Life Drain System

Chapter 52 - Trial (Part 5)

    "Do not worry, although you may have thought I did not hear you, I will gladly travel and explore with you." Yue said happily, looking forward to what he could learn and see in the vastness of the universe.

    "*Ahem* Either way, let us begin with teaching you real magic. The trial will consist of two parts, the first is if you can utilize the technique on your first try, the second is to use this technique to produce a object, of course I will show you how first." Daoshi felt happy that he could have someone to share such experiences with, as he has been alone for billions of years.

    Having said this Daoshi sat in front of Yueliang in the same lotus position as Yue. Now that they were sitting close, Daoshi starts to produce a memory for Yue. Clearing his mind, Yue waits for the memory to appear. 

    All of a sudden the memory opens feeling as though Yue is doing it himself, yet not in control of his body. First the chi in the air starts flowing in towards him, then being guided and communicated with, teaching the chi what to do, it leaves. Once it leaves the Yue connects the chi with unassigned matter, and gives it form temporarily. The form it took in this memory was a chair made of wood.

    "So this is how one uses real magic or basically the origin of it? This is amazing." Yue mumbled to himself.

    "Why do you think those who practice magic live longer, they are basically using cultivation but a jumbled up garbage version, hence they progress slow, and never get to the peak of what they can really do. Either way, are you ready to try it on your own?" Daoshi asked kind of rhetorically. 

    "Just a moment, then yes." Yue replied as he started recalling the memory once more. After recalling it once more, Yue thought to himself. 'Alright, I am sure I can succeed this on the first time.' Yue then started guiding the chi around him into himself, and teaching it what he wanted it to become. After he had taught them which took a few seconds, he began releasing and forming the object he had in his mind.

    Daoshi watched as an item began forming before them. Then *CLANK* the item fell to the ground, and a simple yet exquisite sword lay between them. Silent for a few moments, one began to speak.

    "How is it, did I pass?" Yue broke the silence, asking while pleased with himself, yet worried about whether or not he passed.

    "You have exceeded my expectations, I figured you would just produce a rock. Good work, you have passed the test completely, well my test at lest." Daoshi said kind of happily.

    "So our deal?" Yue asked, trying to sound as respectful as possible.

    "Of course, well basically if you want to continue learning from me, you must come to where I am. This is simply a clone of sorts of me, placed here as a favor to your ancestor, although I do know where my body is at all times, we do not share memories, unless reconnected that is. Thus your mission would be to find this planet that we are on, then bring this clone to my real body.

    At the same time, it will probably take you a long time before you could come here, because seeing as neither of us know where you currently are, I cannot guide you. Should you accept, here is my final gift to you before we meet again." Daoshi said as he placed a copy of the star chart of every place he has traveled, into Yue's soul sea. 

    "I accept." The moment Yue said these words, he fell into a trance while he felt his soul sea vastly expanding, and showing the universes made up of galaxies currently explored by Daoshi, which was a lot.

    (A star chart: 3 dimensional map of solar systems, galaxies, universes, and so on. Normally requiring a star chart master, to make.)

    By the time, Yue finally fell out of his trance, Daoshi was gone and two notifications popped up in front of him as he began to stand.

    [Notification: new field of study unlocked - Star Charting]

    [Mission: Reconnecting One's Past - Accepted]

    {Details: Find Daoshi's real body, and clone. Then help them reconnect.}

    "Well this is certainly going to take a while." Yue mumbled to himself, then asking aloud. "What is the next trial?"

    {Seeing as you have passed this test, and you currently exceed the trials standards, you have finished. Thus you shall be teleported back momentarily, and your reward calculated.}

    { 5 }

    { 4 }

    { 3 }

    { 2 }

    { Teleporting Now }

    Arriving back in his house, Yue immediately ran out side, and looked to the sky to see how much time had passed. "Only 30 minutes have passed. *Phew*" He said to himself and then he went running to search for Rei.

---- Five Minutes Later ----

    "Rei, I am glad I found you." Yue said.

    "You know you could have teleported me like usual right?" Rei responded.

    "Sorry, I forgot. Either way, I need help with a few things. First could you send out 2 people to search for Xue, or at least for cultist hide outs. Then have them report their findings as often as possible. Second, do you know where Laohu is? I have not seen him around lately." Yue asked concernedly.

    "I can certainly send out some people for that, also, Laohu left shortly after the last meeting you called. However before he left he also said that you told him to take some money and go to the capital."

    "Ah seriously... Alright, I also need you to send some people out to find him as well, also I never told him that. Seems he is searching for Xue as well. Either way, how far are the engines built?" 

    "Those have been built, we are waiting on the next supply of materials." Rei said, obviously hinting at what was going on.

    "Really??? That fast, wow. I will have the materials to you by the end of the week. Also, how is everyone doing right now? Are they happy?" 

      "Yes, we are that fast. Also, everyone is currently feeling pretty happy. They will be much happier once the ship is finished. However most are wondering when we will have a permanent place to stay. Not that we are trying to rush you, just this barren planet does not have enough to let us further our research, and we have moved twice already." Rei replied.

      "I see, I actually thought you were going to say they wanted to stay here."

      "Well, actually they kind of want to stay here as it is nice, however as I said this planet is kind of barren."

      "Just curious how do you know it is barren?" 

"We have devices that can scan a planet, obviously we would bring quite a number of these with us so we can know where we need to go, rather than mine a whole mountain or search everywhere for plants, and such. Anyways, if we could utilize your system we could terraform this planet to produce higher quality items, have more dense mana, chi, and other such things. Either way, it is up to you as you are our king, leader, and friend."

"I see, well I do not mind helping out, however would it not affect the eco system on this planet if we did that?"

"It would not as long as our calculations are correct, instead it would actually benefit it."

"Well, I will gladly help if that is what you want, to live here I mean. It actually helps with my plan at the same time."

"Really? How so?" Rei asked curiously.

"Well, although I do want the ship to be large so I can take you and the others with me, I figured it would be hard on you all to constantly be moving. Thus my plan was if you all liked it here, then I would make this my base, and you all could live like you did before you met me, or hopefully better. Of course I would still summon you from time to time, either for help or just to hang out, but it means you could have a more peaceful life like you all wanted. I will probably bring back some more races from time to time, but that is still up for debate." Yue replied.

"Sounds like the perfect plan, however there are a few things we must do first, but that can wait until later. Such as the decisions on how to proceed with this place." Rei said.

"Hmm, either way, I have to get ready to go on a quest soon. Right now, I just went through a lot, and should have gained a lot of strength. However I need to make sure I understand it, and can utilize it fully."