The Modern Immortal

Reborn

In the summer of 2010, a local bus was heading towards the County of green jade near S city, a city in the Blue Star Province.

Green Jade was a backwater county in the middle of nowhere. In the heat of the summer, the passengers on the bus had mostly fallen asleep.

A five foot six, handsome boy with a smooth face and a sleek haircut suddenly jerked his head up as he woke up from a nightmare. He scanned the bus with a weary look.

“Huh...where am i, i...i was fighting those bastards and at the last moment i blasted my immortal core, how i am even alive and where it is.”

As reality finally set in, his face suddenly hardened with a frown. He had been to another world and back, yet no one on the bus would have any idea of what he had just been through.

“This is the same bus as the one I took to S City for my last year of high school!”

“Why am I here? Am I no longer in the immortal realm?”

“Could it be that I am back in the mortal world again?” Disbelief flickered in Daemon Morgan ’s eyes as he thought to himself.

“How is it possible that I, The Black Immortal, escaped the detonation of my immortal core, and was reborn again as my former-self on earth?”

Daemon, also known as “Black Immortal,” was an Immortal Emperor. “Black immortal” was the cultivation name that he was called when he became immoral in the immortal realm.

He cultivated for five hundred years under one of the nine celestial sects in the universe: the Heavenly Armament Immortal Sect, and he was the disciple of the sect’s Sect Leader and after his teacher died while trying to ascend in the god realm, he become the sect leader of that sect.

Thanks to Daemon’s incredible talent, it only took him five hundred years to enter the last stage of his cultivation: The Immortal Core Realm. He was thought to be the most likely cultivator in centuries to successfully ascend beyond the current realm to that of the gods, but because of depletion in qi there because of invasion of Beast God Race, he has to wait for ten thousand years to ascend, but at the last moment he was ambushed and has to sacrifice himself to protect that world.

Daemon lived in this universe for ten thousand years, fighting and winning every battle against any sentient being across the realms scattered in the universe that dared challenge him. His invincibility had earned him the title: The Immortal Emperor of Immortal Realms..

However powerful he had been, he had lost himself in that ambushed and was forced to sacrifice at the end, after all.

It was not until his doom was knocking on the door did he realize that the culprit of his failure was the hastened pace during his cultivation and that ambush at the end led him to his doom.

His resolution and dedication crumbled when he had to face those traitors at the end, he was forced to sacrifice himself to protect the immortal realm from the invasion of the beast god race.

His eagerness to complete the ascension and reach the god realm had become his downfall. To advance as fast as he could, he had left many regrets and made countless mistakes. As guilt and self-resentment slowly eroded his mind and at the crucial moment he had to fight while he was most vulnerable.

As Daemon reflected on his battle against those traitors, he tried to tap into the energy within his system, to see if he was really on earth. To his surprise, he found that not only was there no trace of his immortal Power, but his boundless Immortal Essence had also disappeared, but he was not expecting to have any of his powers because he detonated his immortal core, the thing which contains all of his immortal qi.

“This is not the dream or illusion. I really am BACK!” Daemon  furrowed his brows as realization finally dawned upon him.

Daemon knew that however real and vivid illusions were, they could not mask all traces of a Immortal’s Essences.

“My powers are gone. There is not even a trace of Internal Power, Immortal Essence, Immortal Enlightenment in me, much less my precious Immoral Treasures. I am now no different than an ordinary man, and anyone could strike me down if they try hard enough.”

Despite the huge setback in his cultivation, he did not seem to be too upset about it. Instead, he laughed at his defeat lightheartedly.

“So be it, my last life’s cultivation was doomed from the beginning anyways.

“This time around, I will make sure that I take my cultivation one step at a time. I will not only complete but also perfect each and every level.”

He cracked a smile as fire danced in his eyes with determination.

“I will achieve my goal and get my revenge on those traitors, and I will learn from my previous mistakes and leave no regrets this time. I will achieve my goals and give my mother a happy life.”

There had been many regrets in his past life. Although his mind had always been preoccupied with cultivation, the regret and sorrow persisted.

“Mom, I am BACK! This time I will not fail you.”

Daemon lowered his head as resolution rose in his heart.

Daemon Morgan was born in an ordinary single parent family in Green Jade County. His mother, Caroline Morgan, was the eldest daughter of Morgan Family of Imperial City, was the owner of a large chain of hotels but lost everything because of her secret  marriage and getting pregnant with him, her family members take everything from her.

He never got to meet his father, William Creed, according to his mother he was a soldier, at a very high rank in the army but before his birth his father went missing. Having married secretly against her family's wish, Daemon’s grandfather went as far as denouncing his own daughter.

In a fit of anger, Caroline Morgan left her parents and settled in Blue Star Province, while trying to find the whereabouts of her husband.

The thought brought a bitter taste to Daemon’s mouth. He shook his head and smiled wryly.

“Jackson Morgan, I bet that you had never expected me to be back from the future!”