2 - Successor Of The Gods -

 Xiao long opened his eyes and was amazed at what he saw. Before him were hundreds of statues of god, surrounding him and seemed to gaze upon him.

 "Hold on, now! Wasn't I stabbed to death by that f*cking thug? W-why am I still alive?!” Xiao long raised his hands and felt that he was still alive, although he had the question of why his hands looked as transparent but could only blame him for his slightly blurred vision.

 He was convinced that he had been stabbed to death by a thug who was going to kidnap a little boy. But feeling that he was now truly alive was very hard for him to understand.

 Although he often read novels whose main character in reincarnated, he did not believe that he himself would be the one to do so today.

 "Am I really in reincarnated?" Xiao long has not been able to accept this strange reality. His confusion would increase if he learned that his body was translucent and was invisible to others.

 Xiao long thought hard about what he was going through, and suddenly the ground shook so hard that realized Xiao Long from his reverie.

The statues shone and the figures that might be the original shapes of them flew out. Xiao long can only be stunned by the sight in front of him.

 "At last the thousands of years of waiting have been paid off! Young man, be strong and destroy an invading Demon Race! I trust you with everything!" There was a tremendous noise throughout the room.

 After that, hundreds of these lights appeared in each one of them.

 Xiao long only felt warm and comfortable after being surrounded by them, that's why he accepted it.

 The incident only lasted for a few moments. After all the figures had entered Xiao Long's body, he was shocked by the feeling of warmth and comfort before being replaced with unbearable pain in all his parts.

 Arrgghhh!

 Xiao Long can only roar loudly and roll over while holding his head with his hands when he feels the most pain. He felt like thousands of sharp swords were thrust upon him.

 It's lucky Xiao Long has such strong will, otherwise he might have lost his mind from the pain he feels.

 During the torturous process, his body or rather his soul began to be covered with bones, flesh, skin, and other organs, making up the actual body.

The suffering lasted only a few hours, but that was enough to make Xiao Long feel that he was a few times near the gates of hell.

 Xiao Long, the conscious one sits down and closes his eyes. Now he knows that the hundreds of souls entering it are the last fragments of the souls and memories of the gods.

 After the painful process, Xiao Long's new body is very different from the previous one. He had also known that he had died before and that what he had felt was not his physical body but his soul. And now the combined remains of the gods have made a very strong body to sustain his soul.

 "No wonder I felt that power as if it were being sucked into a black hole. Even if I've sucked the power out of it, my body isn't quite right yet. It's so perfect, it should fit the physical equivalent of the gods. But consider that even the gods felt the pain, too..." Xiao Long reflects on what she went through.

 When receiving the memories of the gods, Xiao Long also felt all the pain. Because these gods were not born gods, but they were creatures of a gradual cultivation and of incalculable pain that eventually reached its peak.

 That's why Xiao Long has a strong body and an instant memory but only what is seen outside.

In a few hours he endured the pain before, he became the gods themselves. Experience and enjoy the many flavors of life on their journey. But Xiao Long saw something worse than death, the great war that nearly destroyed the universe!

 Seeing the devastation, he awoke with a voice that had previously been heard as the light emerged from the great statues. He said something about a demon race that destroys and trusts him with it.

 Xiao long can only breathe without wanting to know the real problem. He's concerned enough to see the memories of the gods now as they are unstable and afraid something fatal will happen to his soul.

 But of course there are some easily accessible memories.

 Xiao Long stood up and looked around. The sculptures of the god are still intact, as though the material used was incredibly valuable.

 After a careful look at the place, it dawned on him that it looked like ancient ruins that might have been specially devoted to the ritual of his calling.

 Moments later, he discovered an ancient teleportation formation in the size of the one man who seemed to lead out.

 Xiao Long tried to form the seal on the god’s memory, of course it was within his reach. Xiao Long has formed a seal in the third trial, and he thinks he's quite talented.

And then it began to glow around Xiao Long.

 A moment later, Xiao Long was completely moved into a cave. But he jumped right in from the shock of seeing a whole skeleton in front of the teleportation formation.

 It looks like he tried to break the mechanism of formation, but with insufficient strength and knowledge, he died from a loss of vital energy.

 "Hmm? Space Ring!" Xiao long removed the ring on his finger bone and saw into it. There's only a few things inside, probably used some of them to support his life.

 Even though they are very valuable, with Xiao Long's current powers, he can't use them. So he uses the ring only to keep what's inside locked away.

 Because space inside the ring has no time, so those things won't break in the stores of thousands of years, unless the ring is destroyed, then what's inside will be destroyed.

 Xiao long bowed her head to the skeleton and buried her, after all he took his property. Upon emerging from the cave, he could see only the forest and mountains as far as the eye could see, even as he felt a great aura around him.

"How do I get through this deep jungle?.." Xiao Long furrowed his brow. If he can't even get out of this forest, what's the point of him being revived?

 Kyaakkk!

 Suddenly Xiao Long heard a pleasant sound. The sound comes from a red-colored bird almost as big as an little aircraft in a previous life, flying to the door of the cave where Xiao Long was.

 The strange thing is that he thought the bird was not evil, there's even a familiar feeling between Xiao Long and the flame bird.

 When the flame landed right in front of Xiao Long, its body gradually shrunk to the size of a tiger and immediately lowered its head. It's enough to confuse Xiao Long.

 "I bow to you, Master" A little girl's voice is heard in Xiao Long's head, he knows that it's a kind of telepathy if in the world before and it's called spiritual communication if it's here.

 "Why do you call me Master?" Even if Xiao Long has an assumption of her own, it's better to ask.

 "I am the firebird endowed by the gods and instructed to accompany the journey of the successor of the gods," said The Firebird.

 "How do you know if I am the successor of the gods?" It's something he can't think of.

Afterwards, firebirds related that thousands of years ago the gods came into this small world. At that time one of the gods took an egg from the world of the gods and placed it in a part of the forest that was near the cave where the ritual calling took place. The egg was blessed by the god and was given the duty of accompanying and ministering to the successors of the gods at the time of birth. The egg will hatch in a month before the successor of the gods is summoned, and firebird fills it.

 To the surprise of Xiao Long, a huge firebird that only has one month left. Although it's been sitting on eggs for thousands of years, it still makes no sense to a creature that has been born in over a month.

 "Well, I've learned enough about your condition. Now, take me to the nearest town. Let's see what the cultivation world is like " Asked Xiao Long while stroking firebird's warm neck. He couldn't wait to see a world that before existed only in his imagination and in his novels.

 Firebird nodded and invited Xiao Long to climb on his back. When Xiao Long stepped on it, firebird's body swelled and spread its flames, flying with great speed.

 On the way, there were a few demonic beasts the type of birds that attacked her, but they were all burnt to ashes by the fire of the firebird. Xiao Long now understands the power of the firebird that comes from the world of the gods.

The next few days, their journey was very safe, because firebirds chose a secret passage that contained no demonic beast powerful. A month later, firebird made it through the dense jungle and Xiao Long saw the first city of its kind in the world.