Darkness…

Wherever Chen Yun’s eyes looked around, only darkness greets him. Like a world made of darkness, but the ground was hard that someone may think that it’s an earth and Chen Yun thought so too. In order to find some clue, he walks aimlessly.

Every time Chen Yun stepped on the ground, he can’t hear any sounds of his footsteps thus he felt weird but he didn’t felt any danger at all as if it was way more safe than the outside world.

A breath of time had passed yet he can only see darkness…

An hour had passed but it’s still the same…

3 hours…

14 hours…

20 hours…

Almost one day of walking, exhaustion struck him making him fall to the ground beneath his feet but only darkness his eyes could see.

‘Why am I here?’ he asked.

‘Is this the underworld…’

‘…I thought I will be sent to heaven?...’

‘… but… is… ere… heaven?’

His consciousness drifted away as he uttered his last word.

…

‘Urgh that was tiring…’ he said as he slowly wakes himself up.

When he opened his eyes, it was still the dark world and now he felt that something was amiss!

He stood up.

‘Shoot! I think this is not something that can be trifled with…’

He suddenly moved, and dashed aimlessly at the speed of sound, fast yet silent.

Whoosh!

In another location in the dark world, a flash suddenly flickered and Chen Yun appears. He stops, he realized that he was badly injured by Bandit Leader Gu, but he felt that his body was still fine and he was even filled with energy, strangely, this kind of energy was not something like elemental energy.

If he only knew that he was in soul state having this energy was his spiritual energy himself that he carried from his world.

He flickers once again and arrived at the other place but didn’t stop as he flickered once again in another direction. He felt like he suddenly knew how to blink from one place to another making him baffled, if he had this type of ability when fight Bandit Leader Gu he was sure that he can win that battle, with the combination with his Clouded Steps that obscured the eyesight of his enemies but sadly all was for naught he was not in his body and he didn’t have it in the first place.

As he was flickering continuously as if he was like a fountain never will going to be exhausted of this kind of energy but he suddenly stopped at one place, because he saw a golden colored light symbol in front of him. The symbol was so bright that it had lit 10 diameters around it, its light was quite attracting. Though bright, yet its light was warm to the eyes and his body.

Chen Yun suddenly felt that the golden colored light symbol was familiar yet he can’t remember where he saw this symbol.

The golden colored light symbol was floating one meter above the ground as the symbol was rotating itself. The symbol was a hexagram having six lines; there are four horizontal lines and two broken horizontal lines. From top to bottom, the first line to the last line, the two broken horizontal lines were placed at the first and third line.

Chen Yun was dazzled at the bright yet not piercing to the eyes. An impulse to touch the symbol surge from within him, he raised his right hand and reach the floating symbol.

Click!

A sound suddenly produced from the symbol like clicking a mouse button, but it was not about the clicking sound but the thing that he clicked!

When he touched the floating symbol it suddenly erupted like fireworks turning into tiny golden particles.

Chen Yun was aghast! Because the tiny particles abruptly move towards his right hand but the suddenness of its action, making him a bit late in retracting his hands away from the symbol.

Bzzt!

“Aaah!” he screamed.

A buzzing sound resonated from his hands as the tiny golden particles embedded itself in his hand’s flesh as if it was tattooing Chen Yun’s right hand.

‘Huh?’

Though he screamed when he saw the bizarre thing happened on his hands, he didn’t felt any burning or painful sensation. The back of his right hand was glowing in golden light and the buzzing sound was still resonating as if it was scribbling on a sheet of paper.

It takes an incense stick to burn before the bright light slowly fades. When the bright light was gone he quickly scanned his right hand afraid that there’s something bad happens in his hand, with a sigh of relief, his right hand was still the same like before and because of that, he wipes the beads accumulated at his forehead.

‘That was close… luckily, other than the circular formation at the back of my hand there’s no… eh!?’

As he was talking he saw a circular formation was laid at the back of his right hand but the formation has many missing parts of it. It has two circles an inner and outer circle; there were eight lines that divide the inner circle’s boundary and outer circle’s boundary and each division from the outer circle’s boundary spanning half an inch outwards were divided into eight subdivisions. The symbol which was floating recently and suddenly flew towards his right hand was attached on the upper-left on one of the eight division’s subdivision. Luckily, before the light dimmed down he clearly saw its design but…

Flash!

Before he could react on the weird formation at the back of his right-hand, his consciousness was forcibly dragged away and saw a vision!

Somewhere in the galaxy, a black and white world existed with its two moons which were also black and white. There were eight scriptures were rotating at the black and white worlds and with each scripture has eight symbols, the eight symbols each scripture were as if it was a law of the every world. It was a bizarre phenomenon he ever witnessed but he doesn't even know if it was true because of the absurdity of such world.

Then his vision swam to another world and he was now looking for an old man lecturing at some disciples and was discussing something he couldn’t hear…

‘[email protected]#@%@$!$!#>...hat so…eginning of time’

As the lecture almost reached to an end he can faintly hear the old man’s voice but don’t understand his explanation.

‘…nic symbols… produced sixty-four symbols which were the laws and the representation of all things…..’

But as the time the old man was talking, Chen Yun gradually understands the old man’s words.

The old man suddenly stopped talking and looked at Chen Yun’s direction, his eyes suddenly brighten!

‘Young child, I know that you are foreseeing this but it was already in the past… sigh…’ he said.

The old man’s eyes were dimming a little but sparklingly returned its light when he looked at Chen Yun.

‘If you understand or you just stumbled upon this, I’ll just tell you one thing… Find the other sixty-four symbols… it will greatly help you. Remember find it all…’

‘Symbols? Are you talking about the eight symbols each of the eight scriptures? The hell! Were these even existed!?’ Chen Yun answered but the old man couldn’t hear his reply as if he was just a spectator on a video.

But who would have thought that even though the old man didn’t hear Chen Yun’s reply he started to talk regarding the question of Chen Yun!

‘The Symbol exists; they were either in the person’s body, location, or even in things. These symbols will appear in that place for the reason that its law was the same where the situation laid, example if the symbol was a weak person but defeated a strong enemy, the symbol may attach itself towards that person if its law was the same with him. But the owner who owned that symbol may not know about it if he lacks power or high senses towards foreign things.’

‘Typically the symbol can move freely and moves around the worlds where they were placed at, if you can have the chance to touch or arrive at a location where the symbol was at, it will directly give a condition in order for it to be attained but that symbol will not react I… shoot no time!’

The words and the imagery of the old man suddenly distorted and slowly fading…

Ziiing!

But before it fades away, the old man quickly moves his hands doing an incantation…

Whoosh!

A violet colored light suddenly appeared at the index finger of the old man and waved it to Chen Yun. The violet light has mysteriously bypassed the imagery and proceeded towards Chen Yun’s consciousness. Its movement was as swift as lightning and its action was far beyond the normal people can fathom, passing from the illusory towards reality!

Thud!

When it faded, a smile was hung on the old man’s face but was replaced by strange symbols!

Sixty-four symbols suddenly appeared at Chen Yun’s mind and one of them was glowing brightly and it was placed at the fifth if it was arranged into top sixty-four.

Each symbol has its name but unfortunately, other than the glowing symbol that he got he can’t discern the names of another symbol because it was too vague and too dim as if he needed to find the corresponding symbol in order for him to know what its name.

Because he couldn’t see other symbols’ name he shifted his attention to the symbol which was glowing. The glowing symbol has two written words on it, above the symbol and below the symbol.

The name of the symbol above was written ‘Hsu’ while below was a word ‘Waiting(nourishment)’.

‘Huh? Hsu? Waiting? Hmmmn…’ he was puzzled.

When he was thinking, suddenly the symbol enlarged and flipped itself and an archaic voice which was indiscernible if it was a male or a female.

‘The word below the symbol was written ‘waiting (nourishment)’ means that all beings have need of nourishment from above. But the gift of food comes in its own time, and for this one must wait. In short, you have waited far enough and the gift was already received…’

The archaic voice suddenly paused but it continued its speech…

‘…Your desires to become a cultivator has come to fruition as you wait day and night, and the heavens considered to give you the chance to become one, and with the condition having the ‘Hsu’ symbol… the nourishment will come quickly…’

For a long time, the archaic voice didn’t speak any further and the symbol flipped and shrunk while returning at its exact place.

Chen Yun who was listening was shocked!

How did he end up having the ‘Hsu’ symbol in the first place?

No matter how many times he contemplated, he can’t make the heads or tails regarding the reasons behind. He scanned his mind regarding the Hsu symbols like a book flipping through pages, as he was scanning he couldn’t see any things that would answer his question until he reached his past world’s memories.

He suddenly felt missing his parents even the stupid Jun Coeur. But it falls short as he continued scanning until he stumbled at the time when he was reading the old and tattered book, at the cover of its book was the symbol of the named Hsu!

He suddenly understands why the book was just having the last page which was a summary of a person turning into an overlord.

But a new question popped up in his mind how those things reached his world did? Is there any connection regarding his worlds and the world he was in?

Many questions suddenly existed making his mind explode that makes him puzzled for all the things had happened. But time and tide wait for no man; he was ejected out of unknown place and returned directly to the real world.