Shocking but not really shoking, as I had a feeling, was the fact that there was a brand on my soul , the chi Family brand , as I came to know.
As I had used their technique in transcending the tribulation, I now belong to them.
I was immediately conscripted as a grunt soldier under the chi family , and started my struggles once again as an infant immortal realm cultivator.
I didn't pay mind to the factions or politics in the immortal realm, and I just went were I was told to go, fought in their wars , pleased my bosses and grew through the ranks.
Fifty thousand years later , I reached peak adult immortal realm and was already a general in the chi Family immortal army.
During this time , I met the love of my life and we made a family of five , two boys and a girl.
At the end of said year , I was recommended for a position in the senate if the immortal Court , representing the chi Family interest.
Same time , an order came from the top for me to lead my battalion of immortal army Troup in search of a celestial grade treasure buried in ama certain corner of the universe , we were taught to follow orders immediately and never question.
So we moved out and scoured every corner of that quadrant for hundreds of years , every single member of my loyal troop were died before I finally found the treasure .
Only thing was , it wasnt a celestial grade treasure at all , is it was giving out an aura of a higher quality , I didn't know what it did and I didn't bother to finding out .
I just started racing through the universe , trying to find my way home , cause I simply missed my husband and kids too much.
It wasn't until another hundred years that I managed to find my way back, only to discover my entire family , my current reason for existing, had been brutally massacred, and our home turned to dust.
I demanded answers only to be met with an ambush ,no one bordered to ask me if I had found the treasure I was sent to get, I was besieged immediately from all sides by immortals at and below my levels.
That's when I realized , that there was no treasure to begin with , it was all a ruse for something else, something I was unfortunate enought to get tangled in , something that lead to the loss of everything I held dear.
Then , like lightening I recalled what happened right before I was deceived to go out and come back a shell of who I once was .
The Senate elections. Yes that's it , I thought to myself as spear was driven through my heart .
I was only fighting at fifteen percent strength after just getting back , all in their plans I suppose.
Then I saw him , while I was bloodied on the floor, eyes shedding crimson tears and up to fifteen spares sticking through my back and out my front.
The architect to my misfortune, I didn't know who he was but I recognized those void black eyes, it was a chi ... A direct descendant of the chi Family.
I died staring into that smirking face as he stood a few meters away and watched me draw my last.
I saved that face , sealing the image in my soul , so even when I reincarnate I would know to seek all the chi Family in every corner of the universe and see to thier extermination.
But I know that was just wishful thinking, cause I am not as strong enough an existence to carry my soul memories through a reincarnation.
I died in regret , I should have been careful and kept my talents hidden , I shouldn't have believed everything I was told.
I should have questioned the world I was born in , should have noticed the weirdness in my little Li family , in the houzi village , in the imperial family and in the chi lineage.
How I wish I had been more cautious of everything.
Just then , right before my eternal rest , I heard a crack inside my robe , where the treasure I discovered while on a goose chase for a non existent treature was, and then black, everything went dark.
Till there was light .
I was a baby again, with the soul of an immortal, it took me some months to understand and accept my situation.
I had regreesed to my birth date in the mortal realm and in the Li family.
I mapped out the events I remember in bamboo notes so as not to forget, and used immortal script in coded formats only I can understand.
I hid my true potential from everyone, only showing what I want them to see , to the outside world , am only at the early stage body strengthening realm but I had already stepped into the first level of qi gathering realm.
I kept to myself and only interacted with people when I need to.
The first major event that will happen in the Li family was the birth and death of my step brother.
And knowing what I know now , I believe his death wasn't exactly what it seems , so I took to observing him constantly, both when I go with my mum and step mother and sister or when I sneakily look after him alone when no one's present.
First time I met my step brother, something stood out immediately, Li Wei from my first life had hair as black as night like his father's and mothers.
But now his hair is silver in color , everything else was the same until other things started changing too.
The first month passed as I obseverd and guarded the baby ,always checking his condition to make sure he's fine but nothing ever seemed off , he just kept getting stronger and more healthy as time went by.
I grew fond of my brother and decided to enjoy what I have missed in my previous life , and I swore nothing would happen to either him or his mother in this life.
That was when I noticed the weirdness of his senior maid and how she subconsciously releases murderous intent directed at my step brother.
But there was no evidence of any crimes , he was always healthy and happy , kept growing up stronger and more curious as the day go by , except for his borderline obsessive paranoia with staying indoors, which I rather appreciate, as someone who's already been exposed to the vices of this wretched cultivation world, but I still suspected her since I have learnt to start trusting my guts.
Today was like any other day , except my step brother decided to put an end to his extended indoor sabbatical, I was quite pleased since I would get to spend more time with him.
Only problem was ,he was going about with that maid of his, so I decided to continue observing them from a distance.
Later that night , instead of returning home , they made their way to the back mountainside beyond the safe zones of the family grounds and encroaching on wild lands.
That's when I picked up my pace whilst still keeping a distance , but as I crossed a bend , I saw them just standing and talking , so I waited and didn't approach yet.
I was wrong , I should have approached , because in the next instant , I saw the same maid gearing up to make a deadly move on my step brother.
My heart skipped a bit , I tried to run to them but I knew I would be too late , I knew he would die again just like in the previous timeline.
I had to do something, anything at all , a lethal technique that could lock onto someone in a distance, one of the immortal technique's I mastered as a immortal.
'I could probably pull out an entry level force of one of these techniques are, but it will consume more than half my lifespan , since I actually don't havethe minimum cultivation requirement for it '
'i swore to keep him alive , who cares if I loose some lifespnas , what I should be worried about is what this show of power would invite to this backwater village or who.'
Keyu gritted her teeth and for her first time since regressing, made a move.
"LIGHTNING DESCENT"
"FIRST FORM"
"ALL THINGS RETURN TO DUST"