He reappeared in the array tomb.

'Another blackout…'

'Why is this happening…?' Although, he did have a few theories he needed QI in the Earth World to see what the problem was.

The man summoned the control array. It was a neon blue array the size of his palm. He injected his divine sense into it and assessed the condition of the QI Forming Array.

His frown deepened. Although he could easily fix the array, the problem was he didn't have enough QI. There were only three thousand and twenty-six spirit stones left.

If his real body was still alive then he could produce enough QI but right now he was only in his soul form and if he took out the QI from his soul form then he would disperse before the array was even fixed.

'Wait…' He did a full sweep of his soul form with his divine sense and a sense of dread hit him.

His body was constantly losing QI and once his spectral form completely ran out of QI he would disperse.

'Wait, can't I just absorb more QI?'

He ordered the array to bring him the leftover spirit stones. A red array appeared in front of him. A thin string of red QI was coiled around each of the spirit stones bounding them.

A spirit stone floated in front of him. It rapidly dispersed into a bluish mist and the man tried to absorb it into his soul form but no matter what he did it wouldn't integrate with his body. He could manipulate it easily but as soon as he tried to move it into his body it would just pass through it.

'The soul needs a body to exist. The body nourishes the soul and the soul nourishes the body… '

'Do those earthlings have souls as well?'

Thinking along these lines could he absorb their souls and maintain his spectral form but…how come he could he inhabit that Cyrus body. How did that work? He needed QI to find out.

Could he take some QI form the array tomb and take it to Earth?

'But…what if QI exists there and that body's aptitude was too bad to even sense QI?' This obviously made a lot more sense than QI not existing at all.

He immediately summoned an absorption array and inspected it. Although he took it out of the QI Forming Array he could eventually make a new one as long as he could get some QI.

But….how was he supposed to take it to Earth?

May-

The man opened his eyes again. He was back in the earthling's biological body. This body's biological mother was sitting beside him.

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Saira heaved a sigh of relief as he woke up and asked him:

"How are you?"

"Fine." He replied curtly. "What happened to me?"

"You blacked out again but don't worry about it, alright," Saira said trying to reassure him. Cyrus's father was sitting beside her, as well.

"Okay, what did the doctor say?" He asked.

"They said that they were going to run a few tests on you and see what the problem is." His father replied.

"Okay, where's J?" J was this body's brother.

"He just went to the washroom. He'll be back in a few minutes." Saira replied.

"I'm going to find a nurse, alright. Be back in a second." Stan said and headed out.

Coincidentally, J was coming back from the washroom. He walked through the door and seeing that Cyrus was awake he smiled.

"You're finally awake, huh?" He asked jokingly.

"Did you bring my phone?"

J stopped and replied awkwardly: "Uh… I forgot about it but you can use my phone if you want to."

The man took the phone from him and immediately started browsing the net. He was curious about this world's weapons and technology.

Stan brought the nurse back a few minutes later. She checked his vitals and after a few minutes, the doctor arrived as well. The doctor asked him how he was feeling and asked some general questions before leaving.

Saira and J left after an hour or so much to the man's relief. Although Saira was reluctant, Stan convinced her to go back home and grab a few hours of sleep.

The man was browsing the net with fervent interest. Although he had obtained Cyrus's memories he wasn't much of a learner.

An Hour Later

The man was watching a documentary on nuclear weapons when he started feeling sleepy. He tried to keep his eyes open. He couldn't sleep, not yet... but a few seconds later he was fast asleep.

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"You mustn't hesitate son…" His father's voice echoed in the back of his mind.

"Yes, father." The man drew a sharp breath and plunged the dagger inside the boy. The soft flesh gave way as blood gushed out of the wound. The boy pleaded for mercy but the man wouldn't have any of it. He had a duty. Who told him to betray the clan?

He glanced back at the boy's face and saw that it was J, his brother. He picked him up immediately as blood gurgled out of his mouth.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry…" Cyrus started weeping as J struggled to breathe. Slowly, his body relaxed. He was dead.

"No, no…why? Why?"

"Son?"

Cyrus looked up and saw that it was his Dad. Why was his Dad here!?

"It wasn't me. I didn't do it!!!"

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He was running on top of the pagoda now. He activated his technique and he sped up drastically. The woman running in front of him stopped and turned around. A golden serpent emerged from the depths of her pupils and coiled around his neck.

The man grunted and stabbed his dagger into the serpent but no matter how many times he stabbed the serpent it wouldn't die!

"HAHAHAHA!!!" The woman laughed vehemently.

Rage boiled inside him as he stomped his foot and activated the formation. The shadow of a formation flashed under his feet and pure QI coursed through his body. He dropped the dagger and ripped apart the damn serpent barehanded.

"What!?"

The woman dressed in golden robes was astonished. How could he just rip the serpent just like that? It'd taken the blood and essence of three Hint Serpent Kings to create it, after all!

"Hehehe…" Now it was his turn to laugh. "You really thought I was so pathetic? The only reason I let you run around for such a long time was so that I could bring you here, cunt!"

He activated the formation again and the golden robed woman fell on her knees. He grinned from ear to ear and ran up to her. As soon as he reached her h kicked her straight up in the face.

Blood spurted out of her face as the man laughed:

"HAHAHAHA!!!" After torturing and killing the woman he looked up and suddenly saw Saira. Deep pain and regret were written all over her face as she looked at him.

'What the fuck did I do?' Cyrus, no, the man thought.

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The Present

He woke up with a start. Where the heck was he!?