The next day...
"Ughhh.."
The eyes of an unconscious figure slowly stirred open in response to the glare of the sun and he sat up abruptly. His eyes scanned his surroundings quickly only for a small migraine to hit him which caused him to groan in pain.
Looking around him for a while, Gojo noticed the destruction he had unknowingly brought upon his garden and sighed. Shaking his head, he tore off a piece of cloth from the hem of his robes and wrapped them around his eyes, blindfolding himself.
The next moment however, he froze and clenched his fist in surprise, feeling the unnatural level of strength flowing within his muscles. At this point, he couldn't help but laugh in satisfaction. He felt amazing.
Without hesitation, he clenched his fist and threw out a causal punch towards a tree.
*Ka-cha!*
The tree snapped into two instantly, and its shards were blown apart by the impressive force, which left Gojo gobsmacked for a moment. Such strength was unnatural and was almost half of the physical strength he could muster at his peak on Earth.
As he let his consciousness sink within his figure, he let out a smile and sat cross legged.
"Jumping all the way to the fourth layer of Body Tempering? Hehehe.. Not bad"
The hallmark of the first four layers of body tempering was a hardened skin akin to stone, that could generate enough force to turn a boulder into dust. Yet in Gojo's case, he could tell something was different about his strength. The physical energies he could summon from within felt refined to the extreme to the point of being sharp. Not the formless haphazard energies described from within his memories.
He let his consciousness sink into his dantian, and he was presented with a completely silver colored massive hollow structure within his body that sent shivers down his spine.
"Hmmm?"
He thought for a moment, and began exploring his peculiar dantian. The presence of strands of pure silver energies that constantly nourished his body was a rare occurrence the more he thought about it. Dantians were just structures in the body that housed Yuan Power. But, someway somehow, his dantian was imbued with a certain property, that he found hard to recognise.
As he explored deeper, he came to stop, when he spotted a silvery hollow shape of an ancient looking symbol that seemed to have been torn off by force, and he brows furrowed. Seeing the symbol shaped hollow part of his dantian, he suddenly felt as if the dantian was incomplete, as if something else was missing, a rather peculiar object which he had no idea of.
Shaking his head, he let out a yawn. His dantian held secrets that he had no idea about. But he would bet those secrets were all connected to that silver haired fella from his memories. With time he would uncover all the secrets no doubt.
Taking a deep breath, he arose to his feet and stretched his waist, about to leave, when pieces of broken memories flooded into his consciousness.
"Interesting.."
He placed his hand on his chin, as he inspected the new memories and after a bit, his lips widened in a small smile.
"Voidforge Titan Codex?
Great Divination Technique? Such scary names.." Two cultivation techniques had just been dropped unceremoniously into his memories.
But, he would have time to look through them later. Right now, he needed to take a hot bath, eat some good food and change into some new clothes. The allure of wearing cultivation robes wasn't as great as he thought it would be. The robe he currently wore felt stuffy, he could barely breathe at all. He needed comfortable clothes.
As for where to sleep, he already knew what to do. Since he had now stepped on the path of cultivation, he could be considered to have passed the requirement to become a sect disciple. Now all he needed to do was get back into the sect, register himself and voila; he would get his own apartment within the sect along with other benefits.
To this end, he began walking out of the destroyed garden to his destroyed home for at least a bath and a change of clothes before heading into the sect.
With his hands behind his back his silvery white hair fluttered in the wind, to which he sighed. About a mile's distance between him and his old shelter, he suddenly paused and looked on ahead. Suddenly two youths came walking towards him, while scanning their surroundings, as if on the search for something.
Turning his gaze towards them, Gojo quickly recognised their uniforms. The Department of Law Enforcement. Yet they were known for being a group of arrogant dickheads who notoriously flaunt their power in the sect.
One of them, a tall burly youth with a menacing scar running along the side of his face couldn't help but frown when he spotted Gojo's figure.
"Oi, Man Sha, isn't that, Chen Zhen? I thought he was dead. Senior brother Luo Ping didn't finish the job! And what's with the blindfold" The burly youth called out to his partner as both of them glared towards Gojo's incoming figure.
"We didn't come here for trouble, Tian Long. Keep that in that stupid head of yours. We're here on Lord Sect Master's order to scan the area which the phenomenon is believed to have originated from and report back any unusual findings..."
The partner, known as Man Sha was a skinny looking youth with a dull expression. When the burly youth spoke, he could detect the malice within his tone and quickly slapped him on the back of the neck, reminding him of why they were here.
"Besides, do you really think Senior Brother Luo Ping doesn't have the capabilities to kill this cripple? He's only alive because Senior brother Luo Ping wishes it."
The dull faced youth spoke and shook his head with pity, looking at Gojo was walking towards them like he was a fish on a chopping board..
"Oi, Chen Zhen."
When Gojo got near them, the dull faced youth stopped him with a raise of his hand and he simply cast a gaze towards him.
"We need to ask you some questions.." The youth walked before Gojo, yet the six eyes quickly scanned him and noticed his cultivation level. The dull faced youth was at the peak of breaking through the seventh layer of body tempering, while the scar faced was only at the fifth.
"Go on.." Gojo gestured, placing his hands within his robes and looking towards them.
"Were you out here all night?"
"Ah yes. You see, I'm currently homeless so.." Gojo shrugged simply at the first question, and it was at this moment the two youths finally noticed something strange about him. He was different from before. They both looked towards eachother, yet remained silent.
"Last night, a phenomenon occured and it's believed to have been spotted from this vicinity. Did you see any strange occurrences here last night?"
The youth asked and Gojo shook his head with a dramatic sigh.
"I'd probably have seen something if only I hadn't slept so deep. Anyways, Goodbye...."
With a wave of his hand and a comical laugh, he was gone, as the two youths stood there stunned not by his comical act, but by how fast he had disappeared.
"This fellow." The dull faced youth furrowed his brows deeply and then sighed shaking his head in nonchalance as he continued his search.
Meanwhile, Gojo got back to his destroyed shack and began looking through to find any clothes.
"Yes!" He quickly spotted a pair of black trainers, and a black buttoned sweatshirt. After he finished cleaning them, he picked up a sharp knife from the floor, together with a broken piece of mirror and began to cut off his long white hair. He wasn't really a fan of the princess look and thought it was... you know, a little gay.
"That's more like it." After the barbering, he laughed, seeing his reflection in the mirror. He looked just like his teenage self back when he was a fresher at Jujutsu High. After this, he picked up his clothes, removed the blindfold from his eyes, walked to his cabinet and pulled out a bar of scented soap, before rushing out into a small pond behind the shack stark naked.
*SPLASH!*
He cannonballed into the lake, causing the water to splash around, before he began to unceremoniously wash himself. Contrary to what others would believe, he was actually very keen on his personal hygiene.
He washed his hair with the soap, then proceeded to scrub his body for several minutes. After he was done, he jumped out of the lake, dried himself with his old robes and quickly put on the black pants, before walking to his shack.
After dressing himself up, he quickly put on a white blindfold, completing his looks from before and admired himself in front of the mirror.
"Okay..Time to head to the sect." Without wasting time, he rushed out, heading to the sect to begin a new chapter of his life.
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