There was one last thing he had to do before she entered. ‘Since these both cells will be fusing together, there might be issues with their cultivation bases fusing. I’m going to strengthen the sperm’s cultivation and guide the egg’s energy to fuse with it.'

It didn’t take much effort on his side to do that, after which he started watching the unimaginably fantastical sight happening before him. Watching as the cell multiplied to two then four then eight, these new cells started absorbing energy crazily in one synchronized motion.

‘At this speed and with how fast these cells are dividing it will take no time for the embryo to go from its initial 75% of my speed, to faster than me while meditating.’

He watched with his full concentration the marvelous creation happening before him. ‘Scientists and doctors from my past life claimed to know about 50% of all that’s happening here… somehow, I’m not convinced at all.’ (AN: This is the truth; they are just that capable! So a shout out to doctors.)

And in about two more months, the embryo finally reached the womb, then settled down safely in it. ‘This took forever it’s been more than two months, and if I didn’t help with speeding things up a little, it would have taken about a year.’

But he didn’t waste any of his time, as in addition to watching over his sister, he had also helped his egg to absorb more energy than it could keep on its own, by boring some of his focus on it. And by then, he only needed little time to maximize its capacity.

‘It’s my turn now.’

He turned around and started his not-so-long journey his egg. It took him only ten minutes of slow swimming to reach it.

‘I was so nervous, but after watching my sister, I’m a bit more relaxed now. Next, I’ll focus all my energy on increasing the egg’s cultivation till I can’t hold onto it, then I’ll fuse with it. After that, I’ll leave everything to proceed naturally except for two things.

I’ll absorb even more energy when my cells start dividing, other than this, I plan on leaving one of my primary cells unspecialized, I want to see what I can do with it in the future.’ (AN: After cells specialize, they turn into all kinds of cells in your body, brain, blood, skin, etc.)

In a week he was ready to enter the egg, and after some hesitation, he finally made up his mind and started to fuse with it, after which, he entered a half meditative state to increase his cultivation speed and at the same time, not miss a single moment of the happenings around him. And as he observed with his sister, his energy absorption rate started to shoot up.

‘This is crazy!’ He was absorbing energy at a speed incomparable to his old one, after a couple of cell divisions, and after his speed surbased a million times faster than his old one, he was no longer able to calculate it accurately, so he stopped trying.

‘I don’t think my speed will slow down any time soon, for me to create a new standard! The more cells I have, the faster my absorption rate grows. I can’t keep up with this high acceleration.’

The newly formed embryo traveled to the womb faster than the last one, taking only about a week to reach it, then it attached itself to its wall, opposite to the other embryo, and when that happened, he immediately felt it, the connection to…

his mother,

her body,

her mana,

to her…

Soul.

…

For a moment, he was overwhelmed by her emotions, some of her thoughts, and by a single memory, of her late husband. (AN: skip the next 2 paragraphs if you are under 18 years of age.)

She was there on her bed, riding him intensely as they neared a crescendo, then they came together. After a moment of pure bless washed over her, she turned her gaze to her husband who had already closed his eyes. Seeing his peaceful sleep, she gave him a light kiss and then flopped down by his side, asleep.

The next day he was still there, but he didn’t move no matter what she did. And when the tribe’s doctor confirmed, “He died peacefully in his sleep,” she could only see darkness.

But… he knew better, ‘Damn it mother, you sucked him to death!’ He was sure of it because when he was connected to the planet’s core, he couldn’t sense any human life next to him other than hers at the time.

He didn’t bother to think about why she was alone then, because he was overwhelmed with a ton of other stuff, but now that he did… ‘I better not tell her about any of this.’ he thought as he focused on her soul again. She had some complicated feelings, to say the least.

She had just buried her husband after waking up from her coma when she just felt a foreign feeling in her belly. When she asked the tribe’s doctor to take a look at her, she told her that she is most likely pregnant. She was sad for a while, confused about the strange changes that happened to the world over the previous days, and happy for the most part because of her new offspring.

And when it happened again, she was determined to work hard to create a better living environment for all of them. ‘With body as a bridge, my soul can interact with mother’s soul, but I don’t think that she has enough control over her soul to detect that.’

After observing both his soul and his mother’s and comparing them to each other for a while, he started noticing new things. ‘The earlier the memories, the deeper they are, with new memories gradually sinking deeper over time. And when you think of a memory, you are making it surface a little.’

Not only that, but the more important a memory is to a person, the more weight it carries in their soul and the faster its sinking speed. The deeper the memory in one’s soul, the harder it is to remember. But important memories are different, they act like small lighthouses in the depth of the soul, bridging a connection between the thoughts and other old memories.

But this doesn’t stop one from forgetting their important memories, for they are just like a real lighthouse, if not maintained and visited from time to time, they too will stop working. Unless they are provided with enough outside stimulation, they shall remain dormant till the end.

‘The more I discover the more fascinating it is.’ With his control over his soul energy, his mother’s soul to observe, and with his previous life experience, he was able to discover most of the basic, but foundational, principles around the soul, and he assumed the rest.

‘Although mother never cultivated before, her soul is stronger than mine when I just reincarnated in this world. I can attribute this to her soul growing stronger with age. Hmm- it is nice and all exploring the soul, but right now I’m wasting my time. I should go back to cultivating to have the strongest foundation before I go out.’

‘I am still able to evolve any time I want, but I’m still afraid of the consequences of evolving here inside, plus my energy and soul cultivation aren’t maxed out yet. Now that I’m in a body that is compatible with my soul, I should be able to further train my willpower. My goal is to have complete control over my soul and complete my cultivation before I’m born.’

Although he set the bar so high, he wasn’t optimistic about his chances. He thought that, as he grew, he should have the time difference between him and the outside world decrease all the way from 1:100 to 1:1 when he is about ready to go out… a very reasonable deduction, but was it true?

He decided to go for a two-year-long cultivation session at a time, with multiple commands to his mana to alert him in case of any anomalies. ‘After two years of cultivation, a week should’ve passed outside, enough time for changes to happen in my body and my mother’s soul that I can study.’

He started to cultivate by focusing all his being on absorbing energy, he started to burn his soul energy to increase his cultivation and after he exhausted 50% of his soul energy, he didn’t experience the same feeling of imminent danger he experienced before. So he continued to break his willpower barriers, and it was ten times harder because of how condensed it was, so he started his new soul cultivation method which proved to be very effective by reducing the difficulty by more than half.

There was something strange about his willpower barriers after the 50% mark, the ones before that were like he was claiming something that’s already his, but the ones after were like conquering a new land.

At the end of the two years, he woke up with 53 % of his soul under his control. After he checked on his mother and sister, then studied the changes in his and his sister’s body for a while not bothering to check his mother’s soul, then he dove right back into cultivation. Although he was interested in monitoring the changes closely, he was already addicted to the feeling of increasing his strength and control day after day.

Although an increase of 3% might’ve seemed insignificant, he was aware of its true value with him experiencing the benefits firsthand in the form of his absorption speed increasing to unreal heights, which is to be expected from a cultivation session that lasted for two full years.

His second session was uneventful as well, with him waking up at the end of another two years, and as he checked the outside time through his mother’s soul on a whim, he found that he woke up at the end of 2.18 years. After some calculations, his time difference with the outside world has increased, from 1:100 to 1:106

‘How the fuck did this happen? This is hard to believe, the only thing that changed after this cultivation session, other than my amount of energy, is me having control over 56% from 53% of my soul… could it be?!’

‘This can prove to be a game changer. I want to enter meditation so badly right now to verify this, but I can’t miss my study of body and soul, that would be sacrificing my long-term gains for the short-term one of satisfying my curiosity, totally not worth it… Damn it.’

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He couldn’t continue with his studying. After he checked on his mother’s soul and his sister’s body, he didn’t bother to study his and started cultivating right away. And in two years he woke up with 59% control over his soul, and a time difference of 1:109

‘Yes, this is what I’m talking about. For every 1% above 50%, my time multiplier increases by one. So the reason the first 50% was easier for me to control... Is it that I already had semi-control over it in the form of the 1:100? This is so confusing, I don’t want to think about it anymore, I’ll just deal with facts from here on.’

‘I also need to pay more attention to my body, and soul studies. Now that I got plenty of time on my hands, I don’t need to be in a rush to cultivate anymore, I’ll divert more of my time to focus on my other projects.'

Four weeks passed since then, with him keeping up his training schedule to a T, and this week his control reached 71%, and his time increased to 1:121. But this is not why this week was important, the major milestone that week was many of his organs developing to a usable level. His brain was the most prominent one.

‘This feels amazingly unique. I feel like I gained wings to soar with, but I’m also being shackled at the same time. My memorization ability and my control over energy have just gone up several notches without consuming any of my soul energy in the prosses, but my reaction speed and my multitasking have been reduced too.

I can avoid both of the cons easily due to my increased time perception and by sending commands through my soul, I can practically eliminate them, and it only requires little to no soul energy because of my passive domain.’

His heart and lungs came second. His heartbeat and breathing motion synchronized with his energy circulation, which gave him double the results with half the effort with his cultivation.

Other organs also helped his cultivation in their unique way, but he already knew that, since he had his guinea p… ahem, his sister to observe.

Week eight. He woke up in the middle of his cultivation due to an anomaly in his mother’s body. ‘She finally started cultivating. That’s good, I was planning on helping her kick start it soon enough because even with my support her body would’ve collapsed soon due to me, but since she started on her own, it will spare me from suspicion. I can now start reconstructing her body, and guide her to cultivate the way I do, lest she starts on a wrong pass.’

‘The people of this planet have no experience with handling energy since it has just awakened, and with their nonexistent technology, they can only pave their road with countless sacrifices. Well, I can at least spare my tribe’s people from such fate, if mother shared her experience with them.’

Well, his tribe was the only place on the planet with a 100% awakening rate, because of his presence. And with more than five thousand members working together, they were guaranteed to have success, eventually.

After he was done helping his mother, he decided to have a part of his soul permanently out of meditation. He already had many of his projects accumulated, and his weekly break always resulted in him doing the most important studies then going back to meditation as soon as possible.

‘Ok, this is going to be my first sub-mind worth of energy away from meditation. Please take care of… everything. I’ll be back to cultivating, don’t wake me unless there is an emergency. Cya.’

‘Uh, I too want to enter meditation, this isn’t fair at all. Why was it me the one chosen? And why am I acting as if I’m some kind of split personality? Sigh, I’m just getting lonely again. I guess escaping the problem through long sessions of meditation didn’t help. I’ll try and busy myself with studying my whole body, I still have my limbs, eyes, ears, teeth, and my genitalia to study, add the same in my sister’s body, and my mother’s, and I have my plate overflowing. I should’ve done this earlier.’

He forgot to mention his soul studies, and his developing palate and nervous system, but no one can blame a lonely soul for being forgetful.

Soon enough he was engrossed in how profound his making was, ‘Thank God I didn’t evolve, If I were to evolve on my own previously, there is no way in hell I would have managed to reach this, even in a billion years. I won’t be evolving before I reach my maximum potential in my mother’s body, so no evolving before the ninth month.’

Week seventeen. On this week, all of his soul has awakened ‘Today I reached 82.7% control over my soul, and after the 80% mark every 1% results in my time increasing by 2 days, it is 1:134 now. Breaking my willpower barriers is proving to be harder than I thought, but the rewards are too tempting for me to abandon this endeavor, plus it doesn’t delay my cultivation at all, in fact, it only makes it faster than me cultivating energy only.

I also have a deep understanding of most of my cells and my soul. I can already read through my mother’s memories like an open book without her notice, even though she made good progress in her cultivation. I can tell which of her memories contains personal emotions, so I didn’t look at any of it, I only browsed for information on this world.’

But all of this and more wasn’t the reason he was awake; he was awake because he was anticipating an important event. ‘Today my sister completes 120 days, and today is the day she is gifted with a soul. I can’t miss even a single second of that. I have completely encompassed her in my soul energy and gave it the order to record every single detail in my brain.’

Time passed as he gradually busied himself with studying every nook and cranny of his sister’s body (AN: I just realized how wrong that sounds), when all of a sudden and without any signs, he felt a soul… existing in this body, he almost reflexively attacked it, but he stopped at the last moment, for this soul was… so pure, so beautiful, it can’t be touched, let alone attacked, he was mesmerized for a second till it vanished. The soul didn’t disappear, but just by existing in this body, it was already tainted. This didn’t mean it lost its holiness, it just means he wasn’t paralyzed anymore. He can choose to attack it now, but after seeing its formal visage and seeing how frail it is now, he can’t harden his heart enough to even disturb it, he can only wrap it around in a warm hug of his purest soul energy.

‘I think I just figured out the ultimate goal for my soul cultivation. I just want to protect and tressure this soul forever, but that’s just damning it to be my possession. Am I turning into a soul-con?

Sigh, I’ll just leave it alone. It can’t survive without being tainted, or it will just die the minute I turn my eye away.’ He let it settle down completely inside “her” body. As his little sister came to life, he watched it all happen. Although her young soul was tainted a little bit, it was very pure compared to his or his mother’s.

‘I don’t know If I can ever reach a stage where my soul is as strong as it could be and pure to a spotless degree, but with some practice, I think I can release pure soul energy that will have that same purity or similar to it and produce the same effects. If I refine my energy enough, then refine my soul with it, I’ll be on the right pass to achieving this kind of soul quality.

I think this is the point in a novel, where a random knockoff villain shows up to kidnap pregnant women and extract their babies’ souls. And although it is cliché, I know for a fact that it will happen someday. Which not only won’t work, but they will also be destroying their soul by attacking such pure energy.

I can advertise this information when I have enough strength to be convincing, if I do without enough strength, I will just be painting a target for those self-entitled kings and nobles. Now I’m starting to regret helping my mother to cultivate her soul. She already imparted most of what she could to the tribe.

The only saving grace is that the tribe still can’t figure out many things about soul cultivation, and unanimously agreed to keep it from other tribes. And the news doesn’t travel fast in this kind of age, so no need to worry for at least the coming 20 years or so.’

What he didn’t know is that there doesn’t need to be news or even suspicions for superstitions to spread, it only needs a warm bed of ignorance, for superstitions to become widespread facts. ‘No need to torture myself over this, I’ll just continue with my cultivation till she is completely settled, and I can check out her soul then.’

And in under a week. ‘This doesn’t need me using all my soul, but I’ll wake it just in case.’ After checking it for a while he got a good harvest of unique data, things about the structure of a soul he wouldn’t have got from any older soul. After that, he went back to the normal routine he had been keeping for literal decades.

After he forced himself to work hard on cultivation for several years, then began to enjoy it, and after doing the same thing with studying and faced with the same result, he concluded that he really likes hard but rewarding work, or… he was a masochist. (AN: Someone wrote, “I fought with myself to pray all night for 20 years, then enjoyed it the next 20 years.” I’m not sure if I got that right though.)

For the next eight weeks, he was in a continuous cultivation session, with his time increasing by 2 days after each 1%, until he reached 91% when his time increased from 150 to 153 days an increase of 3 days. He had already noticed the telltale signs of that when the difficulty of his cultivation increased again after the 90% mark.

‘Seriously, at this point, I’m just gaining more time just to spend it on cultivation, if I didn’t have the ability to separate my focus so perfectly, I may have just stopped at some point.’ (AN: Meh, just bark.)

‘I am now in the middle of my fifth month, I already have near perfect control over my body and soul, I have already lived in accelerated time for nearly 55 years, I read through all my mother’s knowledge a while back, and know I believe I’m able to edit her memories, as much as I like, since I have access to the depth of her soul, where even she can’t reach.’

‘I’ll postpone the study of my body and soul for a later date, next on my agenda is my energy manipulation. I can already do all kinds of crazy things using my energy, and I still don’t know where my limit is. After I’m done with this, my body and soul studies should go even smoother.’

Next week. ‘After two and a half years, I can say that I underestimated energy manipulation, even now I am still no way closer to my limits, it seems only my imagination is my limit. This requires me to fall back on the imagination of my predecessors.’

‘I’ve separated another two minds worth of energy to increase my focus on energy manipulation and to resume my work on my body and soul, I don’t know why I’m calling it a sub-mind when it is just me multitasking in an impossible way… yeah I’ll stick to sub-minds.’

Time flew fast, and he was soon nearing the end of his seventh month, at this point, he was already at 99% control over his soul and a time difference of 1:180 but bushing any farther than this proved to be harder than ever. ‘I just want to try and explode through this last willpower barrier, but it won’t be so bad if I take my time and grind it down just a little bit, anyway I still have lots of time on my hand. Slow but steady wins the race,’ was his motto. Well, he still had around 30 years to burn.

In just two years he was at 99.9% control, but he didn’t even try to brute force it, because he noticed an even stronger barrier underneath. ‘Thank God I didn’t try to brute force it, or the rebound force would have been enough to fuck me over, and who knows how many barriers there are underneath.’

Well, they were exactly seven, he came to know that thirteen years later. After he reached 99.9999999%, he could no longer affect the barrier no matter what he tried, and he had an instinctive feeling to just bush, with everything that he got, he would be able to pass it. ‘But I’m not at my limit, not yet.’

‘I still need more than ten years to complete my cultivation. I’m going to stretch that to just before my birth, to have maxed out my potential, both body and soul.’

He unknowingly made the best decision he could possibly make.

…

‘My birth will be in a week; this gives me three and a half years to break my limits. I plan on going through both, my willpower barrier, and my evolution at the same time. I only need to wait for a couple of hours till my sister completes her growth as well in order not to affect her when I start. Ok my energy, I’m relying on you to wake me up before my birth, don’t fail me.’

‘Hooof- I think I’m as ready as I could get.’

‘I better start accumulating my energy… now.’

He was already at max capacity, and as he gathered more and more energy in his body and his soul, he soon reached his limit.

‘Limit?? What is that word? I never had it in my dictionary, and I never will!’

BOOM!

Energy rushed crazily into his body and soul, till they seemed to be about to burst.

‘I can still go further.’

His sister finished her growth at this moment. But he only had two words.

‘Much further!’

His skin was torn, and his bones were cracking, his soul was about to collapse.

‘MOOORRREEEEEE!’

Everything started to collapse but, he just… won’t stop, can’t stop!

‘ROOOAAAARRRRR!’

Then it happened. His primal cell at the center of his heart reacted and with it his whole-body kick-starting his evolution on its own and carrying with it a momentum that swept through to his willpower barrier.

He lost consciousness as his willpower barrier collapsed, with one last thought lingering in his mind.

‘FUCK, I still had room for more.’

(AN: His body is like, “HOLY SHIT, this dude is crazy, I better start evolving now.”)