The Geared Immortal

Chapter 656

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Darkness is everywhere and no light could be seen. It is not even in space as there is not even a speck of star anywhere. In this space of void, the only presence he could sense is his own.

Shin Jiao did not know what just happened. He is sure of his own calculations and the direction of the portal. It is not his first time operating one. That's why right now he is not sure what is going on.

As his mind tried to find the answer to his current predicament, Shin Jiao's attention suddenly caught a glimmer of light from afar. He didn't know what it was but he knew that it might hold some answer to the darkness all around him.

He suddenly wanted to move, but realized something…

"Where are my clothes?" he thought.

He was too absorbed in his circumstance that he didn't realize that he was wearing nothing. Then he carefully scanned his body and was relieved to see his dantian and his cultivation inside it. He has painstakingly cultivated his power to this degree and has accumulated too much for him to lose his power once again. Hence he was really relieved to discover that his dantian was fine.

Suddenly, he noticed that small light from afar getting bigger and bigger.

Soon before he knew it, he is already floating near a huge ball of fire in space.

"Is this the sun?" Shin Jiao muttered as he tried to scan the huge fireball that looks like the sun.

"It is not… that is my true soul core." A familiar voice suddenly enters his mind.

Shin Jiao also astonished that language was of the Li'ang race. He then tried looking around but saw no one.

"You… you're Gaeus Ro, right? How?..."

"Haha… I saw what happened. That was just my physical body. I was also astonished that my race was able to bring it back to life. However, without my true soul core, then that's just a figment of my former self. It could be sentient though. You know, just like clones."

"Anyway… let me introduce myself… I am Gaeus Ro, the Galactic Lord of an already destroyed galaxy. I am a Lord without a throne… Haha…"

"Hmm… I… I thought you were dead." Shin Jiao suddenly asked with confusion.

"Yeah… me too. I thought I was dead. That was until you have accessed the Samsara Chamber. I have left a part of my soul in that place. And now… I'm back. Anyway, I have you to thank for, young man."

The voice of Gaeus Ro sounded sincere and Shin Jiao feel that the person is really thankful.

"This is the world I have created and its destruction would cause me to feel unhappy. However, I have to warn you not to meet with the Goddess Nuah… She might be my wife, but I lost my life because of her foolish actions. Sigh… from your memories I saw that she had suffered from that. But that child Yunya should not know the truth of what her mother did."

"Then what should you do then? I'm already leaving this place."

"Ah, right… Sorry about that. I only have a piece of my soul you know. I wanted to tell you something. In the path to your cultivation, there would come a time when you have to choose, to choose to maintain an immortal soul or combine your body and your immortal soul and become a celestial deity. If you choose to become a celestial deity then try to leave a sliver of your immortal soul in the Samsara chamber tablet, just like what I did. Although it would cause you too much pain and would have to start all over again, at least you will live again. That is my last gift to you as thanks…"

Shin Jiao just nodded his head and saw the ball of fire slowly flickered. Then suddenly it vanished. However, Shin Jiao suddenly feels a large jolt of energy entering his soul. Then he could see more information than what he had learned. And this made him feel a bit taken aback.

What Gaeus Ro gave him would cause the whole cultivation in an uproar if they knew what it was, the straight and narrow path to immortality.

Shin Jiao shook his head. He has seen that image before. He had been there, he actually sealed that place.

"So that was the gate to the immortal world where many wishes to enter and many has killed for."

The pre-requisite to enter that place is to have a true nascent realm body. No matter how powerful your cultivation is, if you don't have a true nascent body you will just be cannon fodder and would be seeking your own demise in that place.

Shin Jiao now knew why those other 'fallen deities' he met have those fates. Especially the one who came from another planet and likes to consume soul memories. He remembers her telling him about the battlefield of the immortals and demons. This made him connect the dots.

Then the reason why in the cultivation land, there are almost no traces of any heavenly nascent realm cultivator is that those powerful beings would have already have ascended to the immortal world. It was a natural heavenly law of the Cultivation Land.

While those who fail to ascend would be stuck in this world until they reached the deity realm and would be forcefully taken from this world into the immortal world.

After learning all of this, Shin Jiao felt his mind clearing up. And by this time, he already knew that his physique is already qualified to enter the immortal world. And the truth that he has already reached the true power of a nascent realm dawned unto him.

However, going to the immortal world is not his goal at present. He still has many attachments to this world and could not let it go. But since he already knew that right path, then he felt a strong guarantee in his heart that his path of cultivation is correct.

"I will just think about it when the time comes." He muttered as he kept this information hidden in his soul.

Suddenly, Shin Jiao feel his mind turning dark and he could not control himself from fainting.

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A wooden ceiling with the smell of delicious food being cooked woke Shin Jiao up. He soon discovers himself in an unfamiliar place. He carefully sits from the soft bed he is lying in.

"Ugh… Where… where am I?" he muttered while trying to assess the situation he is in right now.

Then his eyes caught a figure busily cooking in the dirty kitchen just outside the wooden hut. The figures of a man and a woman happily chatting and flirting with each other while cooking in the kitchen. The atmosphere between the two made Shin Jiao smile involuntarily.

He slowly got out of bed and checks his body. Everything was fine and nothing seems to have been taken.

As he walks out of the small hut, he soon discovers that he is inside a small village. Shin Jiao tried using his absolute sense and was astounded to find that the range of his absolute sense has reached up to more than 100 kilometers already.

It has been too long since he has used his absolute sense and was thoroughly happy to be able to once again use it after a few months. However, he immediately stopped as he could see some things that he should not be looking at.

In that instant, he already got the situation in the village. The village is small with only around 3,000 people living in it. Most of the villagers are cultivators with the highest cultivation are at the gold core realm.

The two people in the kitchen are also cultivators, but they are only in the spirit refining realm.

He approached the two, but then suddenly halted from his step. This is because he could already sense without using his absolute sense that some people are coming towards them.

Shin Jiao just calmly stood there and look at the situation at hand.

Suddenly, a strong kick flung the gate of the yard open. Then ten burly men with half-naked bodies strode inside like gangsters.

"Oh, what do we have here… If it isn't the lovely newly married couple… Oh wait, you two are not yet married, right? Hmm… I wonder, why are you two living together? If I remember correctly it is not permitted in the village for two people to be together before marriage… This is a crime… this is truly a crime…" one of the burly men suddenly said while walking towards the kitchen.

The young man suddenly grabs the young woman's arm and stood in front of her.

"You people are shameless… you already took everything from us, what else do you want?" shouted the man with reddened eyes.

"Hihi… I will not beat the bush… It's not what we want, but what Master Sung wanted. He has taken a fancy of your wife. And he promised to give you the marriage certificate back if… the little wife spends a night with our Master Sung." The man said with a grin revealing his yellow teeth.

"You… you scoundrel… do you think we will agree to that?" the young man shouted while clenching his fist tightly.

On the night of their wedding, his wife was almost raped by Master Sung. Luckily, some visitors arrived and this leads the two to escape the clutches of that evil tyrant. They have already offered them all of their money and saving just for Master Sung to let them off.

And for a few weeks, the two feel that everything was fine. But who would have known that the greed of that Master Sung is insatiable? And now his henchmen, the bullies of the village, are back.

"Wei You, do not push your luck. You already have your wife… Master Sung just wanted a night with her… don't tell me you are unable to give him that… chance."

Upon hearing those words, the young woman subconsciously grips the arm of the young man tightly. She was traumatized that night and did not forget that horror. Even in her dreams, she could still remember the crazed face of that maniac while he tried to tear her clothes apart.

Unconsciously tears began to pour out of her eyes and she bit her lower lip. She is really unwilling to go. She suddenly saw the knife on the table and without hesitation grabs it.

She looks at her husband with thankful eyes but knew that he could not protect her this time. She just muttered with her lips the words she should be saying out loud.

'Thank you… I love you…'

Then with resolution in her eyes, she plunges the knife into her chest.