Chapter 1 : The Revival of Xie Ming

Chaotic Domain, Great Chaos, Immortal World

"It's useless, no matter how much you struggle you still won't be able to defeat us the Righteous 9!" arrogantly said a mighty figure , that mighty figure was taller than the eye could see, no perhaps in the eyes of mortals he was as tall as the sky or perhaps even taller.

"That's right! Little Fourth is absolutely correct, you, Xie Ming, are indeed a terrifyingly strong immortal but you are still no match if nine of us who surpass you by a major realm band together to defeat you." said another mighty figure, though he was far smaller than the Little Ninth he mentioned but even though he was far smaller his bearing made him look bigger and mightier than Little Ninth. For comparisons it was as if one was seeing a King, no, an Emperor, one who ruled the Heavens.

"Second brother is absolutely correct, I, the Head of the Righteous 9, acknowledge your strength. In a one on one we'd stand no chance against you but if it's nine of us together, unless you break through to our realm, you'd never be able to defeat us! " said another mighty figure who looked old but dignified, his eyes had seen through the vicissitudes of life.

"Bah! What utter bullshit! You dirty hypocrites are the ones who've been chasing after me from hundreds of years and have the audacity to say that I won't be able to defeat you? You just want the inheritance I obtained!" said another mighty figure who had a humanoid figure but was wounded, no not just wounded, if it were a mortal to be that wounded they would die in less than a second. The pain that they would suffer from would be so terrifying that they would die due to pain before dying due to blood loss.

"Since you know that we want the inheritance just hand it over and we'll let you live!" said yet another mighty figure but as compared to the others present he looked normal, just too normal, no even that was underestimating his normality, he was even more normal than a mortal. That perfect normality in itself was an abnormality.

"Do you think I am fool? You are the Righteous 9, even if I give you my inheritance you'll surely sever my head and present it to the Emperor to obtain more fame and recognition!" said the wounded figure mockingly, though his tone was mocking his eyes contained uncontrollable hatred. If looks could kill, the other nine mighty figures would've died a million times over.

"Humph! Brothers there is no use arguing, let's just imprison him and soul search him to take his inheritance." said another mighty figure whose tone was full of dissatisfaction about the fact that the wounded figure didn't give up the inheritance.

"Bring it on then!" said the wounded might figure with seething hatred in his tone.

And so the battle continued onwards for hundreds of years, for mortals this amount of time was equivalent to the passing of several generations but for these mighty figures, this time was so short that it wasn't even worth mentioning.

Due to their battle many stars and even solar systems were blasted to smithereens but they didn't stop. The battle ensued for a long time but sooner or later the wounded figure still lost.

"Hahaha, did you think that this was the end?" asked the wounded figure, Xie Ming.

"If this is not what is? Is it possible that you still have another move left? If that were so then you would've used it hundreds of years ago!" said the head of the Righteous 9.

"You'll see!" Xie Ming smiled mysteriously.

And then suddenly, as if sensing something wrong the head of the Righteous 9 roared. "No, stop him, quickly!" but it was too late as Xie Ming's body had already disappeared and it seemed as if he had disappeared.

"Little Fifth, deduce his location quickly, we must not let him escape!" roared another mighty figure, Xiao San, The Third of the Righteous 9.

The so-called Little Fifth's expression quickly turned ugly and he said with an unsightly expression on his face, "I can't deduce him. If it's something I can't deduce then it means one of the three, Either he is stronger than me in terms of cultivation which is impossible as he's a great realm lower than me or he has a Supreme or above Dharma Treasure which can block my deduction but that is impossible too as we found him with the help of my deductions leaving the only possibility that he severed his karma by sacrificing his body and soul origin and used an escape art to escape."

The expression of the Righteous 9 turned ugly and one of them shouted with his full power due to his anger. His anger filled voice shattered the nearby space and the words "No way!!!" resounded throughout the whole Chaotic Domain.

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Outside the Chaotic Domain, Great Chaos, Immortal World

Meanwhile,

A wounded small humanoid figure was rushing towards the nearest mortal world unknowingly.

The only thought that was going through the mind of the humanoid figure or it was more apt to call it a soul was 'I WILL DEFINITELY GET MY REVENGE!'.

As time went by the soul kept getting smaller, 'I need to get to the nearest living form and possess it otherwise I am done for...'

Fortunately it was already near the mortal world. As Xie Ming was in extreme danger, he severed his karma so that the Diviner of the Righteous 9 could not longer deduce his location and then he used the last of his strength and used the escape art [Soul Escape Art] to flee away. He could no longer see anything and could only follow the aura of living beings.

He was now so weak that his soul was only comparable to mortals and would disappear in less than 5 minutes unless he entered into the body of a living organism.

Thankfully before his soul disappeared, he entered the mortal domain and encountered an organism and immediately went into its body.

"SSCCCCRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHH" screamed the soul of the living organism.

'My soul will disappear if I don't occupy this body but my soul is already so weak and I can't occupy this body as it was originally this organism's body and thus this damned soul of his will compete with me for getting this body and as it was originally its body it'll surely win.' internally sighed Xie Ming.

'It seems that I'll have to use that.' thought Xie Ming with a determined expression on his little soul body and then his soul body became noticeably smaller, if an immortal were to see this he/she'd understand that this soul was sacrificing its own existence to do something.

Xie Ming was assimilating with the organism's body and making the organism's body his true body. The reason why Xie Ming hesitated in doing so was that he wanted to devour the souls of the organisms of the world in which he was but not get tied up to one organism. He was sure that as long as his soul origin recovered he could recover his original body and embark on the road of cultivation again. But that was no longer possible as in order to win the soul battle he had to make the organism's body his true body and thus sacrificed his own existence to replace Immortal Qi that was needed to use the immortal art [True Body Possession Art].

This art was made for those existences who had reached the peak of their potential and needed to possess the bodies of young geniuses to move further towards the peak of cultivation.

Anyways, desperate times called for desperate measures.

And this now, Xie Ming soul was now the true soul of the body that belonged to the organism.

The organism suddenly screeched when it felt that it lost connection to its body but unfortunately for it, before it could grasp its situation Xie Ming caught his soul and absorbed its soul origin. Though he was the inheritor of the Heavenly Devouring Monarch, The Dao of Devouring itself wasn't supreme and he was thus only able to absorb 10% of the organism's soul origin and the rest went to waste. Xie Ming's soul had become bigger by a 0.01%.

'Now, let's devour this soul and look into its memories.' he thought to himself.

After devouring the soul and looking through its memories his expression darkened because he was now a ...........

(To Be Continued)