IDOLIZING CHAOS

Human Temple... Part 1

  "Where am I_-" Aeries looked in confusion at a dimly lit room with soft candle lights flickering about 

"Weak... Too Weak!" A voice boomed throughout the temple, waking him up from his reveivre. 

 "What do you mean... Who are you?" He shouted out in confusion.

"Sigh... I used the last of my reserved divine qi to delve through time when I first noticed a being with the bloodline of the Ancient Human Race in this space time... I even used more of my energy to protect the said being from the Time monster stalking closely behind... only to meet with some one this weak. It's a shame." 

  "You know am still a child right... I still haven't reached twenty" Aeries refuted.

"What fallacy. I can see everything about you. With the age of your soul man, I say you are exactly 14 years and 3 days, using new time. Yet your cultivation is till at the 3rd order of human realm. I say Kid, do you even know how to cultivate?"  The voice sounded angry now. Aeries held his breath and waited anxiously. With these words, it was now clear to him that whatever or who ever owns this Temple, that person must come from the far past. I just don't understand the grading of their cultivation realms then, What is 3rd order Human realm. If so, is there then something above human...

  "Of course there is.. Humans can be considered as the starting point.. some don't cultivate and die, they turn into souls that gets assimilated directly into the divine realm to dine with gods and heroes. Others, the minor population are very curious to know what exactly is there above the heavens.. Not wanting to be chained and used as servants when he break through the Divine Realm, we cultivate the Heavenly Energy to mold our bones, to guide our flesh and to augment our Soul. At the end we transcend and become some thing more... He He He, little boy. I smell something off about you"

  Aeries gulped audibly and asked the walls "Something off??" 's**t, is it the system... That's my life line! unless you want me to die in this River of time I suggest you f**k off! Maybe it's true that even gods too could grow red eyed towards such a treasure' He thought back to what The Fool said, and then he recalled that the entity in this room could definitely read his thoughts and shrank back quickly.

  Thankfully, it seemed like the entity wasn't that interested in poking into his mind that minute. 

  "I see, I see it now, Turns out this body is not yours. Your soul some how inhabited another body.. and it seemed to be from different worlds in entirely different planes. 

 Boy... He He He, I need to know more!" In a wift ,  A figure of an old cranky man appeared right in front of Aeries, His hair was pure white and his also white beards stretched towards the ground in a comical fashion. With every sentence or phrase, he grabbed and pulled this beard of his in different angles, somehow managing to give Aeries the chills.

   " I don't even unders-"

" Don't lie to me boy. I can know every thing about you if I want... lets see, what sort of secret are you hiding under that Piccolo face of yours.. Oho!!? What's so special about you that a seal.. no two curse seals of almost the same caliber would be implanted on you, you've got someone truly curious now."

 'f**k it all!' Aeries screamed inwardly. 'Just what exactly is wrong with Old Ancestors trying to pick out people's secret... First there's the first one, and now this.. :"

   "Boy don't let me get irritated at your attitude, how dare you grade me with those useless beings down in your realm. Do you know who I am? What I've done, or the realm I had reached before now. If you did you wouldn't be showing such obvious disdain you give to your Grand Father towards me. Look, see how easy it was to destroy the first curse... Ha! the second one's a tracking curse.. Who did you offend boy, could it be that your grand father?"

  Aeries grew tired and frustrated as he could feel a pickling sensation throughout his brain like an illusive hand, fingering it's way through.

 "Stop trying to search my memories with such dirty and irritating means Old man. I swear I will fight it out with you immediately, if you continue. I could stake my life against yours, either me or you that survive. Can't you just ask some questions and behave like a Human being for once?"

   The ghostly man kept silent for some seconds and tried to make out if Aeries wasn't faking his feelings before he sighed softly.

  " A Human Being? It's been so long that I actually forgot what I was. * sigh * Come over here Kid, and tell me about the world now, both worlds you've been too. And don't you dare lie to me! I already have a sketchy outlook of everything from your memories, so I will know whenever you try to hide some things from me."

   Aeries spent the next 3 hours - If there was a clock to ascertain it - Painstakingly telling almost everything about himself and his transmigration to the Old man, Which he later knew was called Plaque. He gritted his teeth in frustration every time Plaque stopped him midway to ask some unimportant things like how the commoners dressed like now, or the exact carving on the Imperial Gold coin -Aeries directly showed him the coin-, but after some time, Aeries became even more open and recounted all the events that transpired through his measly 6 months of new life in this world and also how he lived as a poor farmer in the previous one. Of course he deliberately left out everything to about the system and clean up his story not to leave any gaps.

  "Ridiculous ! !, so ridiculous and infuriating. What measly realm is that!, does that mean that the highest realm a human can reach now is the Martial King Realm? with the detailed explanation you have just giving, I am now definitely sure they haven't even surpassed the Saint Realm. not to even talk about the Divine Realm or the Demi - god realm. truly a heartache."

  "Old Man, did you not hear everything I said? I only read about those things in books okay, let's not even talk about the validity of these stories from the weak scholars, Dark horses still exist, the term ' Becoming a hermit to only pursue Heaven's Path' can be applicable here. When they get more stronger, these hidden masters would always cut their selves off from worldly affairs and choose to remain in an uncolt mountain to understand the Dao." 

  Although Aeries had a point, the Old plaque still shook his head vehemently in unacceptance. "In my time, Martial Emperors were as plenty as raindrops in a storm. Yet all they could do was to bow in submission to higher authorities and be used as cannon folder in battles. For you to worship those s**t even lower than cannon folder, there seem to be something wrong somewhere"

   'Old man, mind your manners!'

 "Let me explain this to you... Just as you have said, there are 9 realms to your cultivation system right? 

  Martial Body Foundation Realm, Martial Warrior realm, Martial General Realm, Martial Great General Realm, Martial Sky Lord Realm, Martial King Realm, Martial Emperor Realm, Martial Saint Realm and Martial god Realm… Is that it?

  Now to rate this ‘fake’ system with the real one.

  The first Four falls under the Human Realm. From the Flying Lord Realm to the Martial Emperor realm, it falls under the Titled realm by normal standard. 

  Then the Martial Saint realm and even the so called Martial god realm should be what make up the Saint realm in my time. There is no inking relationship with other higher realms like the Divine Realm, Demi- God realm and the god realm itself. In my time,  they were Powerhouses that reached the peak of the Divine Realm. These were the real masters, every palm strike of theirs could uproot the stars and even tame the winds. They could obliterate countless enemies in the battle field with just a sniff. Aiiya! these are the kind of people you should worship in true fealty."

 "OH. I can definitely reach there too. why would I bend the knee for something obviously still mortal." Aeries did not back down an inch, to him this were either fallacies or attainable goals. If a human could lift the skies up with a finger, he could too... if it was just a folklore, well... he still did not have to gape in awe did he?

  "Kid, I'll take it like a slip of the tongue. do you know what realm this Old man was? I had reached the peak of the Saint Realm! I wasn't your random d**k and Harry, If I still had my current strength now, I would have been the strongest man in the entire Grey World. Alas, due to my hot bloodedness in the Intercontinental battle, I lost everything." The man sat sorrowfully in mock tears.

 'What do you want me to do Old Man' Aeries uncontrollably muttered in his heart, he hurriedly tried to change the subject since this Old man could read his mind like an open book... Literally.

  "Then, is this your place that got lost too? It seems crude and kind of created to be a temple."

  Light suddenly returned back to the old man's eye and he stood up suddenly.

  "Right how could I forget the main reason I wasted my stored Divine Qi to transverse through the River of time. I feel the blood of the Ancient Human Race flowing deep in your vessels. You are my only hope."

   Aeries had a sinking feeling, but still followed the script and asked, "What do you want me to do.."

  "Good, thank the human gods you asked. what I want is simple, I want YOU to refine this Temple."

 "I think you're nuts," Aeries said both aloud and in his mind. 

   "Now don't get me wrong boy, This would benefit you even more. I'll I want is to leave this Space Time continuum, and you my boy are the only one who can help me. One, because you have the Ancient Blood so you can easily link with the Human gods temple,

  And two, because you are currently in your Soul form now, so all the risk that are supposed to happen to infiltrators cannot happen to you. Without further Ado, lets get started.

   Over the next few days Plaque kept performing some creepy rite and preparing Aeries, well his Soul form for it. He gave Aeries a set of instructions and proceeded to stand far away from the center of the temple, which could be the control room, while beckoning him forward with open glee.

   If there was one thing Aeries was fortunate about, it was that Plaque could still not find anything about the system in his mind and even when Aeries accidentally thought of it, there seem to be a blockage that picked out the entire useful sentence.

  Curiosity had got the better of him and he thought swiftly in his mind,

 'With the system in my Arsenal I am definitely going to be the most wealthiest of all. Imagines the price for the Skills I was rewarded for in the black market. It should be more than several hundred thousand gold pieces.' 

  "Why are you talking about selling skills for some measly money, remember the true path is the path of divinity, leave material things alone. now get in there!"

   Aeries boomed with a sweet smile as he was now sure everything about the system was hidden from the prying mind of this JiJi.

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  Time passed slowly with Aeries sitting calmly in a meditating position at the very center of the sanctuary. He was trying to visualize the images carefully drawn all round the sanctuary. 

  'It's no use, I still can't see past the killings and blood, worse off that Old Plaque just would not let me have some time off.

   Maybe am doing this all wrongly, the picture on the wall is about the war and the killings and the blood, why should I suffer myself to look for some hidden diagram or meaning in it... here's only War, and Killing...'

  BAAAANGGG !

    The sanctuary resounded in a wail as if it had come to live, a force field clothed a five meter radius all of Aeries, when Plaque noticed it, he jumped in fright and dove forward... To him this was a plan he had hurriedly thought of, He had hidden the whole truth from Aeries, although a soul self was easier to use in refining this Artifact, it was also the most dangerous and deadly, if the refining process could not be completed, the whole soul would be obliterated. He himself had tried thrice in a tie interval of 30,000 yet he had always met with failure and had to use some sort of live saving artifact to escape total death. All the praises about having the Ancient human Blood line was just a pretense in his quest to make Aeries believe fully that he could easily control this temple. 'What blood line of ancient human race? do you not have the sense to know that you aren't even in your fleshy body? how can I even determine you heritage by just looking at your soul, what magic is that!"

   He would wait till it reaches the crust of the Refining process then he'll strike!

  "It's NOW!"