Forbidden Forest, Planet Rafa

Deep inside the forest, there was a cave. Inside the cave, an old man was at his deathbed. It was none other than the supreme expert of Rafa, Sabya. Everyone in the world knew of his heroic battle with the Saint Louis above the Ganges river. He is also the inspiration for the younger generation. He was also known for creating new Mental Energy cultivation methods to increase the efficiency. He is widely recognised for the creation of Seven Transformation Method. This method is a meditation technique which purifies the soul by removing the impurities of the soul.

He is now yearning for just some more time. He has everything. But why? He always thought that he had achieved pinnacle when he reached Rank 7. But during the battle against Saint Louis he suddenly gained an insight. After the battle he secluded himself to meditate on the insight. After a decade of secluded meditation, he found himself struck at a bottleneck. He had been researching like a mad dog to overcome the bottleneck over the past decade to no avail.

He found his soul seeping away from his body as he lost his consciousness.

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He slowly gained consciousness. But he woke up to find himself inside a large cuboid with white spheres floating around in random directions. He found himself as a sphere. He could not make heads or tails of the scene before him. The large spheres moving slowly gobbles up the small spheres near it. After pondering for a while he realised that the spheres were actually souls without consciousness. He also realised that if he were not careful he would be gobbled up by some random soul. He slowly and carefully moved around to gobble up the souls that were smaller than his. After he absorbed the first soul he found his soul growing. But he also observed that the quality of the soul was not that good. He wanted to purify his soul but he could not because of the constant threat of being swallowed by some other soul.

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After what felt like eons, he had swallowed most of the souls in the cuboid to become a really big one. He really felt congested in there. He then did not feel the threat of being swallowed. So he started refining his soul by the seven Transformation method. After countless years he came out of his meditative state as he felt that his soul is pure enough. He wanted to get out of the cuboid so he started banging the wall. It didn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t budge. But he was not the type to give up so easily. He worked hard to get the wall to break. Due to his perseverance, he was finally able to break the wall. As he came out of the cuboid he was sucked into a vortex.

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