I took the tear shaped bead which my father called ‘Dragon Seed’ into my hands. It felt cool to touch and a warm fuzzy feeling spread from it into my hands, instantly spreading all over my body. It was so comfortable that I almost let out a moan.

As the feeling spread, I felt something resonate within me with that presence. I think that is the Legacy within my blood. But, before I take it, I have to get some more information from my father.

“Dad, why do you have this with you? Didn’t you say that all of our family was extinguished?”

“*sigh*, the day the Church attacked our family, my father was the Clan Chief. This is one of the items our ancestors managed to scourge from the ancient times. Most of the treasures ended up being useless or extravagant or something we don’t know the use of and they were sold off for maintaining the living conditions of the people. The stone tablet, this bead and one other item, which I will give it when you activate your Legacy, are the only things remaining.”

“The day those experts under the Church came attacking, my father gave these to my brother when they told us to escape. After my brother and that expert died here, I took these from my brother after I buried him. I didn’t think that the day that I can use them will come in my lifetime.”

He looked at me with a complicated expression. But it seems like he has come to accept his pain filled past after sharing his burden with both mom and me. But there is still anxiety and slight fear in his heart for my future. I felt happy that I had such deeply loving parents in this life.

So without any other words I nodded at my father and sat down on the cool rock floor. My father stepped away from me and stood there facing me like he was standing guard. I looked at that little bead in my hand once again. I immediately had an idea.

“[LILY, scan the bead in my hand]”

“[Scanning is Initiated, Master.]”

“[Scan Incomplete. Signal Interference from the outer casing of the crystal. Crystal material is Unknown. High Readings of Quantum Energy and Void Energy mixed in an unknown Ratio. In Depth Scanning is not supported by present levels of battery.]”

Hmmm… wait a moment… an unknown ratio of Quantum Energy and Void Energy? Didn’t I get the same results when I tried to my Soul in the Soul Realm? There is a Soul in the bead? Ah, didn’t my father say that there is a Dragon Soul and a blood drop in there? It seems there really is a soul in the bead.

I felt a little hesitation and fear once I think that I had to swallow it, after getting these results. I know, from experience that dealing with anything related to Soul has to with complete care and caution. I don’t want to have this almost sentient and maybe dangerous thing in my body. I shifted my gaze from the bead to my father.

After I saw that expectant look on his face, I steeled my small heart and shoved it down my throat. I immediately closed my eyes and concentrate closely on that bead. I don’t want anything fully going on in my body because of it.

The Bead slowly slid down in his throat. It gave off a feeling of something warm and comfortable as it made its way down. It slowly reached the Dantian where my 7 colored energy vortex is slowly rotating. It reached the eye of the vortex and settle there. It too slowly started revolving pulsing once in a while.

Ten minutes passed… twenty minutes… an hour passed… nothing happened except that the rotating speed of that bead slowly increased. The pulsing also started happening in increasing frequency. Suddenly the bead started rotating in sync with my energy vortex. The pulsing stopped but the bead started glowing brightly.

The energy vortex suddenly flowed towards that bead rotating at its centre. The bead absorbed the energy flowing into it like a bottomless well. I panicked at that incident. I immediately tried to stop the energy, but no matter what I did, it’s as if I had no control over it. I watched helplessly as the hard work of my efforts of nearly 2 years got absorbed. There was not even a single trace of energy anywhere in my body. It’s as if I was returned to being a mortal after that.

In his panic he did not observe, but the 7 bright threads are the first to be absorbed into that bead. The energy vortex followed on its own into the bead like soldiers following the General.

After absorbing the energy vortex, the glowing bead pulsed once again brightly. Instantly I felt a searing hot feeling at the base of my spine, and I felt something draining from that point into the Dantian. I immediately recognized as the life energy and Spirit energy mixture in the Root Chakra of my Body Refining Technique.

As I watched in horror, even that energy was sucked right into that little bead. I was almost to the point of crying my eyes out. You have to remember, I went through soul rendering pains to get to this point in both Body Refining and Spirit Energy cultivation. So to see the results of all that pain get sucked by this little shit that was only supposed to help me activate my Legacy, I was f***ung furious right now.

As I was about to open my eyes and give that block-head I call my father a solid beating of his life, a sudden pain assaulted my mind. It was almost to the point where I was about to lose my consciousness. With a great effort, I spoke six words before I was blacked out.

“[LILY, Record everything going on.]”

I slowly opened my eyes expecting to see the cave and my father, but what I saw in front of me a vast plain as far as my eyes can see... I suddenly had a big feeling of Deja Vu...