I Refused To Be Reincarnated

Life force coursed through Adam’s meridians all the way to his clenched fists. The sensation of purity was incredible as if he had taken down an invisible dam muzzling a river’s flow. And what a flow! The gas had turned liquid, thick like mercury, and humming in sync with the surrounding space so much that he grinned from ear to ear.

But he knew it would become even better. The nascent soul realm was his first step into the ranks of elites, and he wouldn’t stop until he stood unrivalled at the pinnacle. Mastery, however, would require more time—much more time.

A staggering eighty-seven stars formed the Heavenly Market Enclosure, for example. ’Condensing them is much harder now that my qi is liquid.’ He sighed. ’How hard will it become after it turns solid?’ Somehow, he felt glad not to know.

But time waited for no one, and his was worth gold—literally. After all, he hadn’t pushed his other projects aside.

Crooked trees with green veins pulsing like liquid fire flourished into a small forest within his soul sea. Beside it, a garden filled with young flowers had appeared on blackened soil. He didn’t like either much, especially not their thick stench of sulfur, but they were interesting study materials and ingredients for future potions or pills.

His expanding world seed still felt a little barren, though. ’I’ll add magical plants and beasts after theorising an ecosystem with Lulu, but that’s for later. The bastion first.’

With the plans complete and material costs optimised, he had spent the past two years digging and plating the conduction channels’ walls with conductive metal, arranging energy storages to serve as backups, and drawing the magic circles that would function as propelling engines. It was a colossal construction site, but each rock taken down sent an excited shiver down his spine. It would be his bastion, entirely molded with his own two hands.

Fortunately, Yunxu exchanged his pills and weapons for materials from the outside. ¹But even then, he needed several overpriced cores from tier-eight beasts, top-quality gems to fuse, and flexible alloy for the modular ring.

The colossal qi barrier required a hundred perfect spiritual stones, each worth five million sect points. These gave him a headache. Sect leaders monopolised them to fuel their cultivation or reward outstanding contributions. So far, he had only gathered three, making the grim future... grimmer.