Past life sage: This life a dual cultivator

"Searching soul! Puny devil, who do you think you are?", a calm voice came out from Zhan Chen's body. Then an ethereal figure floated out from Zhan Chen's body.

The figure was of a handsome middle aged man. He calmly looked at the centre of the lave where the four chains had gathered together.

"Show yourself", he ordered in a low voice and pointed his finger towards the lava. The seemingly heavy and thick looking black chains clanked together and moved upward.

The figure was of a pale looking young man who had pale blue hair. The black chains was piercing all four of his limbs. Currently, his eyes were wide open as he looked at the ethereal figure of the middle aged man.

"You are from the Northern Star region, right?", the middle aged man who came out from Zhan Chen's body looked towards the pale looking young man.

"How did you know?", the pale looking young man blurted out as he looked towards the middle aged man with disbelief.

The ethereal looking middle aged man didn't answer him but he turned to look back. Zhan Chen was opening his eyes at this moment.

​ He stood up and bowed towards the middle aged man. "Teacher", Zhan Chen bowed respectfully towards the middle aged man.

It was the second time he was seeing this teacher of his. The very first time he could only estimate the power of his teacher but now his teacher, the evil emperor was directly using his power to suppress the owner of the strange voice.

The evil emperor nodded lightly towards Zhan Chen and turned to look towards the pale looking young man. "I have never thought that someone of your kind would come to such a low level world", Evil emperor spoke to the middle aged man.

"Senior, please save me. My royal family will surely compensate you for your benevolence", the pale looking young man looked towards evil emperor with begging eyes.

"What is the point in saving you. It is better to extract your soul and leave the trouble behind", evil emperor smirked towards the pale looking young man.

Then he moved his hand towards the pale looking young man and clenched his fist. "Brat be prepared, it is an opportunity for you", evil emperor turned to look towards Zhan Chen.

Zhan Chen nodded his head and looked towards the pale looking young man. The pale looking young man had an astounded expression on his face.

"Senior, why are you...!", he couldn't complete his sentence before thin strands of illusory soul essence came out from his body. Evil emperor turned to look towards Zhan Chen and the soul strands of the pale looking young man, directly entered the body of Zhan Chen.

"Such pure soul essence!", Zhan Chen muttered before hurriedly closing his eyes to digest the soul essence of the pale looking young man.

It took two hours for him to completely absorb the soul essence. Evil emperor was also assisting him. Otherwise, if Zhan Chen would have to assimilate the soul essence of the pale looking young man on his own, then he would have taken at least two days.

Zhan Chen opened his eyes after absorbing the soul essence of the pale looking young man. His aura became more deep and profound after he assimilated the soul essence of the pale looking young man.

Zhan Chen had many things to ask to his teacher but before it, he took a glance towards the stone where Shen Ruyan and Liu Nanxi was lying.

"Don't worry. I have suppressed the yin poison inside their bodies for the time being", evil emperor gave a comforting smile to Zhan Chen.

"What, yin poison! Is it the blue haired man from before?", Zhan Chen asked.

"At least you are not dumb. Yes, it is that blue haired man from earlier", evil emperor nodded.

"What is his identity? How can he exert such a strong pressure on my soul?", Zhan Chen looked towards evil emperor. This was the question that was bothering him most.

Zhan Chen had never thought that someone could overwhelm him in this world when it came to soul pressure but the earlier incident gave him a huge shock. He had retained the soul of his previous life but despite that he couldn't even put up a resistance when the soul aura of the pale looking young man engulfed him.

"Have you ever hear of devils and demons?", evil emperor looked towards Zhan Chen.

"Yes, I have heard about them in legends", Zhan Chen replied.

"This young man infront of us belongs to devil race. Moreover, he is from a royal family of devils", evil emperor explained.

"What, devil race! Moreover, I have just assimilated the soul essence of a royal devil!", Zhan Chen looked towards his teacher with disbelief in his eyes. Before, he had only heard of demons and devils in old records of past. Among them, the most dangerous race for the humans were described as devil race. Zhan Chen had always read about how cruel and bloodthirsty the devil race was but now, he had taken the soul essence of someone from that legendary race. So, it was obvious that he had lost his composure for a moment.

"Brat, what is with your reaction. You are the disciple of I, Ning Yunhao. It wouldn't be a surprise even if you took down the soul of a golden dragon", evil emperor chided Zhan Chen.

Zhan Chen ft speechless for a moment. Golden dragon was the most revered amongst dragons of entire world. Zhan Chen could only shook his head after hearing the overbearing words of his teacher.

Brat, why do you cultivate? Why do you take the path of the dual cultivation in the first place?", evil emperor asked Zhan Chen. His indifferent face had a serious look at this moment.

"For power of course", Zhan Chen thought for a moment and replied. Evil emperor nodded his head.

"Then why do you need the power for? What do you pursue in your path of cultivation?", evil emperor asked again.

This time Zhan Chen didn't answer instantly but he took time to think to himself. The question his teacher was asking the most important for a cultivator and Zhan Chen knew his teacher was guiding him about the path of cultivation.

'Why I do I need power? Is it only to take revenge? No, I always dream of higher peaks. To challenge the world with my soul and move unhindered across the world',Zhan Chen couldn't help but recalled his past aspirations along with his present him.

Something felt like got unshackled at this point as Zhan Chen sort things inside his mind. "Teacher I want to challenge the world with my sword and want to roam unhindered in the vast world", Zhan Chen looked towards evil emperor. At this moment, there was resolve and confidence in his eyes.

Evil emperor nodded his head. "It is good that, you managed to sort things out. Never ever lost your edge and became complacent. Your heart had became rusty in this life because you had strayed from your path for a moment", evil emperor spoke. Zhan Chen listened attentively what evil emperor had to speak.

"My path, I have achieved the most of my goals. To gather beauties wherever I go and to live life however I love", evil emperor spoke.

"But my path is not your path. Moreover, you can see for yourself how dismissal your record is. So much time has passed but you have dual cultivated with only eight girls", evil emperor shook his head.

Zhan Chen felt speechless after seeing his teacher's reaction. He wanted to say that I have already eight women but he could only surrender infront of the unrealistic demand of his almighty teacher.

"Continue to dual cultivate. You can follow my cultivation techniques but never lose your independent path. Your path, no need to doubt yourself. Don't give up on your sword which you love the most.

As for moving the world unhindered, that is the desire of every true cultivator."

"Why do we cultivate? Of course it is to be free. Free from the earth, free from the heaven, to live your life as you like", evil emperor spoke.

"And to be free one need to be strong. Because only strong get to choose how he lives. Otherwise, forget about living, you can't even decide how you die in your life", evil emperor spoke.

"So, never ever lose your heart. Always pursue to become stronger and cultivate ceaselessly. With your talent, one day you can even surpass me if you remain persistent in your cultivation path", evil emperor looked towards Zhan Chen.

"Thank you teacher for your guidance. Disciple will remember your words and cultivate properly", Zhan Chen replied and bowed towards evil emperor.

Evil emperor nodded his head and vanished from Zhan Chen's sight. A soft murmur rang in Zhan Chen's head. "This time I have really done it. I may not be able to awaken in the next ten years probably".

(To be continued.....)