_Essence Plain_
It's a world of martial arts and magic, where humans can wield extraordinary strength and also use magic.
This can all be accomplished by the accumulation of an energy that flows in the air; it's called essence. It exists in different forms, but the main ones are qi essence, golden essence, and heavenly essence.
With these essences, one can cultivate to become a being above humans and topple nations when they feel like it.
Clenching Cloud Sect
Flying Lobster Kingdom, First Claw City
This is one of the top sects in the midwestern continent of Essence Plain; it has a thing for genius, and anyone who graduates from this sect is regarded as a high-class cultivator no matter where they go in the midwestern continent.
However, not everyone in this sect is a genius; most of them are just scumbags used as training puppets for the geniuses of the sect, and one of those scumbags was a young master of a low-class noble family, Mo Shen.
He is currently seventeen and still on the first level of cultivation; he got admitted to the sect two years ago after cheating his way in with the dreams of getting a master that could help him get on the right path of cultivation.
Unfortunately, no master in the sect took interest in him; he was so weak that he was slapped to death by a female disciple, Shen Yinyi, whom he tried to confess his love to.
"That serves him right; how could a little cripple like him try to woo our beauty? Shen Yinyi, if I was the one who would have made him manless and chopped all his limbs."
"Now that he is dead, the plague in our sect is gone. Sister Shen Yinyi is truly a goddess; she solved two problems at once."
"I'm only fifteen, and I'm on the third level of the essence apprentice realm; how old is he now and is he still on the first level?" useless."
"Let's dispose of his body; no one cares if he dies or not, not even his family."
Two outer court disciples stepped out of the crowd and picked up Mo Shen's corpse from the ground. They have a grin on their faces.
It is obvious they are harboring ill intent against Mo Shen even after his death.
Meanwhile, at the same time, a speck of light no one could see was floating across the sky. The speck of light then started heading for the body of this world's Mo Shen.
This tiny speck of light was no other than Mo Shen's soul; after entering this world, he was greeted with a new essence, then he started searching for a body with the right constitution.
While searching, his eyes spotted one, but fortunately there was no soul in that body at the moment, meaning that this person is already dead.
His soul immediately headed for the body and entered through its forehead.
After entering the body, Mo Shen's soul merged with it and gave it life; in return, he started receiving information about the body and the world at large.
This world was just like his, but different in power scaling and many other aspects of cultivation.
In his previous life, the first realm of cultivation was the Qi gathering realm, but in this world it was the Qi apprentice realm; however, the strength of each realm was the same.
A level 8 qi gathering realm cultivator from his world would be able to hold ground with a level 9 qi apprentice in this world.
After he felt he had control over this body, he did not open his eyes, instead using the time to get this world into his head and understand the situation.
After reading the memories, he then started to feel that his body was not on a solid surface but instead was in midair and that his four limbs were being held by something.
Then he opened his eyes; the coldness of his previous self still lingered.
He stared at the two guys holding him; they weren't looking at him because they knew he was dead.
They reached a dumpsite, an 18-foot pit dug for the disposal of dirt and useless corpses like Mo Shen's.
"His body is no longer cold." One of them said it half-heartedly.
"That doesn't matter; let's put it down and check for any resources; he might have some pills or spirit stones with him."
"Yeah, after that, we slice his body and make sure he never resurrects. hehe." Both of them smiled evilly and then placed Mo Shen's body on the ground.
It was almost nighttime at the moment, so it was quite dark, and there was also no light crystal to light it up during the dark time.
Mo Shen's eyes stared at them as they brought their hands close to his pockets.
"I'm poor and weak; what do you think you will get from me?" Mo Shen's gentle voice came out.
"Holy hell."
"Fuck.."
Both of them yelled, deeply shocked by the voice they just heard.
Mo Shen rose his upper torso up; it was like the scene in movies where the dead rise from their coffins.
Mo Shen placed his hands on the ground and supported himself upward.
"You're not dead. No, we must use this chance to kill you." "You are not allowed to live."
Mo Shen shook his head. In this world, Mo Shen would pee his pants if he was told those words, but himself—he could categorize himself as someone who's unfazed even at the face of death.
The two outer court disciples dragged their swords out of their sheaths.
"You guys are weaker; at least give me a sword; let's see who's stronger." Mo Shen sighed.
Both disciples looked at each other for a brief second and started laughing their hearts out.
"You, a total mess, dare to confront us with your Level 1 strength. In case you don't know, that strength of yours only gives you 10% more strength than an ordinary human." The first one said
"Not to forget that you don't know any martial arts." The other one was added.
"Ok, since you want to die honorably, I'll take that as your last wish and give it to you." "I have a spare sword you can take it." The first outer court disciple tossed a sword to Mo Shen. Mo Shen stretched one of his fingers, and the sword stood on his finger. "Good catch!" The second one complimented, "Let's fight; I'll beat you first." Mo Shen nodded his head; he held the sword in the most basic way, causing another roar of laughter from the two. The first one started running towards him with his sword held tightly in his hands. Mo Shen furrowed his brow and observed the sword movements before stretching out his sword to attack the other party. Cling~ Both swords clashed with each other; the outer court disciple removed his sword and slashed again. "The strength of this body is extremely weak; I can't even swing the sword the way I want to." Mo Shen was quite disgusted at his new body, but only for its current strength. He chose the body because of its constitution and not
The others were so surprised at the arrival of someone who was supposed to be dead by now that they wondered what had happened and how he had managed to survive the slap of Shen Yinyi. An extremely respected figure in the sect and geniusMo Shen didn't bother himself about them; after he reached his part of the hall, he sat on the mask and shut his eyes. The memories in his head are still hazy; he just wanted to calm his mind down and maybe get everything in his head at once. After one hour, he opened his eyes. At that time, all the scumbag disciples in the room had already left, and he could already guess the reason why they had left. Either some outer court disciples want to use them as punching bags to train their martial arts, or the sect has given them a task to complete at night while he is away. Anyway, he was glad they left. He is not used to such an amount of noise, and the heat that accumulated in the room because of their noise was extremely unbearable. Well, that as
'Those bastards didn't do the job I pay them for, I'm going to beat the life out of those two anytime I see them. and you Mo Shen, I'm going to chop off all your finger one after the other for trying to lay hands on my woman. you're lucky elder Gui is here.' Li Yan stared at Mo Shen with deep hatred. He gritted his teeth and asked Shen Yinyi out of the mission hall. 'She has a good amount of yin in her body, she will make a good sex cauldron after I awaken the constitution in my body.' Mo Shen thought to himself. Elder Gui was placing some mission scroll back on the shelf so he didn't notice Mo Shen standing in front of the desk. In the mission hall, missions are ranked as F, E, D, C, B, A and S, with F being the lowest rank and S being the highest. The higher the rank of a mission the better the pay and the harder the mission is going to be. "I'm here to receive a mission." Mo Shen broke the silence. "What rank?" Elder Gui asked without bothering to look at the face of the sp
When Li Yan spotted the corpse of the two of them the first them that came to his mind was Mo Shen followed by blame. He rushed towards the corpse of the first one which has a sword piercing from his back, he placed his hands on his body, it was already cold and their skin was already starting to pale. Li Yan eyes was filled with rage and killing intent, at the moment all he wanted to do was deal with the bastard that caused all of this which was no other than Mo Shen. 'That bastard, I'm going to kill him no matter what.' He yelled in his heart, he stood up from and then leaped into the sky to a height of about 20 feet. He landed several feets away from the corpse and with killing intent filled eyes he started moving away. The other scumbag disciples stared at the corpse for some time, they could not toss these corpse away. ....Almost five hours have passed since he started walking towards the flying lobster forest. Mo Shen stared at a place with the symbol which could be inte
"It's about time to get serious." Mo Shen thought to himself, With his calculation, with the amount of time he has spent on this golden tailed tiger, the amount of essence stored in it's body must have decreased so that it wouldn't be able to use any of those magic attacks anymore. At the moment, the tiger no longer attacked him instead it stood faraway, it's body moved as though it was trying to catch his breath. Mo Shen did not hesitate, he quickly set on his feet and soon approaches before the tiger with the speed that was only ten percent faster than any human being on earth. He sent his feet in for the first strike. Boom, his feet moved in a curve and hit the face of the tiger. After that he clenched his sword and released a normal downward slash, his sword flew through the air and made "Puchi!" sound as it hit it's body. Roar the tiger cried out in pain, it shook off the human from it's head injuring himself further but that was still merely enough to kill it. It easily
"From the looks of it he has really changes a lot, it seems my slap has done a lot of changes in his personality, by the way he was in the mission hall, we should ask elder Gui." Shen Yinyi suggested. Li Yan nodded and both of them began walking towards the mission hall. When they got there they saw elder Gui reading a scroll and making certain corrections. They greeted him respectfully, he only nodded as a response not even taking his eyes off the book he was reading. Both of them asked the question they wanted to ask. "No can't do." Elder Gui gave his simple answer infuriating Li Yan, he clenched his fist; he wasn't even given him face despite his identity. Shen Yinyi held his hands and calmed him down before leading him outside. "Elder Gui is always like that, never caring, my grandpa helped him into this sect and still isn't gratified." Li Yan yelled furiously. "His mission must be F or E rank, but even with that there are a lot of possibilities that he won't make it back
While hunting the last demonic cat beast, Mo Shen could feel a very powerful presence that dimmed on the battlefield. It was released only once, and when he tried to feel it one more time, he discovered that it was gone. He has nothing wrong with his head in anyway, which means that there is actually something that powerful in the forest.He was able to survive in this forest and hunt just because of the luck and survival instinct he has in him. If it wasn't for that, then it would be super unbelievable and impossible for him to survive even for one day; the beasts in the forest would have devoured him. Let's not forget that the cat race of demonic beasts hosts a large number of powerhouses, and they can be considered the strongest breed of demonic beast if there weren't dragons and sirens. Dragons are strong, while sirens have the ability to pierce into the soul and start destroying any human being from that point.Mo Shen fell to the ground immediately after he won the last fig
"Xan, lie on the ground, four of you hold his hands and leg, one person for one. then the rest of you should beat him as hard as you can." Following his words was total silence in the room, the sex workers are here to work but it turned out they were actually going to do an entirely different work. Xan stared at Mo Shen with wide eyes, 'is he trying to kill me and steal my carriage?' he asked himself. Nevertheless he lied on the ground, his stomach was an obstruction, it was as though he was lying on top of a balloon. The sex workers have strength of at least level 2 qi apprentice realm, the strength boost that comes with that realm should be enough for them to lift the fatty up the ground. Four of the strongest obliged and raised Xan up the ground, the other started using their hands to beat his body. Xan was feeling intense pain right now, however no matter where he looks he could see beautiful ladies with voluptuous figures which caused a boner. Pa.. Pa PaThe sound rang o
Mo Shen led the other outer court disciples through the broad path that divided the serpent forest. The forest is connected to two different kingdoms, but the biggest part belonged to the Flying Lobster Kingdom, giving them the largest authority over this vast land.More than fifty outer court disciples walked behind him. Alora was standing on his left side with a faint blush on her face. Hinata had a calm expression on her face, although inwardly she felt insecure due to the numerous changes in expression by Alora. She could easily tell that Alora had feelings for Mo Shen.It had already been six hours since they entered the serpent forest. Luckily, they hadn't been attacked by demonic beasts, mainly because it was the early hours of the morning. Serpent demonic beasts mostly operate at night; during daylight, they remain hidden.Mo Shen stared at the scroll containing a small map of the serpent forest. After inspecting it, he discovered that they had only covered 20% of the distance
"Your mission is to eliminate these demonic beasts and ensure the safety of the Desert Merchant Clan. Each of you will be assigned a specific area to patrol, and you will be rewarded contribution points based on the number of beasts you kill. This mission is of utmost importance, as it not only strengthens our ties with the Desert Merchant Clan but also provides valuable combat experience for all of you." The other disciples stood and listened to the announcement by the southern demon faction, after that sudden announcement their training became even intense. In the past there was no such thing as outer court disciples getting summoned for a mission, the inner court and and core disciples were all in charge of that. Nevertheless they can't complain, they say you can't know how good you are with a sword unless you test it in real fight. It's obvious this is what the sect is planning to do. "Mo shen, you would be leader of the other disciples, Alora would be your assistant. Every oth
Mo Shen's mind echoed with that thought, his determination reigniting like a blazing fire. He refused to be deterred by the pain; he would break through this barrier no matter the cost.With a surge of will, Mo Shen tapped into his inner reserves of energy, pushing himself beyond his limits. He embraced the pain, welcoming it as a sign of his progress. Each wave of torment became fuel for his determination, propelling him forward on his path of cultivation.Gradually, the intense burning sensation began to subside. The pain transformed into a tingling warmth that spread through his meridians, signaling the completion of the breakthrough. Mo Shen's body relaxed, and he let out a long breath, relieved that the ordeal was over.Now, with his cultivation base consolidated at the 1st level of the Qi Senior realm, Mo Shen decided to spend the next two days solidifying his newfound strength. He immersed himself in intense meditation, refining his reserved Qi and honing his mental sphere.The
The following day, all the outer court disciples gathered for an assembly, where they awaited a speech from the vice sect head. Shen Yinyi found it increasingly challenging to control her emotions as she observed Mo Shen's attractive and aloof demeanor. Nevertheless, she managed to restrain her feelings and refocus on the purpose of the assembly, which was to ensure everyone followed the sect leader's guidance. Li Yan was also present, directing a scornful gaze towards Mo Shen. The memories of the Bai brothers' demise still haunted him, but he realized that killing Mo Shen now wouldn't be as effortless as before. Previously, Mo Shen had been a nobody sheltered by the sect, but now he had become an outer court disciple and gained the attention of the sect's authorities due to his victory in the examination. Being the top disciple, he wasn't someone easily forgotten. Additionally, the other two arrogant swordsmen were committed to their duties, making it nearly impossible to harm
Two days had passed since the promotion and the incident involving Fang Yuan, leading to the Clenching Cloud Sect forming an agreement with the southern demon faction, under the leadership of demon lord Catos. According to the terms, the sect had a three-year period to send their most skilled cultivators to compete against the new generation of southern demon cultivators.The outcome carried significant weight. Should the human faction emerge victorious, they would not only reclaim Fang Yuan but also receive additional rewards unavailable within their own faction. However, failure would result in the demons launching a war against the human realm, reminiscent of the devastating conflict that occurred centuries ago. The potential for the demons to possess new strategies and malevolent techniques to dominate the human world heightened the gravity of the situation.Consequently, the fate of the human cultivation world now rested upon the young generation of the Clenching Cloud Sect, sp
"Have you caught wind of the latest news?" asked a young man dressed in the robes of the outer court sect."What's the buzz about?" his friend inquired."During the recently concluded promotion exam, someone vanished within the alter dimension," he revealed.His friend responded with skepticism, "Are you attempting to spread more false information this morning?""No, I assure you it's true. Visit the exam grounds and witness it for yourself. The missing individual is Fang Yuan, the esteemed top disciple of a prominent sect," he insisted.News of Fang Yuan's disappearance quickly circulated throughout the sect, becoming the most talked-about topic within just an hour. Nearly everyone was informed.Numerous experts gathered at the exam grounds, attempting to discern what had transpired, but they were denied any opportunity to understand the situation. Even the inner court disciples stood ready to lend assistance, but it seemed there was little they could do to solve the mystery.Meanwhi
Hinata gave up, she didn't understand this dimension and she thought she was going to die at that moment but suddenly she found herself somewhere else, close to the person she always wanted to be with. She stared at his otherworldly handsome face as he too stared at the masters standing in front of them. Mo Shen tilted his head slowly towards her and smiled and turned to the masters immediately they started speaking again. '"All of you did well, your performance are more delightful to watch than the years before now, I'm really glad all of you have learned something called weakness and now trying to eradicate it." The Vice head stood in front of them and announced with a smile on his face. He looked at all the scumbag disciples, all of them have grown and some were even stronger than he had Imagined one of them was Mo Shen. He stared at the lad that was always at the bottom of the scumbag disciples, the one who was rumoured to be cursed with the inability to cultivate and here h
The moment, Mo Shen stepped into the battlefield it became a one-sided massacre, his movement was fast, his hands was like machine creating destructive movement each time it moved. His sword followed a pattern, a killing pattern. One strike from his sword either take out two beasts at the same time or take a rank demonic beast at once. The other scumbag disciples fought with all they have got and still they could not achieve what Mo Shen achieved without trying really hard. It was not hard to tell who the boss is. ...Meanwhile, in a mountainous area. Hinata could be seen holding a skull that released dark smokes.She was shivering as she held it and standing in front of her was a group of angry demon worshipers armed with swords and ready to slash the human into pieces. "Human, you are weak and you have no comrade to save you, why not hand that over and let us kill you painlessly." They said while gritting their teeth. Hinata shivered and shook her head. She got along with t
The master from the sect had an imposing presence, radiating a palpable aura of power and authority. He had a stern expression on his face, showing determination and readiness to face the monstrous creature before him. Most of the scumbag disciples recognized him as Master Zhao, one of the most formidable martial artists in their sect.Master Zhao's eyes narrowed as he assessed the situation, quickly gauging the threat level of the demonic beast. With a calm yet commanding voice, he addressed Mo Shen and the other disciples."Stay back, young ones," Master Zhao commanded. "This beast is beyond your current capabilities. I will handle it."Mo Shen and the other disciples nodded, acknowledging their limits and stepping back to create a safe distance. 'I could have defeated this monster at once if I had the prowess of my previous life, sigh, I can't help but feel really weak now, I must increase my training, hopefully the sect has Techniques fitting for dark attributed cultivators.' Mo