The Empire XII - The Lord Realm, The Soul, Beyond the Sky

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Shi Changmao slowly felt himself returning to his body. He felt like he was dozens of times Stronger than in the Refinement Realm physically! The jump from the Refinement Realm to the Lord Realm larger than all others before. While scanning his body for changes, he noticed that his Body, Core and Soul had fused! They were one single Unit, no longer three different parts! It was like they were always meant to be together and so, they fit perfectly.

He focused on the fourth prince's Ring to figure out how long he was sleeping, the Children had grown up and some had already children of their own! 'Hm… 7 years? No, more, it should be 8…'. While still calculating the passed time, he noticed some Colorless blobs within their body. The blob within one of the women had a purple color, quite similar to his own Nascent Soul, but of a deeper color. 'Wait! Are that Souls?!'

He expanded his Domain multiple times larger than before and moved it outside the Rings. He was within a beautiful dark green rain forest. But this breathtaking scene hid beings able to kill peak Nascent Soul Cultivators instantly! This was why Changmao thought why he did not find any mortals and only a few groups lead by those at the Realm beyond the Nascent Soul Realm or those at the Domain Formation Realm. (… -> Core Formation -> Nascent Soul -> ??? -> Domain Formation -> Domain Expansion -> …; there just is a Realm, but I have no Name for it. Im open for suggestion! :D)

When he observed their bodies, he too saw blobs within them! And those of the Nascent Soul Realm or higher had colored ones! Those blobs had to be Souls! He used his Domain to pull inside a few hundred monsters from all around the Rain Forest. Before they knew what happened, those who were the kings of the Forest and saw themselves as invincible were gone.

Changmao transferred them all into one Spatial Ring he had just created. He didn't add Gravity, and so the monsters flouted helplessly about. He moved one to himself and tried to touch its Soul. A bit of Qi manipulation later, there was a gaping hole within the monster's body. It went all the way to where the blob was. He moved his hand and tried to touch it, but then the Soul began trembling and fell apart, the broken parts shot upwards towards the Heavens! A few seconds later the Soul was gone and only an empty body remained, but slowly it too lost its life. 'Is this what happens once one dies?' he thought while dispersing the corpse and pulled the next monster to him.

This time he only cut of its head, and the same happened. The Soul crumbled like a Sandcastle hit by the waves and fell apart. He repeated this process multiple times and had found some interesting things: The Higher ones Cultivation, the longer it took for the Soul to fall apart; If one's wound was healed while the Soul dispersed, the trembling would slow down, and the Soul would stabilize again. Any parts of one's Soul that had not yet shot too high would be slowed down and return to the original Soul.

A few days Changmao got the idea to use his Domain to try and extract a Soul form one of the monsters! The first dozen died a terrible Death when their Soul either imploded do to too much pressure from the Domain or when their bodies were slowly cut apart to capture their Soul the moment it destabilized and its connection to their bodies broke. Finally, on his 17 Attempt he managed to get ahold of one Soul, whenever it began destabilizing, he pressured it with his Domain, but only so much as to prevent it shattering.

A few minutes later, the Soul began to become smaller and smaller, it also became more transparent than it already was. Then it dispersed like evaporating water, becoming so many small particles, even he with his Domain was not able to observe them after a few moments! 'What did I do wrong?'

He repeated it, and the same happened again. The next four weeks he spend trying to figure it out. Then he came a conclusion, maybe the body supplied the Soul with something it needed to exist? Once again, he removed a Soul, but he had created an exact replica of the Soul original body using Qi creation, the body was perfectly working, the hearth beating. Slowly he moved the extracted Soul towards the new body, he noticed a reaction from the blob that was the Soul! It was like it wanted the body more than anything else! He let go of his control and observed how the Soul shot towards the body!

A few seconds passed and then it moved! The body was alive, and the Soul remained whole! Changmao was fascinated, and as after even halve an hour everything worked like it should, he saw it as success!

His mind was filled with countless ideas, some were: 'Can't one become immortal by changing bodies every time one is near death?! What if I use the body of another monster and not an exact replica? What about memories? Can I recreate the process that "feeds" the Soul, and if so, add it to inanimate things? There are so many things I have to check and test!!!'

A year had passed since Changmao began experimenting with the Soul, thousands of monsters were taken from all around the Rain Forest, the Strongest of them was halve a step into the Domain Formation Realm! This has caused them to hide and many even stopped cultivating as those of higher cultivation were most likely to vanish! This of course made it easier for the Cultivators to kill the monsters, and so they were forced to cultivate if they didn't want their tribe and bloodline to go extinct!

Changmao had used up all the monsters he had captured and was just about to send out his Domain again, when a blinging flash of golden light shot all across the Green Lightning Dynasty, seconds later a powerful roar followed!*

*ROOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*

Wherever it passed, all beings no matter if human, animal, or monster would feel the innate primal fear of death any being had! The roar's aura was so strong, anyone below the Lord Realm was frozen like Stone do to fear! 'This Roar… it has the same Aura like this Youth I fought years ago! Seems like he too woke up…'

Then he felt an Aura descend from beyond the Sky that scared even him! His Qi was immobilized, and his Domain collapsed! 'What… what is this? Did the body do it?' after a few minutes Changmao was finally able to move again and reformed his Domain to fight the suffocating pressure. Then he exited the Rings and set foot upon the Earth.

Changmao looked towards the Auras origin, the Sky was Shattered! Gigantic rips as large as some smaller Territories filled the Sky and beyond them lay a Void, filled with nothing! Seeing this Void shocked him, there was something beyond the Sky's Firmament! It gave him a feeling of insignificance.

While he stood there questioning his existence, he watched how the Stars one only sees at night rushed across the firmament and shot towards the Voids, the rays of light beyond the Lord Realm shot outwards from the Sun and began fighting a red substance descending downwards from beyond the Sky that reminded him of the strange spiritual water he found when he first acquired the Spirit Stone Root.

The Sky slowly began regenerating and filling the cracks and gaps. Once the Stars reached the edge of the Sky's wounds, they shot outwards while the Red Substance assaulted them. Then they exploded destroying massive amounts of the things beyond. Hundreds of Explosions all with the Strength of a Lord filled the Sky.

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*The roar is so powerful it travels faster than the Speed of Sound! Don't think much about it, it's after all a fantasy world and just works, no true explanation needed! :P