chapter 3
I immediately became depressed; out of a moment of excitement at thinking on what I would accomplish I spun myself into a godforsaken place. Everywhere around me was filled with a gel-like substance and I became as small as a hand. Furthermore, my body was being hung up as if I was somebody in a slaughterhouse. Such an appearance was just humiliating. The worst part was that my body was completely smooth without any limbs...
Wait, it can't be.
After checking my whole body carefully, it was indeed the general shape of a human being. The shape was just like the fetus which I remember to have studied during high school.
I began to sense the surroundings around me. There is another living organism around... Hmm, it seems that I have a twin. Cool, I always wondered how it is like to have one.
From what I remember of highschool it seems like I am only three to four months old. In other words, it would take another five to six months before I and my twin is born. As I thought about how I will have to spend the next five to six months in this dark place with only my thoughts for actual company I could not help but go crazy. I have to go through what most would call prison Solitary confinement for five months, how is that fair? Just where is justice in this?
Well, if there is nothing to do I can at least try and improve in what I can.
As I start to think I have to decide on what to practice for now. I am still a fetus and while it would be fun to imagine me right out of the belly being able to break rocks it would also likely let complications for the birthing and I don't intend to kill whoever is my mother in this life. And as profound energy cultivation is out of the question due to how my profound veins didn't even begin to form I can only practice the Soul Cultivation.
Practicing the Soul is at once hard and easy. Easy in that anyone training in the profound way has his soul naturally increase in power even without focusing on it, even if the progress is nowhere near equal to one who actually focuses on the soul.
As such, I continue quietly practicing with my soul while starting to comprehend my 10 inheritances.
They are all overpowered but amongst them, one is actually the most suitable for me right now. The Avenger inheritance, Black Iri.
Yep, I am practicing the soul using it for one simple reason that I can only call a glitch due to how overpowered it really is.
Of the Noble Phantasms Black Iri has there is the Pollution skill that let me corrupt and absorb safely corrupt energy (not needed right now, useful when 'cheating' in profound cultivation), Black Blessing that let me be immune to darkness profound energy as well as letting me understand easily any 'evil' energy like curses, double-cultivation, and death energy, and, most importantly, the last skill being heaven's feel.
Yep, THE heaven's feel as in the third true magic, the materialization of the soul and not the ritual. It became a cultivation technique that is just about absolute when it comes to the soul. With it, later on, I would be able to construct clones made of pure soul energy, force souls into servitude (yeah, I am thinking on those God remnant souls out there even though controlling others like puppets should also be possible), kill or torture others with a thought, and even possibly reviving others by bringing back their souls from whatever place they might be, there is even a method to remove a person's soul imprint (consciousness) from a soul before taking it in, absorbing all their memories and understandings of cultivation and techniques. It is absolutely OP in all manners of the world.
But the best part is that when fully mastered I would be able to survive perfectly even without a physical body and even if I 'die' I can just leave my physical body and remake using pure profound and Astral power later on as long as I have the time. It would make me immortal unless someone destroys my soul.
However, in me, there is another probably just as OP inheritance in me regarding soul, but I feel it is better not to start practicing it now. I don't think it would be that good as it is more suitable for when using it in somewhere I don't mind if a few hundreds or thousands die for my soul cultivation improvement and considering how this world is I am sure this should happen at some point in time.
I then continue to focus on my soul cultivation, not noticing anything strange at any point in it. I just continue to cultivate.
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Months go by and I start to notice the energy sipping in on my sister, yes she is a girl now that I can see it. It is not just in her that this energy enters but in me too but it still is surprising to see regardless, especially since so much is entering my right arm. This energy enters more on her though, I guess I already have quite a bit in me anyway so it shouldn't be anything so strange.
I notice how this energy comes from somewhere, it seems to come from mother but also not from her all that much, like if the Heavens or the universe are sending this energy. We continue to bathe in it so I try and approach her more, using the soul cultivation of Heaven's Feel to improve my soul and try and make her soul open.
A soul when a being is not yet born is not fully matured, what I am doing is transferring the purest of soul energy directly into her to allow her soul to stabilize and develop more, kind of cheating for her to enter the first stage of soul cultivation from the get-go. As I do that I note how her soul begins to stir and some of the mysterious energy entering out bodies starts to also concentrate on her soul and, strangely enough, in her eyes. Well, it shouldn't be any problem anyway so let's just wait and see for now, shall we?
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1 year later
It has been a while since I and my sister have been born. We are named Tiandi and Iris, and my sister Iris is the cutest little thing for sure.
Despite we both being too young to actually talk to one another we always communicate with one another. The reason is simple, we talk through soul communication.
I am not sure how but due to my opening her soul consciousness it turned out that my and her soul are connected with one another and she long since been able to talk with me. If it is with others, though, she can only communicate the feelings and desires to others, which does make us as babies much less embarrassing.
Needing to stay with diapers filled with poop and needing to smell it should not happen if I had anything to say about it.
Today mother was not around. She has been close by since ever and doesn't let us get out of her sights for too long at any given moment really. She always speaks about how we are her only memory about her past and stuff like that. Her husband, who I am pretty sure is not really my father considering I can feel a connection with mother and my cute older sister (I came out after her mostly because I wanted to make sure that when she leaves she was well-positioned and whatnot, also comes along quite often and while he is not my father he still treats us with care and love, probably because of how small we are and due to how he must want his own children's big brother and sister to treat the youngest member of the family well.
Yes, not three months after we were born, mother was pregnant again. It disgusted me a bit how the man did not hesitate to take mother when she was at her weakest and with no memories like that, she likes him for sure but how much is true love and how much is hormones doing their shit is unknown to me.
'Brother Tiandi, do you think our next sibling will be like us?' Iris asked, her voice soft and her two-toned pupil eyes (the exterior is red and the interior is like a blue prism) on me while her white hair covered part of her face. She really is just too cute.
'Don't worry, I am sure that he or she will be family and she will probably be like us too in some different way.' I tell her and she nodded before yawning and deciding to take a nap. My sister has different eyes compared to others, the closest thing I can associate it with is a mystique eye just like my own but of a different sort.
Mine is the Empyrean mystique eyes from my Berserker inheritance from Musashi that let me see beyond all 'flashiness' of an attack or defense and find out the key place where to strike while hers, an ability to see through all in front of me and see the hidden truths about where to attack for the best strike.
Hers is the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception as she can see and detect death energy. It is not like she can use it to cut things much like those in CANON Nasuverse, she can't see the lines of death for now so to say, but it allows her to see and sense the death energy that others have. Everyone has some death energy on them, after all everyone dies one day. I suppose with time she would be able to see it more and more clearly until she can really do like those who have these eyes in Nasuverse and can do all those things with it, if not go well beyond it. I think Death was listed amongst the highest Laws in the universe right beside Space, Time, and Life, it will definetly not be weak at all. Really, my sister is very impressive.
I can't say what else she can do for certain as that energy entered her soul and her body as well, changing it too to some degree, but it still is quite nice to know she will be strong enough to protect herself. She really is quite amazing.
As I had nothing to do I start to focus on continuing to train my soul, there is no one around so it should be fine. Sister told me that when I practice this the surroundings don't feel as nice, she doesn't mind and is even comfortable in it but others think it is some curse or something so I stopped practicing when anyone else is around. My soul by now is in the beginning stages of creating the first few drops of soul power.
Soul cultivation begins with opening one's soul, the greater one opens a soul more initial space there will be in it. After that the soul is like a weak gas that must be enriched by cultivation and enriching and expanding it constantly, that is the soul expansion realm. After it grows enriched enough it will reach its limits to how dense it can get and when the volume reaches the limit of what the soul's opening allows, and only then can one start condensing this gas into the liquid state. This is the third stage of the soul cultivation, soul condensation. After it starts to become liquid the amount of this said liquid will continue to increase as one drop of it is about 30% of the previous soul energy and now that it occupies much less space more gaseous soul energy can be cultivated before condensing. It is a slow process but it is very important nonetheless.
Soul Energy is the slowest energy to cultivate while the others are quite fast, but body cultivation is only really possible when one reaches 6 years old and profound cultivation at 14 when the profound veins finish forming.
My soul by now is still not enough for combat but when I fully finish the Soul Condensation Realm I should be comparable with a Sky Realm cultivator of profound energy, but that will take years and even if I am at that level I have no intention on using my soul unless necessary as soul cultivators are just too rare.
We continued like so for about two or so hours, I practicing my soul while Hua sleeps in the aura around me without any issue and enjoying the 'evil' soul energy around me as I do so. She was fully used to it by now.
When I was finishing up this impromptu training session mother entered with a bundle in her arms, she has been gone for about a day or so and now she approaches us with trambling legs but with a radiant smile to her face.
"My precious gems, meet your younger sister Xia Qinguye."
And another child was shown to me, this time I gawk as I recognize this one's name well. Too well.
Realization dawns on me about who exactly I am and how much of a shitstorm I am if ANYONE finds out I exist before I am strong enough. This whole planet, gone, just like that.
And, in CANON, the one to do this is this sleeping baby that is being put right beside me, it's purple hair and innocent eyes looking at me as it smiles when I hold it's tiny hands. It is just so cute and so terrifying at once.
... What am I to do now?!
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AN:
There you have it, the number 9 Avenger and number 8 Berserker inheritances have been shown, and they are Black Iri and Musashi!
I took liberty in interpreting that even if someone is in an irregular class they would still have access to their basic skills, for instance, if Artoria is in the Archer class she would still have charisma and still be able to do mana burst. Or, in the case of someone like Musashi, she would still have her eyes even if she was now a berserker.
And YES he has Heaven's Feel, but as the magic and not the ritual, there IS a difference. The Ritual is to summon seven heroic spirits, fight, and obtain a wish. The True Magic is the control of the soul. In this case, I turned it into the strongest cultivation technique for soul cultivation as it could lead to immortality and dealing with any kind of trick regarding the soul, or at least this is what he can do with it. This fic takes liberties on how it interprets NPs to be usable in this story, I can't have someone spamming the power on his right arm after all nor can I have him freezing continents and all that (at least for now).
And now a tip, number 2 of before is the Rider.
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