In the vast emptiness, there was nothing, no stars, no planes, no elements, no life, just vast nothingness. Nothing could be heard and nothing could be seen it was an eternal darkness that cut one's senses.

Then in what seemed to be mere moments but also a lifetime something appeared in the middle of this vast nothingness. a man? No, a woman? No maybe some kind of animal? the entity was clearly there but couldn't clearly be seen it's as if it was part illusory, as if it would disappear at any moment but it also gave the feeling of being the first and only thing forever there.

a singularity... eternal.

it was at this moment the entity pointed out with one hand and suddenly there was a change. it seemed to be creating something.

first, there was a small fluctuation which spread out from the middle of the palm and there at the center of the palm an energy was slowly being gathered and released, and there a shocking scene occurred.

a boundary was created. the boundary separated the nothingness and created an independent space.

from inside the space, it seemed endless and infinite, but from the outside, it looked like a clear sphere half filled with black ink, it sat quietly in the middle of the entity's palm, after which it threw it out and repeated the same process a dozen times over.

it was at this moment that the entity stopped and pointed a finger? maybe it was a paw? no possibly a claw. the entity seemed to be the embodiment of myriad transformations, the entity opened its mouth and closed it again and this action repeated multiple times...

it was also using it's other hand to print runic symbols into each spherical boundary as if it was giving them celestial bodies and bringing life.

it was speaking? maybe it was reciting something. finally, the words could be heard but they were undecipherable, they sounded illusory and gave off a terrifying pressure which collapsed the void around it. the unusual tongue carried with it life. birthing all kinds of phenomena. "@*&^%*$!*... bring dao... bring the elements... bring life... form the primordial scriptures... form the supreme laws... form the three planes... come forth for me PRIMORDIAL CHAOS."

in that instant, countless energy came forth and surrounded the dozens of little spheres holding them in place supporting them like a mother would her newborn child. the entity had finished.

he had created a multitude of worlds some similar some not. a myriad of life waiting to be born.

all worlds had the elements of life yet no living cell-based organisms could be seen.

something was missing. it was at this time the illusory figure moved it's hand to the center of its forehead and released dozens of streams of a rainbow colored blood which glowed with the light of divinity.

it sent them into the spherical worlds it had made earlier and let them turn to mist and cover the whole of all worlds, it then touched between both eyes where a third eye opened. it was as dark as the void.

if one looked closely, they would see that in the eye a small 9 levelled pagoda could be seen. it removed the very tip of the pagoda and let it fuse with the primordial chaos which surrounded the dozen other worlds granting it a will and spiritual life.

after watching for a long time the entity spoke once again "With my essence I bring life to all things and with my will, I create the heavens." it then used it's own energy to form a banner it looked to be woven of silk. It glowed in a dim light and on the banner words could be seen "Myriad Transformation List." the entity then let out one more drop of essence blood and let it coagulate before leaving it to find its way to one of the many planets then the entity vanished from sight...

many eons later... On a planet in a bustling city in one of the major house holds a baby boy is born. "Xiao Family head it's a boy. a beautiful baby boy" a beautiful woman dressed in common clothes and an apron ran out while bowing her head with excitement clearly visible on her by the visible redness on her ears, a tall man around 190cm burst out from his chair and rushed passed the woman into the room behind her, there he saw a woman cradling a baby who's eye's were shut he was breathing steadily. she looked up at the man "long'er our child has been born." the man kissed the woman on her forehead looked deeply into her eyes and smiled "Feixing." he put his forehead against hers and there noses touched and together they smiled. she looks up sweetly and kisses the man she loves. "smelly what are you looking at. our son has been born and you haven't named him." the man laughs. he looks outside and says "Cloud. i'll name him little Cloud." the woman looks at the man with a deep expression in her eyes she then looks down at the baby boy and softly says "Xiao Yun".

Years later. a young boy is walking towards the inner city. "young master, young master please wait." an elderly man scurried through the crowd chasing after the young boy "young master yun where are we going?." Xiao Yun keeps walking while looking ahead "elder bai what are you doing following me again?."

the old man looked at the youth who is now only seven with a grieved expression. Xiao Yun Laughs and looks at the old man. "young master I've been asked to take care of you while you're out by the clan lord this old man dare not neglect his duty." Xiao Yun looks at the old man "fine follow me then." he carried on forward perusing the shops and stalls that were lined up either side of the street. suddenly he stopped "young master?." Xiao Yun walked over to an ancient looking figure who's robes had patches all over and the stench of urine was strong. and elder bai who's supposed to be guarding Xiao Yun had an ugly expression on his face.

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Xiao Yun squatted down and looked at the old man. "whats this?." he asked while pointing at a rainbow coloured stone pendant.

it seem as if the rainbow colour was inside the stone because when the old man picked it up you could see the colours move throughout the stone as if there was liquid encased within, the old man looked up at the young boy "brat this has been in my family for generations. our clan leader found it in a ruin floating beside a treasure. thing is it does nothing except look pretty. the liquid inside doesn't come out and the stone is really strong even demonic beast couldn't damage this stone let alone scratch it." elder bai by Xiao Yuns side sneered. clearly he didn't believe such nonsense. this didn't miss the ragged looking mans senses.

the old man looks up at elder bai "youngster do you want to try breaking it with your strength?" sure enough elder bai snatch the pendant and channelled his energy into his bones muscles and meridians. some energy leaked out which caused the bustling people in the street near by to stop what they were doing and look over in fright. many people when pale faced people who were even closer to elder bai directly coughed up blood and collapsed from the pressure.many people with strong bodies had injury's and couldn't look more ugly.

the crowd shrieked in fear "I've heard of this before. aura heavy like a mountain. breathing as powerful as an ox. muscles as tough as a tiger. and the unbearable pressure. he's at either the late body tempered stage or has already shedded mortality." elder bai swept his gaze through the crowd before looking at the ragged and ancient looking man with a smirk on his face.

to his surprise the old man didn't seem to care and just smiled deeply at him. elder bai was shocked for a second.he scoffed and used his strength to pinch the stone between his index finger and thumb.

people could see the wriggling worm like veins on elder bai's arms and the sweat on his forehead. elder bai was shocked but he didn't want to lose face in-front of the young master so he used a secret technique to boost his strength temporarily. the next scene shocked everybody. everybody but the old man that is.Crack Crack elder bai's fingers broke and he let out a deep groan. Xiao Yun's eyes lit up he looked at the pendant that fell out of elder bai's hand and picked it up.

he put it on and looked at the ragged old man with a big smile and sparkling eyes "how much is it senior." the old man chuckled raised his arm and a vast and gentle aura enshrouded the whole street and started healing the people who had collapsed.

those who suffered from minor injury's also received the old mans blessing. the old man looked down and focused on elder bai who's face was pale with panic. all of the sudden he felt comfortable and calm. there was a huge and vast aura permeating his body and mind.

the energy was permeating his muscles, veins, bones and healing his wounds and helping him breakthrough.not much time had passed and a cracking sound could be heard and elder bai could be seen glowing in a fluorescent light.

after a couple more sounds of what seemed to be crushed glass under foot a massive wave of soul power swept fourth. everyone around at the time stared at elder bai and there souls were being drawn in by his energy. the ragged old man then snapped his fingers and a sharp sound brought everybody back to the present.

Xiao Yun looked at the old man in bewilderment "what happened senior." the old man smiled and looked at elder bai "nothing major he just broke through to nascent soul and almost made everyone here comatose." Xiao Yun was stunned. breaking through almost caused all these people to be disabled and bed ridden.

Elder Bai sweat covering his forehead and a dry mouth. he felt as if he just gained new life. elder bai came back to his senses and bowed deeply and cupped his fist to the old man "thank you senior." the old man waved his hand and said nothing. elder bai smiled wriley this old mans strength was far beyond his. he is probably even stronger than the clan lord if he was even unable to break the stone what qualifications did he have... the old man looked at Xiao Yun once more "this is my gift to you." Xiao Yun was shocked once again.

this old man was really kind. "senior if you're giving me this for nothing this young one will not be fake and accept.

i hope senior will allow me to leave somethings for you to help senior live a little better." the old man smiled and nodded his head. Xiao yun took out a storage bag and gave they old man 100 amethyst crystals, food and a cultivation stone of the highest grade.

Xiao Yun doesn't cultivate so he doesn't need the cultivation stone nor the materials as the old man gifted the pendant for free he decided to do what he could to help the old man.

the old mans eyes widened and he had a knowing look on his face "thank you young lad." Xiao yun bowed and cupped his fist and left with elder bai. elder bai walked away with his young master.

As he turned around to have another look at the old man and stopped as if he was petrified. Xiao yun looked at elder bai. the people who had yet to leave after there experience looked at him expecting something. elder bai felt his knees go weak as he looked at the young master and pointed at where the old man was seated. Xiao yun looked over and was puzzled "what is i.. where's the old man." everyone turned there heads sure enough the ragged old man had gone as if he was never there.

that's not what surprised them. what made them stand there and look like fools was the strange phenomena he left behind. his silhouette was imprinted in the space where he was seated. it was as if he was still there but invisible. you could see the space slightly distorting and the floor and wall behind the silhouette was a different hue. staring at the light you could vaguely hear celestial hymns. elder bai buckled under the pressure of his thoughts. Xiao yun quickly approached elder bai "elder bai whats wrong. talk to me. are you okay?." elder bai was mumbling something incoherently.

Xiao Yun quickly bent down to listen to elder bai. trying to understand his raving" Ce ce ce celestial phenomenon" Xiao yun looked at elder bai strangely "Celestial Phenomenon?." "CELESTIAL PHENOMENON" a cultivator in the crowd shouted and looked at elder bai on the floor then looked back over at the space where the old man was previously sitting and collapsed. as did many other cultivators. Xiao Yun was confused as to what was happening "elder bai whats happening?" elder bai shook his head and struggled to get up. he looked around and once again looked over in the spot where the old man was previously. everything was back to normal. "young master lets go back home. i have just broken through and need to consolidate my foundations and i also need to tell clan lord about this matter." "mhm" Xiao Yun nodded his head and the two left to depart. they left inner city and headed towards Xiao Clan.