'Well, shit...'

The small voice of the odd baby prince was heard by no one but himself.

'The last thing I remember is dying because of that pig bastard in what now appears to be my past life... and then I wound up in some dark space which I later realized was the womb of my present self's 'mother'.

When I heard my 'parents' and the people around me speak of a spiritual power type tester, I thought I was given another chance at life, a chance to live a life where I could pursue power all I wanted, and yet... woopdy fucking do. Here I am, abandoned by that whore mother and 10-ton-looking father of mine because of some stupid ball that deemed me incapable of cultivating.

Screw that ball. Now I stan-... I mean lay face to face with some mutant-sized wolf the size of a small building, and I have no clue what to do...'

The giant white wolf stared at the little prince with its watermelon-sized eyes as if it was staring into the very soul of the little creature, analyzing his whole existence as if looking for something.

It stood there like that for 5 whole minutes before the giant wolf finally decided to move.

'Welp... looks like I’m about to become dog food for this giant mutt.’ Azmond started to think to himself. ‘Maybe I will reincarnate into a world where I can pursue power without interference. Haa... I won't count on it with my shitty ass luck.'

The giant wolf was mere inches away from the baby prince with its large car-sized mouth wide open.

The baby prince was just imagining gaining supreme power that could flick mountains out of existence with ease in the next world he reincarnates into, without a care in the world for the maws that could swallow hundreds of his current self with one gulp.

That was until the giant wolf did something unexpected... it lifted the baby prince by the handle of the basket the prince was swaddled in, and it started to run in a certain direction of the forest.

'Huh? I'm not dead?... What the hell is this wolf doing? Did it forget how to chew? I don't think that’s the case. It looks like it wants to take me somewhere, but where?'

Five minutes passed in the blink of an eye as the wolf looked like it had no intention of slowing down anytime soon, which would have given the little prince some trouble if not for the basket he was in.

'Why the hell is this wolf moving so fast?? It has already surpassed speeds that the majority of cars in my past life would never be able to reach. Is this mutt on drugs? Although... The fact that it can reach such high speeds without technology excites me. What if I can one day reach such a speed on foot as well??'

'Ohhh the things I'll do in this new world of mine.'

The little prince formed a wide scary smile in his mind as he thought of his potential feats.

'Assuming I live past the encounter with this wolf that is...'

Another 10 minutes pass as the giant wolf finally starts to slow down next to a very large cavern.

'Is this the giant wolf's den or something?'

The baby prince asked himself. He could see the entrance to the gigantic cavern even while lying on his back.

'This cavern has to be dozens of meters in height, huh?'

The giant wolf then proceeded to venture forth into the gigantic cavern until he reached a spot hundreds of meters in which a reddish-black aura of sorts was emanating from what appeared to be a small dark red stone.

The wolf then slowly set down the baby prince in his basket a couple of meters away from the ominous-looking red stone.

'Huh? What is this weird red aura that surrounds the depths of this cavern?? Wait, aura? How can I see an aura of anything? I have read a few cultivation books in my past life, and I assumed this was a world of cultivation because of that shitty spiritual ball tester, but I assumed you had to actually start cultivating to see anything spiritual-like.’

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‘How unusual...'

The giant wolf then began to curl up around the baby prince, and it cutely started to yawn until it fell asleep with the prince in the middle of its body.

'Uhmm, what the hell is this situation?? and why is this killing machine so fricking cute????'

'Stop thinking of useless things ME, I have to stay focused if I wanna survive past the night in this new world of mine. Hmm? What is that feeling? Almost as if something is calling to me... It seems to be in the direction of that weird-looking red stone over there.'

The baby prince started to feel a connection, almost as if the red stone was calling to him in some weird mystical way, but he didn't know what to do until he started to have some dangerous ideas.

'I should touch it, right? No, that could be dangerous. But~ is danger really all that bad?? I won't survive the night with this weak baby body of mine, so I should touch it right??. Yep, I'm Gonna touch it real good, but how? I can't exactly get up and walk towards it with this infant body of mine. I really wanna touch it tho, hmm... aha! I got an idea.'

"Whaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

'I knew my infant form had some uses, I'm gonna use my baby charm to woo this Giant puppy to bring me to that red stone over there, what could go wrong?? It's not like the wolf will eat me because of some harmless crying, right? Right??... Oh well, might as well give it a shot if I wanna survive and get stronger.'

The giant wolf heard the crying and got up from its comfy spot to understand what was making all that noise, and it then looked down to see the little creature it brought back from the forest.

That was when the giant wolf realized something... it forgot... it forgot why it brought the little creature back to its den.

'Is it food?' 'No...' 'Not food.'

The giant wolf then spent a period of time on some very strenuous thinking, it thought harder than it ever had in its many years of life. Until the giant wolf finally remembered.

'Little creature, stone?' 'Little creature… Touch stone?' 'Creatures die when touch stone' 'Little creature die?... Maybe not?'

The giant wolf leaned his head down to once again pick up the baby prince in his basket; the wolf then walked towards the ominous red stone with slow steps, almost as if the wolf was afraid of the red stone, which felt very out of place given the wolf's large and intimidating stature.

'Huh? What is this wolf doing? And why is it taking me towards that stone?? I didn't even have to point at it or anything... This seems too easy... can this wolf read minds or something? The world of cultivation sure is weird, but whatever, this wolf is only helping speed up my goal of attaining supreme power. That is only if this stone is what I think it is, so I thank you, Big Puppy, for your assistance.'

The giant wolf then placed the basket down just a few feet away from the red stone, where the wolf then picked up the baby prince by his swaddle and set him not even an inch away from the creepy-looking stone.

'The connection I was feeling earlier has only gotten stronger now that I am closer to the stone. What is this stone anyway? And what does it want with me?'

The baby prince expressed his concern for the strange red stone with a scrunched-up look on his baby face.

However, he soon discarded all inhibitions when he remembered the speed at which the white wolf was traveling.

His future power train to the top was only getting closer and closer the longer he felt the connection with that stone.

He could feel it within his soul; that stone was his key to gaining power in this strange new world of cultivation.

'Welp, no time like the present to figure that out... wait... how do I touch it? I don't even know if I can move my arms yet. I guess I just need to try harder to move my stubby little arms in the direction of that stone.'

The little prince sported a determined look on his face as he focused on the task at hand.

The Giant White wolf was just watching the changes in the little creature's facial expression with a curious look in its big blue eyes.

'I think I got the hang of these little hands, now it's time to reach for the stars and touch the hell out of that red-looking death rock.'

The little prince then reached out with his short right hand and touched the red rock with just his small index finger.

That was all it took for a reaction to happen, as a flash of reddish-black light lit up the whole cavern. A light so bright that both the little prince and the Giant White wolf had to close their eyes.

'Arghhhh!! What is happening to me?!? I feel something invading my mind!'

'Some sort of knowledge is being transmitted into my brain! It hurts! It hurts a lot!! It hurts dozens of times more than any physical torture I have been through!'

'This pain makes death seem like a luxury! It feels like 10 thousand termites are crawling inside my brain trying to eat their way out!'

'Arghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! I want to die!!! No!!! I can't die!! I want to pass out!!! But I can't!!! I feel that if I pass out before the stone is done, I will regret it for the rest of my life?!??. My journey to power is just starting!! I can't give up now... I refuse!!!!!! Not after what happened in my past life, I won't let my own weakness hold me back again!! I won't allow it!!!!!!!!!'

And as if fate was acknowledging the little prince's determination, the bright light faded, and the Little prince lay there passed out with an exhausted look on his small face.