"I was asleep and you kept buggering me with your soul force, last person who did that got trapped by me for a couple thousand years, heh, it seems like nobody learns from other's mistakes these days," Smirking derisively, the raccoon gave Lin an answer which made him freeze in shock, he just made a far-fetched assumption and if it is really true, then this raccoon have a great identity! "Seems like you've already figured out who I am, I'm Kai, This ring of origin which you wear on the right-hand's ring-finger and have a crappy connection with, is my own, I'm an inheritance tool's Awakened Soul Spirit, what have they been teaching you since you're born boy?, Are you plotting to control me with that begger?, Heh, the way I see it, you're a million years too early." Kai confirmed the identity Lin just assumed with his words, and Lin remembered how old Jin had mentioned how long it took before a part of his soul was captured by the ring, that ring seemed to contain a secret which Jin Bao couldn't unravel, now Lin had a chance to know the background story behind this ring of origin but he wasn't delighted because he remembered how Jin Bao's well-being is vulnerable to the whims of fate, and one angry raccoon.

Lin didn't get affected by the dripping sarcasm from Kai's mouth or how much he was looking down at him right now, "I see, the matter of the ring isn't like what you see it senior Kai, ever since I found the ring your existence was a complete mystery, my only goal was to free old Jin and help him gather some soul treatment ingredients to remake his body and heal his wounds, the only reason I sent my soul force at the ring was to check on him after he.... S... sacrificed his primordial soul force to help save me from an unfortunate accident," He did stammer slightly when he gave his answer but he had to ask the question that troubled his mind ever since Mia had her breakthrough, "Senior Kai, is old Jin Bao alright?."

"Snort, you've got yourself in enough trouble already boy, even while death stares you in the face here you're worrying about someone else's!, You don't strike me as one of these brainless morons who live life to the full fearlessly until they hit the end of the road. Look and see for yourself then, this small dot floating in the middle of this soul-lock time-formation is your friend, I give him ten years at best if he's lucky to hold on with the assistance of my formation, a single thought of mine and whatever remained of his primordial-source will leave the safety of my soul formation and I give it one second to scatter," Kai snapped his fingers and a screen of a small black and white room with similar silver circles on the ceiling, floor, and four walls, a small, faint grey dot was very hardly noticed as it moved peacefully and aimlessly in the area connecting all the complicated silver circles, "Senior Kai please!, Mercy.... I was the one who disturbed you and I should receive your wrath, I beg of you not to sever hope on his unfortunate soul. I'm poor and useless right now but I won't hesitate to be of service if you spare old Jin Bao right now, killing us to vent your understandable frustration won't remove the fact that you're already awake from your slumber, but, gaining a smart assistant will be forever helpful and grateful for your mercy. Please don't hurt him and I promise to be your eternal ally." Lin knew that Jin Bao still had hope and was happy then panicked when he found Kai threatening to scatter the last of his primordial-source of soul which was already exhausted beyond possibility, if it wasn't for that strange complicated formation then Jin Bao would've been dead, he was sure that whatever Kai said was the truth, kneeling on both knees he implored the raccoon for Jin Bao's sake.

"Why should I?, I had enough of trusting humans, everytime I did, it ended up with you trying to control me and force me to be under your service, or to help you rise higher in your cultivation, to conquer the world, vanquish a foe, steal a woman, every and each single time I was met with disappointment. You seem to have a wonderful set of potential but I'm sure you'll end up being the same when you grow up, you're just an ignorant, naive pup yet to open it's eyes on this world's deepest schemes." Kai sneered and crossed his arms while lecturing the kneeling Lin, but at least he didn't force Jin Bao's remainder of primordial-source out of the formation.

"Then don't trust me senior Kai, I have a feeling that you're strong enough to do almost everything, keep me at bay and don't allow yourself to trust me unless you're willing to take that gamble, all I'm asking is for a chance to save someone who had to stand in front of me and shield me from harm, he was betrayed by his best friend, lost his family after having to stand to the side and watch them get hurt, all he had left of this life was a tiny part of his soul which senior Kai imprisoned in here, he had the right to be selfish and watch me die and I would've never ever blamed him for not stretching a straw to the drowning me, but he choose to go that far for me and I will go that far to save him. Senior Kai I'm begging you, please allow me the chance to help my friend, I'm willing to pay any price to give him another chance in life." Lin pleaded for a chance to save Jin Bao and waited for Kai to answer, but, the raccoon flipped his hand and everything Lin had in his space ring appeared around them!.

"Is that the price you meant?, This trash?, Are you trying to scam me?." Kai pointed at the gold bars, spirit coin boxes, spirit cryastals, the various medicinal ingredients, the alchemy books, jades, and tools, the humongous fire-eating dark-lizard the scattered weapons, armors, and clothes, the fish meat and clear water and the beast core of the vulture king as he spoke.

"Not what I meant senior Kai, right now I'm weak, poor, ignorant and young, I can work hard on gathering Jin Bao's required ingredients and try to find or accumulate wealth for you senior Kai in the same time, but I have to give the priority to old Jin until his condition is stable enough." Lin shook his head to deny the accusations, while wondering how could this Kai open his space ring, retrieve items from within, without him noticing anything whatsoever, Mia said that wasn't possible!, At least you get to feel his intrusion even if you couldn't stop it from happening.

"Now you're negotiating terms with me boy!, Do I need to remind you that I can make a pet out of you if I see fit," Kai wiggled his eyebrows while an amused expression filled his large obsidian black eyes, "but you're right, I gain nothing by getting rid off you two while I may get something in the future, remember Lin son of Tai the mighty and Tian the beauty that you awe me Kai, a favor which I shall collect it's due whenever I want." Then Kai resumed to say and Lin finally got to release a stifled sigh of relief, ever since he met this strange, talking raccoon and the feeling of being one word away from death never left until Kai said this final line, like an almighty entity giving amnesty to a sinner.

"Thank you senior Kai, Ill never forget this generosity," Lin politely said then got up to his feet and kept his mouth shut, he was waiting for the raccoon to say anything, maybe he had any further instructions, otherwise Kai has to dismiss him, Lin didn't know how to get back to Sun after all, and that strange forest was suppressing his soul sense and keeping his soul force within his body!, If Lin activated his wings and tried to leave on his own without getting dismissed, that Kai will get offended or something, "hrmmmm, where did you get that book?, Heh, immunity physique, interesting approach but it seems to be incomplete, you go back, I have no further need for you." Kai beckoned with his hand and the torn book with leather pages flew into his hand, he flipped out it's pages curiously and asked Lin for the origin of the book, then he got hooked to it's words and dismissed Lin like nothing happened just a minute ago, as if he didn't threaten his and Jin Bao's life just now and forced the boy into accepting being owed a favor.

Smiling ruefully, Lin felt like a secretary of Kai's underlings shooed off from his office, but he had no idea how to leave!, "Ehm, senior Kai how do I leave this place?," Asking softly, Lin tried to be as soft as possible, he himself, never liked it when others interrupted him when he's reading something interesting. "Right," Kai merely raised his eyes up and Lin felt his world spinning then he was back in front of Sun, the tiger kept circling around Lin as if looking for the place Lin just went for a few seconds!.

"Phew.... Senior Kai is really amazing, just how strong is he? What kind of inheritance tool is that ring of origin?, It matters not right now, old Jin lives and I don't need to go against my nature to avenge him. Plus, I reached the next realm in soul cultivation!," Lin looked at the plain gold ring on his finger as he muttered, then he turned positive -like alway- and enjoyed patting his own back for his accomplishments.

Had Jin Bao been awake then he would've been dizzied by such a great unforeseen feat, six years and already a clone successfully!, "What is happening to the world?, Is the dao of soul cultivation defected in this era?," Surely he would've said something of this sort.

"Greetings Lin, as always you're pumping up your confidence by thinking that everything is going to be all right."

"No!, No no no no, this can't be happening, no, Lily left my head when we were born, you're not real, you're not possible, I lost my bipolar-consciousness, I lost that shit, I'm done with that messed up rollercoaster, oh no you don't, fuck me, you're real," Lin jumped in fear like a cat with it's tail stepped on by an electerocuted iron shoes, that sound interrupting his thoughts and these familiar choice of words, inside his inner soul world the other half of his soul body was moving on it's own (hobbling around on one leg actually) and speaking with him like it's not a part of him, but a different "thing" that has it's independent thoughts and opinions!.

"Is that denial of the five stages of grief all over your face?," After that bedivilled entity which occupied his other soul clone moved on it's own and touched his forehead to check his heat signals for any fever, it was a sarcastic action that delivered Lin the cold reality, his soul clone got hijacked by his bipolar-consciousness which shouldn't exist anymore, finally the cynical question made Lin on the verge of crying.

He was very happy one second ago then now he was frowning like a constipated person, he wanted to scream at someone's face over and over with a single word right now, "Unfair".

After a vacation from that despicable thing for six years, now it's back, again.

"What?, Spit it out, what the fuck do you want from me?," Lin raised the other half of his soul body by the neck singlehandedly and snapped at him, he was in a very bad mood and vented it out as healthy as possible.

"Nothing, just saying hi, it really is an honor meeting you." With a single shoulder shrug, Lin received half a smile and answer to his question.

"I don't know if I should say I'm the same, now answer me, why are you here?, How could it even be possible?." Lin squinted then lowered the annoying thing, let go of his neck, and sneered his reply, he found that his soul force in the other body still belong to himself but the vessel itself had been taken by another, strange indeed!.

"Heh, like always you don't miss a chance to know more, it isn't a secret anymore with Lily playing outside while we hang out with you a bit longer-" the thing spoke but Lin cut it off : "We!, Bloody hell, how many more is there?," Lin pointed a finger at his other half while grinding his teeth, he was just thinking of getting rid of this one somehow, now there's others!.

"All in all?," The thing smirked and asked with amusement, "Ya, top to bottom and the other way around," Lin nodded and gave his answer while preparing himself mentally, "Seven, including Lily of course, or should I call her by her original name?, I don't know if she'll be okay with me saying it, she tend to carry a grudge for the tinies detail you know," the thing answered and Lin found himself nodding knowingly, "tell me about it, nobody tasted that side of her more than me, just say her name, I have a way of attracting Lily to pour her sour side on me no matter how innocent I am." Lin still asked for Lily's so-called original name from that thing, "Envy, I'm Pride, your pride. Always a pleasure." Pride revealed Lily's name then theatrically bowed while introducing himself to Lin.

"You're kidding right!, Really, are you taking me for a fool?, Do you mean to tell me that I once had the seven deadly sins within me one day?, And took them with me to the next life," Lin almost jumped his other half and strangled him with a single hand, but he forced himself to calm and he asked pride to convince him if he could, "They all has us, some ignores us, some feeds us, some suppress us, some admits us, some starve us, but never you, within you we were admitted as a crucial part of your existence, respected in a healthy optimum way of fine balance, our powers grew stronger whenever you recycled our unhealthy urges into benefitting, reasonable explanations, then we found our nature change. I found that nothing could get under my skin anymore, be that action, phrase, or expression, Envy didn't continue being gloomy and lonely all the time and started to interact more with the rest of us, Lust found her ever horny passion cool down and turned a lot naughty and teasing us just for laughs all the time, Wrath stopped grunting and shouting at us for the tiniest detail and turned calm, understanding, and peaceful, Gluttony lost weight and his fasting days are filled with smiles he is the best cook I ever seen, Sloth bugs us all the time to join him in the gym and found his competitive side in training with Gluttony, Greed shares his opinions with us unlike before where he kept his silence whenever we talked." Pride said and Lin was imagining these seven walking side by side on the surface of this world, a shudder ran his spine at the mere thought.

"Why was Lily the first one allowed to be born?, Why not any of the rest of you?," Lin asked with clear intention of knowing the leader amongst these seven, "The body of your twin was of a female and I prefer being male instead, I didn't join my siblings when they decided by drawing lots and Lily was the winner, when this second opportunity appeared for one of us to be born, erm...my siblings gave me this chance willingly since I refrained from participating in the first event." Pride told Lin why and was proudly mentioning how his siblings are very understanding and in sync.

"I won't call you Pride, from now on you're Ming Tai brother of Lin, Lily, Lao, Rose, and Qin, son of Tai the Mighty and Tian the beauty, when the others are birthed Ill give them names. We have work to do, let's go cultivate our spirit energy." Lin didn't question Ming anymore, just like how he felt from Lily this one have Lin's interests as a priority and Lin deeply felt like he can control Ming like he could control Lily, only the method will be a bit different.

"Lin you need to rest, let me handle the rest, I know how to cultivate your spirit energy how to heal the required soul force for your soul-" Ming offered to help but was soon interrupted by Lin, "Our spirit, our soul, beside your independent personality and unique mind everything else is shared, here in my vessel you're the same as me. Once you're driving your own meat suit and have your own martial-spirit like Lily you can start saying yours or mine, get to work brother, Ill take the second shift." Lin removed himself from the soul world after reminding Ming, while Ming smiled broadly and fist-pumped thin air once Lin left, "He's just like how I expected, no even better than I thought, this broad-minded-ness and ability to remain positive under any circumstances, the capacity for tolerance to the burdens weighing each of his steps, plus his warmth which you could do nothing but get attracted towards it and melt under these two eye's gaze. No wonder Lily would turn meek and tame whenever he's holding her between his arms." Ming muttered faintly while using both soul bodies to start meditating on the soul strengthening technique, right now he was very satisfied with his first meeting with his role model.

Lin stood in place once he opened his eyes and looked at the waves as they battered the island's shoreline endlessly, he hugged Sun's neck under his armpit and thought hard and deep of how Lily was really the personification of Envy, she always wanted what he had, seeked to find him looking at her enviously which rarely happened but when it did she was like a purring kitten eating her favorite meal, when she awakened her martial-spirit and pranced in front of him on her throne he was tickled by Envy, when his mother favored him over Lily, Lily did her best to cast him out of the picture and receive all the love for herself!.

One of the mysteries of his past life got revealed to Lin but he wasn't feeling excited, he has to find a way to unload Ming off of his back, then there's five other to be separated from his deepest persona before he truly finds his inner peace, but Lily was really good in hiding the truth from him so far. was it because he felt like she was hindering his plans?, Why does it feel like Lily purposely did act that way to drive him away?, No matter how hard Lin thought he couldn't come up with a viable explanation to Lily's behavior.

Poor Lin, if only had he knew that Lily discovered the truth about the remnants of humanity and their circumstances and was planning on making them her minions and had her eyes set on taking his dream position as a minister, he would've flew back north to stop her from influencing his people, ehm...it wouldn't be bad to be a minister too, cough.

But fate had decreed it that Lin will discover the truth too late, by that time Lily would be commanding humanity and working just as hard as him to figure out why when there's a genesis operation the elements start to mess up the enhanced cells of the human body and cause them to explode by over-flooding them with energy.

Despite being in the center of the land of remembrance where the elements are removed, whenever a genesis operation started the chaos energy will let various elements cause mayhem then leave Lily gritting her teeth at a failed trial.

Feeling his soul force increase and his soul bodies retaining their missing half by the accumulated force, Lin was amazed by how very good it felt to have Ming help him cultivate.

Without Ming, Lin could do the same thing and cultivate while living his days normally, but he'll need to separate part of his concentration on the ongoings of his inner soul cultivation, yes it is a tiny part of his attention that gets separated, but that meagre part could prove vital on a fight with your life at risk, Ming was acting like an automatic feature of Lin, he knows which step to take as he meditates and doesn't require any kind of intervention or supervising from Lin, and smart enough to do what is required in cases of emergencies without having to go back for Lin's commands.

Patting Sun's head Lin decided to celebrate with his tiger, old Jin Bao lives after all, the secret of the ring was out and senior Kai the formidable tool's soul spirit which Lin met personally, Ming and his siblings ended the mystery of Lily but added a frown on Lin's forehead whenever he thought about how to unload that burden.

His belongings were returned back discreetly to his space ring, only that book entailing the immunity physique was taken by Kai.

Lin ate with Sun and had a peaceful meal for the first time in days, first he was tired once he took Mia to the first island, then exhausted himself for the sake of her breakthrough, received a sledgehammer to the soul made from a fusion of sword-intent and time-energy, suffered in the easiest step of assimilating his martial-spirit to the dantian because of the hindrance of the foreign energy plaguing his body, then again he tasted the hoarseness of the agonizing soul torture when the fused energy chaining his body had it's final stand against his light energy, then he tasted soul pain again to breakthrough to the soul clone realm, looking back at how much happened in a very short duration after leaving his home Lin couldn't help but feel homesickness grow within his chest.

Sighing, Lin unravelled these budding emotions and laughed aloud carefreely, he can't go back just yet, after all he heard about how big the outside world is from Jin Bao and Mia, after reading all that information about how strange this world works, after tasting what it feels to gather energy, after seeing the various types of spirit energies and the numerous kinds of elements, after strengthening his physique to the degree of being capable to trounce his past life's twenty-nine year old self if they met in a sparring match.

After all these events, there was no way Lin would go back home even if his homesickness was quadrupled!.

Feeling a lot better after filling his and Sun's tummy, Lin sat down cross-legged to meditate on his soul recovery with Ming, despite telling him that he'll take the second shift, Lin still couldn't wait to try and experiment with his new soul capabilities.

Under the joint cultivation of Lin and Ming, the recovery of both soul bodies's missing half was visible to the eye, add to that how Lin kept noticing hidden wounds at his soul bodies and mended them gradually after eliminating the extremely faint violet sword-intent energy from the cracks of the sword scars on his soul clones.

After an extended period of time which Lin and Ming spent fluently working on healing their soul, two exactly the same soul bodies sat next to one another on the clear golden waters, around them and extending for almost one hundred and sixty kilometers wide was a world of light.

Lin felt his soul sense stretch that far while maintaining a solid feel to it, in the very first inner circle from his body and stretching for fifty kilometers outwards Lin was sure he can use only his soul sense to hurl a fifty kilograms stone easily!, To make a projectile travel fifty kilometers only with soul force now Lin was starting to understand why soul cultivators were feard, if he exchanged the stone with a sword, arrow, or even a needle like Weisheng tried to kill Sun before then Lin knew just how deadly that move could be, not to mention that he could use his soul force to throw his enemy off balance during a fight, lets not forget that was while he maintained stretching and using his soul sense unlike before where he had to shrink it for more power and control.

In the middle circle of his soul sense stretching from the point of fifty kilometers to the hundred kilometers mark, Lin felt his control weaken almost to half his capabilities in the inner circle, at the outermost circle of his soul sense his control hit rock bottom and the best he could do was create a ripple effect after touching ocean waters.

"Good job Ming, you really made it a lot easier for me," Lin complimented Ming and was stunned to see his clone blushing fiercely, "N... nevermind I did nothing much," Ming avoided eye-contact and mumbled, but the hint of a smile was shadowing the corner of his lips.

"Ill be spirit cultivating next," Lin wasn't really in the mood for these sorts of awkward situations, announcing his intentions he left the soul world and entered his dantian, "Heh, Lin told me I did a good job, if I got serious will he pat me on the shoulder, ruffle my hair?, Or maybe g...give me a k...kiss!." Ming was leaning his head left and right as he spoke, finally he had to press on his own heart to calm down when his fantasies reached the nosebleed limit.

Lin looked at the gaseous light energy in his dantian in their form of nebulas, his wings had already swallowed half of each of these nebulas when he was away.

"My spirit do have an insatiable appetite for light energy, these two clouds give a panicky vibe." Lin smirked when he saw the two dark-gold clouds forcing their follower clouds to their orbits and once in a while they'll try and steal the followers from the other dark-gold cloud's nebula.

His wings were almost completely gold at the feathers only a few lines of yellow color remained, his symbol carrying feathers gained an additional dark-gold thick line at their edge.

Once Lin willed it for light energy to gather towards his dantian, it was like an ocean of light energy had found an outlet and stormed his dantian, the two dark-gold clouds stopped fighting each other for resources and captured the light energy Lin's wings marked with it's special mark, after strengthening themselves to the limit these dark-gold clouds would relinquish part of their own energy for the wings to process however they see fit, then they'll replenish themselves with the weaker clouds of their accompanying nebula of light energy.

It was a complete cycle, and the only one gaining the best from it was Lin's wings.

"Our spirit wings are almost turning completely golden, how much longer do you think it will take to turn them completely dark-gold," Ming appeared next to Lin and asked, "I hope it won't take long, our meridian clearing is delayed enough already." Lin hoped for a faster martial-spirit saturation because he only had ten years to save old Jin by finding the five items, cultivation tend to take long and some cultivators spend tens of years in a single retreat of meditation.

Ming didn't tarry and manually handled the two dark-gold clouds to spin faster around the wings with their followers, they consumed each speck of light energy marked by the wings and created a different colored light energy typhoon around the wings.

The returning energy to the wings became an endless supply for them to turn gold, but Lin noticed that despite there being very little yellow parts on the feathers, all that light energy was gobbled up by the symbol carrying feathers, both feathers gradually but extremely slowly turned dark-gold, and the symbols themselves exchanged favor!.

The wings symbol was already of the dark-gold color, the infinity symbol was silver now it's color had deepened a lot, the wings symbol received some of the silver color from the infinity symbol and the infinity symbol received a dark-gold line in it's middle.

Once it happened both feathers changed to the dark-gold color and the last thing hindering the rest of the feathers from turning gold was no more, Lin's spirit wings fluttered once gently when it happened and caused the surrounding light energy typhoon to scatter all over the dantian, some of the clouds got sent hurling all the way until they got stuck on the walls of Lin's dantian, now instead of complete darkness outside the playground of his spirit wings and accompanying light energy clouds, some faint stars were at the far end of the dantian flickering weakly in white, yellow, and gold colors.

Any cloud that got stuck to the walls was separated from the tyranny and control of the two dark-gold clouds, but despite losing two thirds of their followers when the wings lazily stretched all these clouds that stuck to the walls were no more than specks on a dark canvas, Lin's wings now were truly the center of their own universe, orbited by two different stellar nebulas and overlooked by various kinds of stars!.

Good news is that Lin's wings seemed to have had enough of the light energy after attaining the gold grade, they stopped taking energy from the dark-gold cloud's plates and let them fatten up and upgrade their rank.

As Lin and Ming gathered light element energies from a whopping one hundred and sixty kilometers area, the majority of energy inside their dantian was consisting of two thirds of the white gaseous clouds, the remaining one third was made up from eighty percent yellow clouds and the remaining nineteen point nine percent was the gold clouds, and the two dark-gold clouds would be exaggerated to give them the remaining balance but since they're of higher grade energy they can take that small margin.

First the two thirds of white clouds united and suppressed the minority of clouds for a chance to rise to the next yellow grade, they tore apart dark-gold, gold, and yellow clouds into tiny white dots then consumed them to rise up as yellow clouds, once it happened and Lin thought the next step would be gold then dark-gold then he'll get to work on clearing up his first meridian, his wings had another word to say, fluttering again they sent the majority of the surrounding clouds hurling in the dantian's space and more stars appeared on the night sky of Lin's dantian.

Three days and nights were spent gathering light energy and trying to reach the peak refinement of the spirit energy cultivation with the highest purity of the light energy, only to end up being interrupted by the wings themselves as they scatter the energy to the dantian walls, an inner look at Lin's dantian would differ much from three days ago, the previous darkness outside the domain of the wings is no more, despite the stars on the walls being only less than one percent comparable to the dark areas they did erase the previous gloominess from his dantian.

His gaseous light energy clouds are now entirely gold, but their count is less than a thousand in both nebulas.

By now Lin figured out why the prime light cultivation technique mentioned that refining and purifying energy actually delays the cultivation momentarily in the beginning, but the sturdiness of the foundation boost it's owner on stages and realms beyond the initial and middle realms.

As a perfectionist himself, Lin had no impatience whatsoever, he spent these days talking with Ming about everything and wasn't fazed by his brilliance but he noticed how Ming would turn shy whenever he complimented him!.

'Whatever, I already have a slut of a sister what kind of harm a sissy will cause.' Deciding that he wants no part of whatever that is about, Lin asked him his opinion on Mia and how does he suggests to do with her in the future.

"Let me and my siblings give her a scare of her life before you forgive her, don't deny it now, I know how forgiving you can be even if you got raped, murdered then repeat for eternity, just one tear on her eyes and you'll be holding her in your arms. After all scaring her is much better than Lily or the rest tearing her apart." Ming touched his groin area with a hand as he spoke with a soft tune but his eyes spoke malice as he gave his answer.

"Sounds fun, do I get to watch?." Lin smiled and asked, "No, it is only fun when you're introduced at the end like in the movies with the hero saving the damsel. But with that personality of hers I bet she'll never be vulnerable to her "friends" again, when she cut you I felt her pride flare and wrath kicked in, she only actually woke from her blinded state once she had done the deed." Ming told Lin how it should be done from his perspective and Lin shrugged, when the time comes maybe he'll let Ming spank Mia, who knows.

"Lin, how long are you going to cultivate?, Use the space talisman and go look for the ingredients already, I want you freed up from that dept of Karma before you start collecting my things." Lin found Kai's voice shaking him from his cultivation state, opening his eyes he found Sun crouching down and tucking his tail fearfully when he felt the presence of Kai.

"Yes senior Kai, first item I seek is in the west coast of the southern continent, if you would be kind to direct me I've never used a space talisman before." Lin made sure he didn't leave anything behind and took out the leather scroll and unfurled it, before he injected his spirit energy inside to activate it he asked for help.

"Just use it Ill steer you nearby pearl harbor, what you'll do from there is your thing, one word mentioned about me or the ring appearing and you know the rest, like you said I don't trust you and I trust you treasure your friend's and family's lives." Kai gave Lin a threat which made him make a new rule after the first which was to never use his wings in-doors, now the second was to keep everything related to Kai an absolute secret, once divulged, his family is in catastrophic danger.

"Your mistrust is understandable senior Kai, I shall remember with every breath I take." Lin answered then injected his light energy into the center of the space formation on the leather, he gestured for Sun to shrink his body and the tiger settled on his shoulder excitedly.

Sun saw Mia escape after hurting his friend with one of these scrolls, now he gets to try them with Lin.

"Off with you then." Kai said and a ball of invisible energy which was different from Mia's spirit energy encapsulated Lin and Sun in it then the sight of the world outside the formation (which transitioned from the piece of leather scroll to cover the ball of invisible energy) started to blur and Lin knew he was travelling at speed way higher than his top speed, he even guessed it might be faster than when he flew without restricting his spirit wing's speed with soul force.

Once Lin left the island, Kai the raccoon appeared where he sat and meditated, smirking he gave a final look north but his eyes seemed not to be looking at the land of forgetfulness but deeper north in the world at the north continent where the headquarters of the church of light is.

Then taking a step he vanished from his place and followed after Lin.

.......

North continent at the sacred retreat of the fourteenth pope of the church of light, one man fully draped in white clothes embroidered with gold at the sleeves and one gold belt at his waist which is actually his only weapon Light Serpent.

He was slowly walking underneath the foliage of the gardens behind the most important building of the church of light's headquarters the Basilica, he walked the garden but his feet never touched a strand of grass underneath his simple white shoes, once he reached his private transportation formation which is activated only with his consent, there he found one of the four high-cardinals, behind him was three of the sixty cardinals and a dozen archbishops waiting his arrival.

The fourteenth pope was a tall man with deep blue eyes, his hair seemed to be golden colored once but it was leaning towards grey and mostly white, his beard short his arms long and his build thin but not to the degree of calling him skinny.

"Francisco, you're to head towards seamless sword sect islands and calm the sect master at any cost, after Katherine failed to retrieve one of the lost fragments of the prime light cultivation technique and failed to get rid of his daughter, notify that sword for brains that I locked Katherine myself in the dungeons of reflection after crippling her cultivation, while you're there try to find out how that girl managed to elude the assassins and above all know where the fragment is right now. Hrmmm...." Suddenly Andreas stopped and looked south after feeling two eyes looking at his back, peering as far as he can he found the strange feeling disappear once it arrived and Andreas the leader and pope of one of the five great sects was frowning at how familiar that feeling was.

"Your holiness," Francisco bowed slightly and reminded his young pope that he wanted to leave with full instructions otherwise the enemity with the seamless sword sect will worsen further than it already is.

"Go, someone bring me Yi Shirong." Andreas waved his arm in dismissal and the high-cardinal activated the long distance space formation and was gone in a split second with his entourage heading for Mia's sect.

Less than a minute after giving his command one man with a charming smile and wearing a cyan daoist robe arrived and knelt down in front of the pope, silently he kept his kneeling posture with his head lowered.

"Tell me again what happened with soul demon Jin Bao," Andreas finally spoke to this puppet which went through countless torturing to make sure he didn't hide the ring of origin, finally he was planted with a slave seal and forced to do the church's dirty business.

"Yes, me and soul demon Jin Bao were in a mission to gather rare materials...." Yi Shirong talked mechanically while Andreas listened but he was looking south while a bad feeling haunted his chest, his intuition told him that a storm was coming, only he was conflicted by the reason causing that storm is it because Katherine failed the mission he gave or is it caused by something else beyond his knowledge?.

.....

South of the southern continent after crossing the great area of the beast mountains which takes more than a quarter of the size of the whole southern continent, and after going deeper south into the borderless ocean you'll meet the everlasting mist of time surrounding the headquarters of the seamless sword sect.

Currently the sect members were all left on standby ever since their saintess returned a month ago, safe she was, but sword sovereign almost left to storm the church of light on his own if it wasn't for the vice-sect-master and the grand elders notifying the ancestors who left their secluded retreat to stop him.

Then a fight between two great sects would've happened, their sect master demanded the head of the holy daughter and notified the other three great sects of the assassins guild being involved in the matters of the great sects which is breaking the unified agreement between the great sects in obvious disregard and spite from the church.

Otherwise he can only be forced to deliver justice to his beloved daughter by forcefully breaking into the church and take Katherine's head himself, he had no regard for the younger kids squabbles if it was done right, if Mia had perished then he wouldn't have known about how much injustice she went through.

Had his daughter failed to breakthrough her sword intent and materialize it not, then she would've still be running aimlessly in the cursed land of forgetfulness until god knows when she'll end up failing to hold on to dear life.

In the main hall of the seamless sword sect, Mia's father sat on the highest chair with evident rage filling his brown eyes, on the left side was the vice-sect-master, grand elders, and elders.

On the right side there was seven old men with white hairs or none at all which all looked to be with a foot in the grave already.

But all of them were feeling fidgety ander the stare of these rage-full eyes of the sect master.

"Ehm, DaiLong calm down already, Mia is back in one piece and the enemy's schemes are uncovered, we have the approval of the other great sects and the church is backed against the wall, let's milk the cow dry and benefit from it instead of locking horns with the losers of this exchange." One of the alarmed ancestors coughed slightly then adviced the sect master to be at ease.

"My daughter, my only daughter and the saintess of one of the five great sects almost died and you tell me to calm down!, Where is your face seniors?, I want to see if the slap delivered by these hypocrites from the church did affect your thick skins," leering at the old man, DaiLong slapped the armrest of his chair and replied, each word he said made their faces redden. "These farts from the church think of anyone as a tool, their holy daughter is no less of a tool than those envoys from the church which you're waiting for their precious gifts eagerly, my daughter will never meet them and I'm forbidding each and everyone of you to meet her all the same, to hell with all of you and your greed," getting up after delivering his verdict DaiLong looked at the source of the worst opposition he received from the sect, "vice-sect-master Zhang, you worked hard to prevent the war between our two sects now I tell you all, if what happened to my daughter is going to be treated as nothing then I will leave the sect with my daughter and sever our relationship for good." Getting up from his chair, sword sovereign DaiLong left the hall and the people in the hall were panicking.

The ancestors of the sect were glaring at vice-sect-master Zhang, and the man himself was frowning deeply while trying to find a solution to the current predicament.

The man has secret ties with the church's south high-cardinal Francisco, he was planning on gaining benefits from the church for the pleasure of his minions to gain their support while giving the church the information they need.

But DaiLong was protecting his daughter and nobody knows how did she manage to leave unharmed?, Now he was demanding the head of the holy daughter otherwise he'll just grab his shit and leave!.

Leaving the main hall, DaiLong took a step and vanished from the sight of the people inside next thing he was above the sword formation which he placed himself around his daughter's abode when she arrived, since then Mia only spoke with him or her Xiaoxi.

She told him that Katherine tricked her with a sword duel then used a world stabilizing needle to mess up her transportation formation, how she escaped the two assassins towards the land of forgetfulness and spent two years escaping their chase, how these assassins had a scorpion tailed cerberus, then she broke through in her sword intent and found help from a barbarian and got rid of the assassins, then she left the land of forgetfulness and used an advanced space talisman which she found inside one of the assassin's space rings to return.

She refused to mention the barbarian or what happened with him after she killed her pursuers, she described everything except that person but her father noticed the gaze of loss on her face whenever she mentioned him.

He felt her pain but cared more for her safety and well-being, he tried to get information on that person under the guise of rewarding him but Mia smiled sadly and shook her head then said : "In five years he will visit our sect father, that time will he be an enemy or.... No use worrying about that now, I better work hard on my cultivation or he'll leave me behind before I knew it." He saw his daughter hug her turtle and bite her lips in frustration, but DaiLong was happy that his daughter started taking her cultivation seriously.

She always said it was easy to breakthrough, easy to understand complicated sword techniques, she had a kind of ingrained arrogance to her bones which made DaiLong worry a lot for her character.

However, ever since Mia returned her change was most obvious to his eyes in character, no longer there was arrogance or laid back attitude but eagerness for working hard on her cultivation as if some kind of a lifelong rival will surpass her if she relaxed for a moment.

Add to that her recent breakthrough in sword intent and her current spirit cultivation which surpassed seven sub-realms and stabilized at the eighth stage of the spirit tyrant realm, his daughter is a powerhouse of her generation much like how her mother used to be, remembering how he used to chase after her everywhere hoping to impress her, DaiLong smiled and walked towards Mia's room while the memories of his youth warmed his heart.

"Mimi, are you awake?," Entering the formation he stood in front of Mia's room and knocked gently, "come in dad," once he heard his daughter's lovely voice he pushed the door and saw her using colors to paint on the shell of Xiaoxi, she was wearing violet color dress and her hair was gathered in a simple ponytail at her back, "They refused to let you loose on the church huh, I told you they'll never do that, unless they call for a gathering of the five great sects and judge the church together, but that will require me to divulge information which I won't unless the person who helped me escape agrees, it is only five years father, maybe when you meet him you'll understand how pointless it is to get angry at Katherine for what she did when you gain such unexpected profit from it, even I am starting to pity her these days," Mia clung to her father's thick neck like a brat and teased him with some information of her mysterious hero when she saw him fuming slightly, "daddy is indeed formidably strong but the church has it's own set of monsters, in the case of war then countless will die and these people from our sect are thinking selfishly, yes, but their selfishness is for a stronger seamless sword sect. What do you say if we have a bet between us?, you bear with these idiots from our sect and the bullies from the church and hold back your anger until my hero arrives, if he turned out to be worth the risk I went through then I win, if he isn't worth it then I lose." Mia knew that her father was only this furious because of her, had it been any other person from her sect then he would've warned the church of light at best and made them pay the price of their transgressions in valuable materials.

"Alright girl, I will await for your prince charming, he better be one heck of a monster otherwise Ill chase him back to that cursed land which he came from. Worry not for anyone distracting your cultivation, I've warned that whomever tries to get near your abode will be handled by me personally. After these farts come and go Ill take you out to the beast's mountains to train, it's been a while since I went there with your mother." Saying his final made the father's shoulders tremble slightly with sorrow in his eyes, but he gave his daughter a gentle hug and left after taking a long gaze at her face, she really took after her late mother's looks more and more as she grows up.

"I hope he doesn't come to fight, if he is then this situation will favor the church instead." Mia muttered faintly while hugging Xiaoxi's body to her chest and kissing her tiny head.

"Mia, why are you sad?." Xiaoxi asked in her slow gruff voice, and seemed to forget she just asked anything, her lost-eyes were vacant and pure as she watched everything like she's just seeing it for the first time.

"I hurt someone I love." Mia answered sadly and walked towards the perfect grade spirit gathering formation to cultivate, such formation was exclusively for Mia's use and is powered by one hundred high grade spirit cryastals, even those are no regular crystals but rare spirit crystals of the time element.

"Mia shouldn't be sad, but why do I feel a heavy space-time energy on your body?." Xiaoxi asked while looking at her friend's body with her large innocent black eyes.

"Yes, I feel it too, there's a very potent, high levelled, pure like I've never seen before energy covering your body Mia." A little girl with violet hair appeared to be sitting on the sword hilt sheathed in a brown scabbard tied to Mia's waist, she looked at Mia and scratched her cheeks as she spoke ponderously.

"Is there such a.... Bffff," Mia suddenly felt hurt by someone forcefully breaking the time-lock technique that is left on Lin's penis and groin area, after waking up to the truth of her unbelievable folly she hurried to use the only preservation technique she knows to stop his severed organ from getting affected until he reattaches it, but Lin was cold in dismissing her before she explained what he should do.

Coughing blood she would've never guessed that it will be less than a month until Lin somehow breaks her technique, but, was he the one who broke it?, Did he find help?, Before she left Mia could feel the thick energy inside his body which belonged to her and never stopped worrying about it causing more harm to Lin.

"Mia, what is wrong?, Should I go call your father?." Mia's inheritance tool's soul spirit touched her cheeks worriedly and asked, Xaiomi was worried for Mia genuinely unlike how Kai seemed to disregard Lin, both inheritance tool's soul spirits behavior was completely different.

"No need to worry my father, my love broke the technique I left on his body. Will he be visiting as an enemy or a lover?, Will he arrive with opened arms or with arms?, Oh Mia what have you done?, Xiaomi am I a cruel person?." Mia wiped her mouth in her sleeve and watched the redness on her violet clothes then broke down in a crying fit while asking the little girl with violet hair, the sight of Mia squatting there crying like a little girl burying her snotty-face in her palms next to the formation with a broken heart and receiving consolation from a dumb beast and a soul spirit would've made Lin forgive her a hundred times if he saw it, but, it's a good thing that he didn't.

......

The formation dissolved into thin air and Lin found himself falling down towards the waters below once it happened, he activated his wings and these gold wings were huge!.

Even Sun was amazed by how large they were, his own wings were growing but they were still smaller compared to Lin's wings.

"I did you the favor of undoing the shitty time technique on your groin, seeing such an abominable sight was hurting my eyes." Kai's voice rang in his head and Lin was surprised to find his penis back on it's rightful place when he touched down there.

"I'm indebted to you again senior Kai, is there anything I should do before I search for the deep-sea's water-pearl from the camouflage clam?." Lin was happy and abashed by how Kai was taking care of him while he repaid with nothing but a torn book.

"Spare me the baloney, I did it because I felt like it, not because I wanted your help or gratitude, if you head east from here you'll be in pearl harbor, Kai has no eunuchs in his ranks." Lin smiled ruefully at how Kai's tongue is as relentless and lashing like a whip as ever, he was like a grumpy old man in a constant bad mood but his guidance was ever apparent in each sentence.

"As you command senior." Knowing very well how to deal with that sort, Lin didn't say more than he should and spread his soul sense and flew east as the sun rose up to greet him.

Inside the ring of origin Kai nodded in satisfaction at how Lin didn't hum and haw like a little bitch and figured out his intentions then acted on them, potential-wise Lin is a walking freak of nature, Kai previously hesitated whether or not should he give him a Qi refinement technique and finally he ended up deciding against it, he felt like Lin had a smooth sailing in cultivation so far.

Besides some soul torment the boy is practically untested, maybe because he's too smart for his own good, maybe it is his affinity for light element which makes him lean towards gentleness and warmth, but, Kai was surprised to find the boy devoid of negativity whatsoever in his mental aspect after getting his soul experiencing wicked levels of pain in a very short time-intervals, others will at least suffer some slight mental instability and these are veteran cultivators with shitload of life experience, while Lin is a fucking kid six years old!.

Kai didn't want to over spoil this kid and wanted him to gain his fair share of hardships before he guides Lin to help him in his plans, he already rewinded Lin's life using his space-time dao energy and knows that the kid doesn't care about him (ring of origin) even after witnessing how formidable Kai is.

"Don't disappoint me like the ones before you kid." Muttering while watching Lin fly east towards the southern continent, Kai sat on a chair and opened the book of the immunity physique, if Lin was here then he would've seen the broken jade next to the book, if he tried to join it with the one Mia gave him then the two fragments would've joined perfectly and the final fragment would be in the hands of Andreas the fourteenth pope of the church of light, of course even if he gathered the three fragments he wouldn't be considered holding the complete prime light cultivation technique, at best at that time it will be considered a rank nine or at best a low rank forbidden technique.

The true prime light cultivation technique is said to be a Divine Ranked Spirit Technique, for some reason it was fragmented and it's parts scattered all over the world.

Of course Lin doesn't know he's carrying a ticking bomb, Kai knows but he intentionally left it as a final test of some sort, maybe that technique will help reveal just what kind of person Lin really is in the future to the suspicious raccoon.

"Hehe, Mia can go to hell with whatever see-through-knife sect, I say we stood her up until her cunt wrinkles to deformity and her chest sags to the bellybutton like deflated balloons." Ming was excited about the return of Lin's male organ and while wiggling his own dick up and down with the right hand he suggested evilly with a wicked smile (which Lin never knew his own face could actually make.)

"Tell me that in five years, until then my worry is old Jin." Lin shrugged and looked everywhere and took everything around him to memory, every ship, every island, every coral reef below the surface of the water, every clam especially those ones who turn invisible after light falls on their colorful shells.

First he visits pearl harbor then the only city in the west side of the southern continent, pearl city.

Afterwards he starts his search for the deep-sea's water-pearl on the western waters and western islands if he had no luck finding one in the city or the harbor, as for how he'll pay for the pearl Lin would steal it if he had to.

Later in the future he can pay for what he stole when he's rich, he was prepared to kill to avenge the man!, What is stealing in comparison?.

Making sure to maintain a healthy elevation to avoid the eyes of the people living on these islands and working these ships, Lin flew seventy kilometers in the sky and wasn't in a hurry to reach the southern continent yet, he took it slow and tried to eavesdrop on the conversations going between the people of this territory.

Maybe he'll gain a lead on the required pearl.

By noon Lin had overheard countless people talk about their matters and the only pearls included in their conversations was pearl city, pearl harbor, and their hope to find thee pearl one day.

"Young master Wei, old Tao says all good in the horizon and everything is going as it should with the ship, he expects we arrive in four days if the weather remains the same." Lin heard the voice of one bulky fellow as he pushed the door to the best cabin in the ship below, the man seemed to be twenty-four of age and was carrying a wide blade on his back, he was handsome with dark-brown hair and shaved beard but the scar below the left eye gave him a kind of bad-boy's feel.

"Don't call me by my name you oaf, what if our identities got discovered?, I'm warning you Lai, if you cause our mission to fail Ill make sure the clan elders show you hell for the next fifty years at least-" one kind of fatty wearing luxurious spacious purple clothes and jewelry on each and every arm, finger, and toe!, That fatty jumped up from the sturdy couch which hardly contained his body and seemed to creak as if sighing at the relief of having that hippo off, his over-exaggerated mass of fat pounced and giggled everywhere when he angrily pointed at the arrival's face, the muscular blade user in yellow clothes slapped the fat arm away from his face and interrupted while squinting his light-green eyes at his young master Tang Wei and his responsibility until they reach their destination at Tang city, "You stop calling me by my name first, there isn't many blade users around my age with the same name you know, it will be extremely easy to put two and two together, and did you forget about the soul formation which we went through a lot of trouble to make that famous formation expert called Han inscribe on the foundations of this ship. He assured us that only soul sense of the clone realm or higher can pierce it's protection, how many clones in the world and how many of these seniors have time to waste on the matters of us juniors?." Lai said very confidently and up in the sky seventy kilometers high Lin smiled mischievously and muttered : "There's one right here Mr."

"Snort, what do you know about anything except for the blade on your back?, If it wasn't for me working hard on making money for the clan you wouldn't be at the eighth stage of the spirit grandmaster at the age of twenty-five, I'm already two years younger and at the seventh stage of the grandmaster realm, moron, stop acting like hot-shit all the time and reach the tyrant realm first before swaggering around, that's why I'm too embarrassed to introduce you as my personal guard all the time." Tang Wei had enough of that careless attitude from Liao Lai, he couldn't wait to arrive back in the clan city to get rid of him for some time, this journey took four months from pearl harbor and back and Tang Wei was at the limits of his patience already.

"Make fat on top of meat you mean, I told you a million times my focus is in blade intent cultivation not spirit energy, your affinity for lightning element is just plain absurd and it's unfair to call a waste like you a fellow cultivator. Thank your luck that we found the Pearl to heal your great-grandfather, humph, just keep eating like a pig and breakthrough one sub-realm after another, as long as trash like you is in the same realm like mine then I have no trouble dicing you whenever you're confident enough to face my blade." Lai smiled in contempt at Wei and used his hand to pinch Wei's flappy chest rudely as he spoke, then he enjoyed watching Tang Wei's face redden as he stifled his anger.

While up in the sky Lin was giddy with excitement, he heard the word pearl ring in his soul like the sweetest tune of heavenly music.

His soul sense was focused on that large ship below him, nothing else seemed to matter other than the two people and their comical back and forth conversation.

"Is that the way you speak with your young master, insolent, despicable, Lai you're a genius blade user and it saddens me to tell you that you're a stupid bully with a fucked up life, get out." Sighing, Tang Wei sat back on his couch and opened a book about his idol's biography to read.

Liao Lai tsked and was about to leave the cabin when a sudden feeling of being restrained to place by thin air descended, all he could do was move his eyes and he saw despair and loathing in the eyes of Tang Wei who seemed to blame him for being a big mouth just earlier.

"Fear not juniors, my intentions are not your belongings, Ming the Soul Keeper need not any pearls be at ease." Ming was perfectly using the soul gaze which at least tripled the power of Lin's already powerful soul force, the area ten kilometers with the ship as the center was calm and waveless like a mirror.

Tang Wei, Liao Lai, and the rest of over three hundred crewmates were frozen against their will and their hearts beat fear and sweat drenched their clothes, that intimidation wasn't pressuring their bodies or spirits but directly seemed to grip their souls in a firm clutch but cold as solid ice.

Ten seconds later and after what seemed like an eternity, the ocean waters, air, creatures below the waters and above in the air in this frozen area ten kilometers wide were free to move again.

The marine life organisms didn't hesitate to flee and scatter everywhere but here as fast as they could, the birds were faster, only the people on the ship were still in place as the ship sails got buffeted by wind and slowly resumed it's course towards the east.

Nobody talked or even dared to breathe a sigh of relief when the danger disappeared.

Heck, they were afraid of breathing at all and their wary eyes looked everywhere for the cause of this situation.

"This one happens to be Wei of the Tang clan, to what pleasure do I owe the honor of speaking to Senior Ming, please, you command I obey." Shivering in place, Tang Wei was the first to awake from his shock among the two who happened to be the ones who heard Ming's altered voice rattle the deepest place of their soul.

Lai was about to raise a hand towards the handle of his blade and received a slap on the face from Wei who glared at him with bloodshot eyes, 'This hopeless idiot wants to get us killed, that senior Ming is obviously able to bypass the soul formation and restrain us for a whole ten seconds, he just called himself soul keeper which is bloody two realms above soul clone, I swear this idiot is going to be the death of me someday' while trying to put on the most submissive smile of his life on his face, Wei was ready to zap this stupid fuck Lai with one extra-charged bolt of lightning if he moved a finger.

"My fortune in this life go beyond even my own comprehension, while taking my grandson out to train and gain experience in this safe territory I picked up signs from the dao of a hidden realm nearby, since I can't bring him with me and the probability of the realm getting covered by the dao if I travelled back home to the western continent to deliver my grandson to the family, I have to leave my Lin in your safe hands until I return. He's just adorable, I'm sure you'll love the boy. All I ask is you take care of him for me until I return, don't worry Ill come take him and reward you juniors hadsomely." Ming was enjoying playing these two and Lin was studying the faces of Wei and Lai seeking for any sign of malice.

"Eh!..." Lai was gaping his mouth when he heard what that scary senior Ming was asking, no scratch that, commanding softly.

"Gladly, we're heading for Tang city in-between north of Dou empire and south of the Cai empire, from pearl harbor to pearl city then lone pearl road until mercenary city, after a short stop there we will resume our journey straight north through the lands of the Dou empire. That in case you safely left before we arrive, where is young master Lin?, Should we go escort him from one of the island we passed?." Wei was very excited to be of assistance to a soul keeper, his great-grandfather was already gravely wounded in the soul and the water-pearl will help him recover in a few years, with the help of a soul keeper his great-grandfather could recover and be better than he ever was, not to mention that if these two ancients happened to become friends then Tang Wei's contribution will be unquestionable.

He was planning to pamper that Lin and become his horse if needed.

"As long as you protect him from other's bullying then it will be for the best, of course by that I mean overconfident elders who forgets their place, if it is others around his age you can just watch and enjoy seeing them beat him up, when his life is endangered stop the show. I gave him some gifts for your trouble. Until we meet again." Ming winked at Lin when he mentioned others beating him up, while Lin gave him a cocky side-glance meaning 'nobody in the same age as me can do that.'

Then Lin appeared on the deck of the ship with his head raised up arrogantly and both arms behind his back, the crewmates were taken by surprise at his sudden arrival and their eyes were collectively waiting for their boss to give command.

Should they attack this boy?, Should they protect young master Wei?.

The man they were looking at was sharp-eyed with yellow hawkeyes and hooked nose, his skin brown his arms and fingers tall and lengthy with short grey-black hair and a long beard of the same color.

Wearing black and dark-green robe he kept his eyes on Lin ever since he arrived, of course he didn't fail to notice Sun on his shoulder.

"I'm taking over this ship, who wants to be number one?." Lin said in a loud voice to make sure both Wei and Lai would hear him.

While the crewmates gawked at this bold statement from the kid with the golden eyes, he was wearing a yellow robe that looked big for his size and beside the ring on his finger which they were sure it is a space ring of a high rank, the boy had nothing on to scare these battle hardened sailors who met countless pirates.

"What the heck, where did this little shi-" one sailor got kicked in the back and he flew out of the ship and made a splash when his body met the waters, his words cut off and the rest of the crewmates found the laughs which were about to escape their throats choking.

Coughing, they all (crewmates) watched Wei wiggle all that fat on his body as he led Lai with a greasy smile on his face to meet Lin, two other men joined the man wearing black and dark-green to stand behind Wei in front of Lin.

"Hello, you must be young master Lin, my name is Tang Wei, this blade master is Liao Lai, this elder is Peng Tao our navigator and the commander of the ship crew, this strong man is Wang Zhang, finally this handsome devil is Zhang Wang. Your grandfather senior Ming ordered that we we do our best to keep your days fun." Tang Wei introduced his friends then he glared at the man who just climbed back on deck and was wringing his clothes from ocean waters.

"One fatso, one idiot, one geezer, one fool, one dandy," Lin smirked at their dilating eyes when he pointed at their faces and called them names, "I said I'm taking over this ship, since there's too many ones I can't decide which of you is going to be my number one minion." Then he scratched Sun's head and gave the five men of various ages a gaze of interest and the same evil look Ming did earlier.

Lin wanted to push them to see what these people will do?, If they forgot themselves which is unlikely after Ming demonstrated his powers as an imaginary grandpa, at least if they had evil intentions they'll be revealed later when they think they're safe from any kind of retaliation.

Still Lin wanted to make them off balance while the previous shock hasn't wore off yet, to know what kind of people are they, if they turned out to be a disappointment then he will force them to hand the pearl and leave.

"Did he just call me a fool just now?, Zhang I saw him point at my face and say I'm a fool, Wang is no fool Wang is simple and kind." The muscular man with wide torso buffed out chest and great arms and shoulders seemed to take some time to understand that he was just insulted, his face reddened and his oxen eyes widened as he asked the handsome lean man next to him.

"Oh boy," before the handsome man got to twist the facts in any sort of explanation, he saw the strong man take long strides towards Lin and stretch an arm to grab his shoulder, Zhang Wang facepalmed and shrugged at Wei who felt like he just swallowed a bug.

Tang Wei was building rosy dreams in his imagination of his ancestor building up quite a friendship with senior Ming, while this cute but foul-tongued Lin would greet him as big brother as they listened to the teachings of their seniors and became powerhouses of this era.

Then Lin spoke and smashed that image with his words, then the situation escalated with Wang the simpleton going to beat the "Adorable" Lin on their first meet-, then Wei's string of thoughts got stopped as he watched the individual with the best strength and stamina getting raised like a child then tossed towards the main mast upside down!.

"Crash....," Everyone including Wang Zhang who remained upside down after crashing to the floor with his head and extremely thick neck supporting the weight of his full body, they were all looking at Wang then blinking then looking at each other then looking back to make sure this isn't some kind of a dream then blinking again to make sure.

"If no one wants to take the honor of being the number one minion then this fool will take it, you'll regret it if this train leaves, people." Finally Lin's words awoke the daydreaming gathering.

"Fuck, who's the brat?," Zhang Wang pushed a stray lock of hair back in place and asked Wei, he never saw anyone handle Wang Zhang's strength that easily.

As his best friend since their childhood, with both clans being closer to each other than the Wei and Liao clans, their loyalty to the Wei clan was unquestionable but their bond ran deeper to each other.

He knows how strong Wang Zhang is, yes he was holding back and never used spirit energy but his physical power was insaneon it's own, yet, Lin just stretched out his arm to meet Zhang's own then raised him up and tossed him to the side like trash.

There was no pause in his motions and he did that effortlessly!.

"His grandfather trusted us with his safety until he returns, don't ask anymore and make sure to maintain calm whatever happens hold it in and endure." Liao Lai said but he was stifling his sprouting laugh at the sight of Zhang embarrassing himself in front of the crewmates, simpleton Zhang could be stubborn if he marked you as a sparring partner you'll end up burning out sooner or later then he will trample your self-esteem.

"Only an idiot, the wise facade doesn't suit your ugly mug, how about you be my number one minion instead?," Shrugging, Lin continued, "I promise to help you raise some intelligence in that thick skull of yours, let's see how long can you hold it, in." Imbecile was the word in Lai's eyes, but no matter how much he tried to answer this brat he found the words clogging his throat.

Some crewmates were gasping for air and biting their tongues not to laugh or boss Lai would explode in their face instead, this demonic kid has a way with words which could make you spit blood.

"Aww come-on, don't tell me that what I see deep inside you isn't a pitiful bully, how about if we considered it teaching a junior to respect his seniors?, Yes, that's the spirit, this glow in your eyes says it all." Smirking like beelzebub Lin enticed Lai to make his move next when Zhang got up and kept looking at his right hand like if it wasn't his own.

"You'll regret not using your blade, off you go." Lin said while avoiding a strike from the infuriated Lai aiming at his neck with a karate chop, twisting in place after pivoting with his left foot, Lin held Lai's wrist then supported his right elbow and above shoulder slammed him head first into the canvas of the ship's wooden deck.

This time his motions were a lot faster than before and not everyone could see what he did, but those who did like Peng Tao were amazed by Lin's ability to counter.

Liao Lai got up and held his bruised head feeling much cooler and colder, this brat did counter him flawlessly and for a moment there he did lose consciousness.

Of course that was because he didn't use any spirit energy to protect his body, but the kid didn't use anything but his physical strength which was making Lai look weaker than a kid.

Seeing the glare on Tang Wei's face as he mentally threatened to fuck him up if he went any further in this circus show, Liao Lai massaged the lump on his head while mumbling nonsense but he backed off from confronting Lin again.

"Yo, Dandy, care for pedicure and manicure?, How about a massage to release some stiff knots?, No!, Want a facial wash for your skin?, Is that a wrinkle under your left eye?, Oh no pardon my weak vision it was just a vein, look! it's throbbing, grandpa dandy are you okay?, Heh, about time." Lin was exaggerating his expressions and with each word that handsome Wang's breathing would quicken, this time the crewmates were laughing uproariously at each word they hear from Lin.

Unlike how these guys fear Lai's strictness and narrow-minded-ness, and Zhang's simplemindedness, their handsome Wang was quickly the favorite amongst the five cultivators because his cheerful personality, he joined them on their activities, made fun at each other daily and regularly.

When they saw this little devil corner him with his words and Wang obviously taking damage from them, the crewmates were gasping for breath while tears of laughter escaped their eyes.

Unlike how Zhang and Lai confronted Lin, Wang feinted attack and circled to Lin's back.

'At last someone is using his head, but this isn't enough,' Lin smirked and bent over to escape a palm to the back of the head while his leg like a hood caught the palm and dragged it forward before it's motion extended, now he was forcing Wang to lean forward and downwards while restraining one of his arms and the left side of the handsome man was completely open add to that his head.

Flicking the handsome but stunned into confusion man on the forehead, it was like getting hit with a bullet and Wang found his butt touching the ground while dizziness rattled his brain.

"If they're no one else this minion will receive the number one." Lin said carelessly after shrugging his shoulders once.

"Whoah......"

"Fuck, did you see that?."

"Hahahaha look at Wang's face bfffft this is some insane amount of what the fuck right there all over his face."

"He flicked him, see there in the middle of his forehead he papaw and dropped him to the floor on his ass, most hilarious shit I've ever seen."

The crewmates completely disregarded the glowering glares from Wang and depated between themselves, some even whispered softly about how Zhang and Lai were no less funny then cackled all the same while idolizing Lin as the coolest kid they ever saw.