Chapter 20 (1/2)

Translator: La0o9  Editor: La0o9

Wang Yuan was fortunate. He was able to randomly encounter and obtain information from a world traveller through their soul, thus finding out the way of Transmigrating to another world.

But Wang Yuan was also unfortunate because the method he obtained wasn’t usable to him.

Wang Yuan didn’t know for sure what a person’s soul was made of, but from that creature’s actions, he could tell that it considered the ‘something’ at the deepest part of its soul, together with its memories, to be its real ‘Self’.

It was because of this that the creature chose to throw away most of its Soul Essence, only preserving the ‘something’ inside its soul as it had no choice but to escape this world.

When Wang Yuan looked at the deepest part of his own soul, he found that there was nothing there. Rather than saying that he lost that ‘something’, it felt more like his current self was the part that was discarded.

After reorganizing the fragmented pieces of information from the monster, Wang Yuan finally understood his situation a bit clearer. At the deepest part of the soul, there existed a certain ‘something’, in the monster’s language, it was called the ‘Gusar’.

This term expressed ‘the true self’, ‘the origin’, ‘the source’ and other similar meanings, the core and beginning of the soul. In the cultivation novels of his old world, this would be the True Spirit.

Both the soul and the substance he called Soul Essence were nothing more than the derivative, because of that, strictly speaking, the being previously called ‘Wang Yuan’ had already been reincarnated, the current Wang Yuan was nothing more than the residue of the human ‘Wang Yuan’.

And in reality, he was gradually turning into an existence foreign to the human ‘Wang Yuan’. Despite how little he knew about the soul, Wang Yuan could tell that the monster’s soul and its True Spirit were very similar, while he found that his current soul was full of impurities.

These impurities came from the crows, from other animals, from the dead Cauchy people. Since each True Spirit was unique, the derivative Soul Essence would naturally also be unique.

Through absorbing the Soul Essence left behind by other dead creatures, Wang Yuan was certainly able to become stronger, but it also caused his own soul to become mixed and impure.

“What a horrible piece of information”

From what he organized from the monster’s fragmented memories, their people could use the unique properties of the True Spirit to Transmigrate themselves from one world to another. Their people had gone to and witnessed many otherworldly civilizations, so they invented a scale to measure the potential of living souls called the Tower scale.

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Their power system was one where they would become stronger through releasing their True Spirit and obtain immense power from their own [Origin]. The power systems of other worlds were also more or less required to be related in some way to the True Spirit to reach higher levels.

The higher a living being scored on the Tower scale, the more easily it could release its True Spirit. It was precisely because of its high score on the Tower scale that the monster obtained the Soul Transmigration secret and was allowed to travel to other worlds.

If Wang Yuan were to go to the monster’s homeworld and was measured on the Tower scale, the most likely conclusion would be something like this: a remnant soul without Gusar, contaminated by large amounts of foreign Soul Essence, virus control(tentatively highest level), cultivation to become fodder recommended.

Indeed, if it weren’t for the fact that the monster couldn’t adapt to the environment of this new world, Wang Yuan’s meager strength compared to him was most likely not even enough to be considered fodder.

“However, without taking the bad news into consideration, the benefits I obtained from this is quite notable” Wang Yuan now had a clear idea about himself, his potential was limited, without a True Spirit to draw power from, his ability to control bacteria and viruses—— would soon reach a bottleneck.

In this low-magic world, that might be enough to be a calamity, but in other higher-grade worlds, he was probably something any ability user could eliminate without trouble.

“I really must say, this wake-up call was a bit harsh” Wang Yuan slowly floated back to the village and returned to the large tree to observe the infected baby crows that were currently mutating. Dejection was inevitable for anyone that found something like this out about themselves. Just imagine, in a must-play online game of the century where the level cap is 100 or even 1000, you found out that your max level is a measly 10, and that you can’t create a new account, forever trapped inside Novice Town. Anyone would be devastated.