Floral Paradise Realm, Ouroboros Tower.
In the southern part of the realm, where water-type plant life, magical herbs and Immortal Herbs were prominent.
In the center of a lake, a beautiful blue haired woman was seated on what seemed to be a lotus pedestal.
The torrent of spiritual energy around her caused her long blue hair to flutter, making her seem ethereal.
Her forehead was shining with a brilliant white light, and it also seemed to be the source of the turbulent spiritual energy around her.
In her hands, there seemed to be some sort of energy core, through which she was drawing spiritual energy to stabilize what she was currently doing.
After what seemed like an eternity.
The spiritual energy around her had calmed down and dissipated.
The beautiful woman opened her eyes, revealing emotions of joy and satisfaction.
She stood up on the pedestal, showcasing her slender and proud figure.
"Finally, I did it! Spiritual Soul Core!" The woman shouted in a joyful voice.
"Now all that's left is a soul ring!" The woman muttered to herself.
Then, she took out a golden glass bead from what seemed to be her storage soul tool.
"Rayne said that this is called a God-Given Soul Ring, and that it give you the most suitable soul skill for oneself! And the age of this soul ring depends on my endurance! Let's try my best!"
She said to herself.
This beautiful blue haired woman is Shui Xin'er, mother of Rayne.
After taking a deep breath and recovering to her best state.
She crushed the glass bead and started absorbing the God-Given Soul Ring!
...
After an unknown amount of time.
"Finally! After all that torturous training I went through, I finally achieved it! Second soul core, the Spiritual Soul Core, and level 90! I'm finally a Titled Douluo!"
"Rayne must be happy!"
Shui Xin'er said to herself in a pleased tone.
"Yeah, I am indeed quite pleased, mom~"
While Shui Xin'er was in her own happy little world, a very familiar male voice interrupted her daydreaming.
Turning to look at the source of the voice, she saw a very handsome white haired young man in black sunglasses, waving his hand at her and grinning playfully.
"Rayne~!"
Shui Xin'er had an excited expression as she jumped at Rayne with her arms stretched out.
With a somewhat helpless look, Rayne caught her in his arms, while keeping his face away from her attempts at kissing him.
"Good grief~. People call me a pervert, but you make even a pervert like me helpless, my lovely dear mother~"
"Muu~ Naughty boy! How can you call your mother a pervert? I was just trying to check whether your facial skin has changed compared to before!"
Shui Xin'er said in a muffled tone as she buried her face in his chest, breathing heavily.
"Stop making up such awkward lies. Still... Glad to see you so lively after all that training."
When Rayne mentioned the word 'training', Shui Xin'er's face turned pale and bloodless, her whole body trembling, as if remembering something very horrifying.
"You bully~ Stop reminding me of that!"
Rayne silently sighed at this sight.
His training for his mother for the past six years, was at a pretty hellish level difficulty.
It's because he wants her to achieve more than just a measly First-class God, or attain it through some Divine inheritance.
Because he has great expectations and wants his mother to be strong, he didn't go easy on her training.
Starting with the most basic of all the training she's gone through.
The Ice-Fire Body Forging Method utilizing a special pill refined from two very poisonous Immortal Herbs of Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire!
Yes! It's the same one Tang San did in the original work.
Ice Fire Alchemy Physique!
Only this time, it was a more efficient and thorough process, due to the specially refined pill.
Then came the opening and connecting of various meridians in ones body.
Without Rayne's aid, this process was very dangerous and painful for Shui Xin'er.
But there wasn't much to worry, since Rayne would fix her up, whenever she failed. It kept on like this, till she succeeded on her own.
After that was a brutal mental power training, where she had to withstand killing intent and spiritual pressure at level 99, aimed at her while she had to cultivate a Mental Power Training Method given to her by Rayne.
Although the killing intent and spiritual pressure of a Level 99 Peerless Douluo, greatly stimulated her and significantly boosted her mental power training progress.
Coupled with some high grade elixirs, and heaven and earth treasures, Shui Xin'er's mental power had grown quite stable and rapidly.
It was still quite mentally traumatizing, to live constantly under such immense pressure, which actually lasted for three years.
At the same time, there was also many mock battles, life and death struggles etc,.
Rayne truly didn't go easy on her, just because she is his mother.
Genuine strength cannot be gained without effort.
Of course, the most traumatizing of all was...
The Heavenly Thunder Body Reforging Runic Array!
About six years ago, a very low level version of it was used on Xiao Chenyu and his cronies, when they first joined his Organization.
(A/N: Refer to chapter 45)
What he used on Shui Xin'er was a high-level runic array, that specifically targets those of level 95 and above.
While her physical strength, mental power, and especially soul power quality greatly increased.
The process itself was rather... Torturous, to say the least.
Although this level of training is child's play to Rayne, that's not the case for everyone else.
Anyway, Shui Xin'er is done with all this training. If possible, she just wants to take it easy.
Not that Rayne will allow that.
After thinking about how to arrange her future training, Rayne lightly pushed back Shui Xin'er from his arms.
"Mom, how do you feel now?"
"Hmm... I feel like I'm overflowing with strength! Although all that training you put me through was so hard, now it all feels worth it!" Shui Xin'er felt her own strength in amazement, and said in a heartfelt tone.
"Right? Hard-earned strength is always the most satisfying!" Rayne quipped with a hearty smile.
"Hnggg..." Shui Xin'er groaned while clutching her head, not wanting to remember the process of her training.
"I think I'll feel better if you kiss me." Shui Xin'er said slyly, tugging Rayne's sleeves.
Rayne ignored it and examined her current condition.
'With two soul cores, Spiritual Soul Core in the upper dantian and Sacred Water Soul Core in the lower dantian. Her physique and mental power greatly exceeds those at the same level.'
'With two soul cores, her soul power quality and mental power quality has greatly increased.'
'With a Spiritual soul core and an Ultimate element soul core condensed, all that's left is the Space Soul Core, which she can condense at level 98.'
'Her current soul power is level 96. Her progress is not bad.'
'Although it's kind of a given, since she not only received the sacrifice of a 500,000-year-old soul beast and got a soul ring and two arm soul bones. But I also gave her two million-year-old soul bones of head and trunk position, which I received from a quest back then.'
(A/N: Refer to chapter 70)
As Rayne was thinking to himself, Shui Xin'er summoned her martial soul.
A golden version of blue silver grass with thick blue and silver veins on the leaves, appeared along with nine soul rings.
The martial soul, which is now named, Sacred Silver Grass. A plant-type martial soul with two ultimate attributes.
Holy and Water attributes!
The nine soul rings were of a somewhat incredible configuration.
At least, till the first seven soul rings, it is of the normally acknowledged best configuration.
Which is two yellow, two purple, three black.
But the next two soul rings would make any normal person's jaws drop to the floor.
The eight soul ring was a deep red soul ring with five golden patterns on it.
And the ninth soul ring was also a deep red soul ring, but this one had nine golden line patterns.
An aura of great terror exuded from these two soul rings. Especially the last, the ninth soul ring!
'Even after the two million-year-old soul bones and Heavenly Thunder Body Reforging, it still wasn't enough for her to be able to achieve a million-year-old soul ring.'
'Still, it's not really bad. She just missed by a very little margin. The result is still excellent.'
Rayne smiled as he observed his mother, and was especially pleased with her growth in strength.
Suddenly, a fiery energy erupted from a very far away distance, getting the attention of Rayne.
Rayne raised his eyebrows as he looked into the direction where he felt the energy waves.
At the same time, a system notification rang out in his mind.
[Ding! A Fate Quest has been completed!]
[Fate Quest: Create a powerful organization in your name.
Task requirements: (1) Recruit ten named characters from the original novel. (2) The organization must have at least five Titled Douluo and more than 20 Spirit Masters above Soul Emperor level. (3) Recruit at least five people with the potential to reach level 95+ Super Douluo. (5) Gather a lot of fame and reputation for your organization. (6) Establish a Spirit Master Academy in your organization's name.
Rewards: Top Quality 99,000-year Soul Bones (10 pieces), Qiankun Creation Pill (1 piece), Immortal Herbs (10 pieces), Ultimate Attribute 500,000-year Soul bone (1 piece), Life Gold (the size of an adult's fist), 50 different kinds of Rare Metals (20 ton for each kind).
No Penalty.
Task Status: Completed]
[Detected a prior use of a reward multiplier item applied on this task!]
[All rewards multiplied by 1,000 times.]
[Finalized Rewards: Top Quality 99,000-year Soul Bones (10,000 pieces), Qiankun Creation Pill (1,000 pieces), Immortal Herbs (10,000 pieces), Ultimate Attribute 500,000-year Soul bone (1,000 pieces), 1,000 pieces of Life Gold (the size of an adult's fist), 50 different kinds of Rare Metals (20,000 ton for each kind).]
"..."
Rayne speechlessly looked at the system window that was showing the finalized Rewards.
Although it was himself that applied the reward multiplier card that he received for the quest of killing Tang Hao, on this Fate quest...
"What the hell! Increase the quality, not quantity! Damn it! Who the hell even wants so many of those things?! What the hell am I supposed to do with ten thousand freaking soul bones?!"
"This system is as ridiculous as ever! I guess generous is the right word?"
Rayne thought to himself in a bit of exasperation.
"What's wrong, Rayne? Your expression seems unwell!"
Shui Xin'er's startled voice woke him up from his thoughts.
Rayne smiled at her and reassured her that there is no problem.
"Mom, there's nothing wrong with me. I was just a bit overwhelmed by an unnecessary amount of sudden wealth."
"Eh~?" Shui Xin'er has a cute and confused look on her face that made Rayne smile.
Then, he thought back to the completion of the quest.
'The quest required five Titled Douluos. There was already one Dugu Bo. Add my mother now, it's two. That fiery energy, it must have been Gu Huoling (Fire Dragon King). She must have also just finished absorbing the ninth soul ring and became a Titled Douluo.'
'There is also Gu Shuiying (Water Dragon King), who finished her seclusion much earlier than mom and Huoling.'
'That's four. The remaining one that must have filled the quota must be... Meng Yiran's grandfather Meng Shu, huh?'
'Well, it was kind of obvious. He was already close to level 90 when I gave him those soul bones and pills.'
Afterwards, Rayne took Shui Xin'er to where Gu Huoling was in seclusion.
When Shui Xin'er saw Gu Huoling's soul ring configuration, her face contorted in shock, as well as a bit of envy.
Martial soul, Fire Dragon King!
Soul ring configuration of two black, five red, and two red-gold.
A kind of soul ring configuration that can shock the whole world.
Seeing the envy on Shui Xin'er's face, Rayne just shook his head.
No matter how you put it, Gu Huoling is a former God King, one of the Nine Dragon Kings under Dragon God.
And with Rayne's support in resources, this kind of results are not anything unexpected.
After talking for a while, Rayne left the Floral Paradise Realm with the two of them.
Looking at the skies, or maybe something that is far beyond those skies.
Rayne smiled.
"In a month, everything will start."
.....
A/N: Sorry for the slow progress. But the main plot will start soon. Mostly with two or three chapters.
And after plot where the Shrek Seven Devils first meet, there will be about a little more than two years to the next main plot, which is the All-continent Soul Master Competition.
I'll also be starting the group chat missions and multiverse travels soon after beginning of the main plot.
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