The desert was extremely hot.
Sweat was evaporating from his pores.
After a few minutes.
He burst into flames.
"This environment..."
"It is inconvenient."
He looked around and saw skeletons randomly placed around his area.
"Searching alone would take too long."
He pinched his fingers and shot blood out.
But as soon as it left his finger, it turned into a mist and evaporated.
"Fine."
He bit his tongue off and spit it out.
It regenerated and then formed another one of him.
"You are search unit #1"
He repeated this three more times.
There were now four search units.
He relaxed as his clothes became burnt to nothing.
He sat in meditation as the fire eventually went out.
Search unit #1 went north from his position.
Search unit #2 went east.
Search unit #3 went south.
Search unit #4 went west.
After a few hours he had mapped out this area.
Search unit 1,2, and 4 ran into a barrier.
It was transparent and like glass.
No matter how hard he hit it nothing happened.
Search unit 3 had found a temple.
He ignored the temple and continued to go south.
It then also ran into a barrier.
"It would seem I'm 'trapped'."
Puppa smirked.
"I might as well check out that temple."
He stood up and walked to the temple.
He was hit by a sandstorm though.
Quickly covered in sand.
He was almost buried alive.
The corpses around him had been buried.
He dug himself free and continued to walk to the temple.
He also let his search units die.
As he focused most of his awareness on this body.
He could still feel the connection with them anyways.
He found the temple and saw a sign.
It had glyphs on it.
He couldn't read them initially.
But they shifted like magic and became text he was familiar with.
It read:
"God's Trial."
He had no idea that this entire area was a tomb for a supreme being.
This entity had no good intentions and had set up a trap to find a new body.
It had created this pocket dimension while seriously injured.
It then went into a deep sleep for millions of years.
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It had certain requirements for the body it was looking for.
The door that had appeared in his world was a selector for finding a body with great vitality.
John's immortality was a delicious treat.
A body capable of making it to the temple without dying from the heat met the bare minimum requirements.
The rest of the trial was to weed out the weaklings.
It would then steal the body of the person.
The selector would appear on random worlds and eat random people.
Eventually it would run into a prime candidate.
A character like John was exactly what the supreme being was looking for.
But unfortunately for 'it'.
John's body wasn't special in itself.
It was his soul that was abnormal.
So even if it resurrected, it wouldn't inherit his immortality.
But it was a supreme being!
It had methods to explore the universe.
It had methods to prolong its life.
It just needed a host!
John was quite interested in this 'trial'.
"I might've found something insanely good."
He walked in casually.
The floor opened up and he fell down into a slide.
He slid down the slide and ended up in a tube.
He shot through the tube and landed on his feet.
He was a bit disoriented, but he looked around.
He heard a robotic voice in his head.
'Welcome to God's Trial mortal!'
'The first trial is strength...'
"Strength?"
The ceiling then began to lower.
"I see."
It tried to crush him.
He held the ceiling up with 100% of his strength.
His muscles ripped constantly.
But he barely managed to endure.
'You have passed!'
'Congratulations.'
The ceiling went up.
He recovered in an instant
'The second trial is endurance.'
A giant boulder started rolling towards him.
"Am I suppose to run?"
He smirked.
He had no plans to run.
He was an energy drawing expert!
He stood still.
Right when the boulder was about to crush him.
He sent out a punch containing Qi.
The boulder shattered into many pieces.
'Errror! The trial has been...'
'Passed!'
'The final trial is durability!'
"What is it this time?"
Lava started to fill the room.
"You've gotta be kidding me. Who would pass this trial?"
The lava wasn't like normal lava
It wasn't more dense then water.
He burst into flames once again.
Sparks were flying all around his body.
He had diamond grade skin!
He was eventually completely submerged in lava.
Luckily he could control his pain level.
But it still felt really uncomfortable.
It was a bit more intense then when he cooked himself in oil.
The lava drained and his skin was completely turned black.
He regenerated and picked off the dead skin like a snake.
"Much better."
'Congratulations mortal for passing!'
'Please pick your reward.'
He was a little excited, who knew what good stuff this weird trial would give him?
Three podiums rose up from the ground.
To the left was a memory crystal.
To the right was a crystal ball.
In the middle was a ring.
He had no idea what these thing were.
But he wanted to take all of them.
But that probably wasn't allowed.
So he reached for the ring.
'Good choice! Hahahaha!'
"Wha-"
Immediately the ring opened up and jumped onto his hand.
But the other two items turned into dust.
But he felt something weird.
He couldn't control his body.
He looked at his hands and they were grasped.
"It's good to be back! Those fools think they killed me. Just you wait until I..."
Puppa then spoke.
"Who are you?"
"What? You are conscious? Your soul should of shattered..."
John could feel from his world that he was losing control of Puppa.
John was at his home.
He laid down on his bed and focused on the connection he had with Puppa.
"No! This isn't possible... a mortal fighting a higher being?"
He got in a mental battle with this weird entity.
"You think you can best me in a battle of wit? Come back after another million years in training. You little shit."
The entity then had an extreme lapse in judgment.
He soul searched John.
The entity then found himself being sucked into a blackhole.
"Noooooo! What the hell kind of soul is that?! If you consume me, you'll be lost forever! Let me go, I'll give yo-"
"Shut up!"
"This is my body!"
The entities consciousness was entirely consumed by John's soul.
John then began to have a seizure in both worlds.
He saw millions of lights.
Millions of years of memories hit his consciousness.
A normal person's soul would of shattered from this.
A normal person's soul would of been shattered the instant the entity took over the body.
But John's soul had been tempered for millions of years by the universe.
It was eternal!
Unbreakable!
But he truly couldn't handle this crazy amount of information.
His mom came to wake him up for school.
But no matter how much she tried.
He wouldn't wake up.
He had entered a coma.
His other body Puppa was also in a coma.
His consciousness was fading away.
He sat there motionless in his sea of consciousness.
The information was eroding his personality.
But again, John had did something crazy earlier.
He had went through a cycle of rebirth like a phoenix.
Becoming his own child.
You could say, he developed multiple personalities.
The information eroded his Puppa Personality.
It ate through his Xian personality.
But when it started to overwrite John.
His eyes opened bloodshot in his consciousness.
He sat in a lotus pose at the base of a giant black tree.
"That was close!"
John remained in a coma.
He opened up his eyes as Puppa.
He immediately was restored to his peak state.
He rubbed the ring on his finger.
"This ring is good stuff."
He could feel a deep connection through the ring with the pocket dimension.
He started to fly.
The temple shifted around him allowing him to fly into the sky.
"This pocket dimension is actually transportation!"
He could feel that the pocket dimension was in a chaotic space.
It was like he was the god of this dimension.
This was all thanks to the ring he had picked.
He waved his hands and the temperature become less uncomfortable.
He had gained a lot from this place.
He had the memories of a supreme being.
It had manifested as a black tree in his sea of consciousness.
The memories had the imprint of a supreme being though.
They would attack his consciousness if he tried to sift through them.
"I'll have to figure out something later."
Using the ring he traveled through the universe.
"I must find a cultivation world!"
John continued to remain in a coma while Puppa went on a journey through the universe looking for a cultivation world!