"Thisblood..it holds somuch..power. With thisalone..I can makeafew breakthroughs. If I findand kill whoever is the owner of this... Icould..hahaha.. I could rule this entire province! No! Maybe eventheanentire region!"as he saidall this his hoarse raspy voice echoedacross theareasaround him.


    "It''s too bad I didn''t get there faster too see what the owner of this blood was... but thisalone willallow me to replace the sect''s head. Hahaha, that damn fool! The head ofademonic sect must be crueland standaboveall! Not equal!" The robed man continuously shoutedand spoke with himselfas the falcon continued flying through the sky.


    The robed man looked around at the forest beneath him as the falcon flew, after a dozen miles he finally found what he was looking for. Looking at the forest below, it now had smaller pine trees around ten meters longs scattered across a plain land. The onlyeye-catchingthing was small rocky hill around a hundred meters aheadofhim. This land had the weakest type of beasts, normal beasts, and he recalled that there was a small cave in the rocky hill.


    He circledaround the hill, quickly scanning it over, searching for the caveand finally found the ''mouth'' of the hill. The robed figure descended with the falconand directly landed in front of the cave. He wanted to findaplace where he could safelyabsorb the bloodas fastas possible. He couldn''tallownotbeing the head of his sect foranother day.


    Before entering he ordered the falcon to stand guard, it was a wild beast with strength comparable to his. Entering thecave,he walked a few dozen meters forward before finally sitting with his legs crossed. Waving his hand out, the blood from Amory and Martin was floating in front of him.


    He hadoriginallycollected it to follow some trail or get someleads,but he was blinded by his greed for strength, making him choose a smaller reward given immediately instead of a bigger reward given after a bit of time.


    Like this he stared at the red liquid in front of him, it was a bit more than half a pint of blood. He effortlessly made a small drop of blood flow towards his mouth. As it landed in his mouth a burning sensation flowed from his mouth to the rest of his body. He swallowed the drop of blood as ametallicflavorkicked in.


    "It''s..it''smuch..much stronger that I thought!"as he spoke,awide smileappeared on his face. Revealingall the sharp yellow teeth in his mouth. "Hah-ugh..ugh!Agh! W-wha-Agh!.." He had barely started to laugh whenasharp intense pain started overwhelming him causing him to wail in pain.


    His body had started to shakeuncontrollably, he could feel spirit energy rapidly being absorbed by him. His meridians were bulging as if they would burst at any moment. His skinny body was sweating all over and his insides were swarming around inside him.


    He was but moments away from losing his consciousness as he furiously trembled no longer able to wail in pain. The one drop of blood had power his body couldn''t endure, as the saying goes ''If it doesn''t add to your life, it doesn''t belong to your life.''. As his eyes were about to shut, his entire life passed by in front of his eyes. In front of him thescenerychanged as he saw a dark night sky appear along with a village, hispoint of view changed to a dark alley where a nude baby was intensely crying.


    An old granny was walking by when the cries got herattention. Looking down into thealley she saw the babyand picked it up. Suddenly, time skimmed by before finally stoppingafterafew moments. In front of the man was nowasmall stone house in the same city. Inside it the old granny was laying weakly inasmall bedand next to her wasasmall young boyaround five years old. The boy held onto one of the elder woman''s handas tears couldn''t stop themselves from flowing from his eyes.


    The elder said a few things before her eyes slowly closed and her head fell limply to the side. Thescenerychanged once more as the man was now looking at another alley. There, a boy around eight quietly sat with dirtytatteredclothes and a dirt stained face. People would constantly pass by in front of him but almost no one would look at him and those who did would either laugh, mock or harass him. The boy paid no heed to any of them, clearly being used to it. The boy''s heart and mind had slowly begun corroding by the harshtreatment of life.


    Suddenly, a hooded man suddenly came up to the boy, he knelt in front of him and said a few things before handing him a bookand leaving. The boy was filled with curiosity as he went deep in the alley to read the book. Thesceneryonce again changed as the boy was now ten. It was also night timeand he was even worse off in appearance now and he was standing in an alley with a disgusting smell surrounding the alley. In front of himwas a pile of dozens of dead animals, ranging from rats to dogs. He had a smile on his lips as he looked at the dead animals.


    He said a few words before waving his hands and black shadows flew out from the animals and were sucked into his mouth as he maniacally laughed. His laugh had gotten the attention of a passing man, hearing footstepsechoingthrough the alley he panicked and his behind a pile of trash bags. The man slowly walked forward as a disgusting smell attacked his nostrils. Covering hisnose,he slowly continued and met with the pile of dead animals. The man was clearly shocked as he took a few steps and looked around to find any culprit. He continued forward and saw a small head by some black bags.Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    The boy heard the manapproachingand was panicking when the man shouted some things. The man thenswiftly turnedand started to run backas thoughabout to report the boy.


    The boy sprang to his feetand panickedas he lookedat the man who had discovered him.Amidst his panic he waved his handat the manandadark spikey object sprang from under the running manand pierced through his entire body. The boy quickly ran upand dragged the body towards the place the past pile of deadanimals wasat. Having done so he grabbed his headand walked in circles, his face was scrunched upand his fists were clenched.


    Afterafew minutes he frozeand staredat the body. He came upand did the same thing he had done to theanimals. Only this time,alarger black shadow came out of the man. It was likeaghostas it howled before finally being swallowed by the boy.An extremely horrifying smile was born on his faceas he staredat his handsand body.


    Like this, thescenerychanged and time passed by again. The previous peaceful village was now dead silent duringmid-day. Not a soul could be seen whereas bodies scattered the entire area, even guards could be seenamongstthe bodies. Red puddles under the bodies linked together making a river flowacross the village. In the center point of the village a boy around his early teens waswildlylaughing as black shadows flew at him from all directions.


    Like this, the man''s life passed in front of his eyes. It showed himwhen he joined the Cult of Corrupt Souls and everything leading up to the present him, he had spent a large amount of time in that ''dream'' before finally everything once againchanged,and he was looking at a rockyceilingabove him.


    Waking from the ''dream'', he felt his insides raging about and his bodyuncontrollablyshaking, having seen his past experiences once more he was filled with anger and sadness, with acoarseraspy voice he slowly spoke, "Power... I wantpower!..Poweris... everything!".


    He swallowed the rest of the blood while on the verge of insanity.Anger, hateand resentment, they had overwhelmed his heartathow unjust life was. He wouldn''t have traversed life the way he did if it had given himat leastachance but here power was everythingand it gave you whatever you wanted.


    Having beenstrugglingwith one drop of blood, it was unimaginable how much pain he would be in by swallowing the rest in one gulp, with a loud deep raspy voice he shouted towardsceiling,"AGHH! I-I''LL SHOW YOU LIFE... AGH...I CAN DO IT...MY WAY!".


    The surrounding darkness seemed to be getting swallowed by himas it flowedat him fromall directions. The cave was slowly turning darker with the manas the focus point. His eyes were blackallaroundand they could suck your soul if you lookedat them. His body under the robe was undergoing changes, it started getting youngerand wasalsogrowing muscle.


    "Hahaha!" the man laughed in the caveas he feltall the changes he was undergoing. He wasn''t going toallowlife to kick himaroundany longer, life was going to beathismercy now.


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    Two young nude boys were running through a forest when they suddenly stopped and moved behind a tree. Looking up they both watched as four flying steeds were rapidly flying across the sky. The four steeds were heading in the same direction as them. The taller boy had been carrying the smaller one andevenso he didn''t seem to be very tired. The four steeds were no longer in sight when the boys continued running along the forest. A fewnormal beasts would be encountered along theirjourney,but all run away at the sight of seeing the boys.


    They wereAmoryand Martin,along the wayAmory would constantly speakandaskabout cultivationand their family. Martin wouldanswer every questionas it made him less boredalong the way.


    Amory learned about the martial realms. Martin only knew about theHoutianRealms. They were the martial student, martial warrior, martial generaland martial commander realms, each realm further divided into ten levels and each level also had four mastery stages. Amory had already cultivated before in pastlives,but this martial cultivation system was new to him. He also learned that his parents were heaven defying beings, they had reached a realm where they could unite a rule an entire continent. Theirtitleswere Emperor and Empress respectfully but their cultivation wasn''t known.


    Havingbeen told thisAmory was filled with excitement, in past lives he wouldn''t beable to scaleat heaven defying realms because only with heaven defying luck could you rule in these worlds but now he wasactuallyason of suchafigureand healso had those two treasures he had stolen from the dark room before having been reborn.


    After cultivating I should beable to investigate my bodyand see if I have those two jewels from backthen..


    Afterafew hours of running fatigue could be seen on the taller boyas he gasped forair. They stoppedafter seeingariverand rested to the side of it. More specifically, Martin rested by it.


    Amory sat to the sideand decided toat least tryand see if he could start his cultivating foundation by entering the first level of martial student.


    Martin who was resting lookedatAmoryand didn''t understand what he was doing, he only sawAmory sit down with crossed legsand close hiseyes..


    As Martin looked over he tilted his head with a confused look. Is Amory... cultivating? But he doesn''t even know how to control spiritenergy...or does he?