Chapter 7: Nie Li's Reincarnation

I arrived early in classroom. Class will begin only at 8 am. The seating setup reminds me of my university classes in previous life.

' I wish popcorns were a thing here, so that I could I enjoy for the confrontation I was waiting for 13 whole years...

Wonderful idea, I should notify my family about planting corn, I never seen any stuff like popcorn here and I know exactly which corn to be used;Golden Spirit Corn from my knowledge there is even an alchemic usage for corns enriched with surrounding qi or aura which glory city Alchemist doesn't know about.It's for blood enrichment.

I prepared my sketching papers for notes and wrote in standard English of my previous world.

Harvesting the Spirit Corn:

The Golden Spirit Corn must be carefully harvested under a full moon when the spiritual energy in the environment is at its peak. Only cultivators with refined soul force control can pluck the corn without causing it to lose its potent spiritual essence.

Aura Popping Process:

The kernels are popped using , flame summoned for alchemic purpose while infusing soul force. The popping process must be carefully managed to infuse the kernels with aura, ensuring the spiritual energy is released in the perfect burst of heat. If mishandled, the kernels may explode, wasting the energy.

Spirit Salt and Essence Butter:

Once popped, the popcorn is seasoned with Spirit Salt—an aura filled mineral that amplifies the popcorn's spiritual benefits. It's then coated with Essence Butter, made from the milk of spirit beasts, which further enhances the potency and flavor of the popcorn.

As I was immersed in a new food making process, I began to sense someone already entering inside my perception zone from behind and judging by the look, she seems to have seen my excited face.

Who else none other than Xiao Ning'er.

"Why are you giggling so early in the morning? And what ancient language is that?"

Sure enough trouble will find me if I don't pay attention to my surroundings. Since my body have achieved perfection I felt no shyness or embarassment around. And without any change of face I look at her saying " I was trying to draw a snow wind beast and turns out I can't draw." An obvious lie every cultivators has obvious advantage over mortals in this area.

"That doesn't look like a.. oh..I don't want to know" She realised I don't have any intention of explaining looking at my poker face.

After that episode, people gradually entered and now class officially began. Shen Xiu came in with a very revealing dress that screamed wealth,arrogance and status.

As a direct member of the Sacred Family, one of the most influential and powerful families in Glory City, Shen Xiu views herself as inherently superior to others, especially commoners. The loyalty to family often blinds her to the wrongdoings of the relatives and influences her to despise anyone who threatens their dominance.Her need to constantly assert her status is indicative of her fear of losing her own position of privilege. Her viciousness is, in part, a defense mechanism to preserve her standing.

This is my impression of her by the looks and the teachings, which she just started. She is in scarlet red fox transformation.

Feeling fluctuations of law energy, looking at Nie Li to my lower side, I can see him suddenly waking up mumbling and trying to figure out himself. This is the moment. Dumb Nie Li changed to Heavens favorite.

I enveloped him within the shield range and used creation concept to first recreate all the new memories from his astral soul apart from his love lifes and tragedies which resulted in this little glowing ball in my hand invisible to anyone but me.Instead of direct absorption I used LoHP to gather every information inside without any mental effort.It added more than 127600 books directly. It includes Cultivation techniques,Martial arts,Martial Intents, Inscription studies, Teachings from ying yueru,Alchemy, heavenly laws, Character profiles and future events, geography of unknown lands. Many things.I will probably be out for a day if I tried to absorb this 500 years worth knowledge.., and yet our Nie Li is looking at Ye ziyun reminiscing of romantic times without any mental exhaustion; plot armour....by yours truly,

heavenly Dao otherwise how can he do this with his measly soul force of 5?

The restored creation energy from destroying the memory fragments in hand, is again used to copy, 'Heavenly sacred vine seed' within Nie Li stripping it of any fate or luck associated with it and voila you have something. Looking at the item in my palm, I used LoHP:

[Heavenly sacred seed of vine form:

Culmination of martial arts knowledge and understanding of the 'Great way of the Dao' of a high ranked cultivator.

Flaws 1: incomplete and grade one

Flaws 2: Flawed understandings involved.

Flaws 3: Requires very high comprehension to grow....]

Sure enough.. Since this is a knowledge concept so I can absorb it to LoHP first.

I can't do this now, other wise if I broke through my realm suddenly it will raise alarms everywhere.

My perception felt the outside, and now he (Mc of world) has raisen the first question.

'Blood moon marsh,Heavenly luster mountains,Toxic forest...' if he is asked the source of his knowledge, and why he hasn't shared this knowledge to the city till date etc. for its survival etc what would he answer? Only outsiders would know this. The known outsiders in glory city under suspicion is dark guild.'

Here comes the next question: ' isn't Ye Mo a commoner once?..' Well where is the part informing he had a cyan soul to everyone?.Not everyone has stupidly strong cultivation techniques in their arsenal.

Shen Xiu berates him for his smart mouth for having all talk and possessing measly soul force of 5. Even with ridicule, she still asked him why not learn seriously then? A valid question yet it got answered by 'aptitude can't determine achievement ... Going against heaven...continuous fighting spirit ...typical protagonist lines..bleh '.

Yet the momentum of his speech is extraordinary like a tidal wave sweeping from him. His aura changed.., even his classmates still not fully understanding the concepts were awed by our MCs statement...

Nie li's aura is lowering every one's intelligence?

Is the shielding of heaven safeguards me?

Nie Li proceeds onto bet.

Let me do some experiments, with a thought I extended my shield to cover Shen Xiu.., effects were immediate. She stopped Nie Li's momentum with a "shut up" stirring up just enough soul force to shut everyone up.

I withdrawn the shield back, what did I do? Nie Li's betting was interrupted by her.

"You are very eloquent, I give you that. You almost had me with those. Now onto betting? What's your end goal here.?

Now mister hero can you tell me why with all your indomitable fighting spirit and going against heaven your soul force is still 5? Why couldn't you even increase your physical strength with some training? You didn't even try. Pathetic.

Atleast have some qualifications before arguing back instead of instigating my students and berating your elders"

" Since you believe my services are not necessary you can stand outside for rest of my classes".

She said.With that any rebellious thoughts student had instantly died down as she reasoned properly this time.

Nie Li upset over his situation of not able to reply went outside after declaring he will prove himself later to her.

But this time not even Lu piao joined him as it did seem like supporting a smooth talker instead of a rebellious leader. So the bet never happened.

Shen Xiu congratulated Ye ziyun, Xiao Ninger,Shen yue and me for having high soul force cultivation.

Nie Li PoV

"I should have prepared, my hostility based on previous life will not have any credible backing and inturn bring me trouble, but I will not fall. I will make them suffer for endangering glory city during her plight.

Shen yue,...offcourse sacred family heir..,Xiao Ninger ...went to black devil forest,

I know Chen Tao in previous life but I have no recollection of events of his cultivation or being a genius, "

PoV ends

The class ended but since there was only one person i.e., standing outside, Shen Xiu managed to get vice principal call Nie Li to his office and warn him of expulsion if there was a next instance.

I won't be using this shield near him anyway or I will probably make him a villian. What about the girl this morning, should I interfere? Even if I interfere, how to view her? a subordinate? a girlfriend? If she is seperate from Nie Li's life, how will he earn his money intitially?

Anyway I went for Alchemy guild in the afternoon after sending the popcorn business idea and implementation strategy I compiled through a trusted messenger to my family and met with yang xin. I told her about Nie Li's performance today at school daring to talk against the sacred family, when she asked me how the class was.

I also mentioned Nie Li being an ordinary guy months back and now he suddenly expressing his opinions explosively and acting like an enlightened dude meant he has some sort of support may be Snow wind family supported or some hidden masters or something. This got her interested. Our gossip session ended late and I went to my stay but I got to see Nie Li and his group entering academy training grounds..

So I followed. And went towards them.They obviously noticed. Seeing me they allowed me to join them and Nie Li is probably checking my microexpressions and guaging whether I should be added to the team or not. After some convincing I went with them.

" So, why are you trying to hunt, aren't you an Alchemist apprentice? .." Lu piao asks.

"..Why can't an alchemy apprentice hunt, besides we haven't even reached green Bronze realm 1, I need to test out my physical strength"

Walking with my hand over Lu piao's shoulder helped hide my refined movements. The hunting of horned sheep (albeit with some Lu piao performances) went successfully with Nie Li's action. I tried to kill one using their crossbow after seeing him kill two of them successfully. It took 2 arrows for me to knock one down. Compared to Nie Li who managed with just one. It will probably improve after I absorb new items in LoHP.

I just stood before the first being I killed intentionally in two life times. After a bit of silence, I said turning face to them " That... was my first kill and yet I feel no different."

Nie Li smirked and consoled me by saying that "..what were you expecting? Some sort of deep revelation of heaven or a sudden change in your heart? Killing isn't something that transforms you immediately. It's just a part of survival in this world. The real challenge is in how you let it shape your future actions, not how you feel right after.We aren't gods."

I looked at him and thanked him wholeheartedly although I am not sure about the last part .

"Thank you, Nie Li. I guess I was overthinking it. You're right—surviving comes first. I need to go, you can collect my kill too..

I will just move around these safe areas and probably won't be joining you later."

I left them, and after moving far out of Nie Li's activity area towards east.

In a comfortable position, I sat quietly infront of a tree and conceiled myself with the technique and inscribed a beast warding inscription with soulforce on the nearby wood, and began to transfer Nie Li's knowledge flawlessly optimised with LoHP, starting with medical and alchemic techniques.I also activated energy absorption ability to diminish the mental exhaustion.After a 4 hr continuous operation. I have full knowledge of what he possessed, but from the informations compiled I could see the Temporal demon spirit books still holds more content much more than Nie Li was able to absorb.

My mortal transcendence scripture got flawlessly integrated with these and I renames as 'Boundless Ascension Scripture' and now I could cultivate to emperor level peak flawlessly. That's a long way off from my current power level. Inscriptions and heavenly laws, everything became clear.

I got a feeling as if nature itself trying to conform with me.

Now is the time. I integrated the heavenly sacred seed form which is a great way of cultivations knowledge itself. Moment it got into soul realm as information,I could feel an entity getting attached to my soul form.

It took it's place beneath the form's feet, through which a small prismatic translucent coloured vine rapidly generated into a small plant onto the back of the form with my flawless knowledge getting condensed to form leaves on it.

Oddly enough the situation is very much like my physical self, sitting infront of a tree outside my mindscape. The surge of soul force generated assisted with converging aura around me and self running scripture increases my silver soul realme to all the way to peak with cracks forming each time. It was painful, bloated feeling then on soul realm which got fixed as soon as it appears.Sacred plant also extended ethereal threads to the outer realms of soul sea boundary enveloping it. I may only need a minor push to get into Golden soul spiritualist.

Surroundings was a mess even with the inscription.I got an improved version in mind but observing outside, it was midnight, and I have spread my senses. But my joy vanished suddenly and looking at the figure 50 metres infront of me with a wide open mouth, I understood my non interference policy will need a revision.