Secrets of the Universe

Chapter 40: His First Sight

The Creature appeared in a dark place. The place lighted up and the creature found itself floating in an endless cosmic space. It was surrounded by stars and huge planets.

However, the creature didn't notice that. What it noticed was a cosmic-looking eyeball, that stared down on it like a god judging his subject.

Looking at the gigantic eye, the creature felt intimidated like never before in its life. The creature didn't expect something like this to happen.

"What is this place?" It said out loud, with its corporeal body trembling.

It heard a familiar voice coming from beside the cosmic eye, "Oh, you are finally here. Took you long enough."

The creature hissed at the origin of the voice, "Jake!"

It saw Jake standing beside the eye with his hands behind his backs. Jake's demeaning expression combining with the arrogant Akashic eye ticked off the creature.

In a temporary burst of anger, the creature demanded, "Answer me! What is this place?"

Suddenly, the scenery changed into a vast cosmic field with levitating rocks the size of a planet. Some rocks touched each other and blew up into smaller ones like an asteroid. Some rapidly grew; they expanded until they popped out like a balloon, exploding into countless stars. Some disintegrated into dust and assembled back.

It was absolute chaos, Pure chaos. The dancing objects got destroyed and assembled back together. They formed a cycle of destruction and creation.

Noticing the change of scenery, the mysterious creature asked, as he could not look away from the beautiful scenery, "Where is this? What is this place?"

Jake ignored the questions as he looked at his surroundings, his face making a rare expression of nostalgia.

"Let me tell you a story. There was once a child born in a field of perfection. His first sight was the most beautiful he would ever come to see. It represented the whole world to him.

Looking at it, he saw everything; his future, his birthright, the perfect picture of perfection.

Years after, his feeble mind struggled to remember what it was. Every day, Every night, Every dream, he would burn the scene into his memory, going it back every time it fell into pieces. Until, one day, he realized that he could perfectly recollect the scene. He could sleep for a thousand years and still not forget. It was that day that the child truly was born!"

The creature paused for a moment, digesting the story before concluding that it was just nonsense Jake shouted, "Don't mess with me, human!"

Jake shook his head as he sighed, "Do not speak with me that way! It seems you have forgotten your place."

Jake's features became more defined as he stared down icily at the creature.

"What do you mea--Ahhh!" the creature was about to ask when its corporeal body was sliced through by a mysterious force.

It looked at Jake who held a blue sword.

Still bleeding, it queried, "How is your mind so strong?"

It didn't understand. While it might behave arrogantly, all of its actions were calculated. For example, it migrated to a rural area to feed off humans.

Even when it captured Jake, it made sure that Jake couldn't defeat it. It had estimated that Jake was just a youngster which would mean that his mind was quite weak and easy to possess.

Jake's monotone voice became louder and louder as he said, "You have no idea what I have endured. You dare invade my space. Dare to mock me. Preposterous!"

He stretched forth his right hand, using his willpower to drag the sliced corporeal body of the creature to him.

Holding it by the strength, the creature found no strength in it as it struggled to get free.

It panicked, 'By the heavens! I have doomed myself. If this was the outside, I would have easily defeated this brat, but this is a battle of the mind and he has the home advantage.'

With just a thought, Jake's left hand merged with the blue sword.

He was about to stab the corporeal body when the creature shouted, "Wait! We can settle this. What do you want?" with the breath of death hanging just by its neck, the creature opted to become shameless.

"Your life," coldly said Jake.

"I can give anything," panicked the creature

"The dice have already been thrown. What a sad life!" Jake sighed.

He emotionlessly looked at the creature, positing his sword hand at the center of the creature's corporeal body, "Know this, the one who killed you was Jake Khaos Amethyst!"

*Puchi!*

The sword hand went through the creature, and the corporeal body dispersed like a lonely leaf in the breezy wind, slowly, steady, and.silently.

...

'Hmmm, I'm back' Jake's eyes slowly opened.

He took a breath of fresh air, appreciating that he had just brushed off a near-death experience.

Yes, it was a near-death experience. In fact, if the creature had thought a little harder, it might have found a way to escape Jake's mind. That was why Jake was quick to kill the creature.

It all started when Jake, on the brink of despair, was told by the creature that he was going to be possessed.

Jake, with his smart mind, tried to understand what he meant by possession. Secretly, he hoped it involved his mind.

The reason for that was that Jake knew his mind was his greatest asset. It housed his Akashic eye, there was no way for it to be weak, but it was in the tatters due to his rebirth technique.

Just the thought of his mind would awaken the innate fear Jake got from his rebirth process. He could remember his mind tearing bit by bit.

So, when the creature pointed his finger at his forehead, Jake, while momentarily stunned, instantly knew the creature would try to take over his body through his mind.

"I was on a tight schedule," Jake reminisced.

He got to his mind faster than the creature and prepared for his counter. He experimented a few times, as he had never been in his mind before.

When the creature arrived in his mind, he camouflaged it with his childhood scene, his 'first sight', and executed his plan.

Just as he killed the corporeal body of the creature, which Jake guessed was the soul, a vital part of the creature, Jake was evicted from his mind, due to its shattered status.

Jake stood up from the chair he sat on. He moved to the body of the creature.

Pausing his step, Jake grabbed his chair and smashed it on the creature.

The creature's lifeless body took the attack without any resistance.

Jake smiled, "Good, he is truly dead."

He walked to the door of the shop, before he took another look at the corpse, "It would be a waste to just leave it."

Deciding, Jake walked back to the corpse, he clenched his right fist tightly before opening it back.

A small abyss purple whirlpool appeared at the palm of his right hand. It was the purple whirlpool that came out of his body a few months ago. Now, he had learned to control, making a miniature version of it.

Placing his palm on the corpse, the whirlpool sucked out all the grey energy from the corpse. Unlike the other corpse he had absorbed, the grey energy of this corpse was abundant and pure.

Absorbing it, Jake could feel something in him rapidly changing, and it was not his cultivation.

Twenty minutes later, a young teenager came out of a mysterious shop at an eerie street