Chapter 114: Who am I?

"Where am I?" Lu Zheng thought to himself.

He noticed that he wasn't in control of his body. In fact, this wasn't his body.

He was in the body of a fourteen year old red-haired boy and in front of this boy was a similar looking red-haired man with a cross-shaped scar on his forehead.

"Father, I have finally broken through to the first tier of Refinement realm" The boy said excitedly.

"Indeed you have. Your aptitude is very good and as I have promised, I will teach you lightning path" The boy's father said before leading him to a tree that had no leaves.

"Son, this is a hundred year thunderblitz tree. When you channel your Qi into it, lightning will fall from the sky. Use the lightning to temper yourself and increase your cultivation base.

From now on, lightning path will be your main path and blood path will be your specialty path. When you reach the Condensation realm, father will teach you soul path"

"Thank you, father. This son will be filial and follow your teachings"

"Who am I?" Lu Zheng thought. "Oh, I'm Lu Zheng. How could I forget?"

The scene before him changed.

Lu Zheng was still in the body of the boy but he had grown older and was at the second tier of Condensation realm.

In front of him stood a green haired boy garbed in yellow robes.

"Xue Ritian, huh? You must be from the stupid Xue Clan. I've watched you since you entered this valley and noticed that thunderblitz tree. Come now, give big brother Chen the tree" The green haired boy laughed.

"Dong Chen, I've told you many times to stop disturbing my cultivation. Today, I will make you pay" Xue Ritian said as white lightning bathed his body.

"Come, come" Dong Chen laughed and the two began to fight.

Dong Chen was a tier above Xue Ritian and was slowly winning. At the final moments, Xue Ritian used a blood path technique that severely injured Dong Chen.

"Blood path!? Xue Clan cultivates a forbidden Dao!" With those words, Dong Chen escaped that Xue Ritian could not catch him.

"I am Xue Ritian?" Lu Zheng thought. "No, no, no, I am Lu Zheng!"

The scene changed again.

Xue Ritian had grown older. He was sixteen and was already growing some facial hair.

He was lying in a cave. Blood stained his robes as injuries that were bone deep covered his body. His eyes however shined with joy: "I escaped those bastards and crossed the Regional Qi Wall. Huff, my cultivation base was too low to cross the two Qi walls while running"

A man walked into the cave and stared curiously at Xue Ritian: "A human? What's a human doing in Western Plains?"

Xue Ritian stared at the man coldly and held up a dagger: "Don't come closer or… or I'll kill you"

The man smiled as he walked towards Xue Ritian and lifted him up. The injuries on his body began to close up on their own.

"Follow me and I will teach you to become an artificer"

"I'm an artificer?" Lu Zheng was puzzled. "Yes, yes! I'm a Grandmaster artificer!"

The scenes continued to change. Most of the times, he was Xue Ritian, other times he would be Lu Zheng.

Once in a while, he would be people he did not know. People whose lifetimes he had lived before Xue Ritian's lifetime.

Slowly, Lu Zheng began to forget himself.

More scenes came and Lu Zheng witnessed many of his memories, those he had forgotten and those he wanted to forget.

He was once a quasi-Supreme Grandmaster artificer from the Early Primeval Era that went by the name Azeem.

Normally, Lu Zheng would have been happy to witness Azeem work as he employed many techniques that had been buried in the sands of time but he had already forgotten most of himself.

"Who am I?" Lu Zheng asked himself. "Xue Ritian? No. Am I Azeem? No. Am I Nan Ruo? No. I'm a… a man and my name is… it is Lu… Lu what?"

More and more scenes went by as time flowed on.

In the real world, Teni and Old man Gu Li stood before an unconscious Lu Zheng who floated in a complex formation.

"His situation has deteriorated more than I had expected" Old man Gu Li mumbled as he added some materials to the formation.

"What do you mean?" Teni asked.

"He is in a state of confusion. Since his soul has fragmented, he is reliving the memories of his past lifetimes. If this continues he would lose himself and would only be a retard when he wakes up" Old man Gu Li replied hastily.

After checking that everything was fine, Old man Gu Li activated the formation.

From his spatial ring, Old man Gu Li willed out hundreds of translucent white orbs: "Take these Teni, they are rank nine soul cores. You and I will expend our soul foundations constantly as we control this formation. Use the soul cores properly to maintain your soul foundation. Don't worry, constantly emptying and refilling your soul foundation will strengthen your host soul. Consider this a fortuitous encounter"

Holding a soul core, Teni nodded firmly as soul energy diffused from his body.

It was time to wake a junior up.