‘How can I see, then?’His surroundings had changed completely too. It used to be a dreary, endless pitch blackness, yet it was now filled with greenery, ancient trees that were so tall that their leaves covered the skies. The whole place brimmed with life.“Alex!”A voice came from behind him. It sounded familiar yet foreign at the same time. Alex turned his head around, his neck crackling from the sudden movement. The sight of a green skeleton running towards him made him jump.“Holy sh*t! What the hell is this?” Alex wanted to run, but he was rather slow. He used to move around with a fleshy body, so running required muscles. Without them, his bones wouldn’t move like he wanted them to.In just a few moments, someone charged at him, and he fell to the ground.It was the green skeleton, who had lunged towards him and pinned him to the ground, sitting right on top of him… ‘Oh sh*t, from its voice, this skeleton is definitely a woman. Is she going to assault me here?’‘But
Alex could clearly remember how his life was drained out of his body, how everything was coming to an end. After that, he just... died.After that, he lost consciousness for a split second. ‘But that amount of time should’ve been quite short, right?’‘Short...’‘Could that split second indicate two years had already passed?’‘Wouldn’t this mean that... my father William, who’s currently in the Cleansing Vase... was I too late to save him?’‘Has the Soul Planting succeeded? So did he become a completely different person?’He immediately looked for the Cleansing Vase.“Where’s the Cleansing Vase? Where is it?”“Where did it go?”Unable to find it, Alex instantly panicked.“Don’t worry. It’s not as bad as you think,” Mystic Maiden spoke up.As if able to sense what Alex was thinking, she continued, “The Cleansing Vase and every spiritual storage you brought with you has now been placed in your mind palace! Besides, time doesn’t exactly work the same here. One day outside coul
Mystic Maiden carried Alex into a small cave. The first thing he saw was the skeleton of a pig, curled up in the corner and not moving an inch.‘Ah, that’s probably Pigsy.’Pigsy crawled to its feet, huffing as it watched Alex getting thrown to the ground. “I knew life is never fair. Good people seem to always die early, and the bad continue living a perfectly good life. A scammer like you couldn’t possibly just die like that.”Alex laid on the ground, his position unpleasant to the eye. More importantly, he couldn’t stand back up.He decided to not move and said, “You damn pig, do you not know who I am? It’s been two whole years, for god’s sake. Of course, you can’t compete with me.”Pigsy could tell that something was wrong with him and understood what was happening at the time. It approached Alex with sly intentions, stomping on his skull.“Hahaha! And you still dare to lie like that?!”“If you can, fight back!”“Stand up and punch me!”“If you can’t, then all you can do is
Mystic Maiden was shocked because she needed three months to be able to perfect this skill.It was mainly due to her soul being abnormally stronger than most.‘How could he do that?’‘Could his soul be stronger than mine?’Since she was currently a green skeleton, there weren’t any muscles on her face. Hence, no one knew what her expressions were. In reality, the fact that her soul was below her own servant’s embarrassed Mystic Maiden.“Arghhhh!!!”“Boss, please boss! Stop hitting me! My bones are breaking! I’m a casualty...” Pigsy oinked in pain, unable to bear it any longer.Alex’s attacks were heavy, letting out a loud thud every time he hit the bone. It was absolutely unbearable.In the end, Alex was satisfied. The frustration from being stomped on had finally faded.Mystic Maiden asked, “You were able to connect your soul to your bones. How did you do that?”Alex brushed it off. “Hey, is it really that hard? Isn’t this… just basic instinct? It’s like… the need to drink a
Shirley watched as the two fawned over each other, seemingly unhappy. “You’re such a drag, Rockefeller. I said we shouldn’t meet in our next lives, yet here you are! Come over, let’s spar!”Alex looked at Shirley. Standing nearly six feet, she had a naturally large bone structure and had rather long legs.This made her a good foot taller than Alex.“Are you sure?” Alex asked.“Of course!” Shirley said with confidence, rubbing her palms and cracking her knuckles.Zendaya whispered in Alex’s ears. “Darling, you just arrived. You probably haven’t learned the skills to control your body, so don’t spar with her! Shirley experienced an odd incident once, so she’s the strongest among us now.”“What? This lady here is the strongest now?”Zendaya told him that Shirley once went out once and was attacked by a high-class bone demon. She managed to survive and brought one of the bones back. On it was high-class bone patterns. Hence, she absorbed two of them and became quite strong.Alex fr
As for why Shirley reacted as such; such contact would directly reach the soul, after all. It had skipped the entire process of the contact of skin, sending neural signals straight to the brain.After hearing Shirley whimpering like a kitten, he immediately understood what was happening.With this, Alex jumped away from Shirley, feeling slightly awkward. No one could tell, though, from his face being a mere skeleton.He even acted casual about it. “As I said, don’t cry.”As a dense person… No, as a self-identifying dense pig, Pigsy decided to speak up. “Boss, you didn’t make her cry. I’m a witness. You just touched her. You obviously made her moan.”Alex felt even more awkward now. He rushed up to Pigsy and smacked it again. “Witness? I think you’re talking way too much…”Shirley was so embarrassed that she wished she could bury herself in a hole. Moreover, she simply couldn’t accept how Alex could beat her. She had been daydreaming about how she could take revenge on Alex once
In just a few moments, everyone had come together to distribute the bones of the mouse.Alex noticed faint bone patterns on the mouse bone demon as well. They weren’t golden but a whitish-grey instead. He could tell that the power within these bone patterns was far less potent than the ones on Shirley, let alone any of the bone patterns of those two gigantic bone demons he encountered.Zendaya handed Alex a bone, which consisted of five bone patterns. It was considered one of the bones that had more patterns than the others. The patterns seemed to be made out of a rare type of language.“Try eating it. See if these bone patterns show up on your bones. Usually, one out of five will.”“How? Do I chew on it?” Alex was appalled.“Use your soul power to absorb it.” Zendaya told Alex that one couldn’t absorb bone patterns of demons that were still alive. On the contrary, patterns could be absorbed once the soul of the being had been destroyed or if they had been drained of their sou
Alex made a careful observation.Finding his position on the 3D map, he also spotted several small dots beside him. These dots were understood to represent Zendaya, Shirley, and others.In addition to these people, Alex found a few small white dots not very far away.He was ready to go out and verify it."Old pig, follow me out for a spin!"Alex called Pigsy and found that it was holding and squinting at a bone not much bigger than a chicken bone, enjoying what it was seeing. With that lewd look, those who didn't know thought it must be high on something!Pigsy smiled and looked up, "Where are we going?""Why do you talk so much nonsense? Just follow me," Alex replied."You're not going to screw me again, are you?""Don't regret that you didn’t come then."Zendaya said, "Husband, you just came here. You are unfamiliar with the place. Watch your step for it is easy to encounter danger. When you get out of the cave, it is best to go in groups as you can take care of each other.