THE ART OF EVOLUTION

Kyran Reid was a great cultivator but had an evil heart. One day, he found a treasure, a technique that could help him become the most powerful cultivator ever. Unfortunately for him, one of his enemies plotted against him with some of Reid's friends who coveted his wealth. The ambush failed but they succeeded in killing Reid. Little did they know Reid still had a card up his sleeves. Just before dying, his spirit managed to escape before his enemies could find out.

He possessed a body and restarted his cultivation but his luck seemed to have run out. Just as he was travelling he was ambushed again by some thugs. Their cultivation base was higher than his. He had no choice but to self-destruct and find a new body once again. But with a weird twist of fate, his spirit got imprisoned in one of the thugs' broken sword.

Ever since then, he had been waiting for someone to come and touch that sword so that he could be released as well as get a new body. 

When he saw a young boy falling into the ravine that had formed after countless years, he saw a ray of hope. He used his last bit of strength and saved the boy to find an opportunity to seize his body.

The instant Darsh picked up the sword, Reid's spirit entered in his third eye which contained Darsh's soul. Reid attacked his soul. He thought that he was finally going to get his revenge. Unknown to him, fate had something else in store for him. Just when he thought that he was going to get a new body, he suddenly felt something odd. But it had already been too late for him. 

He was 'accidently' devoured by Darsh's soul. This all happened in a few microseconds and suddenly a flood of information entered Darsh's mind. The pain he felt at that moment was unlike anything, even when he was stabbed it didn't hurt this much. The pain had gotten so overbearing that he collapsed on the ground the next moment.

It had gotten noon and 3 hours had passed since Darsh had gone unconscious. His eyes opened in an instant and there was a glow in his eyes like never before. He stood up and started to think about what had happened to him. 

After a while everything was clear to him. He had gained all the memories and experience of Kyran Reid. He had found that there were 6 more realms above the Prana Maya Realm which were Chakra Instigation Realm, Core Formation Realm, Nascent Spirit Realm, Saint Realm, Trinity Realm, and Paramatma Realm.

Reid was at the Saint Realm. Darsh was still searching through Reid's memories. He found many secret techniques including combat techniques and breathing techniques. But a single technique attracted Darsh's attention the most. It was the same technique that Reid had found before dying at the hands of his enemy and friends. 

This technique was: THE ART OF EVOLUTION.

By practicing this technique, one could evolve from a simple human being to a higher life form such as Vampire, Druid, Beast, and God. 

One could choose any one path of evolution which would happen slowly and change one's body gradually.

If one chose the path of Vampire, they would evolve in 7 stages. Similarly, if one chose the path of the Beast, they would become a human-formed Beast and evolve in 7 stages.

The most difficult but also the most rewarding path was the path of God. One would evolve in 9 stages by choosing this path. According to the history of the Protokenor continent, there once lived a mighty race that was very few in number but they had a very long life and some even had eternal life. The members of this race were called Gods. These Gods ruled over all the continent for countless years but suddenly a calamity hit the continent and all the Gods died in that calamity. No one knows what that calamity was, but ever since there had been no signs of a single God on the whole continent.

Darsh had unexpectedly won a lottery this time. He had not only gained priceless experience and memories with many secret techniques of a Saint Realm cultivator but also a boundless treasure: The Art of Evolution.

Darsh explored Reid's memories for a while. After coming back to his senses Darsh started thinking about how to get out of the ravine and who was that mysterious attacker. Suddenly Darsh felt a warm current of energy and a moment later he broke through from Manas Initialization Anandamaya stage to Rajas stage. But he didn't stop there, he broke through once again and reached the Sattva stage. It meant that Darsh had reached the peak of Manas Initialization Realm in one fell swoop. Now, his fighting power was comparable to that of a 3rd-level Prana Maya Realm cultivator.

After breaking through, the first thing he did was to continue thinking of his two problems. He got the answers in just 1 second. Firstly, he could use the secret technique, 'Earth manipulation' which he had found in Reid's memories to get out of the ravine and secondly, the attacker must be sent by Ravian or at least his acquaintance.

It took Darsh 4 hours to get back to the mountain. He went back to the village and told them that the Beast had been killed. Before coming back to the village, Darsh had found the Orfin killed by him and took his head with him as proof of his endeavor. He showed the Orfin's head to all the villagers. Seeing the Beast's head, they started celebrating. They insisted Darsh to stay for the night for the celebratory banquet hosted by the whole village but Darsh refused politely and went on his his way to the sect.

He ran as fast as he could resting only when needed to. 

It took 3 days for him to return to the city nearby his sect. When he reached the city, he slowed down and went to an inn to rest for a bit. In the inn, he heard some men talking.

"Hey! Do you know that the Swaraag sect was destroyed by the other two sects overnight two days ago."

"Yes, yes and I also heard that no one survived in the whole sect. Even the disciples were killed by them mercilessly."

Drash's eyes widened. He thought to himself: "What?! The Swaraag sect was destroyed."

"I need to contact my family asap to tell them that I am okay. They must be worried sick after hearing this news."