Chapter 4
"Son, are you okay? Do you feel ill or have a weak spirit?" a voice called out.
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'Huh? Did I blacked out? What happened?' I opened my eyes to find a man's face inches away from me. He seems to be worried for me. Oh right, this person was my father.
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"Father, I'm fine. No wait, I did extreme pain just now but I'm perfectly fine now." I replied.
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"Whew, good! I can thank the Heavens for blessing me with a genius son! Marie, our son's gonna grow up strong and healthy! Ahahaha!" My father nodded before shouting at the ceiling, tears could be seen streaming down his wrinkled face.
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"Big brother Kyong...uhm...Who's Marie?" I asked my bodyguard.
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"Madam Marie is your mother. She died while giving birth to you."
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"Oh..." Yeah, go figure. I was actually quite used to this piece of news already...For the past 99 reincarnations, I was given birth to by women of high caliber, but the moment I have fully exited their wombs, they all passed away silently. Till this day, I've yet to figure out why does this happen.
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"Son, how do you feel right now?" father suddenly asked. Oh, he stopped crying.
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"Uhm, I feel really energize right now and..." I closed my eyes to sense my surroundings. "...I can gather Qi?!" I was star struck.
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"Excellent!" My father praised. "Not only can you sense Qi at such young age, you can also gather the surrounding Qi already! Wonderful!"
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"Father, not to brag or anything but I can form Qi as well..." I showed father and big brother Kyong the ball of Qi I gathered in palm. Then, by imagining a spear in my mind, I used my spiritual sea to mold and form my ball of Qi into a simple translucent spear. I guessed this act wasn't normal from the two's bewildered expressions. But it's fine, right? They're family, right?? I wasn't thrown into a shitty family betrayal cliché story, right???
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Anyways, my bodyguard Kyong had to spoil the mood and remind my father about the coronation ceremony. Ah, the shock on his face grew? Eh, I'm getting dragged by my father? Eh, we're in the sky already? He can fly? You mean my father wasn't a low level character that relied on his family? Oh fuck me, only I was like that...
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10 minutes later...
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Severlance Heavenly Pavilion
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'Man, I wish that they could just leave me at home. I wonder why does everyone love to bring their kids to high end ceremonies no matter in this life or my other past lives of mine? Everyone just loves them, somehow...' My attention returned to my surroundings as my father came to a halt before slowly descending onto an empty patch of grass within the palace walls. The moment I saw the exterior , I was rendered speechless , in all my lives I had never seen such a magnificent palace. No wait, this is a fucking fortress! I can see modernized railguns lining the walls surrounding this palace. There's at least 10 guards per 100 meter square, rounding them up to around 10000 guards that are within my spiritual sense detection range, and there should be even more guards outside! Furthermore, the strength of each guard here was already equivalent to big bro Kyong's ?!?! Was this not a fun and happy event?? I get that my family's a big one, but I'm pretty sure this was overkill!!!!!
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After having the guards on site check our identities, me, father and big brother Kyong hung around the compound till the giant doors of the grand palace swung open. There a short plump man slowly walked out, his hands were put behind his back as he puffed out his chest to announce: "Good day to everyone here! My name is Damion Severlance, the 3rd elder of the Severlance family and your host for this year's Severlance Coronation Ceremony! The hall has been readied, you may all enter now!!!"
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That short guy was an elder of my family? Damn. Then again, his aura was surprisingly strong, he might be 5 times stronger than big brother Kyong...But he doesn't even look old?? What's up with that?
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All of my friends back in my past lives look old as fuck! And their strength? Parallel to me when I was at my peaks! The only bastards that managed to retain their youthful appearances were the True Gods, a realm so high and out of reach from Heavenly Gods that we could only gaze at it from afar! And one of them was my ancestor! I've met him only once but that encounter with him had been deeply etched into my mind. My ancestor, True Star was 5 million years old but looked no older than 20. When I asked him how he managed to look so young, he gave me a ridiculous and stupid answer that we Heavenly Gods wholeheartedly believed: "I am a True God and you're not. I've reached a realm where Death, Time & Space cannot affect me anymore. My home is located outside the bounds of the Laws of Heaven & Earth. There is Life and only Life in True God Domain! Remember that!"
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Oh how I envied him. I was only 30 thousand years old and yet I had to shave my long, white beard every year! You're probably asking if I was a Heavenly God, why would not take youth regaining elixirs or youth retaining martial arts or some shit right? Well...That's because even in the entire Heaven, those kinds of goods only appear every 10 thousand years in the black market. In open market? Maybe every 30 thousand years...That was if you were a man of great destiny in the first place.
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Upon entering the palace, I was stunned speechless once more. Not because the interior was even more grand than the outside, but because everyone was staring at us when we entered the hall. There was not a single person in there that I recognized. So this was the alien feeling you get when you get dragged into a party hosted by your friend's friend and don't know anyone but you're too shy so you just sat just stood in corner, hoping that the party will end soon.
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I was indeed taken aback but was not frightened one bit. They dare stared at me, I will return the gesture! Unleash [Spirit Eyes]! 'I may look like a weak and naïve child, but my Spiritual Sense will beg to differ! Taste the strength of a Heavenly realm cultivator!'
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*[Spirit Eyes]
A spiritual art where you cover your eyes in Spiritual Energy, not only improving your eyesight, but also helps to cultivate your mind and strengthening your Spiritual Sense as well. There are five levels to [Spirit Eyes] which are [Spirit Eyes], [Sky Eyes], [Eyes of Truth], [Heaven's Sight] and [God Eyes]. It's a pain for anyone to cultivate [Spirit Eyes] past great accomplishment stage but if you do, your Spiritual Sense would be stronger than anyone else in the same realm.