Chapter 408 - Starting Anew (1/2)
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The current Meteorite City was not the same Meteorite City he remembered. The buildings, people, and atmosphere had all changed. Even its history and controlling forces were no longer the same. With the passing of several thousand years, how could it not?
Yan Zaizen calmly strolled amongst the busy streets and people of the city, looking at all that was both familiar and unfamiliar to his eye. He had grown up in this city, both this body and his previous one. After awakening, he truly felt the winds of time brush past this location when comparing his previous life. The clans of old were no longer a factor, even worse, they weren't even a part of the current city's history. They had been replaced, moved on, or been crushed into nothing.
”The only true thing that hasn't changed is the meteorite that gave the city its namesake.” In his past, the meteorite was named due to the catastrophic culling-level meteor shower that wiped out all living things for countless miles. The city of his past worshipped a surviving meteorite as a sign of rebirth and persistence. Despite that, its lands were razed to the grounds and resources became abnormally scarce. This allowed even the Yan Clan, a force whose strongest leader was at the Qi Unification Realm.
Yan Zaizen observed the cultivators and citizens engage in various activities. Their average cultivation bases hadn't evolved by any means. The weakest were still at the lowest Qi Foundation Realm, the first Realm of the Essence Path, while the strongest was at the Qi Unification Realm. This was pathetically low.
He silently sneered in his heart. The old him, the one that was merely at the Qi Cyclone Realm at the age of sixteen, had felt that the Qi Unification Realm was godly and unequalled. Now, having been exposed to those that could rival and exceed the heavens, he truly understood the meaning of frog in a well by retrospective insight.
All those memories of his younger self felt fresh. Those experiences, those memories, is what inevitably led to his future and Dao forming. He found them incomparably precious. In the end, he let loose a soft sigh of complex emotion, ”I can't delay my cultivation.” This visit down memory lane had to be short lived. His path couldn't encompass the Heavenly Path, and was strictly the Herculean Path. If his cultivation was sufficient, he could use his physical body to resist the strange force entrapping his original body.
”The only issue is...how to avoid the Heavenly Annihilation Light.” This was a crucial aspect he couldn't neglect. When he was younger and first started out on the path of a Herculean, it was a path that had been outlawed by the Heavenly God of this Heaven, prohibited from being cultivated and anyone who attempted to go against this law would be dealt with swiftly. He had deeply learned about the Heavenly Laws during his adventures in the Heavenly Origin Grounds, and thus knew of the difficulties of going against the Heavenly God's laws.
If this was his original soul with the Black Hole within, he wouldn't fear it.
”The Herculean Path is a complete path, exceeding the Heavenly Path's power,” he remarked with a 'tch' at the end. When he cultivated the Herculean Path, he had experienced a vision and the Herculean Path's manifested representative figure eclipsed the heavens by a considerable degree. This meant its Path was fully formed by an expert that had exceeded the heavens limits, developing their own Original Path to an absolutely unfathomably shocking level.
”Before, I got lucky. The Black Hole had to have absorbed it, just like all the other threats to my soul. Unfortunately…” He truly felt himself at an obstacle. How could he cultivate the Herculean Path without being killed by the Heavenly Annihilation Light? There was an answer, he just needed to dig it out of his memories.
While he had regained the entirety of his sense of self from before, even his older memories, he still was without all of his most recent ones. They were still coming in like the trickles of rain.
Just as he was about to focus more on this issue, he heard a voice shout from afar.
”Hold it!” The rumbling of heavy, armored footsteps echoed from the distance alongside an authoritative voice filled with harsh intent. Yan Zaizen turned, spotting three men in the city guard's armor stomping towards him. At the head was a familiar figure, someone this new life of his had interacted with heavily - Old Man Bo.
A mischievous light entered his amber-gold eyes, with a silent flashing of interest. This old man had a cultivation at the mid-Qi Cyclone Realm, and following beside him were two guards at the initial-Qi Cyclone Realm. Their eyes radiated ill-intent and frustration, obviously having suffered humiliation at his hands before. The poor citizens in their way were ruthlessly pushed aside, being tossed left and right as they bulldozed a clear path towards him.
He chuckled. ”Old Man Bo, aren't you tired?” He teased from several dozen feet away. Then, he felt the rushing of wind surge from behind him. His eyes flashed, as he ducked and tumbled to the side. Two beefy arms swiped like a pincer at his previous location.
”How intelligent!” This Old Man Bo had purposefully made his presence known from far away to draw his attention away. He regarded the owner of those two arms. He had a fierce gaze, beefy body, and seemed to have a cultivation base at the same level of Old Man Bo.