11 Heavenly Beings and the Spirit Realm (2/2)

Shrugging as he answered, if she knows about the 'Soul Burial' then she must one of those 'experts' that Gus had told him about those who have lived through a long time with abundant knowledge or someone who has used the skill.

”Interesting, you have different forms of energy after you were reborn, and you choose to be honest to one who was suspicious, and the first to have found out about it, yet you choose to believe I have no ill will.”

She continued giggling, like she had heard a good joke for the first time.

After giving her response she looked at the youth with kind eyes like a mother who found out her child had returned home.

”Very well, I see you are not an ominous soul like the others. As a reward I will answer any question you have.”

She smiled as looked forward to what his questions are and was excited to answer all of them.

”Who are you? Why you here? And by others do you mean there is more like me?” Stigma had many questions but the obvious ones had to said, since anyone would ask them.

Like she was expecting the question, she came prepared with her answers consecutively.

”I am a Heavenly Being or accurately a human turned into a goddess, Heavenly Beings are originally mortals that had reached the apex of their abilities and gained immortal life after death, we are similar to overseers who make sure other worlds do not collide with one another.”

”I am known by many titles, the judge of the innocent, performer to the deceased, the disciple of life, and the goddess of death, but never had I heard my name ever spoken for no one knew my name not even myself. It was like that since I can remember.”

She had a tone that was similar to remembering a bad memory.

When he heard here tone, he was stunned, it sounded like she was beyond the lifespan of a normal person, when she appeared to be in her late twenties.

”As for why I am here, it is as I had said, the Soul Burial is considered a natural event when people die, it is also dangerous if any living being were to be around a still active formation the being would slowly lose energy and pass on early. After a hundred years their souls will go through a purification phase, but even when they die they will produce different types of energy that could be harmful to normal people, some will have forms of grief, anger, madness, despair, greed, rage and all other forms that make up a human driven by madness. That is why they take a hundred years to be purified until they can pass on.”

She then summoned fire out of nowhere and continued, ignoring Stigma's gaze.

”If they still have regrets, then they will be called 'earth-bound spirits', spirits bound to the earth that refuse to let go if their regrets. Which will have the area. they are bound to gain some form of energy, however it is considered dangerous that it even drive any being mad and insane, so no man, beast or Heavenly Being would be near one.”

The flame on her finger started to turn from bright red, to orange, to green and finally black.

”However on this area, they had passed on before the minimum time which was still 70 years at least, you were here before but you were dead, which is unique on its own.” She stared at him like some endangered animal that she wanted to keep.

”Which leaves me to your final question, you are not the only one to have the same circumstances of having your old memories or have memories of someone else's, but very few meet requirements that allows them to meet their full potential.”

”It appears as though your soul is the only one to have been sent here when you were in your body in the spirit realm correct, that is a rare event that happens only a millennia would appear. I will give you a visual example on that issue, so listen well.”

The beauty then explained to him the situation he was in.

Imagine this, there are three realms, one is a realm where you are from, the second is another realm with life, and the third is in between those realms that leads you to the realm of the spirits or the dead.

Normally, when one perishes, they go to the spirit realm and go through the cycle of rebirth, same goes for the other world.

However as you can guess the worlds have more lifeforms than the spirit realm can handle.

As such dilemmas such as Stigma's case are few in numbers.

The spirit realm is like a large ocean that has all the deceased swimming through them, the realm itself is mysterious that even being of other worlds would get lost if they venture through it without a lifeline, along with other realms each of them have a special net, making sure that only those form their world will be reborn back to their realm.

Now if someone was summoned to another world, then the world where the summoning took place will bear the price of bearing another world's life.

People who transferred to another are those who entered a rift in space in time, when worlds collide in a form of an earthquake so they would appear to arrive at another world, but they just got their accidentally since the rift will close afterwards.

Those who are reborn in another world will have their memories intact as their souls enter an unborn child.

All of these events have one thing in common, they were like tunnels with a predetermined exit.

In the case of Stigma, who are spirited away, it is when the boundaries of his realm has a permanent small entrance that was formed from their worlds spirits life force, but it is only a one way trip since it opened his world, to the spirit realm.

In his case, it's was similar to entering into a cave with multiple entrances like a maze, and getting lost endlessly walking around aimlessly, until he can find a way out from guessing.

Stigma was lucky, since another life force was losing his life and was in the border of life and death that match his requirements so they overlapped, Cheng Xuan had his memories but lost his body, while Stigma kept his life and body but lost his original soul and merged with Cheng Xuan.

Hence, he is considered a unique individual not just by the standards of this world but from the Heavenly Beings point of view as well, as such he will be blessed or plagued.

With all the information he was getting, the questions were being raised instead.

But he wanted to learn as much as he can so had to make full use of it.

”Also, I can answer a few more questions, but please keep in mind, Heavenly Beings are not to get involved with mortal live, since you are mortal with the afterlife's mysterious powers so some will try to speak to you.”

After she said those words, Stigma started thinking rapidly, but some questions will be answered by himself eventually.

After a flurry of questions, she answered them all but she never said anything about the other Heavenly Beings as it was not his place.

So, he had asked the final questions that will change everything.

”How do I cultivate?”