Chapter 1: New Adventure.
____Bamboo forest____
It was the middle of the night, With the moon shining brightly. A forest of bamboo was all that could be seen, It was a beautiful sight.
Suddenly a man appeared out of thin air fighting a bunch of people, sword clashing was all that could be heard.
The group consists of up to 40 people, They wear a black jacket, black trousers, light sandals, and a hooded cowl.
The forty people charged at a man wearing a red Yukata, he was white haired and had a scar on his eye.
The young looking white haired man unsheathed his sword, and a force came out of it, suddenly the men disappeared and only the blood was left out of them, The once green grass was now blood red.{Mc Picture Here}
The man coughs blood, he looks at his hands, he squinted his eyes and disappeared.
'Damn it! Damn it all!' he gritted my teeth and he kept running. In normal people's eyes they can't see him by how fast he runned. 'If I just didn't choose this world!' he coughed blood as he remembered what happened 24 years ago.
______Flashback 570 Years ago________
"Huh? Where am I" I said out loud, I was wearing glasses and a lab coat.
A sudden bright light illuminated the blue sky. "Welcome to the afterlife Vanir, Unfortunately you have died due to one of your experiments exploding. I am one of the many gods that leads people to their reincarnation."
I looked at him with disbelief and examined my surroundings, my surroundings were grassy plains and a single tree next to me, and a bright blue sky. I got back to myself and put my left hand on my chin 'Hmm, I died? But, the experiment should be successful!'
I looked at the god "But shouldn't the experiment be successful?" I ask him knowing that he will know the cause of my death.
"Yes, Unfortunately someone betrayed the association you are in and caused a thousand of lives to die in the explosion" he pitifully said.
I sat on the grassy plains "But shouldn't it be heaven nor hell?"
He turned to me "But did you believe in them?"
I looked at the sun setting "No, In my theory no heaven nor hell should exist."
"Then that's your answer"
I looked at him. "Then why am I here?"
He sits next to me "You are favored by god, And is extremely delightful by how you saved the people of earth, by making something that shouldn't be possible in era that you are in"
I sighed. "It's not that much, I just saved the lives of people suffering from cancer." I looked at my fist and clenched "But I still haven't been able to save the people that really needed to be cured"
He pats my back "But, You saved millions with just that one cure."
I sighed and stood up and pats the dirt off my labcoat "So why am I here?"
"As I said before, You were favored by God and decided to give you a gift.." He opened his hands and a bright red ball shined and on the other hand was a blue ball that shines too.
I looked at them with interest "So? What are these?"
"This is the gift of the god, If you take the red ball you will be reincarnated with your memories and a few wishes along with the world of your choosing" He floated the red ball. "And this blue ball is a ball that will just let you rest.. a ball with comfortable life"
'...'
I picked the red ball and the apostle smiled warmly. "May I ask why you chose the red ball?" he ask
"Let's just say that I want to help more people" I smirk.
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He answered, brushing his beard. "Yes, And I'll give you a wish."
3 hours have passed since then. "Then first I want to reincarnate in the world of martial arts."
"What will be the wishes?" He asked to write on his scroll.
"I want to have the ability to master anything that I want." I said with seriousness
He wrote on his scroll "Is that the final answer?"
"Yes."
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{24 Years after being reborn in a Martial Arts World}
I jumped in the woods and met by a dead end, a cliff with nowhere to jump on 'Ten thousand mile cliff!?' I peeked at the cliff. It was foggy and the bottom couldn't be seen. 'Even if I jump here, there is no guarantee that I'll survive'
I picked something in my pocket, And looked at it. It was a cicada and it's gold, I coughed. 'The Dragon Cicada, If it wasn't for this thing I would have been long gone'
"Thousand Swords!" A man shouted behind me. He wears a black yukata and has long black hair and black eyes. Behind him were more people wearing the same outfit as him. "Stop wasting time and hand over the Dragon Cicada!"
"Light of hand Hao Mun!" I gritted my teeth "You fucker! How dare you betray me!"
He laughed "You! Are a threat to this world!"
I draw my sword "Really!? After I save you all from the war!? You dared betray me!" I said full of anger.
The guy didn't answer.
"You really want this cicada aren't you!?" I showed it to them. "Then get it over my dead body!" I eat the cicada.
"YOU FUCKER!" he screamed "KILL HIM!" He signals men behind him.
The people behind him charged. I drew my sword and got into the stance, I didn't move and a blood spurt of the men that was near me, I coughed 'Urgh, Gathering my power tore the internal Injuries I sustained from earlier..!'
I yelled at him "How long do you plan on letting your underlings die?" He gritted his teeth.
He looked at me full of bloodlust and drew his sword "Alright! I'll face you myself!"
He slashed downwards at me after drawing his sword which made a crescent shaped energy slash come at me.
'He is strong but I am stronger!" I thought before swinging my sword meeting the energy causing cracks all around me as blood dripped out of my mouth.
I slashed sideways with full force deflecting the slash and making a slide across the ground cutting it very deeply, after that I gathered energy and boosted myself forward making me charge at the man.
"You're getting rusty!" He yelled before charging at me and we exchanged blows for a couple of minutes until I let my guard down.
He lifted the blade up, knocking my arm back leaving my left side open and he fluently positioned himself to stab my side.
*Stab* His blade went through my side appearing out of my right side.
I coughed up a pool of blood before he took the blade out causing blood to pour out of my wounds and causing me to drop onto my knees and drop my sword making it fall onto the bloody field.
It was windy and there were no trees in sight since the area we were in was on the top of the mountain. The man's hair waved around in the wind as he towered over me with his shirt torn and had wounds all over him but his eyes shined with happiness and anger.
"Haha *Cough* it seems you have fallen Thousand Swords, I express my gratitude to your stupidness and power but…..this is goodbye." I looked up with blood coming out of my mouth and was prepared to do a sucide attack but before I could gather enough energy he pulled back his arm and stabbed me while leaning into me.
His head was right beside my ear as he whispered. "Thank you for everything." He then took his sword out before kicking me into the abyss at the bottom of the mountain.
I felt the horrendous winds in the abyss and the deep mist covering my body making my eyes see nothing, I then closed my eyes. ' 'I was too naive, I won't say anything cliche but if I was reborn again I would live a better life with better friends." Thinking this, I almost coughed at the cringeness but I was too weak to cough.
Falling down, it felt like my life flashed before my eyes.
'Well hopefully in my next life, I can be stronger. Stronger than anyone' I thought before I fell down.
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Puffing heavily with a face of twisted fear and his heart thunderously pumping adrenaline, a silver haired boy desperately sprinted through the valley until he reached a huge boulder blocking his path. He looked up to see land near the top of the boulder so he decided to climb it and get out of the valley.{Note:The boulder can be interpreted as steps to get out of the valley}
Without hesitation he climbed the boulder, nearly tripping his balance but he finally made it onto the land.
The early dark sky embraced his presence as he looked back, staring into the darkness with quivering eyes and clattering teeth.
A loud chuckle was heard in the darkness, as a figure suddenly emerged from the shadows and under starlight night a man, no, an abomination stepped from the boulder onto the same land he stepped onto.
His form was a mix of tentacle with a bull horn, his body lines were atrocious, the boy froze in fear with eyes of dismay.
"Kiki, We've been playing tag for a while now? How about you become the tagger now? After all I wont hurt you keke." The voice coming out of the abomination's mouth was horrendous, as a drool came out of his mouth.
"L-leave me alone you monster!" the boy shouted.
"What a naughty child you are, to call a 'man' a monster." the monster frowned "Didn't your parents teach you any manners? Oh right they are already dead! Kiki Ha Ha." The monster chuckled maliciously. As tears start to emerge from the boy's eyes.
As he continued stepping back, he bumped into a tree and he fell down too exhausted to move. The boy knew he was in a helpless situation as he saw the monster slowly walking up to him with a smile.
The boy looked around to see if there's anything that he could use to defend himself but there were only sticks around, so he picked one up and pointed it at the monster.
The monster grinned at the sight of the struggling child and was happy he knew no humans would interrupt his time with the child unless they were monsters and he knew they were far away from cities so no monster would interrupt.
While both the human and the monster were unaware of a golden swirling mist appearing above them. Like a meteor from the heavens an unknown figure crashed face down on the hard soil creating a crater.
Behind the dust, alerting the monster, step back, in reflex.
In torn clothes with blood all over them and with old wooden slippers and a beautiful silver katana, his breathing was haggard and a glare that could kill someone.
The boy and the monster shook in fear at seeing the man's body and gaze.
Unsettling inexplicable fear burrowed through the depths of the monster's mind while the child lost consciousness at the sudden surprising events happening in succession.
The monster took a moment before growling at annoyance. 'I felt fear from a bloody hurt human and just a gaze, HOW DARE HE!" The monster turned towards the man who was looking around in confusion.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?" The abomination yelled while pointing a finger at the man who suddenly fell from the sky.
The man looked towards the monster in confusion before looking around once more.
"Where am I?" He asked the monster who was fuming.
"YOU CAME AND INTERRUPTED MY DINNER TO ASK A STUIPD QUESTION!" The monster roared before smiling evilly.
"DIE, YOU BE A APPETIZER FOR THE MEAL" The monster screamed before charging at the man who had alerted eyes before having a frown.
"Where is your energy, this place does not have nearly as much energy as it did where I was, and monsters were bigger and scarier." The man said, ignoring the charging beast.
The man then looked up into the sky before gasping in surprise.
"Where is the second moon?" He exclaimed before thinking for a moment.
"Is this another world!? If it was and with this much energy around and I still have my current cultivation and I already ate the Dragon Cicada, which means.. I might be more powerful here then back in the old world." The man exclaimed with happiness, suddenly the monster's fist was coming straight at him but all he did was wave his hand upward.
The monster towering over him froze in place before splitting in half with green blood spraying everywhere covering the trees and grass.
The man did not mind being covered in blood but he split up some blood before looking at his body.
"*Cough* Thanks to the Dragon Cicada, my wounds heal faster or I would have been dead but it seems I cannot use the increased cultivation part of it anymore since I have eaten it." The Dragon Cicada provides increased Cultivation, when you eat it, it provides faster healing, increased body power, and healthier body but gets rid of the increased cultivation
The man looked around before sheathing his Katana, he then grabbed the knocked out boy and scanned around before heading into the woods as fast as he could without hurting himself anymore.
He kept running before stopping to see another monster sniffing its nose.
'Huh? A big gorilla, well let's end this quickly. I need to find a place to rest fast.' The man thought while charging towards the gorilla.
The gorilla saw the man and lifted both of its arms to slam the man but the man suddenly disappeared and appeared a few feet behind where he originally was dodging the huge arms which slammed onto the ground where he was.
He threw the kid over his right shoulder and held onto him with his right arm. He had four sheathed swords with two on both sides of his hips, he takes out his top sheathed sword on his right side with his left hand and pointed it at the gorilla with green energy flowing around the blade.
Suddenly all the trees in a 6 meter area got cut in half and fell on the ground with the gorilla lower half and upper half separating falling onto the ground.
Blood spilled out of the gorilla but the man did not care before spitting even more blood and looked like he was malnourished.
He hurriedly started moving forward while sheathing his sword and went deeper into the forest.
The boy regained consciousness as he was being carried by the white haired man who was jumpin gover trees with extreme power and speed making them go way high up above the trees, the boy panicked at the speed they were going and the wind hitting his face.
The white haired man noticed that the boy had woken up and decided to slow down while falling before landing in a patch of trees.
"You have woken up." The man spoke in a deep but calming voice. "Are you okay?"
The kid was frozen, unable to move most likely because of fear. "E-eh.. I'm o-okay.." the kid stuttered.
"Sorry about witnessing that horrible monster, but may I ask if you know a place that we can stay?" He stopped in his tracks and put the boy down; the man knew he would soon lose consciousness.
The boy shook his head. "S-Sorry but I have never been in this forest and I ran pretty far away from the destroyed village, so I do not know where we can go." The child said feeling disappointed he was useless.
The man looked around before spotting a cave inside a mountain.
The man leaned on the boy "Tsk, it seems we have to stay in a cave. Listen, I will pass out soon, so we are going inside that cave to rest. We both are tired and I apply a bit of energy to make us feel warm." The man said and the child nodded in agreement.
'Hopefully no monsters find us, I cannot kill another one and this boy can't defend himself but we die out here if I pass out now' The man thought while charging inside the cave.
He was injured badly and his energy was almost out, with full power he can easily cause a slash to go across the world but with his state, he cannot even cut a forest in half.
He just needed to heal which might take years but as long as he heals he will be fine.
The kid and the man approached the cave, it was a cave with a round entrance and vines covering it.
As the man headed to the cave the young boy followed him. The darkness seemed to engulf the room.
The man entered the cave first to check out if there is any Monster, once he was done he signals the boy that there isn't any monster inside.
As the man threw his eyes around the cave room, he noticed that the cave was big.
The man could see how cautious the young boy was examining the room cautiously.
The man patted his back, getting the boy's attention "Where's your parents kid? And tell me about this destroyed village." I ask
"M-my parents?" a tear began to form on his eyes "They were all dead.. they were killed by that monster! And he also destroyed my village near the city!" he clenched his fist wiping the tears in his eyes.
'Cities? It seems this is a modern world compared to the medieval world I was reincarnated in. Although it was much more beautiful and everything was like a cultivation manga, it only began modern science when I was 500 years old and most of the stuff they found out was useless compared with cultivation items.' I thought before my vision started blurring.
As the man's vision started to become black, he took a Katana out of his top right sheathe and held it out to the boy "Take this kid, In case someone might harm you"
The kid takes the sword from the man's hand but he can't lift it because of how heavy it was. "H-huh?" the kid asked in confusion as the sword fell down on the ground cracking the floor.
The man chuckled a bit "It seems you need to train to at least hold this katana" He picked it up from the cracked floor.
'This confirms my thoughts on how weak this world is, even a normal kid could pick up 50kgs with no effort and this sword only weighs around 35kgs without any added energy.' I thought as my mind was becoming even more clouded and my eyes were blurring even more.
"Uhh.. Uncle, What's your name?" The boy asked, trying to be brave.
"...Vanir, You?" Vanir answered as he took off his torn clothes and turned it into pieces making the clothes a bandage for his wounds.
"..I. I'm.. Shigeo"
The two sword wounds on his sides were smaller but still bad and he had many small cuts and a large slash across his chest.
"Well shigeo, come help me. I am using most of my energy to keep conscious so wrap these around my body." Vanir said, handing the clothed bandages to the child who hurriedly got up and wrapped the bandages around his body.
'Fuck, seems it might even take 10 years to recover from these wounds, I have to see if this world is any world I knew when I was on earth since it might be a manga or anime." Vanir thought, although he has really good memory it has been 570 years since he was reincarnated so he only has a little bit of memory left.
After wrapping the bondages "Kid, where is this forest part of?" Vanir asks to prove if he's really in another world.
"S-city sir.." He said fidgeting.
"Do you want to be stronger?" Vanir asked while putting his sword in his right sheathe.
After saying that the child nodded and Vanir smiled before passing out.
This was the journey of Vanir and his Disciple Shigeo.