Chapter 18: Chapter 18: Reconstruction
"Shi…ni…ga…mi? What in the world are you talking about?" Jasmine was confused. She was in a critical moment of helping him to reconstruct his profound veins, but he decided to tell her something that didn't even make sense. As the daughter came from the highest family in God's Realm, she knew everything from God's Realm. But this 'shinigami' word does not even register anywhere in her memories.
Yun Che, however, sighs a little. Of course, Japanese words came exclusively from his home world. This new world does not even know about Shinigami.
Yun Che relaxed and explained, "Shinigami is a term from our world. You are unfamiliar with that word because the language does not exist in this universe." Jasmine tries to register his word slowly.
"Our world?...Universe?" Jasmine makes her conclusion.
"Yes, I am a being from another Universe. As for Shinigami, it might sound arrogant to you. It translates as…." Yun Che stopped, and he dropped the term.
"Death God"
Silent follows as Jasmine tries to register his word in her mind. An awkward silence follows as they stare at each other's eyes. Not long after that…
"Bwahahahaha, are you claiming yourself as a death god? This princess hasn't had any good laughs in years. You sure know how to make your master laugh. This princess believed that you came from another world but a death god?...hahaha…." Jasmine was laughing so hard that her voice echoed in his inner world.
As for Yun Che, he stares at her thoughtfully. He was not moving from his spot or changing any expression. He knew claiming himself as a god would be the funniest thing for her, but the truth differs from that. When Jasmine finally stops laughing, she looks at his expression. She was shocked. She was expecting him to reveal his joke, but instead of looking like a fool, he was standing there with a severe face.
Jasmine thought to herself, "Is this guy serious?"
Yun Che suddenly stood up and moved a few feet from her. Then Jasmine heard him look up and said, "System, access shinigami mode."
A bright light suddenly covers Yun Che, and Jasmine closes her eyes. It was only a moment, but when Jasmine opened her eyes, she saw him. He wore a black outfit and held a sizeable khyber-shaped sword behind his head. He was wearing a red strap from his right shoulder to his waist.
She was shocked, totally shocked.
Jasmine couldn't even feel any energy coming out from him. She could see it clearly, but she couldn't feel it at all. The energy carries a high amount of power and suppression. He felt her shoulders were carrying a heavy weight.
"Is this convincing enough?" Yun Che said while laying down suppression on her. He didn't use much because he knew Jasmine was weak as an ordinary mortal without her cultivation. Using too much, Jasmine might never trust him anymore.
Jasmine heard Yun Che's voice talking to her. She felt like she was standing in front of death itself. The suppression was strong enough to kill any low-level practitioner. She didn't faint because of her great pride and willpower.
"Is this the might of a god?" She asked herself.
"Whaaaa..t…are ..you?" Jasmine asked while looking at him.
Jasmine felt her body was light once more. She finally gets a good look at him. His outfit looked quite the same when he met her in the forest. Except this one wasn't covered by a brown cloak and was accompanied by his black hair and face.
Yun Che immediately removed the suppression and sheath Zangetsu on his back before staring back at her eyes.
"We are known as Shinigami. You can call us Death God or Soul Reapers. We reap the souls of the deceased and guide them to the afterlife. We are also responsible for purifying wicked souls that roam the earth." Yun Che said with confidence—a trust for trust. Yuuki or Yun Che wanted her to know what Shinigami was. It was fair that she knew before he took the red blood drop.
"We?" Jasmine said slowly.
"I am not the only Soul Reaper in my world." Yun Che said while looking at her.
"I thought you couldn't cultivate?" Jasmine slowly regained herself and asked him.
"Sigh...In our world, we are known as Soul Cultivators. We cultivate the spirit energy to gain strength and purify the souls. We cultivate spirit energies known as Reaitsu or spirit pressure. The suppression you feel just now is part of my spirit pressure." Yun Che sighed and slowly said, 'Reaitsu,' so she picked up.
Jasmine looked at him once more. Her world or realm has different types of cultivators. She never heard of this type of energy being cultivated.
"Your body, I sensed it and checked it. You are indeed crippled. How….?" Jasmine asked him. She thoroughly confirmed that he was crippled.
"To become a Soul cultivator, you must live as a soul spirit. It means becoming a being without a physical body. As you can see right now, I am in my soul form. The form enables me to use spirit pressure. However, if I switch back to my human body," Yun Che cancelled his shinigami mode and returned to his previous crippled body. "I am back to being a cripple."
"So, if you can cultivate this 'spirit energy,' why did you need the Heretic God's blood?" She asked while still holding the drop of blood from before.
"I was reincarnated into a human body with the soul of a Death God. However, the body I was reincarnated was a body of a cripple. Spirit energies cannot be used in a living human body. That's why I must switch between soul and body to cultivate."
"That still didn't explain why you need this blood," Jasmine demands an explanation from him.
"I was getting there, so calm your boobs. If you had any." Yun Che smirks at her, and she immediately shoots him angrily.
"All right, all right." Yun Che defended himself. "Anyway, I was looking for a method to restore my body to a cultivator's body. This way, I can harmonize my soul and body, allowing me to cultivate without switching my body. Another reason is if my soul is too strong in the future and my body is too weak. The results will cause the energy from my soul to destroy my human body taking me along with it." Yun Che explains.
"I thought you the strength of a god?" Jasmine questions him again.
"Well, I am not a true god, though. I am just a soul reaper. I can still die like a normal human being. Besides, if I fight at full strength with my current level, my strength will enable me to fight against Earth Profound Realm experts. Nothing more, nothing less." Yun Che explains his current situation. He didn't mention his other techniques.
"Hmph, this princess started to think that you are a real Death God, but actually, you're just too weak." Jasmine regains her former self after knowing his soul's strength.
"Hey, cut me some slack. I just started to cultivate today. I was reborn into this body. Like I said, I am from another universe." Yun Che shoots her back. He just arrived this morning, so it is still recent, right?
"Reborn?" Jasmine noticed one of the words he had spoken just now.
"I might accidentally kill the owner of this body. His soul was weak, and when it came in contact with mine, I absorbed him and made the Sky Poison Pearl my own. So, I became him and took his name. It was possible with the help of this thing, though." The current Yun Che shows her the Mirror Of Samsara from his inventory. The moment he showed her, Jasmine was shocked again. The man before her had another one of the Seven Heavenly Profound Treasures.
"The Mirror of Samsara?!" Jasmine widened her eyes and tried to snatch it from him, but he raised his hand high out of her reach. Ultimately, he gave it to her to play with and warned her that the mirror was now bound to the System.
Jasmine examined it, and she was indeed shocked. The item in her hand was the Mirror of Samsara, the object of endless reincarnation. She knew how it functioned and made the conclusion. The man was called from his universe through the mirror, bringing this System with him. He possessed not one but two Seven Heavenly Profound Treasures.
Yun Che snapped his fingers, and the mirror returned to his hands. "You knew about it?"
Jasmine widened her eyes as her expression turned serious. "You…. Why do you have two heavenly treasures in your body?!?"
"Like I said... When I came to him through the mirror, I ate his soul and took these treasures. It originally belonged to him, and I learned their usage from the System. Trust me. I learned a lot from the System about this universe." He made his right hand glows green while spinning the mirror through its chains.
Jasmine listened for a moment. It means the soul before the current him was someone with a spectacular identity. Who is he if he can control two heavenly treasures simultaneously? When she examined the mirror, she realized its power had been activated twice in the past thirty years. The original user might have triggered the first reincarnation cycle, and the second might be this guy, who unconsciously killed the first user and took his body.
It probably activated itself at the wrong time.
"He must have been born under the unluckiest of starts." Jasmine coldly replied, and the current him gave her a sheepish smile. The man she spoke of was supposed to be her disciple, lover, and, finally, husband—the true inheritor of the Heretic God Legacy. The current him just forcefully took his body and killed him off.
He can call himself the suspicious imposter.
In the end, Jasmine accepts that the man before her is a death god from another universe who is reborn inside a crippled body while housing two of the Seven Heavenly Profound Treasures alongside The System core. She was about to restore his profound veins with the Heretic God's Blood. The universe, indeed, works in mysterious ways.
She looks above the System and sighs as she talks to it. "You must have a part in all of this. Is this your plan? Bringing a god from another universe into this world?"
The System Core shows no changes.
Then, she turns to the young man before her if he was reborn into a body of a young man who coincidentally carried two of the Seven Heavenly Profound Treasures. What kind of man was this, Yun Che, before the current replaced him?
"Hmph, even you are soul reaper doesn't matter to this princess. However… "Jasmine suddenly hesitates. She wanted to ask him a question, but she didn't know what death gods were capable of.
"You, since you are a soul reaper. Could you bring those who passed into the world of the living?" Jasmine suddenly asked him. Yun Che was stunned after hearing that question. He looked into her eyes and saw that she was brimming with hope. The Shinigami himself read in her trivia about how she lost her loved ones. She probably asked him whether he could control the life and death of a person.
"Sorry, Jasmine. Shinigamis are soul reapers. Our jobs guide and send the souls into the afterlife." Yun Che reminds her once more.
"Is that so?" Jasmine suddenly felt depressed. She was hoping Yun Che could fulfil her wish.
"However….." Jasmine immediately looks up.
"I can reattach a deceased soul as long as the soul wasn't extinguished or passed to the afterlife." Yun Che stated that there was one thing he could do besides bringing the dead back to life.
She kept quiet, urging him to continue.
"When humans die, their souls are separated from the body and connected by a chain. This chain is the one binding the soul to the body. When they die, the chain will be separated from the body and soul reapers will send them on their way. However, if the body is destroyed, the soul can be attached to a new body by the soul reaper as long as the soul is still alive."
"In your case, however, your soul survived after your body was destroyed. You might not see it, but a shinigami like me can see your soul chain as clear as day. The poison is currently eating it. The poison would extinguish your soul if I didn't drag you in here. After you construct your body later, I will help you to reattach your soul. If you don't, your body will become a vessel, and your soul will diminish over time."
As Jasmine was listening, hope in her eyes was ignited once more. She wanted to construct her body but couldn't care less about that now. The beauty had a wish that she wanted to be granted, but she knew he wasn't strong enough to fulfil that wish.
"Hmph, this princess has promised you before. Even if you are a Shinigami, I promise to restore your profound veins. This princess will do it. It is my vow as your master." Jasmine was in a good mood after that. After hearing about his capabilities, she wanted to make him as strong as possible for her to have her wish granted. Besides, having a death god as a disciple boosts her pride as his master.
Yun Che knew what her wish was. He couldn't tell her that her brother willingly passed to the afterlife, but he didn't know about her mother and hoped to fulfil the latter. As for now, he just let nature runs its course.
By the way, she stumbled to say 'Shinigami' was still funny to him.
"What are you laughing at?" Jasmine looked at his smirking face.
"Nothing, so shall we get started?" Yun Che asked.
As she spoke, Jasmine's eyes suddenly flashed and brightened as she lowered her luminous snow-white wrist. Her delicate fingertips suddenly stimulated the "Evil God" blood to float adrift and pierce into Yun Che's chest.
When it entered his chest, a notification popped in front of him.
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[Ding...…. Discovered Evil God's Indestructible Blood]
[Initiate fusion with the host body?]
[Ding…Discovering upgrade modules from the Evil God's blood.]
[Notice of maintenance]
[Host needed to be warned that during the fusion process, the System will undergo an upgrade phase from a basic system to an intermediate one. During reconstruction, the System had placed a barrier on the outside world to protect the Host. The process will force the Host to undergo hibernation mode for ten hours. The System recommended Host to finish his business before initiating the fusion. Connections with all Zanpakuto spirit will be cut off to prevent unnecessary distractions. The System apologized for the trouble.]
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Yun Che sees the notification looked at Jasmine for a moment. The System will ensure her safety in his inner world. He'll explain to all his spirits once he wakes up as long as he didn't get a kick in the face by Hoyuu.
"Jasmine, I will undergo a reconstruction process for ten hours. Can you watch my sleeping body while at it?" Yun Che asked while preparing to lie down to begin his reconstruction.
"Ten hours? Is the reconstruction of profound veins that long?" Jasmine asked.
"No, but the System up there requires a breakthrough. So it needs ten hours to complete the process. I might construct my ideal body while I am in there. So wish me luck then." Yun Che waves his hand to Jasmine and immediately begins his construction. Yun Che directly taps the notification again.
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[Initiating fusion and reconstruction process]
[Body reconstruction process imminent. Initiating Hibernation Mode]
Hibernating….in…
3…
2….
1….
[System hibernating]
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Yun Che suddenly fell asleep on the ground of his small floating grassland. The System above him started to dim as if it, too, was going to sleep.
Jasmine looked at him and the System above him. "Truly a man able to defy nature. Soon, a hybrid of Evil God and Death God will be born. He might be able to turn this universe upside down in the future. Nothing will stop his ascendance."
Jasmine started to remember a face, the face that caused her to emit a thick killing intent.
"Not even him."
"Hmph, this princess hopes you didn't die in the process. Don't make this princess regret choosing a soul reaper as a successor." She looked at him once more before starting to recuperate her wounds.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
Nora_Danish
Nora_Danish Finally, a Shinigami and Evil God hybrid. I remembered that the system has a reward for him. The clue is the reward is not going to be a zanpakuto.
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