The First Legendary Demonic Scholar

Chapter 56: Chapter 56: The Rebirth

Shen Yuan brought the mango-shaped fruit and ate it in one go. Fortunately there were no seeds inside the fruit and only rich sweetness.

The taste overwhelmed his senses, filling every corner of his mouth. But the moment the crushed fruit went down his throat, it all disappeared.

Then it happened—

Bzzz....

Zzaaapttt!

It was like a live wire of electricity had been thrown on his body. Shen Yuan felt a jolt of current running around his body from his stomach.

In an instant, every single bone inside his body was crushed.

"Argh!!!" Shen Yuan could no longer sit still and went limp on the boulder he was sitting on. His body slipped down from the edge and fell to the ground with his face up. ’All this pain...’

The pores all over his body opened, and beads of liquid peered out. Although he thought it was sweat or waste from his body, it was actually blood.

Every drop of blood was being pushed out of his body without even retaining a single drop. His skin started to shrivel like he was some corpse who had been sucked dry by a bloodsucking demon.

Soon Shen Yuan could not even think straight, and his mind went numb from pain. His eyes rolled back...

He had passed out.

At the same time, a few feet under the surface of the lake, a pair of crystal blue eyes opened. They were exquisite and quite detailed. You could even see the beautiful pattern of lines and curves within the iris around the elongated pupil.

The size of each pupil was bigger than a human being. They seemed to be staring up ahead.

’No wonder that old man never believed in his own divination. Future is ever changing.’ Then they blinked and heard a voice that came out from inside the lake and disappeared within it.

’What is happening in the outside world? Is this boy a blessing or a curse for the sect?’

’Should I just kill him to avoid any problems for that child? No, that will be breaking the contract. I can tell his dantian is broken, but it should not stay that way for long.’

’Then again, he has taken a bath in the lake of miracles. I don’t even know what it has done to him.’

’If he breaks through, then maybe I can...’ A cold light flashed in those massive eyes.

"But then again, the old one always said that he could only move certain pieces for the sect, and the rest was up to fate. Maybe I should just watch and let things play out the way they do...’

’Mhmm... I am sleepy. That bug from before did not fill even a corner of my stomach. I should have dinner before going back to sleep.’

The voice disappeared soon after, and the huge pair closed on themselves.

...

A long time passed.

Shen Yuan’s body was still lying still under the shade of the mystical tree.

But it looked horrifying.

A thick layer of blood had formed around his body. Even his hair had been dyed red.

Shen Yuan looked like a demon lying in slumber, awaiting his awakening to wreak havoc upon the world.

Suddenly...

Crrrr...

His hand flinched and cracks started to appear all over the shell.

Next, it flickered, shattering another section of the shell. Shen Yuan slowly rose from the ground, and the remaining parts of it broke away.

Everything fell on the ground where he was lying, along with black ashes that had taken the shape of his body.

Shen Yuan walked up to the lake and looked at himself in the reflection.

Even though he looked a little similar to the Shen Yuan, he knew the body was no longer the same. He had shed his old body after consuming that miraculous fruit and forged a new body for himself.

’This is true resurrection, in a way.’ His hair was still the same black as before, but his eyes were different. within the silver mass, there was a tint of purple around the pupil, adding more points to his charm.

His physique was stronger than before; Shen Yuan could feel power coursing through his body.

More powerful than before.

His muscles were more pronounced and jacked while his figure remained lean. ’I look like those supermodels but with less fat.’ Shen Yuan walked back to the spot he was lying before and looked down.

"I may not have the emotional weight to ever want to do something like this. But I have a code that I live by." Shen Yuan whispered to the air as if he were talking to the boy he had seen in his vision. "Don’t think I am forcing myself to do this for appearances. I am doing this because I believe this is the right thing to do. I owe it to you, for this body, for this life and everything that came with it.’

Crouching down, Shen Yuan started digging a hole with himself.

The hole was the size of a human head.

After digging it up, he used his bare hands to move all the ashes and the crystallized blood into the hole before covering it.

There was no expression on his face from the moment he woke up. "To truly become free of the constraints of the past, I have to start a new life. For that I have to start from a new name. "Shen Yuan died on the same day as I did."

"But today, with this burial, a new me—Wang Qing—is born. A name no one other than me will ever know." Shen Yuan whispered in the silent cave, letting his voice echo while carving words on the back of the stone slab he took from under the tree.

The words seemed gibberish. At least they would to anyone other than him.

After all, he had used a language he created himself to write.

Here lies Shen Yuan.

Beloved Son and Cherished Brother.

A boy loved by Ten, Scorned by some.

XXXXXX—XXXXXX

’Is this how you do it? I feel like it is not that good. But I guess this is the best I could come up with.’ Shen Yuan used the slab as a tombstone.