Chapter 1

The endless darkness, I was already used to it… I lived my whole life in the Vast Universe, but there I had friends, I could see other stars, I could see life and death, I could feel the space and time, but here…I don’t feel anything.

I don’t feel my body, I don’t feel the time, I don’t feel the space…Just an endless void, where the beginning and the end don’t exist.

I don’t know how much time passed since I died….

One year?

One-hundred years?

A thousand years?

Billions of years?

Since I came here, I can feel that I am separated from my Universe... the Universe Laws don’t exist here too, but there is something strange in this place.

After some time I observed that millions of unfamiliar particles were being attracted unconsciously by me, I didn’t know what was happening…

What are these particles?

After countless hours or maybe years thinking about it, I just let it go…Furthermore what can I do about it…I don’t even have a body

So I just stood still, recalling all my memories.

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I don’t know how many years have passed…but finally a change occurred. A light penetrated this void abyss, filling the void with a bright golden color.

All this light suddenly shrank, and concentrated in one point forming a Bright Golden Door, engraved with Red hieroglyphs that seemed to narrate a history, like a book.

Analyzing those hieroglyphs and engraving everything in my soul, I couldn’t comprehend everything on the door, but something I was sure… this thing taught about something called Cultivation.

‘*Requiem of fire*…this should be its name. The art is divided in several parts; the first part is about forming a heavenly body… the first step to create the body is to achieve the emptiness state and then attract Heavenly essences, molding the body the way you want with it…Heavenly essence? What the fuck is that?’

This is a new word for me…I never heard of heavenly essence in my long life and I should add that I lived for countless years.

Hm…but this emptiness state I heard about it, the humans back then meditated to achieve this state; I should be able to do it.

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Concentrating, I started to clean my mind of needless thoughts and slowly I sank into a strange state where I felt nothing, but at the same time felt everything. An odd but addictive feeling took control of my mind, making me go deeper and deeper in this state.

Suddenly I could feel those strange particles, but this time I had a clearer sensation of them, as if I could touch them, bring them towards me, and so I did.

Focusing my thoughts on these particles, I slowly pulled them to me, when it entered my body I felt an ecstasy sensation.

 My current form was like a thought that passed through space and time. I didn’t have a body, but after absorbing these particles, I could feel a body slowly forming. This body was like a ball of energy.

‘This should be the Heavenly Essence… According to the manual, after collecting enough essence I just need to mold my body’

Discovering what the Heavenly Essence is, I deepened in the emptiness state, losing track of time, while slowly absorbing the essences.

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After what seemed billions of years, an electric feeling passed through my body, indicated that I had enough essence to form a body.

‘Now it’s time to form a body’

The first form that came to my mind...Humans, my children, although it has been uncountable years since they left me, I always thought about them.

Focusing all my attention on this step, cautiously I imagined a form in my mind.

Slowly a body started to form besides me. It had 1.8 meters high, tanned skin, a long silk golden hair and its eyes held a bloody red color, like a burning flame, you could even see it shine in this darkness.

‘This should do...’

With my ball form, I dived between the eyebrows of the body, and finally I had control of the body, opening and closing my hands, so that I could familiarize with this new body.

After getting familiar with the body I looked at the Golden door, trying to understand the next step, those red hieroglyphs seemed to be alive and pulsing, as if waiting for something, but I couldn’t do anything about it.

 After some time analyzing it, I finally comprehended the second step.

“It seems like I need to forge ‘blood’”

This step is similar to the first step; I need to forge the blood with Heavenly Energy, condensing it in my blood streams.

According to the manual, this second step is named *God’s Blood* and the first step was named *Building God*.

‘Interesting’

Closing my eyes, I entered the emptiness state and attracted the energies into me. Strangely this time it was faster than last time.

“Maybe this is happening because I have a body now”

Directing all the energies into my body and condensing it in liquid, then injecting every drop of it in my blood streams, strangely the blood turned up golden, like my veins.

I lost track of time again, and dived deeper in nothingness letting this strange feeling guide me through every step.

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After what seemed millions of years, I opened my eyes.

The view was the same, with a slightly difference… the hieroglyphs on the door disappeared. Despairing I stood up and came close to the door, to analyze where those damn thing have gone.

When I was a few feet away from the door a suction force appeared, pulling me towards the door.

“Someone….Save us!!!”

Suddenly I heard countless voices and thoughts that passed through the door and seemed to infect the space and time; these voices mixed countless mixed feeling like: despair, loneliness, hatred, etc.

Hearing this voice a strange feeling struck me, as if I recognized it from somewhere, and it was implanted in my soul, to never forget.

“My Children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Yes, I recognize them….they are my children!!!

Without much thought about it, I dived into the door…leaving behind the dark abyss that I dwelled for countless ages.

“I will save you”