It’s been a half of a year since I’ve been reincarnated in this… trash body of a human.

But!

I am getting stronger everyday! Soon I’ll be able to regain my lost power-!

“Zao! It’s time to eat pumpkin!” Wei Ning says in a pleasing and motherly voice.

Ok, I’ll do that after I eat but then I will regain my old power!

Wei Ning picks up the ever growing baby in her arms and offers the young boy a breast to suckle on. Being only a 6 month old baby, Zao Ning has only spoken once and that was when he had first realized he was a human.

It’s not that he can’t speak, it’s just that Zao Ning doesn’t think his mother would react well to her baby speaking fluent human before the age of three.

While drinking the milk of his mother, Zao continued to circulated Lightning Ki through his cultivation veins to continue his cultivation.

Zao is currently in 2nd Mortal Realm, which is the starting stage for cultivation. With base Mortal Realm being for people with no cultivation, and 2nd through 8th Mortal Realm being for the newest cultivators, Zao is barely above the bottom.

Though this seems bad, for Zao to have started cultivating at the age of one day old, he is actually very far ahead in his generation.

With more and more sizzling worms of lightning appearing in his cultivation veins, Zao can feel himself edge closer and closer to 3rd Mortal Realm. This will cause his body to evolve and Zao can then begin to use Lightning Ki.

But of course, he is currently enjoying a nice meal, courtesy of his mother.

After this I will evolve and become stronger! My plan is coming into fruition! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

“Baby Zao, stop laughing while you feed, you will choke!” Wei Ning says while pulling away Zao’s source of food. Zao Ning looks distraught as his breast was taken from him and begins to cry loudly in displeasure.

Wei Ning’s heart tightens and decides to not scorn the baby for nearly choking himself yet and lets the grumpy baby continue feeding. Even if he is a dragon, that does not mean Zao doesn’t enjoy his food and will act the part of a baby to get it back.

After a while of feeding, Zao’s stomach is full and he is ready to begin the next stage in his path of cultivation. Wei Ning puts the baby Zao down and goes outside to find some work. Though she needs to be with her baby at all times, she also needs to feed him, which requires her to feed herself, and she will do so no matter what the cost.

Zao Ning closes his eyes and sends mental energy into his veins. Seeing the large amount of worms wriggling around in his veins, Zao is displeased yet satisfied at the fact he is gaining power every second.

Finally deciding that now is the right time, Zao begins to guide the worms according to the teaching of the Sizzling Worms technique. The one cm long worms begin to gravitate towards each other and soon there is a fight between all of them to the death.

One worm after another begin to eat each other, but everytime one of them eats its own kind, that worm gets bigger.

With the anti climatic battles of worms fighting ends, one worm remains and it is about 10 cm long. The worms burrows itself into the cultivation veins of Zao and the feeling of sizzling power spreads through the baby’s body.

This is when transformations begin to occur. The small body of the infant begins to grow at a speed that is viewable by the naked eye. Zao becomes bigger and bigger to the point that the 6 month old baby now looks like a four year old. His previous brown eyes have turned a sizzling dark blue as the boy Zao’s affinity for Lightning Ki seems to be very high.

Looking at his new body and standing up, Zao is very satisfied with his transformation, having the body of a baby that could not move on his own was not particularly something Zao enjoyed.

Now the real question comes into play, how will mother react?

While Zao begins to think of an excuse to his sudden age growth, he also begins to test out his powers.

Zao raises his hands and tries to manipulate the Lightning Ki inside of him. Within the first try, a small spark of electricity shoots from the child’s hands and a wide smile spreads across his face.

Finally having some resemblance to his old power makes Zao very happy as he was a Lightning Dragon before this life.

Now having the reassurance that he does have some power, Zao Ning shakingly gets up as his legs wobble back and forth due to the new transformation. Finally stabilizing himself, Zao looks around at his living space and the child's face turns dark.

"This is..... UNACCEPTABLE!" The kid roars with anger.

How could I, a former dragon emperor, be living in a one room run down shack like this!

Zao had honestly never looked around his house as he was either busy feeding or cultivating to care. But now that he can actually move on his own, Zao truly see hows desperate of a situation his mother is in. Using his anger to fuel his motivation, Zao instantly sits down once again and begins to cultivate.

The only way I can pull us out of this shitty situation is by being strong. Only the strong can live well off in this realm that we live in.

Though it would seem like a former Dragon would not care at all for his human mother but in truth, most dragons are creatures that care a good deal about family. Except for Zaragnathor's original family though.

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Circulating the Ki within him, Zao's body begins to sweat profusely as he is now making worms all 10 cm in size much faster than the six months it took him to make the first one. Though he is sweating a lot and cultivating is not something a child should do normally, being in the 3rd Mortal Realm, Zao's actual strength is comparable to that of an average adult male at the moment due to the reinforcement of his Ki. Of course this average adult male would have to not have any Ki and would be in Base Mortal Realm.

After about 4 hours of straight cultivation, the boy Zao's body begins to feel heavy and there is several layers of sweat covering his skin. Realizing that he cannot continuously cultivate like before, Zao takes a break and is satisfied as another 10 cm worm has burrowed into his veins.

Opening his eyes, standing up and stretching, Zao begins to wonder what he should do next.

Though I have all of my amazing abilities stored in my memory, I cannot use any of them. Atleast I can't if I'd still want my body to be intact. Maybe I have seen an ability that is weak enough for someone as weak as me to use...

Searching through his memory profusely to find some sort of ability that would be of use to Zao in his current level of strength, nothing in particular comes to mind at first.

Not knowing any martial arts, kill moves, heartforce abilties, or even Ki abilities, the naked Zao actually feels naked but in a power way.

For about another 2 hours does Zao search his memories for abilities he can use and 3 have come to mind. Shocking Bare Palm, a peak tiered Mortal Realm Ki ability; Rock Cracking Thrust, a high tier martial arts; finally, Brain Numbing Wave, a peak heartforce ability.

Two of these are peak tier and one of them is high tiered. Though in the overall scheme of things these are extremely weak, they could let me roam the Mortal Realm with more confidence than just using raw strength.

When it comes to abilities or martial arts, the tiers go from Basic, Weak, Low, Middle, High, Peak, and Master. Each Realm has their own level of abilities and the realms go Mortal, Spirit, Earth, Cloud, King, Void, Star, Fiend, Never, and finally Immortal. Zaragnathor was in the Fiend Ream and was killed by a poison from the very rare Never Realm. As far as Zao knew, there was only 9 people in the Never Realm and only one person in the Immortal Realm.

Being at the top of the Fiend Realm, Zaragnathor was in the top 15 existences alive at the time. Of course now he doesn't know what the higher tiered Realms are like as Zao doesn't know how long he was dead nor where he is at in all the Realms.

Guess I'll just have to make my way to the top to see if I can find my old family once more... And when I do ohohohoho, they will not enjoy it.

A wicked smile spreads across Zao's face as he imagines the unspeakable things he will do to the ones who killed him. Deciding now is the time to train his abilities, Zao goes outside and sees the around his shack/home.

The area Zao and his mother live in is an abandoned part of a slums, at least it looks abandoned to Zao. Not seeing anyone living in the house across from them, Zao runs over there and decides to train in there, not wanting to destroy his own house.

Entering the house, Zao looks around to see that no one is inside and he can sense no presences. Finding a rotten table to use as a target dummy, Zao remembers how to use the 3 moves he wants to learn.

Reading the manuals for them one time when he was bored of killing foes, Zao remembers that Shocking Bare Palm is a supportive Ki ability that makes one's palms be covered in a thin layer of electricity. This Ki ability fits perfectly with Zao as he is also trying to train in Rock Cracking Thrust, which is a Palm Arts Martial Art, and he also only has affinity for Lightning Ki at the moment.

Taking in a deep breath, Zao closes his eyes and circulates his Lightning Ki. With full control of the two 10 cm worms, Zao sends one to his left hand and one to his right hand. The worms then begin to produce electricity or the Ki ability. Not even knowing it, Zao is using a Master Level Mortal Realm cultivating technique, and is actually very useful. Even if it does have such an awful name.

With Lightning Ki being generated at his hands, a thin layer of blue covers the skin of his hands and is mainly concentrated around the area of the boy's palms. With his eyes still closed, Zao raises his hands and does an open palm stance.

Taking in a few more deep breaths and letting them out, Zao feels as he has complete control of his body and finally, with a quick flash his sizzling palms are sent towards the rotting table.

Kacha!

The sound of Thunder pierces the air for a second as the second his palms hit the table, the amount of lightning produced increased as Zao put more effort into creating Lightning Ki. The table explodes and shards of wood go everywhere. Shards hit Zao's body but they simply bounce off the boy's skin.

Opening his eyes, a flash of blue shoots through the boy's pupils as his Lightning Ki is now returned to circulating through his body.

I am good at Ki manipulation so this body has more potential than I thought.

When Zao had initially started Shocking Bare Palm, he had done so to where it looked fairly weak for the ability. Yet right before he hit the object, he took Shocking Bare Palm to its fullest potential and utterly destroyed the table. Zao being able to do this was purely from his experience in using Ki and only someone whose knowledge is above the Void Realm can pull of a trick like this.

Anyone before the Void Realm cannot just change the power of their abilities on a whim. Seeing as he obviously will have an advantage, Zao smiles and continues to use the combo of Shocking Bare Palm and Rock Cracking Thrust. After two hours of training, Zao's ears pick up the sound of 4 people running down the empty streets, directly towards Zao's house.

"Leave me alone!" Wei Ning yells loudly.

Looking outside, Zao Ning can see his mom and her clothes are torn and cuts are scattered throughout her body. Three large men with horrifying smiles spread over there faces are chasing Wei Ning while laughing loudly.

"What? Don't you want to feed your baby? Feed us first with your flesh and then we will take care of your baby for you! Hell, we will even let the bastard have a taste too!" the man closest to Wei Ning yells.

Wei Ning has a fearful expression as she runs closer and closer to home and she realizes that she will probably be putting her child in danger now too. She has a knife hidden under their bed and that is what Wei is aiming for at the moment.

Zao Ning's original happiness from the speed of his cultivation and training quickly fades away and a dark and sinister expression replaces it. Just the fact of someone eating their own kind now sets off something inside of Zao that makes anger boil inside of his soul. Also the fact that they are trying to take away Zao's main source of unlimited love and warmth, this does not bode well with Zao Ning.

These humans think that they can just take something from me?! Let's see them try!

Lurking into the shadows of the house so he does not get seen or sensed, Zao Ning waits for the three men to approach the house across the street from the one he is in.

Seeing his mother run in first and not get caught makes Zao happy as it will help his plan out immensely since he can execute a surprise attack.

Finally, the three men make it to the entrance of Zao's and Wei's home and they slowly walk in, evil auras surrounding them.

"Come here cutie, we will only bite a little bit." one man says mockingly as they approach Wei. She currently is sitting on her bed, knife in hand behind her back and a horrified expression covering her face. Ready to stab the men at anytime, a small hint of blue behind the men catches Wei's eyes.

Kacha!

"AHHHHHH!" one man screams as he is sent into the nearest wall. His body begins to convulse and turns numb as the Lightning Ki starts to take affect. The other two turn around, daggers ready to attack whoever is behind them but Zao is too quick as his 3rd Mortal Realm body is better than their Base Mortal Realm bodies.

With another strike of his palm and the sound of electricity crackling in the air, another one of the disgusting men is sent flying. This time the only sound he made was the sound of his chest caving in as Zao had leaped forward and sent his palm straight into the man's chest.

With the final man being so dazed as a small child killed his partner, Zao spends no time in landing perfectly on the ground and rushing towards the final man.

Before the man could leave his daze, Zao leaps higher than he ever has before and a wicked expression covers his face.

"Say hello to the Lord of the Dead for me!" Zao yells as he puts the most power he ever in his palm and sends it flying into the man's skull.