I am in a line....

Surrounded by spirits...

People are fighting and demanding....

Monsters are saying we are dead....

While I am sad I died it is not as big of a deal to me as it seems to be to everyone else.

So, I follow the line and it just keeps going.

At some point one of the monsters interrupt the line to lift me up and all I think is, 'I'm going to die.' However, before I can fully come to terms with my short life I am dropped in front of a woman. All I can think is 'she is beautiful,' even though I was a man in my past life I never really paid attention to women so it's suspiring.

Before I can fully get my bearings she tells me "because, you died for a little boy who is an innocent soul you can go to the heaven realm but, only if you follow certain conditions."

"What are these conditions?"

"In your next life you will be female, do you accept?"

I think it over and it was not like I was very attached to being a boy anyway, so I accept.

She looks at me with something close to pity and says "I will give you a gift to compensate, look at the painting behind me."

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I do and I see someone who looks like the beginning and the end, war and peace completely neutral, not like Nuwa who is said to be peaceful all the time. I am in veneration and ashamed at my powerlessness.

She explains, "That is Pangu he is the first feindgod and it is said he created the three realms from primordal chaos, This is a visualization technique to strengthen your soul. There is another one of it's calliber that is of Nuwa and, that is with another judge. You will remember your past memories at the age of sixteen in the Heaven realm."

While I was digesting the information she gave me. She had already implanted the image into my memories. We talked for a few more minutes but, I realized she was busy so she changed my soul to yin nature which is female and also told me something before I left. "Do you know that you are the only one to ever take this deal? I wonder how it will change your fate?"

Before I could fully process what she said a guide came in and took me straight to Auntie Meng. It all looked interesting she was giving them the forgetfulness potion and then they would walk into the reincarnation tunnels. I was put onto the line and the closer I got the more I realized that I didn't want to forget, even if I remembered it would still be sixteen years, I am only nineteen now. That personality would totally override this one.

There were only three people in front of me now and then I would be forced to drink the soup. Before the person who was at the front could drink everything started shaking. My soul felt weak and while auntie meng who was going to give us the soup went to defend the path of reincarnation. I saw the soul at the front get destroyed so, when the next person in front ran that spurred me into action and before I realized what I was doing I ran to the tunnel directly behind the forgetfulness potion it was the mortal one.

Just as I had passed the threshold it collapsed behind me. Then, all I felt was falling and all I thought was.

'I never finished reading Desolate Era'