"After imagining your inner body, think of it sitting on the surface of water."

Jin Bao's sound was giving Lin a clear enough image.

"Water so dark you can't see what lies underneath it's surface, dark enough you can't see your own reflection. Wave-less waters with a hair of space between it and your body that never widen or tighten"

Amazingly enough, Lin was really capable of pulling himself back into the previous stage of his meditation.

"Storms will hit, make them go away by dispersing their clouds full of thunder."

"Snow will fall, make it melt before touching the waters."

"Sun will rise, make it dim away in your presence."

"Moon will shine, make it fade back into nothingness."

"All these illusions are false, only you and your darkness exist here."

Lin was surprised by his supreme control in this space, once he thought of doing these unbelievable feats it actually happened and he was able to outshine the sun and moon! Capable of Altering the weather and seasons, this was amazing because it had a touch of realism in doing that.

Unlike his imagination training and mental journeys in the previous life, doing that while meditating in this life made Lin feel like it is possible to do such actions.

"Now dive deeper inside your head, from the very beginning of your creation dig out your first thought, first memory, first feeling and first purpose."

"Then dig them all out of your body, now your inside is truly empty and spotless clean."

"When you get outside you see strands of all you ever experienced in your life, everytime you touch a strand you get to relive these memories and feelings all over again."

"Once you do, that strand scatters into a drop of clear water and return to your body."

"After scattering all mental attachments, your body becomes more material and tangible inside that space."

"The clearness of your body affects a space of the dark waters."

"Whoah! That's an endless amount of strands."

As Jin Bao was calmly narrating to Lin how to meditate, he heard Lin's shocked sound when he did the step of emptying his mind and getting out to take a look at his imaginary body.

Lin found his illusory body covered from the outside with silver strands, every strand carried a certain memory, feeling, dream or thought that Lin once had.

When he stretched a finger to touch a strand it turned out to be the moment Sarah took the data chip loaded with the accumulated knowledge from his mouth before he died.

Unlike Lin's original memory where he only heard Sarah's admonishing sound as she took the data chip because he was to weak to open his eyes in his final moments, he saw the expression on the Loli's face and how sad and heartbroken Sarah was as she hugged his dying body between her arms and thought : 'As if this meditation Technique intentionally rubbing salt on my wounds, Sigh'.

"What is it?"

Jin Bao's sound seemed oddly enough, extremely pleased and happy as he asked.

"I seem to have a lot of strands coming out from my body, how long will it take for me to finish the step you mentioned."

Lin asked as he did his best to scatter the strands, despite how easy it was to scatter them into clear drops, the countless number made it sure to take time for him to finish this stage of old Jin's guidance.

"I see, don't worry about time and continue working hard, it flows differently in here. This is all in your head, the more you focus the easier it will be to do more. Call for me when you're done, only when you're done."

Jin Bao said and his presence disappeared from Lin's mind.

"This will surely take time even with what he said."

Lin muttered as he started to do this new job inside this strange space, but he was sure that all of this was inside him and even old Jin Bao couldn't see what's going on here.

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Outside, next to Lin's meditating body.

The steam coming out from Sun's body stopped and his blurry body appeared in front of the monks and the others as they gladly cut meat chunks from the Mammoth's body, unlike before, his yellow-orangish fur with black stripes was added with a root color of blood red.

His body previously had some fat underneath his fur, now his muscles were more visible underneath the thick layer of fur.

His majestic sight as he stood up from his crouching position made all the people in the group take an involuntary step back, Sun's threatening Aura emitting freely from his body made them antsy for no reason.

"Howl.... ROAR...."

Suddenly the tiger raised his head to the sky and and celebrated his newfound strength with a mighty sound, fear was birthed in the group of monks who experienced the same feeling before from the Mammoth they're currently cutting it.

Now Sun had the same kind of dangerous feel to him.

Thankfully, the tiger lowered his head and mischievously looked at Lin's meditating body.

"Ah! Sun you're awake.... Whoah.... Oy, stop it! Y....you bully. Buddy what happened to your fur? Hey.... Don't swing me like an idiot, you know that if my clothes or armor snapped then i'll smash against the hard rocks. Safety first buddy."

Lin's eyes were running all over his companion's body and analyzing his startling change, from the progress of the group on the Mammoth's body then less than 6 hours since Sun ate that thing.

His fur got thicker but his muscle mass became clearly less as his height increased by a full meter, his muscles are more compacted and symmetrical with a glaring difference between his muscles distribution and any other normal tigers.

That of course if we categorized him before as a normal tiger with exaggerated size that's all.

"Buddy you got thinner but you're still as cool as ever, I bet you can run a lot faster and longer than before without getting tired."

Lin said as he dug out Sun's sheathed claws from his paws and looked if there's a difference here as well.

Dark claws with a creepy shine, they had the same dangerous glint with the exact opposite color of Sun's canines, the scary contrast between the two types of weapons was giving the majestic tiger another layer of danger.

"Murrrr....."

Sun crouched down and flicked Lin with his paw once after withdrawing his dangerous claws, his eyes were on the stacks of Mammoth's meat as if saying : I won the bet, time for some steaks.

"Heh, yes you won the bet. I won't go back on my words, when did I do such a thing?"

Lin snickered at his best friend's bossy attitude and started to take some slices of meat and spice them under the jealous eyes of the rest of the monks, they all know that Lin's cooking techniques and recipes are super delicious after trying them once or twice when Lin was in the mood to cook some food.

Now they knew that Lin was making food for his scary animal because the portions are very large, then they found the tiger eyeing them with a playful squint as if daring them to challenge him for the delicious steaks.

The bald monks hurried to lower their heads and continued working on gathering the meat, they barely escaped death while dealing with the big Mammoth earlier, if it was them on their own without Lin's commands and this tiger's distractions. Then not even once in a thousand times would they overcome this Mammoth, who would dare challenge that tiger now after it changed to something even more scarier than the Mammoth!

The group didn't finish working on the Mammoth until it was an hour before dawn, the group was completely finished with their job and the meat gathered was enough to supply the returning journey which made Lin sigh in relief.

The horny monks didn't wait to feed their women first before banging them, they took their partners to different secluded spots and got wild in their celebration.

Surprisingly, the man who experienced the earlier close call with death was the one with the most vigour of the monks, as if he was trying to forget about what happened by going at it like there's no tomorrow.

His woman was enjoying it and all was good!

Lin gave the group a break until noon then made the monks load the meat on the carriage, now the monks had to carry their women on their backs because the space on the carriage was only sufficient for the supplies.

Sun agreed to let the kids ride his back but he would throw them away if they got cocky, of that he was really convincing because he never stopped showing his canines and growling at the children every now and then intimidatingly.

The men carried their women piggyback for a week's worth of traveling, afterwards there was space for one person and the women would rest on the carriage for a time before changing turn with another to let their men rest.

The rest of the space on the carriage was for the annoying eyesore children to take because after one week of riding on Sun's back these brats started to get courageous and tried to play with the fearsome tiger like Lin did, sure, Sun gave them a scare for their lives when they did but the dumb children would quickly find their lost courage and try again later.

Of course they tried doing that when Lin was too deep in his own meditation trying to retract these strands back to his body and convert them into drops of clear liquid then fuse them with his body.

Unfortunately the amount of strands didn't seem to be going to get exhausted soon, Lin lived and experienced for 30 years, not to mention, the previous Great Sage was addicted to using the Oracle to study certain aspects of human nature.

That resulted in him not only carrying his own memories, but also, memories of countless people who lived way longer than him.

Especially these ancients and prehistoric ancestors who lived for thousands of years.

Now, every one of these memories sprouted countless strands, that in return delayed young Lin from experiencing the next stage of Jin Bao's guidance.

Despite the fact of him doing a pretty good job of retracting-converting the strands because of his mental capabilities, and time being not the same as outside.

Whenever he finished a strand it seemed like there was another strand taking it place!

Anyway, he was Lin, someone who didn't fear anything other than boredom.

Now that he found a challenge that can really keep his mind busy, Lin enjoyed the anticipation and patiently waited for the exciting moment of seeing light at the end of curiosity's tunnel.

The monks and clowns were tired the first week from trying to keep up with Sun's traveling speed while carrying their women, after the available spot of a single woman to sit on the carriage was presented to them they all celebrated and jumped in joy when it was their turn to run freely.

After all these horny idiots would overdo it every night with sexual activity, then carry these soft, seductive women on their backs all day.

Their knees were feeling weaker every day and their women kept giggling at their waning strength, running solo would give them a breath of fresh air full of freedom.

Most of the monks were starting to shiver every time their women hooked their arms around the monks necks when they had sex, the tiredness of the next day's running was looming over the monks heads as they thrusted their hips with frowned foreheads.

As they travelled more the space available on the carriage got wider, Sun and the monks ate the Mammoth's meat with ravenous appetite.

The tiger was enjoying the steak Lin made for him, while the monks wanted to clear more space for the bothersome women to sit instead of clinging to their necks and giggling demonically all day then clinging back again as they moaned all night while sapping their strength away.

Soon the first signs of winter appeared and snow started to fall, the cold showed the baldies how tempting women could be.

Running made them warm, but, hugging their women under the covers was too good!

It was the best solution to ward off cold.

Of course, running awkwardly the next day was a sight to remember for the women who kept giggling at their men's funny feet who couldn't steadily run straight next to Sun, their men tried to get back at them at night.

But who's afraid of who? Bring these cocks anytime baldies!

The women with open arms would welcome their monks at night and suck them dry again!

Dumb monks loved and hated it very much in the same time.

After 10 days the group saw the lights on Lin's home and the monks celebrated while the rest warily looked at the lights, only Lin was happy to be able to focus entirely on his meditation without having to deal with this group.

Now that they had their women, then these monks are no longer a liability to the budding community.

"Let's go, didn't you guys miss your comfortable beds?"

Lin smiled helplessly and urged his tired monks to keep up with Sun's pace.

"Big brother Lin! Look big sister Lily, big brother Lin is back."

"Hush dummy! I can see him with my own eyes, why are you screaming in my ear for?"

Once Lin ascended his home's wide stairs and walked thorough the entrance he saw Lao and Lily enjoying the heated pool waters and his mother and father sitting under a pavilion with little Rose, his mother was pushing the tiny swing carrying the baby and singing a lullaby while his father hugged his mother's waist and rested her head on his broad shoulder as he enjoyed a steaming hot drink.

When they saw Lin returning finally after a long time of absence, the mother was the first to react and she handed little Rose to her husband then ran for her eldest son.

"What took you so long? I was worried sick for you, you know, promise me not to go away again. At least for a year or two."

Lin's mother scooped up Lin into her embrace once Sun crouched down and didn't mind the roughness of his cute armor against her body as she did that, she was crying tears of happiness for her son's safe return as she spoke in a gentle tune.

"Mom let me take off my armor first it might graze your skin, come-on I promise not to leave again for a long while. I'm sorry for making you feel like that, it won't happen again, alright."

"You promised, tehehe. Let me help you take that off."

Lin was worried because his Mom really didn't mind getting scratched by his armor and apologized, while the mother smiled slyly in contentment when she heard what he said then used her long agile fingers to unstrap the cute armor.

"Hey, Sage of nowhere. What happened to Sun?"

Lily wrapped herself in one of the long bathrobes after exiting the heated pool waters then asked Lin as she watched Sun play with Moon at the side, Lao followed after her in his cute little walk as he also wrapped himself in another small bathrobe.

Lin raised an eyebrow at the obvious jealousy in Lily's words and admired the sight of his little Lao walking then gave Sun and Moon a fleeting look before looking at his incoming father carrying his youngest sister at the back, once his armor was off Lin gave his mother the tightest hug and warmest kisses while ignoring Lily's question.

Afterwards he did the same thing to his father and kissed him and little Rose, then he turned towards Lily with a teasing smile then squeezed her in a similar hug and kissed her cheeks while tickling her in the right places under the giggles of his family.

Finally little Lao got carried away and joined the hug and the case escalated to the mother and father feeling jealous and joining in, finally after a few minutes of fooling around little Rose was placed in her little swing to sleep and the five family members were soaking in the pool waters.

"You did bring a lot this time, where did you find them?"

The father asked as he sneakily pushed his body to enter his woman's vagina, the action made the much different than before lady blush and try to hide what's happening underneath the pool waters from her children by acting normally.

The monks and the new members of Lin's community were standing at the entrance to their palace, the new arrivals were amazed by the sights around them while the monks were eager for receiving their dismissal orders to return to the cave area and show the others their new partners.

Only the kids were amazed to discover another tiger like Sun which looked much more beautiful than the male bullying tiger, the female children were jealous of Lily's cute looks and amazed at how much she bullied Lin in the waters without the scary tiger interfering.

Usually the tiger would be overprotective of Lin and fend for him if they tried doing anything, yet, now the tiger is chasing and wrestling the white tiger and ignoring his small friend who's getting bullied as if he doesn't care despite seeing everything.

"Hugghhpp.... Hueck, cough.... Huff.... South, far south. Stop it Lily, I drank a lot of water."

"Speak, what happened to Sun?"

Lily was clinging to Lin's neck from the back and piggybacking him in the water while smirking slightly at her mother to indicate that she's aware of what's going on between her and the father right now.

"Hubby, let's go back to sleep. Little Rose might catch a cold if we leave her sleep in the swing for too long in this weather, come I have a surprise for you."

To Lily's disappointment the mother didn't hesitate to cut off her enjoyment because of the possible risk of Lin finding out what they're doing, despite being the mother she came to obey and live by the rules her son outlined and hated to disappoint her eldest son.

"Alright then, you two take care of these guys and your little brother."

Lin's father unplugged his male organ and pulled up his shorts, carried away his woman and youngest daughter then hurried to his sleeping chambers after throwing that order to the twins carelessly.

Ever since the twins arrived in his life he changed from being endlessly worried for his woman's health and hunger to complete satisfaction with how things are progressing in his life, things went way too far from what he dreamed in his simplemindedness.

As a person he was completely without any ambitions or aspirations, all he wished for was for things to keep on being this peaceful and satisfactory until he dies of old age with his lovely woman between his arms.

After the two were born, Lin's father found his purpose and the twins guided him to it.

Protect the family, Get sophisticated and if you can Don't harm others.

"Hmph, now that they're away you can speak freely."

Lily was displeased because after her mother delivered Rose she started to forbid Lily from having anymore fun of using her toys to play with the women in the community, add to that that the mother stopped making her see the action of her and her husband when they had sex.

Now all Lily could do all day was either teach the ignorant crowd, give Moon new moves and techniques to learn, take care of Lao and meditate.

Life without Lin could've never been more boring, and that was only after parting ways for only a bit over two months!

"It's a long story, let's send these people to their homes first then i'll tell you all that happened in my little journey south. How much of the plans did you finish with dad?"

Lin turned to look backwards and kissed his sister's cheek then got out of the pool waters while carrying her on his back as he asked.

"Already finished, they look dumb but their learning capabilities are quite acceptable. Come let's take them to their new home."

Lily muttered as she started to formulate plans in her head to use her toys on this new batch of females without her mother knowing, sadly for our little devil, these capable monks did it all and no matter how much she tried in the future.

She couldn't beat ‘em long dicks!

It appears Lin taught them right and their women would take Lily's actions as a game to waste time or as a way to pay back her brother for what he did for them, in the end little Lily would lose interest and return to her clingy-ness to her brother Lin instead.

But, that's all in the future.

Lin found the new buildings, constructs and the gathering areas in the flat grounds north of their birthplace "The Cave" completely lit up with colorful lights and a few silhouettes moving here and there between the buildings.

now the cave was abandoned and worked as a linking passage between the community and Lin's home.

The monks happily carried their women and ran for their new home ahead of the clowns who couldn't comprehend what's going on, the children gave the three kids surrounded by Sun and Moon a final look before running after the monks towards the new place curiously.

In a few minutes the whole community gathered, 43 people old and new, young and old, males and females.

After settling every couple in a home Lin and Lily gave the responsibility of taking care of the young kids needs to the youngest couple in the community, the teenager couple were expecting their first child and taking care of these children would be a good practice.

"Come Lily let's go back, the things i'll describe will excite you more than you think."

Lin voluntarily took Lily's hand and they both rode Sun's back while little Lao alone rode on Moon.

Lily's eyes and hands were studying every change on Sun's body since she first laid eyes on him, now that she rode his back she kept marveling at the obvious change on the animal's body especially his skin which sprouted scales underneath the fur.

"First we met a monster a lot similar to a Mammoth but much more exaggerated, reaching over 40m high with......"

Lin enjoyed the peacefulness of resting his head on his sister's shoulder from the back and spoke narratively of his journey south without leaving a single detail, Sun and Moon didn't take the tunnels and walked slowly home with Moon being overly clingy to Sun all the way back it even ended up with little Lao sleeping in the way which made Lin and Lily take him on Sun's back in fear of him turning in his sleep then falling.

Lily silently listened to Lin and never interrupted him once until he told her how Jin Bao the man in the ring taught him how to meditate and her eyes started to light up in interest because unlike goody two shoes Lin, she already know about the dark place and how to enter and exit, she was wild and untamed by nature.

Rules and such! What does that have got to do with her?

Her meditation was previously taken as a game of exploring, sometimes she'll take it that way and try finding new things next day it will be another direction.

'That dark space gave me the feeling of something being buried deep inside it's water when I first entered it, it vanished once I felt it and never happened again. Was it all my misconception?' Lily thought as she listened to Lin's words.

"Hrmmmm..... i'll try it later that technique you mentioned, now for two months i've slept alone while you're away. Come let's go have some fun."

Lily turned around to face Lin then locked her legs around his waist after hugging his neck then said that with an evil smirk on her face.

They were almost four years old now and she knows that Lin wouldn't take the advice of the person in the ring and wait until he's six years old to train his body, common knowledge says that the age of four is the best time to start laying down foundations for the body development.

She knows that Lin will focus on flexibility and speed first before thinking about improving stamina and endurance gradually then starting to add strength and power to his muscles which might not start until he's six of age or more, "PUMMA" training was sure to begin alongside gymnastics once their next birthday arrives.

Not to mention that both of the twins bodies are rather more developed than other kids in the same age, they're no different now in height and weight than kids four and half or almost five years old from their previous live.

Their genes are strong and their physiques are different which added more validity to Lin's future plans, he even said once they reached the age of three years old that he was 90% sure that if they started training right now their physiques wouldn't be affected in anyway but he wasn't going to take any chances.

Lily oddly offered to take Lin's place in teaching the community how to speak and deal with each other with the father and mother for the whole winter, leaving Lin to focus on his meditation most of the time and using the time Lin isn't meditating to drag him into her own games which are mostly inappropriate for children their age.

Mostly winter was peaceful and quiet without any major events except for one, at the last days of winter Lily mentioned once that Sun and Moon would go out to play which wasn't a common behavior for the two obedient tigers.

She wasn't worried since they mostly would go to the cave area and join the fun amongst the community, some of the females already gave birth and the rest had swollen bellies and were about to.

Clearly the small village numbers are going to raise by next summer.

One day after Lin returned from his calming swim in the pool he heard a stifled sound of grunting coming from his own room, the whole family was out in this time of the day taking care of the community and supervising their work on the other projects.

Only Lin was in the palace! Or so it should be.

Sneaking towards the room and slowly pushing the door open he found a sight which made him both frown and want to laugh in the same time.

Sun and Moon mating in his room!

Lin even got a displeased glare from his companion which said : "get out buddy and close the door behind you."

Rolling his eyes helplessly at his tiger, Lin did as he should and closed his own room's door behind him after getting kicked out from it then went to another room to continue his meditation.

"Humph, he could've done that in any other room! Why would he choose my room? And to dare kick me out of my room! If Lily knew what he did she'll be infuriated for sure, I better get my hands clean from this matter and not show any signs of me knowing to Lily otherwise it will be a complete disaster. Tiger's doesn't show signs of pregnancy until the last stage of pregnancy anyway, that gives me 3 months of peace and quiet. By that time i'll be in the age to start my physical training, at that time burying myself in training to avoid Lily's wrath can be done, PUMMA training and gymnastics plus swimming as a relaxing exercise with mom's massages. That's more than sufficient to lay down the best kind of foundation, if I didn't break all the historical records of others my age and older in my previous universe then i'm a waste. Not to mention the persistent strands which wouldn't show any signs of lessening, sigh, my schedule is going to get a lot busy even though i'm removed from the matters of our little village."

Lin was grumbling about Sun and what he did earlier then got drifted off towards his future plans as he entered another room of the palace and sat down cross-legged to meditate.

In the dark space inside his mind Lin diligently worked on experiencing the memories carried by the strands coming out of his imaginary body all over again, after each strand removed a clear drop of liquid would fuse with his body and brighten up another area of the dark space around him and the dark still waters beneath him.

After three months of doing the same thing Lin was no different than a machine, a tireless ever functional precise machine with one aim and one aim only.

Retracting these strands then converting them into liquid that fuses with the imaginary body inside him, of course after 3 months he noticed that the diameter of the bright domain around the body was getting larger but sadly he couldn't see his own body because the countless strands were covering every cell of it.

Then in the middle of his meditation he felt something interrupting his session in a rude way, opening his eyes Lin saw Sun raising him by the collar using the tip of one of his claws with a gloating look in his eyes.

"What? Are you here to act cocky after losing your virginity! Scram, I too will lose mine sooner or later. Tsk."

Lin glared at the tiger who's clearly here to brag in his own unique way and crossed his arms in his hanging position as he refused to admit his own jealousy, Humph.

The sight of Sun laying on his back and raising Lin by the collar teasingly was comical enough, add Lin's behavior when he's alone with his companion and you'd get a mature childish mixture of behavior from the young kid.

"Murrrr...."

Sun swung Lin's hanging body in his paw left and right as a very human-like sneer decorated his face, even the sound tht came out of his mouth was a lot like the word : "Really!"

"Y.....you little undisciplined cub, put me down you little fur-ball. You're happy because you did that to your own sister! Big deal idiot, I too have a twin sister ya moron. What you did I can do too, not only that. I wouldn't need to hide in other people's rooms to do it, heck, I would do it in public if I wanted."

This happened after Sun kept trying to tease Lin for a while and he couldn't stand the thought of his own pet being such an intolerable bully, not only did the little feline snatch his room and force his dominance there by leaving a mark! He returned after doing something which he as the Great Sage never tried before and started to juggle Lin in his paws with the same sneer on his face and the teasing look in his eyes.

"Growl...."

Sun's pride was finally wounded severely after hearing Lin's words, he growled faintly at Lin to tell him not to step on his tail he's not a coward.

He's only being tactful!

Lily was scary sometimes even for the brave tiger, his intuition told him that inside her there's something very fearful.

He only wondered just how can Lin be this forceful with Lily sometimes without fearing what's inside her? His owner and best friend was very sharp all the time and never missed a step or any of the fine details, yet, he seems to be entirely unaware of the thing causing fear to Sun.

Sun once asked Moon about it and she told him that she used to shiver every time Lily touched her fur, then the matter became something she got used to with time now she only feels attachment from the girl to her after Moon lived with her for all this time.

"Ya keep faking it, let me tell you that Lily is surely going to kick your butt for sleeping with Moon without her blessings. I bet she can scream once and you'll be shaking like a newborn cub, humph."

Lin knew that he hit a nerve and smiled cynically at the tiger who's still juggling his body in his paws and said as he got flipped in the air.

"Snort....."

Sun seemed to lose his good mood after getting hit with Lin's effective words, he snorted and lowered his friend safely to the ground then turned his body on his belly to sleep while smacking his lips every now and then as if trying to find a solution to the predicament he's in.

Lin straightened up his creased clothes then smirked at the pouting attitude of Sun which was a lot like a kid in his rebellious age.

Then spring arrived.

The community was full of liveliness and products of various kinds were being made all the time, buildings were being built, they farmed the land and raised livestock.

Had group activities and played sports to increase their teamwork and create bridges of harmony between the members, of course the young kids were taking the most attention from Lily.

Lin agreed to let her take command of the matters related to the community but she had to do it according to his rules, the kids need to grow up to be the future leaders and to take care of the generation that will come next.

That way the cycle will continue to bring more and more leaders to act as the corner stone for the generations that comes after them, he never wanted Lily to tire herself out on the matter of teaching and guiding the ignorant crowd.

She too deserve to have fun and enjoy Life!

Even if she's an oddball.

Sun was smart enough to find the solution to his problem, once there's any hunting journey or an exploration trip he'll join without even caring for Lin's permission before leaving.

That way, the sneaky tiger who got smarter would avoid the event of Lily discovering that he slept with Moon.

At least he'll avoid the strongest wave of Lily's anger -when she discovers the truth- he'll return afterwards to get some scolding that's all, in the end rice will be already cooked and his cubs will be delivered to the world by that time.

Spring was mostly going in the same direction of developing the small village, teaching them how to live and be creative.

The only change was when Lin finally finished retracting-converting all the strands coming out of his imaginary body, it was in the second month of spring exactly at the fourth day.

For the first time in many months, Lin got to see his own body in his meditation.

Not only that, the boy's senses felt like being on another level at this time.

The wide area around and underneath him was experiencing Light and brightness only because the boy's skin was actually shining, Lin felt like if he pinched his imaginary body's skin then he'll extract glowing sweat.

Before he got the chance to experience that moment for a bit longer, Lin got transported from the dark space against his will and found himself staring at the endless grey ocean which is formed from disintegration shockwaves.

Again!

This time he felt something pushing him down to sink deep in these awkward waters which are in fact countless masses of sand particles with insane gravitational powers and unforeseen density and pressure, once he got consumed by these grey waves his brain stilled in comforting calm and his Soul which he only felt it's existence once before he was reborn was felt clearly by him again.

Lin found himself feeling the primordial harmony between Body, Brain and Soul.

And he knew, the only reason he felt it without any kind of interference was because Lily was out of his system.

In this absolute peace he felt himself drowning deeper inside these grey waves, since he's helpless to control anything Lin didn't bother to worry and surrendered on all fronts.

He only enjoyed the feeling of being absentminded, a feeling that the Great Sage experienced a few times in his two lives.

Even his sleep was never spared from the chaotic mess of endless thoughts!

Gradually, Lin started to feel a tug in his chest.

It was a kind of feeling, extremely similar to the frustrating feeling he experiences in cases of danger.

But, it was the total opposite!

As if the feeling of danger was the negative side, while this feeling was the positive side.

Then the endless grey curtains in front of his eyes parted and allowed his small body to enter thorough the glaring Light that came from behind the greyness, now, it was nothing but golden Light.

Everywhere!

Even his body was nowhere in this world of Light, however, the tugging feeling at his chest never stopped.

He felt the gentlest caressing touch on his Soul, even his mother's warmest embrace was nothing compared to this touch.

Lin felt the need of more than a touch from this gentleness, and a thought popped up in his mind when he did.

'Not yet'

He felt like a spoilt brat being greedy for some candy and a grown-up stopped him in fear of his tender teeth which might get hurt, it was like if he took more then his benefits will turn into harm instead.

But it was just a touch!

"It's protecting me?" Lin thought as he felt that "thing" worry about himself disappear when Lin said that.

Then he felt another negative tug at his Soul upwards, as if something from outside this world of Light was calling for him.

Despite his unwillingness to leave, the gentle touch caressed his right cheek one last time before disappearing and only leaving endless blinding Light behind, then he was sent to the endless grey ocean of disintegration shockwaves and from there he was transported back to the dark space once he exited the ocean.

"Biiig Brootthheeer..... Lily, is he tired or is he sick? Since when was big brother Lin that heavy sleeper!"

"Hehehehe, it must be one nasty dream that made him this deep in his own world."

Lin heard the sound of Lao and Lily chatting once he returned to his dark space, he noticed the change in the dark space but Lao's constant shaking woke him up from his sleep.

'Wasn't I sitting to meditate!' Lin thought as he pushed the bed with his arms to get up.

"Alright little Lao stop shaking me I'm already awake, yawn."

While spreading his arms to stretch lazily on his bed Lin spoke in a sleepy voice.

"Ah!"

"Y.... your back, big brother Lin your back has wings!"

When Lin opened his eyes he saw Lily's gaping mouth and Lao's excited look as he pointed at Lin, what Lao said caught Lin off guard and scattered the remnants of sleepiness from his eyes.

Twisting his neck to look back, Lin saw a wing sprouting out from each of his shoulder blades.

Yellowish with a tinge of faint gold in the feather's end, the wings were large enough to wrap Lin's small body.

However, the most fascinating was the ethereal feeling the wings gave to Lin, as if they were between two states all the time.

Material and immaterial!

"Hoooh, seems like you have some more things to explain. Not only to me but to mom and dad, Little Lao you go finish today's exam. I left it on your desk, later we'll play some fun games in the water I promise."

"Yay... big sister you're the best."

"Oh, remember to keep what happened here a secret for now, we'll make it a surprise for mommy and daddy. Alright!"

"Ehehehe I won't say, I won't say."

"Now go little pirate."

Lin was still studying the wing when Lily started to brainwash little Lao.

"Is that your martial spirit? Are you kidding me! All that trouble of removing these boring strands and experiencing all your shitty memories and some other idiot's memories all over again, for what? To be a bird!"

As Lin was using his fist to feel what is it like to penetrate his own ethereal wing, Lily started to scold him as she tried to use her hand to pull one of Lin's wings up.

"Eh! I can't catch it? Does it even work? Try using them, let's see if you can even fly."

Lily found her hand passing thorough the wing feathers as if she was catching air, all her actions did was cause small ripples on the yellowish wing.

After looking at his wings for a few seconds in the mirror Lin nodded and crouched with the intention of jumping up before flapping his wings, he already tried moving each wing and there was no problem.

Moving them was like moving a foot or one of his arms!

"WHOOOSH.... Crack....."

"Whoah!.... That's freaking fast."

In front of Lily's sharp eyes all that remained of Lin after jumping was an afterimage!

The gust of air carried her small body off the ground and threw her back until she fell on the bed more than 10m back, Lily moved her scattered hair from her face and looked at the ceiling with amazement as she spoke.

There was a hole with the shape of Lin's wings there, at the rim of hole was melted concrete dripping in the color of Lava and sizzling after hitting the floor with white steam.

"I've got to get my own spirit, I can't let Lin strut around with such a cool gadget. That will be bad for my image, no more fooling around. I gotta take this seriously."

Lily clinched her tiny fists and said as her eyes stared at the opening on the ceiling in the shape of Lin's wings with a look full of jealousy, then she left the room with her head full of one thought only.

Hurry and awaken my own Spirit, I can't lose to Lin!

Up in the air was dear Lin with his forehead full of sweat!

He knew that he almost killed himself just now in this little trial, if he wasn't in a position where his head was tucked in his chest as he jumped then his head would've been bashed against the ceiling.

His wings had no trouble passing through the ceiling somehow and because his body was small enough it seemed to pass thorough the entrance his wings created, he only concluded that because right now Lin was miles up in the sky and away from his home.

All he saw was a small dot underneath him, he was sure that this was the same mountain that he created the palace for his mother.

Even that dot was getting further and further away because he was still going up by the propelling force of a single flap of a wing, these wings proved to be scarily fast from the first trial.

Which made Lin make the first rule : "Never use your Spirit indoors."

"Child, you awakened your Spirit! You did good. Very good. Right now it might seem like nothing to you but someday you'll understand the significance of your achievement, Hahahaha."

Old Jin Bao spoke with obvious joy filling his words.

"Senior, this Spirit is dangerous. I almost died just now, is there anyway to control it's speed?"

Lin was like someone who's drowning that found a straw to hang on to.

"Not as long as you're still living in this god forsaken land, tell me, what kind of Spirit did you awaken? It's shape, color."

"A yellow wing with faint gold color at the end of the feathers, even I can't touch it and my fingers would pass thorough it like it's an illusion. Yet here I am in the middle of the sky after flapping it once."

Lin said as he looked at the geographic terrain in all directions, his fear was lessening as he spoke with old Jin plus the strong cold wind hitting his face made his agitated mind a lot calmer.

"Light element huh! Your Spirit being intangible and immaterial means that it has an elemental nature. Light, That's one of the hardest elements to control and gain mastery of, still worry not, Soul training can overcome that problem."

Jin Bao's sound was like an elderly man ruminating an issue before choosing the method to tackle it.

"Senior Jin, what should I do then?"

After a few seconds of silence Lin asked the man trapped in the ring.

"If you're going to leave this land someday then I have a low grade technique suitable for your Light element. Unfortunately my powers are restricted here and I can't transmit it, if it wasn't for my Soul cultivation then speaking with you would've been a miracle. But worry not, I know a way you can enhance your Soul cultivation while living in this Land of Forgetfulness if you managed to awaken your Soul Sense then it will be easy to use a tiny bit of your powers at no risk, don't forget to train your body at the age of six years old like I said before. As a barbarian descendant you're blessed with fine bloodline, don't let it go to waste."

Old Jin Bao's words made Lin frown slightly, he didn't interrupt the man because there was new information in the mix which Lin didn't know before.

"What do I have to do?"

Lin already has a plan to train his body but the Soul was a complete mystery which remains unsolved.

"Wait a few seconds I need to sacrifice some of my Soul energy to cast a spell, I'm too weak to look outside without sacrificing some of my cultivation. Now I have to Soul scan for the stones, Sigh..... There, to the east, that demolished mountain has some Soul Soothing Stones. They'll help me regain some of my cultivation to transmit to you my Soul Strengthening Technique, the rest will be mine don't fight me for them. They're not that useful to anyone who isn't mortally wounded in the Soul anyway."

Jin Bao spoke and Lin who was currently free-falling from the sky saw the same mountain his father exploded with his arrows back then being mentioned, when Lin got closer to the ground he saw the reflection of the Sun rising from the east on somethings in the area Jin Bao mentioned.

He opened his wings and glided towards the area skillfully then descended on the highest rock of the shattered mountain summit, the site contained some stones which were a lot similar to clear crystals in different shapes and sizes scattered around.

"Old Jin, we're here. So.....how are we going to do this?"

Lin was a white blank page on almost every thing concerning cultivation, other than how to meditate he knew nothing at all.

"Help me collect them then place the Ring on them, i'll teleport them inside."

Old Jin Bao said in a helpless tune as he thought : 'If the Pope of the Church of Light heard what you just said after hearing about your achievement I bet he'll be both mad with laughter and burning with sadness and jealousy at his record that you smashed to smithereens, less than 4 years old and already awakened your Spirit which is of the same kind of Advanced Element as the Pope of the Church of Light. You did it one year earlier than him! Not only that, we have to take in consideration that he did all that while living in the Land of Forgetfulness. Under the influence of two great creations of humanity and cultivators'.

"Huff.... If only Sun was here to help, this tiny body is still weak. Sigh."

Lin said as he wiped his forehead with his sleeve, a cute sight that Lily would've paid lots of money to witness.

Then he continued after taking a deep breath and clapping his hands twice to remove the accumulated dirt from a couple hours of searching : "Senior Jin I think I've gathered all I could find with my current ability."

"Great! Pile up what you found and let's see if you've got enough for me to cast the Soul Link Technique and share the Soul Strengthening Technique with you directly, hrmmmm..... not bad if I squeeze hard on my energy consumption I can give you some of my rudimentary thoughts on initial Soul Cultivation."

As old Jin Bao spoke crystal after crystal of the so-called Soul Soothing Stones disappeared from underneath Lin's open palm, a sight which made Lin, someone who destroyed many laws of physics with his own brilliant mind and theories, Marvel wide eyed at the phenomenon occuring in front of his eyes!

"That's it! This ability is so cool, what's the maximum amount of space that you can store that way senior Jin?"

Lin asked as his mind started to think of various kinds of benefits if such a thing was available for all.

"A few meters including my soul body, but that's not a Space Tool actually.... ahem, I was trying to figure out the uses of this Ring since it seemed like a Space Ring, it was actually a complete blank unsolvable mystery to me since I first found it a thousand years ago. After 25 years of sending Soul Energy inside trying to discover it's secrets I.... I was the victim of a strange phenomenon of Soul Transference into the Space inside the Ring, thankfully I had just reached the Soul Clone Realm in Soul Cultivation. I managed to hurriedly separate a part of my Soul to be trapped in instead of the majority of my Soul. After all it hurt to lose part of your Soul or to do the Cloning, but, suffering from Soul Entrapment leaves room for many variables."

Full of obvious shyness in his words Jin Bao said as he tried to give an excuse for him easily choosing to avoid risking it with his Soul.

"What happened afterwards?"

Lin asked as he tried to get as much information as possible about this strange world.

"Nothing actually, inside here is a strange Soul Formation that trapped this small part of my Soul and never harmed or suppressed me the only thing that I'm not allowed to do is getting out, not like I was going to leave even if I was free to do that. Still, studying this formation's runes all these years helped my comprehension abilities to reach unforseen levels, I'm sure that my Cultivation will soar like never before once I remould a suitable physical body..... sigh. Thankfully this formation reversed the shackles of time and space and caused them to distort otherwise I wouldn't have lived the past 500 years with such a feeble tiny bit of my Soul."

Jin Bao narrated part of his life in a few words, yet, Lin felt a great amount of mixed emotions filling each word.

"Were you Strong? senior Jin!"

Best thing in the Great Sage was his ability of cheering people up, human psychology!

Right question in the right direction and you can distract anyone from a certain mood, all you have to do is understand the mentioned person thorough a conversation where he express his emotions.

"Spirit King Realm seventh level, still, even with my Spirit King Realm of awareness and perception I couldn't fathom just how slower time is here inside this formation is right now compared to outside. Anyway, get ready for the transmission. Remember, if you resisted I will only be able to send nothing with my weak state. Doing that will only waste Soul Energy from the Soul Soothing Stones which I would rather use on healing some of my Soul Wounds instead, maybe if I could reach my strongest state on the Soul aspect then I'll be able to help by sending my Soul Energy outside to help you gather what I want to remould my body. I need your word on this matter and a promise not to waste the Energy, do notice that when I start my spell then I wouldn't be able to stop it. So, if you started to second guess then Soul Energy will be wasted anyway. This will sting a little."

"Awww..... ouch! I wasn't ready old Jin, t.... time out."

'He still can speak freely as I use the Soul Link Technique, looks like his Soul Cultivation has reached the third Soul Realm' old Jin thought as he heard Lin complain about the effect of his spell and Soul transmission of the Soul Strengthening Technique, he was ashamed because he a former Spirit King and one of the rare Soul cultivators wasn't capable of perfectly use the Soul Link Technique.

Soul Link Technique was one of the most basic Techniques for Soul cultivators, yet he as someone who reached the Fifth Realm of Soul Cultivation once wasn't.

Yet the kid reached such heights in Soul Cultivation at the age of less than 4!

'He's already a Soul Seeker! Hissss.... What kind of monster is that kid going to become in the future when he grows up into a full fledged Cultivator with many life and death encounters?' Jin Bao thought as he tried to imagine Lin in the future.

Jin Bao reached the Soul Seeker Realm in Soul Cultivation when he was 55 years old! Lin did the same in less than 4.

"Finally it's over.... Phew, that was prickly. Eh.... All that information! So that's the Technique that I was using, I see.... I need to use my body to experience the refinement of ages while meditating. I'm only in the third Realm! Hrmmmm, it seems like I'm very bad at this Soul Cultivation thing. I need to work harder in the future."

When Jin Bao heard what Lin said, his previous embarrassment of being far inferior to Lin in Soul Cultivation was given another cruel uppercut to his self-esteem.

"Y.... yes never slack on your Cultivation, i'll be going back to use the Soul Soothing Stones and heal some of my wounds. It will be sometime until we talk again."

Old Jin was wiping imaginary sweat as he started to get a small feeling of fear from this young genius.

"Alright i'm going back, hrmmm, that's the annoying bird is it planning on attacking the village again! Heh, this time you won't be able to demolish anything else."

That bird was the same bird who finished the poor guy nextdoor.

"Screee...."

The large bird dived headlong towards the new village which the community lived, Lin took cover and hid from it's line of sight as it passed him.

This was the second time it attacked, last time it damaged some buildings but it wasn't able to harm anyone.

The shelters were quickly opened and the underground tunnels made the people escape to safety as Lin's father and the men used the Bows to injure the Large creature from a distance before changing place thorough the tunnels to shoot again.

The big bird suffered some wounds of various degrees before it ran away, and now it seems like it's back for revenge.

From the distance of 4km away, once the Large Bird started to head towards the village Lin was able to hear the loud alarm ringing in the village.

Then before the creature reached the distance of 2km from the tallest building in the village, one arrow was shot from an installed ballista on the roof after another.

They were shot in a pattern to give the large Bird no space to maneuver with his large frame in his dive attack, the bolts shot were added with various amounts of fins at their tail to change angle mid-flight and change their trajectory.

All Lily had to do was link all the ballistas thorough a complicated mechanism, the middle ballista will automatically change the angles of the remaining ballistas armed with special bolts to end up attacking from all the angles.

Under Lin's eyes the hunter who thought of the village buildings as targets for his revenge, quickly was turned into a large prey to the machine gun like ballistas.

"Scree....."

No matter what it did in it's evading attempts, the king of this territory's skies always found his body getting pierced by a few spears.

A couple minutes later the large bird tried to run but it didn't take long for it to discover the lethality of the wounds this time, they wouldn't stop bleeding!

Even the smallest wound was still pouring out blood non-stop.

"Scree...."

With a final enraged sound the largest bird Lin ever saw in both lives escaped again, but this time it will be a little bit longer until they see it flying in the nearby sky.

Lin returned home as he enjoyed gliding back to find Lily waiting for him in the garden with Lao as they played a game of chess.

"No little Lao, the pawn only moves one step forward."

"But why is it they're not allowed to do like horsy, can't they ride the horsy and go to the end? Why isn't there Sun and Moon? There's elephants and horses! Can we add snakes, monkeys, bears.... Come-on it will be fun."

"Because this game is supposed to be played with some rules, tell you what we'll play both of the games once I make the other animals. Until then we'll play this one, can we play this one now?"

"Alright! Big sister Lily is the best. Ah! Big brother Lin is back, look he's flying. Say... Big sister Lily, when will I get my wings like big brother Lin?"

"Don't worry, even if you didn't get a wing. Big sister can make you fly, just remember, who's the Best?"

"Ehehehe you big sister."

When she saw the longing filling little Lao's eyes, Lily smiled and ruffled his hair into a mess and spoke as she raised her head up in an arrogant cute act.

Lao was tickled by her love and hugged her waist in happiness as he answered cutely.

"You missed breakfast."

Lily turned her head from Lao to the descending twin brother and told him with a knowing smile which said : "Lao loves me more."

"Yes, Lao I'm hurt. You said you wouldn't love anyone more than you love me and mom before, humph, now you seem to be loving Lily more! Lao doesn't love me anymore, oh no, what should I do?"

Lin nodded and gave Lily a blunt answer then suddenly changed expression into total sadness, Lao on the other hand seemed to panic at the words of his kind big brother and seemed to struggle with himself on what to do to solve this troubling situation.

He loves them all but he couldn't show both of his big siblings that, how can I explain love?.

The little kid was experiencing being amidst the tease two of the greatest minds, poor Lao didn't know how much simple antiques between Lin and Lily on his early years helped in developing his immature mind to develop on a scale which is considered beyond impossible to his being reaching deep into the genetic level.

But that's a story to be uncovered in the far future.

After calming his brother's anxiety and telling Lily as he ate his breakfast of the new Technique that old Jin sent him mysteriously after using some Stones!

Lin used three days to learn how to adapt to the Soul Strengthening Technique, something which is considered unbelievable to any Soul Cultivator.

'Freak! This kid is scaring me. His family are barbarians! Since when was the barbarian race capable of Soul Cultivation? Only their shamans and witches are Soul Cultivators that's common knowledge, but, weren't these demonic hypocrites a selective few! They shouldn't be able to cultivate the Spirit Energy at all. No no no, only those with bure blood in the barbarians are capable of awakening their bloodline and amongst those rare few, a tiny portion can awaken their Spirits. The Barbarian Emperor! Lin is one of these monsters.... Hisss. Not to mention, he didn't even awaken his bloodline. Just how many records is he going to break without even a single wisp of Spirit Energy in his body. He couldn't be considered a Spirit Cultivator yet he awakened his Spirit in such barren Land without any Spirit Energy faster than any other Cultivator in the Spirit World! While being a barbarian descendant! He Passed the common rule of barbarians and skipped a whole stage of their Cultivation to accomplish That! Add to that the other rule of barbarians, Barbarian Emperor descendants can dual cultivate Body Refinement and Spirit Energy Never were they able to triple cultivate the Spirit, Soul And Body, Witch Empress descendants on the other hand can cultivate Soul after experiencing the blessings of the Moon Temple. They're a minority yes, but, they're only capable of Body Refinement and they are considered nothing to human body refiners. Oh boy, I stumbled into a precious treasure from heavens. Just you wait, backstabbing me after i've considered you my closest friend. Yi Shirong you fucking dog better enjoy life while I'm still under the wind, hehehe Jin Bao the Soul Snatcher is still alive. There's hope for my revival. I need to make the kid leave this Land of Forgetfulness soon. 8 years old, that would be the maximum I can wait. After that will be a waste of his potential' Jin Bao thought as he sneaked a peek at Lin's progress.

"Old Jin is that you?"

Lin sensed Jin Bao's Soul Energy when the latter used his Technique.

'He sensed me! What kind of perception is that?' Jin Bao was bedazzled by Lin more and more as he dealt with him, shock after shock he kept receiving from the young boy.

"Yes, I see that you've mastered the Soul Link Technique. Don't let that get into your head, learning the Soul Link Technique is just the very first step in Soul Cultivation. You're just at the door, train hard and learn well from the Soul Strengthening Technique. Alright, now that you've learned that Technique i'll start focusing on healing my Soul."

Jin Bao composed himself and said to Lin in an apathetic tune, he was afraid of Lin being one of the spoilt brats.

'Those young geniuses are the true pain in the ass! If Lin became one of these.... Brrr. Ptooey, Jin Bao, You jinx. Nothing is going to happen to him for sure' Jin Bao was thinking about Lin as his own disciple already!

"Yes, can I teach Lily this Technique? She's no different than me it's just that she's a bit lazy."

Lin asked as he tried to seek the source, he wanted to see the person speaking with him.

"Stop, Don't try to forcefully send your Soul Energy towards the Ring until your Soul is cloned! You might activate the same phenomenon."

Jin Bao was scared shitless when he imagined Lin getting his Soul trapped inside the Ring same as him, he told Lin to stop with a panicked sound.

"Alright!"

Lin said as he stopped the attempt with a disappointment heart, he wanted to see Jin Bao this mysterious person who got trapped in a Ring.

"If you want your sister to learn the Technique then it's okay, but don't raise your hopes up. N.... not everyone can do the same and train Soul, Spirit and Body."

Jin Bao said that while feeling embarrassed with himself for undermining such great feats in front of the one who accomplished them, he used the advantage of Lin's ignorance to hide a few details that's all.

He didn't want to allow corruption to murky Lin's mind, Jin Bao wished for the boy to enjoy more of his childhood before he drags him into his world to experience the cruel life of being a Cultivator.

"Alright, thanks senior Jin. If it wasn't for your help I wouldn't have learned to open the door to Soul Cultivation that soon."

Lin said with a heart filled with gratitude, if it wasn't for the collection of Jin Bao's knowledge on the rudimentary stages of Soul Cultivation.

It included the explanation of the Soul and how to grade each Realm, what differentiate between the grades and the correct way of using Soul Energy.

Sadly it only explained the first three Realms, according to that order Lin was in the Fourth Realm.

He was a Soul Seeker, before that there's Weak Soul, Wondering Soul, Soul Returner, Soul Seeker, and above that there's Soul Eye, Soul Clone, Soul Projection, Soul Keeper.

Above Soul keeper there's another Realm but all that was mentioned of it was only the name and nothing else at all.

Soul Keeper had something about it and that was a single line of information : "The fables say that whomever reaches this Realm in Soul Cultivation can make a mortal live 7 times of age."

They can extend people's lifespan!

Soulless was the ninth and final Realm.

Weak Soul Realm is : the easiest of all Realms of Soul Cultivation which means if you simplify the whole Realm it will be once you overcome your primal urges and start to meditate normally in the seating position then you've accomplished the first step in Soul Cultivation. Any creature that's considered alive or even the dead types of monsters can reach this step even those who couldn't sense Soul Energy and Cultivate their Souls can accomplish that, all in all it's just a simple addition to the Soul Energy within the Body.

The true use of reaching this Realm is that you can try and sense Soul Energy, consider it a test of some sort.

Wondering Soul Realm is : when you manage to calm your mind and delve deeper into your subconsciousness at will, you've accomplished the second step in Soul Cultivation by accomplishing that you're training your Weak Soul to wonder in a wider span in the vessel. Each time it leaves a trace of itself in the vessel like roots and tentacles then grow. You benefit in having your senses sharpened and the addition of learning how to use the skill Soul Link and other basic Soul Techniques.

Only those who has affinity to the Soul attribute can reach that second Realm, others can increase their Soul strength with medicinal ingredients of as a side effect to them reaching high Realms in their Body or Spirit Cultivation.

That as well is implied on the different senses and awareness, with each increase of the Realm a Body Refiner or Spirit Cultivator gain, they boost their abilities.

Soul Returning Realm is : the third step in Soul cultivation first you reflect the tentacles the which were left by the Soul all over the Body in the previous Realm Soul Wandering back into the Soul, during the process these Strands like Lin called them before or tentacles like the Technique described, will experience a Refinement before returning to the Soul Body.

The Soul Energy resulting from each strand getting refined will shape the Soul Body.

Old Jin Bao was feeling shocked because to pass this stage Lin had to have many life experience and maturity of the mind to reach the next level, as if compressing the Soul Energy and molding the Body in that Ethereal world and forcing it to materialize.

Now Lin has done that and only needs to fill his Soul Body with Soul Energy to reach the next stage, Soul Eye.

It was the most straightforward Realm of all, fill your Body with Soul Energy and unblock the only acupoint related to the Soul in the Body of humanoids.

Yintang acupoint, in the center of the eyebrows.

After unblocking that acupoint, the Soul Cultivator open the Third Eye "Mind Eye" and gain the ability called "Soul Sense".

Many Cultivators, especially the formidable ones who reached high Realms in Body Refinement or Spirit Cultivation consider any Soul Cultivator who didn't gain his Soul Sense ability as no threat, but they'll tread very carefully if faced with a Soul Cultivator who awakened the Third Eye.

Soul Sense was scary, having the perfect view of your surroundings at all times means a great advantage in any kind of situation.

Plus it's other supplementary and supportive uses if added to both Body and Spirit Techniques, that's why despite being the lowest in numerical aspect if compared to the other schools of Cultivation.

Soul Cultivation is still an undisputed one of the top three schools, even the school of weapon intent which is, one of the most formidable schools, was loosing if compared to the Soul.

Exactly as it is elusive in nature, Soul Cultivation is elusively penetrating all the other schools in a way.

Even though the weapon intent had a very famous reputation of being very supportive, the Soul won it in being widely known as the best supportive Cultivation.

An attack imbued with Soul Energy was stronger than an attack imbued with weapon intent, not only that, it is more flexible and agile as well.

That topic aside, the question remains.

When did Lin find the time to create all these memories which enabled him to reach the Soul Seeker Realm that fast? First he's still less than Four! Second, it seems like the boy was already started his Cultivation naturally as a mortal.

He wasn't even a Weak Soul when Jin Bao met him, now he's already in the Fourth Realm!

What freaking speed is that? Jin Bao intentionally didn't intervene and guide Lin until he felt some strange growth of the boy's Soul Energy that spiked suddenly in the span of a few months, such thing couldn't be left unguided unless he wanted Lin to experience a Cultivation Deviation and succumb to his Mental Demons.

Such things were unheard-of to the senior who lived for thousands of years and dappled in Soul and Spirit Cultivator, Lin was a complete freak of a genius with a perfect combination of talents stacked on top of each other whom Jin Bao wouldn't have ever thought of even if it was his wildest imagination.

Spirit : already awakened at the youngest age despite the disadvantage of being born on this Land of Forgetfulness, at the age of less than 4 years he achieved it. The only thing stopping him from being called a proper Spirit Cultivator in the first Realm "Spirit Apprentice" was the fact that no Spirit Energy whatsoever existed in the Land of Forgetfulness.

The fact was that every day Lin spends in this place was actually delaying his Spirit Cultivation, if he left this Land then he's the youngest Cultivator of Spirit Energy.

If news reached the 5 great sects then they'll fight nail and tooth to recruit him, at all costs!

Soul : at a similar age he miraculously strolled across the first four Realms of Soul Cultivation! If it continued at this rate then the boy is destined to reach the Soul Eye Realm at the age of 10 or less, old Jin Bao wanted to find a hole to dig and bury himself in when he started to compare his accomplishments to Lin's.

Body : Lin was clearly a Barbarian Emperor descendant, his father and mother had larger physiques than normal mortals.

The fact that Barbarians are the blessed vessels of the God of War as they believe, they're the undisputed champions when it comes to Body Refinement.

His future in Body Refinement is destined to be superior to the other two categories, Spirit and Soul.

"Sigh, I only did my part of the deal, you remember your part and grow stronger. I still need your help in collecting the ingredients required to remould a physical body compatible with my Soul."

Old Jin awakened from his daydreaming journey and answered Lin's politeness with a sad tune as he reminded him of their first agreement.

"Senior Jin you don't need to worry, i'll never slack off in my Cultivation."

Poor Lin misinterpreted the sadness in Jin Bao's tune as him longing for freedom while the Senior Cultivator was sad because of his utter defeat in front of Lin's fearful deep potential.

"Don't rush it and seek short gains, always remember that Cultivation is a process of constant accumulation. Keep a steady pace and lay down the firmest foundation for your future, for now focus on your Soul until you reach the age of 6 when you reach that age i'll send you a Body Refinement Technique. Accumulate well."

Jin Bao's was shaking his head inside the Ring as he said that then severed the connection.

Lin got up and went to find Lily, now he can use the Soul Link Technique and transmit to her the Soul Strengthening Technique.

As a Soul Seeker he can do that by touching Lily's head with his palm, simple as that.

Of course transmitting the Technique will vary according to the grade of the Technique itself, if it was a higher grade Technique then Lin would take longer to finish sending it to Lily.

Soul Strengthening Technique took one week from Lin to finish sending it completely to Lily, it was a low grade forbidden Technique.

According to the knowledge in the introduction of the Technique, this Technique passed the 9th Rank amongst Soul Techniques and reached the Formidable Grade and became a Low Level Forbidden Grade Technique.

Only because if it was practiced to culmination the user of this manual is guaranteed to reach the Soul Projection Realm.

Anyone in the Soul Projection Realm is a powerhouse amongst powerhouses, even though it's only the seventh Realm of Soul Cultivation, anyone in that Realm is feared by single school Cultivators of either Body or Spirit who are two Realms higher or dual Cultivators using Body Refinement or Spirit Cultivation as their main focus and the other as support in a Realm higher than the Soul Cultivator with the Soul Projection Realm.

Because no Soul Cultivator in that Realm isn't capable of using Spirit Energy or the refined vital energy "Qi" at the same time, when the two energies get combined individually or together with Soul Energy the resulting power reaches another level entirely.

Then Lin got to experience some peaceful days after Lily started to focus on her meditation seriously, Finally!

But, the ticking bomb of Sun's deed was looming in the horizon for Lin who was getting impatient, he wanted the days to go faster so that he can start training his physique.

The cat was out of the bag in Lao's third birthday, only half a month before Lin and Lily's fourth birthday.

In the middle of the party and as the village residents were giving little Lao his gifts while speaking rough language, Lily snuck out from the event and went towards Lin who sat at the cave area alone.

Moon seemed to be lowering her head timidly as Lily kept glaring at her all the way until they reached Lin under the pavilion, Sun had just left with the recent exploring team two days ago.

Since the culprit was away Lily had no choice but to pour down her anger at the owner after just discovering the protruding belly of Moon's, standing in front of Lin with both hands on her hips, Lily had a look that would make the ignorant laugh at how cute it was.

However, anyone who truly knew Lily would experience a cold shiver at his spine when being under the influence of this gaze.

"You three dare to keep me in the dark for more than 3 months! What the fuck Lin? This isn't funny or cool, Moon is mine Sun is yours I thought we were clear on that. Now your horny cat stick it without my approval? i'll be damned if I let this one slide!"

What makes Lily scary is her attitude when she's mad with fury, she spoke calmly as she went to sit on Lin's lap.

The action would be misunderstood if another person heard her he'll think Lily was just throwing a small tantrum, well no! The saying revenge is better served cold can suit Lily's personality more than anybody else.

After living with her for 4 years now, Lin was repaid each and every small prank or joke that he played on Lily once.

Sometimes the parasite would take the joke a bit too far though.

"Don't misunderstand me, even I couldn't stop it because when I found out they were already joined and mating. If you want to teach Sun a lesson then it's alright with me, just wait until his Cubs are born to do it. And don't be too harsh on Moon in this stage of pregnancy, you know the risks of depression and negative emotions."

Lin said as he tried to avoid getting caught up in this mess.

He was distracting his sister by moving his fingers thorough her silky hair as he spoke while the other hand pinched her cheek lightly until they flushed Rosy red.

"Snort, you too need to be punished for keeping a secret from me, I'm adding another year of freedom to our agreement. You're stuck with me until we reach the age of 5, if I find more secrets then it's one year per secret."

Smirking slightly, Lily snorted once then rested her head on Lin's shoulder after securing his neck between her arms and waist between her legs, she said in a lazy tune filled with daringness.

Already expecting such thing to happen Lin didn't argue with Lily he merely hugged her to his body and waited for the fireworks to start, it was one of his gifts to his younger brother in his birthday.

"Rin, all good."

The toothless thin pervert ran from the village towards the cave and told Lin with a smile as he gave the thumbs up gesture to Lin, he spoke a broken language because his missing front teeth and because he was one of the few thick skulls in the village.

He was faster than a Cheetah but slow as hell as he learned how to speak!

The man was a different person now since he first met Lin more than a year ago in that shameful incident, so far this man has done something to the Great Sage, something which no other male ever did to Lin in two lifetimes.

He stripped him naked!

Now he is a father of a daughter with a loving wife taking care of him everyday, wears proper clothes and eats fine cooked meals everyday.

He spent one year, the very first year in complete safety without hunger or constant fear in his long life full of close encounters with death, sufferings and loneliness.

"Old Ba are you sure every thing is in order like I taught you?"

Lin asked the man who choose the name Ba for himself.

"En"

Nodding again firmly Ba raised the other thumb up and gave Lin the same gesture with both hands, message clear enough 100% sure.

"Okay, go hug your wife and daughter and keep looking up. It's about time."

Dismissing the agile man Lin gave him a hint on a romantic approach, the rest is up to the man himself.

"Hey that's another secret, now you're sentenced another year."

Lily smiled to herself then whispered to Lin's ear as she adjusted herself to be in a comfortable position to watch the fireworks, she already noticed old Ba when he was installing the fireworks on the roofs around the birthday party.

"You're taking advantage of my kindness, what should I do to take advantage of you? I wonder. You're a walking secret yourself Lily, remember."

Once Lin whispered that back to Lily's ears he felt her shiver once before the rising fireworks lit up the darkening skies above the village.