章 3: Racial difference
Sun Moon Federation
Silverlight Town
After a small feast of tomatoes and fried bread, Fan Lin was sitting in the empty shop with the dirt ball spirit soul ball in front of him.
He cleared his mind of all the useless thoughts and recalled the process of spirit soul absorption that was thought to him in the spirit master's class.
He opened the spirit soul ball and the soul power in his body began to act. A small connection seem to form between him and the spirit soul and the absorption process began with it.
Or that's what he thought while closing his eyes and entering meditation.
(3 hours and 17 minutes later)
Fan Lin exhaled pure wisps of soul power as spirit soul absorption process ended.
He gently opened his eyes and looked at the blank spirit ring floating around his body.
Blank?
BLANK(☉_☉)!!
"Drugs?"
Fan Lin closed his eyes while mumbling nonsense. His mind couldn't understand what was going on with him.
The weight of the spirit soul ball in his hands hadn't changed and he was really afraid of looking at it because if what he was experiencing was true then...
He made a mistake by becoming a Spirit Master.
*Breathe in*
*Breathe out*
He took some deep breaths and slowly opened his eyes while hoping for his guess to be wrong.
Unfortunately for him, disappointment was ready to greet him as the lump of Dirt spirit soul was still present in the spirit soul ball.
Fan Lin looked at the unbonded lump of Dirt spirit soul and then at his blank spirit ring as horror and dread in his eyes.
I am a soul beast incarnation!
A thought resonated in his mind as he understood the gravity of his current situation.
From what he knew, a spirit soul, when absorbed by the Spirit Master, vanishes from the actual world and takes root in the spiritual realm of the Spirit Master, this creating a bond and spiritual connection with it.
A Spirit Master can recall his spirit soul at any time, be it to aid in battle or for showing off through the spiritual connection.
Fan Lin couldn't do that cuz he didn't bond with the spirit soul. Then where did the spirit ring came from?
As a Spirit Master, your spirit has to absorb a spirit ring at every 10 ranks to promote to the next realm but that has one exception, it only applied to the humans.
After the spirit beast cultivated to a 100,000-year rank, it usually had two choices; either to continue trying to break through and attain a higher rank or to recultivate into a human being. However, there was a danger of trying to break through, and it had a high chance of failing. By becoming a human, it had to start from scratch and cultivate through human methods to reach a divine level, thus gaining a prolonged life.
There was a unique feature to the recultivation of spirit beasts; they didn't require a spirit soul or hunting of spirit beast in order to attain a spirit ring. Each time they reached a certain level, they would be able to obtain a spirit ring and possess its corresponding ability. Their cultivation speed was much faster than that of humans as well.
*Sigh*
'But didn't the recultivation of a spirit beast would bring about its past memories.'
"Where are mine then?"
Did I fail? No wait, failure meant death.
Hmmm🤔...
I couldn't even fail properly.
I...
*Sigh*
Forget it. I will try to find something on this later on.
Now everything makes sense as to how I got into the orphanage and why no one knew about my parents.
[That is not why—]
Now I understand why I hate humans, it's because they are my enemies and I am a Spirit Beast incarnation.
[No, that has nothing to with you being a soul beast.]
I should not have chosen to become a Spirit Master. Stupid me!
[No comments. This is getting pathetic my moment]
[By the way, you might not understand who I am or what I am but just know, I am back]
[Now onto the story]
....
"What do I do?"
Fan Lin muttered to himself in silence. Half an hour has passed since he got his blank spirit ring and he had thought of multiple bad scenarios to further depress himself into depression.
All paths seem to end in death for him. He was that precious!
Now that he has self-diagnosed himself as a spirit beast incarnation, whatever he was planning to do in life felt impossible.
Open a fruit shop, someday, some Title Douluo may pass by him and he would die.
Further his Spirit Master path? That was the same as entering a swamp full of alligators.
Continue his life? Same as the first one, One day, due to some divine intervention of the holy one, he would face an inappropriate scenario and die.
"What should I do?"
Fan Lin thought of all the wrong possibilities once more and further succumbed to despair.
His situation was such that he couldn't even talk to others to get some experienced advice from the others.
So he did the most rational thing (according to him).
He went to sleep. The lump of Dirt spirit soul still in his hands.
....
6 hours later.
*Sigh*
"Not a dream, huh?"
*Sigh*
Fan Lin looked at the ceiling of the store blankly. The dirt ball was thrown far away to temporarily escape from the situation.
"Do I have to live in hiding? Again?"
He asked himself, still not sure on how to proceed next.
"How much though? I am tired now. I don't want to move. I don't want to eat rubbish food..."
"You know what? I don't care about some humans going to take my life anymore."
"It's not like there is anything worthwhile in my life as well. I am just a 7 year old with just 3 years of memories. What's there to lose?"
"If they came for my life, I will kill them. If I can't... I will committ suicide, it won't be my first time dying, maybe I can get a better life next time."
[!!!]
"Yeah let's do that☺️."
"If I am careful, I might avoid coming face to face with too strong of a person."
"My cultivation speed is fast, I just need to toil my way to the lvl 60 and I would be safe... If the things that I have read are correct though. Who knows if the humans have spread misinformation to capture people like me? No one can be trusted."
[Haah, it all goes down to this huh?]
"I have to be cautious of everything around me though. I also have to get used to killing and such as soon as I can. Humans are vile, they will use any and all measures to nab me."
[And this here is why I hate my teenage years]
"I am not going down easily."
"On that note, what's my first spirit skill?"
Lin got up and stared at the blank spirit ring while waiting for something to happen.
Nothing did. There was no knowledge about any kind of spirit skill in his mind yet he did know that he has a spirit ring.
"Hm, did the failure of my proper Spirit Beast Incarnation affected the spirit skills as well?"
"... DUCK!"
He laid down again, eyes blankly staring at the ceiling.
"What do I do now?"
"I have a spirit ring but it's blank. It doesn't have any spirit skill, it's like it never did."
[Remember someone in the same situation]
"No wait, this scenario, yeah it's similar to that one situation that I once read."
<Soul Spirits actually place their complete cultivation as spirit rings that take up space on their contracted soul master. As a result, if the soul spirit voluntarily leaves, the contracted soul master permanently loses those rings.>
But some conditions allow the Spirit Master to keep his cultivation but the loss of the rings would be represented by blank rings: rings with no abilities.
These rings have just a single known function, to maintain the cultivation that was not lost through a special condition.
As he remembered those lines, he looked at the lump of Dirt that he threw away previously. He carefully got up and walked towards it.
'I don't know what happened during my spirit beast incarnation process or where exactly did I go wrong.'
He thought about the past year and his hardworking self.
"Neither do I know if what I am thinking of could even relate to the current scenario."
He was afraid, afraid of failure, afraid of death, pain, hunger, cold and humans.
"It could all be a delusion of mine or I might be on my last straw and hoping for a miracle to happen."
Throughout the first part of his known life, he had lived as he wanted to, completely delusioned in his pride and anger.
"I don't know if I will succeed or not, if it did, I might be a genius (Lucky). If it didn't, I am a poor bloke with debt anyways."
Truthfully, he just so wanted everything to end, everyone to just die and to just peacefully sleep for a long, long time.
A sleep without the fear or life or death, poverty or hunger, shelter or despair.
And truthfully, he could gain them as well. He just needed to run far away some semi urban area and act like a civilian there.
He was a Soul Master and his monthly allowances from the Spirit Pagoda was enough to feed him for his whole life.
And the good thing being that he doesn't even need to go to the Spirit Pagoda to get the money, it will be deposited to his Spirit Master ID card every month and he could take it out from any ATM or banks.
All he had to do was to stay hidden and keep changing his location once in a while, maybe even leaving the continent when he has enough savings.
But...
Fan Lin picked up the Dirt spirit soul ball.
But now that he had a small sleep and some sense of mind, his mind unwillingly faltered.
Just a few hours ago, he realised that he was a soul beast reincarnation, a failed one at that, a few hours ago, he whole mind was focused on how he was doomed.
Now though, he was trying to understand what was his past self was thinking of when it decided to pick this path, one with low chances of success and even then once the humans got to know, a death end.
Maybe the past him wanted to live longer?
Maybe he was attacked in the middle of the reincarnation process by someone(humans) and he was the result.
Maybe the past him was determined to the maximum or he might not have any other choices.
What did his past self thought at that time?
He didn't know. It was all a speculation on his part.
But...
"What does it all matter? The past is the past, the present is the present."
He said out loud while looking at the spirit soul. His Spiritual power connected to the Dirt spirit soul.
"I can still change it."
A decision that was made on impulsiveness and something unexplainable.
A decision that he never regretted.
That day, he passed out before even understanding what happened.
Unfortunately for him, if he didn't, he would have been able to understand everything.
[Goodbye. Dear me]
.....
By the way, two chapters tomorrow.
Any questions you want answers, ask me
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