Chapter 2167 - 2160: Child of Destiny

How should I describe this feeling?

Zhang Menglong felt as if his soul had been thrown into a washing machine drum, spinning at an incredible speed, almost separating his consciousness and soul.

A moment later, Zhang Menglong discovered he was amidst chaos!

In this chaos, there was nothing, only darkness, like the world before Pangu created the heavens and earth from myth and legend.

"Is anyone here?" Zhang Menglong shouted, but nothing responded to him.

"Gou Dan?"

Zhang Menglong called out, but he lost contact with Gou Dan, and he couldn’t even sense the existence of the Super God Academy.

At this moment, Zhang Menglong truly panicked.

Until now, with the Super God Academy as a trump card, Zhang Menglong almost didn’t fear anything. Even if a being beyond a Transcender appeared before him, he would dare to act arrogantly.

But now, left with only this small piece of soul, he suddenly felt a chill over his rashness.

Suddenly, in this pitch-black world, a point of light appeared, like the light from the initial universe explosion, and within the radiance, there appeared a giant!

Without any reference, Zhang Menglong had no idea how large the giant was; anyway, standing in front of it, he only felt incredibly small.

The giant wore no garments and bore no identifiable organs, leaving Zhang Menglong unsure if it still had life.

"Hello?" Zhang Menglong waved at the giant.

But the giant kept its eyes closed, seemingly devoid of life and consciousness.

Yet a moment later, Zhang Menglong bizarrely felt an awareness traversing his body, as if inspecting every detail.

But in this place, it’s just him and the giant. Is this awareness from the giant?

"Hey, are you peeking at me? You know that’s really perverted!" Zhang Menglong loudly protested.

"An 8-grade Peak soul, still quite decent, yet still too weak, not even Divine Grade." A voice echoed throughout the space.

"What do you mean too weak?" Zhang Menglong immediately resisted, "Though I’m a bit weaker compared to my ancestors, what’s your tone supposed to imply? Are you looking down on me?"

"Such a young life, not even a single era old, traversing experiences from the lowest small world to here, how was it achieved?"

"Hmm?" That voice suddenly carried a hint of surprise, "It’s actually within you, no wonder. Thought it was destroyed in that era, yet it’s gone to a small world. What a wondrous fate... The Child of Destiny is this little guy? But it’s still insufficient, far from it."

"What’s this guy muttering to himself?" Zhang Menglong was utterly speechless.

Just at that moment, the giant abruptly opened its eyes, before Zhang Menglong even processed it, the giant extended two hands and gripped Zhang Menglong within them.

"What the heck? What are you doing?" Zhang Menglong was shocked to the core.

But the giant gave no answer to Zhang Menglong, only responded with a deep soul-wrenching ache, like someone madly squeezing his soul, as if trying to crush it, forcing out the impurities.

"Hehe, the souls of new humans are truly fragile, simply trash..."

...

"Huff huff!" Zhang Menglong suddenly awoken from his deck chair, finding his clothes soaked with sweat.

"What the heck is this jade pendant?" Holding the jade pendant, Zhang Menglong abruptly realized his soul had changed!

His originally 8-grade Soul Rank had unexpectedly fallen to First-grade at this time!

"Damn!" Zhang Menglong cursed.

He painstakingly gathered so many Supreme Crystals to barely elevate his Soul Rank to an 8-grade Peak, yet now it’s suddenly dropped to 1-grade. How could he stand it? He practically became a useless person!

"No way!" Although Zhang Menglong felt his Soul Rank was indeed at First-grade, his power not only hadn’t weakened in the slightest, but even became more refined! This feeling was like changing a body and soul!

[Principal, your Soul Rank has not decreased, it’s transformed!] Gou Dan’s voice finally rang once more at Zhang Menglong’s ear.

"Transformed?" Zhang Menglong carefully sensed his soul.

Indeed, it truly transformed.

This change wasn’t a quantitative shift, but a qualitative one!

Normally, a human soul is like a bucket, a First-grade soul akin to steam; once the steam accumulated and filled, this container’s gas converts into liquid, thus a Second-grade soul resembles water.

Once filled with water, it again undergoes qualitative change, transforming into a heavier liquid, then a solid...

But Zhang Menglong’s current situation differed, his soul’s vessel changed, from a wooden bucket to a metal one!

This is a shift of soul level.

[Principal, what did you just experience? How come I suddenly couldn’t contact you?]

Zhang Menglong recounted his previous experience, leaving Gou Dan in utter silence.

[New human soul...]

[Principal, according to the data I possess, your soul should no longer be an ordinary creature’s soul.] Gou Dan suddenly remarked.

"What do you mean? What’s a ’ordinary creature’s soul’?" Zhang Menglong puzzled.

[It’s information stored within my database from the start,] Gou Dan explained, [Initially, I couldn’t discern the difference between the two, and this data wasn’t collected from any world I’ve traversed, seemingly birthed alongside my existence.]

"Explain in detail."

[Truthfully, I’m not very clear either. My database contains only two concepts: ancient human soul and new human soul.]

"Is that it? What’s the point explaining without any distinction?" Zhang Menglong was perplexed.

This is like telling a primitive person, here’s a bicycle, here’s an electric bike, without any explanations; who knows what difference there is?

[My intuition tells me, Principal, your soul has been transformed into an ancient human soul by that power, as for the rest, perhaps only principal can explore further.]

"Isn’t this just absurd?" Zhang Menglong had no clue what his soul’s change implied for him.

What’s this about ancient humans, new humans, what does it mean? Sounds like a crossover of two different eras.

This small jade pendant unexpectedly stirred such massive information, alongside the Child of Destiny, what’s the implication? Is it a blessing or a curse?

"Well, seems I need to ask my ancestors," Zhang Menglong didn’t expect to find something so peculiar in this small Mansha Kingdom, truly an unexpected discovery.