John laughed...

He couldn't stop laughing.

"You think you can overwrite me!?"

John looked all around.

How he saw the world had entirely changed. He didn't have a spiritual sense. But it was as if he saw the universe for what it truly was.

He could see the souls of everyone in this realm. He could even see beyond it.

The person he was controlling through their soul. This amount of information alone caused the persons soul to began to transform.

It was burning its potential trying to hold John's powerful consciousness. This was a battle it would lose.

John knew his time was limited here.

The soul couldn't withstand his awareness. Even for a few more seconds.

John was like a ruler of time and space. He took a single step and a crack formed in reality. He stepped into the crack and had entered the immortal realm.

He then exited the soul.

That's right! Despite the rules of reality.

Without a soul.

Without a body.

He was existing off of sheer willpower alone!

He had no form. He had no senses.

But he walked.

The heavens themselves rejected him. But he didn't care!

"My consciousness is too powerful... I need to weaken it."

He scanned the entire world and looked for a suitable body.

He was running out of time. The connection he had opened with his concept was held together by the soul of the person that had recited his mantra.

Even though he had 'walked' out of their soul. It was still under a lot of pressure.

John couldn't be too picky.

He saw a young man that was on the brink of death from a match in the arena.

John overlapped his awareness overtop the other person's right as they should've died.

"The winner is Chen Bai!"

John had possessed a Qi Condensation cultivator on the brink of death.

The original soul was about to dissipate.

John through his will began to reconstruct the soul merging with it.

"It seems his name is Daomei Xing."

John felt his senses constricting into that of a humans. His thinking began to become something understandable to humans as he melted with his current body.

The connection to his concept collapsed. He wasn't worried though. All he needed to do was pray to the concept to draw its attention.

As for whether or not it would respond?

John felt like he would respond to himself after all. The main problem was the strain the connection caused to the soul. It wasn't something that could easily be handled.

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The immortal realm wasn't medieval. It was also quite advanced and the technology was quite impressive.

Daomei was put into a vat of medicinal liquid.

His injuries quickly recovered as John began to plan.

"It seems that my concept has become nothing more then a machine."

He grasped his hands and opened his eyes.

"How interesting... one of my worst fears. Yet, I do not care."

John planned in an instant his next few steps.

"If I can become a nascent soul. I should be capable of withstanding a connection to my concept. If this world has astral stones. I can explore the universe."

John frowned.

He had the coordinates for his world. He simply needed to build an astral gateway. But he had lost the coordinates in the memory leak.

"First things first. I need strength."

The vat opened up and John fell out of it half naked.

His father looked at him with disgust.

"You have lost us face! What was in your head!? Why did you chall-"

"Shut up."

John put on his clothes as his father's eyes twitched.

John didn't even bother lying.

"I am John Destinatus now. I am no longer your son. Get out of my face."

"What has gotten in to you! You dare disrespect your father..."

His father was in foundation establishment.

He went to hit Daomei. But John was like a monster that had awakened from his slumber. His father felt a killing intent comparable to true immortals!

"You!? Who are you!?"

He stopped himself from hitting John. He felt like if he hadn't.

He would've died.

John ignored him and left the room.

His father collapsed to the ground and held his hand on his chest as he hyperventilated.

"My son... what has happened to him. A monster!"

John thought to himself.

"This is the typical cultivation world. It is just more advanced. I need to offend some young masters. Then have them challenge me to a fight. I need money, so I'll bet something worthless like becoming their slave if I lose. Win a sizeable chunk of resources, so that I have cultivation resources. If the plan goes wrong. Have this body die from Qi Deviation and snatch their body."

John went to a fancy restaurant despite being dirt poor.

He then saw a master with two ladies drinking tea.

John sat beside him and put his feet on the table.

"You're in my spot."

He then put his hands on the shoulder of one of the ladies. Her expression froze as the other one looked on in amusement.

The people around laughed.

"Your going to let Daomei bully you! Hahaha."

Everyone began to laugh as the master's face went red.

"You are courting death! I-"

"Shut up. If you want to fight. Let us duel in the arena like man."

The man then felt like there was some conspiracy there.

"Why do you want to fight me?"

"Because you're weak. Easy money."

"YOU!!! I challenge you to a duel!"

"Not interested."

John began to drink from the cup of the lady near him.

John then squinted his eyes.

"What's in it for me?"

"...You think you'll win?"

"Yes. Don't waste my time. Since you have challenged me. I get to decide the wager."

The master gritted his teeth,

John then spoke:

"I want everything."

"What are you betting then?"

"My life. If you win. I'll become your slave for the rest of my life."

"I'm at the 6th stage of Qi Condensation. You are at foundation establishment. Don't tell me... you're scared?"

"No! If you wish to become my slave, so be it."

"Make a dao oath!"

Daomei and Zhang made a dao oath.

Lots of people gathered at the nearest arena waiting for the match to begin. Zhang had his bag of holding held by the judge.

"Begin!"

Zhang charged at John as lightning lit up around his body. He opened up with a sliding kick. The air itself crackled as he went as fast as he could.

John ducked barely in time. As his perception slowed down. All thoughts left his mind as he began to operate purely on instinct.

Zhang stopped the kick and looked at Daomei below him. He slammed down his foot planning to squish him. But John did a flip and landed on his back as he swerved onto one hand supporting his entire body.

Zhang was confused.

"Since when does this waste know such martial arts?"

John then began to run at Zhang. He looked so confident that Zhang had no choice but to put up a shield using one of his Qi techniques.

But then John jumped over him.

"..."

John then began to run in zig zags and ran around him.

Multiple times, he did these actions that accomplished nothing.

Zhang didn't drop his guard though.

A spectator couldn't help but say:

"That waste really has lost his mind."

John then jumped into a punch from Zhang, much to the his confusion. But John kicked his legs creating a gap between them.

John went under him!

The next series of events that happened baffled everyone. It was as if Zhang had gotten caught in a spiderweb. He started to roll around. But all of a sudden his body was covered in cuts.

"What did that boy do?"

An experienced fighter in the crowd spoke in awe.

"He turned his Qi into strings... He used a spider technique! This entire time. He has been building his trap!"

"So what if he trapped Zhang? He can't break through his defenses."

Zhang was going insane. He was tricked! The skill needed to pull off making Qi at that cultivation realm mimic properties of wire. It was something only a top expert could do!

John casually cut his way through his Qi as he made his way to Zhang who was tied up.

"Do you surrender?"

"Like I woul-"

John twirled his finger and the Qi webs constricted cutting Zhang into cubes. The only part saved was where he had deployed his shield.

Zhang died just like that.

John walked up to the Judge and took away his bag of holding.

He went through his things and nodded his head.

"This is barely enough to get started."