69. Reincarnation and Coincidences I
When Clay opened his eyes, he noticed he is still on the same sitting position as he did a few days.
After three days of continuous reading, he felt his body is undergoing another change but this time, he did not meditate like the usual and allowed himself to dreamy and soothing state of his mind but just when he thought he would never wake up again, his body instinctively reacted toward the powerful divine sense that scanned the house completely waking him up.
He could feel three people slowly approaching the house and basing on his experience, the person who scanned him is a Nascent expert followed by Peak Late Core. If not because of the third familiar aura, he would have killed these new arrivals for disturbing his slumber.
Clay maintained his position to observe how this other party will react. He won’t even clean the piles of books that accumulated to his side.
After a minute, he heard a soft knock then door was slowly opened.
Ver'a chose to stay outside and allowed the two guests entered.
Clay could still feel the domineering aura of the two but it suddenly vanished when the two guests arrived at the entrance and remained there not daring to step inside the room full of books.
"I greet this esteemed friend. I am called Raata, second elder of Kra'ing Sect. The village leader came to our sect yesterday and reported that this esteemed sir is looking for information about the immortals so I decided to personally come and give you this. This ring contains information about them and I hope it can be of assistance."
Clay was baffled as the two guest’s domineering aura suddenly vanished the moment then they step inside the room. Their actions reminds of Re’y who acts like a bootlicker.
"If the village decided to give up the Spiritual Vein, then it is their business. If you have nothing else, I wish to slumber in peace." Clay did not move and used his Qi Projection to pick up the spatial ring from his guest. This time, he did not use his Boosted Power to show respect.
"The doors of our sect will always be open for this friend. It was not our intention to disturb and forgive our carelessness. We shall see ourselves out."
Clay placed the ring on the table and concentrated on getting back to his magical moment of peace.
Meanwhile, when Raata and his companion were a few kilometers away from the village, they stopped mid air turned around and looked into the direction of Mur Av'ic village
"Master, while that beast was scary, I am confident I could take him down just by my aura." Raata’s companion can no longer contain his curiosity.
“It’s difficult to explain.” Raata replied.
When they arrived earlier, he immediately went inside the temple where the Spiritual Vein was planted and similar to what the village head has reported, it looked weird and is in a form of a boulder but nevertheless, it is producing concentrated amounts of Spiritual Qi.
He did not want to celebrate early as the boulder might have hidden restrictions and the slightest mistake may cost their sect an irreversible loss.
After inspecting the boulder, it looked man-made and he believed it cannot be the only one causing greed to slowly taking over him.
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As they walked towards the residence where the original owner was secluded, he scanned the area and was assured there is no powerful existence making him even more complacent. In fact, he could easily dislodge this person from hiding however he chose to tread carefully, but right after they stepped into the room, he was glad he did not act reckless.
"When cultivators kill, they slowly build bloodlust. Normally this would take years and innumerable bloodshed before it forms however it is different when you kill stronger opponents. The more powerful they are, the more resentment lingers on the killer and this resentment looks like bloodlust.
The more you fight, the more you develop this instinct and make instantaneous decision where you fight someone or not."
Raata sighed.
"But master, his transformation maybe different but how come I cannot sense any danger or anything special about him?"
"You are still too weak to sense this imperceptible aura. I was blinded by greed I almost failed to see it. It would be easier to explain when you reach Nascent level. Stay here for now and make sure no sect members approach that village. I will arrange a few guards to take your position when I return."
Raata did not say more and summon a flying sword to speed up his travel. He wanted to go back to research more on Beast Transformation.
Currently, there are two types of transformation. First, infected cultivators through parasitism usually have their skin turned into hardened black scales and grew tentacles. Almost all records to date involved with this transformation are Elves and it is because of a long lost tradition. In the past, people believed that if they let themselves infected before they die, that they will help Mother Nature give birth to Spiritual Veins.
And the Death Qi Transformation is only applicable to humans. Their skin will darken and turn into something similar to that of a demonic horned apes and most of them will have had lost their sanity even before they grow horns.
The bad news is, Clay not only had retained his sanity but that moment when Clay released his Qi Projection, he felt an inexplicable ominous premonition that he will die.
He had never felt this kind of fear they immediately set off upon giving the spatial ring.
But no matter how powerful Clay is on his transformed state, he believes that Clay should have limited lifespan. What he needed to know now is when is Clay dying. Their sect must become the sole inheritor of Clay possession no matter the cost.
Meanwhile, Clay is trying to get back to that state of nothingness. Although he has accepted his fate, he still does not have the courage to kill himself. After a few hours when Raata disturbed him, he could still not sleep and started to get irritated especially when he heard Midi crying outside.
Clay felt it will probably take some time again before he gets into another trance, so opened his eyes and looked at the spatial ring given to him. He wondered what use are the books or knowledge contained in it.
He had already read every book in the room and not one contained Brung's research. Most of them are biographies and cultivation techniques. He even skipped some of them as the topic is about Elven Reproduction and why pure Elvens cannot crossbreed with humans except for the genetically modified Half Elvens.
Clay took out a random crystal recording and inserted his Qi and a hologram started playing.
"Today marks the one hundred and forty third death anniversary of General Ul. He was charged treason for reckless transmittal of the first experiment. What was supposed to be a simple mission escalated into a war.
My assistant was killed by Captain Al'iya ten days ago. Apparently, he was planning on doing on a galactic broadcast that Brung's Research is a failure. He believed this would end the conflict and save everyone.
There are signs of successfully creating an artificial Black Qi Spiritual Vein and although I may not live to see it, it is a breakthrough worthy of celebration for us scientists. Unfortunately, even with this success and no matter how much the math makes sense, the mystery of Vein producing Spiritual Qi still eludes us. My team has run out of MC1 Parasites and more than ten thousand experiments are all failures.
Brung's research has similarities to Alb Ei's Dimensional Relativistic Theory. According to his theory, the universe we live in is just one among the infinite universes within a Pseudo 4 Dimension and the laws of physics within each universe is subjective on the permutations of three primal energies which are Spiritual Qi, Black Qi, and third one is yet to be determined.
If I die tomorrow, I hope to be reborn in a universe where Black Qi is the basis of cultivation. I really do not know why we are still calling it Black Qi instead of Blue Qi. Well anyway, let me show you the math and I hope that....
You're not supposed to be here. Have you no respect for.
Bang! "
The hologram ended. Clay got up to his feet. He is not interested on how the researcher died but on the name, Alb Ei. He took out the rest of the contents of the ring and started playing another crystal recording.
There is too much coincidence if Alb Ei stands for Albert Einstein.