No Regrets

"Huff. Huff. Huff"

A half human half beast was sitting in a cave. He had white hair and wore a robe with many tear marks on it. Blood was continuously flowing out of his body. He was poisoned and knew that he would definitely die if it continued like this.

The poison was not lethal in itself but it was special one concocted by Life path and Poison Path Grandmaster Xi Suo, one of the leading figure of the Righteous path.

The effect of the poison was to destroy the lifespan of a person affected by it.

Each person had a lifespan attached to them and it would increase as they cultivate and reach higher ranks. However, no one can become immortal, not even those who reached the peak.

Currently, his lifespan was decreasing at a very fast rate. He had 180 years remaining before the battle but now only 162 years remained which would also be consumed in a moment. The rate of lifespan decreasing was very fatal.

"Alas. It seems I have no other choice than to use this spatial hole. If I am still alive, I will continue on my path till the end without any regrets."

Suddenly, a round shaped ring with exquisite markings appeared in his hands. It was a Rank 3 Spatial Hole named Paradox Creator. No one knew it's use. It was rumoured to be used by the world's peak expert once and what it did was heavily debated. Even he only had an inkling due to being in contact with this spatial hole for a long time.

He got his hands on this spatial hole due to an unprecedented lucky encounter in his life.

While he was about to use it, suddenly "Stop him."

A voice came from the mouth of the cave. Xi Suo and his team had finally arrived there following his trail.

"Stop him from using that. We need to get it to replenish our losses.", Xi Suo spoke out.

His subordinates ran towards the half beast with one or two spatial holes appearing in front of them.

In front of Xi Suo also, three spatial holes appeared out of nowhere.

An interconnecting light passed through those three spatial holes as they brightened and formed a triangle.

Poison Path move Paralyzing Poison!

Bright light suddenly shot towards the half beast.

He knew it was impossible to dodge. He entered his fingers in the spatial hole Paradox Creator while laughing out loud. "Hahaha Xi Suo, Good. Very Good attack. You vastly surpassed my expectations. If our path crosses in the my next life, I will be sure to repay the favor. Now, Activate."

The aura that came out of Paradox Creator made everyone freeze on their spot.

A spatial hole suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the cave.

"What? There was a Rank 4 Spatial hole here." Xi Suo was shocked. But what happened next left him even more speechless.

The Rank 4 Spatial hole move towards the Paradox Creator and was merged with it. Not only that, but all the other spatial holes, the ones which belonged to Xi Suo and his subordinates were also sucked into it. They were powerless to stop this.

"What is happening? How can you activate such a powerful Spatial hole and even pull in Rank 4 spatial hole just with your Rank 3 cultivation. This is against the laws of this world."

The half beast half human was in too much pain to even hear or answer the question. He felt as if his soul was being pulled out.

Meanwhile, his cultivation was dropping very fast. He was in Rank 3 middle stage when he activated but now he was already in Rank 2 Peak Stage. Even his Primordial Beast bloodline was being absorbed very fast. He had taken countless hardships and pains to achieve it. He knelt on the ground, his remaining body being only half the size of what it was earlier.

The whole suction power stopped when his whole cultivation was gone. The spatial hole went into his body and then a ball of fire emerged from there. Suddenly, there was a heaven defying explosion covering the shocked faces of Xi Suo and his subordinates, the whole cave and even the surrounding tens of thousands of kms.

He died.

.....

Just a moment before the explosion when the Paradox Creator was still sucking in everything, one could see tens of thousands of Spatial holes of different ranks exploding in the surroundings of the cave.

The surge of natural spiritual energy increased thousand-folds which was also sucked in by the Paradox Creator.

It then exploded with unprecedented power.

.....

Lightning flashed in the night skies above Xīngyè Village (also known as Starry Night).

The elders were currently holding a meeting in the village centre.

"Xīngyè Ho Bian, how is your preparation for the upcoming ceremony? Is there any talents this year?", Xīngyè Mo Juan asked.

Xīngyè Mo Juan was the clan head with Rank 2 Inital stage cultivation. He was the only person with Rank 2 cultivation in the village.

"Yes, my son had reached 15 this year and will participate in the ceremony. There is also that Wang Yuan. He seems to have intelligence far surpassing other youths of his age. He will probably be the A grade talent."

Hearing this, Xīngyè Ho Bian had a shine in his eyes. It had been 4 years since last A grade talent appeared. Each and every A grade talent was very important to the clan since only they had the chance to ever reach Rank 2 in their lives. Reaching Rank 2 was a qualitative difference and the whole clan will reach a higher level with a Rank 2 cultivator.

Xīngyè Ho Bian looked out at the red moon shining brightly.

"I am looking forward to the future."

.....

At the same time, a pair of eyes looked out of the window at the same red moon. The red light fell onto the face of 15 year old boy.

"Hahaha it worked. I am back."

"If I remember correctly, this is Xīngyè village, my birth place. I really went back about 800 years into the past."

"I have lost everything I worked hard to achieve, even my cultivation and all the spatial holes I gathered. However, I have memories of 500 years of experiences. I will make my way back to the top and compete for all the inheritances and treasures well ahead of the time."

He had a rare smile on his face. The emotions long lost had started bubbling up in his heart along with the long lost excitement of life. In the 800 years, he had already achieved everything there was to achieve and experienced everything. Although this was his first experience, he soon calmed down.

His deep black eyes which seemed to contain the abyss looked at the red moon as he spoke,

"I am looking forward to the future."

He was Xīngyè Wang Yuan.