Aiden floated above the familiar space, his home for the past two days - where he'd eaten, drank, and rested. Though the area felt cold, he remained untouched, like a spirit.

Was he a ghost?

He looked down and found himself, the original him, from the earth in a smoky form.

Fuck! He was a ghost indeed.

Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! That bitch killed him. Trusting people was the biggest mistake of his life. If he had a slight chance of surviving through this he would trust no one in his life, again.

Wait, if he was dead then why was he still floating above the tall building he lived as old man Li?

When he looked at himself, he saw two energies waving through him like yin and yang.

No, there were three energies. A ball which pulsed with black and white energies - yin and yang. Another ball with blue energy floated right above the black and white ball. Was it mana and his qi? But why did he have it in his ghost form?

Then his gaze jumped to the room. He could see through the ceiling easily. It was a bit fuzzy, but he could make out the details.

Delia. That fucking bitch was talking with elder Mani while pointing at old man Li's corpse lying on the ground, blood leaking from his stomach, and his neck was a dark shade of green.

"Fuck you, bitch. If I ever get my hands on you, I'll cut you into a thousand pieces." Aiden cursed, but no voice came out of his mouth.

System: New Quest Received

Chain Quest: Revenge for old man Li

Difficulty: Very Hard

Category: Optional

Before you could put your foot down in the new world, a calamity has struck you and it's not a nature's wrath, but human greed. You will have to find out the reason behind the betrayal and take action.

Objective:

a) Find the reason behind Delia's betrayal.

b) Kill elder Mani

Quest Rewards:

An Earth Grade Artifact: (Rare and above)

A cryptic clue leading to greater mysteries

Quest Failure: Nothing. You will lose your sleep every fortnight over this topic.

Warning: Elder Mani's strength far exceed yours so don't take rash actions.

Elder Mani shot fire from his finger and burned the bed old man Li slept on. The fire licked the wooden furniture like a ravishing beast and turned everything into ashes, only leaving behind old man Li's body.

Delia seemed pleased as she cleaned the ash and collected it into a gray pouch. She said something to elder Mani, but Aiden couldn't hear it.

Were they laughing at his death, a conspiracy, adultery? No, adultery made little sense as Delia wasn't old man Li's wife, but just a servant. If elder Mani wanted, he could have easily taken her away. No one would have stopped him. This was the rule of this world.

Anyway, it didn't matter. Aiden was dead; turned into a ghost. And he didn't believe in the lingering emotions to haunt those two.

Aiden sighed.

System: You are in grace period. Choose another dead host to transfer your soul. Grace period remaining 1 hour 1 minute.

Aiden frowned, if his ghost state could.

This was an opportunity. Everything wasn't over and maybe he could take revenge for the pain he suffered because of these two.

New body. How was he supposed to choose it?

He scanned the surroundings, and he spotted a gray light above every human he saw. Some had it dim, some had it bright, and then he saw one person had no gray light. It seemed he was dead.

Wait, if he could still feel the energy sources, could he access his skills and other stuff?

Yes, and no. Most of the things were grayed out, but the essential skills were not. There was one skill Corpse Refine he could use, and there was a corpse nearby.

Corpse Refine

Quality: Uncommon

Grade: High Tier Bronze Grade

A corpse doctor has very few skills, but the skills he has are very special. After spending their lives researching the corpses, they have learned how to refine the corpse into something useful and something unique.

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Burst a corpse into flames that can't be extinguished by common means.

20% chance to refine a corpse into Corpse Bloom if you have Corpse Blood skill.

40% chance to refine a corpse into useful alchemy material.

40% chance to refine a corpse into nothing.

Cost: 100 qi/200 Mana

"Corpse Refine," Aiden muttered, or thought and directed the energy he felt would match this skill, the black energy.

The corpse of old man Li burst into flames and it set the curtains on fire. Delia screamed and leaped back while elder Mani tried to put the fire down by using some water, but nothing worked. Old man Li's body burned into nothingness.

System: You have refined your first corpse. You have gained one Corpse Bloom.

This was done, and he needed to find a host. With a thought, he hovered over the cultivation city full of pagodas and tall buildings, searching for the corpse without a gray light over it.

Not far from the original location, he saw a corpse lying on the ground. A young man with a beard and healthy body. He was handsome, healthy and seemed to have a good constitution.

The best thing - he was dead. There was no dim light over him, and Aiden knew this guy would be the best choice to possess.

"Once I gain the power, you would be the first person I kill, Delia." Swearing, he entered the lifeless body. It took him a moment to adapt and he could control the person's physical form as if it were his own. It felt strange, but nothing was going as expected in this world.

System: You have possessed the body of Gun Ju.

The young man had a name - Gun Ju. A poor wood carver turned cultivator who had fallen for a trap and killed him.

Sighing, Aiden got up from the ground and pondered on what should he do next. However, he didn't have to think much as a burly man charged at him with a three feet long ax in his hand.

Fuck! Was he the same man who killed Gun Ju?

"Motherfucker, you weren't dead yet. I'll kill you again and again. If poison doesn't work, I'll cut you into pieces."

Aiden attempted to move Gun Ju's body, but it was stiff like aged steel, and before he could act, the ax sliced through his head, severing it from his torso. The pain crashed through his consciousness, driving him crazy.

"Fuck!" He was floating above the open area, the torment of pain still fresh in his mind. "If I get another body, I'll torture you so much that you will beg me for death." He cursed at the burly man.

What was wrong with everyone in this world? This was a Holy Realm - a place of goodness, holiness and yet he suffered two crazy enemies right after coming to this world. Couldn't he just find a simple, peaceful corpse?

"Corpse Refining." A fire burned Gun Ju's corpse, and it leaped at the burly man, sending him running away in fear.

Cursing under his breath, he wished he could set the burly man ablaze as well. It could complete his revenge.

System: Your grace period is ending in 29 minutes.

System: New Quest Received

Optional Quest: Revenge of the Fallen

Difficulty: Medium

Category: Optional

Before you got your fair chance of starting over, a burly man has killed your dream. Take a revenge and kill him to gain a reward.

Objective: Find out about the burly man and kill him.

Quest Rewards:

One Battle Skill (Rarity: Normal or above)

Satisfaction of soul.

Quest Failure: Nothing. You will feel regret and wake up in some random nights in the future.

Another quest. If he really survives this, then he will complete these quests and fuck these people and their minds.

Fuck, he needed a good wine and a couch to cry on. Anyway, he had to be careful about next target. It couldn't be any adult male. It was a bad choice. All the males and their friends were crazy around this place. A girl it was. It would be awkward, but girls shouldn't have enemies. They should only have lovers.

But should he enter a girl? Their physiology would be different, and odd.

No, it didn't matter. Girl or a man. It didn't matter. He had only one goal: to survive and take revenge, and it didn't matter if he did it as a girl or a guy. This was a cultivation world for the fuck's sake, and sex change might be easy too. The alchemist Li could definitely do that, and he still had his memories, so the girl it was.

He roamed around the big city, and there was one. Eighteen years old. Pale, scruffy, no breasts whatsoever, so she won't be having any love scuffle as well.

She was lying on a bed and an old couple sat next to her, holding a brown sickle in their hand. Maybe they were doing some ritual for the dead.

It was a perfect setup. That old loving couple must be her parents, and they were sad. So once he awakes in her body, they would be happy and do everything to help him or her get back on his feet. They couldn't be crazy, could they?

Gently, he drifted near the elderly pair. They appeared even more colorless than the lifeless young woman, and it was quite shocking to see them living on while she died. Old people were fucking cockroaches. They just didn't die.

This was a good thing. Even if the elderly couple were the young woman's foes, they could not harm her once she regained consciousness. He could easily subdue them using the girl's physical form.

It sounded perfect.

Aiden entered the girl's body and slowly opened her eyes. However, when he tried to take a breath, he found an odd thing.

Fuck! There were no lungs, heart, or anything inside the girl's body. It was a fucking hollow body filled with a strange liquid.

"The ritual worked. The girl awakened. A virgin specter. I've done it." The old man shouted, and stuffed something in the girl's mouth at an inhuman speed, killing the girl.

K.O.

Aiden sighed. He died this time faster than anything before. That old man had killed the girl, and even if he hadn't tried to stuff what looked like a corpse's dick inside the girl's mouth, Aiden would have died, as the girl had no internal organs.

"Fuck you, old man. I'll let you suck on a dead man's dick before killing you." Aiden cursed under his breath.

System: Your grace period will end in 14 minutes.

Fuck!

System: New Quest Received

Chain Quest: Corpse's Dick

Difficulty: Super Hard

Category: Unique. Optional.

Some say a third time is a charm, but you even defied the heavens and possessed a thousand year old corpse. It's your fortune that you didn't attract the curse to yourself.

Now take the revenge for the thousand year old dead girl.

Objective: Find out more about the dead girl and the old couple

Quest Rewards:

One Battle Skill (Rarity: Unique or above)

Extra reward if you can stuff a dead man's dick in the old couple's mouth.

Quest Failure: Nothing. A few dreams about the corpse's dick in your mouth.

Warning: It's better if you fail the quest. This is a unique quest, and you have no chance of completing it. Just give up if you want to live peaceful days.

Fuck those two. A unique quest? What kind of monsters they were? And how was that girl's corpse was thousand year old corpse?

Aiden cast a Corpse Refine on the girl's body and floated away before the old couple did their mojo.

"Am I going to die without a body? Why am I getting weird people? This world is really weird. God, help me, please."