Somewhere on a simple potato field was a single rusty ring almost half buried into the ground. It was a very basic ring, only an unadorned circular formed shape made of some steel alloy. Something you could acquire for small money in every shop.

Mud had long since taken all shine from the once shine metal and time had taken it's toll on the material. I was unknown for how long the ring had laid here, but it should have been some centuries.

Even though it had been there for a long time, there was nothing truly special about this ring. Almost every field in the area would have a similar item somewhere on it's survace, lost by some traveller or farmer at some point of time. They all would just eventually be forgotten and stay at the field until they finally become dust and fly of with the wind.

Almost all of them where like this. Except this one. It had one certain thing inside of it that changed the whole thing and turned this ordinary looking ring into a unique treasure, a rarity under the heavens.

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It had a soul residing inside of it……

"How the hell is this possible? After I was killed by this hateful old fellows my soul was sucked into a space rift along with the rest of my remains. I though I would be reincarnated or something along this lines. Turn into the son of some powerful immortal and quickly become a deity and get back to the Heaven Beginning Realm.

Everything was so perfect and easy. I just had to follow the usual pattern and quickly progress along my path of cultivation.….

SO WHY THE HELL AM I IN A FUCKING RING RIGHT NOW?"

Inside of this particular ring there was a soul living inside of it. A soul calling itself Zes Bloed, a cultivator from another world.

The reality as it was, consisted out of an almost unending number of realms, worlds that existed completely separated from each other. Each had it's own physics, natural laws and most likely it's own intelligent races. But along all the realms there was one race and one type of natural laws that were particular regualar to find across the different realms.

This were the human race and the natural laws called daos.

Humans were living across a vast majority of realms often even coexisting with other races that had similar high intelligence. Of course they varied in the cultural development as things like natural laws of the realm they lived in and the amount of time they already existed within the realm were heavily playing a role in this.

This leads to the second regularity, the natural laws called daos and the type of energy that going with it qi. They were also spread across countless realms and any races used them as foundation for cultural and technological development. Primally the cultural development was very special in realms with daos and qi in them.

This was because of one special trait this kind of natural law had. They allowed to cultivate.

Cultivation was a training process of absorbing qi into the body and using it to start earthshattering changes within it. They once that practised cultivation so called cultivators or in case of humans Immortals would at one point become able to create powerful attacks with only their body and the energy in it to the point of even destroying a whole planet like it was nothing.

Also after cultivating to a certain realm cultivators woul become immortal and lead endless lives.

Because of this civilisation in dao based realms would most certainly be rather basic compared with civilisations in physics based realms.

Of course there were also other energies that would allow humans or other races to absorb them and become stronger, but amongst the countless realms the path of qi cultivation was the most usual.

As for Zes, the soul in the normal looking ring, he was such a immortal a cultivator coming from another realm. In a hard fight his body was destroyed and his soul sucked into a rift that led to another space.

Somehow the soul had reached this realm and used the ring as a container for it and lastly Zes woke up inside of a normal ring somewhere on a potato field.

"This is so degrading…. I a paragon, a peak existence that wasn't seen in any of the realms for billions of years am caught in a fucking ring, in some random potato field without any chance to get away from here!"

Angry Zes cursed as he though about his current situation.

Originally he was a paragon, someone who had reached the apex of cultivation and become invisible in the world. But because of certain circumstances he was still killed and his soul send to another realm. Now he found himself in a rusty ring, unable to move at all.

How couldn't he be unsatisfied?

Still, after some time Zes finally calmed down and started to analyse his situation.

"Let's see. First of all this realm doesn't seem to have any qi or daos inside of it. Rather it has some other natural laws that are kind of a mix of magic and physics. The energies around me allow me to manipulate them and create new things out of them, but they force me to stay in the realm of physics while doing so….. Interesting!"

As Zes had been a paragon before loosing his body, he had a very profound knowledge of any natural laws even the ones outside of daos and qi. So even though he had never encountered the kind of natural law this realm was based on, he was at least able to understand it's rules and the way it operated.

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"I have lost most of my powers now that my cultivation is gone together with my body, but I seem to be able to use the energies here and also absorb them into the ring. I guess after a bit of time I should be at least able to create some kind of body to move with.

Well first I will have to start absorbing this shit…."

Without further ado, Zes started to suck in the energies around him into the ring forming a small bubble like container in it where the energy was stored in.

While he was continuously sucking in all the energy around him he started to ponder.

"Ok I have stranded here, so what am I going to do know?

I obviously have to get back to my old realm and see my old friend to tell them that I'm still alive and kicking. My lovers and my daughter also should be thinking that I'm death, so one of my goals should be getting back there.

But other then this…. I'm already here so why not having a bit of fun?

Let me think about this…. how about a own kingdom! Year that kind of suddenly a guys appearing that created a kingdom despite being a nobody. Nice story line!

Well either way first thing I have to do is finding someone who lives around here and has an idea about the energy forms around here. General knowledge would also be quite nice when I'm at it.

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Fuck why does it take so long!"

While Zes was impatiently waiting for enough energy to be absorbed he started to use small amounts of energy to draw strange lines around himself. Symbols formed and strange letters soon covered the ground around him. At one point he finally added a last line to the whole thing and suddenly the whole construction of symbols and lines began to get into motion.

A blue light started to radiate from the symbols and along with it energy started to gather around the area it was painted on.

Then with one flash of light the whole area around the ring evaporated into nothing and the ring fell into the newly made crater.

"So it's based on formations!"

Zes exclaimed. He had already expected this to be the case, but he couldn't be sure unless he tried it.

Formations were a combination of symbols and lines that were drawn in a special way to correspond the realms natural laws. After energy was injected into them the lines would channel the energy in a special way and use the realms natural laws to get a certain result.

I could be said that formations were like specially formed tube, the energy that was channeled into it would be forced to take a special form according to the form the tube had.

Formations existed in almost all realms that had natural laws that allowed manipulation and especially realms with long history of cultivation had exquisite formations that would have terrifying powers.

As for Zes, his humble self had been a master in formation that searched equal across the realms. So the fact that this worlds energies could be used in formations made things much easier for him.

"Finally got enough of it."

After spending almost a week to absorb energies into the container Zes finally felt that he had enough to create a body to move with. Now there was only one problem.

"What am I supposed to make it out?"

Blankly Zes stretched out his self out of the ring searching the whole area for any use able materials.

He searched over the whole surface, going into every canny and even trying to go a bit into the ground but….

"HOW CAN THERE BE NOTHING?

Fuck do I have to create my body out of potatoes?"

He really wanted to avoid this. After all he was going to become the ruler of a country, how can a ruler have a body of potatoes?

Sure he could change it later on, but what would he do if someone saw him like this now and told other later? He couldn't just kill everyone that saw him like this could he?

"This… is really degrading."

Well, in the end because of a lack of choices the mighty paragon had to choose the potato body.

After having decided that he had to use the potatoes around him Zes began to act unhesitating. Using the accumulated energy he dig out some potatoes and using one unusually big potato as a base he started to cover the potatoes with formations.

Using two small potatoes he created simple feet for the small scaled potato body and another two where used as small arms.

After two hours of hard work the magnus opum was finished. A about 30 centimeter big golem made out of five potatoes covered in complicated formations was standing in front of the ring.

A pondering expression on his nonexistent face Zes solemnly said.

"I name you Christin"

In this moment a journey started. The journey of a soul caught in a old rusty ring and a small potato golem that was made to move the ring.