The Change

Jin walked to the bed and sat down, threw the pill in the air, caught it with his mouth and swallowed the pill. Nothing is happening. Jin thought, when suddenly a surge of elemental essence flowed towards him, entered his body and gathered around the area where his dantian should be.

Because Jin was originally a mage, and had widen his own meridians the elemental essence gathered at amazing speed. Because of the fast pace of the essence flowing in his body, before his dantain was completed, the amount of elemental essence in his body was to much to handle. Jin decided to compress all the elemental essence entering his body to make room for what seemed to be a never ending supply of elemental essence.

Had Jin not figured this out in time he would be one of the 999:1000 to die. Compressing the elemental essence was one way for the mages to survive.

Luckily Jin managed to complety compress his elemental essence, and when his dantian was completed it sucked the compressed elemental essence inside itself. This was easy, but I would have died if I didnt compress the elemenal essence that rushed into my body. So that was it, it was not even difficult. Jin thought with a smirk on his face. When suddenly he felt pain, it was an excruciating pain.

Jin fell on the bed and passed out, but he could still feel the pain.

If you were standing over and looking at him he looked like he was sleeping peacefully, but that was not what was happening.

Jin could feel everything, his bones was crushed and remade, his muscles was teared in pieces and made stronger as the muscles in his body healed. It was an unimaginable pain, but it didnt happen just once, it happened over and over again. Jin felt it all.

After some time Jin felt the pain fade away, but soon his blood vessels, organs and meridians was remaid.

The excruciating pain returned, again and again, then the pain faded, but it was not over.

Next it was his skin, nails, and eyes, and another type of pain. Everything was broken down only to be remade again and again.

Jin was in a daze, his mind was muddled and confused, and during this time he recalled everything from his past life, and new life. Jin did not know how much time had passed, but it seemed like forever. The last of the painful change concluded and Jin passed out, everything went blank. Jin was laying there passed out in his own blood for days.

When Jin finally woke up he was a little drowsy, but quickly remembered all that had happened. He looked around to see his dried up blood and filth all over and around him, he quickly checked himself for wounds and noticed his skin was much clearer and smoother than before. 

He walked towards the bath to clean himself from the blood and filth that had been gathered while he was passed out. After Jin was clean, he walked to a dresser in the bedroom and pulled out some clothes and got dressed.

After his bath and getting dressed, Jin finally felt refreshed and clean, so he decided it was time to leave. He realized that the crack in the wall was now to small for him to squeeze through and needed another way out.

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Jin was suprised that his body would no longer fit through the crack in the wall, so he started examinating himself, his hands was bigger, he even seemed taller, more muscular then before, but not in a bulging warrior kind of way.

Jin was scanning his surrondings, looking for another way out, his eyes rested on one of the smaller rooms he had already looked through before, but did not contain anything. Jin decided to take another more thourough look through the room. Jin entered and noticed that one of the walls was different than the others, it was not as white as the rest. Jin placed both his hands on the wall and the feeling of earth on his hands made him realize this wall was made by earth magic. He made the earth wall open up with his own earth magic and behind the wall he saw stairs leading up, perhaps towards the surface.

Jin walked up the stairs until there were no more stairs and hit the ceiling, with a push towards the ceiling that was blocking his path. Suddenly the ceiling started to rumble, and move the ceiling slowly descended a few inches and then slide to the side. Jin walked through the opening and found himself inside the ancestors hall in his own home the Yi clan.

Inside the ancestors hall Jin decided that since he alrady possessed a dantian and could now be considered a warrior, he was gonna look around for some of the Yi clans warrior cultivating methods and weapons.

Jin soon understood that none of the the weapons or cultivating techniques could measure up to the ones he accuired from Yi Wei Bo, and certainly no weapons was better than his own black wind.

After going through everything of interest in the ancestors hall, Jin was thinking, now that I am home, how should i explain everything.

He would tell his mother and Grandpa Yi the truth, but he needed a believable story to tell everyone else. Jin was thinking about how long he had been gone when the door to the ancestors hall opened and in stepped grandpa Yi

Grandpa Yi saw a youth around eleven years old with a beautiful white jadelike face with vibrant piercing green eyes looking at him.

Jin was so happy to see his grandfather that he almost started crying, but the next second he felt a burning sensation in his left shoulder, Jin saw his grandpa Yi standing there, sword in hand, while blood was pouring out from a wound in his left shoulder.

As a reflex, Jin flicked his right wrist and black wind appeared in his hand.

When his grandpa Yi saw black wind, a killing intend that was not there before, suddenly emerged from the kind and caring grandpa Yi directed towards Jin.

Jin tried to speak, but the pressure was to intense and he only managed to utter “i am“ before his other shoulder was pierced through and Jin dropped his Black wind with a clank to the ground.

Grandpa Yi picked up black wind and said with anger, “this sword belongs to my grandson what did you do to him?“