Complicated Past

After the sudden outburst of qi, I fell into a deep sleep. And in my deep sleep, I had a mysterious dream.

That dream was way too vivid, yet strange at the same time. As far as I can tell, it was something unusual and off.

Everything was pitch black, and everytime I took a step, it felt like I was stepping into water. Water drops could be heard around me, and the ground itself, splitting apart, slowly but surely.

As the ground split, I fell into an abyss, everything happened so quickly, that it would leave one confused as to what is happening.

I was screaming for help, yet I was confused as to how no one hears me, nor how I can't see anyone at all.

When I realized it, it was too late, because the dream itself is something that was inevitable as I held the pendant.

But seeing as how it has a complicated structure, I assumed it to be a pendant that has absorbed a huge amount of the essence of Heaven and Earth.

As I looked around, things were weird, because, somehow, I was in front of a village while I was in the dream.

There, the village seemed peaceful, everyone was living in harmony, it seemed to be...somehow, the perfect place that one could live in.

However, right in the corner of my eyes, I saw children about my age, running off the edge of the cliff. I immediately rushed over to see what's happening as soon as I saw one of the kid's faces filled with panic.

But what I saw, was something beyond horrible, a small child, fell into the edge of the cliff, whilst everything around me became slow, I noticed something from the abyss down below, there was a *Qilin, rising from below the crack.

It took the child, in which, it hooked her through the collar of her cloth, and with it, came along several cultivators, that would seem to be trying to hunt the Qilin, but as they were about to reach the Qilin itself, a bright light suddenly came from it's horn.

And the hunters, the child, and the Qilin itself disappeared.

But then suddenly, the space in the pendant distorted, and the faces of the children were changed.

I saw the face of my mother, my father, and some other people whom I didn't know, yet somehow, in the place of where the child was, before she was taken, she looked exactly like the person who killed my parents.

I felt rage coursing through my veins in that moment, yet before I managed to attack the child out of anger, I was immediately dragged to where I came from, as if to stop me.

But it was actually about to pull me out of the dream, I saw the signboard of the village, right at the very end.

It said..."Tiger Cliff Village", and then, I blacked out.

***

Before Xi Luo woke up, 15 (3 Months) weeks had already passed, and he was mistaken as one of the corpses by a group of merchants who were camping in the mountain - top where I lived.

They were talking about some creepy stories in the campfire to pass the time, one of the people from the group, then talked, about a mysterious corpse, that would rise after being revived by a *Demonic Monk, that the corpse would then be considered as a Jiangshi that has attained intelligence and would become a formidable force that would amount to a Late - stage: Fusion Realm expert.

(A/n: A monk who has deviated from the usual teachings, and instead, leaned onto the evil side.)

As the man was talking, the people saw a person rise from the heavy snow, (which is Xi Luo), and they mistook him as 'that' Jiangshi.

They were getting ready to sheathe their swords, and prepare their bows, but when they took a close look, it wasn't some sort of undead, but a real person instead.

***

As I woke from my deep sleep, I saw people pointing these swords at me with fear. Yet when I looked at them with cold eyes, along with the bright moonlight on that night, I seemed to be someone who was mysterious, and yet dangerous at the same time.

These people seemed to be affected by my killing intent, and the heavy pressure I gave off. It was something that would bring chills down their spine.

They immediately backed off, and pleaded for mercy. When I took a glimpse at them, they were kowtowing to me, yet trembling in fear.

A man immediately pleaded to me, with a tone enveloped with fear, nervousness and with a hint of cunningness. "Sir Cultivator, please spare us, if you want to, you can take the women from our camp, and you can use them as you like, sir."

"What?! How shameless of you!! You actually dared to sell us out?! To think we even approved of becoming your escorts for this trade?! You should've just died!!" a woman from the back yelled out to the man in extreme anger and disgust.

On that day, I, Xukong Tianlong, for the first time saw what the faces of the mortals in the face of power, and it was fear.

And for the first time, I felt disgusted. I didn't know that humans were actually such ratty bastards, who would do anything to survive, and save their own skin.

They wouldn't even mind selling out their own kin, so long as their hide is in a safe place.

I took a look at my hand, and I remember everything, as I have awakened. I AM XUKONG TIANLONG, and I was the Primordial Deity.

And I took a look at this very first human that I've encountered, seeing his manners, he doesn't even have the slightest bit of concern for his own kin, let alone feelings for them.

With a flick of my hand, I annihilated half of the group, and thus, this shall be my first battle. In purging the humans, of which, have disgusting personalities.