Chapter 12:
(A.N - Hi guys Chowder here. Thanks to the people who commented about Shanes name in the first chapter. At the start of the fanfic the mc was called kai but I changed that later on, I thought I had changed all the kais but is seems some were left behind. Thanks for letting me know they've been changed.
Also I was joking about dropping if I didn't get 5 star reviews, it seems some of you took that seriously. I do put a lot of work editing and making sure the novel sounds good and has minimal mistakes so for the effort I put in I do want higher ratings, but providing you give honest opinions I don't mind.
Don't forget to leave your power stones)
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-----50 Years Since Soul Rebirth-----
Feeling the spirit energy seamlessly drift into himself, Shane concentrated as his cultivation rank continued to increase. The benefit of 50 death pits was evident as he quickly neared the 900-Year-old cultivation mark before breaking through effortlessly.
Of course, such a drastic method may lead to repercussions in the future but Shane believed his overly strengthened soul would counterbalance any negativities. He couldn't leave the radiance tree and wait for a few more years as anything could happen, from his observation he found this was the only one of its kind within Shanes radius of search.
Shane felt the 900-year bottleneck break and the torrent of energy continued to stream into his plant body as his cultivation once more began to serge. Being a plant had clear advantages as he did not have many organs and just needed to protect his body minimally. Shane also began to absorb the stock pile of nutrients around him.
Within the ever expanse of the forest plant-based spirit beast although rare were still present. Shane spent many years slowly connecting his roots towards plants with lower cultivation levels in the guise of friendship and now he began to reclaim the energy he had given them with an added interest.
Night quickly turned to day as Shane continued his antics causing the lush green forest with towering trees to slowly loose its vibrant sheen. The trees began to decay and fold into themselves as the blanket of silver grass and other plants began to recede back into the earth. The bright green evaporated leaving all the plants with dull yellows and oranges.
Shane observed without regret or remorse as the vegetation encompassing 500m around him quickly wilted away into nothingness. Vast amount of nutrients was forced out from the ground bleeding into the roots that spread under the earth.
All these nutrients, all this life was sent back to one individual or plant. Shane excited with the ever-forthcoming advancement continued to bleed his surrounding dry and very quickly neared the cusp of 1000 Years of cultivation.
Sensing the time was right Shane commanded his roots within the radiance tree to twist and turn and shoot out from the side. The roots rampaged through the tree before making holes as they excited the soft flesh.
The loss of footing caused the Insects to fall into the Radiance tree and due to the shock, they began to activate they're defence mechanisms further.
The Radiance tree growled and whistled as if experiencing pain from the depths of hell, as yellow mould began to fester from the giant hole and spread like waves leaving nothing untouched. As the life of the Radiance tree faded, and more and more gas were forced into its soft underbelly destroyed it from within.
Shane took the chance and as the final sign of life left, he fully encompassed the soft soul core which seemed to ignore the happening of the outside. Using his spirit energy to hold the bridge between mind spaces open as the tree collapsed, he pulled the Trees soul core next to his own and it seamlessly attached orbiting like a satellite to a planet.
Shane recalled his mind space shooting through his root channels back towards his main body, and with a push launched himself of the tree. Accompanied with his graceful landing as his roots cushioned the impact and replanting him into the ground the Tree began to shake and splinter before falling apart like jigsaw.
A few minutes was all it took to end the life of this magnificent creature that had survived the harsh world for hundreds of years. Shane ignored the demise of the Tree and quickly began to move using his roots to twist and churn the earth and go towards a safe location. He couldn't remain on the barren land that spread for 500m. Arriving by one of his hollowed-out burrows Shane quickly went into the hole and covered the exact.
Shane supplemented the tree souls with his own soul cores strength, but over time the trees soul core began to grow dim, a clear sign it was dying. Shane quickly attacked the 1000-year-old bottle neck and once more fell into the ever-flowing streams of evolution.
His surrounding mind space became bright and brighter and Shane new his advancement was at hand. A deep yellow spirit ring emerged within Shanes mind space and began to absorb the purple wisps of energy growing larger and darkening.
Shane felt his Jewel soul core began to show vulnerabilities and so he focused himself for the next stages. Shane forced entry within his soul and for a fleeting minute he felt like a god, as if he controlled anything that happened within his body.
He quickly found the flow of information which was represented as small beads within his soul core representing the Devouring Spirit Grass soul beast. Shane made the jewel exterior became vulnerable and the grey jewel exterior began to recede. Shane saw a soft white orb far smaller than his soul core; he knew this represented his memories and surrounding it where many beads zapping in differing directions. The mains colour was grey but there where a few other coloured beads as well.
Shane new the Jewel exterior would quickly reform so he began to guide the Radiance tree souls next to his own making them touch. The Radiance tree soul was pulled into the smaller but far denser soul core before similarly being opened and the beads being absorbed. Its size continued to shrink until it was gone like it was never there before Shane soul cores jewel exterior quickly reformed.
Within the soul core Shane began to mix the beads together trying to make them interact and communicate with his own beads. He began to mix the information of the Radiance tree and his own devouring roots together. To avoid being replaced or merging with the tress soul cores origin (the place where the memories where stored) Shane had sealed the deeper part of his soul into its own core, this core represented his ideals and his memories. The soul core origin.
Shane was glad as some beads began to mix and left his own soul knowing the job had been completed. Emerging he found his soul ring glow with purple radiance and knew its evolution was about to be complete.
Shane began to work on the circuit that would be added to the advanced soul ring and sent the information towards the rotating ring. As both the soul ring and soul core began to evolve the bright light illuminating Shanes mind space became far brighter as if the sun had entered his mind, this startled Shane as this had never happened before.
Nervous due to the unknown situation he began to think of possible causes, Shanes thought were stopped as an even brighter light cascaded his mind space hitting Shanes conscience and once more sending him into the darkness.
(A.N - Hi guys Chowder here. Thanks to the people who commented about Shanes name in the first chapter. At the start of the fanfic the mc was called kai but I changed that later on, I thought I had changed all the kais but is seems some were left behind. Thanks for letting me know they've been changed.
Also I was joking about dropping if I didn't get 5 star reviews, it seems some of you took that seriously. I do put a lot of work editing and making sure the novel sounds good and has minimal mistakes so for the effort I put in I do want higher ratings, but providing you give honest opinions I don't mind.
Don't forget to leave your power stones)