Chapter 117: Li Jun's Return.

The surface of the lake was smooth as a slow breeze drifted along the surface creating ripples as the moonlight reflected back up toward the sky like the surface of a mirror as Haru opened his eyes.

"Welcome back. How did it go?" The unsurprising voice of Li jun called out.

Haru sat still for a few seconds as he processed what he had just heard. It made him lose all hid other thoughts as he confirmed that he had heard correctly.

"No, It can't be…" He said to himself as a whisper of white tranquil light slowly floated through the air before his eyes.

The same long black hair flowed softly across his shoulders and down to the centre of his body with a single red hair tie parting a small section of his hair.

"Li Jun… Is it really you?" Haru asked as he looked at his teacher he hadn't seen for the past three years.

"Me? Well of course it is me. I should be asking if it is still you. Look how much you have grown. You have already reached the spirit soul stage in just three short years. You have truly exceeded my expectations." Li Jun praised his student in the dead of night.

Haru smiled as he could finally see his teacher. The year they spent alone together in the array back at the sect gave them a bond that Haru couldn't forget after all this time. He didn't have very many friends but he would even go as far as to say that Li Jun was his best friend if it wouldn't be embarrassing for him.

"Where did you go all this time? Lao explained some of it to me, but are you sure you are okay?" Haru asked with concern. Three years was a long time to be sleeping after all.

"Well. I wanted to tell you about it but I wasn't sure if you would understand but Lao told me he had explained lots of things to you since I have been gone so let's see if you can keep up with an explanation." Li Jun said and then sighed before continuing.

"You probably know this but I am not the original Chen Li Jun. I am just a fraction of his soul so I don't have all of his knowledge. I just have bits and pieces so I will go over it as best as I can.

Li Jun was once a cultivator who rose to the peak of the lower realms with his own strength and perseverance. He lived so far out in the middle of nowhere that there was no competition for him. He lived on his own for hundreds of years before returning to his home world.

When he returned home he tried to fit in like a regular person so he wouldn't have to kill people weaker than him. But after much effort of keeping a low profile the town, he was living in was attacked by a huge force of cultivators. In order to save the people in the town, he killed them all sparing one person.

The person who led the attack. His name was Zhu Lan.

Li Jun saw a lot of potential in Zhu Lan so he decided to take him as his first-ever student. After a few decades of training together they grew to become friends. So much so that they swore to each other that they would always be brothers.

One day they came across a cart where a whole family was lying on the ground all bloodied. The only survivor was an eighteen-year-old girl called Xue Yan. She was the youngest daughter of a noble family and had watched whilst her parents and older brother were murdered.

They even tried to kill her but she was clinging to life somehow. Li Jun felt pity for her and decided to heal her injuries.

The girl, no longer having any family our purpose begged to become Li Jun's student. She swore that one day she would become strong enough to kill the people who planned her families death. Li Jun admired the motivation she showed so he accepted.

One by one he gathered more followers and eventually fell in love with Xue Yan. The three of them then created their own sect after agreeing that Li Jun should be in charge and then eventually ventured out into the universe on his own to find a planet to inhabit.

But during his time away deep jealousy formed in Zhu Lan. Li Jun was always the centre of attention and had the prettiest woman in the sect as his wife. He felt like if only he had more power he would be able to lead alongside Li Jun as an equal.

But the inner demon he created had other ideas and his mind became corrupted. And after hundreds of years of gathering strength, he invaded the mind of Xue Yan. She had felt lonely because Li Jun didn't give her enough attention so that was the weakness he exploited. And they then fell in love behind the back of Li Jun.

They had finally had enough of Li Jun. He was too peaceful and had no ambition for his sect. So both Xue Yan and Zhu Lan rebelled and killed hundreds of loyal disciples while Li Jun was cultivating behind closed doors.

Little did they know that he had just broken through to the Chaos Destruction stage and they were no longer a match for him. But just as Li Jun was about to kill his sworn brother he was poisoned by his own wife.

As Li Jun lay on the ground waiting for death he rapidly absorbed as much Qi as he could until his body couldn't contain it and he made himself self destruct. He didn't want to die knowing that his disciples would never have revenge so he took them with him and destroyed the whole planet in the process.

He didn't expect that he would open his eyes once more but he awakened in the body of a thirteen-year-old boy. The dragon emperor ring that you are wearing right now had preserved his soul and transferred it into the boy who happened to share the same name as him." Li Jun stopped for a minute as Haru's eyes lit up.

Lao protected your soul? I didn't know he could do that." Haru said.

Li Jun laughed.

"Dragons are capable of things you couldn't even imagine. Don't underestimate them. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, he had been put into the body of a child.

Along his way of cultivating, he found a mysterious technique known as The Abandoned God of Desolation. He couldn't use it in his last life but it was the very thing that allowed him to return to his former glory in just a few decades. It was much faster than any technique he had used.

After entering the upper realms he made a name for himself and created a powerful sect but ran it on equal terms with his close friends so he wouldn't gather any jealousy.

But he became a threat to the bigger sects. As he refused to serve them and when they came in force to punish him he killed all the people they sent. That only caused more people to come and also people who were a lot stronger than him.

He fought a devastating battle that almost reduced the whole upper realms to dust. But the leaders of the divine sects teamed up and managed to injure him so bad that his soul was split in two.

And that is the last thing I remember before I met you. The reason why I was gone for so long is because I feel Li Jun pulling me towards him.

I'm not sure where he is but I can sometimes feel him. It's like he knows everything I am doing but that is to be expected. After all, I am still a part of him. I know he wants us to become whole again but for some reason, he hasn't pulled me back to him yet.

I know he has the strength to do it but it's like he wants me to stay here for a while. Maybe he has a plan for you that is why he has allowed me to stay here for so long.

I was resisting one of his pulls for the past three years but when you gathered the Qi from the demonic small world you seemed to have subconsciously transferred some of it to me. That is why I managed to awaken after so long." Li Jun finished his explanation and waited for Haru to reply.

"That sounds amazing. I wonder how strong the original Li Jun is now? Where do you think he is?" Haru started asking questions. He was now more interested in Li Jun's life than he ever had been before.

"I have an idea where he might be but I can't be sure until he decides to take me back to where he is. But we should probably focus on your training more. I don't know how much time I will have here with you so I want to make sure that you are strong enough to defend yourself." Li Jun stated.

"Okay, that makes sense. And after hearing your origin I feel more motivated than ever." Haru smiled.

"Good, Now hurry up and enter your soul ocean. Lao told me that you have a flooded soul ocean. That's quite uncommon and only lasts until you break through to the next realm so we need to take advantage of it right now." Li Jun explained and then vanished.

Haru closed his eyes and entered his soul ocean.