The Dawn of the New World Chapter 1599

As Hao Xuan's thoughts reached this point a strong wave of deja vu unexpectedly hit him like a truck. It was an explosion of memories but they made no sense. Everything was scrambled and disorganized to the point that he couldn't make any heads or tales of what he was hearing and seeing.

It was a garbled mess.

'What is this?? What happened?'

He was trying to to focus and concentrate to the best of his abilities trying to get to the bottom of the problem when he passed through the door.

The Attainment Chamber could sense his intense desire and tried to help in its own weird way. By the time he stepped through to the other side and realized what was happening, it was already too late.

He was swimming through a coalescing sea of kaleidoscopic energies that seemed to go on endlessly. Initially it was eerily silent but his presence seemed to have brought everything to life as an explosion of countless millions of voices rocked his very being.

Hao Xuan's soul was knocked clean out of his body as multicolored sproutlings tried to fly into his physical form.

But they were no match for the obscene power of his soul that was still connected to it. Coming even close was enough to render them motionless as they lost all control and shot off in random directions.

It was not until he reached out and grabbed one of these 'sproutlings' that the truth of their being came to light.

The sproutling melted into a liquid which was directly absorbed into Hao Xuan's manifested soul. He saw a lifetime's worth of memories in a fraction of a second, ALL of it.

From the first cry to the last breath and everything in between. This wasn't like the millions of other souls he had already absorbed into his being- it was a much more exhaustive experience.

Thankfully his soul was more than capable of handling such an intense affair and the end result proved more than fruitful because he now had a lifetime's worth of memories of an esoteric art called 'Witch-sight'.

His manifested soul shuddered upon realizing what they were.

'Each of these souls once belonged to a powerful psychic! But why are they here? Why didn't weren't they a part of me from the get-go??'

He picked up one sproutling after another and absorbed into himself, gathering millenniums worth of knowledge and experience in a matter of seconds.

But while he was engaged in the pursuit of knowledge there was something else that he missed.

Every sproutling that was absorbed into Hao Xuan's soul congregated and settled within his core, at the very center of it. Their kaleidoscopic properties were stripped away one at a time and merged with his being leaving behind only one color.

It was of a light pinkish hue at first but as Hao Xuan continued to absorb the sproutlings it continued to get darker and darker.

It didn't take long for Hao Xuan to lose track of time. The sense of fulfillment that he got by absorbing the sproutlings was both intoxicating and electrifying at the same time.

The process first drained him but when the sproutlings settled down they recharged his soul power with an even more powerful force since the knowledge of esoteric arts was in a clear correlation with raw psychic power.

No better words could be used to define Esoteric arts than "Knowledge is power".

Seven rotating rings of orange and blue flames surrounded Hao Xuan's mind and body. Every time they intersected a flash of lightning would shoot out in a random direction.

His core continued to take on a darker shade of red to the point that it was almost at the same wavelength as the rest of him.

'A little more...' he told himself but a hand reached out and grabbed his shoulder not a moment later.

Hao Xuan's soul was jolted awake and pulled back into his body as he found himself back within the Night Market.

He looked over his shoulder to see Vlitgar's smoking arm. The leather armor had been completely burned away revealing a scarred forearm underneath.

"Brother...Vlitgar..."

Vlitgar let out a heavy sigh before covering his arm with the cloak.

"You surprise me again, brother Jin. Rest, have a drink and I will join you in a moment," he said while closing the door in his face.

Hao Xuan could sense he was acting a little different than before but he did not know why. Walking over to the bar he took a seat under the scrutinizing gazes of the other patrons and gestured for merman.

"Something cold- ah, nevermind. I don't have any gold yet."

The merman shook his tentacles, "We've all been there. But at least you have friends in high places," he said gesturing towards the Attainment Chamber.

"Friends?" Hao Xuan chuckled, "That remains to be seen."