" My name is Death and I am a God. When most people hear that I am a God named Death they automatically assume I am the God of Death, Rebirth, or the Underworld and truth be told I'm not. I am actually a God of Strength and Battle who started out as a regular orphan that was kidnapped off the streets and raised in a facility to train soldiers. The facility was ran by a massive corporation that had business in the underworld and over-world, after many years of training, from the time I was eight to when I turned twenty I was basically tortured. The corporation was raising me and thirty other children to sell to other corporations who had need for body guards, since we were being sold to high class people our quality needed to be top notch meaning . . . . . Well meaning we were raised through fighting, killing, and being brain washed, some of the children in my group didn't make it and some acquired cases of Stockholm syndrome. I was one of the few who lived even making " Top of the Class " as some of the instructors called it.
Anyway I was eventually sold to a science and technology company that was top of the market in discovering and finding more uses for various energies. Of course that was their public persona, truth fully they were a weapon facility trying to find uses for the various types of energies useful for war. They bought me in order to test a new type of energy they found that was related to human and animal bodies, they found the energy to be more apparent in stronger bodies so they bought me as I was basically the perfect subject for studying. The energy called, Phed, for Potential Human Energy Discovered, was automatically discovered in my body with only a few minutes of testing, the facility was of course happy with this discovery and decided to keep me alive for further testing rather than cut me open and see what they could find.
So a few years goes by, the facility had made a workout routine that would give me peak physical gains compared to what my old captors used, they did this to see if I could increase the Phed in my body through working out. The workouts consisted of a mix between various static workouts as well as workouts that required me being strapped to a car and running full sprint for hours. I was also forced to workout my brain in order to find any correlation to Phed and " Mental Strength ". Anyway they didn't do all of this for free, they would make me go to various countries in the midst of war and I would often times either kill a big boss in that country or " acquire information through clean means " basically I would torture people for information or kill. The facility having all this money of course made many break throughs on all fronts including in the uses of Phed. Phed was basically the modern equivalent to what the ancient people called Qi or inner energy, in that it allowed my body to become amazingly strong compared to other humans and animals. Eventually the facility bumped up my training from purely working out to fighting massive beasts and other test subjects, I would fight leopards and constrictor snakes and even rhinos and hippos. Everything I fought used Phed or as it is recently called Qi meaning that the leopard were stronger and faster, the snakes were smarter and their hiding tactics changed, the rhinos and hippos skin could stop rifle bullets and they could beat three elephants in a fight alone.
After many years of fighting some users of Qi discovered a way channel it better even make it into a physical phenomenon, which was basically a wet dream for the facility. The method was discovered by a guy who used to read Wuxia novels and decided to try meditating like they do in said novels, it turns out his method worked. The facility then started raiding various countries that had legends and myths about Qi, meaning China, India, and Korea were the first to be raided, or course these countries were happy to get a few favors from our facility. Eventually a " Cultivation Method " was made and passed around to all the test subjects for us to start using. After a month or so I broke through and became what is now called body tempering early. Body tempering was just the first of many levels of cultivation going Body tempering, Spirit Manifestation, Spirit Body, Spirit Upgrade, Immortality, God-Hood, and then the last of the recorded cultivation levels is Named God-Hood, at the time though we only knew of the first two, eventually we learned of the next two after that. Body Tempering was separated into Early, Medium, Late, and Last, if one wanted to they could break through into spirit manifestation at Early Body tempering but you would be extremely weak compared to people who didn't. I broke through to Spirit Manifestation at something I called Immortal Body Tempering Peak, the reason being is because I had twice as many break throughs in Body Tempering compared to the other subjects, I was also hundreds of times stronger physically. I didn't tell this to the facility of course or else I would have been put under watch or even killed because I was a threat to them. I eventually learned that my body talent came from my spirit manifesting itself before I started cultivation.
Spirit Manifestation is called what it is because when you break through into it you will have manifestation of the soul or consciousness or what ever its called. Basically what would happen is an amalgamation of Qi would combine with the soul and create a spirit that would give your body its attributes, some people got a plant, others an animal, and a few got weapons or objects. The people who unlocked plants would usually have a spirit of an unknown plant never before seen on our planet, the same thing happened with animals some people would get regular known animals others would get unknown or even mythical beasts. The people who got weapons would usually have axes, swords, and even clubs, but some got bows, ballista, one dude got a gun, and my favorite was one dude manifested a massive trebuchet taller than most trees.
Anyway I manifested an Elephant Holding a Planet that I assumed was Earth, I was the only person to have a manifestation with a less obvious focus. As I said Manifesting a Spirit allows you to take on characteristics of your spirit, people with a tree have more stamina on the ground, people with a venomous snake could secrete venom through newly grown fangs, and people with a bow could have much better eyesight and senses for bow shooting as well as summoning a bow. I manifested an elephant holding a planet which gave me insane strength and I could summon a head sized planet and control it how I wished. Of course that was within a few days of me manifesting, I would eventually find more uses and powers. I once again didn't tell the Facility of all my powers and only showed them a fraction of my strength and the planet control. Spirit Manifestation is different from Body tempering in that all the small levels are Early manifestation which grants basic control and powers of your spirit. Mid manifestation, which gives easier control and higher strength,speed, sense or other benefits from your spirit. Late manifestation is a higher grade of mid manifestation and then peak manifestation which gives you peak control and physical benefits as well as one last power before spirit body. Each small level allows more Qi to be stored in the body as well as better control over Qi. My last power before spirit body was I could access the planet of my spirit allowing me to raise plants, animals, and even other humans, I could also store objects and access them whenever I want.
Spirit Body is when you Embody your Spirit which could mean higher class powers or other benefits. Weapon users could summon extremely powerful versions of their spirits meaning a sword user could summon an indestructible sword or sword that could catch fire. Plant users could control plants and some could connect with them well enough to share senses some could also upgrade or evolve their plants. People with an animal spirit could turn into their animal or half way turn into their animal and some people could evolve their animal. At this point the facility brought in another organization similar to them but the partner organization studied the biology of plants, animals, and humans. The reason was to get a better understanding of our bodies allowing us to have better connections with our spirit as well as better control over our spirit.
When I embodied my spirit I would grow slightly bulkier and taller but my strength would increase many fold, I would also have a planet about 20 by 20 inches. When the Facility weighed my planet we found that the weight of my planet was around 10,000 pounds and was extremely dense. Spirit Embodiment is similar to Spirit Manifestation in terms of levels, with early embodiment, mid embodiment, late embodiment, and peak embodiment, each allows you to have more characteristics of your spirit as well as more Qi and better control of it. When I reached Peak Embodiment I had high enough bodily functions that I was basically a living bomb, my strength could level a small hill with a casual punch, with my stamina I could run across north america without breaking a sweat or even sleeping, and I could run across america in 10 hours or so. My mental prowess isn't any weaker than my physical feats, I was able to beat a super computer at various types of games as well as calculating math problems. This was all before I would embody my Spirit, after I performed embodiment I would easily be able to do those feats as casually as I would breathe. When I got to be that strong I was confident I could destroy or escape the facility easily and with zero trouble but I decided to keep up my above average facade in order to get the benefits and knowledge from the facility because unfortunately even though I was the strongest Cultivator I wasn't the smartest.
So I stayed with the facility for a few more years until one day after a huge experiment involving a Qi user who had a wormhole as her spirit. The woman who used the wormhole was the result of an experiment performed by the partner company to The Facility where they wanted to see the ideal age for cultivation as well as what the result was when two cultivators reproduce. What was found out was that eight is the earliest a person can start to cultivate and when two cultivators reproduce three scenarios can happen. First the child takes one of the parents Spirits, Two the child doesn't have a spirit at all, Three the child will have a combination of the parents spirits. The first combo spirit was a mix of a Dragon and a Legendary sword never before recorded on our planet, the resulting spirit was a sword made of dragon bone that was indestructible and could cut nearly anything, and that was only at early spirit manifestation. Anyway Wormhole girl was the result of a Light Spirit combining with a Vacuum wave spirit. When the light spirit user would embody the could turn into a form extremely close to light, and the vacuum wave user could attack with vacuum waves which would absorb anything small enough.
After the wormhole girl cultivated up to spirit embodiment stage The Facility started testing. The test that changed everything was when they feed the girl with massive amounts of Qi which ended up connecting our universe with one that had already discovered and studied cultivation for trillions of years. Unfortunately the girl died from to much energy loss, but when she died the wormhole solidified a connection to the universe called Immortals Paradise.
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Immortals Paradise was a universe that had large amounts of Qi energy since the beginning which meant they never went the technological route like our planet. Eventually large organizations called Sects started to fight over rights to own our Planet, one large sect called Heavens Abode got ownership and they took all of the mortals and cultivators and assimilated us into their sect. Heavens Abode explained the levels of cultivation as well as the secret to levels above Spirit Embodiment, they also explained that it was amazing that we could reach such a level using the extremely low level technique we were using. Heavens Abode showed us the hundreds of advanced Cultivation techniques they had and even allowed every cultivator and some talented mortals to choose a technique better suited to us. Cultivation Technique levels go in order of weakest to strongest Mortal, Spirit, Legendary, Immortal, Godly, and Dao. Spirits also use the same level system as Cultivation Techniques, with mine being at the Dao level, Dao level spirits can strengthen their user to insane levels in all areas as well as allowing the user to understand Daos associated and not associated with it. Dao is something that allows you to have control over various aspects of the universe depending on how deep your understanding is toward one or more of the Daos.
Anyway when I chose a Cultivation Technique I was allowed to choose from one of the dozens of Dao Level techniques, I was suggested by a high level person in the sect to choose something that my spirit connects with instead of whichever one sounds cooler or stronger. Deciding to take the advice I manifested my Spirit in order to get as good a connection as possible and after minutes of reading through the dozens of complicated Dao cultivation manuals I got a reaction from my spirit. The manual my spirit chose was called God's Home Elephants Chore ( I am pretty proud of this name might I add. ), it was a technique made by an ancient deity who witnessed an Elephant holding an entire universe full of Gods and Immortals. When the Deity witnessed such an earth shattering scene he went crazy from pure shock and died soon after creating this technique. The technique he made is said to be un-usable, but is kept around simply for potential insights that could be gained from the manual, should one be able to practice the manual though they could acquire so much strength that holding an entire universe would be as easy as going on a walk.
After I chose my technique I decided to go all the way and destroyed my current cultivation and start from the very beginning. When I started anew I kept my pure body strength but I could no longer think as quickly or even manifest my Spirit, though I did keep some mental faculty leaving me way above mortals. Anyway I went into closed door training for a few years until I was able to re-acquire my previous Cultivation. At that point my every single aspect of me was leagues ahead of my previous self to point that I was in extreme disbelief. When I re-emerged from closed door training I learned that many of the people I came to this universe had advanced into the Spirit Upgrade stage some were even on the cusp of immortality. It seemed that for some reason many of my previous's world people was very talented even by Immortal Paradises standard and they had already assimilated into this world society very well. Honestly I felt kind of threatened by those circumstances so I went back into seclusion in a mountain on the other side of the planet from the sect, rightly so by the way. Many of the enemies from my previous world sent people after me leading me to cherish all the training I had had since young. While on that journey I learned most of the common sense in Immortals Paradise like how their are different universes connected to this one like ours, I learned the currency is energy minerals that can only grow in regions with dense Qi, I learned that when you reach God-Hood you have to advance to a higher realm or suffer tribulation lightning from the universe etc.
When I eventually reached my chosen mountain I was right on the cusp of Spirit Upgrade all I had to do was increase my physical strength by a few thousand pounds and increase my energy some. Spirit Upgrade is the realm in which your body completely melds with your spirit allowing you what is basically constant Spirit Embodiment but on steroids. Spirit Upgrade literally upgrades and evolves your spirit, some tree spirits evolve into world trees allowing insane benefits to energy and physical aspects as well as plant control. Animal spirits will evolve from lets say a fish into a dragon or other insane things, I once killed a guy who had a crow spirit evolve into the embodiment of a god from an old religion on my planet. Weapon spirits also evolve to be stronger in just about every way possible, like a bow that could shoot from one planet to another. Anyway I spent around three years " Pumping Iron " until I built up the necessary requirements to break through. Let me tell you I freaked out when my Spirit evolved, because, and this was something I didn't know, because when a Dao Level Spirit Evolves it is apparently so strong a tribulation lightning comes down in order to purge it.
Luckily though I built up that extra physical strength which allowed me to just barely survive, though I did end up getting some benefits from the tribulation. The lightning purified and strengthened my body, and when it attacked my spirit, my spirit had to absorb tons more energy to survive which in turn strengthened me and my spirit immensely.
My spirit evolved from an elephant holding up a world into what at the time looked like multiple elephants holding holding a massive swirling sphere of energy. I later found out that my spirit is multiple elephants holding an entire multiverse. My powers basically leveled up from elementary level question to extreme college level questions. My bodily functions of course advanced enough to allow me to turn a mountain into a crater like a child kills ants, I could literally fight non stop for years, as long as there was enough energy in the surroundings, and my brain ran fast enough I could predict the future at least that's what it felt like, I couldn't actually do that at the time. My planet that used to follow me around only when I was in Spirit embodiment mode now followed me around constantly. The world space I could access before was now trillions if not more times bigger than my previous amount of space, I could also control the time flow in that space. I was also a giant compared to normal sized human I could of look down on a horse.
Anyway I then proceeded to adventure through out that world for 6 or so years until I broke through Immortality, Immortality is the first cultivation level after body tempering where instead of raising your spirit you raise you Body and Soul to another level. This rule didn't necessarily apply to me though as I put a lot of focus in raising the strength of my body through my whole cultivation life. When I broke through another tribulation came down trying to smite me, I was prepared though and had raised my strength way past what was necessary to break through. Unfortunately I didn't prepare my soul which got hit pretty bad, making me unable to summon my spirit for a while after that. When I finally healed I headed back to the Heavens Abode sect to get revenge on my old enemies, when I got to the sect they were all waiting for me along with their friends, family and some elders of the sect. I of course wasn't expecting that and ended up fighting hundreds of people Immortal level and some people near God-Hood, it was not pretty at all.
My muscles were torn, every single bone in my body except my skull were broken, organs hanging out, I even had one eye missing. But I had killed every single person who attacked me including a single God-Hood level Sect Master who was angry I killed the people of his sect. After that I ransacked the entire sect transferring all the buildings, plants, animals, and techniques into my universe. When I was finished looting I ran away to a secluded mountain in order to heal where I ran into a beauty calling herself Bas Alainn meaning Beautiful Death, and let me tell you she was perfect. Her face was the kind that every mentally deranged person would want to cut off and wear, her body was short and kind of plump but let me tell you she wore it well. Honestly her Body would make mathematicians question if the golden ration is truly the perfect geometric relationship. Anyway she took me into her home and healed me to the best of her abilities, her spirit wasn't really made for healing, actually it was for the opposite, well sort of. Her Spirit is the Reaper, perfect for not only killing but if you can get a job in the underworld it is perfect for guiding Souls.
Anyway she takes care of me for a few years until I am healed and then tells me that I can live with her as a butler to pay her back. It was around that time I learned she was a Peak God-Hood level cultivator, meaning I couldn't say no even if I wanted to. When I learned her cultivation level I also learned that I had a crush on her, after all she was a beautiful Gothic goddess who's gray skin reminded me of my favorite cartoon before I was kidnapped as a mortal. Her hair was raven black and hung down to her massive ass. Plus what guy doesn't want a woman who could kick her enemies head into a squashed watermelon, a bunch I'm sure but still I thought it was hot. Anyway I said yes and stayed in her cabin on a secluded mountain taking care of her needs while I cultivated through Immortality. Immortality goes Early, mid, late, and Peak levels, and by the time I was about to break through so was she. Sadly when a God breaks through God-Hood and becomes a named God they have to leave the lower realms in order to avoid dangerous tribulations, which meant she would be leaving soon.
I told her I want to go to the higher realms with her, but she said no because anybody below Named God who wasn't born in the higher realm will face constant tribulations. I of course was drunk in love and said I don't care and I would follow her no matter what, and that was exactly what I did, after we both broke through her into Named God me into God-hood we both ascended. Let me tell ya bad idea. I was struck by lightning every second of every day, I didn't even have time to cultivate Qi. Luckily though I wasn't without benefits, my body and Spirit being struck constantly were purified to an insane level which eventually allowed my body to break through Named God-Hood level even though my Qi hadn't, something never heard of before anywhere. Anyway when somebody becomes a named God, everything about them becomes better, Spirit, Body, Soul, even Dao comprehension which is vital at such a high level. Now a Named God is called that because when someone reaches such a level the universe names them so Bas became Goddess of Death and Beauty, I became God of Strength and Battle etc. The reason for this is because those are the Dao connected closet to your body, spirit, or both for my title of Strength it was tied to my Spirit and body and for my battle title it was tied to my body and not my spirit. Anyway after that I proposed to Bas and she said yes, there was a tiny wedding of which only a few of her friends and family attended, nobody came for me as I only knew Bas.
Anyway after that I started to study the Dao and am pretty far in the Way of Strength and The Way of Stellar Bodies. "
" That's a great story Mr. Death but why did you tell me it. "
" I missed dinner with Bas and her parents and am to scared to go home right now. "
" Oh. "
" Yeah. "