thought to himself that he could be the genius for the Shepherd family.

He also planned other things to do with his life. Now he wished to have a life and kids, he decided to cut his 27-year long training journey to go back to the family. Jack told his mute master farewell but the strangest this happened.

His master ignored him.

He always paid attention to him and tended to his cultivation, so Jack didn't know anything about him, but he could tell he was a genuine person.

Jack never saw his face, he never took off his black clothing not even in the morning.

His master wouldn't even sleep, however, Jack thought nothing of it after a while, It became normal for him the more time he spent around him.

As Jack left his Masters cave without getting a response. His master's silhouette moved, his hand made a gesture that showed his pure white hand.

He started to scribble something into the dirt.

Even after squiggled in the dirt his fingers were not blemished.

"You can't redirect the future"

Jack looked at the words he wrote.

The words made no sense to Jack, he asked his master to explain his words but he wouldn't elaborate. Jack knew he never spoke and was annoyed by his silent treatment.

He left the cave and headed for the Shepherd Village.

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It took Jack an hour to travel thousand of kilometres to his destination a the Shepherd family home. Being at the houtain realm meant he would be able to travel places of far distances in a short time.

Jack went into the village expecting to get a warm welcome.

In fact, as he went into the village the road was empty. "Hello?" Jack called out but he was not met with a reply. It was as if everyone, left the day before.

"I told you never to come here... you shouldn't trouble powers you cannot comprehend"

Jack's master spoke in a clear voice.

Jack was slightly spooked. His body moved quickly to turn around, toward his master.

The man in black clothing moved slowly, but Jack couldn't move. His master grabbed his face and covering his eyes and raised him off the ground.

Jack reached Peak Houtain but he was being lifted off the ground like a baby.

"Master what are you doing?! What are your true intentions?"

Jack's master ignored him.

"I was fond of having a student like you, even if you weren't talented. You had drive."

These were the first words his master spoke. The man in the black clothing sighed, then continued in a less soothing tone.

"Your eyes will pay the price for the future".

His fingers moved and quickly plucked Jack's eyes. He threw Jack onto the ground and disappeared like a puff of smoke.

Jack eyes sockets were covered in blood.

His eyes sockets were hollow and it was impossible for him to see with no eyes.

"Jack is that you?!" A voice finally called out to him after a few minutes of wandering around aimlessly.

He hardly recognized the old voice but soon realized it was Jetson.

Jeston took him back to Main Hall the whole village was stunned at the sudden reappearance of Jack. Whenever Jack was asked what happened to him he would try to answer, but the more he thought about his story he forgot about his masters.

This disappearances of memories caused severe pain.

After which he demanded that he go into seclusion to which he never came out. Jack was not sure what was going on but believed the families prophecy wasn't something so simple, his eyes were impossible to heal.

In the endless abyss of outer space, a figure in black clothing appeared out of thin air.

He looked at the eyes in his hand, they were not damaged as they had not come from a regular person, they came from Jack an expert.

"He troubled the future, but I'm not sure how. I have to tell the others".

After he said those words the figure broke space and vanished.