25 We Meet Again...

"Nn..." grunted Sixteen sulkily as she honestly don't really care much about all this linger ghosts and what not. She was expecting a good fight and not... whatever the heck that disappointing display was... some 'organization' they are... hmph.

Shuhang couldn't help but sighed and rub her head a little at the sight of her sulking. "Hm, how about this... once we have sometime, I'll spar with you to test your strength. With my strength suppressed of course in order to let you reap the most benefit out of this." Blushing a bit at the sudden contact, Sixteen silently nodded in acceptance, no longer caring about the fight earlier.

After compiling all the scriptures in his 'library' that is related to ferrying the souls of the dead, Shuhang speed read through it all began reciting. Immediately, the souls ceased all their anguished cries and looked toward Shuhang in gratitude as they were finally released from their shackles and suffering. Light of Karmic Virtue began to glow around Shuhang making him look pretty surreal.

Due to the the higher grade scripture, and Shuhang ferrying the souls by himself unlike the in the 'original' where he had a helper, the amount of Karmic Virtue is massive. It was in fact so much that it almost reached the equivalent of when one ferry the soul of an Eternal Being like 'original' Shuhang did. What would actually happen if Shuhang did help ferry an Eternal Being...? Hm. Food for later thoughts.

Something strange began to happen as Shuhang began to gather more and more Strength of Karmic Virtue. The light was actually invading straight into Spirit Lake and went straight towards the sleeping Ddraig. On the outside, Shuhang's Strength of Karmic Virtue actually started condensing into a silhouette of Ddraig's yet couldn't yet form itself as there wasn't enough Virtue.

Seeing that silhouette, Sixteen was surprised as she recognized the shape. She was currently wearing it's image on her arm in the form of a bracelet after all. (Even his Strength of Karmic Virtue had condensed into the shape of this Dragon... just what is the story behind this Dragon and Shuhang...?) thought Sixteen in wonder. She couldn't come up with any good answer however and chalked it up to her being too inexperienced still as she is pretty much a 'kid' in the cultivation world after all.

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After taking care of all those lingering ghosts, Shuhang and Sixteen began to loot the place for valuables. They were of course all turned over to Sixteen as she was the one who did most of the work. As a 'Senior', there is no way in the world Shuhang would be shameless enough to snag them off of Sixteen... even if she were willing to hand over the spoils to him. Ain't nobody got time for that gigolo life... just living in Sixteen's current residence for free is already the limits of what Shuhang was willing endure in shamelessness...

Now back at their home, Sixteen was currently talking with Seven about the arrangements of her getting into Shuhang's school while he was in his room tinkering with the Kaleidoscope magic.

"And... that should do it as the 'anchor' for this reality... All that's left is activating it and pray the world doesn't explode because I accidentally shifted the planet's core or something..." mumbled Shuhang about an exaggerated but very real danger. Sure it shouldn't be possible for something like that to happen with the original Kaleidoscope and with his knowledge on the magic. Since his other 2 cheats got upgrades however... who's to say that this one didn't get an upgrade as well...?

"Phew... one way to find out I guess... here goes nothing..." ! All of a sudden, Shuhang's body began to turn blurry and started becoming incorporeal before slowly phasing out of existence altogether. The experience of shifting through reality with his own body... definitely a strange and pretty painful one. All surrounding energy, in all the myriad existing colors, bombarded his body, almost as if trying to tear apart, atom by atom. It was agonizing to say the least.

Shuhang had the feeling that... if he had foolishly tried this at a lower cultivation stage, he definitely would have died without knowing how. After what felt like an eternity, Shuhang finally reached a destination, where ever that is, as he literally stumbled into existence and fell face down into the floor.

"Oof...!" groaned Shuhang at the sudden 'drop' and still reeling from the pain of traveling.

"Ugh damn it, forgot to cover myself in a protective layer of energy... Damn, where is this plaaaaaace...!!?" loudly exclaimed Shuhang at the end. Looking at his 'surrounding', literally everything was white in all 6 directions but the most shocking thing of all was the thing.. or rather person in front of him.

In front of a flat screen TV with some sort of drama playing, and laying on her belly flatly on the ground with hand in the midst of reaching into a potato chip bag, was actually someone Shuhang had met before.

At such a sight, the first thing popped into his mind was "Ah, a wild Loli appeared." and actually said it out loud for the other occupant of the 'room' to hear. Said 'loli' on the hand, had the most dumbstruck face at the unexpected arrival and froze completely until she heard Shuhang's comment.

"Don't call me loli!!!