Alex Devan

In a luxurious room, a 17-year-old boy was laid on the bed. He had black hair touching his shoulder. He had rough and fair skin. His complexion was pale as if he had skipped his meals.

Suddenly a frown appeared on his forehead and his breathing started to become heavy. His eyes were slowly opened. He felt his vision was blurred. So he slowly blinked his eyes to adjust his vision. Soon his vision got cleaned, and he can see the surrounding once again.

"Where am I?".

He tried to think hard but for some reason, he couldn't recollect what happened.

Soon he looked around and was shocked by the appearance of the room. The room was very big and was decorated with antique jade-like objects. Even the walls do look like they are made of marbles.

When he was amazed by the surrounding, he suddenly recalled what happened last night.

"Where the heck is this? I clearly remember being hit by a truck, shouldn't I be admitted to a hospital? But no matter how I look at it, this doesn't look like a hospital."

As he thought about this, he tried to get up from the bed and suddenly realized that he couldn't feel his own body. This realization made him feel panicked.

"Why can't I move my body. It feels like my entire body got paralyzed."

Suddenly he felt severe pain in his head which made him faint. Soon some unfamiliar memories started to appear on his head. After some time he opened his eyes, his eyes showed a painful expression. He again closed his eyes to process the newly emerged memories. An hour later he opened his eyes.

"So that's how it is, I got transmigrated to this world. I can't believe that something like this happened to me. How am I going to survive in this world ruled by martial artists?"

He still couldn't believe what has happened. He was raised in an orphanage without experiencing the love and warmth of a family. As an orphan, his only goal is to study well and get out of the orphanage to start a new life. But because of his low IQ, he barely passed his school life. So without good academic records, he couldn't get the scholarship for his college studies.

He did many part-time jobs to pay the college fees which made him very sick. That day night when he was returning from his part-time job, he got hit by a truck while trying to save a child that accidentally crossed the road.

Thinking about the past life he had no emotion because there was never a moment he felt happiness in his life. There was only pain.

"Such a pathetic life whether it is my life or your life. We both are incompetent people".

When he said this there was a slight pain in his head. Then he thought about the life of his current body.

[The name of this body is Alex Devan. He is the young master of the sleepless city. His father Dave Devan is the city lord of the sleepless city.]

[In a world where the martial artists are respected. Alex was born with a broken soul deficiency. It is said people who have this kind of deficiency were not able to practice martial arts. It is said people with broken souls will not be able to understand the profound mysteries of cultivation techniques or martial arts. Likewise, it is very hard for them to advance in cultivation. Hence, the martial path for people with a broken soul is known as broken martial path as they have no path ahead in martial arts.]

[Because of this he was ridiculed and looked down upon by the entire city. In the sleepless city, he was known as the No 1 Trash. Even if he was hated by the entire city he did not care because all he needed was his father's love. His father Dave raised him without knowing the pain from the absence of his mother. ]

[His father only had one wish that is to make Alex a strong cultivator. To fulfill his father's wish Alex also trained very hard. But because of his soul deficiency, he couldn't understand any profound martial techniques like cultivation techniques, fist techniques, sword techniques, or movement techniques. Even so, his father didn't give up and tried to help him in his cultivation.]

[To become a cultivator one has to gather the essence of heaven and earth to create an essence core. When the essence of heaven and earth is stored in the core then one can be considered as a cultivator by stepping into the 'Essence Gathering' realm. But because of his broken soul, he couldn't sense and gather the essence of heaven and earth.]

[Because of this for two years no matter how hard Alex tried he can't open a core which made his father slightly depressed and started to distance himself from Alex. It's almost a year since he met his father. Alex who doesn't want to disappoint his father used the forbidden pill. Forbidden pills are generally used to forcefully open the essence core by installing the essence of heaven and earth into the body and forcefully help them to step into the essence gathering realm. Such pills also have terrible side effects. One is that the quality of the essence forcefully installed by the pill is low compared to natural essence. The essence core formed by gathering such weak quality of essence will be very weak.]

[Alex who used the forbidden pill successfully gathered essence and created an essence core and just when he was about to store the essence inside the core, the essence core suddenly collapsed. This resulted in a severe backlash which resulted in the death of Alex.]

"In a world dominated by knowledge and wealth, I failed to excel in knowledge because of stupidity and still failed to attain wealth no matter how hard I worked."

"In a world dominated by strength, no matter how hard you worked you still failed to get stronger just because you are born with soul deficiency."

"Alex, we both share the same fate. We both share the same end. All we wanted was for the world to acknowledge our efforts for a better life. But No matter how hard we tried the world never acknowledge our existence and was always treated us like a speck of dust."

"We both gave our best just to live in the world but still ended up dead. It might be hard to accept but at the end of the day we are just fools who worked hard to live by following the rules set by the world."

"So from now on we will care about nothing and live the life our way. We shall not be bound by any shackles in the world. We shall live our life the way we seem fit without only worrying about strength."

"If heaven doesn't have a path for us to walk then we shall create a path by ourselves."

"Since I am in your body then I will live the life as you. I will take on your memories and use your body to live the life by fulfilling your wishes and do everything to protect what you wanted to protect."

"From now on I shall be Alex Devan, the young master of the sleepless city and the only son of the sleepless city's Lord."

Alex gave his promise to live as Alex Devan without any hesitation because he never felt any attraction towards his past life and never had any attachment towards his life on Earth, so he soon accepted his new identity as Alex devan

When Alex said this he suddenly felt the pain in the head was gone instead there was a relieving sensation came from the depth of his soul. This feeling was so good that it made him enter a peculiar state.

What he was experiencing was the fusion of two souls. With the consciousness of Alex from this world gone the resistance in the soul also disappeared which results in the fusion of the soul.

When Alex came back to his sense he felt that his surroundings have once again changed. He felt like he is standing out of nowhere in the starry sky.

"Where am I now? Why do I feel like whenever I close and open my eyes my surroundings seem to be changed?"

His thoughts were interrupted when he suddenly felt something from behind. When he turned back he saw a big black sun. He then realized that the black sun was located at the center of the starry sky. Around the black sun were stars. Numerous stars kept on moving around the Black Sun.

The magnificent appearance of the black Sun made Alex stare at it with his mouth wide open. This was the first time for him to see such a beautiful mystery of the starry sky.

Soon Alex came back to his senses and once again checked his surroundings and started to panic.

"Where am I now? Why am I suddenly standing in the starry sky?"

"Don't tell me that I have died and became a ghost wandering around the starry sky"

"What kind of joke is this? First I died by getting hit by a trick, then I got transmigrated to a world of martial artists, and now I became a ghost of the starry sky".

"What the heck is this black sun? I have never heard of a black sun, even more, a black sun with stars swirling around them."

Soon Alex started to move towards the black sun. When he entered the range of black sun, he felt a strong repulsive force pushing him backward. Still, he kept pushing forward towards the cluster of small stars revolving around the black sun.

When Alex got near the black sun, he saw the stars that are moving were only about the size of fireflies. There were only seven or eight stars in front of him, so he raised his hand to catch one of the stars. As soon as he touched the star disappeared out of thin air. As soon as the star disappeared he felt heavy pressure coming from the black sun which keeps on pressing him down.

Feeling the pressure Alex was startled. He felt that if he touched another star his body will turn into meat paste. He still wanted to see what will happen if he touched another star, his curiosity overtook his fear.

He came close to the spot once again, this time he wanted to use his two hands to catch stars. Furthermore, he felt that these stars are some kind of valuable treasure. Not only that, but he believed in his instinct because this was his first time he had this feeling.

"No matter what kind of stars they may be, today I will fish them all."

He got close to the stars and used his both hands to touch two stars, at the same time he threw his body in the direction of another star. As soon as he comes in contact with the stars they disappeared. As soon as the three stars disappeared he felt a monstrous pressure descended on him which in an instant tore his body inside out. This kind of pain made him lose consciousness.

When Alex woke up he quickly checked his surroundings. Now he was not in the starry sky but the bedroom of Alex Devan. Seeing this for some reason he felt relieved.

"Don't tell me that the black sun and the stars that I saw were dreams."

Alex felt he couldn't move his body except for his right hand. Being able to feel his right hand made him very happy so raised his right hand to feel it. But when he saw his right hand he froze for a second. Some letters were floating above his hand.

[Number of available star bugs: 4]