A New Gender

Before he died, Levi has a slight hope of awakening the legendary blade. But when the sword wave came down, instantly killing him, he suddenly remembered his family. The face of his mother, father, and sister. The vague memories intensified and he could remember their faces. Even their words imprinted deep in his mind are hauled again. Their smiles. It was...

A voice traveled to his ears though he cannot see the person speaking.

"Listen, kid. You are inside my realm. I have already reinforced your soul using my own spiritual force. I am refining it through the flame of Nirvana to help you relive again. But you must do something to help me. You must form a will within your consciousness. You must have a strong desire to live. For that, you must find a reason to want to live again. You are once stolen life because of the selfishness of the heavens, and I'm giving you another chance to survive once more and climb up your way to the path of justice. You do not need to know who I am. I am only doing these for your sacrifice for freeing me up. After this work, I will have to hibernate for a long time again. Once you open your eyes, you must see the world in a different way. The world's not what you think it is. To gain experience, you must travel by yourself and explore the depths of danger. Do not escape anymore. Do not accept your death. Do not let any seal or destiny bound your freedom. Always stand up and walk the fate you choose. Because freedom is the ultimate power of cultivators. I will give you your first task. That is to accept resonance with nature and find which element is compatible with you. If you find it, you must learn how to absorb it, control it, and use it as your own power. I can only impart you one saber martial art for now. Try to coalace the art of saber and your element. Once you do that, you have officialy entered the path of martial dao. I got to warn you though. This path is not easy to take. It will be always full of danger and death. But you can not grow up if you won't experience all them. When your life is at risk, and you can't save yourself, then you may call on my name -Lei Jian. Good luck, kid. Oh, remember to take care your new body. It is precious to me."

And he saw nothing but darkness. He was only a consciousness floating in the vast space of cosmos. He do not feel anything. In a distance, he saw light once more. It was coming closer until he could figure out it was a ball of fire. The ball of fire hit him and then nothing happened. It just disappeared within him.

Lub-dub!... Lub-dub!... Lub-dub!...

Slow and steady. Soft but sure. He heard it.

Lub-dub!... Lub-dub!... Lub-dub!...

He can hear it. He can feel it. His heartbeats coming back. They were getting louder, and more forceful like beats of drum.

Then he opened his eyes.

He saw the red skies and the blackened clouds. He felt hot, like he was in a toaster. And he can breathe. Real breathe. He can't believe it. He was alive!

Levi breathed a lungfull of air. He got up.

"Huu... I'm... alive? But... how?", he doesn't remember anything from his past. He only knew he was once dead. But all his past memories are non-existent.

But then he looked at himself. "Why am I wearing a lady's dress?" He inspected his body.

"Wha?!! Why do I have boobs?!" He noticed his skin.

"Why is my skin so smooth and white? And why can't I feel my..." He lifted his skirt and saw 'it'.

"AHHHHHHHHHH..."His scream echoed across the sky. It was high-pitched like a lady.

"Why do I have a vag*na? Where is my d*ck??" Then he realized his voice is not his anymore. He has long hairs. Smooth oval face. White translucent teeth. The feeling is completely foreign to him. Then he realized.

"I am a girl??"

Then he felt a splitting headache crashing him. No. Not him. Her. She clutched her head to squeeze out the pain but she can't. And then she saw them. Memories. Memories starts filling his mind. There were thousands of them. And they flashed through him very fast and unending.

"Argh!"

After a minute, she loosened herself and let the memories return. She saw herself, when she was young, she was working on a rice field with her parents. When she was a teenager, she argued with her parents that she wants to go to the city. When she was 16, she was sold as a slave to Qiguai City and was taken by the mistress to be a prostitute. When she was 18, she met a hot foreigner and planned to take him. But the foreigner pushed her away and taught her a valuable lesson she could not forget. She asked if he can become her big brother and he agreed. This Lei Jian saved her a couple of times from the harrasing commoners, and to the nuclear fire which blew the whole city. Then she was taken here and she agreed to offer her body. Then Levi entered her body and owned it.

What the faq? What kind of story is that? It seems very unrealistic. Nirvana fire? Explosion? They all seemed nothing but mere words. But when she looked at her surroundings, it was real. Everythings destroyed by chaos. And there was a big deep pit nearby. However, there were no Nirvana fire whatsoever. No trace of flame is seen anywhere.

Even though she can't understand what happened, she knows she must have a mission to fulfill. Thinking of this Lei Jian who saved him, he pretty much wants to curse him for giving him a female body. But he also felt grateful for giving him a chance to survive.

She stood up. She picked up the saber that rests by her side and gripped it tightly.

Betwixt the leftover ruins, behind the veil of silence, under the blessing of the sky, stood an unmovable girl/boy, who will change his/her destiny herself.

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NINE FATES

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CHAPTER ONE: A Complex Destiny

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